Hello, artists.

Zeta— that brain really does look nice.

Lovely Young Disciple— More Jhonen Vasquez-ish, if you ask me.

Zeta, I love the fire spirit drawing. The coloring is wonderful! (And it seems someone's been playing FFT. :P)

I think this topic's going to drive me mad as I try to draw again and fail miserably. One failed attempt already...

Well, I color with whatever I have around, so most of my drawings come out a little psychedelic. I'm probably going to use your classic Steampunk palette for the club, but have Merhige and the portraits be spots of brightness.

Oh, thank you so much AOD! For so long, people have told me that I remind them of Tim Burton. Finally someone else!

I can't even count the number of times my style has been compared to Tim Burton.

The hell? But you don't even use Noodle People! I use Noodle People, it's understandable!

Also, who are those scientists in 3?

You're my little sister's age too, Meaty. :P You're so much more meta than her, and you sound WAY smarter on the Internet. (I have to goad my sister into capitalizing things.) At least she's snarky and nerdy in real life.

Warning: Tons o' crappy stuff ahead!

• Holy crap doodles.◊ A deformed legs blue dog thing, an unholy Goomba/Metroid cross, and a puke-green-and-copper-colored star-speckled spikewolf, among other things. And a bad Animal Crossing character.
• Self-portrait with blue blob.◊ And you'll be seeing more of the blue thing; it's in some of the other ones too.
• Psychic ice powuhz◊. Not sure what else to say about this.
• I love these little guys from◊ Super Paper Mario.
• Ka-blobs.◊ And another blue thing.
• How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.◊ Don't even try to pretend this makes sense.

Oh my gosh! Freezair, is that Homestar Dogen?

Are you kidding, Freezair? Mr. Groucho Saturn Marx makes perfect sense!

-cough-

edited 31st May '09 8:38:22 PM by Miijhal

Oh my gosh! Freezair, is that Homestar Dogen?

Yes. Yes it is.

I don't know where the mental processes that lead to that one came from, either, other than that they have a similar shape and both have underbites.

Oh wow. Surrealism from Made Of Meat, extreme color fantasy from Freezair, and...wow.

My ideas—abstract geometrically patterned art, and character designs and portrayals of people—are so far "in the ballpark" that they look far out compared to y'all's.

edited 31st May '09 8:59:03 PM by GlennMagusHarvey

Well, he's absofreakinlutely adorable! These squiwwels keep stawing at me!

Oh, and GMH? That ain't surrealism. I'm faithfully portraying a scene in the life of one of my OCs. I would classify it under "character design/portrayals of people", actually. That should give you an idea of what my writing universe is like...

EDIT: Wait, maybe it is surrealism. It's a scene, and the world it takes place in is classified as "surrealist steampunk", So Yeah.

edited 31st May '09 9:03:43 PM by Made of Meat

Point. I guess "deranged" would be a more accurate term. Maybe I was also still fresh off of Freezair's stuff.

Seems like Zetaseal's stuff is more like what I'd come up with.

But yeah, I have a desire to portray people's emotions, even though I'm no good at even drawing basic realistic-looking people, or even animesque (partly because I want to avoid drawing eyes too huge, though I don't mind making the mouth rather subtle).

And if I'm not trying to do that, I seem to be obsessed with symmetry. I just like things to match up. I like a set of eight pairs of interrelated areas in a videogame, for example.

edited 31st May '09 9:06:22 PM by GlennMagusHarvey

Mine too, if by that you mean "cartoony sketches of characters". My parents are frustrated with me because I draw so much character design and don't really branch into the abstract.

edited 31st May '09 9:08:41 PM by Made of Meat

Heh! If I don't do abstract, it's only because my dad owns it. Every room of the house except the bathroom contains at least one of his paintings, and most of them are abstract.

In fact, I think my room is the only one without an abstract. It has a painting of an octopus (done by him) and a painting that was actually done by my great-grandfather (with whom I shared my birthday) of an old boat in a big field.

This thread feels really strange. I've never really thought of there being visual artists on TV Tropes.

It makes me wish I had drawing capability beyond technical diagrams. (The few times I've tried to draw, I've totally and completely sucked at it, but then I've never really tried very hard.)

I'm gonna have to start putting actual effort in my stuff to get the attention that I crave now, ain't I? Very well then! Very well. ... Well, well.

So, Meatster. For your contortionist drawing, it would already help if you moved the leg behind the other one a good bit to the right. As it is, it looks like the one in the front is a curvy lump extending straight from the head... I can see you made a little bump there where the butt is supposed to be, but it doesn't come across like that because you can't see the other leg being connected to it. It would help to preconstruct your drawings some more, even if you end up only loosely following the construction lines.

I know. I drew it right when I did the realistic version, but when I "warped" it it all went to hell. I like it, though. I yanked it from here.

Speaking of which, does anyone have a top-view reference of someone lying on their stomach and looking up?

edited 31st May '09 11:37:01 PM by Made of Meat

I was actually planning to start an art thread... today, as a matter of fact.

mostly 'cause I've felt I need to improve, and thought a thread was the best place. Or should I just use this one?

@GMH + Lee4mz : Abstract is fine. I never drew things the way they wanted me to in school. Just work with what you can do. that's where style comes from.

This thread feels really strange. I've never really thought of there being visual artists on Tv Tropes.

This is an extremely unfounded theory, so don't take it for too much. But my theory is that many artistic people—be they writers or whathaveyou—simply like to create, and are willing to pursue many venues in order to do so. Successful or no.

Meaty, it's not taken from the top, but is this◊ the position you're looking for?

Or, there's this girl◊ who isn't lying on her stomach, but is bent approximately the same way.

Otherwise, set your Google search to "moderately safe" and search on (Chinese Acrobats)

edited 1st Jun '09 12:32:13 AM by Madrugada

No, I don't want a contortionist pose, just a girl lying flat on her stomach and looking up. I'm saving that first picture, though.

edited 1st Jun '09 12:34:03 AM by Made of Meat

Looking up-forward or looking up, like at the ceiling?

Either one, as long as she's looking into the camera.

@Freezair For A Limited Time: I just noticed- isn't one of those doodles in the first picture Double H?

EDIT: moved to new post

edited 1st Jun '09 1:29:06 AM by Pacific