dress catalogue 2002 * UPDATED *

[HardcorePixxX]

http://hpx1.free.fr/modules/My_eGallery/gallery/gdesign/xl_pimpwear.jpg

http://hpx1.free.fr/modules/My_eGallery/gallery/gdesign/alleluyah.jpg

i hope these fit in the finished stuff forums. i don't think i ever did a 'real' finished painting...so these are my 'finished' (speed)paintings :)
(feel free to move them to another forum if you think they are out of place. i'm a noob here)

[Loga4]

Very cool work,thanks for posting!

[Aleksi]

I really like your graphic design sense.
Even in your speedpaintings it's always present. Always "elegant"...the link between text, images, shapes and blanks...

[I.was.ink]

I like em. I also like your sense of design. I especially like the church one.

[Lono]

thats really rad.

-Lono

[brokencow]

i'm going to follow you everywhere you go.

And i'll make you tell me what brushes your using and what program(painter?)

[HardcorePixxX]

Loga4 > thanks for the support. i'll post more pics soon...
Aleksi > /me blush. in my youth, i've been into graffiti and stuff, guess that's why i like text and abstract shapes.
iwasink > thank you. i'm puzzled : looks like the faster/more intuitive pics i've done usually have more impact than the ones i've worked for hours. that one was a doodle and i start posting it just coz a friend of mine liked it.
Lono > kewl :)
brokencow> i'm using photoshop7 with some custom brushes (mainly 4 brushes : a fat dual brush w. opacity pressure on, a textured brush w. op. pressure, a fat/medium basic round brush w. op pressure & a tiny hard round). i'd like to try painter but i'm lost in all the settings and configs...if you happen to know a efficient "basic" brush setting for that program, just let me know ;)

[Living Rope]

Salut HPX,
These really ROCK ! ça tue grave ! I just don't know what else to say since it would be too long to point at all the good things contained in these pix. bravo.

JSR

[davi]

hey that pimp guy looks like me
without the jacket
and the fro and the blackness... stricking resimblance...

[brokencow]

hey thanks alot hardcorepixx
I've been trying to find a 'good' brush in painter but it's too hard. I don't want to ask anyone cause they get bitchy and think that i should know. Painter 6 or was it 5 had a awesome watercolor brush...but 7 fucked it up badly...now i don't know how to fix it. Anyone wanna help?

Don't just name a brush...state how you fixed it up.
Please??

[MindCandyMan]

Hey brokencow...check out Andrews post about the watercolor brush in painter 7...he gives some tips on how to cut down on the processing it takes to render it hehe...sheesh. And he talks about some other stuff...check it out. If you want to find his post quickly search for the word "evaporation" on the page (ctrl + f).

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=50&perpage=40&pagenumber=1

Hope this helps.

[HardcorePixxX]

Living Rope> merci ;)
davi > hehe. the gun then ? or...
brokencow > np.
MindCandyMan > thanks for the link. i think i'll take a try at painter since everybody seems to enjoy it so much.

another clothes related pic (speedpainting already posted @ eatpoo). sorry4that
http://hpx1.free.fr/modules/My_eGallery/gallery/rough/snow.jpg

[nardfrog]

Very cool. I like the last one a whole lot.

[Hudnut]

Awesome and elegant designs. I've been impressed by your work since you started posting at sijun awhile back. Your design is always great and I love your text.

The forearm and the rest of the anatomy on that bald guy in the cloak is really nicely done.

I've been a dedicated Photoshop 7 user since it came out, but I just got Painter 7 and it kicks major ass. I got tired of trying to get Photoshop to do what Painter does. I too was intimidated by all the settings. So I laboriously went through every brush in the libraries and just played with it on a blank canvas for a few mintues. This took me many hours over several days. Once I'd gone through all the brushes, I did it again. This was mind-numbing, but now I know basically how the brushes work. Totally worth the time.

Keep posting.

Dave

[HardcorePixxX]

nardfrog> ty
Hudnut > hey. you're definetly right about that "pratice with your new tools" method. i went through the same process when i switched from ps6 to ps7. but actually, i think that it's not the tools that bothers me in painter, more the "painting process", that is imo too "realistic".
i just feel like using "real" tools, with the same looks, but also the same "lack of control" and limitations (even though there sure is a lot of parameters & tweaking stuff). of course that lack of control can also bring up a welcome randomness and natural feeling to the pic, but i guess i'm getting used to the predictible moves of photoshop :D
guess i'll have to spend more and more time with that Painter7 thing... after my work is done that is.

[HardcorePixxX]

dress catalogue updated
[IMG]http://hpx1.free.fr/modules/My_eGallery/gallery/skwick/_freeze.jpgIMG]

[keyth]

just wanted to say that these are beautiful.

[Nordstrand, T]

Just wanted to say that Keyth is right.

Oh, and do you tune the colours while at it? Or do you use different blending modes on the brush? There's a lot of juice in your colours, and I don't understand your magick.

[Oblio]

I'll join Keyth and Torstein :iws: :D

Oblio

[Sukhoi#3]

Hi Hardcore. Hehe, what's with the left hand for a right hand in the last one???

Looking good!

Sukhoi

[amphex]

Damn dude..your style is awesome =D
I love your work..very fresh, very cool =)
In that last one, she must be either pulling the trigger with her pinky, or you messed up a bit =P

[keyth]

if you look at it, you can tell it's a right hand. what you see above the thumb is the last inch or so of the index finger. it's going through the trigger area and bending back towards us. the highlight just below that and a little right is the thumb. it's just pointed down a bit funny.

i doubt someone this good would make a mistake like a switched hand. but hey, you never know.

[Sukhoi#3]

If it's a righthand the gun handle should atleast be showing between the fingers and the palm. But I see your point Keyth.

Sukhoi

[HardcorePixxX]

Keyth>thanks. you were right about the highlight, that was supposed to be the thumb, and that was supposed to be her right hand also. i agree to the fact that it looked really weird also :)...guess i rushed too much and forget about the basics here.
Torstein> ty. i use both color tuning filters and brushes w/ color blend on pressure. sometimes, i just make an overall fade hue/saturation tuning, most of the times i like to play with the layer blendings -> I'M A CHEATER ! :D
Sukhoi > hey. read above. thanks for the feedback. while i was painting, it didn't occured to me that this hand was so fucked up. i did some overpaint on the previous pic, hope it looks less messy now...
amphex> thank you. /me messed up a lot on that pic :)

http://hpx1.free.fr/modules/My_eGallery/gallery/skwick/_freeze-comp.jpg
http://hpx1.free.fr/modules/My_eGallery/gallery/rough/_freeze.jpg