Spiderman WIP! [UPDATED WITH COLOR!]

[kenny]

this is my updated spiderman drawing; now with color: (post c and c's please)

http://picserv.beyond-reality.nl/getpicture.php?id=417360&check=1337

http://picserver.proserve.nl/getpicture.php?id=417359&check=1337

http://picserv.beyond-reality.nl/getpicture.php?id=417358&check=1337

so tell me what you think eh?

(and below, is my original post and my original drawings)

hey everyone...

this is my first post here in the conceptart forums.
i'm working on a portfolio for college, and this is my first WIP for that portfolio. tell me what you guys think so far, and what medium you guys would think would be best for finishing it. hopefully the links work, or someone can post the pics (not sure how to, myself). so, without further ado...

http://picserver.student.utwente.nl/getpicture.php?id=387445

http://picserver.student.utwente.nl/getpicture.php?id=387447

http://picserver.student.utwente.nl/getpicture.php?id=387448

http://picserver.student.utwente.nl/getpicture.php?id=387449

there you have it. (unleash your c & c's!)

[Johannes]

Looking nice. I remember the days when I copied the hitcher and robocop.
Its always hard to crit something like this, but overall I like it. maybe his right foot is a bit to bent, I dunno - its spiderman, his one agile fella. ;)

I would consider inking it and maybe give it comiccolors in photoshop?
Or just scan it and go at it with adjust->contrast&brightness?

[kenny]

thanks jo,

the thing is, i don't have a wacom tablet, or corel 8 yet.
so i think i'm gonna have to go at it the traditional way.
i was thinking of doing watercolor or gouache's. to give it a 'realer yet original' feel.

i have to show creativity and skill in my portfolio, though. you think it shows that?

[Johannes]

Originally posted by kenny

i have to show creativity and skill in my portfolio, though. you think it shows that?

Thats a hard one. To be harsh and honest, i cant say its original (my darn robocopimage wernt either), however it shows good technique, a feel for form, light and shadow and anatomy, and thats not bad.
If you´re future teachers work like mine, they want a little of everything, they want talent that can be shaped.
My tip is to turn in 8 to 10 works. Hmm, Im trying to remember what I did...
1 watercolor of robocop... (already I wonder how I came in)
1 graphite of the hitcher (rutger hauer - Oh my, can it get worse??? ;) )
1 graphite study (kind of a stilleben) of a dagger in a board
1 colage of photosh from my models
1 collage of photos from a modelhoue I built
1 graphite perspective drawing of a stair
1 ink kroke (nude drawing class?)
EDIT - a croocked old tree in graphite passed as "landscape" :P
Yikes, remembering this gives me the creeps!

Thats all I can remember, I think there were 2-3 more though
All were nicely framed with passepartouts, which I think gave me bonus points ;)

Good Luck dude :D

[kenny]

well, i think most of the universities i'm applying for ask for a max of 6. (see i'm applying for film school, so they ask for anything that has to do with art, like drawings, scripts, etc...)
but, i know for a fact, that at least one of the universities i'm applying to ask for 6 pieces (and no scripts, video's, etc...).

so here was my plan:

1. spiderman
2. a piece of digital art (subject still unknown)
3. a painting of a scene from lotr
4. a drawing/collage of classic movie actors.
5. a drawing, or maybe corel 8 drawing, of a poster, of sorts, of the matrix
6. lastly, an abstract painting, more along the lines of dali

(note: all the painting, i think, i'm gonna do in acrylics, and the rest, in pencil, or digital, or for spiderman gouache)

what do you think? :confused:

(btw, what's a passerpout (sp?))

[Johannes]

Soujnds like a good plan.
To make it "bulletproof", try to get in touch with students or teachers and get them to reveal what they did turn in or want. My old drawingteacher helped me pick out the stuff she thought would be good to turn in - that prooved worth a lot. :D
I guess U could kind of make a "warrant" in artschools&edu here at CA http://www.conceptart.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=15
Someone here should know more and that knowledge should give U the edge, yeah! :D

passepartouts - paperframes for the paperimages, kind of frames, but made of paper. eeeh, I cant explain it better...

[kenny]

thanks for the advice :)

btw, are passepartouts (did i get it right this time? heh) sorta like mats (sp?) under real frames? sorta like cardboardish with color.

[Hexal]

I dont think your server lets you link pics. I jut tried and i didnt work.

[kenny]

who me?
i don't know. it works for me, and it worked for johanne.
:confused:

[Deadsprite]

i dunno, i'm sort of biased on the drawings, good in techniques as they are, i have to agree with johannes .. they aren't that original. it depends on what you are going for. personally i try to go for originality more than skill with portfolio peices (even though both are my goal) but its still the originality which will get you into programs. also attempt to have one or more of those be actual realism peices. it shows them you can do the figure if need be. i ussually just got the girlies in the art room at the time that were just talking to come into the back studio and pose for me if i was really wanting to draw from real life. also, a still life is the shit with art and film departments for some reason. :) but good rendering.

[Johannes]

Yep - I could see the image.

Well, the passepartouts can be seen sometimes on framed prints, in black or white, the make up about 5-6 centimeters from the print to the actual frame.

usually U have a special knife-on-rail-gadget to cut theese out, but it can be done with steelruler and scalpel also.
Another piece of cardboard is then used as a backpiece - voilá - now Ur image is protected, incased in stiff cardboard, safe from postal workers and tired evaluating teachers. :D

PS hey dude, u havnt posted Ur question on the schhool forum yet - do that as fast as possible DS :D

[kenny]

ya man, i should get to that.
i already pmed a person that is going to a school i want to apply, but i didn't get a response back. so i'll just post the general question in the forums.

btw, thanks a lot for all the advice. :)

[kenny]

Hey, i added updates, check em out and post your c and c's!