Your best artwork

[cosmiccow]

Woo. Phoenix's sketches are great. And that's coming from someone who doesn't dig the whole anime style a lot. Are you completing/coloring some of them?

After looking through the thread more, there's more cool stuff. Especially by jurassicplayer

(but phoenix can draw hands ;p)

Something else I made:

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I made it with this.

That looks pretty cool!

I think you got the second link ("this") wrong though, because it points to the exactly same image URL

 

[Phoenix Goddess]

Thank you

Nope, I think Totodile looks pretty cool not completely colored, if you notice in my art, I do that quite a bit lol, I don't like making exactly what it looks like, I like drawing it and coloring it to make it my style. He looks real awesome, I'm proud of how it came out

As for the other two, no, Gohan's remaining that way, he was a super saiyan in that episode and with my paint, it'd ruin it, I'd have to redraw it on acrylic paper and use my acrylic paint to make it look the same.

Link? Nah, I like him that way, just have to finish him!

 

[Sterling]

Draw a mud kip, and put a shoop da whoop face on it.

Oh wait...

 

[cosmiccow]

I know, coloring can ruin a lot, but I think that's because coloring is really hard too. You could make a dark/earth/real life like shading on Totodile too ;>

But don't listen to me, I can't even draw a tree ;(

 

[Zarcon]

Ah, good ol' Computer Graphics and Art forum.
The reason I even stuck around GBAtemp was because of this section, a lot of fine artists back then.

Not that there aren't any now of course.

Lets see what I can share...

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This was a style experiment of one of my characters for a game that will never be made.

This is just a random drawing.

And this is concept art for the heroine of a game Costello was making.

Of course, I have no idea how to colour hence the incomplete shading in image two.
I also have no idea how to draw.
Seriously.
I just..."build" and "design" my "drawings" on the computer with ample use of layers and the almighty undo button.
And a Wacom Tablet I suppose.

I had the foresight to save one of my drawings in their various stages many moons ago so I'll share that too.

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At this stage I'm just trying to get the general pose down and basic hair shape.

Here, I try and jot down what I want the character to look like. (Oh god you can barely make anything out.)

Now I clean up that jumble of scribbles and start clearly defining the general shape of the outfit.

From here I go into full design mode, moving and adjusting things until it looks "right" and adding detail in general.

Then inking...and changing/adding more things.

And plotting out the colour scheme (and basic shading for the few parts I think I know how to shade).

Timeline wise, this would be first, followed by the other drawings in the order posted.
...
Good lord I drew huge eyes back then.

I'm in the process of redesigning this particular character. I keep getting sidetracked though, haha.

 

[Phoenix Goddess]

*is in terrible envy of Zarcon*

 

[Glyptofane]

Made back in highschool.

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[Gaara.]

My best.

Started with a plain render of the hulk. Need to work on smudges though. Right shoulder is jaggedy.

 

[liquidnumb]

I haven't done any serious art in years, but looking at all your guys' great work I thought I'd share one of my old pieces.

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Recognize him?

 

[Gaara.]

I haven't done any serious art in years, but looking at all your guys' great work I thought I'd share one of my old pieces.

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Recognize him?

Damon Wayans?

Lol. Good pic!

 

[liquidnumb]

Lol, no, he's a musician. Used to be more popular in the 90s. I think his band broke up quite a few years back. Thanks for the compliment.

Is it too big? Should I put it in a spoiler?

edit: Your Hulk is awesome, btw

 

[Gaara.]

Lol, no, he's a musician. Used to be more popular in the 90s. I think his band broke up quite a few years back. Thanks for the compliment.

Is it too big? Should I put it in a spoiler?

edit: Your Hulk is awesome, btw

I would.

And, who is it? His face isn't ringing a bell to me.

edit: thanks! The glories of PS. ;D

 

[liquidnumb]

And, who is it? His face isn't ringing a bell to me.

Tom Morello

 

[Gaara.]

OH, I see it now! That's really good!

 

[chA1nBull3t]

@Zarcon
Those are quite amazing! Nice work :]

 

[jurassicplayer]

Digging through my stuff, I found an old assignment for English xD. You'll have to turn your head to the side, since I thought it would take less space...

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[Myke]

Timeline wise, this would be first, followed by the other drawings in the order posted.
...
Good lord I drew huge eyes back then.

I'm in the process of redesigning this particular character. I keep getting sidetracked though, haha.

you need to work on your color. The drawing's not bad, but the color is super flat. nice job tho.

 

[Zarcon]

you need to work on your color. The drawing's not bad, but the color is super flat. nice job tho.

Of course, I have no idea how to colour hence the incomplete shading in image two.That extends to all my colouring efforts which are very, very few. I don't draw often at all.
Thanks for the kind words though, your art always fascinate me.

I have a confession to make, the drawings posted are literally the last four drawings I've done.

The drawing with the various stages of progress was early 2005.
The style experiment of that drawing was done a year later in 2006.
The random character was 2 years later in 2008.
And the concept art for Costello was last year in 2009.

Those 4 are the last 4 drawings I've made and each was a year or two apart so I haven't had many chances to work on my colouring.
Maybe I'll try and do a proper colouring job on this one though, 2010 is a good landmark year I suppose.
This drawing feels like my best yet and I am rather fond of the character, even though I've basically only drawn her once before and am redesigning her now, but hey, you don't need artwork for backstory to exist.

Though saying "draw" feels wrong to me. It's more like I make shapes and manipulate them until they look right to me in an image editor.
I certainly couldn't draw these on paper, I'm no artist.

I hope saying all this doesn't rub anyone the wrong way, I'm not fishing for compliments or anything.
I really can't draw on paper. I "build" digitally with parts and reshape/move things around until the "blocks" fit in place.
It's kind of like how some people/books tell you to visualize what you want to draw as shapes.
Except I never go beyond shapes, I treat every body part I "draw" as a building block on it's own layer and manipulate each piece until they fit together nicely.
Then I flip the image horizontally and come back to it a few days later and see if everything still looks right and adjust accordingly.
(That's one tip I can fully endorse to anyone who draws digitally or even just scans in their artwork. Flip it horizontally and look at it the next day. If it looks awkward something might be wrong with your proportions or perspective.)

Or maybe I'm weird and this is basically how drawing works.
Just don't tell me to draw anything on paper or without my precious, precious layers.

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Okay, I lied a bit, I do have one more drawing made recently.
Not safe for work though...kind of...click at your own risk~

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And a short IRC log for reference.
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[03:21] omg ur so talented
[03:21] u can doodle my noodle
[03:21] :x
[03:22] * @Costello watches p1ngpong hitting on zarc
[03:22] Costello is watching us?
[03:22] @__@
[03:22] watching zarcon doodling your noodle. Yep.
[03:23] hot?
[03:23] and hi
[03:23] btw
[03:25] http://zarcon.gbatemp.net/imagedump/p1ngs-thing.jpg
[03:26] HEY! :@
[03:26] I have a pube

 

[KingVamp]

@Zarcon Do you do personal teaching?

 

[Jamstruth]

Here's the next 2 of my drawings. First off...

TOTODILE!!!

Turned out really quite nice

Next its... LINK

Not quite as good as Toto but ok.