DSG 1336: Sci-Fi: BATTLE-WORN CRUSTACEOUS ROBOT

[William b. Hand]

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Sci-Fi: BATTLE-WORN CRUSTACEOUS ROBOT
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[Mistwalker]

I've never posted here before, but I've followed this forum for a while. Honestly I'd not joined or posted because a lot of the stuff here makes my stuff look painfully amateurish.

But, here goes, anyway. I did two sketches. The first was kind of a cartoony, exaggerated thing. The second I went with a more organic look, and the thought I had was some giant crab monster's exoskeleton that was turned into a robot.

I hope posting two images is ok.

IMAGE LINK (http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/2301/crabbotgo8.jpg)

IMAGE LINK (http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/3011/crustaceanbothc5.jpg)

[Jutami]

Funny theme on this one. The 1337 challenge better be "leet" so to speak. :)
I'm actually starting to think I'm slowly getting a hang of this wacom business, must practise more. Not good, but getting better. :)
http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee9/Jutami80/rapu.jpg

Cheers

[Dead Clown]

REALLY not as good as I wanted, but its my first go to woh all on the comp... Think I'll stick with my sketching next time, then comp it...

Anway...
http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g254/Loaded_Design/DSG/1336.jpg

[Dead Clown]

I'll offer some crits, for what they're worth! lol

Mistwalker: I think the second has better feel and level of skill in it, although the perspective is off on the canopy on the top. A good start, a little time defining form with some solid shading would bring it up and define more form.

Jutami: I like it! nice colours, good idea, althought he perspective on the legs it a wee bit off, and it feels like its leaning or toppling backwards a bit. if you changed the angle on the last few legs to be leaning the opposit way through to vertical i think it would feel more stable.

Me: That whole drop down tail missile holder tail thing doesn't look like its sitting back far enough and the hole comp looks flat. Really the design was a decent idea, but lacked better excruciation. :P Like I said, I'll thumbnail the idea on paper first again...

[muleskinner]

http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z202/dnickoli07/DSG-1336_muleskinner.jpg
Good start Mistwalker. I also think the form on the second one is further along than your first but the first has some nice movement going on in it.
Jutami - I really like the colors you used to render your bot with. Nicely developed form and lighting too.
Dead Clown - I like the eerie underwater atmosphere you've got going on in yours. Nice effect

[~Faust~]

Everything is very nice!

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/8108/digi121sg8.jpg

[EBrown]

http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~etb342/conceptart/Cretacious.jpg

[abiLity]

Hi, i'm Michael from Germany, this is my first post in this forum, hope you like it. ^^

http://freenet-homepage.de/michaelluedtke/Krustenroboter2.jpg

[pandahund]

http://freenet-homepage.de/pandahund/crusty.jpg

[Tommoy]

Jutami: very nice, maybe the legs are a little stiff.
Dead Clown: good start, trying to create depth you could sharpen the drill and claw more.
Muleskinner: your loose technique makes it very recognizable, when laying the focus-point round the eye you could sharpen and highlight the space around it while blurring stuff further away from it.
Faust: i like the colors, cant read the legs to good though.
Ebrown: great concept, would like to see more of the critter.
AbiLity: Welcome, nice start, although it seems a bit flat.
Pandahunt: great admosphere, maybe it would be better if you cropped the pic getting rid of the space left and right. Also i think everything is a bit to centered.

Here's mine, the Iron Maiden idea is a little joke for the stagiaire;-)

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t19/Tommoy/DSG1336M.jpg

[goran]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v17/smogyboy/CA%20sketchbook/19e91a42.jpg

[evilblackbeard]

http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj307/csmendoza3/crab.jpg

[Hamsta]

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/863/1336crustybotue4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Syhn]

Only my second DSG and the last one I did was over a year ago. Hope I did it right :)
Worktime is an hour and 20 minutes.
http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/8301/syhndsg1336nm4.jpg

[evilblackbeard]

I wasn't happy with the other one so I figured I'd multi task while at work.
http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj307/csmendoza3/crab002.jpg

[Leum]

First post here, but that changes nothing right?

Really quickie:

http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/3681/crustabotan6.jpg

[K-bot]

About an hour, stayed a little too organic, but I kind of like it.
http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/9586/dailysketch22808ey3.jpg

[Racasdorph]

This is my first time using my new tablet and using PainterX... very different than sketching with a pencil haha I cant wait to dig into this Daily Sketch Group thing! its a great Idea!

http://a912.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/103/l_cc800b9ca6ddf9963f48214595da3a87.jpg

[Cookiedemon]

Some nice sketches so far.
I did two sketches this week and couldn't decide which to go with so I ended up coloring both somewhat.

http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj186/TheStory137/robot2.jpg

http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj186/TheStory137/robot.jpg

[Racasdorph]

Syhn I love both the cool colors you used and the textures... really make the "robot" look old and battered!

[Gentrifier]

http://www.community3d.com/stuff/crustacean.jpg

Still a WIP. I need to throw some more mechanical looking bits on him and add the tazer between his claw tips.

Alec

[Arteater]

Flame throwing machine gun crabot
http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs29/i/2008/060/d/0/BATTLE_WORN_CRUSTACEOUS_ROBOT_by_arteaterproductio ns.jpg

[Mitze]

Great pics all around this round.

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http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f162/mekese2000/robotcrap5.jpg

[Racasdorph]

Mitze: Great design! I like how the robot is using three hands on the rifle!

[tobbA]

Ok. Here i go

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v214/tobba/crustaceousrobot.jpg

[Wacky Wackowski]

http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii113/wackywackowski/battleworncrustacean.jpg

[Slaskia]

First time doing one of these. Had fun doing it :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v93/Slaskia/Other/DSG1336.jpg

[manic magpie]

cool designs everyone - here's mine

http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii279/andrewg2442/ca/dsg1336.jpg

[Zakarra]

Something of a comedic approach here. Imagine half of one of these in your apple! Painted with a hard-edged brush in photoshop. I played around with custom brushes to get the spots on the apple. Feedback MUCH appreciated

Jutami: Great job using those hard brushes to achieve the painting. You did well on shadowing, but I think the bot could use some more hard highlights to give it a shinier robotlike appearance.
pandahund: Wow. The light hitting the water is stunning. I love the scale factor here. Looks hopeless.
goran: I really like the texture on the ground and robot. Looks very conceptual and has a nice effect. The crosshairs are a good edition too.

http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff9/jtemple032/Worm.jpg

[goran]

Zakarra thank you ,actually the texture on the ground is close up of the tree trunk photo . Unpredictable are the ways of Photoshop.

[Jack Frost]

Jutami - what a very nice image you created !

http://www.evrenbilgihan.com/Posting_images/broken_sand_flea.jpg

[fughi from yuggoth]

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t21/funghi_from_yuggoth/dsg1336final.jpg

thought about some wings or rotors instead of the rocket launchers,but that wont fit to a crab :(

[Nightblue]

Hand: your added comment on the first post made me happy, thanks :)

[Flobblem]

jutami, absolutely fabulous mate, really like it. its awesome how you got the colours and shape of a crab thing but also made the robot look like it would have a practical use :D

[Wiggles]

Well, it took me a while, but I'm an amateur at using PS in this manor of shading and highlighting. I'm excited to see my picture coming to life right before my eyes! Does anyone have any advice on how I could improve my highlights and shading? Anything would be awesome :D

Still have a way to go.

http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/3756/battleworecrustationtesll9.th.png (http://img104.imageshack.us/my.php?image=battleworecrustationtesll9.png)

[silentbrain]

http://venimarolka.com/dump/030308-dsg-battleworncrustaceousbot.jpg

Kinda late...been playing Witcher a lot lately, have fallen in love with the loading screen paintings. <3

[Wolfchop]

right now any suggestions on how this could look better would be greatly appreciated. im not overly happy with the outcome, but im still learning how to do stuff with the tablet in photoshop.

http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/44/crab1lg3.jpg

[Clochette]

Don't know if I'm not too late!
Here's mine!

http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/6356/battleworncrustaceousrozz0.jpg

[jagehtso]

Is it okay to post in other recent topics to keep the daily schedule?

Anyway...
http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t93/jagehtso/sketch3-1.jpg

Guess where I accidentally used the overhead marker.....