ILXOR Gallery

Me & John have been quoting The Highly Contrived Mchine & Witch all day. Damn how rad.

Abbott you just made me very happy

And for that you get another one

http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x161/robertwolf8080/coronerstorew.jpg

HAHAHAHA

Do you have any more of this awesome?

There's a sequel to that one, hold on

http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x161/robertwolf8080/coronerstore2w.jpg

Slocki, the photo of the—basketball court? Is like a vision of the afterlife.
Shakey Mo, your Summer of Love posters rule!
Kate, you multiple threat!
Abbott's snails!
RubyRed, where IS that?? Amazing.
All you guys inspire my lazy art brain.

haha robertwolf

Abbott = again master of detail: "truth unverified" hahaha!

I am having a hard time of it this week. I have forgotten how to draw DDBs. Or have forgotten how to do foreshortening or something.

I'm trying to draw from photographs at the moment, instead of from life, which I haven't done in a while, and finding tricky.

I think this is a technically good drawing, it just doesn't look like the subject:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1314/893474103_4b0da5f63d_o.jpg

Maybe I just need to start from scratch and draw it over again. His face is somewhat rounder than I have drawn him, his jaw less square.

Drawing from photos is hard, because of the way I draw - I never draw objects, I draw the space around the object. A photograph is good, because I can move it around and turn it upside down to reduce the image to planes and lines (which DDBs tend to object to if you do it IRL) but it's somehow missing the spark which makes it a good likeness. Argh.

The set is here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21171554@N00/sets/72157600959843838/

The drawings I did at soundcheck are better likenesses, even though they are techncially not as good a drawing. Argh argh argh.

I take photos. Most of you know that by now. Anyhow, here's some I did recently that I liked:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1398/731156377_8c3b710a53.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1149/734253559_61b4b56bb1.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1261/734765528_988652896f.jpg

Damn, and here was I enjoying the usual mix-up, and getting credit for yr beautiful photos, Kate!

I'm like a shadow man, you can't escape me :P

FOLLOW THE LIGHT, FLUFFY, FOLLOW THE LIGHT!!!

Though, actually, Kate, how do you get yr photographic models to settle down, act naturally - or at least, pose them the way you want them to pose? Or do you just hire proper models in the first place, while I have to rely on whatever DDBs will come my way?

kate, non masonic, all your pics on this thread are wicked-awesome - stunning stuff! do you do all the makeup/hair/costuming yourself?

beth: that photo was taken at lake tekapo in the south island of new zealand.

I hope the people in question don't mind, but these were my first ever attempts at digital art, done for the "MSPaint other ILXors" thread:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/strange.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/face.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/smiling.jpg

I can't draw at all, so I simply painted over photos. It was fun doing these anyway.

x-post: Yes, I do. I'm still at struggle artist level, so I do everything myself and just hope it looks okay...if not, photoshop to the rescue.

xx-post: Kate - No I don't hire models, I can't afford to, but sometimes I can convince them to pay me, which kind of rocks.

Oh ummm...further to that Kate, I am pretty useless at giving direction to models, and the first shoot we do is nearly always a waste of time...but it gives the subject a chance to realise I'm pretty chilled out and not going to be barking orders at them. When that dawns on them, the photos start to get good.

But how do you convince them to pose in a convincing way? I guess what I'm asking is how to losen up models.

My DDBs just seemed so uncomfortable with the whole process of being photographed, and it showed in many of the photos. How do you get them to relax?

x-post I guess you just answed that. Thanks!

I guess, with a polaroid, I don't get the time to take loads of photos and get them to relax and have them realise I'm not gonna be all up in their face shouting at them (I've been in photo shoots like that myself, and argh, people wonder why I always look so scared and uncomfortable in the photos). Maybe I should invest in a digital camera if I'm going to do more of this. But I just like the way that polaroid looks! It gives it a nice, soft quality with the flash and the film. Which is good for drawing from.

We I have to admit, during a days shooting I have been known to get up to the 1500 frame mark. Throw enough shit against the wall....

Go digital, do the softness in post :)

Must be my bedtime. I keep dropping letters, words, losing all meaning etc etc

I understood what you said! Might be a good idea...

I actually have a supposedly good digital camera I inherited from my dad/brother. I'm just scared of it and trying to figure out how it works.

Learn it. Love it. Then go to digital camera rehab like I need to.

I'm like Lindsay Lohan yo.

But polaroids are better for masturbation the archives! ;-)

Yeah, most of my work isn't especially great wank fodder. Well not for me anyway...who knows what all the goobers on flickr are getting out of it.

http://s43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/?action=view¤t=three-robotsleaksplugged2.jpg

Wank Fodder!

oops

http://s43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/?action=view¤t=three-robotsleaksplugged2.jpg

why am I an idiot?

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/three-robotsleaksplugged2.jpg

Ha ha, Beth, I love your pictures so much! I have one of them up on my wall at home. I should commission you to do a bigger piece for me sometimes.

ROBOT CAMEL TOE

Hah! It's true!
Kate, I'll just send you more postcards! I keep cranking them out. Slowly cranking.
Here's the latest:

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/mandalamaze3.jpg

I wish the cards had the same luminosity as the images onscreen. Computer monitors turn everything into stained glass!

I found this on GIS under "wank fodder" especially for you Beth:

http://www.kludgeco.com/misc_images/capwank2.png

Dammit, the next panel is cut off, so we don't whether or not Captain America obeys the command. Maybe "huuk!" is his wanking voice?

GYAAAH sounds more like a wanking voice. Definitely.

Ha ha, I shouldn't be talking about this. I AM A SERIOUS ARTIST. I'm never going to get any more DDBs to pose for me if they think it's just for wank fodder.

(That said, these particular DDBs, the last show, they did this thing during one of the really intense motorik bits where they all turned around to face the drummer, and it was just like a WALL OF ASS. FMM and I just looked at each other and utterly cracked up, and she was all "look, they're presenting!" like baboons on heat or something and then we had this fite about which one had the best ass.)

I mean, WTF AM I TALKING ABOUT, I am a serious artist. And FMM is a serious writer. We sat and talked about Holger Czukay's editing technique all night. Yes we did. We did not get drunk and talk about arse. We never her.

Anyway, x-post yeah, I know what you mean about the stained glass thing, Beth. That lovely luminosity that the monitor gives it. It's not even quite as good with LCD srcreens, I prefer the way my drawings used ot look on old monitors. They always looked so drab and dark when I printed them out.

typical

So true :(

http://archive.tsozone.com/show_photo.asp?p=53316&redirect=%2Fprofile%2Easp%3FCotila

I made this for a contest for Myst Online. Mine wasn't one of the three they selected to use in the game.

oops, i'll try again

http://archive.tsozone.com/show_photo.asp?p=53316&redirect=%2Fprofile%2Easp%3FCotila

ok, i'm too clueless about how to get the image to show up here so here's a link

linky

If you've been using photobucket you might be clicking on the top link under your picture, which USED to be the URL link, but is now the "share URL" link. That's what my problem was upthread.

More art please. I did the turtle here: http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/guides/learntodraw/0,,2147891,00.html, but I don't think that counts.

HAHAHAHA now I know your turtle-drawing secrets.

My turtle:

http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/1231/photo41dr4.jpg

Theirs:

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Lifeandhealth/Pix/pictures/2007/08/13/tortoise.jpg

It was fun to draw, but I was unable to capture the arch smile that their turtle has. He's up to something.

Also, apparently that's a tortoise.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/fez_/luren.gif http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/fez_/l337.gif

More, please.

This morning I did the opening titles for a (real) movie. Here is a sample (names changed, obv):

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/6511/5castinglinehh5.gif

Pretty awes, huh?! ; ) I didn't choose the background colour, which is probably the best bit of this pretty weak design. Needs lots of tweaking of leading and kerning. I will do that tomorrow.