The mental muse of Vincent1

[jabuhrer]

Very nice! I think the Syd Mead project head sculpt actually looks really cool without hair.

[vincent1]

Hey AbuAmir, thanks for the comments. In time, all my skills will fall into place; i'm definitely working hard behind the scenes. :thumbsup:

Jabuhrer, thank you and noted. The hair has already been done. I will look at the piot later this week.


The modeling is complete where the major design elements are concerned; as the functionality parts are all there. I will let this simmer for a few days before I decide if it requires any more detailing.

Please comment if you can. Thks.

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[vincent1]

Syd Mead Project update:

The model is considered completed.

This is the Gravitron ATRAC-V1 (Anti-Terrorism Response Attack Craft).

I will let it simmer for a while before deciding whether to detail it further or not.

Comments welcomed.


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[vincent1]

Greetings,

I have finished my entry for the Syd Mead NVArt.

PLease view here:

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=309&t=895799

Comments appreciated. Thanks for looking.

[vincent1]

My final submission for the NVArt SydMead is here:

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=309&t=896401

would appreciate some comments.


Now that the NVArt project is over, I'm back to polishing up my unreferenced figure drawing:

CS5 Intuos 4.


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[SpiritDreamer]

Hey Vincent :wavey:
THANKS for the visit and kind words and thoughts in my thread. :)

I was just checking out your thread...Really like the way that 3D print of the girl bust figure came out a couple of pages back..GREAT JOB :applause: :thumbsup:

I'm not really into machines, but I do like the way the finish came out in that red one a few pages back. :)

I think that on your new one posted in the last page in here above, ..maybe the front could be extended even further out,..making it longer might balance out the weight of the heavier back end more, and further enhance the feeling of speed and arrow..dynamics...Just a passing thought that might be useful to you.:)

About your female figures...I know you are going for a stylized form, ..you might check out the works of VARGAS...He was great at line work, and had a nice style that you might be able to capture and use some of it in your female figures..Just another thought that may or may not be useful to you, but I thought worth mentioning in case it it may be.

Below is a link to some of his works


http://www.google.com/search?q=vargas+girls&rlz=1I7DLUS_en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7


TAKE CARE Vincent :thumbsup: :)
Glenn

[vincent1]

Hey Glenn, thanks for dropping by and your useful comments and link.


Been busy restructuring my home digital studio and filling a couple of sketchbooks using pencil.

Starting on my painting series:

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[vincent1]

Coming to grips with ZB4.


Things are so much easier now.

New boots for Gun Girl; totally sculpted and remeshed in Zbrush:



http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4076/4951399444_81da87299a.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/53557640@N07/4951399444/)

[vincent1]

Hard surface gun design for Gun Girl.


ZB is so efficient now.

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[vincent1]

Sketch of the day:

Endeavouring to get prettier girls from my mind.

wacom intous 4 cs5:

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[vincent1]

Sketch of the day in ZB4:

A cumulation of move elastic, zsketching, new clay brushes and remeshing.

Nothing inspires like software that works like it should, freeing the artist within...




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[vincent1]

Sketch continuation of the above with zspheres, GoZ to modo for mesh equalisation and back to ZB4 for sculpting, remeshing and reprojection.

What it basically means is that it is now possible to easily work in many subtools before recombining subtools as required; not that it wasn't possible before, just more tedious and labourious.

Now everything works seamlessly. Happy, happy, happy...


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[vincent1]

Logical conclusion to stage 1 of Oxxy:



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[vincent1]

Zen Mouseter says:

"To live long life, have your ears pointed to the back..."
"Hmmmm... yessss, peacefulllll..."


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[SpiritDreamer]

Hey Vincent..:)

Nice job on that drawing of the girl at top of this page...She is pretty, and expresses personality..:thumbsup:

I like your ZBRUSH work also..Have you tried the new SCULPTRIS Alpha 5 program that was incorporated into ZBRUSH 4 yet..?

Link to SCULPTRIS Alpha 5 main forum below.

http://www.zbrushcentral.com/forumdisplay.php?f=110

You might really enjoy it,..it alows for really stretching the mesh without having it get all messed up...Finally, ...a full figure can be created very easily from a single 3d sphere,...and easily also..:) ..hands, fingers, feet, toes and all..It really makes digital sculpting a pleasure..Great and easy program to use, and understand...:)
Just thought i'd mention it, just in case you might be interested, and hadn't checked it out yet.
Take care Vincent :)
Glenn

[vincent1]

Hey Glenn, thanks for dropping by again.


Yes, I have tried Sculptris. I like the simple interface and it's technology.

It is very ram intensive and on my old machine, I run out of ram too fast and everything grinds to a halt after 150,000 polys or so.

I may use it in future for very early mesh generation as I like its auto retopology function; even though I already have a very efficient and streamlined process for retopology in ZB using zspheres.

Poly by poly retopology is a thing of the past as far as Im concerned.

I got a good laugh from your funny face sculptris challenge.

Cheers!


ZenMouseter says:

"Being a bust is honourable; having a body is glorious."

Body extension using zspheres.

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[vincent1]

Update on GunGirl:


Stage 2:

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[vincent1]

0.5mm mechanical pencil.

8 inch square paper. Leonardo's sfumato technique.

It 's a pity that the scanning has lost quite a lot of the subtlety of the strokes.

Unreferenced, an exercise in technique and imagination.

Currently training my hand to achieve the strokes using PS.

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[vincent1]

Digital painting using CS 5's oil brushes.


An exercise to develop my digital oil technique, which will become my core tool to develop speedpainting concept artworks in future.

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[vincent1]

Three portraits done on 90gm photocopy paper, 0.5 mm mechanical pencil.


Kindly venture to guess which ones were referenced and which ones weren't (maybe all were referenced or all were not). Thanks!


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[vincent1]

CS 5 Intuos 4. Mainly flat oil brush.


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[vincent1]

Digital drawings Intuos 4 CS5:

Last portrait is from photo reference; refining my painting technique.



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[jabuhrer]

Looking great Vincent! You seem to be improving quite a bit! That last portrait is looking GREAT! I think that's probably my favorite of all the things you've posted so far :)

[vincent1]

Thanks for dropping by Jabuhrer, and for the encouragement.

I guess it's like learning a new piece on my guitar; struggle for weeks on end, and then you wake up one morning and play much better.


Digital, CS5 intuos 4.

Getting the hands to be more expressive.


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[vincent1]

Latest head sculpt from box mesh.



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