god damn it i'm gonna have to take photos of my drawings, my scanners not working
*sigh

damn. using the camera can work out ok tho i have to do it when i do a pic on a3 donthave thoes uploaded tho

It sucks so bad, so fething bad.

here are the photos god damn it.

That's a bloody nice Eldar you got there.

Also, you suffer from "good anatomy and proportions", thus the Burna looks quite like a hummie.

ace that burner boy is cool the perspective on the gun is realy good
i like all the detail on the eldar too
i find eldar are one of the hardest races to draw

That's the problem with biro. I can remember thinking oh crap the heads to small, he looks a bit human, and if you try to do anything to make it better you just ruin the piece.

I agree with you Nickmund, although I myself find spacey notoriously hard to draw, but thats just me.

eldar vehicals are realy hard to draw too ever done any pics of battle fleet gothic?

Ribon fox I missed your stuff, it looks great!

heres another drawing i did while in desperation(watching how to look good naked, this time the subject looked like mrs nurgle)
He is Brother Lectus


Please click on him cos the image is quite bad

nickmund wrote:Thats awesome you did that pretty fast how did you get the reflection of the the blue light to work so well when ever i try it goes tits up last time i coloured anything in it took like 6 hours i was using realy long winded method on photoshop tho cus i dont have a clue how to use it

Block colours, multiple lays and knowing how to short cut stuff You did most of the hard work i just sort of did a paint by numers job on it then aplyed some fade colour soft light layers. Some times doing less helps it to look like more.



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The Lone Ultramarine
Origanly drawn by Grob the Immortal Grot

Oi, looks good, and the way you coloured it matches the style you used with the lines.

Know that this is just my opinion and I respect yours if it's different but I have a personal heavy distaste for anime warhammer. I don't have a problem with anime but I don't believe that it makes good bedfellows with 40k. Something about it making the mood of it far too light. Not bad work in here though.

Once I get around to doing some 40k fan art I'll post it, but untill then here's the link to my deviant art page. http://fox-light713.deviantart.com/

The main problem the lot of you have is that your drawings look quite flat. I would imagine that you don't draw a 'skeleton' first, right? Well, that causes your anatomy to become warped, and also inhibits your ability to add depth to the image, since you don't have a concrete point of reference for the exact positioning of each body part.

It's a mistake many new artists make, and it's something that you should really address. It'll improve your drawings dramatically. Just practice starting with a 'skeleton,' and work your way up to a frame, and then finally to the finished character. A little perspective goes a long way.

Ribon fox that is so cool!
I really like the way it adds drama to it!


And in responce to fafnir, I may try that, maybe.

Edit: hahahahah lol lol lol
On my space marine the big scroll goes to the spaceys left side, while all the purity seals and stuff flows to the right side. slow!

Perpective like this? Three horizon points four vanishing points and a page of math.


Skelatal work like these?



I can render as seen but I like the clean simple lines that Anime can give you.




Also how about long distance stuff?




*All Image are drawn by me and are mine

I do my "skeletons" as well, what's more, I draw the muscles (had 2 years of anatomy when I studied SFX) and only then I draw the clothes and/or armours on them.

that space marine is ace grob and when coloured in even better! i got a new one for ya all the perspective is crap and i had to use a camera because my scanner is too small


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Dark wrote:I do my "skeletons" as well, what's more, I draw the muscles (had 2 years of anatomy when I studied SFX) and only then I draw the clothes and/or armours on them.

i use a similar method as well it gives you a good guide for proportion


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cool pics ribon like the pastel effect works realy well for space pics

Eh, something I've got in the works.
More coming here soon, http://galefire.com/illustrations/sequential/vs-spartan-vs-space-marine/

Now thats deication to your art. To you sir I tip my cap

I guess I'll throw my hat into the ring with a very messy, and sorta random doodle I made in geometry class.

BTW great job all around for everyone else's drawings

Chilli thats awesome!
Lovin' the equations in the background.

Amazing work, Dedalus.

And Chili, you remind me of myself when I was on my first career. Keep it up.

Thank you kindly! Those equations aren't going to be there for long with the Berzerker being on the same page

I'm embarased to post my stuff in the same thread with some of you guys, but here's some space wolf/werewolf Doodles.


I do intend on going back and fixing the arm and proportions on this one....







I'm on Deviant as well: http://canisnocturnis.deviantart.com/
I've got concept art for some "Sand Elves". In my mind, they're like Fedaykin + Wood Elves in the blender. There are a few dragons and things as well.

By Russ, and why is it exactly that you feel embarrassed?

Dark wrote:Amazing work, Dedalus.

And Chili, you remind me of myself when I was on my first career. Keep it up.

Thanks, I've got more on my site but some of it is kind of old heh.

I can see why you say your old work is "meh", but think on it this way: at best you'll work illustrating books, ads, magazines and so.

At best, I'll be able to make comic books.

your pics are insane daedalus wot medium do you use? spartan v space marine hmmm my moneys on spacemarine
tho a spartan with two energy swords is a leathal combination

lovin the wulfen glimpse of void
i think we got more than one spacewolves nut on this thread now

nickmund wrote:your pics are insane daedalus wot medium do you use? spartan v space marine hmmm my moneys on spacemarine
tho a spartan with two energy swords is a leathal combination

Thanks, and I generally work digitally. Sometimes I do pencils and scan as well, but not as much. I can block out ideas a lot quicker on my tablet.

As for who wins, hopefully I can make it an interesting battle

Dark wrote:I can see why you say your old work is "meh", but think on it this way: at best you'll work illustrating books, ads, magazines and so.

At best, I'll be able to make comic books.

Thanks for the praise(and trust me I am trying to find work in those areas ), but don't put down your own work, just keep at it. It takes a lot of work, time, and practice. Don't ever think you know it all (like I did when I was in college, lol!), and just try to keep learning. Also, doing art every day helps

Thanks for the compliment Nick.

@ Daedalus and other skilled artists: How would you recommend a noob get into digital media?

Well, I only use the pc to colour my inks, but my advice is "first, get a graphic tablet", you truly don't want to struggle with your mouse.

I happen to have one of those tablets. Next I need to find software and some tutorials for slow kids like me. My wife put something on my computer called "gimp" I belive it's open source software, so the price was right. I don't know if it's any good. I've messed around with it but have no idea what I'm doing.

There's a few more things on me deviantART profile (http://rusty-techpriest.deviantart.com/) but they're few and far between.

Lovin the work gorskar.

Bang.

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Well, you know what they say, Grob, laughter is the best medicine.
Pity it doesn't work on bullets, though.

Indeed, indeed it is. I heard that at the edinburgh fringe on the poster for a comedian.

aquila put then i got bored
and 40k wtf

@Glimpse The Void: I'm glad I came on this thread, I'm posting this for everyone but I'll PM GTV in case he doesn't come back to this.

For the truley dedicated CGI stills artist: POV-ray http://www.povray.org/

For those of you who are interested in something more...animated? Blender http://www.blender.org/

This is a much simpler one for those of us like warboss spinetwizta who casually play around in Paint and Gimp: Gifsicle http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/

If anyone has any casual questions about using the GTK+ Library I can help there to, but this is more of a hobby for me and I have never finished a project with it.

EDIT: This is all open source by the way, and all of it will work on windows platforms (although of the three of them it's ironic that Gifsicle takes the most work to do so) so feel free to go nuts.

I don't do a huge amount of 40k stuff, though I do have some. This one is quite a few years old.



And I have a few 40k related sketches.

1st thing for a digital artist is definitely a tablet of some sort. I have the Wacom Cintiq 12wx, as I have a terrible time working on those tablets you draw on and look at the screen.

Second would be a graphics application. I personally use and prefer photoshop. You can probably find an older version for cheap, not to mention there are "other" ways to get photoshop. However, there are other apps like Painter, Painttool SAI, Gimp, OpenCanvas, ArtRage... all have their good points.

After that, find some digital painting tutorials online to watch and learn, get ImagineFX magazine (lots of good tutorials, etc). Always keep your eyes open for new techniques you can try and learn from.

Also, I have a quandary. What would be a good opponent for a spartan AND a space marine?

those drawings are insane smackcakes that one of the guy on the building is cracking.

daedalus-templarius wrote:

Eh, something I've got in the works.
More coming here soon, http://galefire.com/illustrations/sequential/vs-spartan-vs-space-marine/

Amazing, what tools did you use to create this ?

My idea of what Sly Marbo looks like:



Chilling in a tree, keeping his eyes on a group of catachan moving below him through the jungle.

And I dont know if this guy is 40k, but I began drawing him and then it went a little in the way of a Vostroyan Firstborn. Without a moustache.



I drew both in Photoshop Cs4, using basic body shapes that you can find online. I use them as armatures so to speak, the rest is all drawn by myself.

Liking Marbo, looks like hes gotten bored stabbing himself and is watching as the catachans below him are being eaten by tyranids.

Unreal Toast wrote:
Amazing, what tools did you use to create this ?

Thanks for the praise. All done in Photoshop

daedalus-templarius wrote:1st thing for a digital artist is definitely a tablet of some sort. I have the Wacom Cintiq 12wx, as I have a terrible time working on those tablets you draw on and look at the screen.

Second would be a graphics application. I personally use and prefer photoshop. You can probably find an older version for cheap, not to mention there are "other" ways to get photoshop. However, there are other apps like Painter, Painttool SAI, Gimp, OpenCanvas, ArtRage... all have their good points.

After that, find some digital painting tutorials online to watch and learn, get ImagineFX magazine (lots of good tutorials, etc). Always keep your eyes open for new techniques you can try and learn from.

Also, I have a quandary. What would be a good opponent for a spartan AND a space marine?

good apponant for a spacemarine would be alien or predator or my personal favoraite nuclear pimp

oooff my fingers bloody well ache after this one

I Feel kind of embarrassed To post some of my stuff on here after seeing some of these marvelous art works But why the FETH not... these are sketches i am doing over in the back ground forum for Mr.nids SM chapter Emperor's Shields Any one Wants To be a marine should come over and contribute Fluff for the chapter should come over to the thread

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/310304.page

^In photoshop



^ pencil sketch with some watercolours.

You shouldnt be embarresed dude that stuff rocks! i love the second one down, and that Terminator kicks ass that spear looks deadly.

whatwhat, your photoshop skills are insane!
Im hopeless at photoshop, i realy want to colour my images but i just get stuck. That one i posted above was done in photoshop i took me about 3 hours though

SmackCakes, Galefire, vignor, that's some beautiful stuff.

I drew a Dark Angel in a far less awesome style.

that is genius, i love it, i wish they actually sold it!


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Been going to waitrose have you? i wish i could go there

daedalus-templarius wrote:

Thanks, and I generally work digitally. Sometimes I do pencils and scan as well, but not as much. I can block out ideas a lot quicker on my tablet.

As for who wins, hopefully I can make it an interesting battle

I'm guessing you have a very bad ass character concept for the Spartan, but I honestly can't see how it'd be anything close to a fair fight... Spartan level weaponry wouldn't even be able to scratch power armor >_>

Maby he'll have to give the Astartes a handycap

Jolly D work chaps!

MOAR drawings please!

Will have some more stuff on soon ive got to ink it first


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its a vindicare assassin

Might aswell post the ones i've posted several times on here
Rather old now.


(proportions on his arms are gak I know, Pen is cruel to me sometimes)





That's all my 40k related sketches
enjoy
Also the work on here is so awesome really need to get a graphics tablet !

awsome!
That Wraith lord kicks serious arse.

Wolf
Could be worth considering.
I have a Bamboo that iwasn't too expensive.
But as I don't do a lot of computer drawing it suffices for my needs more than adequately. A more expensive one would have been wasted on me.

Tarkand wrote:

I'm guessing you have a very bad ass character concept for the Spartan, but I honestly can't see how it'd be anything close to a fair fight... Spartan level weaponry wouldn't even be able to scratch power armor >_>

Eh, we'll see

I have a few ideas as to how getting around the tank-like armor of an astartes would be possible for a Spartan, if everyone agrees with me or not will be the question, heh.


He might have a chance, we'll see!

Tarkand wrote:

daedalus-templarius wrote:

Thanks, and I generally work digitally. Sometimes I do pencils and scan as well, but not as much. I can block out ideas a lot quicker on my tablet.

As for who wins, hopefully I can make it an interesting battle

I'm guessing you have a very bad ass character concept for the Spartan, but I honestly can't see how it'd be anything close to a fair fight... Spartan level weaponry wouldn't even be able to scratch power armor >_>

i guess your talking about My art hahaha if you go to the link i put up with my stuff you'll get the fluff the spears are count as thunder hammers and all the sword on the marines are power swords and the marine with the small spear and flag is a standard bearer


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nickmund wrote:You shouldnt be embarresed dude that stuff rocks! i love the second one down, and that Terminator kicks ass that spear looks deadly.

whatwhat, your photoshop skills are insane!
Im hopeless at photoshop, i realy want to colour my images but i just get stuck. That one i posted above was done in photoshop i took me about 3 hours though

thank you

vignor wrote:

Tarkand wrote:

daedalus-templarius wrote:

Thanks, and I generally work digitally. Sometimes I do pencils and scan as well, but not as much. I can block out ideas a lot quicker on my tablet.

As for who wins, hopefully I can make it an interesting battle

I'm guessing you have a very bad ass character concept for the Spartan, but I honestly can't see how it'd be anything close to a fair fight... Spartan level weaponry wouldn't even be able to scratch power armor >_>

i guess your talking about My art hahaha if you go to the link i put up with my stuff you'll get the fluff the spears are count as thunder hammers and all the sword on the marines are power swords and the marine with the small spear and flag is a standard bearer

/facepalm

I went on your site earlier and you only had the first 3 pictures up... I saw Spartan vs Space Marine and tho you mean those spartans.... who while cool, certainly wouldn't stand a chance.

This now makes a lot more sense.

Very nice work.

This thread isn't too old so its better to post here rather than start a new thread.

I finally got around to drawing some 40k fan art, but I have to warn you all it has a touch of heresy and it might I don't think it dose but it might rape the fluff just a little.

Its the Scout Sargent for my Fox Scouts (aka space wolves scouts) its a work in progress

spoiler just in case its too much heresy for some people, C&C is always welcome

Here's a few doodles of mine

I take it you like orks, nice work btw.

I should have something new to post about SPEHHSSS MARIINEEZZ here in the next couple days. Life has been kind of gakky for the last week and I didn't get much done.

Freakin' ace! love the Ork in the commisar gear.

Moar

SPEHHHSSSS MARIINEEZZ first, of course

`I'm loving those orks.

I have a picture in the "freezer" that I did at work/class some time ago, but I need to find first what the marines that serve ont he Wolfguard have on their left shoulder pad, as it's blank at the moment.

Not been many posts in this thread for a while so I thought Id'e upload a new one.


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I still dont understand why all my drawings come out so low-res when i post them on a thread.

apologies for the picture quality but my scanner is still packed away

Da Orkses need som Graffight love too!

My first effort (if some ones decided to necro this thread.....)

Great stuff here

I'll scan some stuff and add it pretty soon. I'm working the kinks out of my 40k comic.

I've recently discovered that paint it really fun so I've done a few on that.

I know this is an old thread but I thought I'de keep it going anyway.

So heres a new one from me, I'de love to see everyone else's drawings too.