Arts and Crafts
Arts and Crafts
Hi! I dont know how well this wil work out, but it seems there are some creative people on the forum.
That's why I would like to ask you to post some of your handmade art (wether it be paintings, sculptures, songs, origami or what ever you can think of).
I'll start by posting a link to an Imgur-album of an origami session some friends of mine and I had last night.
http://imgur.com/a/P9Jjn
We folded some jumping frogs (wich are a really entertaining toy btw.),
a firework (the pink one was done at the meetup the other one I've done earlier and used it as a reverence)
and tried to make an modular icosader wich we'll continue next time.
These meetups are roughly once a month and I plan to update this thread after each one.
That's why I would like to ask you to post some of your handmade art (wether it be paintings, sculptures, songs, origami or what ever you can think of).
I'll start by posting a link to an Imgur-album of an origami session some friends of mine and I had last night.
http://imgur.com/a/P9Jjn
We folded some jumping frogs (wich are a really entertaining toy btw.),
a firework (the pink one was done at the meetup the other one I've done earlier and used it as a reverence)
and tried to make an modular icosader wich we'll continue next time.
These meetups are roughly once a month and I plan to update this thread after each one.
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:D Yes, this sounds like a fantastic idea!
Waaay back when I was still in high school and had access to colour printers. I found a site which allowed you to print and fold up minecraft characters. I went out and got some nice 10lb paper (the good thick stuff) and printed out the fold-able creeper onto it. I had great success with it, that was until my sister's little dog got ahold of it and tore the crap out of it's head. So now all I have left is this sitting on my shelf:
After a quick google search it would appear that this is the design template that I used. This was super fun to do, and maybe I'll get some more heavy paper and print out a couple more characters :D
Seems like there are a lot of paper craft models on http://www.pixelpapercraft.com
Waaay back when I was still in high school and had access to colour printers. I found a site which allowed you to print and fold up minecraft characters. I went out and got some nice 10lb paper (the good thick stuff) and printed out the fold-able creeper onto it. I had great success with it, that was until my sister's little dog got ahold of it and tore the crap out of it's head. So now all I have left is this sitting on my shelf:
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Seems like there are a lot of paper craft models on http://www.pixelpapercraft.com
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- Gilberreke
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I've got some cool drunk sketches somewhere, I'll find em. Until then, have some pixel art:
Bonus points if you are familiar with these gentlemen
Bonus points if you are familiar with these gentlemen
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Gilberreke wrote:
Bonus points if you are familiar with these gentlemen
That's clearly the before and after shots of me getting a haircut.
As for arts and crafts, I once redecorated my bedroom in a lovely shade of beige. With paint and brushes and everything. That does count as art, right? Right?
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Can't tell about the first, but the second is... perfect. You somehow captured that "mix" of amazement and fear and "I'm lost inside my own mind!" Barrett had in his eyes...Gilberreke wrote:I've got some cool drunk sketches somewhere, I'll find em. Until then, have some pixel art:
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I swear I spent most of the time making that tweaking the eyes over and over again. There's not a lot of pixels to work with there.chaoticneutral wrote:Can't tell about the first, but the second is... perfect. You somehow captured that "mix" of amazement and fear and "I'm lost inside my own mind!" Barrett had in his eyes...
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wow that is awesome, Gil. With what software did you do it? Can you do that with any picture?
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I did that in an MS Paint clone, it's not a photo edit (well, small part of it is, it's tough to explain). What you really need is about two decades of art education :pLarmantine wrote:wow that is awesome, Gil. With what software did you do it? Can you do that with any picture?
Enough of me, more arts and crafts please :p
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Well, I've been making shirts with pretty much just bleach and stencils. I don't have pictures of the majority of them, but I did post one pair to Reddit a while back.
I was going to just embed this, but it's a bit large so I'll just link to imgur
I was going to just embed this, but it's a bit large so I'll just link to imgur
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Only arts and crafts I've been involved in lately have been making my wedding invitations... currently at my planners house, but when I get home I should take a picture of our finished prototype.
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These look awesome - could you link a tutorial or do a tutorial yourself? I'd really like to try this.BinoAl wrote:Well, I've been making shirts with pretty much just bleach and stencils. I don't have pictures of the majority of them, but I did post one pair to Reddit a while back.
I was going to just embed this, but it's a bit large so I'll just link to imgur
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You're the man Bino, that's effing awesome
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I mostly draw and build custom LEGO models, I dunno if that matches up to the spirit of the thread?
There's some real cool stuff here though, Gil's Pixel Art is gorgeous and I love what Bino's doing with T-Shirts, stencils, and bleach. And the Origami is pretty cool, Addybaha.
There's some real cool stuff here though, Gil's Pixel Art is gorgeous and I love what Bino's doing with T-Shirts, stencils, and bleach. And the Origami is pretty cool, Addybaha.
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There's a few tutorials in the sidebar of the subreddit I posted them to, actually: https://www.reddit.com/r/bleachshirts/AddyBaha wrote: These look awesome - could you link a tutorial or do a tutorial yourself? I'd really like to try this.
It's almost disgustingly easy to make a good looking shirt this way
Heh, thanks, but mine can't even compare to some of the ones people posted on that subreddit I just linked. The level of detail some people manage to get onto a shirt is incredibleGilberreke wrote:You're the man Bino, that's effing awesome
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Oh hell yes it doesCaboose wrote:I mostly draw and build custom LEGO models, I dunno if that matches up to the spirit of the thread?
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Someone asked me in PM how I did those portraits, I wrote a small little thing about it:
I can't stress the intimate knowledge part enough, it takes a good bit of training for your eyes to be able to detect how facial volumes work together. I'm not an expert at it yet, but eh.
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So uh, first thing I did was study caricature art for several years, trying to focus on getting the likeness of a person in as few lines as possible.
Then I studied facial anatomy and musculature for several years, very in depth. Most of what those images represent is application of intimate knowledge, I don't have to think about most of the stuff I'm doing in getting the likeness correct, getting the anatomy correct, etc.
I started with a picture:
I made a painting, exploring some sides of that picture, trying to play around with stuff.
Then I took what i learned into a simple silhouette:
I defined major facial planes:
And minor (notice the overlap):
Tried to get some simple highlights in:
Finished off the picture with basic pixel art technique (anti-aliasing, indexed color theory, banding avoidance, etc):
For the hair, I started with a color reduction of the hair from the photo:
This produces a lot of artifacts, so it takes a few hours to clean this up with a combination of demo-scene-style index paint techniques and pixel art techniques:
I didn't like how likeness came out, as that reference picture isn't really how I remember Marc Bolan, so I caricatured it just a bit:
For Syd Barrett, I took pretty much the same route, but the hair is not a color reduction, but more like a collage:
Then I studied facial anatomy and musculature for several years, very in depth. Most of what those images represent is application of intimate knowledge, I don't have to think about most of the stuff I'm doing in getting the likeness correct, getting the anatomy correct, etc.
I started with a picture:
I made a painting, exploring some sides of that picture, trying to play around with stuff.
Then I took what i learned into a simple silhouette:
I defined major facial planes:
And minor (notice the overlap):
Tried to get some simple highlights in:
Finished off the picture with basic pixel art technique (anti-aliasing, indexed color theory, banding avoidance, etc):
For the hair, I started with a color reduction of the hair from the photo:
This produces a lot of artifacts, so it takes a few hours to clean this up with a combination of demo-scene-style index paint techniques and pixel art techniques:
I didn't like how likeness came out, as that reference picture isn't really how I remember Marc Bolan, so I caricatured it just a bit:
For Syd Barrett, I took pretty much the same route, but the hair is not a color reduction, but more like a collage:
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Nice. The Ts are awesome, bookmarked for family fun.
Did this a few years ago and when the figures cam out I put a couple up on it. Thumb-tacked and taped.
Time and gravity haven't been all that nice to it and I never finished the stone background in the cave section.
All the patterns were found online.
Did this a few years ago and when the figures cam out I put a couple up on it. Thumb-tacked and taped.
Time and gravity haven't been all that nice to it and I never finished the stone background in the cave section.
All the patterns were found online.
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That process reminds me of what I love most about art, you can get so incredibly detailed and, if you really get into it, learn so much about the world, how it looks, and why it looks that way, as well as a lot of other bits along the way. It's unfortunate many people never experience art in this way, and tend to think it just poofs out of the nowhere we call 'talent'...Gilberreke wrote:Someone asked me in PM how I did those portraits, I wrote a small little thing about it:
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I can't stress the intimate knowledge part enough, it takes a good bit of training for your eyes to be able to detect how facial volumes work together. I'm not an expert at it yet, but eh.
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Oh yes, that's such an important thing. People see my art and call me talented or even worse gifted or blessed (now it's not even in my nature but someone gave it to me?). I'm not talented, I never was (okay, I was always above average at artistic endeavors). I worked hard for most of my life to learn how to make pretty pictures, from art academy when I was a small kid, through drawing something every day in high school, going to art college and then starting my journey to understanding the human face in a more intricate way.abculatter_2 wrote:That process reminds me of what I love most about art, you can get so incredibly detailed and, if you really get into it, learn so much about the world, how it looks, and why it looks that way, as well as a lot of other bits along the way. It's unfortunate many people never experience art in this way, and tend to think it just poofs out of the nowhere we call 'talent'...
For example, here's two images, one is from 2012 and the other from 2015, you can clearly see the progress, I wasn't born with the ability to draw something like that:
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I hear from people that say "I just don't have any talent, I can't draw no matter how much I try". What you lack is the ability to learn how to learn how to draw. Drawing, like many things people ascribe to talents, is a skill. Sure, what you can do with that skill is indicated by creativity. I'll never be Picasso. But I can sure learn how to properly create a representation of a face. I still suck right now (I'm very inconsistent still), but just give me another decade or so :)
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Well, to start off with, here's an obscure Bionicle character. Most of my building is focused on the Character and Creature Building System, my System builds are pretty small scale in comparison. I'll take pictures of a few other builds tomorrow if I can find my camera.
And here's a link to the art tag on my tamblr, it is mostly pencilish linework, and a lot of it is fandom stuff, but I like a lot of it still. Anything tagged "Spectrum" is all original, though, and Iris is a character I made who is near and dear to my heart.
On another note, I love the papercraft blocks, Rawny, and I like the sense of dimension putting them in a corner lends them.
And here's a link to the art tag on my tamblr, it is mostly pencilish linework, and a lot of it is fandom stuff, but I like a lot of it still. Anything tagged "Spectrum" is all original, though, and Iris is a character I made who is near and dear to my heart.
On another note, I love the papercraft blocks, Rawny, and I like the sense of dimension putting them in a corner lends them.
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That's pretty cool stuff Caboose, nice!
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Not sure if it counts, but I like making videos of the games I play. I started a website/blog kinda thing, but fail to maintain it. I just never find the time to sit down and write, and lately lack even more time to make videos. Was fun while it lasted though, and I'll pick it up again at some point. If interested, http://www.FaceFoiled.com
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I love that origami stuff. I'm so jealous, because all I know is how to do some simple birds (not even sure which ones, they're all variations of the one from Prison Break).AddyBaha wrote:Darth Vader (kinda ugly I know ^^) and Yoda - some stuff I did because some of the people of the origami club asked for it...
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MagikEh wrote:Placent Placenta Placenta! It's like beetle juice right?