Most of that space is going to be used for the background, some will likely be cropped off of the top in the end.

Today I made a procedural island generator:


I'm going to tweak it so the island is less X like, but the actual result I'm happy with.

And at one point I tried another method for generating the islands and I made these things:

I swear to god that smiley face and the rest of them are entirely computer generated with no editing what so ever. When I saw that smiley face I actually laughed out loud, it was magical, I didn't know what to expect the output to look like and then BAM smiley face. Also as a bonus the random string when it got uploaded is "Smi7Ul.png", take out the 7, smi-ul, SMILE! (a bit of a stretch of the imagination but still). (the reason they have a black hole in the center is integer overflow)

@Robolee, cool man, planning on doing anything with it in particular? (I don't see the 'smiley face' btw...)


Also,
Sup guys? I have good news and bad news.
This is a request drawing from somebody on the Starbound Forums.
The good news is I made a creature that looks slightly better than things I have made before. (vague attempts at better anatomy, trying a new thing for shading)
The bad news is that I still can't draw guns worth a damn. (I mean seriously, I just kinda winged it, it turned out... better than previous attempts of mine at drawing guns)

Did some more shading practice, pears this time. Took me considerably longer to do these (several hours), heh.


ref

Shadows are a pain to do

The edges need more work, they're too sharp right now, particularly on the upper left portion.
But uh, I thought that was a photo at first.
Seriously.

Thanks! You're right, those edges need some work. I think it's rather the lighting than the edge hardness though (irl edges are absolute). Comparing it to the ref in hindsight those upper left areas are too dark and now they stand out against the surface/background.

This, but for me. The only thing that finally threw me off was the shadow when it meets the base of the pear, and on the right pear the top-left edge contrasts the back too much... (Maybe add some texture to it? )

My random late-night scribblings in SAI always turn out weird...
I think my brain just takes random influences from throughout the day and starts slapping them down on the canvas.

It's a..... green thingy? I suppose I might have been influenced by Adriaan's recent photo-realistic rendering stuff? I really don't know.

A green peanut or bean?
The shading is not bad I think, the highlights should be rounder (the overall shape is more or less two adjoined spheres) and the bottom shadows extend further.

Interesting, I see what you mean with the shadows and the highlights, I didn't feel it quite "matched up" but couldn't figure out why.

On that note, I did realize that many layers of slightly spastic airbrushing on low opacity makes for a great "lumpy" texture.

Doodles, was just a practice drawing an arm but then I drew a soldier.

Das a nice arm bro. Very solid.

I think the soldier agrees with me.

Did some rendering practice today.

The middle one seems pretty bad, but I'm satisfied with the other two.
(Huge compilation image ahoy)

http://sothe.nabyn.com/ <-- This is where I put my recent art

Pretty good stuff man, I've never been too great with pencil and paper drawings, although I have gotten somewhat better lately.