Art Contest Entry 4# - Dark Lord
Tue, 2005-03-01 05:43
Another one. I started off with a sketch, then gradually began colouring it.
If you would like to see the steps in between (as in the wip copies) - just ask.
Hope it beats my first one :-P
This is great, it looks like a scan of some real art. You've got a good hand there, not to mention the eye :-).
Btw, what tools did you use? Gimp?
That is perhaps my best piece so far - according to all those who've seen most of my art (local friends and rels). I took over 30 hours in total - mainly because the darn sketch never turned out how I wanted and because this was the first pice where I experimented a lot with.
Here are some of the variations and work-in-progresses that I saved as well.
The scanned sketch:
http://img100.exs.cx/img100/9324/guard.png - wip
http://img106.exs.cx/img106/9324/guard.png - wip
http://img108.exs.cx/img108/9324/guard.png - wip
http://img48.exs.cx/img48/8286/guard27qs.png - done without background and opacity changes.
http://img145.exs.cx/img145/9665/guard41mw.png - variation. more rustic.
Like? :-)
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Ooops. Forgot to answer your question. Yes. Gimped. 110% only gimp.
I used mainly 2.0 on a liveCD at school, and 1.3 here at home for the background. :-)
Shows that gimp can easily rival PS.
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Very nice!
You really have some talent. The image is real art, great work Pascal! :yes:
Thanks
Daniel
Hey, just so you know - critique is wanted. S if there are any things you can see - I'd like to know about it.
Ohh, and thanks for the great comments. I am mostly proud of that fact that I did that entirely in GIMP, so I managed to stub it into the faces of some Photoshop users. :-P T'was quite an event
Thanks again guys.
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Pascal wrote:
I am mostly proud of that fact that I did that entirely in GIMP, so I managed to stub it into the faces of some Photoshop users. :-P T'was quite an event
Hey, that is one of the purposes for this contest, to show people that great stuff can be done with only free software. Many are skeptic about that, but we are showing that they are wrong. :-)
Thanks
Daniel
Pascal, this is a very good work! Congratulations! :-) This Dark Lord reminds me Sauron in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Yes, we can do many beautiful things with free(dom) software. If you have imagination there is no limit to what you can do. A real designer can make very good works with any tool doesn't matter if it is made by a pencil, chinese ink, watercolor, gouache, 3D-Max, Corel, Photoshop, Blender, Inkscape or Gimp (and others, of course).
I am thinking about an illustration made entirely (or almost if I start the drawing by hand) on free(dom) software. I think I will use mainly Inkscape and Gimp, but perhaps I will use Blender also. I am not sure of what I am going to do yet.
Thank you,
Andr�
The best idea is to use GIMP and Inkscape in conjunction with Blender, but here GIMP and Insckape serve as texture, icon, and design creators, while Blender is the modeler and the renderer (and animator too).
Mhh. That reminds me, I'll show you all another work which is currently a work in progress (another coloured sketch). I won't enter it, otherwise I enter too many - but yea. :-)
Cheers you guys.
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The best idea is to use GIMP and Inkscape in conjunction with Blender, but here GIMP and Insckape serve as texture, icon, and design creators, while Blender is the modeler and the renderer (and animator too).
Hehe... well, actually, Gimp and Inkscape could help for textures icons, etc and then apply them in Blender, but I am thinking about using them in another way... Blender would be used for 3D, helping to compose the image (perspective, shadows, lights, etc) and then make use of Inkscape and Gimp for post-processing, retouches and enhancements.
Thank you,
Andr�