Calling all artists
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Wow, I just found this thread and there are some talented suckers on this board! Thanks Matt for the tip. Anyway, it looks like it's been a while since anyone has posted here, so I'll go ahead and resurrect this thread for now. Here are a couple of doodles I've done this past semester during class (when I should have been paying attention, of course).
First:
Crotalus viridis- drew this one with ballpoint pen at the Kansas Herp Society Meeting in Hays a few months ago:
Here's an L. variolus sketch I did in A&P lecture last semester:
Here's a copperhead I drew a few weeks ago for my dad:
Here's another A&P sketch: (i know the cobra looks like a hooded viper)
Anyway, more to come soon...
First:
Crotalus viridis- drew this one with ballpoint pen at the Kansas Herp Society Meeting in Hays a few months ago:
Here's an L. variolus sketch I did in A&P lecture last semester:
Here's a copperhead I drew a few weeks ago for my dad:
Here's another A&P sketch: (i know the cobra looks like a hooded viper)
Anyway, more to come soon...
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Pterinochilus murinus mosaique
PS : some people on this board definitivly has lots of skills in drawing ...
PS : some people on this board definitivly has lots of skills in drawing ...
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I've always liked that Usambara, Cedric.
Here's a sketch I did not too long ago, I guess it's a little more fitting than the others I posted earlier:
Here's a sketch I did not too long ago, I guess it's a little more fitting than the others I posted earlier:
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Baboon, is that your floor? thats the coolest thing that I 've ever seen:clap:
Great stuff to KUJordan:clap:
Later Tom
Great stuff to KUJordan:clap:
Later Tom
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Hi,
yes, this is in the middle of my loft
yes, this is in the middle of my loft
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wow nice job!I've always liked that Usambara, Cedric.
Here's a sketch I did not too long ago, I guess it's a little more fitting than the others I posted earlier:
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if you do not read... you may not critique the work:
this one I had posted quite a while ago on its own page, quite a few comments and opinions were posted about it and the idea.
This is the best description I have for the image to date.
the idea is to deliberately brake as many photographic rules as possible but at the same time follow of the artistic reasons. I used 20 photos pieced together like landscape to produce this. Everything was thought out long and hard, planned and even sketched before attempting.
Print size is 13x36 inches
Had to size the image down to fit on a 13x36 inch page.
Rules that were Broken and the reasons:
1) Light and Shadow: too much contrast, bad angle of light. (direct refference to michelangelo caravaggio)
a) is an artistic quality in and of itself gives the awe effect to the work
and the setting rather than the actual spider.
(its not about this specific spider... its about the viewer)
b) overwhelming bright light and very dark background. makes the
viewer more uncomfortable.
c) your supposed to feel like your in a cave or the spiders burrow.
d) only exit is behind the spider.
no matter what happens--the result is your death.
2) focus unrealisticly fades in and out.
a) gives the subject movement
(Like Motion blur It's the first motion of the attack on the viewer.)
b) confuses the viewer your mind doesn't know where to look.
your mind thinks "what am I looking at? where is the center of
focus?" almost as if your in a panic. and your eyes move
everywhere and look at everything.
(there is a patern to the levels of in and out of focus)
graded on 4 levels of focus
+++ = In focus
++O = almost in
+OO = badly out of focus
OOO = Out of focus
______Leg1 _ leg2 _ Ped1 _ Ped2 _ Leg3 _ Leg4
Knee_ +++ _ OO+ _ +++ _ +OO _ +OO _ +++
toe___ OOO _ +++ _ OOO _ +++ _ OOO _ ++O
Leg 3 is the patern braker but keeps with the overall patern.
Points to the viewer, and adds depth.
Leg 4 Rebound from patern braker Further brakes patern, but keeps with
the overall patern and adds depth
3) subject is an uninteresting baby tarantula.
a) I'ts a picture of a spider.
many of you might see it as a baby tarantula.. but no one else on
this planet will. to everyone else its a HUGE creepy crawly spider
b) I find baby tarantulas quite interesting.
I have not seen many pictures of Baby spiders. rarely of one this
small.. and NEVER zoomed in this far and printed 3 feet wide.
4) used a method of Optical magnification that produces an enormous
amount of chromatic aboration, and did not digitally correct it which
is easily done in PS-CSII.
a) further confuses the mind. not only can you not focus correctly, but
your seeing tripple in different colors.
so what am I trying to say with the picture.. (Maybe you got the idea from my reasons for methods.)
What you saw a spider to REALLY be afraid of?
Most people kill wild spiders in their homes. and for no reason at all spiders are clean and benificial to our homes ourselves and environments.
however WE... Yes HUMANS... are the oposite.
the word for Human might as well be another name for Cockroach.
and THAT is a HUGE insult... to Cockroaches I mean.
To Humans, a world without spiders would be Hell full of disease and insect infestation.
but to spiders a world without Humans would be Heaven.
also In deliberately brakeing these rules... with this piece I ask "what is art? and what's with the rules and who decided on them?"
I say there is a time for an un focused photo.
-- an overly contrasted photo
-- a photo about something uninteresting boring and
mundane
-- even a confusing photo
This is that time
as with most of my art... just trying to make you think.
Most difficult part: setting up for the angle of photography where the eyes were just barely peaking over the knee!!!
the one I uploaded to my Deviant art page is closer to correct colors, but still doesnt look as good as the actual file.
Note: Save for Web function + uploading to Arachnoboards reduced All blacks to mere tones. and also looks completely over exposed.
Full Size 13 x 36 inch Print from actual file looks a Quadrillion nae a Googolplex Times better.
this one I had posted quite a while ago on its own page, quite a few comments and opinions were posted about it and the idea.
This is the best description I have for the image to date.
the idea is to deliberately brake as many photographic rules as possible but at the same time follow of the artistic reasons. I used 20 photos pieced together like landscape to produce this. Everything was thought out long and hard, planned and even sketched before attempting.
Print size is 13x36 inches
Had to size the image down to fit on a 13x36 inch page.
Rules that were Broken and the reasons:
1) Light and Shadow: too much contrast, bad angle of light. (direct refference to michelangelo caravaggio)
a) is an artistic quality in and of itself gives the awe effect to the work
and the setting rather than the actual spider.
(its not about this specific spider... its about the viewer)
b) overwhelming bright light and very dark background. makes the
viewer more uncomfortable.
c) your supposed to feel like your in a cave or the spiders burrow.
d) only exit is behind the spider.
no matter what happens--the result is your death.
2) focus unrealisticly fades in and out.
a) gives the subject movement
(Like Motion blur It's the first motion of the attack on the viewer.)
b) confuses the viewer your mind doesn't know where to look.
your mind thinks "what am I looking at? where is the center of
focus?" almost as if your in a panic. and your eyes move
everywhere and look at everything.
(there is a patern to the levels of in and out of focus)
graded on 4 levels of focus
+++ = In focus
++O = almost in
+OO = badly out of focus
OOO = Out of focus
______Leg1 _ leg2 _ Ped1 _ Ped2 _ Leg3 _ Leg4
Knee_ +++ _ OO+ _ +++ _ +OO _ +OO _ +++
toe___ OOO _ +++ _ OOO _ +++ _ OOO _ ++O
Leg 3 is the patern braker but keeps with the overall patern.
Points to the viewer, and adds depth.
Leg 4 Rebound from patern braker Further brakes patern, but keeps with
the overall patern and adds depth
3) subject is an uninteresting baby tarantula.
a) I'ts a picture of a spider.
many of you might see it as a baby tarantula.. but no one else on
this planet will. to everyone else its a HUGE creepy crawly spider
b) I find baby tarantulas quite interesting.
I have not seen many pictures of Baby spiders. rarely of one this
small.. and NEVER zoomed in this far and printed 3 feet wide.
4) used a method of Optical magnification that produces an enormous
amount of chromatic aboration, and did not digitally correct it which
is easily done in PS-CSII.
a) further confuses the mind. not only can you not focus correctly, but
your seeing tripple in different colors.
so what am I trying to say with the picture.. (Maybe you got the idea from my reasons for methods.)
What you saw a spider to REALLY be afraid of?
Most people kill wild spiders in their homes. and for no reason at all spiders are clean and benificial to our homes ourselves and environments.
however WE... Yes HUMANS... are the oposite.
the word for Human might as well be another name for Cockroach.
and THAT is a HUGE insult... to Cockroaches I mean.
To Humans, a world without spiders would be Hell full of disease and insect infestation.
but to spiders a world without Humans would be Heaven.
also In deliberately brakeing these rules... with this piece I ask "what is art? and what's with the rules and who decided on them?"
I say there is a time for an un focused photo.
-- an overly contrasted photo
-- a photo about something uninteresting boring and
mundane
-- even a confusing photo
This is that time
as with most of my art... just trying to make you think.
Most difficult part: setting up for the angle of photography where the eyes were just barely peaking over the knee!!!
the one I uploaded to my Deviant art page is closer to correct colors, but still doesnt look as good as the actual file.
Note: Save for Web function + uploading to Arachnoboards reduced All blacks to mere tones. and also looks completely over exposed.
Full Size 13 x 36 inch Print from actual file looks a Quadrillion nae a Googolplex Times better.
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Wow, I just found this thread and there are some talented suckers on this board! Thanks Matt for the tip. Anyway, it looks like it's been a while since anyone has posted here, so I'll go ahead and resurrect this thread for now. Here are a couple of doodles I've done this past semester during class (when I should have been paying attention, of course).
First:
Crotalus viridis- drew this one with ballpoint pen at the Kansas Herp Society Meeting in Hays a few months ago:
Here's an L. variolus sketch I did in A&P lecture last semester:
Here's a copperhead I drew a few weeks ago for my dad:
Here's another A&P sketch: (i know the cobra looks like a hooded viper)
Anyway, more to come soon...
Man, those drawings are excellent!!! Mainly that black widow, it's perfect! :worship:
Keep 'em coming, please!
Cheers,
Bothrops
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Here's another drawing from one of my class lectures (Biochemistry, I think...):
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Kujordan you got a lot of skills my friend, continu your good work.
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maculata...female
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Fairly new at drawing T's, so I definitely need some more work. Anyways, here's an ink drawing I did last night:
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drew this today while NE was strategically beating SD!!!
