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RobertoOrtiz
08-20-2006, 04:11 PM
"Dreamweaver"



These are the rules:

You have NO TIME LIMIT to do your sketch. IF you go beyond the assigned time limit , you have to post WHATEVER you have done after the time has expired, along with the FINAL drawing.
Post only your FINAL piece on this thread, based on the topic on the thread.
Only final pieces can be posted on the thread. They must have been done AFTER the topic has been announced.
RESOLUTION : The image can have any aspect ratio up to 800 x 600
They can be done on any medium.
If you wish, you can add a brief text description about your piece.
Only original compositions. No "tributes" or plagiarizing, unless is it an integral part of the challenge.
You can post an entry at anytime for the topic presented on this thead BEFORE the voting thread for THE WEEK has been posted.
The artist also has to post total length of time it took and program used.
Any piece caught breaking the rules will be taken off the thread.
The topics will be picked at random from the list on the TOPICS thread >>LINK<< (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php/?t=145003)
(The author will be given credit). So guys keep them coming.
You can add multiple entries, but please dont post WIP (Unless you intend to update them).
Good luck
-R
Mantra
08-20-2006, 08:14 PM
Here's my dreamweaver =)

20 Mins/Photoshop

http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/8851/dsg3ua4.jpg
Overchord
08-20-2006, 08:22 PM
Spent some time with Artweaver on this one. The brushes are great fun, but the layer functionality is not quite photoshop :) So I saved it a jpeg and touched it up in photoshop afterwards. Total time about 2 hours.

http://overchord.net/blogcms/cggal/galleries/DSG2006/Dreamweaver.jpg
BrittanyRichardson
08-20-2006, 08:24 PM
painter ix, wacom, 1 hour 30 min

http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/3898/dreamweavergd8.jpg
GrantMan
08-20-2006, 09:37 PM
Wow Brittany! You have some skills! I checked out your site as well. Awesome work. I love your use of colors and your style. You have a very unique and vivid imagination... We'll see if I have time to lay something down for this one. Again, great work!:thumbsup:
paperclip
08-20-2006, 09:37 PM
This is a type of critter called a dreamweaver.

Might update it later.
http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i58/clippy06/dreamweaver-2.jpg
Brittany: Nice job!
stepington
08-20-2006, 11:23 PM
http://stephenbodin.com/blarg/DW-copy-copy.jpg

50-60 minutes csII
BrittanyRichardson
08-20-2006, 11:56 PM
Wow Brittany! You have some skills! I checked out your site as well. Awesome work. I love your use of colors and your style. You have a very unique and vivid imagination... We'll see if I have time to lay something down for this one. Again, great work!:thumbsup:

Thanks a lot. And thanks also for visiting my website - which reminds me that it's in need of a good update... maybe I'll go work on that now.
Robertt
08-21-2006, 12:18 AM
http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/6521/cgtalkdsg806byrjt2006vs2.jpg

Photoshop / tablet / 20 min.

RobertT
Mercuralis
08-21-2006, 01:00 AM
My dreamweaver

about 3 hours
Painter IX
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v516/Mercuralis/morpheus2.jpg

The last hour or so was spent trying to make him NOT look like Neil Gaiman's Morpheus, after I realized that my subconscious was taking over. I didn't want him to look like Dream, but unfortunately, I'd have had to scrap the whole thing. Damn archetypal figures...

If it bothers anyone, I'll take it down.
mylest
08-21-2006, 07:20 AM
How could one tell the weaver from the dream? I figured I'd capture some sneaky little weavers at work.
Done in Painter, Conte, Oil, and Colored pencil brushes. 62 minutes.
I had the most fun on this piece :)
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f149/Mylest/dreamweaver_005.jpg
Myku
08-21-2006, 07:36 AM
There's some really nice stuff here! Awesome.

PS. ~3hrs:

http://alien-yakuza.com/files/image%20hosting/Dream%20Weaver%20%283hrs%29.jpg
Overchord
08-21-2006, 11:27 AM
Great work everyone!

Mantra - nice finish, great take of the classical hypnotic spirals

Brittany - absolutely amazing. I'm completely in awe of how you manage your fantastically detailed drawings in record time. Do you draw directly on a tablet or are you sketching on paper first? I'm really impressed with your expectionally clean lines in all your graphics.

paperclip - That's really cool, the whole thing has a "am I in a dream?" quality with the abstractness of it.

stepington - I really like the composition and lighting of yours. Only crit is the windows where the yellow light seems to be bulging out.

Robertt - Great idea and execution. Perhaps the background is a little too bright IMO.

Mercuralis - fantastic drawing, everything works really well. Only crit is the broadness of the shouldners on what otherwise seems like a slender person, but the lighting and the face is really great!

Mylest - Cool idea - i like the Tron'ish backdrop. Perhaps the foreground figures could have done with a little more definition as they seem a bit fuzzy compared to the sharp background.

Mychael - You're really improving incredibly fast on your DSG entries - really impressive. Main crit would be that she is very uniformly lit all across the body.


I noticed that my illustration looks quite different on the monitor i'm sitting at now compared to the two i tested it at back home. On both monitors yesterday it was realtively easy to make out the person lying in bed in the foreground, but on this monitor it appears as if the dreamweaver is siply hovering over blackness, and only on very close inspection can you make out the foreground figure vaguely. So I'm jsut curious, can you guys see the foreground person clearly (I'm hoping that its this monitor thats a bit off rather than the ones I use at home) ?
daw
08-21-2006, 12:44 PM
very good entries people!!

Brittany - now thats a dreamweaver very good

paperclip - scary stuff - a bit darker would make it more evil - good work...

stepington - great atmosphere - nice to see you around...

well, just a quickie for now...

PS/wacom about 15 min
http://www.dplays.se/cgtalk/806.jpg
Myku
08-21-2006, 01:23 PM
Mychael - You're really improving incredibly fast on your DSG entries - really impressive. Main crit would be that she is very uniformly lit all across the body.

Overchord, thanks so much for the encouragement! I don't know how much I'd be improving if I wasn't surrounded by such talent- I am learning so much just by watching you guys and by participating in the DSG. Also, I'm extremely happy that you were able to offer some criticism- I totally see what you mean, thanks!

BTW, I'm looking at your entry right now (not as I'm typing, but you know....), and I can clearly see the sleeping figure. No probs here :thumbsup:.
JimiPhoenix
08-21-2006, 08:12 PM
Part of a much bigger sketch that ran nearly up to the two hour mark. Since I'm not sure if I'll get around to finishing it I'm posting a cropped version. The sketch is meant to depict the four Oneiroi (that's on-eerie if you're having some trouble getting your tongue arond it ;)), so here's the most prominent one, just in case I don't update. Photoshopped, as always.

http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/9608/jimioneiroiyl4.jpg
BrittanyRichardson
08-22-2006, 12:47 AM
Brittany - absolutely amazing. I'm completely in awe of how you manage your fantastically detailed drawings in record time. Do you draw directly on a tablet or are you sketching on paper first? I'm really impressed with your expectionally clean lines in all your graphics.

Thanks, Overchord,
For these daily sletches, I draw directly on my tablet to save time. But now that you mention it, I may try using a actual pencil sketch for one of them sometime soon. I guess the clean lines come from using the 'sharp pencil' in Painter.
Surrealix
08-22-2006, 09:05 AM
wow some really nice sketches for this topic

~40min / GIMP / Tablet

http://www.surrealix.com/sketch/dreamweaver.small.jpg
danielh68
08-22-2006, 03:05 PM
Wow, everyone turned in some great work.


BrittanyRichardson - do you do children's books. If not, you're style is perfect for the genre. Beautiful colors and elegant line work.

Stepington - Very atmospheric and moody. Also, has a nice cinematic feel to it.

Mercuralis - Great rendering and sweet use of complimentary colors.

Paperclip - Disturbingly surreal. This piece is the most dream-like for me. Excellent work.

Surrealix - Very kinetic and yet abstract. Cool.
BrittanyRichardson
08-22-2006, 05:08 PM
BrittanyRichardson - do you do children's books. If not, you're style is perfect for the genre. Beautiful colors and elegant line work.

thanks, daniel.
Children's books are definately my preferred market. I'm in school right now, but I hope to illustrate many books in the future. So, I'm glad you think I'm suited for it.
Samanthie
08-22-2006, 11:30 PM
Lot's of wonderful images posted here.

Brittany, beautiful illustration.

Daw, like your dreamweaver storyline and image. Very good use of night colors.

Paperclip your image is so haunting. Very eerie and well done.

Jimi, looks great so far. Nice magic effect coming from the hand.

Surrealix, love your image. I like the energy you have painted.


I worked on this a long time with pencils and then played around with it in Paint Shop Pro.
It takes alot of concentration to be a dreamweaver.;)
I wanted to add thicker clouds around the bottom of the image twirling around him more and I may do that later but for now he is finished.
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a353/Samanthie_/dlo_dreamweaver1.jpg
Alice
08-25-2006, 01:24 AM
HC Andersen was a true dreamweaver :)

2B Pencil, bout 30 minutes.

http://www.heybaberiba.com/images/229.jpg
May-lea
08-31-2006, 03:11 PM
http://www.triskell-productions.com/CGtalk/dreamweaver.jpg

I just came back from a week and a half in Belgium. Time to catch up with the sketches, but I can already say I spent waaaay too long on that first one, about 4 hours with interruptions here and there. But as everybody said, amazing work everyone, I'd detail but I have a lot of sketches to catch up with...
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