i dont really have anything new an kool to share.. heres a little painting i did of my doggie sleeping in my bed tho

Wow.

No matter how much I improve with digital painting I am always going to wonder how the hell people manage to get such detail without a zoom or undo function!

that is amazing. i have never painted and don't really understand color that well, but have always wanted to.
you are talented my friend.

there is a place here that i kind of want to go to. seems like a great idea. wine/beer and painting. think it would be fun.
http://splashsprings.com/about/

Some great stuff ITT, I particularly like this one. ^^

I guess it's only fair to add something of my own, please pardon the poor quality, I'm not so good at this computer wizardry!

The following pics were part of a project I was working on whilst I was living in a homeless hostel.
I was lucky enough to get put on a photography course run by a local arts group that taught us how to take, develop and print photo's using a 35mm camera.
The camera I used was an old Zenith approx 30yrs old and a bit beaten up, but it worked.
I took the original picture of the gravestone, developed the film and printed it myself. During the printing process I added the overlays to add the messages. I then used a tinting process on the finished print to add the greenish hue.
First time I've ever done something like this so whilst it may not be great, I am fairly pleased with the results.

Nice painting Ashes. Subtle and spot on composistion ...oil?

Powerful stuff Uthersghost... and so true. Lost too many family members that way.

Been getting into drawing caricatures a lot more recently even though I don't feel I have a good grasp on it's execution. But, for fun, thought I would try my hand at a potentially familiar face to the forums here...any idea who it is?

yeah it is oil..thanks for the comments

i couldnt figure out how to do a fur technique so thats why it looks more like a sea lion is sleeping in my bed than a pug

w/e

Since it is done in oil, the good news is that you can go back over it with some texture! I recommend a 'rake' brush to help make him look more furry...but I'm just amazed at how well you painted the folds in the linens. Hard to do but you executed those practically flawlessly!

I'm gonna guess at Daniel Negreanu, great characature if it is.
I'm very jealous of those who can draw people. I can never get the dimensions right, my figures always end up with weird shaped hands or lop-sided facial features lol.
Some real talent ITT imo, hope it grows.

rake brush eh.. i think i have one of those , thanks for the tip

ill have to blow the dust off and hit it again

also thanks , it was my first go at painting fabric .. it gave me a lot of problems

Correct! And thanks... I feel like I got the nose correct and a captured the eyes slightly but missed in other areas



My pleasure! Hope it works for you and would love to see you post it after the rework.

Some really great stuff itt.

I'm an amateur photographer with a pretty modest camera and a lot of patience.



And also, apparently, the inability to imbed images.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pdxsean/7651104926/

that is a great shot man. beautiful.

*i make no claims to be a professional, i just like to have fun.

dont know if this qualifies, but i started getting interested in video editing a few years ago and wanted to play with some random footage I took in LA. from various trips around the city I decided to put something together with music behind it.

1st one; if theres any story at all then i guess it would be "lost man wanders to sunset". im pretty happy with it considering it was the first thing i ever attempted to edit, half made with a phone+cheap cam and i somewhat made a story line out of random stuff with a few specific shots.




and i spontaneously tried a stop motion one time when i was at the beach just assuming an idea how its done. this was done completely on an ipad and then pieced together. its rather short but I would love to play around some more with stop motion, its was a frustrating kind of fun. tripod would be nice.

again, if there is a story here i guess it would just be "rock race: only the strong survive"

Thanks so much! Those cloudy Portland sunset shots are hard to do wrong.

The first video was blocked, which is too bad because I enjoy video editing and like to see the work of others.

I like this stop motion, it's fun even with the moving camera. A tripod makes a big difference, you can control all the movement. But I like your handheld style, especially for a first effort. I don't think I'd have the patience to move all that **** around and then try to line up the shot again for each one.

I do some time lapse work, just for fun you know, and not as fun as what you did. Let's see if I can get this embedding thing.

I just started working on my entry for the book cover design contest in the Announcements:

I like the the song selection for this project, it makes me think of the ending scene in Ocean's Eleven in front the fountains/fireworks. What kind of camera did you use? How did you go about this shot, just set up tripod, set a timer and crack open beers?

I have a lot of stop-motion ideas I'd like to do in the desert. Need to buy a real camera before committing any serious time to ideas that are time consuming. Make it worth it etc.

Nice video.

I have a Nikon D80, although the camera itself isn't that important. It just has to either have a port for a shutter release ($30) or a built-in auto-shoot or an intravelometer. I don't know enough about it, like I said I just do it for fun and it's pretty rudimentary. I've had enough practice so it looks sort of polished.

The tripod is key tho because you can keep stability and really create the illusion of time speeding up. I'm not good enough yet to get movement in the perspective, but I have friends who do these and get all sorts of crazy results. Then they also spend a lot more money on their equipment than I do. My friend Andrew Curtis is one of the best photographers I know, and he has some pretty sweet time lapse equipment.

Hmmm....

http://youtu.be/_qvqWNgS-6w

Just thought I'd stop by to share someone elses photography, sorry I don't know how to post the pics from it. I found the pics on a youtube channel and he uses all the diff pics for his music vids.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/1...45720080958017

https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/1...82433405122721

Def worth checking out if you're into photography.

I went to London zoo a few weeks ago. Here's a few photos I took; I just messed about with them in photoshop quickly, didn't do any serious post processing so they're a bit rough and ready and completely overdone.

^Cool and the gang... what kind of equipment were you using?

A canon 600D with the kit lens (18-55mm zoom). I had just got the camera and had a one day window to go to the zoo before going back up north for Christmas so I didn't have time to buy any lenses. Since then I got a 70-300mm Sigma as part of Amazon's lightning deals on boxing day, now I want some primes!