DSG 384: Creature: Seahorse(water mount) with rider

[dsg bot]

Today's topic is: Creature: Seahorse(water mount) with rider

[illy]

well, i'm still tryin to learn this wacom. i don't think im done with this, but i need sleep. any tips would help plz.
:D

http://www.softwareoutlet.com/illy/sketches/seahorse.jpg

[Matt Dixon]

Pushed for time again. I think I forgot to turn on my imagination in the rush...

http://www.vortex.plus.com/SeahorseRider.jpg

Love the expression on your rider's face, Illy..!

[village idiot]

this image is quite upsetting when you consider how the rider gets inside his mount.

http://img32.photobucket.com/albums/v96/villageidiot/seahorse_and_rider.jpg

[OLSEN]

Nice work all.

http://img12.photobucket.com/albums/v31/ksm_olsen/Love_Ride_reef.jpg

edit: added a BG

[Swoop]

Here is my quick attempt.
Colors got wrong because i accidently turned on color management :(

Anyways here it is :D

Might do another one later..

http://www.reflection-design.dk/temp/dsg384.jpg

[Jaded]

Nice work all!

illy - your doing better than me with the wacom! can't wait to see it finished nice colors

Matt Dixon - your the man

Village idiot - AWESOME thats a cool seahorse

olsen - love your colors

swoop - like that seahorse

[Morr]

http://img1.photobucket.com/albums/1003/Morriperkele/speed43.jpg
I have no idea.

Nice work everyone

[MindCandyMan]

http://www.mindcandyman.com/jons_uploads/seahorse_rider dsg.jpg

Haven't contributed for a while so I wanted to do this one...awesome work guys yours are very very cool!

[Gouda boy]

I spent a little too much time in the Seahorse so I didn't have much time left for the rider.... Great work everybody!!


http://www.traction-it.nl/img/SeaHorse.jpg

[Sonicsportz]

Not feeling really inspired this morning, so I figured I would play around a little more with composition.
http://www.sonicsportz.com/art/seahorse.jpg

[darth massacre]

Here we go. My version.

http://www.digitalcreme.com/~jerry/sketch003.jpg



Villiage Idiot....that looks awesome!

[Dinger]

still wish I had a Wacom/Scanner How much do wacoms normally go for these days??
C+C needed thankshttp://img38.photobucket.com/albums/v116/dinger/evil_water_snake_copy.jpg

I think I sorted out my Hosting now thanks to Photobucket!!

[artistanbul]

here is a quick one. I'll try to make another one..
http://horace.seksendort.com/denizat.jpg

[SimoSK8]

Top Notch pics ova here.. :D
Here's my enthusiastic rider. Joy..

http://koti.mbnet.fi/gameguru/Simonsays/DSG-SeaHorse.jpg

[DocBoom]

http://www.85hertz.de/bilder/seahorse.jpg

[franticflame]

http://thefearlessfew.com/franticflame/dsg/04_03_16.jpg

[JörgenGiftmördaren]

was thinking more of an underwater equivalent of a horse, not the specific animal, when i saw the title.

nice work all, i especially liked yours, mind candy man

http://www.fik.nu/bobo/dsg5-s~1.jpg

[ninjataotao]

Good stuff.
Heres my try.

http://koti.mbnet.fi/pjg/IMG/seahorse.jpg

[OLSEN]

I did another one, since my previous was a bit too girlie for me too feel comfortable. I like this one more. I spent a little more time on it then i usually do on my DSG´s.

http://img12.photobucket.com/albums/v31/ksm_olsen/stormy_dsg.jpg

[Kurdt]

http://www.angelfire.com/de2/noah100/sea_horse_rider_copy.jpg

Just a quick sketch... i might go back and get ride of the black lines

[Beatnik]

http://www.zmans.com/misc/dsg_384.jpg


really nice stuff today everyone

[Mr Man]

Heres mine, as usual paint shop pro and mouse. The problem with jpegs, is that everything is more pixelized.
Only 4 days until i get PS, whoopie!!:D

http://img21.photobucket.com/albums/v63/mrswoman/horse_rider.jpg

[xbiten]

http://members.lycos.co.uk/xbiten/2D/dsg384-2.JPG

[frostsnake]

Made This one. Sea-Santa droping off some gifts in town.

Please tell me if my picture wont show,thanks.
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid107/p4b17b9f2e425db33e4932bb73759e947/f952ca53.jpg

[0kelvin]

Took a couple days off the DSG. Just wasn't feeling inspired. I wasn't particularly inspired today either, but I forced myself to do something, and what do you know, I come out with one of my better DSG's.

http://pluh.com/members/baldy/DSG/SeaSteed.jpg

I might try to add the rider later, if I get some free time.



0kelvin

[ApricotSoup]

Some amazing stuff so far =]

After a childhood accident snuffles the dolphin was adopted by the doctor and his friends say he was never the same... sorry just ended up reminding me of a dolphin

http://img25.photobucket.com/albums/v74/apricotsoup/DSG_384_-_Seahorse_With_Rider.jpg

[SpiralMagus]

http://spiralmagus.com/dsg/seahorse.jpg

This was a fun topic.. lots of great pics today!

[xbiten]

SpiralMagus: thats so f***ing über good. can I ask you what program and which brush you use?
btw great pics everyone.

[SpiralMagus]

xbiten - Thanks! I used Painter 8 and mostly the "soft grainy round" tinting brush with varying levels of opacity.

[Railboy]

Hey, all. Has anyone noticed the shocking number of images that have seahorses facing to the left?:confused:

I'm plagued with finals week work but I'll try to get something submitted.

[BRANDISH]

great work everybody!
http://img36.photobucket.com/albums/v109/Brandish/dsg-seahorse.jpg

well mine is faving to the left too..
but then again, it was facing to the right in the original sketch.

[simmi]

Greeeat work everyone !
http://www.simnet.is/simmi/dsg/dsg384.jpg

[artistanbul]

@railboy we righties do that all the time ;)

one thing I've learned again. I get bored easily.
http://horace.seksendort.com/denizatiidds.jpg

[dCepT]

As alwyas there's a lot of awesome stuff up here!
Cool topic, as well!

here's mine:
(Didn't have time to do a background)

http://dcept.250free.com/2d/dsg384.jpg

d-C

[Railboy]

http://www.atomicagedog.com/art/dailysketch/seahorseandrider.jpg
Here's mine - facing left, of course. :) My favorite so far is definitely Olsen's.

Mr Man - Once you've got PS you shouldn't have trouble with JPG pixelation. Their "save for web" setup is really good.

[llothcat]

http://www.llothcat.com/dsg/seahorse.gif
________
Honda CRF230M (http://www.cyclechaos.com/wiki/Honda_CRF230M)

[xbiten]

SpiralMagus: just wondering if you mean an airbrush??? I didn't understand :confused:
keep up the good work everybody.

cheers Rikard

[Jane Radstrom]

:)

http://www.velondra.com/images/doodle/searider.jpg
Almost an hour in Painter.

[SpiralMagus]

xbiten - Nope, not the airbrush. The brush I use is a fairly simple kind of brush - basic flat round color but you can turn up the paper grain, adjust opacity, change pressure level and such to get a range of uses.

[Iotrez]

I love the subtle textures you've got in yours BRANDISH.



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

[Shinbun Kakashi]

Yay another turned to the left seahorse!! Great job everyone!!

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

~Shin :chug:

[rift]

http://www.westnet.com.au/mlucas/fishrider.gif

Didnt get around to colouring it.

[trevor]

welll.....i said id try to do everyone this week so heres a quickie
i dont have time to finish right now maybe later ill finish it and post it
but for now heres the seahorse the rider will come, hope you like it
time to go to work
painter 20 mins
ps 5 mins
http://img16.photobucket.com/albums/v48/trevorclaxton/seahorse.jpg

[illy]

thanx for the comment Matt Dixon. you are a friggin awesome artist and getting any type of complement from you will only make me work harder.

same to you jaded. and no i'm probably not better than you, i'm a painting newbie. lol.

great stuff today guys. great great stuff.

[shadoman]

Damn I always miss out on the good ones... last few days topics have been great and some great submissions. Selling my house has been my priority though.

Unfinished pencil sketch, but I had to get SOMETHING up.
http://www.shawnadomanis.com/dsg/dsg384.jpg

[Shelldragon]

I think they mostly facing left cuz people are mostly right handed. Who here is left handed who has done a seahorse facing to the left?:cool:

[OtterFrenzy]

Die land lovers!!

http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~jzanevel/images/Sea%20Fish.jpg

Great work today everyone. I have too many that I like to list them all, but damn spiral magus, that's hella tight.:chug: well, time to go drink or take finals.

[William b. Hand]

This was an odd one... I didn't really think it out too far, but I did try to use a good deal of colour, and I think I learned one or two things. Still very intimidated by it, that's fer sure.

I'm including two versions of this, because I found I rather liked it when I pared down a few layers... sort of something that might appear on a bottle of wine as a label is what I was thinking. :D

#1
http://homepage.mac.com/forumfiles/.Pictures/SeaHorse%20and%20Rider.jpg


village idiot - Great pic! Reminds me a bit of the Mugwumps...
OLSEN - That purple girly one is very cute... I dig the seating arrangement.
GoudaBoy - I like your seahorse a lot! You should ditch/re-do the fella, though...
franticflame - A lot of energy in that... I like the top two-thirds of this. Cool ornate steed and delicately rendered rider.
ninjataotao - Awwww! :(
OLSEN - You again?? This one rocks. Mood/lighting/Horse design are fantastic.
SpiralMagus - That's very cool. ...Dunno about the legs, but I like every thing else.
BRANDISH - Love it. I'd like to see you work into this one further.. some more detailed highlighting, perhaps? Really cool.
rift - Colour that :mad:
trevor - What a great beast. I love the corner of that mouth. Good eyes, too.

[William b. Hand]

#2 (Facing Right for Railboy)

http://homepage.mac.com/forumfiles/.Pictures/SeaHorse%20and%20Rider%202.jpg

[illy]

I think they mostly facing left cuz people are mostly right handed. Who here is left handed who has done a seahorse facing to the left?

im right handed and i drew mine to the right

[snr]

Olsen, incredible.

[OtterFrenzy]

BTW- SimoSKB I thought your drawing was the cutest thing ever. (with his little flippers going so fast there, that's pretty nice, I say, pretty nice!)

[OtterFrenzy]

um, I'm a lefty and my sea-horse/critter is facing left. Interesting theory

[Gouda boy]

William b. Hand ; You're very right about the rider, because I didn't have much time left I did that one too hasty, but I'll work on it!!

Very inspiring work everyone!!

[rift]

Im right handed and mine's facing to the right... yet mine isnt really a seahorse so I guess I dont count ;)

[SimoSK8]

:rolleyes: Thanks "Otter of Frenzy", just wanted to do somefin different.. You've got a pretty interesting concept there yourself. Seems quite classic. Instead of a giant squid attacking, you got Mr.Seahorse. :D

Village Idiot & Olsen, those are great pics. (Those two completely different pics are great Olsen)
:p

[xbiten]

SpiralMagus: OK. thanks alot.
indeed, there are very good pics today.
cheers R

[trevor]

the thing thats even weirder than most facing to the left (mine is as well) is that we dont have many 3/4 views, dynamic perspectives, top, bottom....nuthin
i think we all, self included of course, need to be a bit more daring
and by the way LOTS of good work 2day
and thanx again for the complimend william b hand. i could use a few painter tips if you got time

[Idiot Apathy]

A teacher of mine once showed me that if something that is supposed to be moving is facing right it appears idle or parked, but facing left it appears to be in motion. In almost all cases it seems to be true. My guess is it just appeared to be more natural to you guys when you painted it, or you may have started out with it facing right and reflected it to check it from another angle.

Anywho, Don't ask me why it happens but it seems true, maybe its because how we naturally view things from left to right?

[village idiot]

cheers for the positive feedback, some cracking stuff for this DSG by everybody. creatures always bringout the best in people.

[redships]

wow some really great stuff for this topic! sorry about the line drawing, but i've retired my tablet for a few months. this one got away from me. kinda more of a serpent than a sea horse sorry.


http://img35.photobucket.com/albums/v107/redships/Searider.jpg

[Amerasu]

Late, but I was away.

I swore I wasn't going to do a half naked girl on seahorse... or one that faced left.. Oh well :)

http://amerasu.randomleft.com/images/mar04/mar19c_04_seahorse.jpg

Some amazing entries for this topic. Really great looking pics here! I'm especially fond of Spiral Magus' dark sea vision. It looks fantastic. And Okelvin's happy version too. He's very cool :)

[saladbowl]

redships : awesome! I love sketches that are done with colour pencils.
Throw away your tablet...you dont need it..! :D

[redships]

saladbowl i completely agree you just can't beat those rich pencil colors! i can't even work in verithin black since it's changed.
nice work btw!