DSG 346: Character: Journeying/Wondering Gargoyle

[dsg bot]

Today's topic is: Character: Journeying/Wondering Gargoyle

[Skank]

"smartass mode on"

is that a gargoyle whos wondering why hes wAndering?
:D
sorry..couldnt help it...


imma get to work on this...

[Cybot Floor]

edit: updated image downwards

thx for the comments about my elephrog. i knew, its only funny, when you know about elephants "jumping behavior"... ;)

[Hagac]

http://www.angelfire.com/art2/hagaart/images/gargoyleHAGA.jpg

No one will hire me as an intern, even for free :( God this sucks.

[inkwerkz]

Hagac, that's pretty sweet. Sounds like a cool topic today, might try it if I got some time when I wake up. I always imagined gargoyles flying around like in that cartoon tho, heh. But that's just me.

[Gumdrop]

Real interesting topic. Looking forward to seeing many different ideas.

Cybot Floor - I'm thinking Oz right of the bat. C'mon... lets see what those gargoyles look like. ;)

Hagac - Real sweet, Solid looking dude. Great lighting and texture.

[Cybot Floor]

Originally posted by Gumdrop I'm thinking Oz right of the bat.

i got your point, but what does that mean?

hagac, turn off that self-pity. what do you want, your pic is fine.

edit: gave those gargoyles more details. in the first version there were only silhouettes...
http://www.arcor.de/palb/alben/44/555744/800_3838356264333666.jpg

[Gumdrop]

The gargoyles from The Wizard of Oz... particularly the flight scene. :)

Looks better close up. Are you going to add detail to the garg's or are they silhouettes?

[Cybot Floor]

never saw that movie...

i`m starting to like that pic... i think, i`m gonna add detail.

...to be continued... ;)

[Al Ian]

Here is a quicky before I go off to work. And yes I know I cant count! LOL

http://jmarkey77.home.bresnan.net/images/big/speedpainting/dsg346.jpg

[cartoonfox]

man its been too long since i posted here. i promise to try and submit everyday.

anyway, here is mine.
sorry for the bad scan quality, still learning how to use my new scanner.
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/cartoonfox/sketches/dsg_346.jpg

peace.

[Jeters]

First post here....this idea of a daily sketch forum is a great idea =)

http://wolfwood.chipshot.net/~jeters/things/DSG_27.jpg

"...Did I leave the gas on?"

[Bimdog]

http://img19.photobucket.com/albums/v57/dfarishstudio/gargoyle.jpg

Going my way?

[farmer]

good work everyone..

a quickie
http://sv1.3dbuzz.com/vbforum/onlc_attachment.php?s=&postid=467898

[Gumdrop]

I figured there'd be plenty of nasty looking gargoyles so I went for the sympathy vote: A poor imp went exploring in the forest and got lost. It'll soon be dark... and he hears scary noises! :(

http://bluntedtaffer.50megs.com/DSG/DSG346_WonderingGargoyle2.jpg

I can see the figure is a little hard to read. He has his knees tucked up under his chin.

[treeboy]

easy for me to see :)

nice job gumdrop

[farmer]

holy shit gumdrop..
this looks so sweet...
the forest behind looks awesome..
keep up that super work!!

is this made in painter?

[kaptah]

http://www.sannahellstrom.com/cg/groy.jpg

modern architecture makes gargoyles unemployed

[Jeano]

http://www.giantpixel.com/newsite/DSGgargoil.jpg

[Gumdrop]

Thanks Treeboy & Farmer: yes all in painter.

Mike - Thanks for the pointer. I added a little bit. Still not right but I'm out on the town tonight so I'll let it sit. :)

kaptah - Funny. Love the gargoyle design. Nice colours and textures too.

Jeano - Nice stuff... seems to be a little hunched up?

[Jeano]

another one for kicks, this one is inspired by my bud Woo

http://www.giantpixel.com/newsite/DSGgargoil2.jpg

gumdrop: youre right ill work on posing my characters a bit better. Thanks! ;)

[Lyliani]

wow gumdrop!

[young paddy1]

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/gargoyle.jpg

[Snowball]

Well hello everybody, I am still scribbling on the sketchbook, so here is my Gargoyle. Great work everybody!
http://img5.photobucket.com/albums/v14/Snowball/Art/Gargoyle.jpg

[Railboy]

http://www.atomicagedog.com/art/dailysketch/wanderinggargoyle.jpg

This one started out great, then started to look worse as I added more detail - the gargoyle & vespa ended up looking superimposed. Strange... Any thoughts on unifying everything? Riq, I tried to take your advice on focal points.

[EDIT] I took Gumdrop's advice and stopped being so timid about putting orange highlights on the Vespa... I also brought more orange to the bottom of the picture in general. I think it worked - thanks a bunch, GD.

Pallette:
http://www.atomicagedog.com/art/dailysketch/gargoylepallette.jpg

I used a reference for the Vespa:http://www.castelvetrano.info/vespa.jpg

Kaptah - Really nice depth. It almost feels 3d.

Gumdrop - I like the trees/forest technique. The gargolye is suffering from the same superimposed feeling though. He's not as sharp as the rest of the image - I'd recommend sharpening up his edges in a few spots.

[Hunger_Artist]

Hagac- you have the skills...stay optimistic!

Gumdrop- nice composition



http://members.tripod.com/carlbeu/769f4bc0.jpg

[Idiot]

http://www.lead-works.com/files/art/digital/dsg/22.gif

Thanks Gumdrop, Oregano, Iotrez, BlkCelebration, and Riq, especially for the crits (on the elephant dsg). I'm new to painting, and not exactly sure how to go about it. So any tips/crits you guys can give me will be greatly appreciated. I tried using darker values to build the forms this time.

BTW beautiful Gumdrop!

[Carnifex]

eh...could it be the bot missspelled again? i'd suppose it to be "journeying/wandering gargoyle" :p

[Valcon Jet]

Did this at work, 25 minutes, ball point pen

http://home.comcast.net/~jeffmajor/gargdsg.jpg

Vicini the gargoyle was exiled from his perch atop of Buckingham palace in 1905 for allegedly abusing his vantage point to view the princess whilst she was undressed. For this, his eyes were were removed, and his wings were severed, thus making him walk for the duration of his existence, without ever seeing his true path. In his rage, he uprooted a lamp post from the front of the pallace, grabbed his severed eyes, and fled, never to return.

[Bretton]

i decided to take a more clean cartoony approach today.. turned out a little bit disney and im not sure how i feel about that.. but overall i am happy with it.. probably the cleanest lines ever to come out of my mouse.

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v16/bretton/gargoyle.jpg

[Carnifex]

my outcome from an oc session with miau and sirsushi.i think about 3-quarters of an hour or sumthing.
http://img1.photobucket.com/albums/1003/fisite/gargoyle.jpg
waiting for yours' guys.:)

[Miau]

hehe
jeah heres my part
http://miau.geekhost.info/images/sketches,speed/dsg346.jpg

[SirSushi]

aaand
part 3 of the oc session :)

http://miau.geekhost.info/images/sketches,speed/muchs_stuff/dsg346much.jpg

[Matt Smith]

Here is my gargoyle, I wanted to do more than just a line drawing, but my coloring didnt come out how i wanted too, but I was also expirmenting a new techinque in photoshop. The reason i dont like the colored one is that she looks too manish, that might also be because of the angle I shot my refrence at. Also using myself as a refrence for a girl may not have helped out as much either, even though i also used a girl for refrence as well, its hard to mix and match different bodies.



http://www.mattksmith.com\gargoylesketch.jpg http://www.mattksmith.com\gargoyle.jpg

[DV8]

I am back! just got back from a week long vacation in sunny FLA. the week before that I was swamped getting things ready for me to take the week off, so I am a few weeks behind here at dsg (on top of the month or so worth of dsgs that I was behind from before xmas) but I am still working on those.

here is a quick one:

http://www.mikephillips.ca/dsg/dsg_346_wandering_gargoyle.jpg

[Barti89]

Good work today :)

[Iotrez]

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/simon.davies/Gargoyle.jpg

Some really good ones today.

[SABRE]

GOOD TOPIC, AND GOOD WORKS TOO PEOPLE!!


http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/SABRE/GARGOLA.jpg





BYEE.................................

[stormy]

It's true. I have two prismacolor markers and one is purple (the other is black obviously). I know it's messy, but hopefully the feeling is there. I was afraid to use the BLACK black on the figures, even tho they definitely need it in the shadows. Anyhow....

I was going to have some kinda knapsack with the gargoyle, but then drew the baby. It's along the order of the foundlings that people used to leave on the steps of the church.

http://members.lycos.co.uk/oldstormy/gargoyle.jpg

[Johannes]

Trying to get rid of my fear for ink...
obviously inspired by the twillight zone movie... Shatner: "there´s something on the wing... some... thing...."
http://home.swipnet.se/panzerkunst/skissbok_dsggargoyle.jpg

[S.C. Watson]

Just popping in briefly while a take a brain break from my Thunder Dome project. I don't know if I'll post for today or not yet. I'll try and do a crit later tonight, but I wanted to say to Jahannes that the Twilight Zone with Shatner was the first thing that I thought of when I saw yours!

Oreg.

[Vely Bad Man]

I guess he could be wondering where he'll be wandering:)http://www.jimwoo.com/dsg/04.02.07.jpg

[eyebooger]

:eek: wowzers vely bad man. Awesome stuff


http://img12.photobucket.com/albums/v31/eyebooger/garg.jpg

[littleone]

half an hour or so, great topic

http://www.laudanum.holyghostrevival.com/gargoyle.jpg

[NNY]

Eyebooger - great character detail but she would benefit heaps from a detailed background. As anonying and unfulfilling as they are to draw, backgrounds really help your picture's athetic nature.

Vely Bad Man - awesome texture and great lighting, no crits.

Iotrez - love it

DV8 - why does your gargoyle have a stick? :)

[Shinbun Kakashi]

WOW! THis is the best topic EVER I love gargoyles!!!!

Gumdrop-I love yours....poor lil' guy....I feel like him a lot these days...lost with nowhere to go....

Idiot-I love the style of yours!!! Reminds of me of the Gargoyles from Disney's Gargoyles series!!

Railboy-I love the concept of this!!! The colors are brilliant too!! hahah the thought of a gargoyle+vespa...hahahahah....picture him going on a tour of europe to the great cathedrals

here's mine....it was actually an idea my roomate had that I put onto paper =0) so I guess it's a collaboration hehe....I hope that's allowed? Well....he's on a moving sidewalk at the airport....I was trying to capture the confusion and stress of trying to find your plane in a giant airport and being in a foriegn (foreign? SP?) place....heheh it's just a quick sketch but it made us laugh. :D

http://volcano.photobucket.com/albums/v11/SeabiVenus/Demon%20SLayer/Wandering_Gargoyle.jpg

~Shin =)

[Thrash]

http://www.chaingunstudios.com/ArtGallery/dsg/slides/DSG346ThrashGargoyleWeb.jpg

This was all I could get done today (I had games to play). It was fun doing marker like stuff in Photoshop.

[riq]

my attempt in painter. it's defintely missing something, but I couldn't figure out what.... oh yeah... skil. ( kind of a hard one to solve)



http://www.creativeion.com/doodles/thassan/gargoyle.JPG

[riq]

vely bad man.. That looks great.. I love yours too Gumdrop..

I

[Azmeos]

http://www.msu.edu/~voraravi/dsg/gargoyle2.jpg

[awalloffire]

Quite some time since my last DSG. Painter Classic
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v20/awalloffire/DSG/DSGgargoyle.jpg

[Jeano]

Another one


http://www.giantpixel.com/newsite/DSGgargoil3.jpg