Bleh, gouache, first time using it. Horrible stuff, the colour you put down dries differently to a colour which is neither what it looked when wet or on the palette, god forbid you are trying to paint over another colour (brown+thin white overlay dries to... bright pink, GRAH). I need to try using proper paint like oil or acrylic.

On another note I think my scanner's shot it, the scans are blurry and the motion of the scanning arm sounds slightly erratic like it keeps jamming.

Did someone call for a monkey death star operator?

Excellent study Adriaan, the values and colors are spot on. Is that from the Georgia conflict a few years ago? There are a few oddities I notice with the soldier as I flick between the ref and the study, the overall pose in yours looks a bit more like his back is arched and chest puffed out, his jacket also looks too narrow. The foreground is a bit blurry.

Nice longbowman Robolee. I don't have any experience with gouache but I know the Acylic does the same thing when it dries which is why I paint from darkest to lightest values, lighter values get noticably darker after they've dried.

Thanks! It's a pic from an IDF soldier somewhere in the Northern Gaza Strip actually (Georgian soldiers used US woodland and/or marpat afaik). Agreed with your comments, the pose is different, looks a bit more heroic in posture I guess (not what I intended). Should've probably paid more attention to the lower foreground, yeah. Was starting to get 'tired' of it, after I made sure to detail the focal points a bit.

Someone recommend me a painting program.

With mouse and Keyboard I'm not really sure, But if you have a tablet you could try...
MyPaint- rather simple but has good brush options and a minimalistic Gui that doesn't get in the way.
PaintTool SAI- costs money to get the full version(pretty cheap) but a really nice overall program.
GIMP- basic, but pretty much a poor man's photoshop.

For actual "painting" I'd recommend MyPaint or SAI.

Gave MyPaint and SAI a try. I like SAI, so I think I'll be sticking with it.

Been pretty inactive lately, but here are a couple sketches
British grenadier, 1710

Some really pissed off flail guy

I made a mess


Is it still art if it doesn't mean anything?

Here's some stuff I did related to that archer painting:
http://filesmelt.com/dl/archer_ref_studies.png - some reference drawings
http://filesmelt.com/dl/archer_col_tests.jpg - testing out what colours I should use
http://filesmelt.com/dl/archer_test1.jpg - a quick and rough version of what I wanted
http://filesmelt.com/dl/archer1.png - pencil drawing of the final image

http://filesmelt.com/dl/archer_test2.jpg - a cartoony version I did for fun

Robo, you are here~!

I've been here all the time, just I only visit the art dump now to check on madmax's and the rest of you guys stuff.

Aw, so many silly things you could've made.

Heh, madmax's art alone is worth checking this thread for (wink wink madmax), though with that said, it's always lovely to see what people cook up in here. c:
Also, that pencil drawing is a rad thing, i love clean lines like those!


YOU CALLIN THAT A MESS BOI

I'LL SHOW YOU A RIGHT MESS


that is a terrible and ugly mess

and mostly the result of me facerolling the mouse all over the canvas

Yours is not terrible or ugly like that, i fact i find it pleasantly trippy.

and after a final skipped line i present to you something i made pretty quickly


I'm PROBABLY not wholly done with it, but it got really late yesterday. If anything, i'd at least try to make it less blurry.