[TJFrame]

The recent fad around here seems to be posting old stuff, so here goes...

Below are two of my first ever attempts at digital painting. Up until 1998 I had used PS to color correct and crop scanned marker sketches and guache stuff. But in spring of 99 I got fed up with the hassles of real paint and decided to try going digital. After spending 3 years at school using mostly markers and prismacolors, it has taken some time to learn how to adapt to the simultaneous fredom and restrictions of digital painting.

The image below is the very first thing I painted up. I scanned in a marker sketch of a big mech thingie and struggled my way through learning painter!





The Goblin King below is, I think, my third fully digital piece. I scanned in a sketch and spent 2 days switching back and forth between painter and PS. Come to think of it, things still haven't changed much! (God I'd give anything for a hybrid of the two!)





Hope you guys get a kick out of them!

-TJ

[Brishen]

That goblin is fantastic. The skulls look amazing, as does the face. Abso-fricken-lutely fantastic, m'dear.

Jess

[Rinaldo]

Damn fine for your first go.
Were you another one of those kids who did more sketching in your maths book than math?

Have you got any really grotty old drawings? Just for fun. you're so good it would be fun to see those really old crappy drawings.
How old were you when you did these?

I like the Goblin King most of all.

[TJFrame]

A slight clarification...

Based on the two responses above, perhaps I should point out that when I said "school", I meant college (Art Center) and that I'm a "grownup" chronologically and physically - (but I'm still a geeky kid at heart!)

Anyway, thanks for the postive feedback regardless!

-TJ

[Brishen]

Oh, I hope you weren't offended by the usage of "m'dear", because I meant it in a silly-old-bear way. You're older than I am, anways. I agree that you should post some shitass old drawings! Give us laypeople a little something to look up to.... Let us know where you've been that we might someday be where you are. Oh no, this is beginning to sound like a Fleischmann's margarine commercial....

Jess

[iska]

Geez, that must be the best goblinistiq art I've seen in my life truly beautiful. The first aint too bad either he-he

I'm wondering what tools on painter you use..? at the moment I'm thinking of also trying to paint with both of them, but I'm so used to photoshop (used it from version 2.05 or something like that), and the painters interface is sooo weird

--iska

[Rinaldo]

I hope I wasn't implying that you were not a "grown up".

You work pro non?

Seeing that Goblin just made me think of all the cool things me and my friends would make up in HS (the idea not the execution). I got in so much trouble for drawing in the margins. but today it's the sort of thing that gets you a job
And I'm not implying that the idea is immature either........well no more immature than the rest of the stuff us geeky people get up to

Just wanted to clarify.

[Lange_Pisang]

Sheezus!

I like it a loh'!
Cool designed robot, cool details you put in it. Cool colors in the goblin pic, cool details on the skulls, face and shoulder blades...and cool "alien" signs...cool cool cool...(!)

[Isric]

whoa! I always wondered what Queen Amidala looked like without her painted face

[black_fish]

I really like your mecha giant robot on top. The design is extremely interesting, and the way you applied the color on the underlying black lines is really cool. I like the fact that it looks both solid with hard edges and smooth with cool reflections. Very good job. The dynamic pose is good too.
Very professional, man. Very cool.
Your goblin king is cool but not that original too me and maybe lacking a little drama. You know, pathos. But that's only a matter of taste I guess.

Cool cool

[Gambit]

Thanks for the post, neat to see some of your first works using PS.

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[This message has been edited by Gambit (edited August 11, 2000).]