Before and After - Post Examples of Your Improvement!

#21

Great post Intervain! :thumbsup:

#22

Great idea for a thread, I always find it inspiring to see how good people get with a bit of practice and application. Well, if youā€™re looking for extreme examples of improvement, then look no further. And the last image in these three really wouldnā€™t have been possible without the great work Iā€™ve done as part of this forum, itā€™s the first place I point people when they ask how I keep improving.

Okay, hereā€™s BEFORE, around about '99, 2000 All from the first sketchbook i bought at the age of 18.

About three years later, 2003, still no concept of the basics of anatomy or colour and light.

And then I discovered digital art and this website. And itā€™s what I credit my huge leap in improvement with, along with the freedom to experiment that. So hereā€™s my most recent WIP and the digital rembrandt copy which was such a revelation for me.

Oh, and my sketchbook thread can be found here: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=320967&highlight=zephyri

#23

zephyri - excellent! I love the last painting btw [have to say I know that girl from somewhere :eek: Iā€™m sure Iā€™ve seen that face LOLā€¦] Awesome idea!
what do you think is your main source of knowledge about colour and light? any tips?! :deal: - itā€™s an area Iā€™m really sucky at right now :slight_smile:

#24

Zeph! I love your work and your improvement and humble attitude have always been so impressive. Thanks so much for posting here! I love to see your stuff. :slight_smile:

#25

Thank you guys, much appreciated, it still kinda surprises me when i see how far my work has come. Intervain, the girl would be yours truly, and the set of photos that I used as ref are up on deviant, so could be there youā€™ve seen it! And as for light, Iā€™m still getting the hang of it myself to be honest, but this article made it a lot clearer for me: http://www.itchy-animation.co.uk/light.htm In fact Iā€™ve read through a lot of the tutorials listed here: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=226083 and theyā€™re all helpful in one way or another. The best thing, especially given the ability you get with digital is just to practice, and to think of light as a volumous thing, like water. A lot of the discoveries i make are simply trial and error and figuring it out myself, even after reading tutorials and theories

#26

oooh must have been deviantart then :slight_smile: Yum - love that painting!

thank you so much for the links - really appreciate the help!:bounce:

#27

I tried to post last night but the system was down.

Mr. Mu and Intervain - I never knew that yā€™all recently started too. Yā€™all have shown much progress. So much that I thought yā€™all were into digital art for years.

Zeph - Eversince you made the goddess that had the glass nose, I have been impressed with your work. I have followed your work both here and in deviant. I love your work with the color pencils as well, a favorite preference of mine. You latest with your self-portrait is great. Are you going to start supplying us with stock photos? Youā€™d be a perfect model! :thumbsup: Oh, and by the way, great foreshadowing. I love the backdrop of the ghostly figures.

#28

Wow. All of these are very inspirational. So much improvement.

#29

Ok, so changed the before image again. This time into a drawing, because I have those which suck, haha. I just wanted both images to be paintings, but you needed one that sucks very hard, had to change it.

Zephyri, whoah, youā€™ve come far. Cool to see those befores and afters :bounce:

Intervain, well, ahh, you know :smiley: Only that before is not that big of a suckie. But then again, when I look at the after ones againā€¦in that case the before sucks :scream:

FateBringer, yay! Big difference in those two. Well, would be bad if there wasnā€™t any :slight_smile:

Mu, just great!

Rebecca, Iā€™ll repeat myself, great idea! Awesome to look around here!

#30

Great thread here!..
Its so much fun to see the ā€œbeforeā€ artwork of the artists i admire:eek::surprised:bowdown:

Cgsociety forum and esp. Rebecca have helped me to improve and always been a great learning resource for me:buttrock::love::bounce:

Before learning artistic anatomy:cry:
Before:
[img]http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f173/cgicecube/white_model_color_block.jpg[/img]


After learning form Becks and all the artists here in Artistic anatomy thread:love:
After:
[img]http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f173/cgicecube/150_res_DP.jpg[/img]
#31

These are so cool to look at! Everyone has improved so much.

I think stuff like this can really be an inspiration to yourselfā€¦itā€™s so funny because many times, especially when youā€™re still young and learning, you think your latest work is just great. And then a few years pass by and youā€™re like omgā€¦this looks like trash! Itā€™s great to be able to look back on your stuff. I know some people who throw it all away because they think it sucksā€¦itā€™s a shame because they wonā€™t have documented their progress.

#32

Manā€¦there are some SERIOUS, like, WORMHOLE jumps of improvement going on hereā€¦congratulation to everyone here, really. I think this thread is sort of a testament to the importance of having a community like this for the world. It is the end result of everything that has culminated since the beginning of the anatomy section here at cgsociety. I hope this thread stays around forever.

#33

Though I definitely represent the absolute bottom of this community, I can at least brag of some heavy progress! :slight_smile:
I discovered this place some time around April 2006, and after that Iā€™ve been working hard trying to take my art to new levels. Itā€™s really just in the past few weeks I feel Iā€™ve really gotten the hang on basic anatomy, and Iā€™m looking forwards to work even more than before now. This is really beginning to get interesting, if not addictingā€¦ Yay. xD

Well, thanks everyone, for making this place such an awesome place of learning. I owe all my progress to you guys! :slight_smile:


For a more in depth look, hereā€™s an overview of my whole progress through 2006. Iā€™m impressed of my own improvement, really. :slight_smile:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/Apeloff/progresscopy.jpg

Give me five years, and weā€™ll see if I can catch up with you! :thumbsup:

#34

wowā€¦ this thread is awesome! Great ideeaā€¦

wellā€¦ this is me in september 26 2002!:smiley: - and trust me, this was the best of 2002! Really!

and this is me nowā€¦ :smiley:

#35

almostkungfu - keep on workin, it already shows

Icey - I think I can see a tiny bit of improvement here and thereā€¦

:smiley:

:argh:
totally awesome, man!

#36

Before (October 2005)

Attempted to use Painter and Photoshop to paint my brother from a photo.

Freehand sketch in one or both of these programmes, with painting done eyeballing colours.

Never finished. :slight_smile:

After (today, February 5th, 2007)

Original image from the CG 15 minute sketch reference thread.

Painted in Photoshop - no initial sketch, just painting and colouring by eye.

   [img]http://spacific.net.nz/yms/2hands_feb5th.jpg[/img]
#37

Woohoo, thatā€™s some real progress, YMS! :thumbsup:

#38

Before (well, at the beginning):

After:
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And still so much to learn :smiley:

Itā€™s great to see all of your progress summarized!!
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#39

wow Johan, you are shredding this thread to pieces and eating it rawā€¦:scream:

that is some scary progressā€¦:smiley:

#40

Guys - holy. frack.