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.
― Kate, non masonic, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 11:58 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Kate, non masonic, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 12:01 (seventeen years ago) link
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!
― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 12:02 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 12:03 (seventeen years ago) link
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 :)
― Kate, non masonic, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 12:06 (seventeen years ago) link
Must be my bedtime. I keep dropping letters, words, losing all meaning etc etc
― Kate, non masonic, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 12:07 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 12:09 (seventeen years ago) link
Learn it. Love it. Then go to digital camera rehab like I need to.
I'm like Lindsay Lohan yo.
― Kate, non masonic, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 12:11 (seventeen years ago) link
But polaroids are better for masturbation the archives! ;-)
― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 12:14 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Kate, non masonic, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 12:15 (seventeen years ago) link
http://s43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/?action=view¤t=three-robotsleaksplugged2.jpg
Wank Fodder!
― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 12:16 (seventeen years ago) link
oops
― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 12:17 (seventeen years ago) link
why am I an idiot?
― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 12:18 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 12:20 (seventeen years ago) link
ROBOT CAMEL TOE
― Mark C, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 12:21 (seventeen years ago) link
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!
― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 12:25 (seventeen years ago) link
I found this on GIS under "wank fodder" especially for you Beth:
http://www.kludgeco.com/misc_images/capwank2.png
― Kate, non masonic, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 12:27 (seventeen years ago) link
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?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 12:40 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 12:57 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 13:01 (seventeen years ago) link
typical
― RJG, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 13:03 (seventeen years ago) link
So true :(
― kv_nol, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 13:19 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― earthbound misfit, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link
oops, i'll try again
ok, i'm too clueless about how to get the image to show up here so here's a link
linky
― earthbound misfit, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Beth Parker, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 22:40 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― caek, Sunday, 9 September 2007 19:11 (seventeen years ago) link
HAHAHAHA now I know your turtle-drawing secrets.
― Abbott, Sunday, 9 September 2007 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― caek, Sunday, 9 September 2007 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link
Also, apparently that's a tortoise.
― caek, Sunday, 9 September 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/fez_/luren.gif http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/fez_/l337.gif
― ☪, Sunday, 9 September 2007 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link
More, please.
― Ned Trifle II, Saturday, 3 November 2007 09:08 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― caek, Saturday, 17 November 2007 16:26 (sixteen years ago) link
the og from way back in the day
-- TOMBOT, Friday, 15 June 2007 23:08 (5 months ago) Bookmark Link
I really want a poster print of this. Make more like these, dude.
― caek, Saturday, 17 November 2007 16:33 (sixteen years ago) link
^yes! I would definitely hang one up in my crappy office.
― bnw, Saturday, 17 November 2007 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link
is that... Comic Sans MS?
― milo z, Saturday, 17 November 2007 17:32 (sixteen years ago) link
No, a bit classier:
http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/P/P_095.html
― caek, Saturday, 17 November 2007 17:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Similar thing seen here, although I think this is actually Arial Rounded (the Arial variant it's OK to like):
http://www.the-artel.ca/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/together1.jpg
― caek, Saturday, 17 November 2007 17:39 (sixteen years ago) link
VAG Rounded - where's Dan when you need him
― milo z, Saturday, 17 November 2007 17:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Buh.
― caek, Saturday, 17 November 2007 17:41 (sixteen years ago) link
i like TOMBOT's posters/cartoons
― gbx, Saturday, 17 November 2007 18:38 (sixteen years ago) link
waht is ophelia listening to at the top of the thread?
― mookieproof, Saturday, 17 November 2007 18:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Police radio chatter.
― caek, Saturday, 17 November 2007 18:50 (sixteen years ago) link
A couple newer ones:
http://www.jefframirez.com/images/2007-1020-04B.jpg
http://www.jefframirez.com/images/2007-1020-03B.jpg
― jeff, Saturday, 17 November 2007 18:54 (sixteen years ago) link
do you work from photographs?
― gbx, Saturday, 17 November 2007 18:55 (sixteen years ago) link
How do you shot photorealistic painting?
xpost.
― caek, Saturday, 17 November 2007 18:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Some pigs:
http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t214/ZachRScott/spotpigs.jpg
― Z S, Saturday, 17 November 2007 20:55 (sixteen years ago) link
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/222/496918713_54ae5b795d.jpg
slocki, please explain how the hell you take a picture like this? i've no clue.
btw i'm asking because i love it.
― jed_, Saturday, 17 November 2007 23:43 (sixteen years ago) link