:: Elsie's Spiffy Little Junk Thread (Ver 02) ::

[Elsie]

Hey guys ^^.

Well, I let my old WIP thread get abandoned with most of the links broken, and most of the work is now worthy of being buried anyways :) so rather than raise the beast, here is my Junk Thread - Version 02; home to all my WIP’s, sketches, exercises and other stuff and nonsense :D.

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I’ll start with a slight overlap, my master copies I decided to do as an exercise this January - I didn’t have much time as I was pretty busy, but I did Vargas, Hogarth and Bouguereau.

Alberto Vargas Master Copy @ 7 Hours (Complete):

http://img387.imageshack.us/img387/4063/vargas019cd.jpg

Hogarth Master Copy @ 3? Hours (Complete):

http://img491.imageshack.us/img491/6894/hogarthcopy018dd.jpg (http://img491.imageshack.us/img491/6894/hogarthcopy018dd.jpg)

http://img491.imageshack.us/img491/3008/hand8iw.jpg

William Bouguereau Master Copy - OFDW12 @ 70-80 Hours (Complete):

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/6987/ofdw7mn.jpg



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Some preliminary quickie concept art for my 2d/3d CollabBATTLE entry (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=313560&page=1&pp=15) with Eric Lawshe.

CollabBATTLE Concept Art 1 @ 8 Hours (Line Art):

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/5438/girlconceptslineart1ah.jpg

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And finally my latest update - I’ve started work on my website (which is rather silly as I have nowhere to host it) and thought I’d show you all a little snippet of some of the line art for the main layout I’ve been working on. The whole site design is very inspired by Korean/Chinese scrolls (we used to have tons around my house as a child as my father worked in Korea for quite a long time). I will be colouring it :) and the gnarly branch you can see will be covered in small red flowers, the long things behind that are bamboo.

Website Layout @ 8 hours (WIP):

http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/2791/background3su.jpg

[Rebeccak]

Great to see this Elsie! :bounce:Subrscribed! :thumbsup:

GoGo Koreans! :scream:

Cheers, :)

~Rebeccak

[Ego]

Werewolf, Its gonna look fabulous.

*Pokes Becca with a pencil. Haaaaaaaaaai :D

[Llynna]

wheeee hon *hugs*

like your design for the homepage :)

*subscribes*

[Agamemnwn]

no question about it subscribe and make a tent outside of the thread with worship materials :D go ailsa go ailsa :D

[Elsie]

Becca: Hehe, KoreanPower ;) (I wish I was asian...bah I'd be so cute...>_<). Thanks Becca!

Queenie: Thankie Queenie *ahem* it'll only look fabulous with my occasional pestering with "ohmygodqueeniewhatthehellicantmakeawebsitehelpmeeeeeeiloveyou" :D

Britta: Thank you hon *hugs* hopefully it won't take too long till it's up and running.

Janni: Thanks Janni! Hah, you'd be better to make a bonfire out of my stuff than a tent though :/

[umbrellasky]

weeeee great work!! Nice to see this thread :)

[Digitalpaint]

Nice to see more art from you Elsie:)

[Gord-MacDonald]

I am looking forward to seeing this thread grow!


Gord

[MichaelZHsee]

yeah elsie,thats the stuff's i'm talking about:thumbsup:keep them coming.i'd be sure to lurk in again.
that william master piece is mt all time fav

[paperclip]

*Lurks in a non-threatening way*


Areya entering the CGChallenge?

[Elsie]

A little start on some of the lilies in the opposite corner for the site...not much work, I've seriously done nothing yesterday and so far today too :cry: I best get started in a few minutes...of course, I may eat first...lala...

http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/3096/background6ke.jpg

Enialadam: Thank you :) Hope to see you here again!

Arty2: Thanks Emile, I am really in love with your progress on your TCSF thread, it's going to look stunning ^^.

Gord MacDonald: Thank you very much :)!

Michael: Thanks a lot :thumbsup: I have to try a bit harder, your WIP thread full of masterpieces is putting me to shame ^^! Good to see you here.

Therry: I don't know why, but I imagined you saying that like a pirate hehe...I'm not sure if I will be entering or not, I do have plenty of time although I'm being a terrible partner to Eric in the collabBATTLE and really should be doing some more work on that. I may give this one a miss and improve my skills so I'll be better and ready for the next one - depends if the topic is something that really strikes my fancy. How about you, O'Clippet?

[Elsie]

Alberto Vargas Master Copy @ 2 ½ Hours:

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/2153/vargas022ik.jpg

Just messing around quickly as an exercise - Vargas's Girls are such a delight to draw ^^ should probably be finished in another 2 hours. Then I seriously will do something that I need to paint...ahem...I have over five 'pressing' projects :/

[paperclip]

<english accent> It depends on the topic, m'dear....my work isn't as good as yours (ms. front page grabbing englishwoman!) but I like the community spirit that goes with entering one along with your friends.....you go and see everyone else's stuff and people come and lurk in your thread and everyone cheers each other along, tis great fun! I entered master and servant and while the end result was terrible (to my eyes now!), I really enjoyed it.....

[Llynna]

yay lillies! you just picked my most beloved flowers :D. make them beutifully white :D.

your vagas copy looks quite good, but somethings wrong with the chest area, but im sure you are able to sort that out :D

and girls: lets just do the next challenge together, just for the fun of it. maybe we could get a ships crew together *hmmm*

so long maytjes ;)

[Rebeccak]

Go Elsie! Go Elsie! :cool:

[Elsie]

Alberto Vargas Master Copy @ 4 Hours:

http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/2186/vargas028dx.jpg

Just carrying on doodling, I like doing master copies because the limited detail means I am forced to keep it painterly and loose rather than veering towards hyper-realism again (god that was an awful phase of mine ^^). Really hungry now so think I will go take a stroll to get some pakoras- *ahem* I mean a healthy, nutricious dinner, then finish this off when I get back ^^


Therry: Pfft, woman...your work captures the very essence of your characters in a way I'm still desperately trying (and failing) to achieve, and your style is wonderfully distinctive, so don't you be giving me that :p! I agree that the very best part of the challenges is the support and community spirit...I would hate to miss out on that...


Britta: Ah, I love Lillies too ^^ they're gorgeous, especially Oriental Lilies like these (with the wavy edges). I've been thinking to make them pink and white like these ones that I used to have everywhere in my old flat, there will be some pure white flowers right opposite these ones though :)


Ships crew sounds good to me :D I'll join the challenge if you two are then hehe. I agree that there is something really weird about that Vargas Girls boobs, she's drawn like that in the original too :shrug: I'm not too sure whether to change it or not...

Becca: Thank you hon :bounce:

[Simon]

Heylo. just dropping in to have a nose around. Your getting pretty badass now Elsie!

I agree with the chest on the girl, maybe take a little artistic license?

Other than that fatastic work!

[Elsie]

Alberto Vargas Master Copy @ 4 ½ Hours:

http://img496.imageshack.us/img496/6417/vargas029jf.jpg

Well, finished her off quickly last night...nothing earth shattering, but for a quick doodle I think (hope) it has a sort of charm to it :). As advised I introduced her boob to gravity, still left them looking like tennis balls though, since well, that's Alberto Vargas :D I actually wish I'd done this one traditionally, I did it entirely on one layer anyway...though I'm not a big fan of tons of layers, full stop hehe.

Simon: Thank you, good to see you here ^^ I am slowly trundling along towards that day when I can say "I'm a real badass now ;)" hehe...eh I certainly hope I've improved somewhat lately though, I'm finding it best to do tons of little quick pieces like this then occasionally a big long piece like the Bouggie copy...

[erilaz]

Holy crap! :argh:

Where did all this awesomeness come from all of a sudden?:D

[Ego]

Holy crap! :argh:

Where did all this awesomeness come from all of a sudden?:D
Nothing a good dose of extra swedish loving can't fix :D

[Agamemnwn]

Nothing a good dose of extra swedish loving can't fix :D


AHAHAHAHAHAH . peter will be so proud :D
go ailsa go ailsa :D

[urgaffel]

Did I hear the words swedish loving?

Ailsa, you're improving by the piece and you know it :love: Really nice work on the Vargas and I love the website background thingie (aka known as lillies) :D

*Lurks in a non-threatening way*


Areya entering the CGChallenge?

Arrrr ye entaaaarrring darr CGChallenge? :D

[Elsie]

Buaauahaha, you guys :scream: now you're turning my serious *ahem* art thread into a temple of Swedish loving? Only my crazy CGS family *hugs* :bounce:

Martin: Hehe, you really think I have the starts of powers of awesomeness? I wish ^^ I'm working very hard to improve though!

Queenie: Hah! Yeah...Peter's my all-purpose-cure for everything ^^

Janni: Thanks Janni Janni Bananni! Aggie Aggie Waggie! :D

Peter: Heh hon, I'm improving by the piece O_o? Technically I thought the latest Vargas doodle looked like a pile of crap, I just liked the mood of it hehe *hugs my baby*. Guess it's too hard to look at your own stuff...

[Elsie]

Website Layout @ 20? Hours:

http://img458.imageshack.us/img458/2527/background9gc.jpg

Starting to come together a little bit now, I still have to outline some little white flowers in the top left corner then almost everything is planned out and it's just a matter of finishing the lineart and colouring...then...content O_o.

[erilaz]

Coming along very nicely! If you get into flash at all, it would be cool to add subtle animation to the presentation... like making the bamboo sway softly. :D

[Elsie]

Martin: Thank you :) I'm glad that I've nearly got the layout of everything sorted...bah, drawing with an ink-style is such a laborious process O_o. I like the idea about some subtle flash animations, I had vaguely thought that myself...sadly, to say I was doing a degree in programming computer games...I know diddly squat about the web and flash etc...

New Piece...as of yet untitled @ 45 Minutes:

http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/1402/argh0ks.jpg

Well, decided to do a quick original piece in between some master copies (theres a few Rolf Armstrong and Hajime Sorayama pieces I'm dying to have a go at), I say quick because I'm saving my efforts for a big 100-200 hours original piece for the challenge.

I'm in a nasty and depressed mood today, la la, hate myself, hate to world...what better to do with my time than make an I-want-to-die piece, heh. Going to be screaming, hair blowing in the wind (thats a jumping pose by the way). Couldn't find any particularily great reference pictures, so I had to use my "knowledge" of anatomy to try and build something up, if somethings glaringly off, let me know ^^ *yodels for Kimmel*.

References:

http://www.wecarecomputers.com/images/computer-frustration.JPGhttp://www.staleywise.com/collection/piel/big/frustration

[Rebeccak]

Elsie, lol, you're a nut. ;) Don't worry hon we all go through these hate the world days, and art seems as good a therapy as any to me. :)

Why is it though that I just see a black image? Heh, postmodern statement, or am I just tarded? :D (Either is entirely possible!) :scream:

Cheers, :)

~Rebeccak

[Elsie]

Why is it though that I just see a black image? Heh, postmodern statement, or am I just tarded? :D (Either is entirely possible!) :scream:


Erp, you do? Maybe I just have my badly calibrated screen set to really, really bright...

http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/9316/argh0gp.jpg

Any better? Hehe, sorry for my gloomyish rant ^^ the "post-modern statement" comment made me laugh out loud though! Maybe some Simpsons and some ice cream and I'll feel better :).

[Rebeccak]

Ah, much better, much better! Ah can see! Ah can see! :D :applause:

This should be a cool piece. :) You know, for an angsty girl, :D your drawings and paintings are really controlled, delicate, and for the most part really pretty. Me, alternately, am about as straightlaced and non~artistic looking as they come, yet Odd Nerdrum and Joel Peter Witkin are some of my favorite artists. :D Go figure! :scream:

And I mean angsty in a good way. ;)

Cheers, :)

~Rebeccak

[urgaffel]

Yay my baby hates the world... no wait... *hugs* Icecream and Simpsons sounds like a brilliant idea :love: Looks like you're off to a good start, can't see anything wrong with the anatomy :) Go Ailsa, go Ailsa *does a little dance*

[Elsie]

Becca: Whee, Becca, that is one of the most useful comments I've ever had - I'm always straining to try and see how my paintings come across to others. Funnily enough, like you say, I'm a very angsty, fidgety girl with an explosive temper and rather 'eclectic' tastes to say the least (Yoko Ono wailing, fluorescent pink lipstick and black and white stripey tights with legwarmers, anyone? :p) but deep down I've always been battling with the fact that I hate all of that about myself - I'd really like to be a delicate, sweet, pretty little blonde girl :scream: like the entire village I grew up in! Soo, I think, regardless of who we are, our paintings reflect our true desires of what we want to be ^^. (Hehe, I hope I don't generally come off as whingey Becca, I usually smile when I'm moaning! Honest!)

Peter: Hehe *hugs* yeah except I ate all the ice cream ^^ and I can't do Simpsons without ice cream...vodka and Sex and the City it is :p! Thanks honey, glad it all seems in proportion to begin with.

Been playing with ideas for colours and lighting...I'm going to stop update-whoring now everyone ^^

http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/7761/argh6rl.jpg

[Llynna]

*hugs ailsa* dont worry hon, its going to be okay^^. you know to hate the world isnt that bad.... maybe you will come over it or not, but as long as you keep sane its all ok ;P.

am not painting at all today, got the guys over today playing rpg stuff.

that one sounds promising though. make her screeming real loud and maybe some blood or so. will look later for updates :).

will be off to my parents for the weekend, so will not be on msn or so. will be back on tuesday, speak to you then!


*beh* you posted an update as i was writing. the boobs look a little weird, like they are not of the same size.

**the voice from the off aka a male mate of mine: make them bigger, babe!**

[urgaffel]

...I usually smile when I'm moaning! Honest!...

Yes. Yes you do :D

[erilaz]

Yes. Yes you do :D

OOOOOOHHHHH! Yowch! :D

Great stuff wolfie. We all have our angry depressed vicious days. Then we drink tea and tickle monkeys and everybody is happy!

[Agamemnwn]

go elsie go elsie :D the vargas is great u are great, peter is great . what more do we want. oh yes the CKG and we are complete :D

[Rebeccak]

Originally posted by Aggie: CKG and we are complete :D
Who dat? :scream:
Looks like the gang's all here! :D

Originally posted by Elsie: Whee, Becca, that is one of the most useful comments I've ever had - I'm always straining to try and see how my paintings come across to others. Funnily enough, like you say, I'm a very angsty, fidgety girl with an explosive temper and rather 'eclectic' tastes to say the least (Yoko Ono wailing, fluorescent pink lipstick and black and white stripey tights with legwarmers, anyone? :p) but deep down I've always been battling with the fact that I hate all of that about myself - I'd really like to be a delicate, sweet, pretty little blonde girl :scream: like the entire village I grew up in! Soo, I think, regardless of who we are, our paintings reflect our true desires of what we want to be ^^.
Heh, and vice versa...I never thought of myself as actively wanting to be angsty...but lol, maybe it's true! :scream:

Cheers, :)

~CKG

[Elsie]

These Things That I Have Done @ 4 Hours:

http://ximg49.imageshack.us/img49/329/argh1tl.jpg

Eh, did a little more playing last night but I'm really hating how this is looking - the colours look weird at the moment but I'm going to quit on the figure at the moment and start adding the background in so I have something to play off. The head is vile because I'm having to use a mirror for reference O_o and it's hard to see, I might totally wipe the head and start over. Anyhoo...

:edit - 11:22 : Beh, decided to dump the whole thing, I really don't like this piece and I think it probably shows some of my sloppiest colouring to date O_o hehe, think I'll start on a Sorayama master copy instead :)

[Elsie]

Oops, posted without replying, silly me.

Britta: Ah I don't really hate the world ^^ just sometimes, and more my own personal world and the mistakes that I have made hehe. Have a good time at your parents! Hah and to your friend re: the boobs - personally I was thinking of making them smaller :p, I'm not aesthetically a fan of big boobs!

Peter: That had better not be sarcasm...:p

Martin: Thanks Martin ^^ I have a feeling that if I tickled a monkey it would likely bite me though...I'll settle for the tea!

Janni: Hehe, you make me giggle sometimes :D thanks Janni!

Becca: Listen to your inner sooooul...wooo...:p

[Ego]

Bad mood Werewolf? Hope it had nothing to do with my rabbit eating commentary yesterday :P
If you are feeling uninspired with your current image (which does happen to every artist once in awhile...you can just put it in its folder and start on something else, then come back to it another time.

Hope you feel chipper soon (chipper, is that even a word? who says chipper anyway?)

**Aah there you are Britta. Now I see where you hang out :p

[Gord-MacDonald]

I like the web layout.


Gord

[jmBoekestein]

Hey AIlsa, You've been doing some nice stuff! Impressive mastercopy. The one you're working on now seems to have some perspective issues you should look into, her shoulders seem a bit twisted back considering the pectoral muscle which caches shadows a little too far down for instance... just seems a bit underdefined possibly.
Maybe playing with more valueshifts towards more occluded areas of her body could work, codenothing helped me onto that track well enough. Works great.

Great work, you put in a lot of effort... admirable.

[Elsie]

Queenay: Hehe thanks Ego. Thankfully today am in much better mood ^^ it's all sunny too and I've lost more weight *does a yay dance* think I'll actually work today too, all I did yesterday was play Crash Bandicoot and dance around my bedroom singing Alanis Morrisette very loudly :blush: hah. I might save this one to come back to later, although I rarely have that kind of rekindled inspiration.

Gord: Thank you very much :) It's taken me ages to come up with an idea for a web layout I like, so I'm pretty happy this one seems to be going to plan!

JM: Wheeee *jumps on JM* so where the hell have you been? Before Christmas I last saw you! Thank you for the advice on that one, I can see what you mean now :) and yeah, I have been working pretty hard lately on my art, almost all day long for a few weeks! Hope to see you again soon.

[Elsie]

Bic Bac Boc...doing a doodle of Britta, around 4 hours so far (99.9% on the face). I started it like a mechanical reproduction, blah, then tried to make it arty and painterly since I wasn't really adding anything special to it...but then it just looked like I was incapable of making it more realistic. So now, I am just going to do whatever the hell I want...

http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/4479/britta1vu.jpg

[Agamemnwn]

great doodle of britta. now that u made her reallistic i have an idea to make her mechanical. Try to paint a terminator scull and then break down half of her head or something. make some bullet holes as well. and u will have a reallistic britta with a mechanical skeleton :D
go elsie go elsie :D

[Elsie]

Portrait of Britta @ 5 Hours:

http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/2586/britta5if.jpg

Eh, decided it had got to the irreperable stage and and just going to leave this one as is. Pretty disappointed how this turned out, even if it was just a vague doodle >_< ah well. More practise!

Janni: Hehe, thank you, you nut ^^ I never did get around to making it realistic. By mechanical reproduction I meant slavishly reproducing reality (i.e. pores on skin etc) which I have a terrible tendency to want to do and am forcing myself not to - rather than mechanical = machines hehe, love that image of Britta with half a terminator skull. "I am the succubus from hell!" :twisted:

[urgaffel]

Silly woman, it looks great and it's not a mechanical reproduction :P Looking forward to the next project :love:

[Digitalpaint]

I think you did a very nice job here. But the absence of a neck and the staring eyes make it look a bit ghostlike .

For the white skin you could experiment with a brown/orange or blue under painting (also the hair part) . Showing it self mostly in the shadow parts.

It’s nice to visit your thread now and then to see your progress on various activities.

Cheers

[Llynna]

hah, thats me staring at me^^. well im looking like a ghost head floating of to do some mischief *g*.

and the terminator succubus would be an interesting thing to see. maybe i should do a sketch on that ;). but i really refuse bullet holes in my head dear people, big nono!

@arty: well, its not her fault with the skintones, actually they are pretty much as in the reference

keep it up hon :)

[jmBoekestein]

Turned out great imho Elsie... The way it looks now is that where you homed in on details it's really crisp. Just lovely, maybe if you focused on the wider form shadows(is that right?) like trying to fit in the textures etc, you would get the balance in it?

Nice one :thumbsup:

[Agamemnwn]

I turned out great Ailsa :D dont put yourself down this is great:D

[Elsie]

Peter: Hehe, not it's not, but it could have been >_<; probably I will do a few more portraits next to keep myself occupied until the challenge *brandishes wacom pen menacingly* come heeeere my pretty...:love:

Emile: Thanks Emile :) I did try giving her a neck but it just didn't work hehe, her head wanted to roam free I guess! I figured I would take advantage of Britta's lovely milky skin and nice eyes to give a slightly haunted effect. Thank you for the underpainting suggestion - I've been meaning to try something like that out ^^. I also enjoy visiting your threads heh, now that TCSF is complete I eagery await your next project!

Britta: No worries hon, I'm not making any holes in your head :D! Thank you for being such a good sport and letting me draw you!

JM: Thank you ^^ I agree that some textures would have made the piece look much better - it would have been my next step had I carried on with this one a little longer.

Janni: Many thanks :) hehe you know I'm terrible for self-derogatory comments :shrug: it's usually best to ignore me ^^!

[Elsie]

Website Layout @ ?? Hours:

Done some more work towards my website layout; leeeeeaves!

http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/1363/leeeaves3mc.jpg

By the way, look at the t-shirt that Peter got me for Valentines day - isn't it funny? :D Hard to make out the text on stupid webcam, it reads "Roses are #FF0000, Violets are #0000FF, All my base are belong to you." I love being a geek... (hah by the way, the Corpse Bride poster in the background was an accident ^^!)

http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/9893/mebase6pg.jpg

[AkaKico]

Neato! New websites for all! I'm starting to understand how you guys get so many posts :D

[Gord-MacDonald]

I like the eyes on the portrait - very Nicole Kidman-ish. The leaves are also very nice.

Gord

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