DSG 847: Fantasy Lifeform: BIZARRE AQUATIC SPECIMEN IN A TRAY

[William b. Hand]

[ The blurb deficit grows larger. ]

[ Go draw! ]

Fantasy Lifeform: BIZARRE AQUATIC SPECIMEN IN A TRAY
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[machzero]

wanted to do some lineart, perspective, and scifi...

http://www.medievalfx.com/machzero/graphics/050822a.jpg

[Sheridan]

First post! Yay!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v392/Kelleybelley/082205.jpg
I'm not really happy with it, but whatever. It's my idea of what would happen if birds could live underwater. I figure they could swim with their wings, and breathe through their ears (where the orange part is).


Machzero - ours are both specimen A :dur:

[BaronVonWink]

Nice!

machzero- nice use of perspective, 3 point even! and nice story telling too
Sheridan- nice simple layout and great idea. Allthough i feel a bit sad for the dead bird-fish. lol

Edit: finished work early and did more to it :D

http://howardporter.com/aquatic2.jpg

[doyoobi wrangler]

BaronVonWink, I love the expression on that guy and the variety of types of feet he has.

Sheridan, I like the extra detail of the scales scattered on the dish. I also think the shiny feathery/scaly look is quite beautiful. I think the flatness of the background, though, overwhelms some of the detail within the fish bird. I think if you were to vary up some of the tones within the green (even just slightly) the piece as a whole would really come together.

Machzero, I agree with BaronVonWink in that you have a great story going on there.


Here's mine. I decided to go more with a cookie-tray than petrie dish. It took about 20 minutes to do. It could really use some sort of ground, I know. If I get some time, I may go back and noodle one in.

http://www.reynoldsphobia.com/web-content/images/DS/DS_archive/8_22.jpg

[Orm]

hi, I join the group
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b340/croes/parikar.jpg http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b340/croes/parasit.jpg
its a parasite that enters the human body through the anus. after that, it drains the body from its powers.

maybe not very inventive, but scary enough. think of it when you take a swim outside. oh, I see now that a tray is more like a flat container than a tank. I apologise my step away from the concept :x

[l.e.b]

machzero really good its like a story all in one picture it reminds me of rambo i dunno
sheridan is wicked too its like a graphic art thing catches the eye
baron is wicked for 16 minutes i like the skin texture it looks like its gonna fall off the table
dooyobi its nice, his eye looks like a passionfruit
orm its good uve used some actual paint, i like the grimey outline around the snake thing, not sure about the sketches youve done i feel ill


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b284/leavemb/fish.jpg

[Hamsta]

This strange squid has evolved to look like a fish that has been cut open by humans - it even sprays a blood like ink. Small fish which come to eat this "corpse" are soon eaten themselves. How it avoids bigger fish is unknown.
painter hourish I think, more concentrated on drawing fish guts, which is why the story is lame ;)
http://img332.imageshack.us/img332/5340/847sealifetray6wl.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Bob.Razowsky]

"BIZARRE AQUATIC SPECIMEN IN A TRAY" ? ok


http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/7993/fishinatray8wq.jpg

http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/3056/lool28fd.gif

(somthing stange with shadows, again :dur: )



[edit: dont think if i dont give any comments is cause i dont look at your works. Just i dont mind i m good enougth, and really bad with colors, to give any critic about your sketchs. Thx for understand :bashful: ]

[DavePalumbo]

felt kind of like doing some watercolor today. about an hour and ten minutes:

http://www.dvpalumbo.com/fish.jpg

[Phaethon]

Blast! Seems I had a similar idea, l.e.b! I like your colors, though.

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a44/Phaethon/Specimen.jpg

Orm- Eugh... but the paint looks cool, at any rate.
Doyoobi Wrangler- "It's what's for dinner" Nice drawing, though I see you're having the same sort of scanner issues I am.
Sheridan- Actually, penguins swim using the same wing motions as their airborne relatives. They "fly" through the water. I like the bird a lot, though I second doyoobi about the background.

Nice work so far!

[Nils_Carstens]

ok here is mine just a b/w linework

anyways beware for the scary blob from the dark beneath!!

http://www.uglykids.org/pics/dsg847

Nice water colors dave also liked the funnier approach from baron

[DavePalumbo]

that has a great 60s book cover sort of design to it, awesome! I have The Thing playing in the background right now, makes me think of the blood test scene.

[Nils_Carstens]

heh thx for the kind words, dunno how it turned out this way ur actually not the first speakin of 60 book cover feelin. i have no idea though what that is would be nice if u could gimme some links of those covers.
since its allready lookin that way i might hit it with some colors later.

cheers*

[Zoeli]

Half an hour or so, Painter ix

http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/1318/dsg2a0tl.jpg

Comments later

[DavePalumbo]

well, a couple random ones off my bookshelf-

One Million Tomorrows cover (Leo and Diane Dillon) (http://www.rocknrolljackets.com/cover2.jpg)

Tomorrow Times Seven cover (Robert Foster) (http://www.rocknrolljackets.com/cover1.jpg)

but the man for the psychadelic 60s cover illustrations is Richard Powers (http://www.strangewords.com/archive/ballantine2.html)

[RobHughes]

Tough one this. In the end I went for the serving "tray".

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/RobHughes/Aquatic-02.jpg


Lovi'n the Barrons.

Rob

[atomicsushi]

here's mine.
a strange sort of skate, i guess.....
[2 hrs phshp]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b55/atomicsushi74/skate1.jpg
-paul

i just added a tail

[goran]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v17/smogyboy/characters/fish-in-tray.jpg
Presentation, presentation

[machzero]

Sheridan - "A" just sounds about right, doesn't it? "specimen X464" loses some kick... heheh. As for specimen B, that's what the large attack submersible is for.

BaronVonWink - noted right after I posted that the 3rd point wasn't used for anything other than the trolley/tray. Thankfully, I kept most of the vertical lines on a seperate layer.

doyoobi wrangler - there's a story somewhere there... but i've no idea what it is. Just threw a bunch of cliches into it. heheh. Some designs were from an earlier DSG though.

l.e.b - rambo?? heheh... had the brain spasm to include a M60E on one of the background characters at one point. Stopped myself.

[William b. Hand]

Pretty much skimped out on the shadow and tray, and didn't include the liquid I intended to have it floating in...

http://homepage.mac.com/dsgarchive4/.Pictures/bizarre%20specimen.jpg

[voraz]

I know it is late but I have done them yesterday but only today could digitalize them.
10' each, marker

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a109/voraz/imagens%20CG/bmar1.jpg
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a109/voraz/imagens%20CG/bmar2.jpg

[BaronVonWink]

Hand! that is both revolting and compelling, it took me a minute to notice the human like face in the head area. so real looking....
how did you do that? what did you use? is it all digital? i am going to have nightmares from that one :) i happen to like nightmares, so its all good.

H!

[Floris Didden]

William, that things is gorgeously revolting. Damn nice, the human head is very subtle, love how there seem to be human bones inside the jelly arms.

[asoir]

Baron and Billy I am in AWE!

[magma]

William, that's freakin' awesome! How long did you spend on it?

[William b. Hand]

BaronVonWink - Thanks! Yes, it is all digital... specifically all Photoshop. I used the airbrush tool with a hard edge and opacity in the 35% range... then some erasing... some shifts in colour... played around a bit with colour dodge and multiply... and, finally, wrapped things up with a little dodgey highlighting. :D

Floris Didden - :) Danké! Despite feeling shaky and confused about so many techniques and their practiceable application, I'm pretty comfortable with making things look gelatinous, he he... Glad you dig it!

Asoir - Thank you!

The Magnum - Thanks! I easily spent 3 hrs. on it... Definitely more time than i wanted to spend. I got hung up a lot trying to decide whether to use linear dodge vs. colour dodge... stuff like that, where you go back and forth for a moment... but that "moment" quickly turns into 10 min. here and 15 min. there. :nohope:

I'm shocked this one seems to have hit a chord with so many people... Thanks guys, the kudos are appreciated!

[draw]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v215/markfeiler2004/BIZARRE-AQUATIC-SPECIMEN-IN.jpg

[Pavel Sokov]

im working slowly on mine.
( digital noob )
is there deadlines for these ones?
i remmber seeing this topic beign new a couple of days ago and i guess it turned out ppl have to turn in entries in 1 day or something

[William b. Hand]

manslaughter - Yup. This topic is one week old already.

The idea is to work on the current day's topic. If you are unable to post an image that day, it's fine to post it a little late...

... but try to hit it on that day, please.
Today's topic number was 853, and within three hours from now, it will be topic 854.

I'm glad when anyone's inspired to do a topic, but this random picking and choosing from old posts (and it's happening frequently) is driving me bonkers. ;)

As for your comment about working on yours slowly... well...

The idea here is to spend roughly 1 or 2 hours on each topic, and do it on the day of the topic. Ideally, it keeps you on your toes and nudges you to keep thinking and painting regularly. Although sometimes some of us get carried away and work a little longer, this isn't supposed to be some major project that you work on for days.

[Pavel Sokov]

oh u shundt worry, my file with the digital piece ( my best to date ) is corrupted and not opening.
great, im just very excited about that

[William b. Hand]

Sorry to hear about the file problems, manslaughter...

If you've already created the pic (and you get it working) you should go ahead and post it. Just apply my rant to future works, is all. ;)

[Lady Medusa]

(Hope it's OK that I do a little "older" topic)

It's still alive :^^:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y18/vrd/BizzareAquatic.jpg
Photoshop + Wacom.
Time: 3 hours :^^;: