Teen Challenge #23: Book Scene

[inkerton]

First off, congrats to Narmo for winning challenge #21, and giving us a cool mascot. I'll find a way to make it more official soon.

The Rules:
Anyone ages 13-19 may submit an entry at any time before the deadline. Please host your image on a remote image-hosting site instead of uploading it to the CA server. This makes it much easier to transfer it to the poll thread.

SPECIAL RULE - At the request of several people, this challenge will not be open to any medium. Rather, all entries must be drawn by hand in pencil or ink. The image must be drawn on paper of some kind, no digital drawings. You may digitally edit scans but only to adjust levels, don't digitally draw over them. No color either, use only regular black media so the focus remains on draftmanship.

The Topic:
Scene: Illustrate a scene from a novel or story
Rather self explanatory, just choose a scene or event from a book (preferably something most people will recognize) and draw it in the way you interpret it. For the description, include the title of the book you chose, and if you can, a brief excerpt of text from that book describing the scene you chose. Considering that this challenge is pencil/ink only, think of your drawing as if it could be an illustration for a new edition of the book you chose.

Special thanks to Keng for the topic suggestion!

The Deadline:
Thursday, January 18th at midnight PST
Two weeks.

[Zanconato]

This is gunna be great, nice idea Plate, thank you.

[BlueMech]

I think I'm going to enter this one, I'm 18 almost 19, that's still "teen" enough right?

edit: I might not have an entry, I think I might be doing the God TD, but I don't know. I'm bad about these, sorry.

[Bendragon]

Drawing only huh? Would that include drawing digitally?

[Narmo]

mh don't think so Bendragon ;)

I'll try to get in, good luck everyone !

preferably something most people will recognize
"preferably" didn't mean that we have to, uh ? Well in fact I don't know what I'll choose yet, but...

[Wolfbane]

No digital? but but... O_O Ah well, i'll see what i can scrap together

[Noë]

I'm in yayayay!
I do think that the topic is véry open. A sugestion is to maybe change the whole "any story/ novel" to "any fairytale" ? :)
Ah well it might be too late for that now, but who cares.
I'm totally up for the pencil/ ink stuff. Wanted to do more ink stuff anyway.
@Blue Mech; yup, that's teen enough :)

Love
Marleen

[hp]

how about, you can still draw in digital b/w. a lot of my digital sketches look like something scanned in....personally i'd probably draw this traditionally but some ppl just experiment better in ps or painter.

[Chance.]

How am I ever going to think of a subject, I've only read a coulple thousand books. [sigh]

Does digital inking count? The type that looks just like normal ink?

[invinciblewombat]

THUMBNAILS FTW?!?!

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j254/invinciblewombat/tcthumbs.jpg

[inkerton]

I edited the rules to clarify some things. Sorry to those of you who really prefer digital, but to make this challenge different as requested, I've gotta set some limits.

"preferably" didn't mean that we have to, uh ? Well in fact I don't know what I'll choose yet, but...
Correct, you won't be penalized in any way for choosing to illustrate something obscure, I just think the entries would be more interesting if they were mostly new interpretations of scenes we're familiar with.

[Jtho]

This sounds like fun, and I really like the pencil medium so I'll definitely have a crack at this. Then we'll get to see what's what when everyone doesn't have the crutch of photoshop :)

[blanquish]

this is gonna be hard, I stopped reading when I started drawing.
And why do people keep asking "can I draw digitally", read the top, come on, what does it say.
this is gonna be hard, I dont like thgis topic:(

[j a k e]

I'm in! I love to draw in big fat ink...oh baby I can't wait.

[MJYA]

wow pencil...i'm totally in!!

[j a k e]

you replied in here instead of your SB justin :)

[Justin.]

YES! Yes I did.

[SirGreenSock]

Oh baby we gotta get DanielC (recursiveend) in on this one!

Now to find an interesting book to dig into. :D

[v0rbiss]

Umm, is charcoal allowed, it should be imho. :)

[Evil_Sloth]

What about using my gf's menstrual blood as ink?
Puddnhead anyone? :D...:nohope:
You’re all going down like a pack of gypsies in a caravan accident. AWWWWWWWWWWW YEAH!
Btw I don't read much either, I wonder how many people are going to do Harry Potter scenes..

[j a k e]

Yeah I haven't finished a whole book (besides something art related) since year 5... OH GOOD TIMES!

Yeah good idea lets all go Kevin Llewellyn style.

[light]

Interesting. Hopefuly I'm innnn.

[DanielC]

hehe, that sounds interesting... but i'm not a big reader :/
I'll see what i can do.

[bunny]

fuckin' a.
I think there should be more traditional art contests :) well-roundedness ftw!

[Kronos]

yahaaaaaar, i'm in for sure!!!

i'll probably be doing a scene from alice in wonderland cos i love that damn book and like a lot of youz guyz dunt reed mush o thim boocks.....

also sorry but just to clarify, the focus is on ILLUSTRATING, as in telling the narrative of the scene and such?


cool! this is going to be crazy good!

[EvilCommunist]

i'll probably be doing a scene from alice in wonderland cos i love that damn book and like a lot of youz guyz dunt reed mush o thim boocks.....


Ha, I was thinking of doing one from that book too (well, Through the Looking Glass, but close enough)
:P

[SirGreenSock]

also sorry but just to clarify, the focus is on ILLUSTRATING, as in telling the narrative of the scene and such?


I'd assume so, just drawing a character from the story wouldnt really be enough to put in as an illustration in the book/story as was suggested.


Cant wait to get started. Im looking at working with a classical Greco-Roman story/myth.

[Bendragon]

Well, I wanted to draw digitally because Im not as good on it as traditionally. I might enter something if I can pull myself away from the computer for a moment...

[Lewis]

gonna pencilkick u peepz in tha balls

http://www.ondmis.dk/billeder/forumpics/youme.jpg

[SirGreenSock]

Well, I wanted to draw digitally because Im not as good on it as traditionally.

Thats a crutch you gotta get over sooner rather than later.

gonna pencilkick u peepz in tha balls

Bring it bitch!

[Bendragon]

Which is why I wanted to do it digitally.

[moroi]

i'm thinking about doing an illustration from Night Watch. That Russian best seller. Anyone heard of it? They made a movie...today while reading I just had this lovely image on the ending on one of the chapters. ah, i should shut up now and draw though.

[j a k e]

Oh yeah I saw that movie...weird but really awesome at the same time. Good stuff.

[SirGreenSock]

Which is why I wanted to do it digitally.

Why? So you further your own crutch rather than face up and improve upon a weakness?

edit :nvm misread that. :P

[bunny]

I'm thinking of doing a scene from watership down... fuckin' creepy movie based off of it. Also, it's got BUNNIES! \w/

[bhanu]

I am in man,
Haev to kick some serious ass here.

[hp]

so...are we allowed to use charcoal?

[Noë]

I'm just going to use pencil and ink for this one.
Just hope the paper won't go crumbling up like a maniak :P
Maybe my mum has some watercolour paper left, or I'll have to buy some myself.
I'm doing the fairytale of the 12 brothers who turn into ravens and their sister has to break the curse. Don't know if it's very well known, but it's in my big boog of fairytales by the brothers Grimm. :P

love
Marleen

[Narmo]

I've only one book in english at home, so, I think I'll illustrate a scene from "The adventures of tom bombadil", by Tolkien; it's a poem, that's not a problem isn't it ?

hp => I think charcoal is all right, so, let's draw !

[Keng]

Ooohhh, pencil and ink only eh? I like. Hmm.. now which book to choose from....
There are a few scenes from one of the Dune series books that are just begging to be drawn. The Butlerian Jihad. Damn that gave me some good imagery. Or maybe a Redwall scene. After all, you can never go wrong with Redwall. Or or or something from hitchhiker's guide. Those would make some fun images :D. Hmmm.... Jonothan Livingston Seagull has always been a favourite of mine... but not many great drawing scenes... Hmmm hmm hmm.. I may just have to go with Dune. Freakin awsome machine characters in there, good battle scenes, scenes that are a just plain awsome image, ohh.. I can't choose! Well, time ot dig through that ol' book. See ya'll in the areana, and I actually have time to do this one this week. Yay!

[bestow]

finally, an art contest which is 100% fair.

everyone can afford a pencil and paper.

[Narmo]

Can everyone afford a scanner or a numeric cam huh ? ;)

[yungks.ae]

finally, an art contest which is 100% fair.

everyone can afford a pencil and paper.

well not everyone can afford a computer = P

[SirGreenSock]

I dont think you'd be browsing conceptart.org on a computer with internet if you were so tight with money as to be unable to afford pencil and paper. :P

[asoir]

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/2821/153479yegdwrz4.jpg




oh btw im the shark.
;)

[Wolfbane]

Sorry, i'm not seeing your piece man :( try to rehost it

[invinciblewombat]

less jibber-jabber and more drawing all of yous

(final or close to it, fremen break through the shield wall in Frank Herbert's Dune)
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j254/invinciblewombat/Untitled-1-15.jpg

worked back into it with some ink and markers, i think i might have killed it
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j254/invinciblewombat/dune.jpg

[hp]

invincible, nice but the head compared to the body of the guy on the front left is too big. the body is too thin (wide wise) and too short in general.

[invinciblewombat]

@hp: thanks for the tips, i'm revising it as i type

also is is acceptable to bring greyscale markers into this since they are more or less considered ink?

[hp]

i imagine if we can use charcoal, we can use markers...it wouldn't really be fair.

[chaosrocks]

wombat dear ...how about you get some contrast and darks into that peice?

chaos

[cardoso]

I don't know if any of you are a fan of Hutner S. Thompson or have read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, but if you have you would recognize this from the beginning of the book.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y259/cardoso6/hunter.jpg

[bestow]

I don't know if any of you are a fan of Hutner S. Thompson

i'm reading hells angels atm.

that guy was fuckin messed UP.:$

btw, is there really a town/city called butte?

[cardoso]

Haha yeah it really is named Butte.
You know...like the flat topped mountains, or at least thats what I think they are.

[SirGreenSock]

Wombat - Liking the design so far, though I really hate that solid black shape (worm's mouth) in almost dead center of the compostion, it just kills it. I'd tone it down, introduce some texture or soemthing instead of the flat shape.

cardoso - Looks alright so far, though Im a bit uncertain as to what exactly is going on, I'd work with the shading a lot more to use the contrast and create a compostion in there.

[DanielC]

You guys have already started your's ?
... I still haven't found anything interesting to draw :/

[TheGnoll]

waiting to see your work DanielC...
but really i don't have any ideas either.The topic is really vast really, dunno if i'll be in this time...

ciao

[hp]

invincible, i think it's fine, maybe go back with some pencil rendering/ink rendering on top to give it that oomph. some of the markered areas aren't very clean either. i still think parts of the char on the left are a bit small, for instance the width of the arms and legs and how big the hands are. it just doesn't give a very good sense of drama. also i assume you're going to put some kind of rendering into the bg...there's no depth in your picture now.

i'm doing "wizard of earthsea" art. :D

[Mehz]

Sorry for being a noshow in the selftaught vs artschool TD.

Anyway this was an awesome idea, I haven't touched pencil or paper or ink in ages ;D.

Haven't decided whether this is final.

http://img485.imageshack.us/img485/6618/tc23cp1.jpg

[j a k e]

Yeah Dan I'm with you...since I'm not much of a reader I don't know much to draw. Time to put my thinking cap on and my ink to the paper...

[Bendragon]

I cant wait to see your's Dan. Im sure it'll be top notch.
Heres my entry anyway. The book is my favourite - His Dark Materials: The Amber Spyglass.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a98/naftnaft/HisDarkMaterialsAmberSypglass.jpg

btw, in the poll how will people be able to tell what your book is?

[MJYA]

awesome Bendragon! whos the author in that book btw..it looks kewl to read..

hmm is there any Drizzt Do'Urden fans here? the book that i might do is probably Dark Elf trilogies. but i got to chose one scene though..i love all of them though lol

[hp]

bendragon, strong piece but i would try to avoid outlining some areas, maybe push a little darks behind some parts to push em out instead. there isn't really a sense of space or lighting too much.

[Njord-E55]

This is from `the raven´By edgar allen poe. Ink and wash. Hopefully a poem is ok...

Many good entries so far, looks like this tickeled a lot of ppls facy. Apperently everyone had a picture from their favorite book.

http://iup.in/img/solbero/Raven2.jpg

[asoir]

its crap as hell but its the great escape :nohope:

[Bendragon]

MJYA - The books are by Phillip Pullman. The books are The Golden Compass (or Northern Lights as its known in the UK), The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass. The first film of this is coming out this year, Ive heard Linda Bergkvist worked on it too!

hp - Yeah, I had a lot of problems with that. There was a lot of areas where I wanted it to be light but then I couldnt really define that area so I used outlines.

[v0rbiss]

Hey Njord, good stuff man! :) The only thing I see as "wrong" is the fact that the raven and the statue are floating in some space, it'd be much better if there were a dark supporting surface under the statue's postament, mabe even almost black. I'tll help tghe good ole triangle composition too imho! ;)
And another thing, but that's just personal opinion: you didn't needed those reds they look really out of place. :(

@hp: you've only crited so far, I look forward to your piece! :confident
EDIT: even moreso after checking your sketchbook! :D

[Njord-E55]

Thank you V0rbiss. Much apprishiated critics. I thought about ading the black and ill try it on the computer so I dont ruin it. As for the eyes, im not sure, maybe they are to much of a visual cliche.

And you should put a link to you sketchbook in your signature, I want to return the favor.

[v0rbiss]

Thank you V0rbiss. Much apprishiated critics. I thought about ading the black and ill try it on the computer so I dont ruin it. As for the eyes, im not sure, maybe they are to much of a visual cliche.

And you should put a link to you sketchbook in your signature, I want to return the favor.

I'm glad those helped. : ) About the sketchbook thingy: I hate scanning, and my scanner is A4, and most of the things I'm doing on a daily basis aren't sketches, and I'm very very lazy.:bashful: So, I don't have one, keke. When I post my stunning masterpiece*cough* tho, I'll be more than happy to see what you think about it! :)

[dmitri]

Some of you ought to really read more. ;) It's really inspiring...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment
"She began to untie the packet and turned to the light (all the windows were closed in spite of the heat). Her back was turned towards Raskolnikoff, and for a few seconds she paid no further attention to him. He opened his coat, freed the hatched from the loop, but did not yet take it from its hidingplace; he held it with his right hand beneath the garment."

YEAH, I read that part before I started drawing, but somehow it turned in my head to her still facing Raskolnikoff.
Well, a whole lot of other stuff went wrong anyway, what's that to it... :nohope:
Err, I hope it's okay to use a brush with the ink ... I sort of got the feeling it was supposed to be line-only, but all nibs I have are mysteriously broken and the only marker I had was some 0.3 crappy thing.

[hp]

dmitri, i think you have the strongest piece so far because of the lighting and sense of form. the only problem i have is the lamp...i think if you worked on it a little (esp the base) it is really nice. the persp on the lamp is a bit wonky, maybe even it out a little.

[v0rbiss]

Yeah, Dmitri's piece is very strong, but one major flow is ruining it, for me at least. The guy must have the longest legs on earth! ; )
On a side note, chiaroscuro stuff looks best if the lightsource is concealed or outside of the picture, that way you can make a focal point (e.g. face) the brightest thing in the picture, while including the lightsource forces you to make it the brightest, naturally. I dig you did that!

[Noë]

Yaaay! I finished mine and it looks quite okay for now..
I'll try to take a picture now, and I'll be scanning it monday, at my dad's work, since the thing is a bit bigger than A3 size :P

Please remember that this is a bad picture, and that the camera angle was a bit weird so this is not entirely the same proportion as the real one :)

Tell me what you think though! ^^ I'd love to get some crits on this.

love
Marleen

EDIT; Fairytale written down by the brothers Grimm:
In short; a princess is born after twelve princes, and the king wanted his twelve sons to die if the 13th child would be a girl.
Their mother didn't want her sons to die so she told them to run away.
When the princess grows older, her mother once tells the princess that she had twelve brothers, but that they fled the castle because their father wanted to kill them. The princess goes to search for her brothers and finds them. They all live very happy in a little cottage. The princess decides to stay with them and cook their food. One day she sees twelve white lily's in the backyard and decides to give them to her brothers, but her brothers all turn into ravens when she picks the flowers. An old witch tells the girl that she should be silent for seven years, or else her brothers will die. So the girl goes to sit in a tree to be silent for seven years.

[amer-nazri]

http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/2687/entsvu8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers.

'As soon as the whole company was assembled, standing in a wide circle around Treebeard, a curious and unintelligible conversation began. The Ents began to murmur slowly: first one joined and then another, until they were all chanting together in a long rising and falling rhythm......'

Didn't put a lot of detail in it, so I hope its ok.

[blanquish]

fuuuuk, asoir, dude, :fruit :chug
top gun art!:)
you got my vote bud!
btw, is it actually a book, or just a movie?

[dmitri]

Thanks a lot for the comments! :)
hp, the lamp is definately off. I remember just thinking (in all caps!) "Ain't that just a fancy, fancy lamp!" when I drew it... uh, some great planning there.
v0rbiss, I swear the legs are intentional. Not smart, but intentional. I thought I'd try and make him look extraordinarily tall (and sort of not physically tall... so I thought looong legs... or something), to sort of express Raskolnikoff's "superiority" to the old lady... Didn't work out all that well, I admit. :D

Noë, the crows look nice! Especially the one at the lowest left seems to have some real attitude. :)
However, the girl feels like she should be the center of attention, but with this little detail to her, she really isn't...

[TheGnoll]

i think this challenge is ending up quite messy.It started beign a pencil only challenge, then it became a ink + pencil challenge, the a "pencil, ink, maybe even more ink, maybe markers, maybe digital lines, as long as its grayscale" challenge.So thats for one restriction (part of the challenge is gone).About the other restriction, it was supposed to be a book illustration, with possibly a short exerpt of the story.Well, at least saying the name of the book your illustrating would be nice, i think :)

hope the next topic will be better defined.Apart from this, i still see some good entries, so good work ;)

ciao

[hp]

i think as long as it's b/w and traditionally done it is ok. some people render complete drawings with a pencil while someone might only do lineart with a marker.

i do agree about putting the book + excerpt with your post though...or else it just could have been any old drawing you picked up and just said it was from some obscure book...

[TheGnoll]

...althought it just came to my mind that not everyone here reads books in english, so guess only the title could be enought.

...anyway, i'm gonna wait for the next challenge :D i'm just waiting to see danielC's entry :D

ciao

[Noë]

My Entry :teeth:

http://www.marleenrenders.com/sketchbook/TC23Noe.jpg
http://www.marleenrenders.com/sketchbook/TC23Noe.jpg

Fairytale written down by the brothers Grimm; The Twelve Brothers Full story (http://www.literaturecollection.com/a/grimm-brothers/554/)
In short; a princess is born after twelve princes, and the king wanted his twelve sons to die if the 13th child would be a girl.
Their mother didn't want her sons to die so she told them to run away.
When the princess grows older, her mother once tells the princess that she had twelve brothers, but that they fled the castle because their father wanted to kill them. The princess goes to search for her brothers and finds them. They all live very happy in a little cottage. The princess decides to stay with them and cook their food. One day she sees twelve white lily's in the backyard and decides to give them to her brothers, but her brothers all turn into ravens when she picks the flowers. An old witch tells the girl that she should be silent for seven years, or else her brothers will die. So the girl goes to sit in a tree to be silent for seven years.

Love
Marleen

[hp]

hey noe, your piece looks very strong too. the ravens are very well done but i think if you made parts of the tree darker as well detailing her face and hands it would be even better. maybe go in with a black pencil or something if you're afraid to ruin it.

[Mydrim]

Damn... Traditional-great! But only two days left... Will be the next topic traditional(b&w, please:) ) too?

Well, if I'll get super power to make it in these 2 days through all the school and stuff, I would choose Alice in Wonderland.

[chaosrocks]

so do somehitg simple like a fiary tale with a twist
red riding hoof
cinderella
sleeping Beauty
the ship of fools

archtypical but illustrative

GO GO GO

and Jake
you better be working on that Gods of war TD entry toooo....
I am

noe dearest..think about and overall structure to the black and white.. make the crows really make a statement on the page as far as drawing your eyes in a compsitional form.




CHaos

[Mydrim]

Mehz: I see there's someone who took the Alice too... Great scene and poses, but more details would be nice

[DanielC]

Ok! I'm going for some Cthulhu fun.
hehe, i'm gonna spend my day on that one.
Nice work !
See you guys on the 18th =)

[Evil_Sloth]

Final for now. Cool stuff guys, nice variety.
Lord of the Rings, Sauron getting his shit ruined.

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/2664/lotrdrawyk3.jpg
detail.
http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/6158/detaillotrdrawdx8.jpg

[SirGreenSock]

Damn slothy thats freakin badass. Wish there was more clarity composition-wise and on sauron himself.

Shit gotta get back to the drawing board. O__o

[koala.one]

Nice one Evil_Sloth, shame it's not finished ;(

I think you could have put some more emphasis on the ring though, it kinda gets lost and I didn't really see it until I fished around a little bit. Imo it should be the focus of the image.

If college didn't have me so whipped I'd have liked to enter. I never have time for my own stuff anymore. Maybe next round.

[Bendragon]

Nice one Sloth bro! It would be better if there was more variation in the tones. But heck! this is good stuff! You didnt just watch the film did you :p

[TheGnoll]

hehe...i must admit i checked to movie to see if it was a copy...but hell no, its seems like its not.Maybe you could have used a more personal design for Sauron, and spend even more time on the whole pic but...hell, thats a very, very good entry ;)

ciao

[Jtho]

Hey guys, I would have loved to have done an entry for this one but with the semester starting this week I've been way too busy to have a good sit down and work on this. It's a shame because I love pencils too :S. If we can do another medium-specific TC (or an honest to goodness PENCIL ONLY) I will be on that shit like white on rice. It's interesting to see how different a person's work looks when they don't have all the tools available in photoshop.

[v0rbiss]

Hey guys, I would have loved to have done an entry for this one but with the semester starting this week I've been way too busy to have a good sit down and work on this. It's a shame because I love pencils too :S. If we can do another medium-specific TC (or an honest to goodness PENCIL ONLY) I will be on that shit like white on rice. It's interesting to see how different a person's work looks when they don't have all the tools available in photoshop.

Exactly my thoughts and I'm in the same situation too.:rendered:
Anyhow, after the godvsgod tdome I'll really enjoy taking part in this again! :)

[bestow]

yeah, thats more of a movie scene than a book scene, imho. but's all good, doesnt have to be 'concept' art, could be just art.

[SirGreenSock]

yeah, thats more of a movie scene than a book scene, imho. but's all good, doesnt have to be 'concept' art, could be just art.

Um...what? LOTR was a book long before it was a movie...and the characters dont look like they were modelled after the movie either...

[Chance.]

Der, I don't want to be an idiot or anything, but um well... Evil_Sloth I don't know if youv'e ever checked out the concept art on the extended edition dvd's of the lotr trilogy, but your sauron design looks almost exactly like some of the stuff in there.

It may be a weird coincidence, and, I mean, how many different variations of sauron can there be? Right? Actually lotr was the first thing that popped into my head for this challenge (that is if I were to participate. School's busy for me too) The problem is, with such awsome visuals from those movies floating around in my head, it would be hard not to copy.

I probably shouldn't have opened my mouth, especially after all the grief you got in the last challenge. Just keep an eye out for stuff like that. If it hadn't been so dang similar I wouldn't have said anything.

Great render though.

[bestow]

my crap 20 min entry as usual!

[Mydrim]

Ok lads, it's huge chance you get kicked ass- I have free evening today and already prepared sketch. Yeah, I have sleep few hours this whole week, but damn, I am going to draw that damned Alice! Well, but now I have class... See ya at the last minute with my entry:)

[Killer Napkins]

OMG... i may try to do this.. tonight.. before midnight YES!! hahaha

[SirGreenSock]

Here's my entry, experimented a bit too much, but seems alright i guess.

Theseus slaying the Minotaur, for some reason ive always been really drawn to this greek myth.
http://www.projectsole.ca/gallery/albums/userpics/jan07390a.jpg

[Cup of Joe]

Finally got started on this thing today. Not entirely happy, but I think this is as far as I'm going to go. Fresh scan, no levels.

So unless something changes, Final : Lord of the Flies

http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/4811/011807tc23vl5.jpg

[Killer Napkins]

hmm greaat .. i did do it .. but i realized.. i have no way of putting this on my computer.... hmmm unless i can egt a photo... ill be back.. ill try that.

[Mydrim]

A4 paper, only pen drawing


http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/9057/alicelowresdo4.jpg

[Mydrim]

Hope 5 hours after deadline's not too late:) - it took me somehow more hours than expected... Yeah and the text is in slovak, of course, enjoy:) (I don't have the original english version of the Alice in Wonderland, but the phrase is just saying that the rabbit lore has got suddenly down, what Alice hasn't expected and couldn't stop.. Well, you know.

(and sorry for my english)

[bestow]

very nice alice interpretation!!! I like! looks like a lot of effort put into that one too, may have my vote...

[Epik]

Wow, awesome work everybody! I will have to see if I can draw something in time to make the deadline!

[Kronos]

AHHH! sorry folks, i think i'm 37 mins over the deadline :S

anywayz, heres my entry, another alice one :P

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/4659/madhatter2mb6.jpg

heres where its from

"This piece of rudeness was more than Alice could bear: she got up in great disgust, and walked off; the Dormouse fell asleep instantly, and neither of the others took the least notice of her going, though she looked back once or twice, half hoping that they would call after her: the last time she saw them, they were trying to put the Dormouse into the teapot."

great stuff people! i'll give a critique of everyones later tonight

[Noë]

Damn you Kronos! That's wonderful!
I love everything about this image.
You have my vote, for sure.

love
Marleen

[Kronos]

ok heres my crits :) hope they are somewhat useful :S

@ invinciblewombat, cool stuff man, i like the costume design and the worms cool. i think it would have taken the piece a lot further if you added in more detail pretty much all around, particularly the background. the white sky doesn't really do it for me. i like the vainy strokes on the bottom of the worm, more stuff kind of like that would have been cool, just little things to add more interest. the dude on the lft is sort of leading the eye out of the picture, perhaps if his body was angled inwards but you kept him looking out to the side, that could have been cool, i dunno. anyway nice work.


@ cardoso, hehe... well i haven't read the book, but i've seen the movie its SO damn cool, i've seen a bit about Hunter S too, and based on that you've captured the weirdness about him quite well through pose and stuff. i think the scale of the car is bit messed up, i'm not sure if that was intentional, but i think some if it would have to do with you drawing in a fairly small pad and your drawing to the size of the page and cramming stuff??? maybe??? the bats are cool, it s a it funny that hunter isn't looking at them, but hes a funny guy so yeah. i'd take a look at bat wings though they don't looks so confident. cool.



@ Mehz, YAY alice! i think some of the forms in your piece are a little too simplified, like the mushrooms in the bottom right... they could do with a little more irregularity or something. the composition is nice, although there is a part of me that thinks we should be a little closer up, but its cool to see the whole scene too. i'm guessing you were trying to show alice on her toes, i don't know if you got that right :S she looks like shes hovering a little. i really like the big tree on the left, its a little creepy and all gnarled. i like how you gave a sense of depth by making it lighter as it recedes, but maybe you could have pushed that a little further and hinted at something being behind them, even if it was just really light. nice!


@ Bendragon, first off, i'm not familiar with the book, but that bear is badass! i really wish you had done something with the big empty white space in the background, even if you just filled it in with tone or something, but it still works ok. the anatomy of the kids needs work, the boys legs are quite short...or his torso is too long or something. and the girl looks very unbalanced. nice rendering though. it might have been cool if the bear's head was more at the same level of the action with the kids or something, because at the moment the focal point should be the kids and the bugs circling around them, but then you look up at the bear and loose focus. anyway, nice entry i like it :)


@ Njord-E55, i like the strong contrast of your piece, it looks confident. i agree with someone that said you could have left out the red. in some ways the eyes would have been more striking if they were pure white i think. the background adds the the mood, i like it, but it would have been nice if there was some kind of horizon line or something to give a tiny bit of grounding and depth.


@ asoir, nice confident marks, i've heard of the great escape but don't actually know it so :S yeah. the comic book ish panel thing you did works well, although i wish it didn't just sneak out the side like that, it makes me feel like we are missing a piece of the page. the two heads don't match up all that well, and in the full body one, the head is pretty tiny. solid stuff though, i like the barbed wire, it really helps with the perspective and depth.



@ dmitri, great lighting! really conveys the mood well. you've got a really strong piece here, but yeah, the lamp does bring it down a notch or two :S. i'm not sure i like the desk either, but the figures are really nice. not much more to crit. good work :D



@ Noë, cool stuff! i really like the mood, and the crows are awesome... they are mighty big crows though, i don't think thats a problem exactly, it enforces their presence in the piece. but yeah, possibly makes the viewer question for a second? i dunno. i agree with what hp says, some darker parts on the face and in the trees would make it stronger. i really like the composition, the way the crows frame the girl is really nice :) no more crits! great stuff!


@ amer-nazri, AWESOME ENTS! really nice rendering and characters. its cool how they almost don't read straight away as living creatures (especially the middle one) and they just look like trees but then you notice they have a face. i really REALLY wish had done more the background though. its such a cool drawing, but its not really finished :( no more crits, its freakin cool, but it need just a bit more time spent on it it think.


@ Evil_Sloth, nice one man, cool pose and stuff, i really like the perspective and pose on the dud on the ground, his foots a bit weird though. cool rendering too, although all the detail on Sauron does get a little lost just because everything is so dark on him. and WHY DIDN"T YOU DO A BACK GROUND!!!! you would have such a killer piece if you did a background..... i do have to admit i thought you might have copied a frame from the film or something just because the design is very similar... but as TheGnoll said he actually compared it to the film so thats cool. i don't understand why you did go for such a similar design but meh, its still freakin cool. no more crits!


@ bestow :S ehhhh? it would be nice to see a bit more time spent on this stuff and also you didn't say what this is from. but yeah, nice accessories and stuff, the chain kind of disappears into the belt in a weird way. and the fur looks very rushed. plus its not really an illustration but a character design


@ SirGreenSock, cool man, i love the greek myths too aye, theres just something about the badass beasties and stuff :P anyway, cool poses, and really good expression of the dudes face. the minotaur is a little static. anatomy is pretty decent, but there are a few funny things like how the dudes leg just isn't there. i guess its behind the minotaurs arm but it just doesn't quite work. the minotaur has a huge freakin chest(which is cool) but his hare seem quite small in comparison. the lack of a background lets the piece down a lot too. cool entry though, i like the tension between the characters.


@ Cup of Joe, great head. i really like that head. cool tension too. you get a good feeling hes sneaking a look around the corner, or hiding or something....thats what hes doing right? i think you were going in the right direction, but just needed to spend some more time on it. the trees are a little bit crap though :P they're really simplified, kinda look like lamp posts. but yeah compositions nice, maybe some more diagonals would help get more energy into the piece? cool.

@ Mydrim, YAY alice...again :D i like the slightly different approach to the design of alice. her hair is really cool. the caterpillar and the rabbit being eaten are really cool touches. you could have done something a little more interesting with the rabbit hole i think. just some variation in the swirly stuff perhaps? and the ellipse at the top is a little awkward. really nice entry though, i like it a lot.



ehhh, i didn't fully realize there were so many entries, nice work everyone.

and thanks a lot Marleen :D

[Bendragon]

Thanks for the time and crits Kronos. Much appreciated. Yours is looking solid too, though a little crit to return the favour: the form on the rabbit's face could be defined more methinks. Anyway, its a strong contender! See you on judgment day!

Edit: Oh and if you dont know the books, well I think you'll know them soon enough. Theyre being made into big budget films, first one due in December. Massive Black is supposedly working on the games. The books themselves are awarded third best book in a UK survey.

[amer-nazri]

Kronos: Thanks for the comments! I will definitely finish it and update it in my SB. I'm off to bed but will hopefully give some crits to everyones work too.

[Mydrim]

Kronos: This scene was my third choose (the second was walking with the white knight, the inventor). And damn, it's TEAPOT! I thought, I don'tknowwhy, it's the thing where's sugar /don't know the english word/ and so I drawed(the object in the high point, that's Dormouse closed in, maybe dead). I should read the passage first, before drawing...

[asoir]

thanks kronos, I was also very unhappy with the comic panel... peace!