Blackness

I just got Photoshop Extended CS5, and I absolutely love it. Anyway, here's my first piece with it:

It is an abstract that I came up with before I got out of bed this morning. It's a bunch of people getting blasted out of a blurry black square into light, with blackness streaking past them. It can represent either God's saving man from the fall, but the emotion in it was more based off of man falling. 

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Brain Scrambler... darnit, that's a pun.

Hey... I've probably spent around ten hours on this now between yesterday and today. At least a couple of those were spent re-doing stuff that I did wrong, without elegance, and coping with "It's not a bug, it's a feature" moments, a couple of which I still haven't figured out how to operate the feature that acts like a bug.

In any event, this is the first decent 3D model that I've done to date, and I think it came out quite well. Though it does admittedly use more polygons than it needs, it's still decent (and that doesn't effect its looks anyways.) It is of an AUG A3, one of my favorite assault rifles made by the Austrian (not Australian) company "Steyr."

Without further adieu, here are some screenshots that I took of it (As usual, you can click on the pictures to see a high-detailed version.):

I hope that you like it, I sure do. 

The name of the blogpost was not derived from it being a weapon, but from the hours of modeling this having destroyed my brain. Modeling takes a TON of critical thinking, creative problem-solving skills, etc.. This model, especially with the difficulties previously mentioned that I had, was really tiring.

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Another graphite female portrait

Hey everyone! This is the second draft, having edited the chin and cheek. Not perfect, but pretty good I think. I hope you like it!

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Yet Another Sketch

Another face that I edited on my computer, getting rid of shading that took hours... I did this drawing while in a car for hours. I hope that you like it!

Yes, I actually put the grid there on purpose. I liked the effect...

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Project with 3 images of Giacometti's style

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Steampunk Rogue Concept

I haven't done any detail  yet, and I got a lot of the proportions wrong and such... but this is for the concept, not for the craftsmanship.

I sketched it on paper, so I just increased the smudge-effect by lowering contrast and brightness, then decreasing blue 2X and increasing red 1X and decreasing brightness 1X to make the old-paper look.

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Commander Shepard

Hey guys... I haven't posted in a while; college takes a lot of time. I just started on a drawing of Commander Shepard from Mass Effect [2], and here's what I've got so far. Needs work, but I really like it so far.

Draft 1:

 

Here I edited out a lot of the sketched, finished his armor, added texture and wrinkles around his eyes, touched up his eyebrows, touched up forehead texture, edited overall shading, and more.

Draft 2:

This next one is draft 4. I fixed shading, removed the sketch entirely, and did random general touch-ups. It's basically finished.

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