Anyone artistic?

[Ripsnort]

I consider what I do art work. And I get paid handsomely for it as well from my clients. It's a hobby that's turned into a money-making 2nd job.

[Zacherof]

That's awesome stuff! My high school teacher mentioned to me that this and similar things are a good idea to know how to do as there is a high demand.

Again well done!

[Ripsnort]

That's awesome stuff! My high school teacher mentioned to me that this and similar things are a good idea to know how to do as there is a high demand.

Again well done!

Thank you and you too sir. Nice artwork. You have an eye for it.

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OK... going to give this a shot.  Here is a model of one aircraft I have been working on in Blender.  I used the cycles render to get the photos and I have a lot of fireflies (white spots) in the photos.  Also getting a lot of black dots like I sprinkled the model with a light coat of pepper.  Ink or anyone else if you have any ideas on how to get rid of the spots for a better render in cycles I would much appreciate it.

Regards,

BSB

Front left view



Top right view



Front View



Cockpit close up



Left Back View

not sure if you are allowing the cycles render to fully finish, it takes a long.......long time, thats what those images look like to me..... that is why I don't use the cycles render (so don't know a whole lot about it, I know you need to use planes as lights and you don't use lights at all haha) I just use the blender render, if you want real professional looking products you will want to learn the "node" system, it is daunting and mind numbing but there are a lot of tutorials to get you going, understanding that will give you the best results rendering IMO....... the cycles render takes way to long, it could be my old Dinosaur system.....

Btw that is excellent work, cant wait to see it finished, I am far more adept at organic stuff, unless its something small like a sword or axe

[BSB]

Thank you gents for you input.

Saxman I tried rendering to a .png file same results.

Ink yes rendering in cycles takes a little longer that blender render.  But not much on my computer (maybe better machine?).  Funny you should mention the organic, inorganic art.  I am just the opposite.  Give me some blueprints or 3 plan profiles and I can model that in a heartbeat.  Anything organic, human, animal, alien, etc... I am lost on.  Although I did do one dragon that came out fairly well... where did I put that dragon.  Anyway I am working on UV unwrapping that aircraft to paint it in Gimp and then texture it.  Going to be awhile since it will be my first time UV unwrapping something I have done and not a tutorial.  But decided to jump in and learn it.  Also having to learn Gimp from scratch also.  Will be a steep learning curve.

And thank you for the compliment on my work.  Love the work you did especially the reptile.

And here is a small animation of the aircraft landing gear.






Regards,

BSB 

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you don't "need"  GIMP to texture it, Blender has a "texture Paint" mode...go into edit mode, add new image whatever size ya like, then go into texture paint mode and paint right on the model...use GIMP for fine tuning.

ya my system is a duel core 2.9 GHZ 4 gigs of ram....

so when I get my models upwards of 1.2-1.4 million verts it crashes when I try to bake my norms or whatever, so I have been breaking down my pieces into separate meshes and going that route....

[Zacherof]

OK... going to give this a shot.  Here is a model of one aircraft I have been working on in Blender.  I used the cycles render to get the photos and I have a lot of fireflies (white spots) in the photos.  Also getting a lot of black dots like I sprinkled the model with a light coat of pepper.  Ink or anyone else if you have any ideas on how to get rid of the spots for a better render in cycles I would much appreciate it.

Regards,

BSB

Front left view



Top right view



Front View



Cockpit close up



Left Back View







He must to work for the japs

[BSB]

Good eye Zacherof.  Now I guess you can tell me which Japanese aircraft it is?

Regards,

BSB

[Zacherof]

I want to say it looks like a Ki-44/84 (last photo looks like a 3bladed jug) or something that company built. I'm going off the cowling and wing guns.

[Grayeagle]

Useda doodle on my math homework from 1st grade onward.
Didn't really 'get into' it until much later in life
..airbrushed vans, motorcycles, cars, t-shirts here n there ..was even art director for a comic book that I did most of the pencils for.
built-painted-lettered:


.. Jonathan 'Blue' Baron asked if I could do some color images as I had done ink sketches
of some of the planes in Air Warrior:


Even did some oil-on-canvas work now an then ..all of them sold:


Then I was introduced to Photoshop and 3dStudio ..and man I was 'home' ..all the years building plastic and later R/C models, painting, detailing scale, it all came together. Being hired out of a CAD Engineering program to be Lead Artist for Air Warrior was a dream come true.



..and it just kept gettin better:





One fine day we had a Fox rep come thru ..he saw this and asked if I had done a screen capture from the movie

I showed him the animation on my machine, in mesh form ..this was just a single frame of it
Built using a few photo's from the movie.
-Score-

Now and then someone would ask me if an image I had done was a photograph.
-Score-

Always learning, a student of light, color, and motion
Some have said I am 'artistic' now and then.

my sig has more stuff to look at.

-Frank aka GE

[Zacherof]

Dude that watermelon is awesome! I love the 109 and oil spit. I struggle with paintng cause I attempt to"draw" with the brush but great stuff!

[Grayeagle]

There are a lot of books that teach the techniques of how to paint well.
I got a book about how Boris Valejo does his paintings and it set me up with what I needed to know.
Much later I got a book that showed how Robert Taylor setup his aviation paintings .. and he uses the same techniques as Boris

Basically ..prep the canvas with a few coats of Gesso.
It fills the weave and leaves a matte white base to work from.. so your colors look great.

Then do a pencil sketch of what you want to paint ..
..you can project an image onto the canvas to sketch copy outlines
..and an accurate image will get you the correct perspective angles an the like.

Then it's a matter of makin the color look 'right' ..
..with Acrylic on posterboard it's a much faster process ..I did this in 4 hours, start to finish:


..while Stiletto's A-land Spit 9 took me 3 months.
(of course, it was 4' by 2.5' canvas and that is only one of the 4 shown takin off at sunrise

Thing is .. you don't have to draw many straight lines
With the right techniques you can just rock on.

-Frank aka GE

[Zacherof]

I really need to get back into painting. I've also heard that mixing gasoline or something like that will make colors more vibrant.
And generally when I paint I have no idea what I really want to do, I just let music control the strokes. I might have to
cancel my sub now

[pervert]

I really need to get back into painting. I've also heard that mixing gasoline or something like that will make colors more vibrant.
And generally when I paint I have no idea what I really want to do, I just let music control the strokes. I might have to
cancel my sub now

For drawing dip pen and ink and painting watercolour if you can master those 2 the rest of the mediums seem tame by comparison, watercolour especially is very tricky.

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For drawing dip pen and ink and painting watercolour if you can master those 2 the rest of the mediums seem tame by comparison, watercolour especially is very tricky.

 

water color is easy compared to oil....but all the mediums pale in comparison to working in skin.