[Showcase] TIME ERASE

New showcase.













All made within the last week or so. I've been in an experimental mood.

Oh man, I'm loving this. The third and fifth are absolutely fantastic, they kind of remind me of IGNIS's work but in a completely different way. I'd love to see you enter future competitions with this tone, you'd get my vote for sure. The colour choice is phenomenal.

Work more on the basics and principles of design. Colors really need huge work here. At least half of those just look like a stock run through about 50 filters. I know you're trying to make some cool looking effect with trippy colors, but still focus on the other aspects, too.

Help me out then, send me some links?

Originally Posted by GKANG

Oh man, I'm loving this. The third and fifth are absolutely fantastic, they kind of remind me of IGNIS's work but in a completely different way. I'd love to see you enter future competitions with this tone, you'd get my vote for sure. The colour choice is phenomenal.

I thought the same thing.
You and IGNIS have a very similar style, but yours have a cool feeling to the stuff you're showcasing, as opposed to his warmer style stuff.
Very good work, I like it a lot.

Thanks for the praise, guys. Being compared to IGNIS is a real compliment for me because I think his work is fantastic.

THE MASS EFFECT EDITION

No idea how often I'll be updating this... Whenever I have anything to share, I guess.
Whoa, watch out Batman, a retrospective! (My favorites from over the years and then some recent stuff.)

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Can definitely relate to your approach and naturally find appealing. This is probably my own BS terminology, but I describe a lot of what's going on with your images as heavy image distortion, color saturation, and image degradation.
Clipping masks and overlapping cut-outs make for interesting comps, and some look greater when mounted or bordered.
But it also looks that on your attempt to maybe saturate colors, there's image degradation. To me it looks interesting, and it works, but I personally avoid losing image clarity while saturating colors by carefully manipulating layer opacity (sometimes I'm able to enhance quality).

This, for example, looks like a still from 4th generation/heavily degraded VHS tape:



Whether it's intentional or not, it looks great and interesting, but if the real attempt was to make everything kind of solidify in saturated colors, it doesn't seem to get the job done.

All in all, love your stuff. It all looks effortless and makes perfect sense. Can safely say we're taking similar approaches in sigmaking, so one thing I would hope for us is to get people to synchronize and get them to appreciate these image distortions and color saturation for them to try out later.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. And yeah, with that particular piece, the quality was intentional.


SCRAPS FROM MONSTERPIECE AND THEN BATMAN

hhhhnnnggg can't take it anymore, I MUST say something. I think your nature scrap pieces are wonderful. I love the upside-down tulips, the colours are so... delicious. e___e And those penguins a totally smitten. I apologise for not providing any CONSTRUCTIVE feedback. But I say with as much sincerity as possible, I think your work is fab. Just fab. Do you take requests?

Fun with rotation!

Felt like coloring some doodles. Might mess around some more with this.
Edit: Some of these are super old. I had the scans lying around, and most were uncolored.

dumppp (I'm sort of in a transitional phase or something right now? More experimentation...)

Originally Posted by Holden

Felt like coloring some doodles. Might mess around some more with this.
Edit: Some of these are super old. I had the scans lying around, and most were uncolored.

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I love these. Anything hand-drawn, I'm usually attracted to, and simple doodles in particular catch my eye. The robot is great. I'd love to see more of this kinda stuff.

Some stuff is good, some not. I feel like you need to work on not just putting through a million filters and then uploading it, like the first post and the Mass Effect girl ones. (I know they're two months old, but just giving criticism.)

The recent Daft Punk one would be 1000000x times better if you could see them more clearly.

I don't know anything about Photoshop or any digital art, but the ones you guys say are filtered a billion times are my favorite. It looks mysterious and simply awesome.

Originally Posted by Liah

I love these. Anything hand-drawn, I'm usually attracted to, and simple doodles in particular catch my eye. The robot is great. I'd love to see more of this kinda stuff.

Ha, thanks. I'm really partial to these glorified doodles of mine. I do a lot of them in class when I'm bored, and whatever ends up being good, I scan up into GIMP. They're fun to play around with. I like the coloring process, which is a bit of a new thing for me.

Originally Posted by .Hog

Some stuff is good, some not. I feel like you need to work on not just putting through a million filters and then uploading it, like the first post and the Mass Effect girl ones. (I know they're two months old, but just giving criticism.)

The recent Daft Punk one would be 1000000x times better if you could see them more clearly.

More like two or three filters, but I know exactly what you're saying. I'm really just experimenting around with **** most of the time, so a lot ends up having faults. Ha, it's all part of the process, I guess. There are hits and misses, but I'm looking at all of these and asking myself what I like about them and taking those kind of things along with me for whatever's next. Your criticism is welcome, and I'm glad to get some differing opinions on some of this stuff because it really gives me a feel of what's working and what isn't.

Originally Posted by luca

I don't know anything about Photoshop or any digital art, but the ones you guys say are filtered a billion times are my favorite. It looks mysterious and simply awesome.

Thanks for the praise!
Yeah, with some things, I think looking fuddled and unclear works, but other times... it just doesn't aid to the overall mood of the piece or whatever.


doodling during history (i am obessed with the facial hair of american civil war generals, ****ing ace, but less of that that i actually colored)


(this one is weird, but i like the colors)





edit: let's throw this in too:

i am fond of color