Why hallo there. Barabi here~ I figured that it would be a bit more motivating if I had my own thread where I can put pictures of my art. I'm making a new DA, so I'll link that later. But, uh, yeah. My art isn't the greatest, but I hope you enjoy it. Thank you~

Still Life I did last year :O

This is a paper pulp painting. You basically turn the paper back to pulp and then mold it into another picture. It dries together as if it's one piece of paper.

This is a really tacky initial sculpture we did in class. It's basically card board and plaster that's painted black, which you then add a metallic or neon texture accent to.

Embossed metal~ We used aluminum plates, embossed our designs on them, and then put black ink on them. Once it dried, we took a ball of steel wool and add a texture accent by scratching the ink off of the raised surfaces. I did mine a little different to give it a more antique-y look.

Are you an Art Major or do you just do this for fun? It's really nice either way (^ ^)/ Especially the still life. God knows I can't try something like that without smudging all the pencil.

Thank you, Bread ^^ I take art classes at my high school, but a lot of it is on my own, too. I don't think I'm going to be an art major anyway, though. My step dad scared me away with all the horror stories of when he was in school for art lol

Oh wow, you looked like you were in college and you're pretty mature as well, so I just assumed/ ヽ( ´¬`)

I guess most of the art I've seen from Art Majors is on D.A, so it pretty much seems like sparkles and sunshines there.
This thread is nice, it has something other than anime, which is pretty much what fills this board now. POST MOAR WHEN YOU CAN!!!11!1

np np lol Yeah, I have to resize everything, and photobucket is... pretty much saying, "FUCK YOU, BITCH," whenever I try to upload more than five at a time to resize them. I'm working on getting a few more up.

I can draw anime, but I like to experiment with different mediums and styles to draw a lot of different things :O

This is my mandala I made a few years ago. Took way too damn long. It's basically a circular pattern that repeats itself in a pizza-slice styled fashion. For mine, I used the fish bone pattern on the sides with ornate "border" style accents and shitloads upon shitloads of tiny roses. There are also small curly trees at the top. I'll post a zoomed in picture in a second.

Zoom~

This is a weird project I'm working on right now. Basically playing around with mixing acrylic and tempera paint (which is actually working to my advantage). Through this project, I found out that using an acrylic thickener will actually thinken tempera really well so that it dries faster and is more opaque.

>>13 This is just good because tempera is a lot cheaper than most other paints around here, and if I can get this affect using a thickener, it's a good money saver for me.

Oh lord. I did this... years ago. It was my first perspective project. I drew trees getting smaller going down a winding road (the angle of the trees failed, lol). The largest one is actually made of plaster and glued to the canvas and then shaded along with everything else. There are also footprints in the snow that get smaller as they go down the path.

This was my halloween painting entry this year :O It didn't get in. I like my one from last year better, but they said it was too gory (then went on to let a contestant with a woman with a slit throat and lovers dancing in the blood).

>>6
I like these a lot for some reason. The hart one's my favorite.

>>17 Thank you ^^

I'm working on a slightly anime-esque picture now, but my lack of a tablet and ability to draw skin is failing me, so I'm just going to make it look like a robot. IMPROVISING FTW.

>>19 Hey, don't worry.

When I'm drawing something, it usually starts to look like shit or I get bored so I make up for it by turning it into some household object or an animal. Then, when people question me about it, I use the excuse
"It's abstract" or "Some people just don't get art"

>>20 Those are absolutely amazing excuses. May I use them?

>>21 HAH, Why of course!
/not like you'll ever need to use them though T__T

>>22 No, I get that a lot, unfortunately. Anything that isn't extremely blunt doesn't seem be understood by my art teacher ;-; You can't do anything that isn't realistic or drawn straight from a photo in this class with her around. It sucks. But, yeah. I intend to use those lines lol

FOOD BREAK. Maybe I'll have some inspiration to finish it later :P

>>6>>4 Omg I love these most of all owo
You got so many cool projects in high school! We never really worked with anything other than paper and paper machae once. Well besides in sculpture (but since most of that was abstract anyway I don't count it because I didn't like it)

>>24 Thank you ^^ I honestly prefer the normal paper ones, though. I like to try different mediums, but illustrating is what I'm best at.

>>25 I understand but I mean its fun to experiment and try new things (especially when its the school paying for it and not you x3) I can do paper projects at home lol

>>26 Yeah, true that lol It's a lot better when the school is paying for it ;3

Lucky... I chose computer electronics, but I've always had this lingering interest for sculpting... So I turned to 3D artwork, and somewhat digital sculpting (although not all that much, since good sculpting software is hard to come by or extremely expensive).

Keep it going here \o/

Mmkies. Yeah, I need to stop procrastinating on posting new pics :V

xD
Just don't feel pressured :P

Five minutes of boredom and me finding a black chalk pastel were the result of this :V

were what caused this result*

We did this project last year. It was basically doing details close up versus a distance. The details get less and less as the butterflies get farther away. I got bored, so I threw in a tree with a door to some fantasy land in it, like the derp I am.

Oh, whoops. We made a creature that was a combination of three creatures and THEN focused on the details lol. Mine was a mix of a butterfly, thousand-legger, and a lightening bug >D

The size limit on this site is making posting these things take much longer than necessary :V Does anyone know a good site that quickly resizes things?

I don't outright know of a site for image manipulation, but it might be just as convenient to just use a free image hosting site, like photobucket, imageshack or puush, which allows us to see the full-resolution version of your works.

>>36 I was using photobucket earlier, but it takes too long to upload on it and freezes my computer when I edit it. Also, I would rather post the image here rather than link to an outside website.

Well, then I can only suggest an application: Paint.NET. It's lightweight, easy to use and has a neat and tidy user interface. Just open up the image you want to resize and hit Ctrl + R. Pick the resolution of your desire, and hit "ok".

>"...good site that quickly resizes..."
>checks
>paint.net is a softwear
>mfw -o-

You don't HAVE to suggest something :V So there's no reason to tell me about something that I clearly didn't want. But, whatever. I'll keep looking. Thank you for the suggestions.

SO GUESS WHAT. I'm doing an art trade with Pineapplezzzzzzz~ Unfortunately, I have made no progress lol

I found 1 online image editor, but I imagine there are tons of 'em if you just google for "online image editor".
http://www.imageeditor.net/free_online_image_editor.asp
It was a little hard to use, at least if you're not experienced with image editors, but that's the only one I bothered finding for you, seeing how easy it was to find this one.

>>42 I wasn't asking for people to find one, I was asking if anyone knew of one from experience :V Why would I want random links to things that the person linking it has never even used more than few times? I, personally, don't want to go trying everyone shitty one of them until I find a good one, and that was why I was asking. If you don't know one, then don't give me random links and go on to imply I'm too lazy for not looking. I'm asking people who have used them if they would mind sharing their knowledge with me; not to get lip from someone who is just googling shit.

every shitty one*

Oh, :|

I have no experience with this sort of thing. When I resize things, I go to paint tool sai or photoshop because it's already downloaded, and etc. You can also use the default paint that's in your computer. I have the newer-esque version, so there's a resize button on top between "Crop" and "Rotate".

Also, you should post what Pineapplez draws for you, and vice-versa :D. (If you want to.)

I'll go from implying you're too lazy to go looking yourself to implying you don't want your shit up here on Dollars. If you don't want an application nor a web-based editor, then fuck off and don't go asking for help.

>>45 He doesn't want to use an offline aplication, which Paint Tool SAI, PS and paint are.

>>46 You gave me websites you pulled out of your ass. I'm asking people who already know good websites and have used them, not stupid lazy fucks who go to Google and post the link to the first shitty thing that popped up :V And what does putting my art up here have to do with you giving me shitty websites to resize it?

>>45 I have paint, but the pictures are really huge and I can't resize them without chopping them up into smaller pieces D': Thank you, though.

Yeah, I'll see if that's okay with her~ ^^

>>47 Right click, select all, resize?

And yes, it's fine by me

>>48 On what program? I can't do that straight from my computer D:

Yay~

>>47 Sorry for trying to suggest from both my own experience and to your desires when no one else did then.

>>49 On Paint..

You can do it simply on Paint. Just zoom out and do it. If I don't want to I go to befunky.com, open my picture to edit it but not change anything. Then just save it under a different name and the image is smaller.

Do you know how to resize it proportionally in Paint? Line up the right white squares along the dotted outlining of your image.

>>51 >>52 I'll try it, but like I said, you can't see the picture Paint enough to resize it ;-; I mean, the pictures (blame my camera; and this is the reason it takes a really long time to upload onto websites) are six times the size of my screen.

I'll try out befunky :O

Thank you, guys~ Now, to avoid keeping this thread (which hasn't had art for 20 posts) bumped up, I'd rather nothing be commented on here until I have more art up lol

>> Rabs on my camera I'm able to decide what size I want the photo to be before taking it. See if your cam does something like that. Also, you can open images regularly in the windows image viewer thing, then resize the window itself and just take a screen shot or something.

>>54 Zomg, that is an amazing idea. Why didn't we think of this already? PRINT SCREEN FTW.

I WUV YOU KANNA ;O;

>>56 :3
Now enough with this arguing and recommending. Post more art!!

I always enjoyed loop braiding, which is easiest to do for me with seven loops on my fingers. Beginners may prefer five, but it's too simple for me to enjoy. I hadn't done it for years, so I decided to do it again. This is a really simple one that I did in one color. You can get this pattern by running along your fingers and back rather than restarting like most people prefer (basically going along your fingers from index to pinky to index to pinky rather than indexy to pinky; index to pinky; index to pinky). It's one of the most simple ones. You can get a horizontal rainbow effect with multiple colors, but most prefer the rainbow effect with index-pinky, index-pinky since it has a diagnal design.

There are thousands of patterns; there are even some that need six or seven people to complete. I'm thinking of getting back into it and doing some more advanced patterns again ^^ It's definitely a really fun medium.

>>58 Please ignore the girl in the background who has the creepy/stalker expression on :|

Bump above permasaged >O

Looks..

Complex D:
It reminds me a bit of crocheting, but everything is looped together here. Not to mention, I have poor hand-eye coordination, so I'd probably mess something like this up x__X
Skills.

Considering I learned it in elementary school, I think you'd do fine if you tried (with someone experienced to help you since there aren't any good sites for it) at least. It's sort of like those built in puzzles that are missing one piece so you can slide it around. You always have one finger open and then braid them together by shifting the thread to whatever finger is open.

I won't go into depth about how to do it here since it's hard to explain, but it's not that bad once you get used to it ^^

And thank you~

Could you imagine doing one of the major ones? I mean, with six people all braiding at the same time, having to switch loops with one another? It's, like... It's like a human operated, braided version of the loom o=o

A really... weird sketch I did in art club. Major boredom was occuring so... yeah. I'm going to try and do another version using Gimp and see if I can get anything colored.

I suddenly feel like drawing a manga styled comic, but I'm really lazy right now. I don't feel like coming up with a story, and my previous stories are way too complex and thought through with their character design. I think about the characters way too much, and now, I'll be a perfectionist about it when I draw them ;-;

MIND. Y U SO COMPLICATED.

So, I've come to the conclusion that the easiest thing to do would be to draw the stories from The Fables of Aesop in a personified, Japanese-person-on-LSD-influenced style.

...this is horrible, but it sounds like it will be fun. I WILL POST PICTURES THROUGHOUT MY PROGRESS.

Should I bump to hide that hideous thing I drew in art club..?

Yes, yes I should. :D

READ >>65 for my latest project idea.

>>65 I'll look forward to seeing it (/ ´¬`)/

Will it be colored though? 'O'

>>68 Yay~ And, no, I usually don't color these things. I prefer to shade or just outline when it comes to comics. I don't know. Coloring a comic just ruins the whole feel of it for me :O

>>69 Alright then, Good Luck with it! ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼

"LSD-influenced style."
Oh boy, this is going to be funny.

>>70 ／人◕ ‿‿ ◕人＼ contract?

So. I came up with a mixed media art project I want to work on.
[note: when I'm talking left and right, I'm talking about what it actually is, not what you're seeing. Reverse yourselves, children.]

The back would be newspaper glued as flat as is damn possible. I'm going to water-color wash it firey reds and oranges, and from there I'm going to do the eyes. They're going to be done using either good black ink or an obnoxiously large sharpee marker (preferably ink). The tear that's running down the left eye, the sword, and the silhouette curled up in the lower right corner will be done with the same, but then I'm going to go over some lines with gel pens. I'm going to use torn feathers as the border around the entire thing. The spikes at the bottom will probably be done with something gold and metallic (probably cardboard painted with metallic paint). The large chaos wheel is going to be roughly outlined with the same gold paint, and the OM sign in the middle will be drawn with the same thing. Inside the wheel, I'm going to do a transluscent black fog with small gold stars peaking out from beyond the fog. The fog will part around the eyes in the middle. The cityscape at the bottom and the people falling from the top are probably going to be done with either a darker red paint or a deep blue paint depending on how much contrast it seems the picture needs.

Instead of having the skull in the center of the chaos wheel, I decided to use the UM sign, which represents consciousness and the stages of consciousness a person goes through. The picture will end up being pretty symbolic, but I don't think most people will get it lol

Welp, I can't wait until we have our "Student's Choice" project in art class :O

I started wire wrapping jewelry. It's coming out pretty cool :O I'll post pictures later~

>>75 Hater panda I can stand, but ugly?! That is a cheap shot, Sama. A cheap shot.

>>77

>>78 Pssh. You take all absolute joy in this. If you really hurt, you'd apologize for making me bow. You'd even bow yourself.

I wish that the webcam didn't smudge my pictures so much >o< Otherwise, I would post up more of my character art :V

It's still nice.

>>83 There totally isn't an evil smirk in the background >o> where did you get that idea from, huh!?

>>84 Bow, Sama, Bow.

>>85 lol!no.

>>86 You are so full of no's this evening. Something wrong?

>>87 Only to you. You denied me love :V

Someone request something. A character. I need to get back into drawing shape for something I'm planning.

I want you to draw some character from Bakuman. Does that work?

Or, draw someone in a tux.

>>90 It's going to be in my own style, but yeah. Character name? :V

Quick attempt at an OC :O
I need better examples :V

>>91 Any of them.

If I had to choose, either Yoshida or Hiramaru.

>>93 k

Random design :V Patience required. It's not done yet :O

>>94 Holy crap! Very nice, Sama.

>>95 Thank you~
As you can seee, I do this type of art better than character art. But I'm trying :O

>>96 And I do character art far better than art of that sort. But... sometimes I try, maybe...~

I'm going to do a better one on Gimp, too :O

God. I can make that look so much better.

I hate it when you know everything that's wrong, but when you go to fix it, it just... doesn't work out =o=

Happy 100 posts ;O

Here's an ink version of the Ayanavi VS A!Ayanavi picture requested. This was my first semi-successful attempt at drawing side profiles! Yeah, sorry to make your picture my practice lol They came out male looking because of it :V But, yeah. If I ever figure out how to draw girly-looking side profiles, I'll redo it. However, I think they look more badass this way. I'm going to make a colored version later :O

>>102 And, yes. A!Ayanavi is holding a disproportioned, strange chainsaw that says, "Bitch, please..." and only has two options "on" or "on".

The colored version will show the appropriate blood splatter on them lol

This is a playful creation of mine utilizing ink and a cheap calligraphy brush.

This is a charcoal, pencil, and chalk pastel, grid-based self-portrait on a newspaper collage. It's about 3ft by 1.5ft.

>>105 ew. Sideways :V But I'm too lazy to fix it. And, yeah. It's a self-portrait, but as you can see, the colors were changed to be more interesting.

And I forgot - I watercolored over the newspaper collage, which made it have cool colors underneath the pastel, but made it so I had to keep regluing the newspaper chunks as I did the other steps lol

Celtic's imaginary girlfriend~
'nuff said.

Some examples of my wire wrapped jewelry ;O

In case you're curious, they all ended up getting earring hooks or chains attached. I took the pictures before the final products.

Finally got this back. This is a metallic and non-metallic acrylic painting I did on a small canvas for the "high contrast project" we did. There are flames on the bottom. In the center, there is a small branch peaking out with a metallic bird resting on top of it with its wings spread. In the top right corner, there is a red moon glaring down on everything, and the background is filled with black gears with red slit pupils looking in all different directions.

>>113 is amazing O_O. good job barabisama

>>114 Thank you ^^ It was one of my first successful paintings :O I'm better with charcoal than paint lol

>>115 If I had to be completely honest here, you're much better at crafting then you are at traditional styled art. With the exception of >>113, which I happen to like quite a bit. It's just your manga/anime styled art that's iffy. Very iffy.

But that's just my opinion. You should try painting more, it's much easier than drawing (IMO) and you get to experiment with different mediums, such as tempera, acrylic, watercolor and et al. It's fun.

>>113 Wow, excellent, Sama. And your craft work is great too.

And, also...

>>98My Fucking God!! IT'S HIRAMARU!!!!! I am most pleased.

>>116 I'm not stpuid, no worries. Anime/manga style isn't my specialty, and I'm well aware of the fact that I'm not as good as others at it. I don't particularly enjoy drawing it; I just periodically do it to humor myself/anyone who requests it. The pictures you see in this thread were just for humor's sake (Name + Celtic were just me doodling stupid things lol Navi's was the only serious drawing.) When I want to, I can draw people pretty well, but it's not in an "anime" style. I have my own style of drawing that isn't derived from that whole genre, and when I draw comics and such, that's what I use. I don't feel the need to copy off of another genre of drawing to copy premade characters.

Traditional art IS drawing. AND, to me, painting is so much ridiculously more difficult than drawing. I'm not good at painting. At all. I've only made one or two semi-decent paintings. I've worked with almost every type of paint (acrylic, tempera, oil, and water color). I don't really enjoy painting. It's one of those things that I'm just naturally bad at no matter how many years of practice and classes I have, but periodically a few good pieces will come out of it.


I prefer working with chalks and charcoals. I obviously don't post much of my "drawings" up here, but some examples are the still life and the Mandala. That's what I consider drawing in art.

I don't really think of anime as serious art unless it's detailed and done really well and/or in a manga/anime (where there is a quite a bit of it at a time). Otherwise, it just seems like something to do for fun rather than for the sake of actual drawing and art. (Basically, it's not something I would ever put in my porfolio, no offense.) That style wasn't made for single pictures; it was made with easy shading and simple designs for ease of animation and repetitve drawing. It doesn't take that long to do, and I only like it when people really mix their own personal style with it, which so many "HAI I LAIKE ANIME, DESU!" artists don't.

When it comes to crafting, I like to work with wires and string. I'm absolutely horrid at making anything 3D with other materials. (I'm particularly bad with clay :V)

But, yeah. I still don't see what you're getting at here.

bump

>>120 Damn it.
Anyway, I'll be posting more art later today. Gonna put some pictures up of the characters from my short story "Feathered Bullets."

YES!

>>122 I assume you've read part one? lol
I wish I could check FB and WEbook at school :V

Not yet... sorry...

Have read. Is very good. A couple spelling errors, but...

>>125 Don't expect perfect spelling when I'm rushing to get it done in two hours :V I'll go back and edit my stories later; for now, I'm just trying to get them written.

Hm...you've got some interesting stuff here. I like it!

I have sooooooooooooo many fucking sketches that I'm about to scan this thread with. Just warning you now.

>>128 spam*

DOIIIIIIT!!!!!!>>128>>129

There are... like 30 pictures. And I have to upload them individually. FUCK. Ohell.

The first three pictures are of the angel from my story in his form before and after his wings got ripped off. I know his face looks wide, he is obnoxiously tall and slightly anorexic looking, but he's supposed to be tall, thin, and baby faced, sooooo deal with it.

The next four are of Alice, the demon you'll "meet" in part two.

The next four are of the human girl from part one.
I don't care what anybody says. She's fucking creepy looking. DAT UNINTENTIONALLY CREEPER SMILE WILL HAUNT ME ;~;

Blurry pictures are blurry. I was lazy when I drew her, and it looks ugly, so I was lazy taking pictures of her.

My failed attempt at drawing a demon/the devil :V

Random drawing that is completely unrelated to everything.

Naked, nippleless, tattoo'd chick in a mask. Yeah, I just went there.

Failed attempt at drawing a side view.

Weapons of mass destruction.

Still haven't found a metal that won't melt after firing the shittons of bullets from that gigantic, tiered, remote-controlled, spinning, not-really-portable WMD. It can shoot thousands of bullets at once and, if made large enough, can be made to automatically reload for up. The tiers spin in opposite directions and can be made on every side. It has grenade launchers that shoot in every direction, sirens (both lights & sounds), jacked up speakers... you get what I mean. I think it would only find a use for killing zombies. And Russians. Russians are bitches to kill.

>>146 for up to*...well, however long is the amount possible with the size and reloadablility that you give it :V

This and the next one are the start of some fashion designs :O

Random cat girl

Random cat girl +1chibimode

Fail!Side view.

Close up random cat girl.

Random girl with an exceptionally short head.

Close up >>153

Full page chibi!mode :O

Nervy demon girl :V

Another attempt at side view :|

Manga expression practice :V /stillbadatit

Random head FTW.

+2chibimode

+3chibimode
I obviously don't try to draw them seriously lol

Most of what I posted were quick sketches. I normally don't upload them, but I'm tired of having like... nothing in this thread. I have a shatton of more contemporary art to put in, too; it's just in the art room, and I lack the ability to get pictures of it 'til it comes home.

Next two are part of my fashion project.

>>163 Shit. Blurry picture is blurry.

I've gotten farther on that pattern page :O

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>>94 First step of >>164

>>131 - >>142 NOMS. These are the chara pictures from "Feathered Bullets."

>>166 I see, and I LOVE!!! I really do! I was waiting for the end of spamming, now I comment. Overall, they really show your character as the artist, and fit the story rather well, from what I've read.

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>>167 YAY <3 <3 <3 <3 I'm glad they look decent lol I spent the second half of Chemistry and Gym working on it ;P

Duuuuuuuuuuude I just realized I never got around to drawing Kyoho's second wing o=o Ah, well. It would have interfered with the overall scene anyway :V

True, it would have.>>168

Now, get on FB and read my concept. God, you're lazy.

>>169 ;~: but I like being lazy..!

>>170 Well, my manga is counting on you. I'm sure as Hell not gonna write it!~

THIS IS GOING TO BE FUCKING AMAZING.
Just wanted to put that out there...

I agree, fully. All must read.... wait, now I'm competing with myself... This one, and Complex City... Ah, well.

>>173 Translation: Bitches, read every manga I illustrate unless you want to die a slow, horrible death.

^ I shall keep that engraved in my mind. I'm sure it will be AWESOME. :D

awegoaiwhegpaweg.
I colored it. I FUCKING COLORED HIM. I will post pictuuuuures.

Then I won't be on 'til... saturday night, probably. Planning party shiznits at a friends house.

Some of these may be blurry. Whenever I try to take a picture of something close up, my hand shakes more than far away. I don't get it lol

I obviously still need to color in his human form ^

Yes - this is what happens when i get bored in Art Class and am surrounded by sharpees.

I FIGURED OUT HOW TO DRAW A SIDE VIEW ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
It turns out that I was drawing the eyes too high when I start drawing side views from the nose up/down. So I found out that I make just the right proportions when I start at the top of the head and work my way down. I'll upload my shittons of awesome shit later.

>>182 Pft. I forgot about this.
Anyway, I have more art to share.

The next three are part of a side project I did. I didn't want to waste the left over ink from our linoleum carving/printing project (I don't have that home yet; there will be examples later), so I ended up making strips of paper with designs on them. I drew lines and designs into the ink piles and then lightly dropped the papers into it until there wasn't any ink left. It came out pretty awesome.

This one and the next are an example of a silk screening project we did. We had to do two prints... So I went all out and did one on cardboard. I collaged newspaper behind it, printed it, and then mod podge'd over it to get this. The next one was my attempt to fuck with the teacher. Everyone got headaches while they looked at it /win.

The first part of it is Japanese for, "Watashi wa watashi, soredake." [("I am myself, simply." "I am nothing more than myself.")] I FUCKED UP ON THE PARTICLE, I KNOW. I was so pissed. I had already mod podge'd that part of the silkscreen, so I couldn't fix it. I totally forgot that you use the "ha" character for the "wa" particle. But, whatever. The last part I don't feel like checking the romaji of, but it translates to something like, "I have completed falling from the sky."

Obviously, the first part was from Bad Apple, and the second part was bullshit I came up with myself.

The next four are pictures of a fashion design I was working on.
...What? I was listening to a good song. My designs always get unrealistically offtrack when I draw while listening to good music.

Anyway, yeah. Here's an unfinished design of mine. I design normal clothing, too, but I can't help but be proud in these detailed ones ;O They're so artsy. I hope one day I'll be able to do cotour. For now, commercial is the only thing I can design. I just have to do my best with it and get more well known so I can work my way up in the fashion world ;P /dreams

I inked it so it's easier to see :O

Yeah, I screwed up the right shoe. I misjudged the length of the heel, and the curve went in too early ;~; And the bow at the end of the corset came out awkwardly darker than the rest of it, so it looks weird. Ah, well. It was just a quick design anyway.

Some fashion examples for Kaori ;V

They're just preliminary sketches.

My first bathing suit attempts ;o

I can draw less frilly things, too. That's just been my mood lately.

We were doing a project using Renie's silhouettes. We had to either copy or make our own interpretations of her designs.

If you haven't noticed yet, the designs on the left were the originals, and the designs on the right were my interpretations.

The next four are a single-outfit project we did.

The next three are part of a mix and match project we did. I created a jacket that can turn from a half jacket to a trench coat to be the main piece. The goal of the project was to create two outfits who can mix almost any two of the accessories/clothing pieces can be swapped with it still looking good.

This is the first fashion line I put together. I'm not a huge fan of the color scheme; I'll proably redo these later.

Blah colors. I'm doing a pale pink and white for this one next time.

This is my most recent fashion line that I did on my own :O It centers around belts, obviously, and I overdid it on a few. Still cool.

>>224 lawl, just a few. but it's all good. In all sincerity, would you consider coloring them? thur pretty good though. :Y

>>225 Thank you :O I'm going to color everything eventually ;P I just haven't gotten around to it.

>>224 These are good. I would love to see these, on other people, not me. Except maybe the one on the far left, I'd pay you for that one. I like all the belts, no such thing as overdone XD

I am forever amazed at your skill in the arts *o* cool fashion designs by the way, i like >>203 best :D the pattern thing of >>164 looks really really complicate but the effect is just amazing~~

>>147 >>148 >>137 >>136 >>135 >>134 These were sort of fashion-y, too :O

>>229 Thank you ;u; lol, I still haven't finished >>164. My sharpee ran out of ink D: I stole it from the fashion room, but I don't have the heart to steal a second one, so I'm waiting for my mom to buy me a new sharpee set.

>>227 Thank you :O Yeah, I feel the same way X| I don't generally see myself wearing my own fashions. I just... dress in whatever is at hand when I wake up lol

My friends and I did a little project. On a page, we drew all our favorite zombie fighting weapons, as seen >>146. Then, I started a challenge - draw yourself, using your weapon of choice from what we drew, during the zombie apocalypse.

So, yeah. This is the result of that. Sorry the quality is crappy :V Too lazy to find the camera.

>> 231 That actually looks pretty good

Oh wao. I have to say, you've come a long way since the making of this thread

The designs are great but GAH!

The proportions! >_>

It might be because I'm a stickler about it, but it makes me cringe when I see the body proportions. The designs and ideas behind them are creative and naisu, but the execution can be better.

You should experiment with different poses too, a lot of your drawings are either the clothes themselves or a model with the same/similar pose each time.

I look forward to seeing your progress and moar arts, I especially liked >>207 >>209 and >>205. The coloring is spiffy.

..haha, I hope I don't get shot for being honest.

bump

>>234 The re-used poses are actually because I use croquis. They're like... the designer's equivalent of a drawing base/pose block. When you're trying to work out the preliminary sketches of a design, a lot of designers use them in a pose they're used to to get the details in before they do their own poses. When I go to put a display together, I usually change the poses, but all of these were the first copies.

I like to aim for more interesting porportions when I'm designing (and drawing in my personal "manga-style", as well). It's not uncommon for drawing models to have extended arms/legs/necks or very skinny waists, nor is the opposite that frowned upon. In the end, as long as the designs are shown well, you're in the clear. If I wanted a realistic looking picture, I would make it and take a picture of the design on a real model, you know?

I won't shoot you lol And, tbh, I'm not a big fan of using watercolors like >>205 to >>209. I only really did it because my teacher made it a required assignment ^^' But I kind of have to use watercolors. Otherwise, I just can't seem to color anything decently :T

Here's a preliminary sketch of my take on Beelzebub :o I know I said I wouldn't post anything for Shades of Clear, but I figure there's nothing wrong with some practice art~

There were supposed to be wings at his arms, too, and that's why they're positioned weird. I just scanned it before I put it in, and I'm too lazy to rescan it now X|

inb4 someone complains about the proportions when I'm drawing a barely humanoid version of a demon

Yes. I am well aware of the fact that he is extremely skinny with a large head, long arms, big hands, long fingers, and wide feet. How am I aware of this? It was intentional.

I think I should post up something proportioned, just to show that I can do them properly but choose not to :T

>>237 This is very differnt I really quite like it! It looks very menacing and dark (I love dark stuff)! Good job Barabi! Cant wait to see more of your Art style loving it!!

>>237
Now, Belphegor ;o

I cannot tell a lie, so.. yes, he IS flying around on a winged shadow.

it's very nice! i like it ;)

Ah, scratch that. Bread as a point. Even with my non-croquis art, I have a tendency to draw the same poses :T I should... probably fix that...

SoC concept art, anyone?
Trying to choose hairstyles for the main characters. They're twins, so the styles need to be somewhat close without being identical. I settled on these.

And, yeah. The girl's features are a bit larger; it was supposed to have that 'come at me, bro' feel, while the boy was supposed to be in the background a bit. I tried to capture their individual personalities as well as I could, but it's hard considering they're supposed to be identical looking.

Are those the twins Chan & En from DEADMAN WONDERLAND?

>>248 Nope lol They're from my novella series, Shades of Clear. I actually haven't gotten far enough in Deadman Wonderland to know who Chan and En are :T

There's a reason I don't paint...

...I SUCK AT IT ;_;

One day, I'll learn to paint decently; that day is not today.

This is a painting of an OC of mine who ended up a lot more pink than intended.

Here are some of my better drawings of my recent roleplay characters.

This one is Marion, the mechanic.

This is a bit of an older drawing but one I still like.

This is of Ozweina, a genetic augmentation subject.

This one I just drew yesterday. I went ahead and added some color, too.

This is of Cilia, a character in one of my original stories.

This is Renatka, another roleplay character of mine.

I like all of these drawings ^^

>>256 Thank you~ c:

Wooooow. Ren looks awesome, Comborabi! :D

>>257 anytime ^^

>>258 Glad you like 'er c<

I actually drew the dress completely differently than how I originally wrote it in the profile lmao I'll update it soon enough.

Tablet acquired. Will be uploading stuff soon >3

Playing around with tablet + paint. It's surprisingly easy to use o-o A lot better than the last one I tried (which was my friend's). I can actually lay my hand on this one while I draw ♥

I'll try to draw something of value once my installations finish xD

The textures on ArtRage are hilarious to play around with xD

>>263 I really like this one. The detail on the eye makes it very nice to look at.

lucifer tho

fixed kee

wip wip
I kind of like this style .o.

Slowly getting used to drawing with a tablet x-x

btw, the recent illustrations have been for the otome Ham and I are working on. I'm just posting them here for now since I'm testing, but you can see the main thread in the Visual Novel board. The girl with the red hair is the protagonist, Manju.

This dude is the super sexy Leviathan \x\

Trying to make samples for the commissions I'm going to take soon, which means I'm trying to stick to a less simple style (to save me time and be less niche-specific). I should probably try to pop some shading in, though.

Blah.

dat chibi tho

I honestly really like your sparklys tho

But yeah, shading is a good thing to pick up too

practice whoo

Perspective practice. I'm slowly getting better quq

This is an rp character of mine .o.

I got some wire wrapping supplies of my own (the previous ones I used were from a friend) and have been trying to work on it. I went to Michael's and got some half-hard wire, but it turns out that it's too weak to be a base wire yet too strong to be gently manipulated. Still waiting on my soft metal shipment to come in. I'll post pics if any of them come out decent \o\

Got all my wire spools in and coincidentally found the one type of pliers I was missing when I was cleaning my room. Just waiting on my crystal and my bead set.

In the mean time, I've been working on the storyboard for that Banjo-Kazooie doujinshi (not sure if I mentioned it on the site before now or not). I've also still got my mind on that otome game Ham and I are doing, but since it's such a big project that requires the majority of my brainpower, I think I'm going to procrastinate a bit until my situation calms down.

Muro is so easy to abuse.

I won't be using this thread further. Feel free to close it. Thanks ♥