Please post pictures of your art and design work and solicit zingy feedback on works in progress here.
― caek, Friday, 15 June 2007 12:52 (sixteen years ago) link
I'll start.
http://www.dreamboatrecords.co.uk/images/catalogue/bird/bird-500.jpg
The image is a crop taken from a botanical engraving (I have no drawing talent). I had them letterpressed in Pantone 350U on these great chipboard sleeves by Stumptown in Portland, who were a pleasure to work with.
― caek, Friday, 15 June 2007 12:56 (sixteen years ago) link
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/48/163659876_15bbfbae8f.jpg
My daughter!
― nathalie, Friday, 15 June 2007 12:59 (sixteen years ago) link
That looks awesome Caek!
Nath, trumps thread.
I would show my latest fabric creation but it's sister is meant for an ILx0r so I don't want to spoil the suprise.
― Ms Misery, Friday, 15 June 2007 13:00 (sixteen years ago) link
OMG CUET
(and wicked, caek!)
― G00blar, Friday, 15 June 2007 13:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I lose! : )
― caek, Friday, 15 June 2007 13:03 (sixteen years ago) link
hahahaha the baby pic trumps everything! ILX is just like America's Funniest Videos.
i love her no-nonsense look.
― latebloomer, Friday, 15 June 2007 13:52 (sixteen years ago) link
OK, I know that DDBs are not as cuet as babies, but this is what I have been working on most recently:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/206/493469805_c9c249741c.jpg
Have been asked to do album artwork and tour posters for other bands off the back of it, so I'm quite pleased.
― Masonic Boom, Friday, 15 June 2007 13:55 (sixteen years ago) link
(just to say i appreciate the attempt at a thread with content amongst all these polls. unfortunately i have nothing to add - working 7 days a week does tend to sap my (already limited) creativity)
nat's cheating - that was a joint effort 8)
― koogs, Friday, 15 June 2007 14:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Is that pen and ink or Photoshop, Kate? I like it!
― caek, Friday, 15 June 2007 14:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Pen and ink, scanned into photoshop. I did it very drunk in the back of a pub, while Teh Early Yares were playing - am trying to set up doing a proper version but have been out of drawing order with my wrist, and we don't seem to be able to set up a sitting becuase they are flaeky.
― Masonic Boom, Friday, 15 June 2007 14:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Does this count? maybe. not really.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1007/541495689_f6a37236f0.jpg
The only real creative stuff I've been doing lately is writing but that's not really showable. And php/MySQL coding. I've been fobbing off all of my graphic work to the intern lately.
― Ms Misery, Friday, 15 June 2007 14:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I designed and did the photography for this:
http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/51WGQAYFD8L._SS500_.jpg
― treefell, Friday, 15 June 2007 14:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Ooh, I like the colours of the spinny fairground wheel thingy!
― Masonic Boom, Friday, 15 June 2007 14:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Kaet and Cake: your drawings/engravings are great!
― StanM, Friday, 15 June 2007 14:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Ophelia is great too of course, Nathalie, but you didn't actually, like, design her, or did you?
― StanM, Friday, 15 June 2007 14:17 (sixteen years ago) link
xxpost It's the Big Wheel at the Links Market (an annual event in my hometown where the esplanade gets taken over by a fairground for a weekend in April). It looks much better on the album cover after all the post-processing because in real life it looks a bit shabby.
― treefell, Friday, 15 June 2007 14:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Is the Links Market still going? Blimey. Most of the other Fife coast fairs have dwindled away to nothing.
― aldo, Friday, 15 June 2007 14:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Kate, your pen and ink would look great as a woodcut. Probably not if you carved it with with a busted wrist though.
I love the green/brown tiles. Art+Design-y home decor is definitely on topic.
And the colours on that ferris wheel _are_ pretty.
― caek, Friday, 15 June 2007 14:41 (sixteen years ago) link
treefell, it's a great image and a great font, but the placement of the word "saint" really bothers me. it just seems to be hanging out by itself too much....a little to the right and a litte closer to 'jude', maybe? i dunno, but gosh, it's really bothering me.
― the table is the table, Friday, 15 June 2007 14:52 (sixteen years ago) link
apartment building http://img40.picoodle.com/img/img40/8/6/15/f_1m_82cc25a.jpg
restaurant http://img40.picoodle.com/img/img40/8/6/15/f_2m_184f12a.jpg
restaurant http://img40.picoodle.com/img/img40/8/6/15/f_3m_43d538e.jpg
lounge
― I DIED, Friday, 15 June 2007 14:59 (sixteen years ago) link
lounge http://img40.picoodle.com/img/img40/8/6/15/f_4m_9fa1b7a.jpg
lounge http://img40.picoodle.com/img/img40/8/6/15/f_5m_c5411c1.jpg
xpost It's just the way it worked out. I was trying to put more life into the font so I printed out each word onto a separate piece of paper, photographed it and imported it into photoshop for post processing. Each word ended up being off horizontal and out of scale with the others. So when I first put them together on the image they pretty much came out looking like that against each other. I liked it - the words were independent and part of the whole at the same time and it gave the logo a unique look. I suppose the 'saint' could be a bit distracting, but I'm so used to it now that I can't imagine it any other way.
― treefell, Friday, 15 June 2007 15:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh, and yeah, the Links Market is still going strong. God knows why...
― treefell, Friday, 15 June 2007 15:10 (sixteen years ago) link
http://richardgin.org
― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Friday, 15 June 2007 16:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I pick restaurant number two. With the 1920s ghost lady in it.
― accentmonkey, Friday, 15 June 2007 16:28 (sixteen years ago) link
kate, i really like that.
can i get some kind of print of it if i throw scrillas your way?
― roxymuzak, Friday, 15 June 2007 16:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Stumptown are really great.
― Casuistry, Friday, 15 June 2007 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Thanks! You don't need to throw anything my way. Just go to my Flickr, open the big one and hit the PRINT button on yr 'puter.
― Masonic Boom, Friday, 15 June 2007 16:38 (sixteen years ago) link
the full size one be here:
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=493469805&size=o
― Masonic Boom, Friday, 15 June 2007 16:44 (sixteen years ago) link
if Flickr and/or teh Early Yares don't like that then they are cordially invited to SUCK MY LEFT ONE. And I don't even have balls.
― Masonic Boom, Friday, 15 June 2007 16:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Europe (a picture thread)
― jergïns, Friday, 15 June 2007 16:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Here's a flier I did from some buddies' house show:
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f86/igotabeefpastry/lowbelly.jpg
― Abbott, Friday, 15 June 2007 17:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I really like yr album cover design, cek, it's gorgeous and serene...
― Abbott, Friday, 15 June 2007 17:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Sorry I spoiled the thread but I couldn't resist showing of Ophelia. :-D
<I>nat's cheating - that was a joint effort 8)</I>
Ah yes, I admit she's *co-designed*.
Kate, I am superjealous of your drawing skills!
― stevienixed, Friday, 15 June 2007 17:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Honestly tho, Nath, you did nine months plus of post-production work.
― Abbott, Friday, 15 June 2007 17:28 (sixteen years ago) link
before and after - the cafe in the Glasgow Film Theatre that i just redesigned (on a very tight budget).
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v369/colinohara/IMGP1134.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v369/colinohara/433521237_88e6678c05_o.jpg
― jed_, Friday, 15 June 2007 17:41 (sixteen years ago) link
tiny photos too!
it's a 30's building so we wanted to give it a kind of cruise liner/ art deco feel without doing a pastiche.
― jed_, Friday, 15 June 2007 17:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Great banquette tufting, jed!
― I DIED, Friday, 15 June 2007 17:45 (sixteen years ago) link
thanks I DIED, i like yours.
the banquet is actually a bit of a disappointment to me - the buttoning should be deeper but hey, you get what you can afford. also i'm quite pleased that there are actually more seats than there were originally but the place looked absolutely full of chairs before.
― jed_, Friday, 15 June 2007 17:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Love the flier, Abbott.
― StanM, Friday, 15 June 2007 17:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Abbott, that flier is awesome. Nice tits!
I DIED, where is your restaurant? Does it exist yet?
― caek, Friday, 15 June 2007 21:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Those restaurants are both Washington DC area, one's in permitting right now and the other's in construction. I don't really care for either of those project phases.
― I DIED, Friday, 15 June 2007 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/126/361828025_4c9057a2e4.jpg?v=0
visio + publisher + lots of free time at my old job I wish I could blow these up big enough to make decent poster prints
― TOMBOT, Friday, 15 June 2007 22:05 (sixteen years ago) link
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/67/197232715_67c6cbe88c.jpg?v=0 the og from way back in the day
― TOMBOT, Friday, 15 June 2007 22:08 (sixteen years ago) link
What kind of pen did you use on your flyer, Abbot? And is it the same kind as those auto-bio ones you posted awhile ago?
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 15 June 2007 22:18 (sixteen years ago) link
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/185/439897202_02161522f6.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/222/496918713_54ae5b795d.jpg
― s1ocki, Friday, 15 June 2007 22:29 (sixteen years ago) link
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/145/430662389_aa096e42c7.jpg
― s1ocki, Friday, 15 June 2007 22:30 (sixteen years ago) link
holy shit - the first two look like photorealist paintings. good work
― jed_, Friday, 15 June 2007 22:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Tombot that is comical and i like the blue/orangey building type things
― blueski, Friday, 15 June 2007 22:40 (sixteen years ago) link
v Fan v
― fauxpas cola (darraghmac), Monday, 31 March 2014 22:57 (ten years ago) link
Great stuff, Ste.
― banjoboy, Tuesday, 1 April 2014 02:08 (ten years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BlRpI98CEAAAMbk.jpg
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 16:22 (ten years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Blam8bsCQAAx8Dt.jpg
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Thursday, 17 April 2014 10:09 (ten years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BlandIHCYAEbiMV.jpg
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Thursday, 17 April 2014 10:11 (ten years ago) link
an older one
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BlapxcaCQAEMj6m.jpg
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Thursday, 17 April 2014 10:21 (ten years ago) link
those remind me of: http://filesmelt.com/dl/Ballantine_Books_-_Star_Wars_-_The_Empire_Strikes_Back_Sketchbook.pdf
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 17 April 2014 17:20 (ten years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Blfy_t1CQAAO2OJ.jpg
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Friday, 18 April 2014 10:23 (ten years ago) link
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10614118_874547285890405_242127680949943253_n.jpg?oh=dd199990803b203ddde66dfaabba8778&oe=54ECF76B&__gda__=1424861526_f4bdc293026a9eaaffe26a9db6cb1e32
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Thursday, 6 November 2014 11:08 (nine years ago) link
https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10801569_874547312557069_1985154068204859859_n.jpg?oh=184a164b56ff155f95dd780c8256b547&oe=54F6C8B0
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Thursday, 6 November 2014 11:09 (nine years ago) link
https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/1381802_871089826236151_7344142826485966463_n.jpg?oh=3feea1984be8aaf0a82fc5a6442030d0&oe=54E42E85
(Have to admit that last one, the levels were auto corrected and colours have gone ever so slightly more 'colourful', but it's not far off)
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Thursday, 6 November 2014 11:10 (nine years ago) link
Yowza! Was that last one painted (or initially sketched) on location?
― ledge, Thursday, 6 November 2014 11:13 (nine years ago) link
It's painted from a photo I found online, unfortunately.
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Thursday, 6 November 2014 11:15 (nine years ago) link
Never mind! Drawing or painting from life is great if you get the chance but nothing wrong with using photos.
― ledge, Thursday, 6 November 2014 11:18 (nine years ago) link
How did the oil painting go?
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Thursday, 6 November 2014 11:19 (nine years ago) link
Ah the course two years ago? Went ok but stalled afterwards, doing another portrait course now and getting into it more, hopefully will keep it up after the course finishes. Here's my piece from the last session:
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7473/15522143749_5005786d2c_b.jpg
And a couple of watercolour sketches of Venice, one on location and one from a photo after I got back. More illustrative, I didn't pluck up the courage to throw away the pen and just rely on tone & colour.
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3942/15698795131_20315caf98_b.jpg
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5601/15702290732_e44401dee6_b.jpg
― ledge, Thursday, 6 November 2014 11:27 (nine years ago) link
wonderful, keep it up for sure.
Love watercolours + black pen. What kind of pen have you used there?
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Thursday, 6 November 2014 11:31 (nine years ago) link
just an unfancy hard tip liner pen. need to get a dip pen for more exciting & energetic lines.
― ledge, Thursday, 6 November 2014 11:35 (nine years ago) link
I was hit with redundancy a couple of months ago, so I decided to use the opportunity to get serious with painting. Enjoying all the experimenting and finding my style but struggling with sources.
One thing I realised after rifling through my truck load of photographs for sources is, as you mentioned, how much better it is to paint from live. Also it made me understand the importance of taking a decent photo (looking at composition especially) if it's going to be used for painting. Literally had nothing to go on.
The painting above of the colourful buildings on the coast is the first one I've sold.
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Thursday, 6 November 2014 11:45 (nine years ago) link
I only ever tried oil painting once, I was fairly young and just recall someone had given me some unwanted oil paints and tools. Had no idea and just got them out and started to paint. Yeah got messy very quickly. Scared me off.
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Thursday, 6 November 2014 11:52 (nine years ago) link
Good on you for making a go of the painting, I foolishing and/or courageously chucked it all in last year (!) to try and become an illustrator, success and clients have not been beating a path to my door yet. I struggle to inspire and motivate myself tbh, have not done as much work off my own bat as I could have. But hey this is ilxor gallery not ilxor artists' therapy. If I may be forgiven the self promotion, I have a portfolio site at http://tom.ledger.name/
― ledge, Thursday, 6 November 2014 12:10 (nine years ago) link
Difficult isn't it.
Love your "Der Trommler" btw
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Thursday, 6 November 2014 14:49 (nine years ago) link
https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10613127_887951241216676_1607446934253665386_n.jpg?oh=0172fcc1a1d21f81c28015e4f09ff002&oe=550681BB
https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/10501700_887951444549989_8763934611250593000_n.jpg?oh=678874326afaabf23873028750d11311&oe=54D27D96
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Monday, 1 December 2014 13:45 (nine years ago) link
(last one is partially complete btw)
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Monday, 1 December 2014 13:46 (nine years ago) link
How did I not know how many super talented ILXors there are?
Those of you who sell things should post links to where you sell those things.
― carl agatha, Monday, 1 December 2014 14:16 (nine years ago) link
dope, ste!
― Nhex, Monday, 1 December 2014 14:26 (nine years ago) link
whoa, those are bomb. I would buy one.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Monday, 1 December 2014 14:39 (nine years ago) link
yea those are rad!
― marcos, Monday, 1 December 2014 14:52 (nine years ago) link
Thanks guys, really appreciate the feedback. Trying to do more of the star wars droid things, something that people recognise. And generally looking at droids and spaceships from other famous movies/tv shows.
I'm dying to do a painting of the red dwarf ship, hard to find a decent image that has the detail though.
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Monday, 1 December 2014 14:56 (nine years ago) link
Great stuff, Ste. Here's the final portrait from my class, she looks a bit too mean, hair is too flat, etc etc. Definitely want to get more impressionistic in future.
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7526/15937099675_9cf4695b8e_b.jpg
I do have some stuff for sale on Artfinder, mostly drawings: https://www.artfinder.com/tomledger
― Kelly Gang Carey and the Mantels (ledge), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 11:24 (nine years ago) link
I like that a lot Ledge, the face is very strong.
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 12:26 (nine years ago) link
i was quite pleased with this recent watercolour:https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B3ayhpRCYAERtDA.jpg:large
― rad naps (+ +), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 23:59 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I like it.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 4 December 2014 00:33 (nine years ago) link
That dog knows how to live.
― TAKING SIDES: HUMANS VS. GUACAMOLEEE (Leee), Thursday, 4 December 2014 00:57 (nine years ago) link
Part way through my sci fi theme, going to do more of my own creations. The Tie Bomber is not finished btw
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B5I20CoCIAAZlVp.jpg:large
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Thursday, 18 December 2014 12:52 (nine years ago) link
digging it.
― how's life, Thursday, 18 December 2014 14:13 (nine years ago) link
good stuff ste. something about your style reminds me of the simon bisley end of 2000ad art.
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 18 December 2014 15:54 (nine years ago) link
Yep, big influence.
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Thursday, 18 December 2014 15:57 (nine years ago) link
Particularly Judgement On Gotham, which was the first time I'd seen his work, and then further on his Doom Patrol covers. So slick and natural.
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Thursday, 18 December 2014 16:07 (nine years ago) link
judgement on gotham was the first time i saw bisley too. got it for xmas and it blew my 11-year-old mind.
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 18 December 2014 16:18 (nine years ago) link
I've watched some fascinating interviews with Simon, where he talks about how when he paints it's almost subconscious, and that if he comes out of that trance then the lines he's drawing just lose their power.
Totally on board with that.
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Thursday, 18 December 2014 16:33 (nine years ago) link
Hey Ledge, did you ever get that dip pen you mentioned? Been practising with one myself this week.
A little bit scratchy, probably a cheap nib, but really impressed with the type of natural line it produces. Also wanted to use better ink, not keen on those design pen inks (always say their waterproof but hmm not sure) and my fountain pen (with converter-cartridge) just struggled to get the ink flowing and always clogged up.
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:03 (nine years ago) link
ugh they're
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Wednesday, 28 January 2015 21:04 (nine years ago) link
No, I should do. Guess I'm wary of accumulating yet another medium that I may end up not using enough and feeling guilty about but hey why break the habit of a lifetime.
― ledge, Friday, 30 January 2015 10:25 (nine years ago) link
first show in a loooooooong timehttps://c4.staticflickr.com/8/7378/15829451884_45a5a8fe91_c.jpg
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 5 February 2015 20:17 (nine years ago) link
wow!
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Friday, 6 February 2015 00:31 (nine years ago) link
https://scontent-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/10599378_613694265431265_6480747172928250761_n.jpg?oh=178ee40de281eae98929e764bedceb97&oe=557E1CAC
― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Monday, 16 March 2015 17:58 (nine years ago) link
urgh, any chance a mod can make that the correct size?
i have a new net art project:
https://www.flickr.com/opsothers/sets
and
instagram @opsothers #opsothers #otherpeoplesslides
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7651/16898614361_e50f78b328.jpg
― lxy, Monday, 23 March 2015 01:31 (nine years ago) link