PDN Fanatics

Ok,

So i was thinking what should i put here to show you guys my skill ( or lack of ) and i decided instead of showing you a selct few of the pictures i deem as "good" i thought i would show you me entire gallery from the main forum. That way i am not hiding any thing, you can see what my total skill is. The sharp minded will see the progress i have made ( as in here is also the early work i have done and some of its very bad lol)

So i hope you enjoy it,

=MA=

Misc


Sketches



Painted sketches


Logo's

Signatures and avatars



Poker


Space


Wallpapers


Photo Edits



Let me know what you think

I am very impressed with your array of images. I think your biggest strength lies in drawing and doing the space scenes. Your photmanipulation could use more work since it seem to not "sell" what you are aiming for. I think you are certainly in the right place since serious artists here will give you some serious critique for your work. Keep it up.

I think Lance is right about your spacescapes. They seem to be your strongest point. I also like the series of wallpapers you have there. Keep up the good work.

Glad to see you posting here midget hope that we can be helpful to you. OH yeah we have new forums styles go check em out they are under board preferences on the user control panel.

I've been watching & commenting on your gallery on the main forum. Some great works here & looking forward to seeing more from you.

Still love the snake one!

Nice Gallery :
-From your Misc' I like the Lost WALL, it is so nice, did you take that shot? Or you just did the manipulation to a ready pic, I wish if I can see the original and see how much work you made to be like that.

-The sketches are all good so far, but this is my fav., the lines and shadows are very good. The bird and tiger are nice ,too.


-Painted sketches are nice, I like your style, clear and the lines are so clean and the coloring as well, I like this one very much I don't know why, looks strange:


-From poker the blue is excellent, did you make that yourself or by the help of the tutorial?

-Space images are good, the texture of the planet in this one is awesome, I like it very much:


-Wallpapers are nice, I love this one, but the "C" & "B" are cutoff from top, or may be you meant that, i don't know.


And your sigs are nice as well, the Logo and Photo Edit are not bad, so cute your kitten

Good work so far, try to make everything by yourself in PDN instead of using stocks, looking forward to see more work from you, and welcome to this forum, every one here want to see a serious work, if you could use a Click-able Thumbnails for your images in the gallery will be much better and easier to navigate, thanks.

oh yeah we have spiffy tag called the thumbpop tag

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[thumbpop] direct link to the image [/thumbpop]

it is quite helpful and automatically makes thumbs from the full sized image

Definitely some really good work in there, look forward to seeing more

Thanks for the Comments

One of the reasons i am here is to improve my skills and to hopefull learn to do new and exciting stuff.

Sargon III wrote:Nice Gallery :
-From your Misc' I like the Lost WALL, it is so nice, did you take that shot? Or you just did the manipulation to a ready pic, I wish if I can see the original and see how much work you made to be like that.

I took the picture myself while on excavation. ITs all that remains of the outer walls of a monestary - So thats why i called it the "lost wall"

Sargon III wrote:-The sketches are all good so far, but this is my fav., the lines and shadows are very good. The bird and tiger are nice ,too.

Thanks - I like to sketch, that dragon is my 4th done on a tablet though O_o - Only had the tablet a couple of days so trying to get used to it.

Sargon III wrote:-Painted sketches are nice, I like your style, clear and the lines are so clean and the coloring as well, I like this one very much I don't know why, looks strange

Thanks - That one took ages lol. I had to scan my origonal drawing into the computer and spend many painstaking hours doing the outline in PDN - after that the colouring was easy.

Sargon III wrote:-From poker the blue is excellent, did you make that yourself or by the help of the tutorial?

The poker chips i learnt to make via a tutorial, the colouring itself was my own messing around

Sargon III wrote:-Space images are good, the texture of the planet in this one is awesome, I like it very much:

Thank you - that is the latest spacescape i have made, Infact it was the same day i joined here.

Sargon III wrote:-Wallpapers are nice, I love this one, but the "C" & "B" are cutoff from top, or may be you meant that, i don't know.

It was the font i used, for some reason it looks like that.

Sargon III wrote:And your sigs are nice as well, the Logo and Photo Edit are not bad, so cute your kitten

Thanks, again, Photo editing isnt my strong point, but glad you like 'em

Sargon III wrote:Good work so far, try to make everything by yourself in PDN instead of using stocks, looking forward to see more work from you, and welcome to this forum, every one here want to see a serious work, if you could use a Click-able Thumbnails for your images in the gallery will be much better and easier to navigate, thanks.

Everything is 100% PDN apart from the photo's ( the lost wall, Kitten and the demon face and on the 2 earth spacescapes i used a pcture of the earth)


Today i have been looking at tutorials (some photoshop tutorials as well) and came up with this:

I haven't had time to look through everything, so I'll start with your latest.
That's pretty cool, love the concept ... but the base of the top hat seems a bit flat, to me ? Maybe you should have used another gradient as opposed to Linear ?

I'm happy you joined this forum. Your work is an honor to look at. Your spacescapes were always admirable and the the magical hat is definitely magical! Great job!

~WelshBlue~ wrote:I haven't had time to look through everything, so I'll start with your latest.
That's pretty cool, love the concept ... but the base of the top hat seems a bit flat, to me ? Maybe you should have used another gradient as opposed to Linear ?

I have to agree with welshy on this on. If you use the linear reflected gradient it would give it a more 3d look. Also the shadows could use some work but overall nice effect coming out of the hat.

And a little more feathering along the base of the hat. Also, I think the brim of the hat is a bit too large for it overall. Nice use of dents, and that's something I don't see users using dents for other than to make a neat background.

Awsome thanks for the feed back guys.

Ok time for version 2. I played with the base of the hat, added a more realistic shadow to the base of the hat, added a more defined "Shadow" under the hat, Add a very light (barley noticable) hilight to the brim of the hat and over all just made it look better.

what do you think:

much better mate but you forgot the shadow on the wand. Where do you find your photoshop tuts i might wanna give some of them a go.