Baldur's Art Thread

[RayvenD]

it's decent, my only issue is that the ahading is exactly that 'shading' you need to think more abou twhat materials the things u are shading are made out of and render the textures suitably, but still pretty decent.

[Baldur]

It's sometimes hard to find materials like chainmail for shading references so I choose the "omni shadow". Yep, i'll definaely have to work on that. Also i'm a bit afraid of doing things wrong, that will prolly work out as I had the same issue with objects.

Thanks for compliment, Farren, and especially the feedback from you, RayvenD

[RayvenD]

for chain mail it's best not to really shade, if you're drawin on a larg escale then try and draw the individual links of chain, it'll take a while but it'll look awesome. if on a smaller scall try and draw lots of little hoops (it doesn't have to be too accurate) then onece you've picked a light source shade the shadowed areas and recesses by shading over the hoops to make them areas darker. hope that helps.

[Baldur]

Thanks mate, that'll really help :] I'll keep that in mind next time I do chain mail.

[Farren Kutter]

For reference for smaller drawings with chainmail, try my lizard guy on my art thread, I'll try and get a scann of him though

[Baldur]

http://img235.imageshack.us/my.php?image=riktaconcept9px.jpg
This one?

Sure, send it

I'm going to use these too
http://www.southtower.on.ca/armour/images/scale6.jpg
and this http://www.jelldragon.com/images/specials/chainmail_armor.jpg
They're fairly obvious and simple if you want to create patterns. Both are my favorite as the scalemail adds to the depth and the ringmail shows a nice pattern. I merge these, just not now. I'm going to start on something else :]

[Baldur]

Something I made for the texturing contest.
I know I shouldn't be doing this, but i just had to ;_;
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f78/Belark/Beforetherewastexturestherewasnoobs.jpg
Inked and fairly colored...

[Peacer]

that's a cool geek rat

Looking through your art thread and your creatures I think your two legged drawings have improoved much Baldur, really great

[Baldur]

Good bye, granny. May you rest in peace.

HejdĂĄ, mommo. Jag kommer att sakna dig ;l

Just doodling
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f78/Belark/Floawscopy.jpg
Flowas :]

[Baldur]

This is what happens when one tries to tamper with pens

Because of this my right arm is covered with inklines! and i'm rather proud of it.

[Peacer]

actually looks good

i guess you specialize in alternate drawings... not humanoid

[LARAGORN]

Looks kewl

With some imagination, you could almost see that as some Klyron wing armour

good work.

[Baldur]

@Peacer: I don't like drawing humanoids but i'd like to make one.
@Laragorn: Perhaps. This was frankly aimed as a butterfly wing cause I like them because you can almost apply any form or pattern and that's who I feel I am. A little bit of a selfbiography i guess

[Kiraki]

Nicely done I like it.    Hehe I am glad my arm doesn’t get full of ink though!  - I have this odd habit of keeping my hand in the air all the time (I think I picked that up from painting) and that prevents me smudging stuff as well - Next time you should draw the whole butterfly.

[Baldur]

@Kiraki: You mean the one that looks more then a rectangular wasp then anything near a buttefly? Nah, I dare not to show it