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Post by coldiron on Oct 11, 2013 13:17:03 GMT -5
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Post by magengar on Oct 12, 2013 1:18:21 GMT -5
Ah, okay, now I remember... Instagram is another one of those image hosting sites like Imageshack and Photobucket. Those new drawings look awesome! You oughtta print those on tshirts!  zozo-mag |
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Post by coldiron on Oct 12, 2013 11:46:20 GMT -5
Thanks. Yeah, these are just done with a sharpie for the most part. I am doing shirts next year, but I won't be doing characters I don't own, unless I somehow get licensed to do so.  Today's fan art.  |
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Post by magengar on Oct 12, 2013 11:54:32 GMT -5
That Popeye is ROCKIN! Have you drawn any characters and/or robots of your own? You could get a Kickstarter going to help you produce your own tshirt/toy line. zozo-mag |
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Post by coldiron on Oct 12, 2013 13:59:16 GMT -5
Thanks. I won't need a kickstarter though, I have a whole screen printing studio for shirts. I am just behind on launching my business due to spending this year raising my daughter. As she gets bigger and I get these other projects out of the way all my free time will be going to screen printing, toys and writing. I already left my job with the gaming company to get more time. Some of you had already seen my character Nori. He started as a mascot for my old toy store but evolved into his own thing. I am planning some toys, and if I can find time to learn this software better, Animation. Also hoping to release some mobile games.  I do have a lot of my own robot designs that I just don't share. I had been working on this story and concept for over 15 years now, and I had not released anything of it to the public. At least until I get some copyrights finished. My best work is for my own stuff, yet it stays hidden. It is my life's work and my ultimate project. The only issue I have run into is the longer I wait, others seem to come up with some ideas that have some similarities. I have changed things in the past due to this, for dread of looking like I am copying others, but I decided since everything is derivative anyhow, the world is big enough to share different takes on similar ideas. |
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Post by magengar on Oct 13, 2013 3:11:50 GMT -5
"...since everything is derivative anyhow, the world is big enough to share different takes on similar ideas." That's a beautiful philosophy to live by! Yet, no matter how similar things may seem, your work will always be recognized as your signature. You know exactly what you want, and you're pursuing it at your own pace. Your Nori character will strike a major chord with kids, especially with fans of high school age and college age. zozo-mag |
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Post by coldiron on Oct 14, 2013 20:41:58 GMT -5
I didn't always live by it. I had changed many of my projects in hopes of maintaining originality. I finally accepted it is impossible, and people will always say something is like something else. The best you can do is maintain your unique take on things and hope people accept it. Re Nori. Thanks. He has an interesting world I want to explore, and his stuff will come to before my main project. Especially since he is still the mascot of my studio, so it gives me leverage of making things based around him. I am going back to Asia at the end of the year and I am hoping to make some sort of simple clay figure to take around and photograph with him. I got a gray marker to experiment with. I need to use something besides copy paper because these markers bleed like crazy into it. I will likely move to something heavier.   |
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Post by magengar on Oct 15, 2013 0:53:59 GMT -5
There is some kind of thick paper available for use
with watercolor paints... if the watercolor paint can't
bleed on it, perhaps the markers will remain stable
on the paper as well.
Photo-print paper could also be used as an alternative,
since it retains colors vivid and solid within their borders.
The gray marker works awesome for two-tone shadowing,
and those drawings look really nice done up with that
marker.
On regular copy paper, the bleeding ruins the tightness
of the color borders; unless you know any techniques that
will use that bleeding to an advantage for achieving
a desired effect.
zozo-mag
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Post by coldiron on Oct 15, 2013 14:22:20 GMT -5
I have some water color paper, but its heavily textured. I tried some heavy drawing paper today and it bled worse than the copy paper. I have all sorts of paper, so I will just experiment this week.  |
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Post by magengar on Oct 16, 2013 1:40:51 GMT -5
I wonder if it would help to Flatten the textured watercolor paper
with a hot iron?
That EVA there looks awesome. But the severe bleeding ruins things.
zozo-mag
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Post by mojacko on Oct 16, 2013 11:26:35 GMT -5
nori's character looks interesting...hes like a gentle giant who has a soft spot on toys.....or something....pretty cool sketches btw!!!
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Post by mojacko on Oct 16, 2013 11:31:48 GMT -5
I wonder if it would help to Flatten the textured watercolor paper with a hot iron? zozo-mag i recall doing to that during my days in the university .....we have this visual tech subject and we used to submit colored renderings....were using water color that time and too much would wrinkle the paper....thus we use a hot iron to flatten that darn paper out......  |
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Post by coldiron on Oct 16, 2013 15:05:25 GMT -5
nori's character looks interesting...hes like a gentle giant who has a soft spot on toys.....or something....pretty cool sketches btw!!! Thanks. He actually is a hero Kaiju that defends his city from Evil robots. His family disowned him since he does not destroy cities. He fled to the US from Japan to escape evil ninja sushi chefs. I found a paper my wife has that prevents it from bleeding too much. I also don't need to put a magazine underneath, The paper is meant for paint. The bleed is so bad on the last one, that it looks like an eva, rather than Lazengann. Here is the new paper with Lion O.  |
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Post by magengar on Oct 17, 2013 0:17:04 GMT -5
The bleeding on that paper for Lion-O looks more natural, since he's more human-like... therefore the shadow shades are fine as they bleed throughout his face and neck area. It wouldn't look as good with robots and mechas, because they are machines with boxy shapes and surfaces.  zozo-mag |
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Post by mojacko on Oct 17, 2013 6:52:10 GMT -5
The bleeding on that paper for Lion-O looks more natural, since he's more human-like... therefore the shadow shades are fine as they bleed throughout his face and neck area. It wouldn't look as good with robots and mechas, because they are machines with boxy shapes and surfaces. zozo-mag hey Tony you should teach some part time art classes on the side.....youve got a keen eye on details..... |
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Post by magengar on Oct 17, 2013 9:16:56 GMT -5
Once in a while I sit down and teach kids some
ideas and tips, we go over comic books of their
favorite characters and superheroes while I
coach them how to draw items such as body shapes
using the Circle method...
...that's how I learned it throughout my school years
in art class.
zozo-mag
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Post by coldiron on Oct 28, 2013 15:06:43 GMT -5
From the past few days. Battle Beast  Big O  Dairugger  dangaioh  |
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Post by coldiron on Oct 31, 2013 17:18:07 GMT -5
cthulhu and a Nori Pumpkin for Halloween.   |
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Post by faiz625 on Nov 20, 2013 7:48:11 GMT -5
A simple cross vector art that i did couple a months ago i refine it at photoshop though to get the metropolis feel  |
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Post by coldiron on Nov 21, 2013 22:09:00 GMT -5
Very cool.
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