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Pic I started drawing last night:

http://www.frailart.net/members/verilon/martyr.jpg

~ver

I think I'm getting the idea on what it's supposed to be but I'll wait till it's colored before saying any more.

very abstract. now explain what it means.

Shinova wrote:I think I'm getting the idea on what it's supposed to be but I'll wait till it's colored before saying any more.

Piece of machinery after a battle. Don't know if I'm going to color it, though.

~ver

I love your shading, ver. You're an excellent artist.

Excellent pic. That machinery looks like the torso of a droid floating in orbit of that planet. I can see why you called it 'The Martyr' too...

Kelly Antilles wrote:I love your shading, ver. You're an excellent artist.

Thank you. This is the first time I've actually attempting drawing anything in a couple of months.

~ver

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:Excellent pic. That machinery looks like the torso of a droid floating in orbit of that planet. I can see why you called it 'The Martyr' too...

Ok cool, cos that's kind of what I was going for.

~ver

Strange robot...

verilon wrote:

Shinova wrote:I think I'm getting the idea on what it's supposed to be but I'll wait till it's colored before saying any more.

Piece of machinery after a battle. Don't know if I'm going to color it, though.

~ver

Interesting, but what is a robot doing fighting space ships? I think it'd look better uncolored. Eery scenes look better dark or in B&W, IMO.

verilon wrote:

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:Excellent pic. That machinery looks like the torso of a droid floating in orbit of that planet. I can see why you called it 'The Martyr' too...

Ok cool, cos that's kind of what I was going for.

~ver

R0X0R! Lata sweetybaby *waves*

Looks great Ver, I can't wait to see the finished version. Btw, your shading is vastly better than my own.

To me it looks like the remains of a battlemech whose pilot gave the ultimate sacrifice to save his comrades or world. Now his/her graveyard is the orbit of the world where the battle took place, more than likely forever forgotten except in the list of names of those lost in the battle, and his deed only a legend after all the years. Though forgotten and dead, he and his mech still hold vigil over the world, an eternal sentinel.

My problem is that limb.... it's too long not to have articulation somewhere before where it is broken... at least, that's how it seems to me.

DPDarkPrimus wrote:My problem is that limb.... it's too long not to have articulation somewhere before where it is broken... at least, that's how it seems to me.

See the part where it says, "Work in Progress"? Yeah. However, whatever you can suggest, I'll take into account for sure.

~ver

StarshipTitanic wrote:

verilon wrote:

Shinova wrote:I think I'm getting the idea on what it's supposed to be but I'll wait till it's colored before saying any more.

Piece of machinery after a battle. Don't know if I'm going to color it, though.

~ver

Interesting, but what is a robot doing fighting space ships? I think it'd look better uncolored. Eery scenes look better dark or in B&W, IMO.

Well, "robot" was the best word that came to my mind at the time. Might "Mech" be a better one?

~ver

WE WANT MORE!


Like Kelly said, the shading is excellent, I wish I could draw like that...

Warspite wrote: WE WANT MORE!

Like Kelly said, the shading is excellent, I wish I could draw like that...

Thank you. Shading has always been one of my strong points. And you'd be surprised to know that the entire thing was done freehand.

Now, if only I could draw PEOPLE just HALF as well as machines...

~ver

verilon wrote:Thank you. Shading has always been one of my strong points. And you'd be surprised to know that the entire thing was done freehand.

Now, if only I could draw PEOPLE just HALF as well as machines...

~ver

Oh, I'm not surprised, and it's possible to tell it's freehand...
People ARE difficult to draw, they're too... organic, if you know what I mean.

Warspite wrote:

verilon wrote:Thank you. Shading has always been one of my strong points. And you'd be surprised to know that the entire thing was done freehand.

Now, if only I could draw PEOPLE just HALF as well as machines...

~ver

Oh, I'm not surprised, and it's possible to tell it's freehand...
People IS difficult to draw, too... (hate to use this word) organic, if you know what I mean.

Well, I can draw men fairly well, just not women or faces in general, though I have tried. But if I had any of my dragon drawings, I would have posted them long ago..

~ver

Oh, and I was speaking about the freehand in terms of the planets behind the machine. Pretty good circles, if I do say so myself (and I do), because I can hardly ever draw circles properly.

~ver

Man, you were really inspired...

verilon wrote:

DPDarkPrimus wrote:My problem is that limb.... it's too long not to have articulation somewhere before where it is broken... at least, that's how it seems to me.

See the part where it says, "Work in Progress"? Yeah. However, whatever you can suggest, I'll take into account for sure.

~ver

Other than that, it's a great picture. It's just that my mind can't get over that limb.

DPDarkPrimus wrote:

verilon wrote:

DPDarkPrimus wrote:My problem is that limb.... it's too long not to have articulation somewhere before where it is broken... at least, that's how it seems to me.

See the part where it says, "Work in Progress"? Yeah. However, whatever you can suggest, I'll take into account for sure.

~ver

Other than that, it's a great picture. It's just that my mind can't get over that limb.

[says nothing of Freud...]

~ver

I don't have sexual feelings for my mother, so anything Freud would have to say is rendered irrelevent.

DPDarkPrimus wrote:I don't have sexual feelings for my mother, so anything Freud would have to say is rendered irrelevent.

Well, I didn't say anything about your mother... it was just the fact that you walked into a sexual innuendo..

~ver