dex's progressive art thread, daerht tra evissergorp s'xed

Dude! you do some incredible stuff!
Keep it up!

dude, these are so hot! i wish i could have sex with them.

Nice job! :D

you're all so nice, thanks a lot <3

if you want to keep up to date on what I'm uploading just look here:

http://pixelxcore.net/dex/

Above post.

Looking good Dex.

ooooh, need to update this.

aight then, we'll start with some traditional art



THE PUPPETEER! Haha, done in spare, boredom time. Hand study at first.



study of the Creation of Adam by Michelangelo. Used his as a ref, but not for everything! just a study of how he did his anatomical forms



JESUS! my savior. Done as a remake of an old Jesus drawing and a facial study.

THEEEEEN some pixelllllls:



space one's basically finished. got lotsa work to do on the monster one. all WIPs.

thanks for all the comments and such.

awesome traditional stuff, I love that bridge PA too

let's see if I can just give some pointers for each one of these (you make it increasingly difficult to do so, though; I love how you've improved)

Hand: The middle finger's nail should be a bit more off to the side, and the thumb should be quite a way's larger. If you're really interested in hand study there's whole books on it, or you could just get one of those wooden pose-able hand models at a ritzy art store.

Adam: Good referential piece, faithfully followed. Now I recommend you take his anatomical style and apply it to a different pose.

Jesus: Ears extend from roughly the top of the eye to the top of the upper lip, in terms of level. I also think, personally, that the beard should cover the chin more thickly.

Bridge: The perspective on this piece comes off to me as odd: it's thick on the right but barely used on the left. The river, therefore, appears to go into nowhere behind the bridge while the path seems to get smaller rather than farther away. But I exaggerate.
One easy thing you could do to improve this piece: replace the rocky texture with a brick one. I'm certain it'll make the bridge feel more defined and more three-dimensional.

Forest wtf: The scenery is beautiful, and I really only have a few minor qualms.

• The innocent people aren't nearly noticeable enough. I had to look over it again to find them.
• I can't quite tell what the posing on that troll is. If he's facing the camera, his right hand seems to be grabbing the tree very awkwardly, and his left hand is just on backwards. If he's facing away, then the back of his body and his left leg should be shaded a lot differently.

Space wtf: Very impressive. Few things remain odd though.

• The astronauts. Their helmet designs are very simple--more simple than they should be, under any occasion. Also, for the foreground of the piece, the front-and-center astronaut is extremely unimpressive. Are those color blotches on him insignias, or wounds? More importantly, why is he just standing there? Considering the (moon/base/moonbase/space coffee shop) is being attacked, he should be running in terror, or fighting, or saving a comrade--not just chilling for the camera like it's a publicity shot for CBS. Action, dammit!
• The UFOs. Considering the sharpness of the tripods and my uninformed assumption that they come from the same evil intergalactic pricks, the UFOs should look a lot shinier and sharper. Also, they'd look more menacing if they flew level--UFOs usually do that, anyway.
• The lasers. I myself had quite a problem with lasers when I was working on my C64 piece (the one with NYC, if you remember it) and I had similar problems. First, the explosions don't do the piece credit. Watch an action film or something--that's not how explosions look. Second, the way the lasers work makes no logical sense to me. The beam is darker when it leaves the machines--why is that? Wouldn't it make more sense if it got weaker over distance? Third, the angle of that blast from the UFO and the angle of the UFO itself mismatch. Angles that aren't divisible by 90 are a ***** in pixelart, and both you and I know this, but it throws me off nonwithstanding.

Swamp wtf: I think this piece is too big for its own good. For the amount going on in it, I personally think it'd be better suited to a canvas the size of the other works here, or given a lot more **** going on.

• The monster. Overtly generic. Plus I don't like how the horns are different sizes. It just doesn't seem natural--it seems more like an error. Also that hand is ****ed up and you know it, and really? One nipple?
• The guy. He appears more like he's sitting on the monster's fist than being clenched to death.
• The forest. WIP, I won't ***** yet.
• The swamp. Put more junk in it.

Bear in mind: it's once in a blue moon that I give this much attention to anyone, ever. Your work truly blows me away and I had to think pretty hard to come up with anything pertinent. Grats on becoming better than me. Now KEEP ****ING GOING, COMRADE

Oh, wow, was really surprised to see all this, thank you SO much Phage. =)

I really appreciate you taking out all this time to give this much insight, it's really wonderful! You're right in pretty much everything you say, and I'm definitely going to take such things into mind! Some things I'd actually applied before you said all this, so congrats on being psychic.

I'll definitely work on everything you said, and I'll hit you up on MSN to discuss some of the stuff.

Thanks so much <3

I've recently shifted gears from the art I'd been doing to do more life drawing and anatomy study, so I figured I'd get the great artists here to give me the lowdown on what's wrong and what's not.


Sketch. Used a human reference and one from the Bridgman book.


Man and Woman. Woman's butt is too big and she lacks the proper hips but it wasn't something I took the most time on :P


face I made after sketching various geometric shapes


funny 10 minute sketch I did for a church lesson, heh

thanks ahead

the chick's ass is deformed

hurry and fix it before it turn gay

nah jk

nice sketches bro

but the chick's ass is deformed.

ilugato

Here's some pixel arts I've been working on, in any case. The bridge scene remains untouched, but everything else is newer.





Anyways, here's a load of drawings I've done recently. Some were studies of the bridgman book, others from real life, etc. Sorry for page crowding!

















oh, and this pastel drawing. an hour, color study, etc.

Hello

I like these sketches

if you can handle some critique on the pixelarts: I don't like the bridge

bridges don't look like that not even in cartoons

I'm talking bout the side of it the top is ok

Gotta admit, I love all these but this one, downs syndrome?

fuzzy: yup, his face needs some changings! i might fix it but it was just a sketch, so if i want to expand it any further i'll be sure to remember

funky: it's more of a style thing, and at this point it'd be a real pain to fix it! thanks though!~

SO

i did some acrylic painting today, first real attempts, i'm still getting used to the medium





then here's an old man portrait in CHARCOAL, ref was on google, i'll try and find it later, it's late



anatomy study:



and then some WIP pixels!~



1st one has a ref too, some old classic painter. i'll find it tomorrow

He also must have a very small package

thank you for the helpful insight, sword

No prob, Dex. Anytime.

The C64 one is my fave of all the new stuff, but it's all really good!

holy anal herpes, batman


this stuff is pretty cool.

i definitely suggest you learn to draw the body with shapes and proportions before copying the old artists



watchign glenn vilppus anatomy videos helped me alot
however you are definitely moving forward which is grand