Art Thread

[Odds]

laughs hysterically i have not progressed my art at all

excuse u

WHY DO YOU AHVE THIS.

WHERE DID YOU GET THIS.

I THOUGHT I BURNED THAT.

[KingTsaiko]

I lost our literature, thread, thinking of starting a new one.

In the meanwhile, I entered the world of "Bilbo left to the Undying Lands, the Shire must be boring unless the Tooks are doing their thing" and decided to make my own hobbit. Yay.

Drakes, Dwarves, and a Master Sheepman
In a hobbit's mind, Kalto Took was not a respectable halfling, but hey - not many Tooks were. At his young age of twenty three, he was immature, excitable, and energetic. Like many Tooks, Kalto would go on an adventure now and then, but since he was so young he couldn't go past the forest, and he needed a guide. But today wasn't an ordinary adventure-through-the-woods day; it was time for a real journey.(Unfortunately, he will have to wait a few days.)

Telling his parents brought them worry and dismay. "No, you can't go that far north! The drakes will gobble you up, son." They told him. Now, even a Took would have enough sense in him to know this, but Kalto didn't care. This only made him very curious about what lay past the Lonely Mountain. Bilbo, Frodo, Gandalf, and some others had sailed to the Undying Lands due east many years before, leaving the dwarves of Eribor no one to visit in the Shire. Kalto could certainly befriend them, and they could slay some dragons with him too! The young little Took couldn't be swayed by any of his kin's common sense. He had none!(Well, maybe some).

He was to leave in under a week's time.

...

I won't tell you what day he left, but he did. It was so sudden, he packed in the night, grabbed a nicely sized recurve bow, and went out the door at noon with only a "I'll bring some souvenirs." His eldest sister stared at the door for a moment or two, and shook her head.
"He'll come running home with tears in eyes asking for someone to help him read his map."
Kalto's mother reprimanded her, "Have a little faith in your little brother. He's got two decades of getting lost in the woods to make him strong."
"You'd think he'd realize how dangerous it is past the Shire during those years." That girl, oddly enough for a Took, was more respectable and less queer than her family. Even during a more peaceful time where it was easier to be a little odd since many other hobbits were too busy sleep-and-eating to notice.

Our friend Kalto was riding a nice fluffy sheep pulling a wagon of food and supplies. He smiled. "This is going to be fun." he whispered to his self. Then Kalto realized he was alone in the woods. Well, he had a nameless sheep mottled with brown and grey to converse with, but he didn't realize it. He was alone in the woods. It doesn't matter if he whispers or yells. It doesn't matter if he kicks a tree or strangle his sheep, even. He had freedom to do whatever he wanted, within reason, of course. That was more than enough for him.

END SCENE

Please, critique. I don't want to join a stupid group on DA, or spam fave's to get some readers. I don't really care about that aspect of deviantArt anymore. My friends and current watchers are more than enough for me.

Also, I'll post a sketch of little Kalto Took soon.

[Supaaku]

Writing thread is still on the front page, dude.

Also, your avatar is way big.

AVATAR LIMIT: 200px width, 220px height.

I've really nothing to say on the story since I don't know the first thing about how to improve it.

[Bexton]

So I got myself one of dem fancy smart phones over a year ago and I noticed that it had a way better camera than my "actual" camera.

I've taken jogs near where I live on a daily basis and well. I dunno. Fuck it. Have pictures.

http://i.imgur.com/DUUSH.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/zNhOo.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/6Vu3m.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/tT22T.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/UeBFP.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/vNLJ9.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/3gdwUqh.jpg

[Operation Awesome]

laughs hysterically i have not progressed my art at all

excuse u

WHY DO YOU AHVE THIS.

WHERE DID YOU GET THIS.

I THOUGHT I BURNED THAT.

It's in your DA scraps.

[TheStranger]

Oodles, you should know better, the Internet NEVER forgets anything

[Dire]

Fuck it. Have pictures.

Jesus, dude. Those are really nice. The first one's my favourite but they're all incredible.

-
So like, a did some messing with ink and dip pen. Liked the WIP a lot more than what I ended up with. This is printmaking paper, not water colour paper so it didn't quite take the water colour the way I would have liked.

So here have a picture of the wip.

[Bexton]

I'm bored so more pics. I visited Koli last summer and got pretty good ones.

One of the better ones I took.
http://i.imgur.com/WpFJK.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/FGJtXml.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/zMhwHhF.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/dSzFe0x.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/S3xSccS.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/RqWgbLW.jpg

I've got more, but those ones are my favorites.

[Dire]

I wanna go out to a national park and take pictures too now.


So here's that thing I was doing, mountains in the back were sorta... I dunno. Paper was absorbing the ink too quickly so it was hard to get a good wash.

[TheStranger]

[The Willow Witch]

Bexton, would it be weird if I asked you if I could use your pictures as reference for a painting? They're very beautiful.

Dire, I love using ink and painting in sumi, your painting came out very nice and I really like the trees and the little house. (I also have the same bowls as you :3 )

[Silver_Wolf]

So in our inspirational design class we had to make banjo pigs. And we could do it in any medium we liked, so I did it in Maya.
Concept art
Maya model
Decided to make him a little tubbier and flop one of his ears down in Maya.

[Riku]

That's pretty great.

[Verom]

Some sketchy earth bending animating

[Bexton]

Bexton, would it be weird if I asked you if I could use your pictures as reference for a painting? They're very beauyifful.

It'd be totally not. Go nuts.