This is a spin-off of the original GFX Art Battle, but with some updated rules and changes. Please make sure to read the rules before entering, since they have been modified. Good luck, we look forward to seeing some creative artistic entries!
Competition Rules 1. Must be hand drawn, either on paper or in a program. It can then be manipulated in an graphics program. But unoriginal artwork cannot be used as the main focus. Copyrighted images cannot be used. All pieces containing copyrighted images will be disqualified. 2. Submissions must follow the current theme that has been chosen by a moderator for that week. If you submit more than one piece, please clarify which one you would like to be judged. 3. If your image is larger than 600 pixels wide, please provide a link to the image instead of posting it in the forum. Otherwise, the image will be cut off. 4. Artists cannot win in subsequent weeks. You can still submit, but if you won the week before, you cannot get first place again the next week. 5. After the deadline, a moderator will pick the winner, and they will be awarded a 25 AP award.
I'm gonna counter that remark. Sorta. 'Cause I can totally see all of Strop's entry being hand-drawn. Nice lighting effects, though, that's gotta have taken a few layers to get right.
You didn't specify. I refer to anything that isn't a filter or a gradient or a clip'd in piece as hand drawn, because the creator used his/her hand to draw it with. On paper/real canvas = traditional art. But it's okay that we don't understand each other, we're just used to different ways of saying things.
I do, btw, not recall seeing non-digital artwork of his.
The lineart of that one could be inked on paper, but I don't think he's got time to scan and stuff. >_>
Strop, what did you do to make it? Not all of it looks hand-drawn.
I did the entirety of that in GIMP. If anybody doubts the veracity of my work I can send them the .xc- oh crap, because this was a quickdraw, I couldn't be bothered and saved straight to .jpg D:
I knew I should be more careful keeping an archive of my work! But zophia's right, it took about 8 layers. Because I got lazy, a number of the lighting effects are actually Duplicate Layer -> Gaussian blur -> set layer attribute: addition -> reduce layer opacity.
Works pretty good huh?
Also the wording of that rule is slightly ambiguous but everybody really should know by now that when we say "hand-drawn" we mean "not copypasta". Even doing something in vector will still count, as long as you're not wholesale importing a brush or a vector map and claiming it to be yours. I haven't submitted an actual traditional media piece for over a year because I don't have time for traditional media.
Exactly was it says, Zega. A layer. More layers. When you have a decent art programme, there is usually a function to create a new layer. Each of these layers is a new drawing, so it does not disturb the drawing underneath, if you need to erase or change something. Layers can also be used for effects.
"Like an onion" "What about lasagna, lasagna has more layers." "No, ogres are like onions."
Because I got lazy, a number of the lighting effects are actually Duplicate Layer -> Gaussian blur -> set layer attribute: addition -> reduce layer opacity.
If it works well, it isn't lazy - it's a practical shortcut.
I also just remembered some of Strop's ball point pen (I think?) drawings. Yay. I have a fail memory.
Handrawn is just you a pencil and paper, not some 500 dollor pen sensorr thing,
I'm just gonna say exactly what Strop said: "Everybody really should know by now that when we say "hand-drawn" we mean "not copypasta". Even doing something in vector will still count, as long as you're not wholesale importing a brush or a vector map and claiming it to be yours."
If someone where to claim my digital drawings to not be hand-drawn, I'd be kinda offended. Unless of course they explained that they meant drawn on paper, which is fair enough, since not everyone is nerdy enough to know the expression "traditional media".
But please... Don't randomly come in here (with bad grammar/spelling) and pretend to know all about the expressions. >_> I don't even.
Layers? What's that?
Click here. It leads to a page explaining how layers work in Photoshop, and they work basically the same way in other programs.
Of course, Cen's definition is correct. I just felt the need to post that link.
