CgTalk Daily Sketch 224 "Fire Dance"

[Garma]

I've always been rather intimidated by auroras (is that how you call them?). I've heard them being called firedances once or twice, it was the first thing that struck my mind upon reading this topic.

Ref | Painter | 1 H

http://csr.oli.tudelft.nl/huizen/hg/tdg/224_firedance.jpg

[haunting_shadow]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v476/almost_angel87/fire_dance.jpg
lol, i totally didn't think about the time. probably about an hour or 1 1/2 hours. painter/ mouse

[Alice]

Awww... I just love the northern lights, makes me miss iceland :(

edit: ...and this perspective is pretty cool, aurora borealis from space: http://www.geo.mtu.edu/weather/aurora/images/space/red_band.gif

[Octothreat]

23 min ps, painter

http://img116.exs.cx/img116/5606/fire4mb.jpg
Great job Garma!

[robinayles]

WOW! Garma, that knocked me back in my chair! That is EXCELLENT!:bounce:

[stoo]

I've taken the subject somewhat literally I think...

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/peter.connelly53/polytopia/images/fire_dance2.jpg

PS 7, about 35 mins. I might come back to this after i've been on the town and update the pic as im not too happy with it. I'll see what some beer might add to it :)

Edit: Ended up watching White Noise instead, so no beer today.. Anyway, spent another 10 mins defining her face a bit more.

Great work everyone else, especially the norhern lights pic - that looks really cosy to me!

cheers,
stoo

P.S. Used some ref for this to get the pose right. I really can't draw legs too good, hence the skirt. :)

[tadbit]

Used this as a quicky light study. Nice one Linz
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v476/tad_bit/dancefire2.jpg
20 min, Painter, mouse

[Fantastic Plastic Machine]

30 mins/Pencil, 45 mins/Photoshop, mouse. I'm too lazy to type right now.:shrug: http://img25.exs.cx/img25/6144/firedancecmpr6ww.jpg

[Garma]

robinayles: thanks, glad you like my stuff :) it's encouraging
octothread: thanks to you too.
alice: this very night it's also visible in the netherlands too due to some sun spots or something. :) Too bad I live in a quite busy part of the country, with all the horizon lights I can't see it from here.

nice work folks

[robinayles]

Firedance...

http://www.k-squared.com/firedance.jpg

Lost track of time...maybe 2.5 hrs PS/Wacom. Played around with some filters, scatter and jitter. Fun stuff!

[White Rabbit]

Waheee, some beautiful things here... I'm new to this forum, but suddenly realise with tremendous horror that I may not post attachments yet... Is there any other way to send my sketch?
I love the aurora, and the dancer on fire is pretty impresive, too... Waw!

[doomdragon]

Ha, I like painting fire. :)
http://www.doomdragon.de/dailysketch/firedance.jpg
1h ps

[Helgi]

This was the only thing I could come up with...
About 1 h , Photoshop CS, wacom :)

http://www.merkiprent.is/helgi/fire.jpg

[Minguez]

Hello there, im a beginner at this, but forcing myself to do one assignment everyday might actually do me some good....this is the first however.

Photoshop, Wacom 1 hour....
http://www.arctistic.com/images/fireDance.jpg

[stoo]

LOL, that is awesome, in an insanely viscous way! :thumbsup:

[DoInferno]

Wow stoo! She´s HOT!

[Silverwyvern]

I'm having a helluva time figuring out if I should reply to some of these. This one seems to be the current one.. but it would be nice to know exactly what time it will close.. how long after its posting do have?

I'll start one anyway and we'll see.

[Sir-Patroclo]

http://www.instrumental.cl/pics/firedance.jpg
- Sabin Rene Figaro

Saludos a todos

Sir Patroclo

[Silverwyvern]

23 minutes. Here's mine.

http://www.cindymccluskey.com/firedancer.jpg

[MettoolMan]

60 second sketch, this is what came to mind.
http://img131.exs.cx/img131/4159/flamedance.jpg
I rule!

[Eyern]

Some cool ones here.
Don't think mine can really be counted since it doesn't really have any dance in it, and the fire is questionable... Originally I was going to have many shots of the feather in one shot, showing is swaying to the ground, dancingly, but I spent way too much time on the one feather and now im out of time heh. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v480/IronPriest/firefeatherfinal.jpg
Eh, its doesn't look really bad or anyting, but it doesn't look like a painting.... Ways too much smudge I guess. Heh. So anyways this can't really be countied, and its nothing amazing, but it was fun to do so I thought I'd post it anyways.

[theabyss]

Never saw a 60 second sketch!
Good one :thumbsup:
Mettoolman

[dARCKLOWN]

My cheeky take on this :D

http://members.optushome.com.au/dklown/FireDance.jpg

about 40 mins PS7

[EDIT]
woah this wasnt copied from Mettoolmans pic just a weird coincidence :thumbsup:

[MettoolMan]

haha nice pic, it rules

[DeepGreenJungle]

uh, nevermind, need to get my web site back... no online storage = suck.




...I swear it was cool though...

[robinayles]

Deep Green Jungle - Don't you just hate that? I bet it was Sketch of the Week material too, huh? :)

Silverwyvern - really nice sketch. :bounce: Don't worry too much about the time limit. Its ok to post late, and many of us often do. Its just that by posting late, you might not get considered for that day's drawings when people vote for favorites.

Eyern - really nice - don't worry about being too literal with the topic, your feather looks like its made up of flames to me, and feathers do "dance" in the wind. Its a nice sketch! :thumbsup:

DarcKlown and MettoolMan must be thinking alike tonight.

Hi Alice! Good to see you posting...where's your sketch? I guess you are working on your "Marta's Monsters" instead.

[FridayEve]

http://www.fridayeve.com/gallery/cgtalk/cg224_fridayeve.jpg
2 hours/painter

[Gord-MacDonald]

Garma, Octothreat, Robin - good drawings!

[drewblit]

Goes without saying but I'll say it, brilliant work Fridayeve
and of course everybody else
I couldn't decide what to do, so I'm putting up both images maybe to make up for missing yesterdays though I did do one only it got muched somewhere and dissappeared into the machine. :cry: Anyway here's image one
http://www.geocities.com/thebigpixel/224fire.jpg
37 mins PS wacom with some blur filters

[drewblit]

And here's the second one. Too many bush fires here in Aus.
65 mins PS wacom plus filters
http://www.geocities.com/thebigpixel/fire224.jpg

[Her0d]

Drewblit: Great dynamics in the 'fireshow' piece...
Anyway, my first try in this forum: 12min, Artrage + a little bit of Photoshop for glow and resizing.

http://ci.com.pl/%7Estf/gfx/firedance.jpg

[Vitriolic]

hrmph.

http://img80.exs.cx/img80/2792/sketchfiredance3lb.jpg

1:30, pshop + wacom

[Zebula]

Nice work everyone! 2 Hours - PS, Wacom.
http://www.webhosting4free.org/zebula/firedance.jpg

[drawMonger]

Vitriolic, looks like we had a similar idea...nice sketch :thumbsup:
Firedance could be the name of a spell in some fantasy world.

http://digitalcraft.com.au/misc/sg224-firedance.jpg

painter / 1hr

[White Rabbit]

This is my first post on this forum... There are some amazing things here, so I send this in total humility...
Pencil and paper, photoshop+mouse (baaarf) :hmm: about 45min

http://users.skynet.be/am272566/firedance.jpg

[dARCKLOWN]

omg friday! that is very VERY cool ! :buttrock: :buttrock:

[yonna]

i should participate in this topic since its my idea, so here is my humble contribution:

http://img139.exs.cx/img139/211/cgtalkdsg2249ej.jpg
ps/wacom/4hours

[Ego]

Hope am not too late. Painter IX with only digital watercolor brushes, wacom. Didnt have time to pretty it up. Amazing entries, you guys. 2 and half hours.http://www.queensoul.com/images/cgtalk/firedancer.jpg

[DoInferno]

Lovely entries everybody! I´m outta time... AAAGGHHH!!!

Welcome all the new members!

[haunting_shadow]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v476/almost_angel87/fire_dance2.jpg
this time i used a ref image to kinda get shape and color rite. no dance, just fire, i wanted to try and do better than my last one. and i didn't kno how much my last one sucked until i compared the two. well, its nice to know that i am improving, however little.
ref:http://www.wildlandfire.com/pics/fire10/fire.jpg
painter/30-45 min

[haunting_shadow]

FridayEve, how long have you been drawing? and how come you don't have an avatar?

[robinayles]

This thread turned out some beautiful and amazing artwork! Way to go, everybody!

Thanks Gord!

Friday - MAN! You've outdone yourself AGAIN! Please dont ever let me know if you are some young pup just BORN with this amazing talent. I prefer to think of you as an older and wiser artist who has learned that amazing craft over time. <sigh!>

Octothreat - been meaning to tell you, that dude gives me nightmares!
haunting_shadow - yes, your second one is much better than the first..in fact the second one really ROCKS!

Queensoul - nice to see you back! Very sexy dancer, I thought of doing one similar to that, but my sketch had a mind of its own and led me in a different direction.

drewblit - that is AWESOME! :buttrock:

Her0d - Welcome, good fist post!

White Rabbit - Welcome to you too! I like your little matchstick girl, don't be so humble!

[Octothreat]

gordonm: Thanks!!
robinayles: Hehe... just be glad I didn't show the human sacrifices...

[LaRoyceJ]

http://thelightanddarkseries.com/conceptart/thefiredancer.jpg
Pen, ink, photoshop(COLOR), and vision (me). 1 hour 27 minutes.

Very beautiful artwork in this thread...such a variety of concepts.

LaRoyce-

[El-Rodente]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v121/mall_monkey/flamedance.jpg


10 mins Jasc (c) Stareatflame 20 mins Adobe Eyerub 10 mins painter classic

wacom :)

and very nice everyone else who entered

[FridayEve]

Haunting_shadow,robinayles- yep, I have been going at this art thing for a while. I got into games after school modeling and texturing. After 6 years I lost a lot of my 2D skills. (making games can really wear you out) I enjoy paining a picture more than creating things in 3D. I am just trying to get back into practice and have a good time making pictures.
I am still thinking of an avatar- it's such a hard choice.

[Gord-MacDonald]

photoshop 6hrs

http://cg2020.com/dailysketch/DanceOfFire2.jpg

[Illumino]

Lots of good stuff on this thread indeed, nice one LaRoyceJ!
Photoshop 6, 1hr

http://www.descendantsofcain.co.uk/Firedance_web.jpg

[yonna]

..just like Supervlieg i was inspired by a songtitle for this topic. It is the Finnish band Stratovarius that played "fire dance". It is a nice song if you like instrumental progmetal. So i thought i'd share this with you guys. :D Anyway, all have done great work in here. Keep it up! :thumbsup:

[Mattronic]

4th piece

1hr:20mins MSPAINT :shrug:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v601/Mattronic/firedancemtron.jpg

[Kelli]

Illumino... absolutely breathtaking!

[haunting_shadow]

Amazing Illumino! That is really cool!
Wow, that is pretty good for using paint, Mattronic. Don't you have a better progam?

[Illumino]

Thanks Kelli & haunting_shadow - the topic gave me a good excuse to avoid doing the hands and feet, heh. Mattronic, that would make a really event poster/flyer, is that what you had in mind?

I...

[Mattronic]

Amazing Illumino! That is really cool!
Wow, that is pretty good for using paint, Mattronic. Don't you have a better progam?

Yes I do, but I thought I would do something in MSpaint, I can pull of some cool stuff, but It was just for fun, hope thats okay.

-(V)


Illumino, wasn't my intention but, it looks like it could be. I couldn't really pull anything off with this one I think you put us all to shame with yours! heheh its great. Id like to see some hotspots in the flames though... just to brighten it up.

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