Your artistic endeavours

[Flaming_Tiki_God]

PS: Good idea starting this topic, I think it looks like it's turned out to be a big success.

Yeah thanks. I'm quite proud of it.

Man.. I feel like I'm spamming this thread. I'm sorry >_<, this is just one of my favourite threads of this forum. If I'm posting too much er... someone stop/shoot me.

Hey, Mr. "Wannabe Artist," if you really want to be a public artist, you can't apologize for your work or for showing it off.
But regardless, your posts are very welcomed.

I'd just like to remind whosoever may be reading this that this topic is for absolutely everything, not just visual art. Keep posting your dramatic teenage poetry, your little essays, the little sonnet you wrote your ex-girlfriend, songs or instrumentals.

While I'm here, a couple of days ago, I dug up a sonnet I wrote a year ago. Yep...

Sonnet I: Spineless

I'm a medusa bred of current
Under bounds and between borders,
A disciple abandoned by Darwin,
Trampled by pod, skull, or nerve

A strange wind makes me a drifter,
Connecting the dots out of order
to live in a distorted picture
designed by divine movers and sorters

In this state I shall stay
Fated to follow strangers
Till vertibrae by vertibrae
I stand, anchored

Finally using my nuclear pores
I'll be Medusa awake and reborn

 

[Master_Craig]

Hey, Mr. "Wannabe Artist," if you really want to be a public artist, you can't apologize for your work or for showing it off.
But regardless, your posts are very welcomed.

Thanks FTG, I really appreciate that.

I just read your Sonnet. This will sound like a dumb question but honestly, is a sonnet like a song? If it isn't a song, what's the difference between a sonnet and a song? It's very well written, you're a good writer but as I read it, it was difficult to imagine a tune to it... maybe that's just because I'm not a song writer.

You have mad writing skillz, yo.

 

[Flaming_Tiki_God]

Sonnets are 14 line poems with certain rhyme schemes and meters. Other than that, it gets vague. There are many kinds of sonnets.
More specifically for this case, it's an English sonnet meaning it has 3 quatrains and a couplet with a rhyme scheme of ababcdcdefefgg. I don't really even follow that. Instead I use ababcbcbdbdbee, but I did it with purpose. English sonnets also typically follow iambic pentameter (5 stressed/unstressed syllables each line). Shakespearean sonnets are all this way. Mine also does not follow iambic pentameter. I have problems with meter which would seem odd considering I occasionally write lyrics. I suppose it goes to show that writing lyrics is one thing, but writing poetry is a completely different beast.
It also makes me question the legitimacy of calling this a sonnet... :?

Anyway, the word sonnet means "little song," but I suppose that came from old times. Sonnets ever since the 13th century have not been songs, but rather poems.

I'm hoping that made sense.
And thank you.

 

[Master_Craig]

^ I got'cha man, no worries. Much more clearer and easier to understand, so thanks for the explanation.

 

[Master_Craig]

Keeping the thread alive. I was bored so I was digging around my old art stuff.

Back in 2006 in my first year of university (my first year of Visual Arts) we had a painting class which we had to take for a semester. I wasn't very good at painting and in all honesty I wasn't too fond or good at it. So I tried ideas that weren't normally done, or liked by the teacher. Entertaining myself, in a way.

This is the "Mr Smile" hitman character of mine in painting form, acrylic paint. I didn't actually brush paint but rather, I stabbed my thin wooden board with much repetition with the colours I wanted. I wanted to give it a very rough, "sketchy" look for a painting, to suit my drawing style back in the day. To top it all off - I covered my own hand in bright red paint, and really palmed that board to get the big red hand.

and I uncovered some stuff from my art projects back in my final year of high school in 2005.

The ninja looking guys were really inspired by Vincent Valentine (Final Fantasy VII) and Leon S. Kennedy (Resident Evil 4) at the time, but Mr Smile was my own creation. These drawings were about five to six feet tall in real life, drawn entirely with charcoal. It was my final art piece for my art class in high school.

Hope you all like my old works.

 

[Master_Craig]

Hi guys... does anyone still post here?

For a while I've been trying to really do some sketching and stuff, mostly redesigns. As unrealistic as it sounds, I want to write/draw my own comic book/graphic novel. Below is a character concept of the character I have called "Sin".

If anyone hasn't immediately noticed, the pose/stance was taken from the character Guy of Street Fighter Alpha 2.

This is a redesign of my "The First" drawing, but I simply wanted to make this character look more modernised and casual, more realistic instead of wearing a cape and stuff.

Hope you like it.

 

[keepithowitis]

I made eggs and toast.

 

[used44]

Six feet tall?! Damn!

 

[Master_Craig]

I made eggs and toast.

Nice looking breakfast, keepithowitis. Now I'm hungry.

Six feet tall?! Damn!

Yeap, the ones standing up were about six feet tall. Biggest drawings I've ever done. Unfortunately due to their size they were a target for vandalism. Because they were drawn with charcoal people would run their hands and fingers all over it... so hard to fix. -_-

I finished my overall drawing for that "XVII - Sin" concept art of mine. Here is the final product.

The background sucks but in my opinion it works, as the shadow silhouette in the background is also a part of the character. This is not the main character of my hopeful "XVII" comic/story, but I really wanted to redesign him so he could fit better into a more realistic setting. Hope you all like it.

 

[keepithowitis]

^I like it. The shadow really catches your eye.. although the guy's nose is a little weird.

Oh, and it wasn't breakfast, it was a snack after lacrosse. Seattle always looks half-lit and dreary like that.

 

[used44]

Craig, that's probably my favorite thing you've posted.

 

[keepithowitis]

Is 13 pages.. well not even 13, really all the art to be had in the pretty big amount of frequent GR users???

This is one of my favorite topics....

 

[UghRochester]

^Um...I was randomly thinking ideas

Yes i put Amish Skatedude...don't know why

 

[letusprey]

yup yup.

Sick today got bored.

 

[Flaming_Tiki_God]

/\ Holy snap, that's awesome!!

 

[letusprey]

Oh! Thank you

 

[UrbanMasque]

letusprey - that 1st one's pretty cool man.

 

[letusprey]

Thanks again. I really appreciate it

 

[UghRochester]

You're welcome

 

[letusprey]

Bored.
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