The Queen of hearts and her muses(nudity)! Daily Sketch gone nuts!!!

[Squibbit]

those girls look sweeeeeet , well done , dude!

[jmBoekestein]

Thanks man! :D , just can't resist sometimes.

[Rudeone]

nice anotomy:D

[supremo]

Nice work, I'm excited to see where this goes. It's incredibly refreshing to see some work on here that inlcudes females with modest sized breasts!

The girl on our furthest right looks a little bit scrunched in there, maybe it's just me?

[ms@zx]

nice sketch mate.those gals are sweet.no crits for now..would love to see some color rendition soon:)

[ArtSong]

Hi jmBoekestein
Really Great :)

I go with ms@zx ,, can't wait to see some colors :)

Gretz from
ArtSong

[jmBoekestein]

Thanks guys!

I think I'll do some clean up on them and add some detailing. After that I'll colour them. I'm hoping to put in some exotic jewelry and symbolic stuff, but it might become too busy in the end. More soon.

[fundagenie]

Sure wanna see how it turns out....very promising....

FundaG

[Swoop]

Wow looks pretty amazing... really like it :D :D Looking forward to seeing the finished version :D

[Larsen]

Very cool sketch and yeah...very sweet girls :)

I'll take a look at your painting steps buddy !

[jmBoekestein]

Thanks cipher!:thumbsup:

That would be a great help indeed!

[cha0t1c1]

sexy facial expression jm... excellent beginning...:thumbsup:

[Peddy]

"But as a warning, this is just my taste for women"
not bad taste id say =]

i feel however that maybe the upper left arm of the central woman is too long. it keeps distracting me.

and is the girl on the right mean to be futility or fertility, instead of furtility, which as far as i know isnt a word? just need to clear that up ;]

id be wary with hair colours, as they all have long hair and if they are all brunettes or close enough colours it can point out similarities, which what what i understand, they are there to represent different ideas.

[peachstapler]

Your avatar frightens me, good sir. 4th level unibrowed elven ranger casts +5 gaze of nausea.

[jmBoekestein]

peddy,

thanks for the observation. And I try but my english isn't all that. I know what everything means when I hear it, I learnt it all from watching movies. She is supposed to be fertility!:D

I think also that the arm is not anatomicaly correct, I think that it looks too long because it's straight and pointing downwards. I should change it. Haven't decided on hair colours, but the overall idea was to give the middle one very dark and silky hair, the one on the left will get slightly brighter and more filthy and wild hair. But I don't know about fertility yet, maybe a lighter tone blending in more with the skintone on the middle one. I think I should give them all names, this is getting confusing, lol.

peachstapler!
you're right, I was wondering about what to do with it! Maybe I'll go with this guys face:
http://img14.exs.cx/img14/8934/ds279zodiac7hg.jpg
or this one, but he's not easy to fit into avatar size, lol:
http://img139.exs.cx/img139/6643/orangutaninfant6rn.jpg

So what do you guys think? arrogant monkey or silly boozin' watcha-ma-call-it. Both probably fit the profile, lol.

[tzktime]

lol i like ur current avatar, looks really nice ;) abt your women, it looks great at the moment. are you planning on colouring it?

[jmBoekestein]

Yep, colouring should be done. I think it's too flat just as lines. If I'm going to shade it I might as well do it in colour. Or try at least.

[cuppacam]

Like this. You have to put colour. Only thing, the girl on the left's breast looks a bit off. Anatomically that is. Otherwise, I have no objection to naked or semi-naked women!! Bring this to life doctor frankenstein!!!

[jmBoekestein]

Hello again,

I had a little time so I worked on the breasts. I felt they looked to much like silicones, I'm not at all a fan of such alterations, I'd rather see piercings and tattoo's. Tell me which is better and if they look real. The lines are a bit scruffy, but imagine her in less intense and cooler light than the middle and right one, she'll be an ominous symbol of death awaiting.
http://img224.exs.cx/img224/1529/ds280tarotqueenofhearts52jn.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

[jmBoekestein]

OK,

Some people have given me some advice, breasts on the left girl are too wide apart and her hair is to much/big on the on-screen left side. The rest seems to be fine, so I'll be working on that.

Cheerio.:beer: .

[NOOB!]

excellent drawings!!!

[Miyagu]

beautiful! :thumbsup: good luck!

[gizmoaseth]

awsome work, the poses are great , and the anatomy is very very good.
cant wait to see the colors.

[jmBoekestein]

Thanks guys, it will be some time though. With the challenge going only 2 months I'll be hard pressed for time.

[DrFx]

Nice drawings and good taste in women! :)
The left girls breasts are realistically apart if her shoulders are thrown backwards, I think. Of course, you could make them larger... within reason :) Why don't you submit your work to the aphrodisia (http://www.aphrodisiashowcase.com) contest (deadline april 20)? Oh, and left girl's dagger needs a holster, and mind the cloth too, as it can be an important focal point. I think real references are the best way to go.
Oh, and your avatar is a bit unsettling, but people will remember it!:twisted:

[jmBoekestein]

Thanks DrFx!

I think I'll do that. Looks like fun! I hope to find the time to clean them up a bit with the challenge going. Thanks for the tips, I will use them for sure!:) Of for the googling next then!:D

Still don't know what to do with the avatar though.:shrug:

[Identity3D]

really like the girl with the mask and the girl hiding the have a lot of potential and character. keep up the good work

[Hana-chan]

i don't know...the women with the mask's hair on the left looks too pointy to me. and the female in the middle's arm looks too stiff, maby add some bending in it or something. i love the expressions though! but i would like to see more of the hips on the women in the mask, but that's just me. :shrug:

[jmBoekestein]

I'm considering making them all nude again. That was the original design, just enough skin but not too much. I f I enter them for that competition They'll have to be at the right aspectratio. So I'll first check that out and then nudge them around a bit. More hips seems a good idea, it would also give more easy hints as to her pose.

And I was wondering when someone would say something about the stiff arm, I'll see what I can do.

Thanks forthe support and comments, it helps a lot I'll tell you.:thumbsup:

[jmBoekestein]

I noticed the other image is a quite large one.

So here's a smaller one and without clothes. Tell me what you think, please. For instance, is the hand that comes from behind her hip too busy or in the wrong place? It seems a little hard to read to me, but I lose track.
http://img110.exs.cx/img110/4484/ds280tarotqueenofhearts5small7.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us/)

[jsn]

G' day jmBoekestein, absolutely gorgeous women :thumbsup:

I think you' re going to read it better with colour, light, shading, etc. Also the bottom of the pic is very close to that ' hands being busy ' :eek: area!

Did you have a reference or are they outta yer head?

Looking forward to seeing it finished :bounce:

[jmBoekestein]

Straight outta my head. Thanks!

I think I agree with the shading bringing more out. I think that if I do some thorough testing on colours I should be able to get them to be distinguishable. Updates soon I hope.

[supremo]

Lovely women Jim!

Let's see some color!!!

[Hana-chan]

that arm still looks too stiff....and i like the clothes version better.

[jmBoekestein]

Well, I didn't change the arm actually:shrug:. And it might be that it's hard to read what's best without colours and shadows. But I'm unsure myself so I'll keep both in mind.

[tinitus]

wow!
absolutly awesome girls...really sexy!!!

[milkweed]

i like the girls a lot. I'm still trying to get used to drawing on my tablet, but you are great at it. This is just a suggestion, but I think it would look great if it were painted realistic instead of stylized.:thumbsup: :) :thumbsup: also, i think a tattoo on the masked one would had a little something, maybe coming down from her shoulders and then flowing in between her breast.... but what do i know i can't paint crap:shrug:

[jmBoekestein]

I can't paint crap either to be honest.

I just felt this deserved a little more attention from me than a "hello it's done".

I was hoping to do it realistically, But that will take me considerable effort and time so it might be slow progress. Hopefully I don't forget about it after or during the challenge. Thanks guys!:thumbsup:

[THE Wizard]

Man just, stick with chick(s)... You've ever heard expression - sex sells?! Well it does!, great work... keep it up


my master & servant 2d (http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=225858)

[MrGrinch]

This sketch is coming along very well, congrats on creating some sexy looking women.

And now the critique; I think the reason the middle girl's arm looks odd is the fact that her shoulder is pulled up so high, if you lowered that it probably wouldnt look so stiff. Continuing with arms, the girl on the left doesn't seem to have any, yes I know they're just out of shot, but it looks odd none the less. Perhaps she should have her hand on her hips, a strong, defiant pose would probably work for her.
I actually like this without the clothes, the material was confusing and hard to read and here the hands make it more interesting...and erotic :)
The left girl's mask could perhaps be widened a little, I think her eyes would be just slightly further apart than what the mask shows at the moment.
In terms of your concept, there's definately three distinct personalities here, but perhaps some symbolism would help to show who these people are supposed to be. Although you've done this well with the girl on the left already.

I think this could look really good when finished, do you have any ideas for a background at this point?

[DrFx]

About the middle girl's right arm, it's kinda odd to me that only a few fingers appear and not the rest of the arm. I would try a different position, for example resting her hand on her thigh, or reaching back to caress the hidden girl!
Is it just me, or is it getting hot in here?:eek:

[Hana-chan]

hahahahah! XD! maby it is^^

[jmBoekestein]

The wizzard, hmm...sounds very good. Beets hooking street corners to get through college.

Mr Grinch, excellent suggestions, I think I'll try and follow you up onall of them except the shoulder, I like the naughtyness of it. As far as for a background I had envisioned a ver dark blue deasturated tone with light from the girls bleeeding into the haze. Very high contrast but I think it fits them. And I'm not to keen on trying to symbolise something through the background here, I sorta see them as a vision one might be having in halfdreams state. (and what a fine night it was.:hmm:)

Dr. Fx, and hana-chan, caressing it is. In the end I was just hopnig it got suggested probably, at least I can blame you guys now.:rolleyes:

[jmBoekestein]

Another cool topic in the DSG. Naturally I have another hot pic up for critique. I want to enter multiple into that competition. It seems like fun. Allthough I have to work on the challenge more. We'll see. What do you guys think?
http://img105.exs.cx/img105/2168/ds301desire7ns.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)http://img79.exs.cx/img79/5316/ds301desire8ut.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
and a close of her face:
http://img23.exs.cx/img23/8925/ds301desireclose5ua.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

[jmBoekestein]

Well, worked on the arms and the wee cute girls face. I'm happy with it so far except I didn'tt have the time to work on lady death here. Will do that soon I think. I want to finish the linework so I can try the rest.
[/url][url="http://www.imageshack.us"]http://img157.exs.cx/img157/605/ds280tarotqueenofhearts5small4.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

[jmBoekestein]

Death lady here, got her mask widened. And some details worked at, not much, jus hoping for some feednack on her mask. Thanks for checking.
http://img151.echo.cx/img151/2589/ds280tarotqueenofhearts5small9.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

[Hana-chan]

much better! i like alot! :applause:

[marcheen]

these are really cute girls;) when are you going to put some colors? this is looking good so far.

[jmBoekestein]

Marcheen, I've just been customising brushes. I think in a while I'll have more control over my painting. I used to only do quick sketches and outlines with black ink. But I'm fiddling with it and it'll be soon I think. Depends on my schedule. thx:)

Hana-chan, thx too.

I'll keep tweeking them a bit a couple of times and then... colourssss-h...:twisted:

[Goliath]

love your new avatar lol, only just saw the movie.
oh and nice picture stop tweaking and throw on some color ! :)

[Larsen]

Nice tweaking since the first version, good work on it mate !

Can't wait for coloring now that you have a new part in your brain dedicated for colors :D

Good luck !

[jmBoekestein]

@cipher, thanks mate. Just a few more practice rounds I hope.:bounce:

@Goliath, it's one of the greatest comedies of all times. And thanks, just a wee bit more.:D

[allenatl]

Hey, jmBoekestein, nice work on those last updates. I like how your linework shows just enough to suggest volume. No wasted detail. My sketches tend to be all over the place but if I want a more finished look I'll throw it on a light table and trace (dirty word) out the main lines. So I can appreciate how you get more with less.

[jmBoekestein]

Thanks AllenAtl!:D

The trick I mainly use is to slightly overlap lines and make them thicker on sides of the volumes where shadows would be. And ofcourse accentuation of form. Hope this helps.

Cheers!

[TheFirstAngel]

Hi Jan-Mark... Just found this and really like it. Nice and clean linearts. Since i do not work that clean on sketching, i envy you your patience you go here for. :)

Keep it up mate, c ya soon!
Cheers

[Blackgeni]

Wow that's really impressive , at what size are you drawing? And that girl on the left has the most beautifull eyes I've ever seen.

[jmBoekestein]

Thanks Sacha!
I like it clean, gives me more confidence in the idea I have of it.

C Ya!

Blackgeni,

I started this one real quick on a 1200 x 1600, canvas. Later when I wanted smaller tighter lines I just upscaled everything to 2400 x 3200. But somewhere along the line I saved a downscaled version so some of the lines are actually more smirky than I'd like. But they're good enough I think.

[xric7]

oh..pretty girls.
i love it.:twisted:

[MKStudios]

Holy Hera! What hotties! :thumbsup:
Looking forward to the paint progress on this one! :bounce:

[TheFirstAngel]

hehehe, waiting for those rich colors to pop up :p keep on Rockin' mate!

[Squibbit]

after 17 months u still haven't sterted with the painting... :surprised

[jmBoekestein]

I've got issues, so shoot me! :curious:


No really, I'm actually working on it. I have layed out three different colours allready and am working my way onto the next one allready.:thumbsup:

[jmBoekestein]

Well I'm crap with colours so this is all I've got:rolleyes:. And the sun's coming up here so it's probably past my bedtime so I better give the computer some sleep and fidget something else for once.

I would really like some rccitique, the harsh kind preferably. I'm no god with colours so any tips tricks and insights are most appreciated. Thanks for kicking me in the ass, cause it was fun.:thumbsup:

http://img89.echo.cx/img89/6262/muckpuddle79aa.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

edit: oh yeah, it's just the colourscheme. Will sample colours from this to paint the end result. Key lights will be dnoe in a hard light overlay layer. (if that works for me)

[Squibbit]

now you're talkin !

nice lumps of flesh :D

umm...that really looks good and
that's pretty much it so i'm just
waiting for more :)

[TheFirstAngel]

Hehe, am curious what you show up with next. colors so far work fine. keep on rocking mate!

[Gord-MacDonald]

Is that a dagger in her pants - or is she just happy to - er - well nevermind...

Can't wait to see the colour!

Gord

[ElKrullo]

Hey! Thats hot! :) Great lineart and nice colors you've got there.
Maybe you'll need some tones in the shadows that are a little bit darker to define them more.

Well, keep going! I'm looking forward to seeing the colored version.

[jmBoekestein]

Yes, it's a small step. But I feel really good about it. I fixed some things and fiddled with it to make them appear more volumish. They really remind e of earwax somehow. :rolleyes:

http://img103.echo.cx/img103/1266/qohcolouram25ig.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

[TheFirstAngel]

lol, wax is what remind me most sss shaders with not enough shadows on them, and the effect you achieved looks like it... wich in general works fine and when u painted the shades and accents, those ladies sure will be most delicious! Now go for it and bring up your ladyship, they await you to spoil them out of your canvas! Go Jan-Mark Go!!!:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[jmBoekestein]

Just some more fiddling with the background colours...and then the ladies...:scream:

[Squibbit]

i bet u get scared and go back to the line art next :p

[jmBoekestein]

Bite me!:scream:

There fun to fiddle anyway! So hmm...maybe yeah...there is that weird line that's been bugging me.

[TheFirstAngel]

still fidling? waiting for sum action here... put on your grill and burrn sum pixels mate!

[neokinesis]

I think you should greyscale the original image and lay it over your color as a multiply layer so we can really see both of them working together. I think the depth would look great if you really added some core shadow in there.

Then maybe you can throw in a colored light from one of the sides that casts on them so you can really see some depth. The light could maybe be alittle behind the front character and maybe next too the middle one and the third girl peeking around the corner maybe has is on her front. Just an idea.

Oh, I got another idea! Actually two! so when your done with that you could put a rim light on them to really pop them out of that ole computer screen of yours and when your done with that. Then you can, well shoot I forgot, oh I remember. Try using colors that you wouldn't think are in skin like purple and green. Really low opacities. It really helps skin look like skin, remember human flesh is pretty transparent and when blood doesn't have oxygen it's blue.

It will look great you will see. Just keep it really subtle and add all kinds of colors. Just go crazy!?

[neokinesis]

So right after I wrote that whole post I happen to find a picture with all kinds of color on skin. Although this piece if very stylized, step back from you computer like 7 feet and look at the image. It really says what I was trying to explain.

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?t=239975&goto=nextnewest

There is the link, and no it's not one of mine. Try to think of colors as values, almost as if you had your monitor in black and white. It really does something to the image.

[jmBoekestein]

Hey thanks! I was thinking about putting in some candle lit templish background that would give some more deoth maybe. And I just got photoshop cs2 on my computer, so that's somethning for colourblending in other hues. That didn't work well in painter, what should have been purple went completely green and such, ah hell, whatever. Anyway, getting hands on with photoshop cs2 right this instant and going to see what I can do with it. Thanks for the link, actuyally explains a lot. I want them real fleshy like though. Really jumpnig out as alive, stupid for a first go but eho knows, I migth even pull it off.

Don't worry Squibbit, I bet I'm just procrastamaphysing. SO it's okay I think:D. Good thing I'm not stalling for time though.

Getting on it right now.:thumbsup:

[Nazirull]

nice thread jmBoekestein.

Im always interested in ppl doing figures....love to see the process and of course the end result.

Yeah i think you can try to overlay the outlines ...just to see the girls! ehheheh

And Sacha is here too !

[jmBoekestein]

hmm, I didn't actually used the outlines for drawing the figures, so they don't match up. Bummer, but I'm getting to know photoshop now instead of painter. Who knows what's next.

[TheFirstAngel]

lol, i don't know painter yet. if its photoshop, use them first steeps you made as colorpalette and overpaint your outlines with the same colors you used on your coloring start. make sure you keep a copy of your outlines on a seperate layer to see where the lines are running.
you might use the "multiply mode" on the toplayer with the outlines, just to see the contours. later, you wont need em anymore... hope that made sense. :D keep it up JanMark!

[jmBoekestein]

Thanks Sacha! Makes perfect sense, mostly I leave my outlines on top, because I'm not good enough at detailing yet, so I use the outlines to cheat :D. But these should be worked out fully!!!

Thanks, am going to use photoshop also anyway, whichever suits me best!:thumbsup:thx again.

[Squibbit]

just make sure you don't post any real updates within the
next month or two, cause that would be rushing things

[jmBoekestein]

One day I'll show you all, but for now...I'm pre-occupied!:scream:

[AdrielaSakamoto]

I'm glad your daily sketch went wild. This is looking great. I can't really find anything that bugs me about it,but I'm assuming it's still pretty early in the game. I do find the figure on the far right looks cramped in there, but depending on how you render her it could work fine. Right now, the entire image is in the same tone,so it's hard to visualize where your'e going with it. Shadowy figure? Whatever it is, I'm really looking forward to watching this unfold. I think it's a terrific way to learn. eh?

Best,

Adri Sakamoto

[Squibbit]

This is looking great. o


yea and it's been looking great for a great big while now,
for god's sake don't go around ruining stuff now with an update


.

[jmBoekestein]

Thanks Adriela! I think I'll try and make her skin more saturated and radiant then the one in the middle. That should make her pop a bit more. I'm not so excpereinced, and it's a perfect learning experience!

But...there's a huge problem now...even worse than my rather lazy attitude towards my own works...:cry: MY computer is broken!!! I'm doomed now, the love of my life has left me. I really need a hug...:cry: I'm so goddamn poor I can't even afford toilet paper, let a lone extra computer parts.


:surprised..you're not happy with my earwax statues? I put a lot of energy in those you know.

[Squibbit]

dude, i'm really sorry, you're not kidding are u ?

and umm.. yea.. sorry old chap, cannot associate
earwax with happy

but i will wish a miracle for u so u get your computer
back

.

[jmBoekestein]

No I'm not kidding, :(...And thanks, :wip: , I'll just hang in there...maybe a miracle will actually hap:cry: pen, lol.

[Nazirull]

jmBoekestein...ure serious?? :hmm:

[jmBoekestein]

Yep, it's gone to smithereens. I need counselling...:banghead:

[Squibbit]

what u got angry at it or sumthin ?

where u now at? internet cafe ?

.

[jmBoekestein]

I felt like I was done with it, I guess it felt insulted because it slammed shut on me. I'm on the downstairs computer, usually preoccupied by other family members than me.

[Squibbit]

well, umm... u could always peek inside the downstairs computer if u could find
the parts u need,take the parts to your machine and then claim the downstairs
computer went weirdly broken and that they should take it to maintenence ..?


.

[Nazirull]

Drop over a friends house and use it while their not at it? Just a suggestion.

[jmBoekestein]

Well... actually, I'm at school now and using a dual xeon with two big monitors. You can't beleieve how tempting and alluring these nymphs look now. I could claim I was relaxing and do some more work in photoshop here. :DAnd of-course I need lunchbreaks and time for my inner child...'n stuff... yeah :D...

:surprised...

[Nazirull]

Get the nymphs back here! :bounce: :bounce:

[Blue-demon]

jmBoekestein, just becareful of wandering teachers :hmm:

[Nazirull]

He's sketching with one eye on the monitors and another is on recon mode.....:scream:
One hand with the pen and the left hand standing by at Alt-Tab to Mozilla page 'Golf Digest'. :D

[jmBoekestein]

Actually, I'm in the rather precarious position of being back towards the door and right in front of it. :argh:

But, it's sort of self study. Make the thing and then show it, sort of. :D Meaning definitely:"so...what have you done all this time? :)"

[Larsen]

Haha ok so take the time to make your mind as clear as possible... ;)

About the girls, the shading is coming very nice, i like the color tone you used, wax shading looks cool :thumbsup:

Hope the computer problem's gonna be fixed soon, i look forward to your mental and images progress :beer:

cya

[RealCapri]

Sexy lovely ladies sketches :thumbsup: Waiting for their colors :)

[jmBoekestein]

Thx cipher! I'm sure one or the other will turn out ok before long, ;). I'll be going with these colours then! :thumbsup:

thx realcapri! :D

[regarded warrior]

when working with colors, I tend to start with dark muted colors and work to light. learned it from Digital_bobert. He does the same

[TheFirstAngel]

take care you dont make too fast progress, this tread could get overfilled with imagery! :p

hehe, just came to see how ya moving on...
greets :D

[Ego]

Beautiful sketch JM, can't wait to see you finish it.

[Squibbit]

can't wait to see you finish it.

better prepare to , anyways :D


.

[jmBoekestein]

Rightee-o, somebody leant me a replacment part extra! :bounce:, if this works I can test the other parts and see what needs replacement otherwise. If all of this works, I'll actually have to become disciplined to get my schoolwork done...:surprised uhm wait, that's not right. :curious:

[jmBoekestein]

:curious:I saw Sin City yesterday and on the way back I had to get it out of my system. Really friggin violent, but good nonethless. Maybe because I never read the comics I guess. I enjoyed it anyway.

I'm still kicking hahahahah!!!:scream:
http://img233.echo.cx/img233/6463/sincityinsp9pt.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

[cha0t1c1]

JM: you punk, finish the girls already...what a lazy bastard :D

btw: you should join CGS, Linda posts her WIP's there, and we get to dicuss stuff in a thread that is over 260 pages long, with only 10+ ppl talking about anything, it's awesome...

[Nazirull]

Cant find that Linda's thread that ure talking about.......where?

[cha0t1c1]

Maranello: its the "Post Random pictures...." thread in the intro Forum

[calisto-lynn]

looks beautifull!

[jmBoekestein]

Thanks for the info chaot1c1! When I have some cash I'll be sure to check it out. :D


Thank you too Calisto.

[ruukki]

very nice lines.

[jmBoekestein]

Hi ruukki, could you post a link to Klimt please, I'm getting a bit curious. And thanks. :thumbsup:

[Nazirull]

Hey wuts everybody is commenting on? Is there an update that i missed somewhere??

Jan, i just signed in CGS yesterday and i think that thread is HUGE....u guy like you will be great there! i think it is sad that only few can really go there...

[jmBoekestein]

Starting to sound real interesting! :surprised I really have to quit smoking or something...

As soon as I have some money I'll get into it. :D


:rolleyes:and no...no updates...:curious:

[ajay1589]

NO UPDATES!!!:scream:

there are so many pages in this thread i didn't bother to look for the last update...i just assumed this one would be it

sigh...don't make us wait too long

[Nazirull]

Looks like he's keeping the nymphs for himself! HAHAHAH....kidding fren...:)

[cha0t1c1]

Looks like he's keeping the nymphs for himself! HAHAHAH....kidding fren...:)

I would :argh:...loll:D

[jmBoekestein]

I'm sorry if this thread just keeps disappointing you. I'll try and remember to put the latest in the first post, just in case. ;)

Thanks for checking anyway :D

edit:if I keep them for myself I'll be constantly plagued by the prospect of that rather big pocket knife gutting me at any moment. :argh:

[keight]

A quick question jm. Is your computer fixed yet?

[jmBoekestein]

:cry:


MY FRIGGIN HD IS BROKEN!!!


:banghead:I don't have any back ups, only one 3d object I made a while back.:banghead:


hrjgfjsdhf...:hmm:

[Squibbit]

MY FRIGGIN HD IS BROKEN!!!

we're not interested in your motorcycles


.

sorry about the hd dude, lost lots of stuff ?



.

[jmBoekestein]

Yes, but I wasn't up to the point that I was going to make a reel out of it though. I posted most of what I had somewhat completed though. I can always work from that, maybe I'll learn to work faster in catching up heh;).

I have my nymph model saved as a draft in my e-mail on a server :D, and on the school hd here, so that one's going to be finished no matter what. :wise: Unless someone manages to crash the gmail server.

[keight]

Ouch, I am really sorry to hear that. We've been going through our own little "one crisis after another" out here; and I had hoped that you had been able to find someone who could run a diagnostic check on the drive, and rescue your data files, as can sometimes be done.

[Mantat]

This is the kind of lesson that you only learn when it happen to you. I know, I lost months of work on my master thesis when windows screwed up on me (that's why I moved to mac). Since then I do backups...

If you have the money, a nice alternative is to use 3 HD. 2 of 150megs in RAID-0 for speed and one of 300gig to backup the entire drives.

I think one of the worst thing when an HD crash is losing all the bookmarks, emails, and other stuff that you dont think of at that moment but will in a few months, like a file with the birthday of all family and friends (and girlfriend...), this was a killer for me!

[Nazirull]

YEap..exactly the same thing happened to me back then....i lost ALL of my junior years work worth......after that....i back up every now and then....

It was a lesson learnt....the hard, painful way.....

[jmBoekestein]

Man I'm so completely down now. I can't seem to get any luck lately. I do everything on my computer, I'm just jumping on a rotten bridge...

[GRC]

not too bad :)

[beelow]

That friggin sucks dude, sorry to hear bout the hard drive. My friend dropped his harddrive a while and lost most of his work. You will make more stuff and it will be way better than the stuff you previously made. I hope this raises your head more...holla!:thumbsup:

[Ducklator]

wow... lovely girls...!!! it will be a exelent image... keep it up!!:thumbsup:

I like the girl that hug the queen..:love:

[jmBoekestein]

Ooo! I completely forgot about updates... I recovered my hd!!! :D

YAY!!!

Turns out the first powersupply fried, then I got a spare from a friend which promptly stopped working too so I bought a new hd, and figured it would work. Well... that didn't work either and there weren't any options left so I bought a cheap powersupplyy, 'cheap' mind you, and voila.

Maybe some updates soon... still uhm... working on my painting skills :rolleyes:.

[DimitrisK]

Line art looks great. Too bad it didn’t get past that…:sad: :shrug:

[Squibbit]

oh no this eternal thread has resurfaced again... :argh:



.

[Miyagu]

gogogo! :bounce:

one idea: if you are working on something really beautiful as this it can be stunning sometimes.. i mean.. one has this breathtaking picture in mind and goes like.. oh no i can not do this and that.. because it looks so beautiful one doesn´t want to "destroy" it somehow.. one sits there and looks at it and doesn´t find the will to "work" on it (with all the ugly phases that work (nearly always) goes through.. you know what i mean?

to break free from the laming "it-has-to-be-beautiful" thought it can be really helpful to paint something ugly and old and not so nice looking.. (like an old witch or something like that..) one can concentrate on the technique and isn´t bothered by the painful thought of destroying what should be the most beautiful picture ever.. (<-- i´m talking about me here.. :)) just an idea.. keep going!!!

and update!!! :bounce:

[jmBoekestein]

yeah and yeah... lol

And thanks Dunkelgold! I think that would really do the trick... I felt exactly like that when smudging paint the wrong direction.

I think I'll go do that as soon as I wrap up some things that need taking care of. It can be such a drag to not see where to go when the image is so definitely burnt onto my eye. :D

Big thanks! :wip:

[Kyena]

ha! so funny..Benita beat me to it.
I was about to pretty much post the same..about being afraid to waste or destroy something that you think is coming along nicely.

But who am I to talk..I am too sissy to actually post my progresses and wips here anyway 0_o

And for what it's worth. Sometimes but only sometimes, it's good to take your time ;)

[CGTalk Moderation]

This thread has been automatically closed as it remained inactive for 12 months. If you wish to continue the discussion, please create a new thread in the appropriate forum.