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Re: Iwo Jima drawing
« Reply #45 on: August 21, 2009, 12:07:50 PM »
I sure do wish you had the original.  I'm an Iwo Jima freak.  Been there, climbed Suribachi, went in a few caves, and came home with some black sand....shhhhhh, don't tell anyone.  I would definitely be contacting you to find out a price for that original.  Great work.   :salute
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Re: Iwo Jima drawing
« Reply #46 on: August 21, 2009, 12:21:08 PM »
Madda, yours is a true talent. My own abilities are humbled in your presence! I'd love to post some of my drawings but I don't think they deserve to share the same electrons as what you've created.

As for the other part of this thread, wow.... what a trainwreck. Sad.
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Re: Iwo Jima drawing
« Reply #47 on: August 21, 2009, 02:44:29 PM »
Maddafinga if you drew all those by hand then I retract what I said and ask to be forgiven.

Your word is good enough, tho I'd rather have done it away from the peanut gallery. Or was it peanut brained?

Unfortunatly Ive become very suspicious towards anything I hear on the Internet.

Good luck to you on your art endeavors.

Well, I can understand some cynicisim, but wow man.  I really hate to be called a liar.  I'll accept your apology and commend you for having the guts to publicly post an admission like that.  I am not a professional artist, not by any stretch.  I work as a dental technician making porcelain crowns and bridges and veneers and such.  I work with a paintbrush half the day and with a set of dental drills the other half.  It takes a great deal of patience and focus and artistic ability and nearly endless attention to small detail.  I'm pretty well suited to it.  I wouldn't have the first clue about how to become a professional artist.  I've never sold a drawing.


AKP, I really can't believe all the work you've done here supporting me like that.  I'm somewhat surprised about you finding my photobucket page, I didn't know that was publicly available, but that's cool, I don't have anything embarassing up there.  I owe you all the check6 s I can get to you man!  Thanks again. 

The only one of those that I have access to anymore is the dustbowl pic of the woman with her kids.  It's finished and I had given it to my parents some months before the fire.  They're coming into town Tuesday so I'll see if I can get them to bring it and I'll make a good quality scan of the finished product.  On that note, does anyone have any good tips for getting a good jpg out of a scan, I'm not good with that at all.  I have Gimp, because it's free, but I don't really know what to do with it to get a good detailed high quality pic out of a scan.  Any help at all there would be wonderful. 

Thank you all for the work and the kind words. 

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Re: Iwo Jima drawing
« Reply #48 on: August 21, 2009, 02:50:02 PM »
I sure do wish you had the original.  I'm an Iwo Jima freak.  Been there, climbed Suribachi, went in a few caves, and came home with some black sand....shhhhhh, don't tell anyone.  I would definitely be contacting you to find out a price for that original.  Great work.   :salute

I wouldn't sell it anyway man, it took me so long to do and so much work.... 

That's awesome  that you went to Iwo and climbed Suribachi, I'm jealous of you for that. Did  you take any pics, I'd love to see them.  Maybe when I get a little time I can knock something out for you though.  It won't be that level of work, but I'm sure I can do something you'd enjoy. 

Thanks!
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Re: Iwo Jima drawing
« Reply #49 on: August 21, 2009, 02:55:20 PM »
Madda, yours is a true talent. My own abilities are humbled in your presence! I'd love to post some of my drawings but I don't think they deserve to share the same electrons as what you've created.

As for the other part of this thread, wow.... what a trainwreck. Sad.

Trainwreck is right, but I think everything has cooled out now. 

Man Reaper, post away with your stuff!  I love seeing other people's work.  I always feel inspired and appreciative when I get to see some things that other people do.  Hell, I'm not the greatist, drawing is just basically a hobby for me, though truthfully it's something of a compulsion too.  There are guys here that are fantastic though, GrayEagle is really great and I'm constantly in awe of him and his work in all sorts of media.  Ink posted a pic in another thread too that looks really excellent.  I haven't seen much of his portfolio, but I'm betting that it's fantastic.  The way that I look at it is you can't go wrong making something for yourself and if you did it and like it then that's all that really matters.  Post some of it up, I'd love to check it out!

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Re: Iwo Jima drawing
« Reply #50 on: August 21, 2009, 03:03:26 PM »
AKP, I really can't believe all the work you've done here supporting me like that.  I'm somewhat surprised about you finding my photobucket page, I didn't know that was publicly available, but that's cool, I don't have anything embarassing up there.  I owe you all the check6 s I can get to you man!  Thanks again. 

Dont mention it Madda.  Spent the first 21 years of my life in Oklahoma... you had just better be a Sooner fan!   :D  Speaking of Oklahoma, I am sure you have heard of Greg Burns.  The detail you put into your stuff reminds me of his work. 

I will dig through some of my stuff and see if I have anything I can post here.  Most of my latest stuff is cartoony.  I did some more serious stuff a few years back, but I just havent had the drive to do any lately.  I never pursued art professionally either.  I tried, but it took all the fun out of it.  I draw what I feel, when I feel it.

Take care! :salute


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Re: Iwo Jima drawing
« Reply #51 on: August 21, 2009, 03:08:57 PM »
Madda,

I just found this thread.  I really enjoyed the work posted, and wish you the greatest success in the future.

Awesome stuff  :aok

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Re: Iwo Jima drawing
« Reply #52 on: August 21, 2009, 03:30:39 PM »
I meant to post this yesterday but I couldn't remember the artist's name.

A few years ago, my wife and I bought a coffee-table art book for my son that's germane to this thread (truthfully, I wanted the danged book for myself as well).   It's a gorgeous book of prints by artist Simon Combes and the book is called Great Cats (pub. 1998)   :aok.  It's  available at Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Great-Cats-Stories-World-Traveller/dp/0867130482/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250885187&sr=8-1

Anyway, my original point was that hyper-realistic drawing IS possible, as evidenced by Mr Combes, among others.  Mr. Combes' work is utterly jaw-dropping   :O.  Bear in mind that he is a pencil artist and painter, not a photographer.  I did a Google image search for some of his stuff so you can check it out:

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=simon+combes&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=lP2OSsepNdPH-Qbf08nyDQ&gbv=2

People like Madda and Mr. Combes, with that level of talent, ARE rare but they have a gift that should be praised and appreciated when they choose share it.

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Re: Iwo Jima drawing
« Reply #53 on: August 21, 2009, 03:31:27 PM »
Dont mention it Madda.  Spent the first 21 years of my life in Oklahoma... you had just better be a Sooner fan!   :D  Speaking of Oklahoma, I am sure you have heard of Greg Burns.  The detail you put into your stuff reminds me of his work. 

I will dig through some of my stuff and see if I have anything I can post here.  Most of my latest stuff is cartoony.  I did some more serious stuff a few years back, but I just havent had the drive to do any lately.  I never pursued art professionally either.  I tried, but it took all the fun out of it.  I draw what I feel, when I feel it.

Take care! :salute

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Hey I went to OU for a year.  I was an art major there until I began to lose focus and party a lot more.  I didn't really want to be a teacher (though my mother and stepdad are) and the only things I was interested in were Art and History and Philosophy, basically stuff you can only use to teach.  So I kind of just went my own way.  

I do know Greg Burns, well, not personally; he did either three or four paintings of the inside of my grandparent's house when it was finished, really excellent work.  I was out of town at the time and didn't get to meet him, but they hung the little watercolors up around the house and I looked at them all the time.  Good stuff there!

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Re: Iwo Jima drawing
« Reply #54 on: August 21, 2009, 03:36:47 PM »
I meant to post this yesterday but I couldn't remember the artist's name.

A few years ago, my wife and I bought a coffee-table art book for my son that's germane to this thread (truthfully, I wanted the danged book for myself as well).   It's a gorgeous book of prints by artist Simon Combes and the book is called Great Cats (pub. 1998)   :aok.  It's  available at Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Great-Cats-Stories-World-Traveller/dp/0867130482/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250885187&sr=8-1

Anyway, my original point was that hyper-realistic drawing IS possible, as evidenced by Mr Combes, among others.  Mr. Combes' work is utterly jaw-dropping   :O.  Bear in mind that he is a pencil artist and painter, not a photographer.  I did a Google image search for some of his stuff so you can check it out:

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=simon+combes&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=lP2OSsepNdPH-Qbf08nyDQ&gbv=2

People like Madda and Mr. Combes, with that level of talent, ARE rare but they have a gift that should be praised and appreciated when they choose share it.

FWIW,


Hey, thanks Wraith!  I haven't know about that guy, he does really excellent work.  I wish I could use color as well as him.  Maybe it's time for me to get a new set of Prismas and some watercolor pencils and give it something of a shot again. 
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Re: Iwo Jima drawing
« Reply #55 on: August 21, 2009, 04:04:13 PM »

Man Reaper, post away with your stuff!  I love seeing other people's work.  I always feel inspired and appreciative when I get to see some things that other people do.  Hell, I'm not the greatist, drawing is just basically a hobby for me, though truthfully it's something of a compulsion too.  There are guys here that are fantastic though, GrayEagle is really great and I'm constantly in awe of him and his work in all sorts of media.  Ink posted a pic in another thread too that looks really excellent.  I haven't seen much of his portfolio, but I'm betting that it's fantastic.  The way that I look at it is you can't go wrong making something for yourself and if you did it and like it then that's all that really matters.  Post some of it up, I'd love to check it out!


We should start an "Art thread."  I was already thinking about buying a scanner today and I do have some stuff I'd like to share after I edit it a bit to make it Skuzzy-friendly ;) It's not anywhere near your league and is a different genre (think Sunday funnies meets Maus) but I had a good time making it, and that's what counts :aok
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Re: Iwo Jima drawing
« Reply #56 on: August 21, 2009, 04:47:23 PM »
WoW

 Both you guys have great talent,me I cant draw a straight line with a pencil and ruler!

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Re: Iwo Jima drawing
« Reply #57 on: August 21, 2009, 05:06:02 PM »
We should start an "Art thread."  I was already thinking about buying a scanner today and I do have some stuff I'd like to share after I edit it a bit to make it Skuzzy-friendly ;) It's not anywhere near your league and is a different genre (think Sunday funnies meets Maus) but I had a good time making it, and that's what counts :aok

Good idea about the Art Thread, I'd read it and it would certainly be one of my favorites.  I always love checking out people's screenshot art type of threads, a handmade artwork one would be even better to me. 

Thanks Morfiend!
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