DSG 412: Scene: "The rising tide of darkness."

[dsg bot]

Today's topic is: Scene: "The rising tide of darkness."

[onvison]

ok ive been a long time viewer of this site for inspiration and such and decided to register today, and ill try and add to as many DSG as possible.. FIRST OF THE DAY WOOHOO!

http://img46.photobucket.com/albums/v140/overdraw/Clipboard.jpg

[PoX]

Long time, no DSG...

http://www.angelfire.com/bug/pox/darktide.jpg

[jasonka]

http://img49.photobucket.com/albums/v151/jasonka/tides_of_darkness_2.jpg

yesyes, i've posted another poopy art again...juz a quick thing i did...ya...haha. if u look close enough there are eyes in the 'darkness'.....:evilbat: ...w00t. nice job everi1 else!haha.

"even the sun needs to succumb to darkness once in a while"

[Cold]

F**k me! nice work on the both.

onvision - I like the scene and the idea of it, looks inspirating.

pox - same, i like it.

I'll start my peace now...

[Gumdrop]

I really want to run with this further, but after 1h45 I need to go play in the sun for a while.

The ultimate tide of darkness: Multiple zombified clones of yours truely! :eek:

http://pookabin.com/images/GumbiesWIP.jpg

And incase the stance of the zombie on the right looks familiar, I used the back cover of Pantera's Vulgar Display of Power as a reference. :)

onvison - Welcome. You're off to a flying start. Nice piece.

PoX - I really dig this. Is the guy summoning the tide or making a stance for the good guys?

jasonka - Why do I get the feeling you're injecting subliminal images into my mind?! You sure it's not one of them magic eye pic's? :D

[jasonka]

haha. well...i did get a headache doin the "darkness" thingy.....mayb i did that sumbliminal thingy subconciously!! aaaa...haha

[JBX]

Pox and Gumdrop are my favs. here is mine, 30 minutes work on PS.

http://81.56.81.188/jbx/art/dsg_3014.jpg

[S.C. Watson]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!! GUMDROP! NO! NO!

LOL! Great job. Love it. Looks like me in the morning before coffee!

Onvision: Welcome.

~Oreg.

[S.C. Watson]

Okay, I'm getting lazy. I keep posting things that were done for other projects. For the new kids, this is really a no-no. You are supposed to do the work the day of the DSG. I'm cheating just to stay in the game right now 'cause I'm swamped.

Gad. I feel like a politician.

Anyway, here's one that got rejected from a current project that I'm on. (The "chick" wasn't "hot enough..." :hmm: )

http://img9.photobucket.com/albums/v25/Oregano/Sketchbook/witch-gutz.jpg

Probably about 5 hours on it thus far, including the initial pencil sketch. Painter 8.

Cheers,
~Oreg.

[JoB]

Here's my contribution ...

http://w1.131.comhem.se/~u13115312/images/darktide.jpg

Though in hindsight I probably should have made the wave a bit 'Darker'.

/JoB

[Cold]

Gumdrop - nicely done, you clearly improving.

Oregano - nice scene and great detail, with all the detail I imagin after a long period your eyes turn to pixels:)

Job - great job! :chug:


I present you "The Rising Tide of Darkness"

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/4158/waveofdarkness.jpg

[dimness]

ok louzy today with more of a character rather than a scene, but since my guy is somehow painted in some environment, could cal this a scene. want more? you can imagine (another kind of) nazgul (no horse) starded it late hope i'll get it done and (if) if that happens i shall post it 2 finished section.

http://81.196.77.197/websites/conceptart/toweb/risingtide.jpg

i like JBX as usual and welcome onvison

[Gumdrop]

Well the sun certainly didn't last long so I came back and finished it off. Roughly 3 hours.

http://pookabin.com/images/DSG/DSG412_RisingTide.JPG

JBX - It's a little hard to make out, but I like the composition and simple lines.

Oregano - Great. I saw this in your sketchbook but it looks fantastic coloured. The face on the woman is so cool.

JoB - The sea is very well done. Reminds me of the trailer for that day after tomorrow movie.

Cold - Looks cool... very original idea. Are they mean't to be lots of raised hands in the foreground? Not sure but I see 'em as that, and coupled with the dancefloor style lighting I read the piece as a rave. :D

dimness - Nice strong looking. I like the composition and the red accending from the head.

[Cold]

RAVE ON my brother! :D TBH I don't know if there are many hands coming out of the ground, if they are, it would be a pretty good freak show:)
Gumdrop, I can see you have added more detail to it and some more colour, is the red-orange you have added a act through inspiration? if yes. what of.

oh yea dimness, i'll be waiting and throwing critique on your finished pic, becouse im bored.

[dimness]

Cold - lol

[DraigAthar]

Whew, it's been a long time since I did the DSG ...

http://thirdroar.com/dj/2004-04/dj321-tide.jpg

[Osmus]

great work everybody. cold your freakin me out, i was working on a hand painting in oils today and was thinking of doing what you did..except without the eye.

http://img7.photobucket.com/albums/v18/osmus/risingevil.jpg

[buzzz3d]

Boy o boy, very cool images today.
PoX is my favorite.

30 minutes was all I got today, Painter 6.
Not very original, sorry.

Cheers,

Erik


http://home.tiscali.nl/erik3d/speedpaints/dsg412.jpg

[xbiten]

I'll call this a quit.
http://members.lycos.co.uk/xbiten/2D/dsg's/dsg412.jpg

BTW there are many good postings today. keep it up folks.

[SirRon]

http://home.comcast.net/~viridium/wsb/media/56259/site1140.jpg

Uggh... have to stop working on it so i can finish my report :(

[artistanbul]

ridiculously fast, but honestly I like it.

http://img38.photobucket.com/albums/v116/artistanbul/darknesss.jpg

Pox, Gumdrop, dmness, cold, oregano... these are very nice.
gumdrop I think subtler one was better :)

[Lauren Short]

http://img42.photobucket.com/albums/v130/injection223/DSG_412.jpg

[Matt Smith]

There are alot of different intersting ones today. I really liked the ones that used the object tide in their piece. (Job, Pox, and Draigarthur). Just to name a few others:

artistanbul: I love that style, you might want to try some red for the eyes, just to try, may or may not work.

Gumdrop: I like the poses, and I dig the background.

Cold: The lighting is really nice. It gives a nice glowing effect.


Ok here is mine.


http://www.mattksmith.com/riseofdarkness.jpg

[Cold]

yes matty, you impressed me on that one, i like the camera angle plus the texture on the grass, with little more time, detail and colour overflow, you would of had a peace to frame for the wall. :)

edit - forgot to tell you, some of the light reflecting off the sungoing down on the grass, maybe a little more green light on the souls flying about and then have there greeny light reflect onto the grass.

LOL I know I know its only ment to be a sketch, but I like it alot:)

[NoodleBoy017]

amazing entries today! cold, u rock as always. same goes for you gumdrop. Heres my contribution. I got all abstract with it and went crazy with liquid ink in painter. about 20 mins

http://img39.photobucket.com/albums/v121/noodleboy017/dark.jpg

[Matt Smith]

Thanks Cold, I will probably work some more on it later, probably throw it in painter and finish it up in that perhaps. I probably wasted a ton of pages in my sketch book withwierd doodles. Then im like screw, I just had someone of an idea in my head, then I just did it all in photoshop. I have the worst problem of takign whats in my head and getting it down, even as a simple sketch. This problem never seems to go away, its hard.

[Freakt]

my newone, only 40 minutes include sketching and PS...

http://www.night-pictures.de/darkness.jpg

[DV8]

;(

http://www.mikephillips.ca/dsg/dsg_412_the_rising_tide_of_darkness copy.jpg

[Kurdt]

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

Didn't have much time at all, work was alittle slow, so i picked up the crappy ball point pen and drew up this pic on a post-it note in about 5 mins

nice stuff today *thumbs up*

[PoX]

Gumdrop: The guy is summoning the tide up behind him. BTW, Cool zombies you have a handle on figures, but I liked them green rather than yellow, looked more freaky.

Cold: Nice and dramatic scene. Maybe make the giant hand lit from underneath where all that light is comming from.

Buzzz: Nice siloette and weapon. The flying creatures add a lot to the atmosphere. I'd have thousands of them swarming up behind him to fit the "rising tide of darkness" theme.

Kurdt: lol, post-it-note...

[CKWorth]

A lot of the images posted tonight are very effective. I'm probably going to have nightmares from them. Here's mine, simple landscape.

http://www.spherenoire.com/forumart/dsgrisingtideofdarkness.jpg

[karma militia]

well, at least i learned a lot.

http://img21.photobucket.com/albums/v63/karma_police/dsg412.jpg

[shadoman]

About 1.5 hours in Painter.
http://www.shawnadomanis.com/dsg/dsg412.jpg

No time for crits today, but great submissions today... good to see some of the old skoolers out today.

[Freakt]

shadoman : WOW this one is my favorite for today realy cool freak show huh! i like it ;-)

[H.Evans]

http://astro.temple.edu/~hillaryl/dark.JPG

playing around

[fbcota]

This was my first thought. However it was getting late so I didn't have a chance to finish it. I think I will take the time to finish this one off however as I am having allot of fun with this one.

http://chrisdaniels.no-ip.com/~fbcota/dsg/evilcoming.jpg

Man, I need a tablet bad, drawing with a mouse really makes the evil carpel tunnel monster come out.

Everybody has really made some amazing stuff this time around. Im nothing but inspired by all of the great work.

[Commander Obvious]

Tide of darkness? What about Army of Darkness? :D

http://img28.photobucket.com/albums/v83/Russell_Collins/DailySketchBook/DSG412_ArmyOfDarkness.jpg

[H.Evans]

hehehe... good ash... bad ash... :D

[Defunct]

Need practise with landscapes so did from a ref..

http://img8.photobucket.com/albums/v28/Defunct/tide.jpg

it actually looks like the darkness is pulling away and light is finally emerging from the horizon, but oh well..

[village idiot]

a bit late but there you go. a priest having a bad-ctulthu day (why couldn't hp lovecraft come up with easy to spell names)

-http://img32.photobucket.com/albums/v96/villageidiot/evilpriest.jpg


shadoman- nice evocative image, well composed too.
dv8- nice sense of menace
artistanbul- again another fantastic image, very art deco and reminds me also of zelda windwaker.of course you can do no wrong now that 'horace goes skiing' is your avatar. excellent.
draigathar- good image
gumdrop- cool reminds me of shaun of the dead
cold- excellent really lovecraftian.
oregano- brill image
onvision-good first dsg
pox- nice colours and style.

[shadoman]

Thanks for the kind words guys. Villiage Idiot, glad to see you back in action... and nice work! I love the lighting.

[buzzz3d]

Originally posted by PoX
Buzzz: The flying creatures add a lot to the atmosphere. I'd have thousands of them swarming up behind him to fit the "rising tide of darkness" theme.


Thanks! Good tip, will fix it soon.

Good work everybody.

[Gumdrop]

Originally posted by Cold
I can see you have added more detail to it and some more colour, is the red-orange you have added a act through inspiration? if yes. what of.I wanted to give the flesh a warmer feel the closer it is to the foreground, and also to add a bit of colour variation. Seems you guys liked the green better though. :o

[Cold]

lol :D

[silentbrain]

http://venimarolka.com/dump/041704-dsg-tideofdarkness.jpg

First thing that popped into my head wouldn't leave.
(actually surprised nobody did this one, maybe I am crazy :D )

[euda]

how anybody could think of anythingbesides "cthulu" when the term 'darkness' comes to be... is so aquard. :P


http://filebox.vt.edu/users/amarano/cody/cthulukeven1.jpg

[ZeFFe DucKiSlatE]

http://www.free-webspace.biz/IH8U/hell.jpg