Hi …Rebecca…
THANKS…Thought I was loseing it for a moment there, wouldn’t be the first time…LOL…:eek:
Don’t have the strenth left in my typeing finger to tell everyone how impressed I am
by their work here. So I will just lump it into three words…:bounce: .GREAT JOB EVERYONE…:bounce:
Take Care…EVERYONE…AND SEE YOU ON THE NEXT ONE…
Glenn
Thanks. I accept payPal and cheques.
Artrage could actually do the job, but the painter the better…
Ravena - Ich wohne in Dortmund Mitte-Ost, nähe Ostpark (Ostfriedhof). Lustig, jemanden so ganz in der Nähe zu wissen. Vielleicht eröffnen wir ja die erste Bobby Chiu’s Subway Sketch Gruppe Dortmund:scream:?
Mecha Hate Chimp - great and generous information. I love the Flash blendover! It actually shows the tremendous quality of your work, the likeness, the colour accuracy and the nice flow in the curves of the body! Great!
(If you’re happy with my rave review consult Rebecca for payment details…
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Hey thanks for the view inside the program. I understand we have at least one more week to work on the current thread? I have just a few more refinements to my pict and I am looking forward to the Master’s version.
Thanks for the encouragment, Rebecca. I’m HOPING to make a start on my drawing tomorrow of one of the images of the lady. I’m not sure as yes how I’m going to approach it.
Ronnie.
Trying to focus on muscular structure with this one. Pretty rough right now, and I know the left shoulder/arm needs to slim down. Hopefully the proportions are okay-ish otherwise?
My background: I’m a computer science major who’s close to graduating, and I’d like to go into the computer animation field. I’m very much hoping to go to an art school next to learn 3D skills, so right now I’m trying to work hard to put together a 2D portfolio that can get me into Gnomon (pleaseplease!) or SF Academy of Arts 
I got most of my art training in high school, from a private tutor who graduated from China Academy of Art. I was trained in pencil, charcoal, oil, and other classical media, but these days my favorite tool is Painter 9 and my Wacom And since then I’ve been honing my skills by learning from digital art masters such as the ones who post here on CGTalk!
Nendil,
Heyhey, welcome aboard, and thanks for telling us about yourself on this thread. It’s always nice and interesting to hear. I interviewed at Gnomon, they seem like nice folks and let’s try and get you into shape! The main thing that I would recommend (and I’m sure you know this) is to make sure to work at a reasonable enough resolution (300 dpi, appropriate size in inches) so that if you need to print your work out for presentation in a portfolio, you are able to do so.
Good start, I know from your last piece that you can paint, so let’s see that update! And now, I’m off to bed.
Cheers,
~Rebeccak
I haven’t been here for a few days so I have just had a quick catch up. So here goes:-
zng-Y Well done. Your finished image looks superb, beautiful colours.
Mecha wicked image. Great likeness.
RebeccaK I am really enjoying watching the model emerge in this image. P.S. Thanks for replying to my email, I am glad we got that sorted. 
SaraD You needn’t have been nervous to post your final image here, it is gorgeous, I love the subtle colours.
Eric Good sketches, but I actually like the one that you say you spent less time on the most!
Ravena Good start, keep it up.
My original plan for this image was to work in greyscale as per my previous images for OFDW11 but try to be faster and looser. After I blocked in rough values I changed my mind and decided to work in colour instead. This has actually made this image my slowest yet!! Still a way to go yet, just thought I’d post an update. Any comments are welcome, ofcourse!
Mr. Mu
Ravena - Ich wohne in Dortmund Mitte-Ost, nähe Ostpark (Ostfriedhof). Lustig, jemanden so ganz in der Nähe zu wissen. Vielleicht eröffnen wir ja die erste Bobby Chiu’s Subway Sketch Gruppe Dortmund
Ja, witzig. g Aber was in aller Welt ist ein Bobby Subway Sketch?
[b]Marco J
[/b]Thank you. In your picture I see your own style, specially the eye. It’s great, unusually, but I love it.
I think I’m ready with this, or anyone of you find big errors in my picture.
My eyes are screen-tired at the moment.
Eek, another work day, no chance to look at images!
Marco J,
Good to see you back!
Ravena,
Looking forward to seeing your work soon!
Cheers,
~Rebeccak
Bobby Chiu ist ein begnadeter Zeichner und hat eine Gruppe gegründet, die sich Sonntags trifft um U-Bahn zu fahren und Skizzen zu machen. Die Idee hat bei vielen anderen gezündet, so dass es jetzt Subway Sketch Groups überall auf der Welt gibt.
hier zum Beispiel die London Subway Sketch Group
Such mal nach Bobby Chiu und Subway Sketch auf ganz CGTalk, irgendwo ist auch noch ein Thread wo alle Fäden zusammenlaufen…
[public mode on:]
your painting came out great! - you should have seen my first OFDW pic… or rather not…!
If you can stand another round of refining I’d say make the arm she rests on stronger - it might be too thin, actually. There are some areas you might want to fill with deeper strokes of black because the background is shining through very slightly around her contour here and there.
Mr. Mu
Your are right, her arm is hopefully better now: http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/1679/1701fertig25tj.jpg
The rest I’ll fix tomorrow.
(About her thin arm, that is because I didn’t make the reference photo brighter, but painted what I saw. About the contour here and there: hm? the background is black and shines not through, so I paint this orange line while I saw this on the photo. But, yes, I should make still darker some there.)
[private mode on: ] I saw your website with a big smile because you are also a writer as I, in the genres SF and Fantasy.
And: nice idea from Bobby, sounds cool.
aggie93
Thank you. I have myself hurried because I thought, I would be otherwise the last one who finished here. Because my work to OFD 010 comes to late, I mean.
OK Guys,
I downloaded Maya PLE and I am going to try my luck at this. Some questions I have is how do you get the hair so perfect? I haven’t opened the application yet, but I am sure it is going to be difficult to learn.
aggie93,
Hey, glad to hear you have gotten the Maya PLE.
I think, however, the OFDWs are not the place to discuss Maya issues ~ what I would recommend is to check out the Maya user’s forum:
Alias/Autodesk Maya
http://forums.cgsociety.org/forumdisplay.php?f=7
And, also you may wish to create your own Anatomy Thread here, and call it Anatomy Thread of aggie93 ~ to which you are welcome to post anything Anatomy~related, be it 2D or 3D. However, I would imagine that at this time you would be much better off getting direct Maya questions answered on the Maya forum.
Of course, you are also welcome to create 3D models based on the photographs here in the OFDWs.
Cheers,
~Rebeccak
Rebeccak - Thanks again for your headsup! I will start my own thread as well as check out the other forum.
I will test my skills with some picts like what has been in the OFDWs. I know I probably won’t be trying the next one using the computer. However, I will be drawing it. It will be the most complex drawing I have done.
Ravena:
the arm is spot on now!
this sounds as if you maybe have different gamma settings on your monitor and don’t see the things as clearly on your monitor as I do on mine…?
I adjusted contrast and lightness on a crop of your image, hope you don’t mind…
there’s these spots around the arm which seem to have been left over from cutting in from the negative space or are maybe remains of smudging and similar things.
See?
[private mode on: ] I saw your website with a big smile because you are also a writer as I, in the genres SF and Fantasy.
Isn’t it always strange and exciting how things coincide?
And: nice idea from Bobby, sounds cool.
Yea - maybe, some time this year we’ll just give it a go and be co-founders of our towns subway sketch group? At the moment I suck too bad at quick sketching, though (ouch… that might just be a reason to do it…)
We could pm each other about it, if we felt it was time…:))
aggie93,
No problem! Bear in mind that I get the Hong Ly photographs from his website,
http://www.characterdesigns.com/
He updates the photos regularly (on a weekly / bi~weekly basis) and are free to artists to use as Reference.
Cheers,
~Rebeccak
I actually found this site before yours. I was using his photos about a month before I started posting on your site. His site is how I found yours.
Originally posted by aggie93: I actually found this site before yours. I was using his photos about a month before I started posting on your site. His site is how I found yours.
Sweet! Thanks for letting me know that. The internet is a small world, after all! Great to know that people are finding us that way!
Cheers,
~Rebeccak
Mr. Mu
Oops, I can’t see it on my monitor. :argh:
this sounds as if you maybe have different gamma settings on your monitor and don’t see the things as clearly on your monitor as I do on mine…?
I think it’s a gamma-settings problem.
I adjusted contrast and lightness on a crop of your image, hope you don’t mind…
Thank you, I’m happy because you show me the mistake.
there’s these spots around the arm which seem to have been left over from cutting in from the negative space or are maybe remains of smudging and similar things.
Cutting in negative space? I don’t know what you mean. And no, I don’t smudge.Perhaps it is because of the fact that I set the color mode to CMYK? And then for saving it as JPG I copy my picture, lay it in same size with RGB mode. Hm? I don’t know. I must play with gamma settings.
Yea - maybe, some time this year we’ll just give it a go and be co-founders of our towns subway sketch group? At the moment I suck too bad at quick sketching, though (ouch… that might just be a reason to do it…)
We could pm each other about it, if we felt it was time…
Yessss. Me too. My quick sketches are as it were illegible.
Thank you for your help.
