DSG 1352: Environment: SMALL SPACECRAFT FLIES PAST THE ALIEN MEGA-TREES

[William b. Hand]

[ You get the picture, I think. ]

[ :yayca: ]

Environment: SMALL SPACECRAFT FLIES PAST THE ALIEN MEGA-TREES
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[mercapto]

Well this is a busy topic today.
It's been a few years I think...or has it ?
Anyway, here is my attempt at a sketch, wish I could draw properly (or type), but hey ;)

IMAGE LINK (http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m39/mercapto/trees.jpg)

[Mazeroni]

IMAGE LINK (http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn145/emazzoni/Throughtrees.jpg)

I picked up some new photoshop brushes and decided to play around with them. The result is, well...

[orkaboy]

IMAGE LINK (http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll106/orkaboy/dsg_1352.jpg)

~1h of messing around in oC. Small itty-bitty ship flying through a misty alien landscape.

[Kolpar]

http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/1287/conceptcq3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Oc, 1 hour 30min

[Mitze]

I try and tighten it up tomorrow if i have time.

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f162/mekese2000/alien-trees1.jpg

[Brett_Schmidt]

http://www.demonpack.com/web07/smallship.jpg

hour.

[ExiledRed]

two hours.

pencils, photoshop.

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w180/ExiledRed/megatrees.jpg

[Racasdorph]

took alittle over an hour, alien trees were hard for me heh...

http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll257/racasdorph/DSG/DSG1352.jpg

[Chuckcamo]

http://psychostrat.com/pics/SPACECRAFTFLIESPAST.jpg

[dan liimatta]

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/9393/dsg01sk1.jpg

quick warm-up before work (sorry, and hello again).

[Jeff Bartzis]

Hey guys, first time DSG participant. Hopefully I can become more active with this community.
Anyhow, this is my 2nd or 3rd digital painting, so please let me know what could stand to be fixed and or changed.

http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q301/7aces/DSG1352.jpg

[Chate Noire]

Mitze and ExiledRed - really cool entries. Mitze, the trees design is awesome =)

Here's mine. Somewhere between 40 minutes and an hour, I think. Didn't really notice.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y131/chatenoire/DSG_alien_trees_small.jpg

[mercapto]

Oh, nice stuff guys, I like Dan and Psychostrat's best, but everyone beat mine :D (well duh!)

Question : Editted : Quality
Is that cos it's too ugly for the thread ?
Just curious, I know it's ugly so don't spare my feelings :D

edit : Silly me, should reread rules better next time.
Are there any standards regarding ability level?
Yes -- If you post something that is no more than a doodle, or if the rendering is of poor quality, then the IMG posting will be changed to a URL link.

Understood, and my doodle took me longer than most other posts here :D
I need me some practice :D

[ExiledRed]

mercapto,

I really liked your idea. The sketch itself, worked as a thumbnail, because it communicated the concept to me.

I like the perspective and I liked the constructions in the tree and the landing pad in the branches.

I would really like to see this thumbnail expanded upon, and taken to the next level.

We all need practice :)

[donalfall]

Can't remember the last time I did a DSG. I did do at least one, once. :) 1 hour, pen & paper. I'll come back to this to finish it. My scanner is still giveing me troubles. Everything seems... out of focus?

3015: The USSF AI-driven unmanned nuclear-powered dart craft moves amongst the mega-tree complex looking for pirates and scavengers. The trees have evolved out of a planetary environment and into the local asteroid belt, making a hazardous environment that only the computer-precise and the criminally insane would dare to navigate...

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=349504&d=1208451507

Edit: Didn't realise you can't attach images here in the DSG anymore. Just fixing the link.

[dan liimatta]

Mitze Nice to see your still pumping out stuff, though I do wonder (again) why you always keep the stuff so highly saturated and so high contrast.

So I took your pice, added a gradient for the atmosphere (pink with the lighten blend option), and an other for the saturation (saturation blend option) and quickly painted in some blue that I then blended with the hard light option and low opacity.

http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/4997/paintoverbb5.jpg

This is of course only my view on things, but this would be my quick fix - and it only takes 20 seconds or so, most of that for the blue light to tie it in with the trees.

I hope you like it.

& Besides my objections you have the best piece in this round.

[Tommoy]

Dan, thats an improvement of what is already excellent drawing.
Kolpar, almost abstract, i love the simplicity.
Psychstrat: love the panoramic view, very well done.

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t19/Tommoy/DSG1352Dk.jpg

[Farvus]

Nice entries.

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/2146/dsg1352digijy4.jpg

[Scotthberry]

Greets all!

I'm so glad to have found this area for it gives me a nice convenient place to practice where I can get some artsy talk. So heres my first submission!

http://hometown.aol.com/ScottyArt/DSG1352_scott_holtsberry.jpg

So my main focus is to just spend and hour and a half sketching with out trying to get too mechanical in the details and seeing what happens. This takes a LOT of discipline which I'm sorely lacking. I nearly stopped after half an hour cause I hated how it was turning out but by pure sheer force of will did I manage to not give up. After it was done I'm not sure I like it much. It conveys the concept in simple terms but I'm not sure its as dynamic as I want it to be. I do like the red highlights though, I think that saved it some. I'm sure theres more I wanted to say but have forgotten. Oh now I remember, I regret not being able to give a lot of detail to the ship cause I love space craft but sometimes ya just gotta sacrifice to get a concept across. Maybe I'll try again with more detail on the ship and a different viewpoint.

Please forgive my sloppy borders I just didn't want to have to worry about making it super presentable for public. Just raw rough sketches in all their bold naked form. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with that but I think its for the best that I let go sometimes and just let it fly.

Enjoy!

[Hamsta]

http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/3039/1352smallshipbigtreesfe4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Ryoken]

Pencil Doodle:
http://www.ryoken.net/pictures/traditional/pencil/fly_by.jpg

Pencil Doodle turned into an Animation and Audio Doodle:
HERE (http://www.ryoken.net/multimedia/animations/fly_by.htm)

I don't suppose it's possible to embed a flash animation here?

[ExiledRed]

Mitze,

your piece reminds me of being a kid again and standing in bookshops ogling those fantasy art books I could never afford with titles like 'Other Realms' and 'outlands', and wishing I could muster the resources to even try to create works like that.

Magnificent.

[Mitze]

Hi Dan nice paint over I do tend to over saturate. The brightness and contrast button is just too temping for me. This pic I threw a red overlay on, a last minute decision, to ramp the colours up. I can see now that it was a bit of a overkill. I should just post the version without that but unfortunately I won’t be back at my P.C till after the weekend. I like your version but I still think it could have a bit more colour maybe somewhere in-between would be something I would go for. Thanks for the comments and stick around for a while you haven’t been posting much lately.

ExiledRed. Thanks for your nice comments. I got this really boring Dvd about composition, I never could understand the concept, after watching something clicked. I am beginning to get it. I though about the compo for this pic even did a thumbnail so I think that helped a lot.

[Ninja9]

First attempt with my wacom...

http://i25.tinypic.com/2qu4xf7.jpg

[Anthis]

Ryoken; That's pretty damn cool. Mind sharing what kind of program was used for this? How long did it take? Nice stuff man.

[Ryoken]

Ryoken; That's pretty damn cool. Mind sharing what kind of program was used for this? How long did it take? Nice stuff man.

Hey, thanks!

It's nothing fancy, honestly. Drew with a pencil, scanned into Painter X for coloring, pulled apart in Photoshop then animated in Flash. For the music I used Reason 3.0.

All in all it took about an hour and a half.

[Alekiel]

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b51/Alekiel/Draws/TehShip.jpg

9001 million hours in MSPaint. (about 30 minutes in Teh GIMP).

[elsewhere]

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http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p85/RustyNinja/alientrd.jpg

[ashton]

http://studiopumpernickel.com/ash/2006-dailysketch/DSG-1352-Environment-SMALL-.jpg

more about color and mood than mega trees.

[cw]

yay finally got some time

i am trying to speed things up these days

around half hour photoshop
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v90/chrissdawaller/dsg_1352-i.jpg

[dan liimatta]

Mitze
Well I do think my gradient was a bit too aggressive, since it just covered everything - but the point was simply that if you add atmosphere by removing contrast of values, and tint the air in its own colour (in this case pink of all colours) you can make the image read better, and feel more real - of course if you want it stylized then my point lost its edge. Anyway you seem to run so quickly to high contrast and high chroma I get a bit scared.

[Mitze]

I understand what you mean thanks for the advice.

Apocalypse_Rex, Farvus and laods otehr great pics.

[ExiledRed]

Dan,

You can call this a reprisal for the robot thread if you like :) (kidding)

I actually do think the pink gradient was too aggressive, and think if the issue was saturation the final solution might have been to place your altered version above the original version, invert the colours and then set the layer to 'saturation'

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w180/ExiledRed/mitzecc.jpg

This has a desaturating effect on the image, and if the effect is too extreme or dull, a happy medium can be found with the opacity level.

[scumworks]

Quick doogle

http://www.scumworks.com/otr/conceptart/spacecraft.jpg