Mr March Posted November 18, 2012 Posted November 18, 2012 Love it. Great to see talented fan made art of classic Macross. Quote
Pterobat Posted November 19, 2012 Posted November 19, 2012 Oh, these are so pretty. http://neldorwen.deviantart.com/gallery/32121180?offset=24#/d3c17fk -- I particularly like this one. Quote
nel2012 Posted November 26, 2012 Author Posted November 26, 2012 thanks guys.... here´s Alto´s portrait Quote
EXO Posted November 26, 2012 Posted November 26, 2012 Looks great. The hair is a bit too gray... otherwise great art! Quote
Mr March Posted November 26, 2012 Posted November 26, 2012 Incredible work. A great likeness. I like the background too. Maybe the hair color is supposed to be a bit diffused because the scene is supposed to be lit very brightly? Quote
the white drew carey Posted December 3, 2012 Posted December 3, 2012 Incredible work. A great likeness. I like the background too. Maybe the hair color is supposed to be a bit diffused because the scene is supposed to be lit very brightly? Could be, but with the background Nel2012 has chosen, the light source is coming from about 2 o'clock off of Alto's right shoulder. So that makes the shadows off (they're coming from about 10 o'clock) and not strong enough. Still,as with all of Nel2012's work so far, it is an uncanny rendition of Alto. Looks like an animation cel or advert! Quote
Mr March Posted December 3, 2012 Posted December 3, 2012 Oh, I cheat on shadows all the time I originally tried really hard to ensure each coloring I did had "uniformly aligned shadows". However, I quickly realized it can actually look better if you play around with shadows. As long as the large shadows that dominate the art are accurate, you can fudge all kinds of smaller shadows to give various areas volume and dimension even if the shadow makes no sense. I agree, neldorwen's art is incredible and looks exactly like the official artwork. So good. Quote
nel2012 Posted December 3, 2012 Author Posted December 3, 2012 hey guys, nice words and a good discussion there about color and shadows!. It is an issue to me, because sometimes I wonder how my drawings look on other screen monitors, know what I mean? because I saw my drawings in other screens and they look totally different (LCDs , LEDs or old monitor´s like mine, all vary). It will look different when I put all the drawings together for the big poster . I´ll be posting more colored drawings soon too Quote
chillyche Posted December 5, 2012 Posted December 5, 2012 Flipping the background image would solve the light direction issue, sorta. Or at least convince me that the same light that was lighting the clouds was lighting the character. The character art (line and coloring) itself is fantastic. Quote
the white drew carey Posted December 8, 2012 Posted December 8, 2012 Flipping the background image would solve the light direction issue, sorta. Or at least convince me that the same light that was lighting the clouds was lighting the character. The character art (line and coloring) itself is fantastic. My response exactly. Quote
nel2012 Posted January 20, 2013 Author Posted January 20, 2013 hey guys, just an "update" on the big drawing . I had no time to continue painting, too much work lately. But I started with the sketches of the valkyries. Must confess I do not like to draw mechanical stuff, but valkyries in fighter mode are fine to me. I had to look a lot to Tenjin´s works! these are some raw samples, will do better linearts later. Quote
Lobizon Posted January 20, 2013 Posted January 20, 2013 Nice update, mechanical stuff eh! Great work nel! Quote
Mr March Posted January 21, 2013 Posted January 21, 2013 Oh wow, those are promising. Kewl drawings! Quote
MechTech Posted January 23, 2013 Posted January 23, 2013 (edited) It's AWESOME work like this that I have to get my head out of the model building section more often to see! ALL of your work looks AWESOME Nel! Hopefully we'll be able to get a poster of your collage when you're done. I'm opposite, I SUCK at people - drawing and sculpting! But I can scratch build models and line draw machines. Don't feel bad, few can do both well. - MT Edited January 23, 2013 by MechTech Quote
TehPW Posted January 23, 2013 Posted January 23, 2013 (edited) those have the potential for being very cool tats at the very least... especially that VF-0S Edited January 23, 2013 by TehPW Quote
nel2012 Posted February 3, 2013 Author Posted February 3, 2013 thanks a lot for your comments, as always... I keep working on this whenever I can . Here are the last three valks that will be part of the poster: Quote
neoexcaliber Posted February 3, 2013 Posted February 3, 2013 thanks a lot for your comments, as always... I keep working on this whenever I can . Here are the last three valks that will be part of the poster: Very nice! My only comment is that the YF-19's canards don't look aligned. The right canard seems to be further in front compared to the left one. Quote
Mr March Posted February 3, 2013 Posted February 3, 2013 Very nice work! I agree the canards on the YF-19 need work, but I do really like the perspective of your YF-19 overall. The angle/perspective changes as you look along the length of the fighter. Very cool. Quote
EXO Posted February 3, 2013 Posted February 3, 2013 Very nice Nel. That's how rough my sketches were for the MWCon2010 shirt. The cockpit area for the fire valkyrie needs some streamlining... otherwise it should look sharp after color. http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=33668&hl=macrossworld Quote
nel2012 Posted February 3, 2013 Author Posted February 3, 2013 omg, EXO, that´s so great. I had no idea that picture was done by you, I have seen it before in the net and thought it was official stuff, really Will use it as reference when the time for painitng with Photoshop comes. Thanks for the advices, as I said, mechas are not my cup of tea for drawing, but I am enjoying working on this valkyrias. I am seriously considering on using Corel Draw to vector all these linearts, so It will be more easy and I´ll not have mistakes with perspective issues Quote
Mr March Posted February 4, 2013 Posted February 4, 2013 LOL! I wish I had half the talent you do for drawing mecha outside your comfort zone. Your work is solid and factoring that you don't consider yourself good at it, makes it all the more impressive. But whatever motivates you to draw more cool Macross stuff, I'm all for it Quote
MechTech Posted February 8, 2013 Posted February 8, 2013 They look great Nel! I'd go with Corel too. That's what I use to set up projects for engraving. Plus you can easily take to have personal customizations done like shirts or engraved items. - MT Quote
nel2012 Posted March 28, 2013 Author Posted March 28, 2013 hi again I did not abandon the 30 anniversary poster, is just that I had another big one to do in the middle (and that was a request!) I created this sort of poster for an upcoming Macross event, and the topic this time is Macross FB7. It was so much fun to do it. Now I can continue with my huge project , valkyrias in corel included *o* Quote
Mr March Posted March 29, 2013 Posted March 29, 2013 Terrible As always, great art and colors and the likenesses are uncanny. Phenomenal work. Quote
Vepariga Posted April 1, 2013 Posted April 1, 2013 Awesome awesome work,you actually motivated me to get back into drawing myself haha. Great stuff! Quote
nel2012 Posted April 1, 2013 Author Posted April 1, 2013 Vepariga, that´s great to know, that you felt like drawing again. Thanks for your words, minna... Here i finished Sarah: Quote
nel2012 Posted May 12, 2013 Author Posted May 12, 2013 *Posting my latest macross drawings* Finished Mylene for the Macross anniversary poster plus separate character posters created specially for our local Macross con Quote
Mr March Posted May 14, 2013 Posted May 14, 2013 As always, great work. The use of color is interesting; reminds me of stage lighting, like much of the official Macross 7 artwork produced as promotion for the series. Quote
nel2012 Posted June 9, 2013 Author Posted June 9, 2013 thanks for your messages, guys... yeah, I wanted "stage lighting", and very colorful, very MacrossFB7 clip style... Here goes a big update of the poster, three more drawings finished Quote
nel2012 Posted June 16, 2013 Author Posted June 16, 2013 I like the Minmay picture. Very cool. Thanks here is Isamu ... this is the first time I draw him Quote
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