Art (Woot!) for Class (Meh...)

[picano]

So... just gonna use this topic to kind of show off. Feel free to critique and such.

A little background information... I am in an alternative media art class, we can use any media we want (although, the size must be 15"x20" --- images I upload here are significantly smaller due to photobucket limitations)

1st Project (Subject: Any, Requirements: N/A)

Waiting

2nd Project (Subject: Any, Requirements: Line Dominant)

Might not post... as it's of a person

3rd Project (Subject: Any, Requirements: Shape Dominant)

Tough Luck

4th Project (Subject: Things of Value, Requirements: Value must not be last)

Progress of an Idea

5th Project (Subject: Texture, Requirements: Texture must be dominant or a high subordinate)

Just a Game

6th Project (Subject: Color, Requirements: Color must be dominant, shape must be low)

It Just Looks Cool

Final Project (Subject: Color, Requirements: Two pieces of art that go together)

Haste & Entertainment

[stevetv]

First off I don't much about art, but here's what I think.

The fur on the raccoon is amazing. great detail. I really like the eyes too. They look like marbles. And the eyes of the frog are really good too. The skin on the frog looks like that plasticy-vinyl whatever it is. Is that what you were going for? Your avatar looks like it's made of felt or velvet. Something soft anyway(which frogs aren't of course).

In your third project you've captured depth very well. It looks like a HUGE stack of dice. The only thing I'm not too big on is the die that's moving really fast in the lower left. It really draws my eye to it. Which to me seems to be away from the depth of the photo. It seems like it was knocked off, where the others look like they are falling. That being said, it looks like it was knocked off. It doesn't look like a blob or anything like that, it looks like a die is flying through the air. You've captured motion very well with all of the moving pieces.

All in all great job. I'm curious to see your next project and I'm now understand why your textures are so good.

[picano]

Wow. Sounded like a real art critique there. --- Might be money in that.

And thanks!

The frog... well it does look like it's soft from a distance, but it is actually plastic-y up close. I may have overdone the effect a little... but it is intended.

As for the dice, yeah the focus is a bit off-centered by that one falling die. --- Honestly, the movement was a last second edition. (Well... last half-hour, the final render took half an hour with both my cores running at 100% --- using vector blur instead of true blue [estimated movement instead of frame-by-frame overlay])

EDIT: Uploaded latest one!

[SilentStar]

Oh wow, I like them all.. but my faviorite is the 4th project ^_^

[picano]

Ah yes. "Progress of an Idea" was fun, especially since I got to reuse a lot of older drawings for it. ^_^

Also... added one from our color project... meh. The main one is animated but... I don't have anywhere to upload the animated png right now / youtube would kill it's quality.

Didn't like color... shape pretty much had to be the last element... bah!

[..::Marcov15::..]

WoW. That is amazing. My favorite is the 4th project too, it looks awesome.

[picano]

Thanks. ^_^

And... edited one in that I forgot about. And... my next one has to deal with use space... I've got an interesting idea for it.

[picano]

So... just added my final project of the year...