Stickied. Also, my own Original Content is related-if-substandard.

>>9066

Fuck that opinion; your caricature art is fan-fucking-tastic.

Not even kidding.

>>9083
Yet you talk shit about the things made for us.
Wth man?

>>9083
>>9066
i concur.

>>9065
you're getting better! love the rendering now.

>>9067
i like the cartoony style you have going here.

I MAEK WEBCAMIC

Really, though. For some reason the whole FTF shitstorm made me want to make a webcomic.

It's ALWAYS a great time to make a webcomic. Speaking of which, I really need to finish my new intro for Blood Money Boogie. Thumbnailing is hard when you're basically making blind stabs at storyboarding. But have a pair of familiar faces. Or soon to be familiar faces.

>>9178
Oh damn, I remember that shit.

That chick was hilarious.

And just to prove I still know how to use a pencil...

>>9177

Many thanks, but I've got a long way ahead of me. I do find it amusing that some people think I could have only done that with a Cintiq. But no, Bamboo Fun and Photoshop CS4 for life. Or at least until I finally get around to buying a damn Intuos.

>>9067
This pleases me.

>>9184
yeah, theres always room for improvement. try rendering with the pencil a bit more when you sketch those full body poses, thats also fun.

i actually bought an intuos3 a few years back...a few months later the intuos4 came out. still works like a charm, though.

also, heres a thumbnail for a webcomic page im doing. only have this and one other left to do before the end of th chapter.

Initiated dump of artwork. Sorry for the shitty scans, I don't own a tablet and personally prefer to work with pencil and paper, with a dabbling of print making.

Was tripping nards on acid and adderall. Drugs are bad, except for acid, its great. It'll fuck with your brain though, so I don't do it anymore.

Water color assignment I had in class. I found out at the last moment that it had to be color, I really preferred it in black and white.

Midterm for high school senior year. Print making with pastel over it.

And that's it for now

>>9171

1. Seraph's stuff isn't paid commission

2. Seraph's caricatures actually resemble the people it's based on.

>paying for artwork that looks nothing like the reference photos provided, and thinking it's good

ffs, PJ

Mostly working digitally these days. Start 'em on paper and then scan and finish on the computer.

Out of curiosity, anyone here use graphite sticks or is that just an affectation I favor along with doing my lines in 6H?

Have a WIP.

>Mostly working digitally these days. Start 'em on paper and then scan and finish on the computer

That's basically what I do with my art. Helps with corrections, especially after I've already inked the drawing.

>>9267
>>9270
i've always enjoyed drawing with pencil more, but going digital has that edge in diversity i guess.

anyway, is anybody else here working on some stories? comic ideas? prose? rough ideas? i'd be interested in hearing them out.

>>9271

Well, I'm currently working out an intro for Blood Money Boogie that is basically a dialogue-less CQB sequence. Got any tips for storyboarding and panel layouts for someone who's better at illustration than comic stuff?

>>9273
try taking note of how panels are arranged in comics and manga. watching movies, and how each scene/frame is laid out can also help with planning out comic panels and such. i suppose if you're planning out a big CQB shootout, referring to training videos or something might help out with that.

in some comics and manga, sometimes the characters, bgs, etc. sort of pop out of panels, or do away with them entirely in order to emphasize certain elements of the story or scene. try playing around with that!

i remember browsing your DA for a bit and coming across the pages for BMB there. that was some time ago, though...what's the general story about?

>what's the general story about?

Tactical chick takes on everyone?

I've had an idea once about magic

versus engineering

They'd fight zombies from the Zone or some shit

Or each other

I laid out the panels on a single sheet of printer paper, and wanting to get more in, I drew the characters very short. But, hey, better than J Grant.

and top hats

>>9293

I've had an idea once, about my beloved Yotsuba and myself.

>>9304
Luckily for you, that's as far as it went - an idea.

Sage for abuse of this thread for the sake of your eternally ineffectual pursuits

>>9274

The merry adventures of two mercenaries in a band of mercenaries as they kill their way across the globe in the name of profit!

Also, moved the thirty-odd pages I'd done into my scrapbook since they're crap.

>>9307

You're just afraid I'd rock your kneesocks off.

>>9179
Well, good sir, if you're still interested, I may have the project for you.

>>9271
Yes. I am. It's a sci-fi military thing in space.
Anonymaus knows about it. I've been thinking of getting some OPERATORS involved, especially knowing how great some of you are at art.

>>9271
I'm sort of working on a story, it's about the one of the last bastions of humanity surrounded on all sides by an ever changing horde of lovecraftian nightmares.

It mainly focuses on a small group of scavengers on their day to day life, trying to find unspoiled food, looting stores to pawn off goods when they get back, fighting other survivors, and wading through the never ending swarm of death.

Since I have a hard on for impracticable weapons they have things like a cut down M82, a 6 gauge shotgun, one of them even has a short sword.

I'd share more but I'm not really happy with it, I'll probably end up scrapping it like all of my other stories.

Stuff I'm doing for Tiberium Wars. This is the third redesign I've done since the previous ones don't really work properly to reflect the nature of the Black Hand.

>>9335
(o0)


Warming up with the mechanical pencil and gel pen today to keep this thread moving

So we're doing this now? Cool

>>9341
Loving the post-apoc/futurustic OPERATOR magical girl vibe I get from this.

I have two-to-four hours of free time on busses each day, and it's either shitty drawing, or reading.

After a thread on..here I think... Been toying around with doing a STALKER short. and by short I mean visual short story.. Or something.

Rough ideas for a central band of characters.

More.

Another thing. Working on more dynamic poses.

Slightly more HSLD, for something else entirely.

I Gayed up the SOAR-P, I'll fess. Damn this fine-motor dysfunction to hell.

>>9217
Obviously it loses a lot of it's depth just running it through photoshop like this just to get an idear of what it originally was like but I think it looks cool both ways. The colored version sort of amplifies the "unknown" of the tunnel and the transition of daylight to the darkness.

There's a LOT of fun you can have with some basic brushwork. This is going to be developed quite a bit.

I drew this while waiting for Just Cause to download, I got a bit lazy when it finished downloading though. I would have added a front view and even drawn the other two legs

Could we combine a comic strip/short story idea to the magazine idea with Acid Man? We got a lot of resources, I know Jack_Burton is a writer and wrote a few of his own novels, we got the combined technical expertise and the people to do it.

Could be a nice project but we would have to organize it and get motivated.

>>9711
>comic strip

Anomymouse is already working on an OPERATOR comic book, I believe.

>>9712

Yep. I've got the prologue and arc written down, I just need to get my head out of my ass and start committing shit to paper.

Also been trying to job hunt in the interim. Something about my abrasive attitude making it hard to find an in-house illustration job. That, and my refusal to move to the West Coast for a job.

Bumping a sticky

>It's a sci-fi military thing in space

I was made aware of this one comic in that genre, with pretty good visuals (at one point, the protagonist's ship is sliced in half from a missed shot, as it observed a battle - he had to EVA to check on the rest of the crew) but then it went "on hiatus" shortly after introducing the whole "harem of alien bimbos" aspect.

Well, progress on that paint thing. The perspective of a screenshot I had from Black Ops fit, so threw it in for a bit of overlaid texture that I'm still painting over.

>>9711
i remember /co/ on 4chon having this comic compilation called premiere pulp...it's released on a regular basis online, and for free.

maybe we can put together an OPERATOR version of this or something? i'm almost about done with a chapter for my current webcomic, so i'd like to take a break with something else for the meantime. i've had a bunch of ideas i've written down for OPERATOR-themed comics lately, along with character designs and such. mite b cool

>>9755
Crowdsourcing is all the rage these days - it had proven itself as a viable option time and time again. I don't see why not start something like that.

How did /co/ do it? Was there any consistent story going on, or was it a mix of 1-shots?

>>9761
its a mix of one-shots, but the stories i have in mind are also ongoing/serial stories that i'd like to put out. the details for submissions are here: http://premierpulp.wordpress.com/submission-details/

i think it would still take a great degree of work and cooperation for something like this to be consistent and of acceptable quality, though. either way i'm down for it

My particularly shittastic drawings.

First up, an ARC Trooper drawn quite a while ago while I was still in HS probably around the same times as the animated Clone Wars cartoon was on tv.

Next up, my own crummy attempt at a newer model of the Turn A Gundam. Drawn around the same time as the ARC Trooper. I was pretty big into Gundam at the time with I think Gundam 0083 airing on Toonami at the time and thanks to mahq.net I was able to see info about other series. I liked the Turn A design and tried my own shot at it with a more classic torso and head.

>>9805
>>9806
I know that feel, I'm not very good at drawing but I still doodled away in math class, mostly by drawing interlocking geometric shapes.
>Gundam 0083
mah nigga

And finally a more recent drawing from when I was on a vacation of sorts and had some free time. An Imperator II Star Destroyer "parking" in the middle of a city.

Scale in this picture is all to shit, with SD being a mile in length those are some pretty huge buildings. There is a park at the bottom of the pic that I added because I got lazy and didn't want to draw anymore buildings.

Drawn in pen so fairly shitty even by my already shitty standards.

>>9807
I actually did the Clonetrooper pic while I was in Accounting class. I was never the best student in school but I tried to stay awake and pay attention but Accounting was so boring that it was literally the one time in all my years of school since kindergarten I fell asleep.

As the teacher never paid attention to anyone while going on her lectures about the wonders of Accounting I just mostly drew in the class. I'm actually relatively positive I never actually did any work in that class after the first week.

HSLD

We GDI now. Or at least starting to be. These're the preliminary lines for a new piece. I really ought to scan my paper stuff in, but I'm too lazy and there's not enough new stuff to warrant firing up the scanner.

From a /tg/ request I did. I know, I know, but still.

Same requester.

Just looking at this thread makes me want to draw, but I know I'm gonna end up getting buttfrutrated and quitting half-way through.

Ah, fun times.

I'll admit, I do admire Halo a bit much.

Quick sketch I did for kinder /k/ a long time ago.

and some facial expression work I did another long time ago

Finishing up with the lines...

>>9833
>no visible magazine

Pistol carbine?

>>9864
Combat rifle from Human Revolution. I really don't know how that's supposed to work, and this is coming from someone who enjoyed the the rifle designs from BF2142.

>>9865

Sort of an en bloc type inserted into the receiver, which broke open like one of them old shotguns. Silly, I suppose.

>>9876
BF2142 had a break-action battle rifle, but HR's looks like the magazine would prevent the cover from closing down. Granted, I never seen it in action, but it just looked really silly and trying to hard to be high-tech and cool when I first saw it.

When NDAs are not given, fun shall be had...

Pulled enough motivation outta the ass to make this rough sketch.

Update on infantry boy. I need to give drawing all of this tactical shit a break occasionally, but then it's basically what pays the bills...

>>10211
You're an asset artist for games?

Sweet.

>>10217

In passing, yes. I'm aiming for a more general market though. Guess that'll have to wait until my art stops sucking though.

By the way, anyone here use an Intuos?

>>10355
I use an Intuos 4 6x4in tablet. I haven't tried many tablets besides the Intuos 3, Intuos 4, and the Cinitq 12WX. Currently debating saving up for the Cintiq 12WX or the Yiynova 10.1.

>>10395

Lucky bastard. I need to get a replacement tablet soon. My Bamboo's great, but the active space is really small. Then again, I really need to upgrade everything else while I'm at it.

Have an Avatar Warmech while I'm at it. I'm having too much fun with digital markers thanks to the latest Feng Zhu video.

Was wondering if I could post a drawfag request here. I was wondering if someone could do some battletech-style art of infantry squads, similar to this or to some of the stuff posted in TRO 3085.

Specifically, for:
>an Inner Sphere Jump Platoon (soldiers with jump packs)
>Clan Infantry Point

Also, no background art is required, just need the troops themselves

just settling into seattle. the library is pretty cool here

anyway, a character i doodled for a story i'm working on.

>>10503

Oh, hell yes. I fucking love BattleTech. Dem Clanners are baseline or Elemental-sized?

Pic related, it's from a story/campaign I was working on for BT using child soldiers.

>>10513

baseline clan infantry, no elemental-phenotypes.

Some logo design for Sua Sponte, worked with another dude on the look.

>>10513
Child soldiering, eh?

>>10723

Yep, based on the old MechWarrior 3ed life paths. High school ends early at 16 if I'm not mistaken, with enlistment being an immediate option afterwards.

Got some shit in the works, will post when I can/am released.

working on a better armored turret for armored cars.

also, armored cars.

75 gallon fuel tank, armored, compartmentalized, and self sealing.

crew compartment, seating for three, driver has both vision blocks AND cameras in certain vision blocks hooked to a panoramic monitor.

still working on the gun cradle, but this shows where the pivot point is. turret is fully enclosed with vision blocks. very spacious so as to have plenty of room for more ammo, personal weapons, and comfort items for the gunner.

traverse motor is in the vehicle hull, with control by bluetooth or probably more likely conductive rings in the turret contacting copper brushes. anyone who is familiar with alternators' certain electrical motors know what kind of brush I'm talking about.

turret is arranged so that the only time the gunner is most vulnerable to enemy fire is when he's aiming at you, and even then he's less exposed at this angle than in a current gen military turret.

>>10810
>>10809
>>10807
>>10806
>>10805
Iz dat sum Halo ODSTs?

Looking pretty light and very recon-y, what's the intended weight? I mean, you give them what appeared to be nice spacious windshield but that turned out to be fully-enclosed. Why not give them at least a more direct view that can be closed off when necessary in addition to the cameras and vision blocks?

>>10811

because I wanted to play around with the idea.

I also applied the turret to my older Killdodge concept. I may move the windsield style over.

>>10811

I haven't figured out the intended weight yet, how much does 1" AR500 plate weigh per square meter?

>>10813
Honestly, no clue, but I'd imagine it to be oppressively heavy if it's 1" all around.

A bit of Halol.

>>10815

no doubt, but it'd have to be thick to withstand anything larger than a .30.

Update on the Avatar. Gonna start doing the detailing now.

>>10932
Just sayin'

The best rifles get no love nowadays.

more studies of >>9177

i was thinking of submitting a story with her to the /co/ premiere pulp thing since i have a bit of time on my hands.

>>9177
>>11061

MOAR. So I can doujin the shit out of her

>>11063
o-okay. here's an old one.

also, will you wait until the comic is actually finished before you release the doujin?

>>11063
Doujin isn't necessarily porn.

>>11075

>doujin

>not necessarily porn

>NSWG involved

Uh, okay.

>>11082
>NSWG doujin is released
>it's a slice-of-life style doujin
>only sexual part is nothing but making love in the missionary position and no money-shots at all
>nudity is conveniently censored or blurred out like in some ecchi media

:o

>>11084
Either way, would read.

modernized Bismark/Tripitz

>>11152
>>11153
>>11154

omg, Maxi, you glorious bastard, model me a catamaran-style carrier/assault ship, using two WWII CVEs with a solid section of flight deck (maybe the same size as the CVEs' flight decks) joining their flight decks. Maybe some support structure to show reinforcement for high seas deployment.

PLZ, MAXI.

I'll grab your weapon..?

>>11155


we already made the /k/aligula

Is such a thing even possible... to make a mask that snaps onto the helmet for quick attachment/detachment?

>>11177

Yes.

Speaking of full-face helmets...

made some alterations.

I always thought current Naval uniforms lack the kind of traditional flair that they've always been famous for.

quite an imposing view, yes?

how'd you like to see a trio of these monsters steaming towards your battlegroup?

>>11190
>Helipads to the sides of the ship
Maxi what are you doing?

Try to get the helipads as centered as possible (fore and aft as well as side to side) to reduce their movement.

Another dispatch from the Western Front.

>>11194
I know what you mean, but think about trying to fly a helicopter into such a place, especially on a battleship. First off, it's moving forwards, so the helo's moving. Can't fly straight to the helipad, so you'd have to match speeds, then adjust sideways or straight down to land.

Now, watch most helicopters land nowadays. They land and take off forward for the most part, because it takes less power, and is easier, than going straight up.

Yes, Maxi's design would have more variables for the pilot to consider, but a failure to land properly wouldn't result in a helicopter joining the Admiral on the bridge. "Where things go when they go horribly wrong" is always something to consider.

>>11207

Reminds me of this I did a few years back.

Lets get down to business; to defeat the hun!

>>11217

Now that...is mighty inspirational. While I make something of myself, have a Zooper.

>>11213

that was one consideration along with giving the pilots maximum space to maneuver for landing.


also, if you notice, the CIWS turret is directly over and in front of the hangar. offsetting the helipad goes along way to free up space in the firing sector of the Zenith gun AND gives alot more free space for a landing pilot to get the fuck out of the way in the event the Zephyr goes loud.

and then it lets a pair of helicopters take off at once, cutting launch time in half.

finally designed a hangar door that suits my liking, also acts as an additional safeguard against accidental CIWS damage.

working on sensory equipment now.

initial placement of the phased array radar emitters makes the ship look like a grumpy old man.

I am keeping this arrangement.

I don't even know.

>>11276
>Shemagh
>Firs
Wat.

You should feel good though. I mostly just doodle on my notes.

I'd say 90% of what I do is gesture drawing. Occasionally I'll polish something up in GIMP.

Sorta.

>be bored at work
>this happens

I was really bored.

Recently I've been thinking a lot about a hard-science approach to extraterrestrial warfare.
http://www.operatorchan.org/pasta/res/496.html
is of particular relevance.

>>11289
>I'd say 90% of what I do is gesture drawing.

my nigga

bg study before i resume work on my webcomic.

>>11294

Holy shit, I need to work on ink stuff more. Thanks for reminding me.

>>11299
you're welcome, i guess...!

>>11308
What medium/technique do you use?

>>11309

Looks like pen and marker to me, but I've been known to be frequently wrong.

>>11309
>>11311

yep, it's pen and marker. i've only been using the markers for a couple of months so far but i'm liking them.

also, do any of you guys have accounts on deviantart/tumblr that i can follow?

>>11316

Well, you know mine.

Working over a sketch...

decided to work on an escort for the battleship.

>>11368
Why do you have ESSM launchers on ships with VLS?

Instead of the, I'm assuming, Mk 54 Mod 2 5" gun I'd use the Mod 4 version. It has a longer barrel for extra range and a stealthier housing, which probably wouldn't help much on a fuckhuge BB.

I'd also ditch the stern turret. The only thing your main battery is gonna be used for is fire support. You're not gonna need 360 degree coverage to take on enemy ships. A better use for that space would be a larger helipad/hanger and turn the ship into some sort of BB/LHD hybrid. With automation you could clear up a ton of space to house marines.
See: http://www.shipbucket.com/Never%20Built%20Designs/United%20States%20of%20America/BB-61%20Iowa%201982.gif

You have a weird thing for point defense. 57mm Bofors?, Goalkeeper, and those 5" dual purpose guns. The Bofors are kinda superfluous on an escorted ship, it fill a small niche between the 30mm and 5". Perhaps scrap the Bofors and put a pair of goalkeepers on either side?

>>11383

>Why do you have ESSM launchers on ships with VLS?

more direct angles of attack than VLS, and less maneuvering for missles when seconds count.

>Instead of the, I'm assuming, Mk 54 Mod 2 5" gun I'd use the Mod 4 version. It has a longer barrel for extra range and a stealthier housing, which probably wouldn't help much on a fuckhuge BB.

I forget what the nomenclature is, but it's a 5" 52 caliber gun seeing as how it's mostly intended as a defensive armament for use against aircraft, and boats that get too close it should be fine. stealth is not a consideration for these ships. you WILL see them coming, and you will know their intent long before.



>I'd also ditch the stern turret. The only thing your main battery is gonna be used for is fire support. You're not gonna need 360 degree coverage to take on enemy ships. A better use for that space would be a larger helipad/hanger and turn the ship into some sort of BB/LHD hybrid. With automation you could clear up a ton of space to house marines.

while it IS a good idea, this battleship is named "Kraken". it's only role is to eliminate enemy warships. therefore it's better to have a strong broadside than a platoon of marines.


>You have a weird thing for point defense.

On a battlefield where every ship can easily fit at least eight anti ship missiles with 1000 mi range the idea of large defensive armaments on a big scary expensive warship that needs to close to 35 mi for its primary armament to have effect is weird to you?

>57mm Bofors?
>The Bofors are kinda superfluous on an escorted ship
>Perhaps scrap the Bofors

the hell are you talking about? the defensive armaments are the 5" guns, the Sea Sparrow launchers, and the 25mm CIWS. the battleship having 6/3/4 and her escorts having 1/2/4


the CIWS turrsts are something I found on the #D warehouse called the "Sea Zenith MK II", I'm assuming it's a 25mm platform like the real sea zenith. also I modified it a bit to include an onboard tracking system.

I have alot of them because when the shit starts flying you want to be able to eliminate at least 19 out of every 20 missiles they shoot at you.


as for offense, the VLS cells hold the AShM and the anti sub torpedoes, the 16" shells can be programmed to detonate shortly after impact, at a certain altitude or distance from a target, or at a certain external pressure so they can be used as depth charges.

furthermore, I chose a similar platform to the AH-1 as the on-board helicopters primarily because of the size; you can house two AH1s in the same space as 1 seahawk, and you can perform most of the same missions with the exception of troop transport.

transport is not on the list of mission requirements for this battlegroup right now.


finally, the ship's own armor is the last, and best, line of defense against the anti ship missiles; since AShMs are designed with modern warships in mind, and modern warships actually having hulls less than an inch thick and not even being ballistic rated, an AShM would likely just mash itself against the hull of an old style battleship and explode somewhat harmlessly in the water.


so basically the whole idea is to get the battleship in range to set up her broadside and start dropping 2,000 lb loads of HE onto the enemy ships while the escorts and battleship alike tear into them with AShMs, and the twelve gunships search for subs.

>>11396
>>the hell are you talking about?
I didn't know they were 25mm, It was hard to tell by your other pic. They looked like a really old 57mm mount from a distance.

Guys this thread is more about art itself, not necessarily the technical aspects of the subject matter.

I would invite you to discuss the various aspects of vehicles in /v/ and weapons in /k/, or the appropriate board for any other aspect of technical discussion that is unrelated to the production of art. If you start a thread based on a technical disagreement here, feel free to reference and link this thread, but keep the actual discussion out.

Agreed, post moar drawings of operators

here's a sketch mockup for an illustration i'm working on containing >>11065 and her boss >>10510

the story's supposed to be a multi-part/issue/episode thing, but i'm still seriously considering putting a short one for that Premiere Pulp thing, or just as something i can post up here. here's the synopsis so far:

Stationed on the quiet, rustic border town of Soyus, Joseph Lane has come a long way since serving in the special forces. As his years of service come to a close, he looks forward to retirement, and finally rejoining his family back home. But first, he has to train a replacement...

A candidate arrives just in the nick of time to pull old Joe out of a heated border scuffle. Kelly Mullens, a former Marine, reports for duty with guns blazing. Promising, talented, and combat-capable, her over-qualification for the job raises some suspicion.

Both come from a war-torn past from a cataclysmic conflict eight years prior. Much will be revealed about their experiences on the battlefield as they go about their day-to-day lives on the border.

>>11443
Fund it. Now.

>>11293
My next story is going to be a hard-as-possible-scifi take on the standard "Alien Infiltration" genre. A little bit Body Snatchers, a little bit Alien Conspiracy, with a chunk of This Is How Avatar Should Go.

Still brainstorming it, though, and I don't think it'll be PBE-related.

I loves me some hard scifi.

>>11522
OH SHIT!
I had the same idea!

Except in mine there's some creepy cult that's feeding E.T. intel about Earth (targets, biosphere, disease vectors etc), and some LEO or civvies blunder into their operation out in the mountains and have to escape the wilderness to sound the alarm.

Human vs. alien counterintelligence would be an awesome premise for OPERATING.

>>11522

Today I found out that superluminal communication is impossible; Although it is possible to transfer information using entanglement, the bits 'travel' at luminal speeds. This has massive implications for future political units, unless there some post-human advancement of society, maintaining a cohesive political unit will be an uphill battle. Therefore some degree of state-on-state violence is inevitable.

However: my scenario assumes a species-on-species interaction in the immediate future. With all humans less than a lightyear apart, it is possible to act as a cohesive unit.
Note that sub-luminal communication means that the invading party may be completely out of touch and cohesion with the rest of it's species. The rules of human-on-human conflict may not be relevant to this meeting.


Think of man as a bacterial culture; The human pathogen must dominate the petri dish.

The Scenario: Several objects hit or narrowly miss Earth at relativistic speeds. The fact that humanity isn't destroyed outright indicates an attacker with limited resources or intelligence. Earth faces ecological and agricultural collapse. There is a severe increase in orbital debri.
In any case, there is a critical phase of political change on Earth; Not everyone buys the 'aliens' story, and even fewer are able to reach a consensus on the correct response. There is a dramatic increase in state powers, and backlash to that expansion. All this occurring during an agricultural catastrophe on an apocalyptic scale.

Massive ground operations are mounted to quell insurgencies across the globe.

>>11536
I'm still trying to figure out why any spacefaring civilization would actually need to invade an inhabited planet. If it was for natural resources, cheaper and easier to go full-scale genocide from 2 AU away.

Once I get that figured, I'll have a framework for the story to build on, but I don't want to write a story wherein human organs are actually worth invading for, as much as I enjoyed Skyline.

OOoooooooHhhhh, what if the aliens were themselves refugees? So they had a decent fleet, but nothing capable of glassing Earth, and needed the place to be inhabitable? They'd just gotten their asses completely stomped, and needed to hide in the far corner of the galaxy (relatively speaking) and survive until they could grow again, and we just happen to be on the only inhabitable rock around?

That would work, and would explain why Act Two isn't Orbital Bombardment.

It also allows for some politics and philosophy as the aliens face up to the fact they're committing genocide of a species in order to survive as a species.

Meanwhile, space agencies scramble to detect additional projectiles and replace Earths ruined satellite networks. The space junk demands shielding and armor, and new, heavier launch vehicles consume fortunes worth of fuel. Entire industries are formed to support the manufacture of fuel, and are in turn targeted by militants.
The believers have won a culture war against the skeptics, with dissident media shouted down and confined to the underground. The world's police ruthlessly hunt the members of this counterculture.

Governments move to ban private use of wireless broadcast devices. Pirate radio stations are met with armed raids, as the airwaves are hijacked by counterintelligence personnel. Some people continue to consume the wildly fictional wireless media out of ironic enjoyment. Meanwhile, objective information is transferred through secure landlines.

With dissenting airforces destroyed, the aerospace industry and it's military customers turn to the doctrine of space combat. Launching systems from Earth is now extremely expensive; the sheer number of space launches is actually altering the atmosphere. They pursue the capture of asteroids and attempt to develop orbital mining and manufacturing techniques. Progress is slow.

>>11562

>I'm still trying to figure out why any spacefaring civilization would actually need to invade an inhabited planet.

the alien civilization invades planets to give the inhabitants the test of fire, if they fight well they are rewarded with friendship, fight poorly or act cowardly by submitting, and they get wiped out.

or maybe they just do it for sport?

The worlds scientists are unable to find the "muzzle flashes" from the incoming kill vehicles. Worse, the next burst of missiles are properly aligned with Earth's orbit. Obsolete and damaged satellites are sacrificed to blunt the impacts. Orbital forces suffer significant losses; most die slowly. Earth's ecological crisis is renewed and the resulting food shortages cause another wave of insurrection. The world is cold and starving. The powers now tolerate ethnic cleansing as a means of suppressing dissent. Some political blocs are using addictive substances to control their remaining security forces. War planners struggle to replace wireless technology as a means for communication.

Entanglement-based communication is developed, but requires another form of passive communication and periodic 'reloads' of entangled matter to be effective. It's use is reserved for missions into far space and as crisis lines between the remaining governments that can afford to maintain them.

Most orders to orbital platforms are transmitted visually. A fleet of drones flash binary messages across inner space and around planets, relatively secure from interception.

Wireless communication is a fading feature of planetary life. Every so often, pirate radio will boom from the center of some uprising, and are quickly silenced. The remaining broadcasts maintain the apocalyptic tone mandated by powers. With Earth's surface now approaching the miserable, tabloid reality of the radio, most of it's viewers have turned away from it out of depression. Privately, leaders admit that the wireless ruse has done more harm than good.

Regardless, man's mechanisms of defense maneuver silently across the ruined sky. Orbital personnel are largely in a state of medicated fatalism; their positions exposed, their doctrine untested and their health in a general state of decay. The construction of various centrifuges and hydroponic systems has failed to sustain free-fall operations, and Deployment to Space is widely regarded as a life-ruining event. Sexual Services and Pharmaceuticals are administered diligently to keep crews "on the level" and distracted from the gravity of their situation.

>>11565
>I'm still trying to figure out why any spacefaring civilization would actually need to invade an inhabited planet.

Why not? It's clearly a profitable endeavor, considering how easy it is just to drop an asteroid on the Yucatan and ruin the human food supply, scooping up our biomass could be pretty cost-effective

Opforian, I like your noisy and sketchy style, I can see it going really well with high contrast shading and low white-low-gray-high-black color scheme. Luckily, it is very dark in space.

>>11569
I meant invade in the ground troops, Allies-into-Europe sense. Dropping asteroids on the planet isn't an invasion, even if ground troops show up later to scoop the Unobtainium off the surface of the planet and take polaroids.

>>11571
Probably because it's more compelling to the viewer, and you have to explain less to the audience.

I think a real 'invasion' with that goal would be led by a Cortez figure:
Suppose you had a guy come out of the sky dressed as the 12th Imam; he could fold whole swathes of Earth's muslim population into his forces, just like the conquistadors did with local tribes when they came to America. Add that to plagues and other 'acts of god' and you have a compelling political presence.

>>10503

Here's something. Not even close, but hey, there's a jet pack.

>>11577
If I wrote a movie, it wouldn't be aimed at the general Hollywood audience, it'd be aimed at people who want to think. Scifi used to be a way for writers to discuss modern issues in depth, they'd take an issue and pull it out of the context of modern society in order to highlight it. Star Trek:TOS comes to mind.

However, Hollywood wants another version of Star Wars, where nothing's really all that complicated, and the things that aren't immediately apparent to the audience generally aren't important. It's been done, and while that sort of thing can be fun, it's generally not much more than that.

Lost in Space is a fun movie, but there's not much substance.
District 9 had something to say.

Writing for an audience that can't deal with complex characters or rich backstories doesn't appeal to me, I would rather write the kind of stories that I would read. The overarching thought when I write, past spelling and grammar, is always "Is this the sort of story I'd actually read?"

>I'm still trying to figure out why any spacefaring civilization would actually need to invade an inhabited planet.

Because they want the planet, not the humans, but if they don't deal with the humans here, God help them when we get our shit together and hit them in their homes.

>PBE: THE FIRST SPACE WAR

>>11583
Sometimes I wonder if Hotaru Maniac doesn't regret this meme just a little bit.

>>11581
Well, fortunately for you, the Body Snatchers angle pushes peoples buttons. Anything where people are acting creepy is good material for a thriller. Just make sure that the fact that something is amiss is established through behavior and not some cgi transformation scene, although adding small cgi or makeup tweaks to the character over time might enforce a feeling of unease. Having the character do something weird in the background is also good for this.

He does.

Hell, even I do.

>>11506
yeah, i'm coming up with a short one-off concept right now as a submission.

i guess reading some of the other concepts from you guys also made me think about the bigger picture, too. the universe they're in will take light sci-fi and cyberpunk elements, combined with late cold-war weapons, gear and tech (operation eagle claw/gothic serpent era) for the characters.

>>11593
Just don't try too hard to achieve realism; women don't maintain that fecund appearance after a life of anaerobic exercise.


Anyway, I figure the challenge in my scenario is developing characters people will become attached to. All this so they will feel genuine horror as dear friends are reduced and consumed by random violence. The goal is to inflict as much emotional trauma on the audience as possible. This secures an interest in the minutia of space combat.

>>11597
>>11599
>Just don't try too hard to achieve realism; women don't maintain that fecund appearance after a life of anaerobic exercise.

yeah, that's a given. it will hardly be the most deep, grimdark and edgy story on the planet, because i like a kind of light-hearted sense of storytelling too, but it will still have plenty to ponder on with a woman soldier around. i learned a lot about that particular topic just lurking around opchan and kinder /k/ and that got me interested.

>>11597
and yeah, you are very right about this...i really just want to draw a hot chick doing OPERATOR things at the end of the day. that's all.

I pulled my last post; it was a little over the top and didn't really fit in with a larger narrative.

>>11616
I can think of quite a few franchises based on that model.
Is she some kind of loli battle machine?

>>11620
>I can think of quite a few franchises based on that model.
yeah totally. hardly the most original idea to base a story from but this is all really in the name of good fun for me.

>Is she some kind of loli battle machine?
not really, she's meant to be a little fit/built/busty

>>11645
Them's birthin' hips

Also, are you making her into a gym rat? All the arms and shoulders and no core?do you even lift?

>>11658
i guess she works out a lot but not to the point that shes totally built. shes got upper body muscles too but also some sizeable tits, but i guess i drew em wrong if it isnt immediately apparent.

>tfw i cant view spoilers on an iphone

I need to start drawing much more consistently.

>>11658
>>11645
do you guys have a deviantart/tumblr/blogspot/whatever that i could follow?

>>11664
draw the hands and feet and stuff, and draw often. get critiques, gesture drawing, etc. you'll do good if you dedicate yourself!

revised this sketch draft a bit, an art friend i'm staying with right now saw it liked its sketchiness and wanted to work on it.

>>11664

Personally, the trick's always been repetition. It's a bit Xzibit in nature, but you need to get yourself used to drawing consistently in order to draw consistently. Hell, it helps to develop your characters' appearances while you're working to get them to a set look.

>>11660
I meant to point out that she's got some short legs and man shoulders, then a crazy thin corset-waist, so I don't think that that particular rendition of her is my favorite.

As for a DA account or anything of that sort, I do not have one, so for now, what you see is what you get. It's not a bad idea, though, it'll motivate me to draw daily to keep it updated.

>>11664
I don't claim to be a god artist, but this is what had worked for me. Take it as you wish.

I have found that the key to the arts is the same as to marksmanship - concentration and observation. When you find or think of something that you would like to draw, you should commit yourself to rendering it as close to what you want it to be as possible.

Don't be afraid to erase, even if you have to start over from scratch.
Don't rush, study your tools of the trade and take note of what they can do - note what angle and what pressure should be applied to get a certain type of line until you have an intuitive understanding.

Study your subject well and draw with resolve - if it takes you two strokes of the pen to put down a line, rethink your approach until it takes you one.
Don't just copy what you see, think in 3 dimensions and once you have understood your subject, put your own understanding down on paper. If you draw everything mindfully, experimenting and trying out different approaches every time you draw, you will learn in no time, and if you were to take a break and completely forget the knack of it, you will pick it back up even faster.


Attaching today's doodle - mechanical pencil, gel pen and sharpie. The Pallad-M should have value, but I haven't figured out how to achieve it yet. More to come later.

>>11665
>>11666
>>11667
I've always tried to get myself to draw whenever I had free times, but then I end up being too mentally overwhelmed by the end of a workday or I'm too preoccupied with something else that I just end up not drawing at all. I've always felt inadequate and more so, each time I look at a better artist.

Hopefully, with the sheer amount of chaos from my unit's SFAT team finally deploying and the actual changing of the flag for my unit, I'll get more consistent time to draw as opposed to simply spending what little time doing nothing or playing vidya. Maybe even have the money saved up for a Cintiq tablet.

Today I was thinking a lot about the nitty gritty of supporting large numbers of personnel in free-fall. Since any kind of radio communication will exposes the position of a unit, dependence on remote-controlled systems are out of the question; the gunboats must be manned.*

Obviously, you can't leave men in constant microgravity;
Muscles atrophy and zero gravity can even cause "severe eyesight problems". Centrifuges will be essential for offworld garrisons. Since it will be difficult to assemble a large centrifuge, we should assume that most will be relatively small. This presents a few problems;
1. What if men moving around in the centrifuge shift it's center of gravity?
2. How will angular acceleration of the centrifuge affect the positioning of the larger platform?

The first problem necessitates some kind of sensor-driven counterweight to keep the C.G. and axis of rotation absolutely stationary.
The second problem is especially pressing if the centrifuge is damaged. One way of preventing a spin-out would be to include a second, counter-rotating centrifuge or gyro, perhaps consolidating this system with the sensor-driven counterweight.

It then occurred to me that you could cut out an entire system by having the centrifuge assembly be driven by the occupants themselves. Manually stopping, spinning and restarting the centrifuge would provide the essential exercise and could even be used to regenerate power!

* I'd even mandate that radio transmission only be carried out between expendable vehicles. These could relay their messages to armed platforms visually.

>>9330
Is Johnnyreb still around? What's the premise?

>>11675
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/index.php

>This site was mainly intended for science fiction authors who wanted a little scientific accuracy so they can write SF "the way God and Heinlein intended"

One of the topics is artificial grvity:
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/artificialgrav.php

>>11675

They just need PBE patches, and you're G2G!

>>11667
ok, ill work on doing more studies then,

>>11675
a lot of beginning/unskilled artists always end up shying away from hands/feet, and stick to drawing poses that hide them, or just poses that they are used to drawing. it's always high time to mix it up a bit; try a new kind of pose whenever you draw, whenever you can, as often as you can.

back when i was still learning animation, we were also taught to draw with straight up ink in some drawing sessions to sort of build confidence. kind of like what >>11667 says:

>Study your subject well and draw with resolve - if it takes you two strokes of the pen to put down a line, rethink your approach until it takes you one.
Don't just copy what you see, think in 3 dimensions and once you have understood your subject, put your own understanding down on paper. If you draw everything mindfully, experimenting and trying out different approaches every time you draw, you will learn in no time, and if you were to take a break and completely forget the knack of it, you will pick it back up even faster.

having more confidence in your line strokes also means that you take less time pondering over the form, and more time transitioning that picture you see in your imagination, or a figure that you are copying, onto the paper or canvas. its also something i constantly forget and need to work on apparently!

probably the most important thing you should remember is to take everything with an open mind, it's never too late to learn something new, especially with art.

>>11688
>beginning/unskilled artists
THEMS FIGHT'N WORDS!

>>11677
Thank you for posting that link. I shall reference it when I'm writing.

I don't want to be "that guy" but I was wondering if someone here would be able to draw a woman in a ripped tank top, one arm holding up her massive breasts, and the other holding up an AK-47 sideways with the other.

>>11676
Yeah, I'm here. Currently writing a story bible for my script.

>>11570

>dat brilliant plan

Oh god my sides

I was overcome by the urge to make a semi-operator magical girl. If it was an anime, it would have an awkward and wordy title, like "Adapt and overcome! Mojokko Kaede-chan!" or something.

>>11763
Hard science or soft?

>>11776
Soft

>>11777
...How so?

>>11779
It's not like star trek where I'm gonna explain every little detail. I'm not gonna explain shit about how stuff works, it just does, because how shit works is not important in the story. I think that's what makes sci-fi hard or soft, right?

>>11781
I always thought the difference was in the level of handwavium used vs the level of actual physics, not in the level of explanations given. In the story I'm going to start writing soon, I'm going to try to stick to physics as much as possible, but the actual mechanics of how stuff works are fairly irrelevant to most stories.

I mean, honestly, think about it. Who really cares how something works in a movie or book, so long as the result of it working isn't completely retarded? As long as we're talking physics, not psykers and force fields, then to me it's not really important how it works.

Scenes that are full of technobabble get annoying anyways.

Sooner or later, I'll finish this damn drawing.

Trying to into vehicle design...

You'll probably see some more civvie stuff soon enough.

>>11782
Hard sci-fi is defined by plausibility. 1984 is hard science fiction. Star Wars is science fantasy.
I was interested in knowing what kind of sci-fi tropes were involved;

Is there artificial gravity?
Is there faster-than-light travel?
Do the guns shoot blue shit?
Is this more like Stalker, Killzone or Halo?

>>11793
Killzone and Halo would probably be the closest comparisons.

>>11795

go on...

I've got other stuff aside from this Tiberium Wars stuff, but I'm still working on them.

more studies for ma webcomic

>>12038

Shit, I oughta get around to doing some of these reference sheets for Blood Money Boogie as well...

>>12054
you should try drawing some more dynamic poses too, i don't see too many in your DA gallery

>>12038
>>12055
forgot me namefagging

>>11773
>"Adapt and overcome! Mojokko Kaede-chan!"
Ha! That made my day!

>>12066
her lips look a little too low and her torso looks really inflated. also, are her eyes intentionally derpy?

i like how you drew her foreshortened hand, though

Today I had an idea for a unified R.K.V. and 'infection' system.

Basically, It's a Valkyrie rocket with four engines. It's a generation ship that produces a large number of individuals after it's final deceleration.

Midway into it's trajectory, the craft jettisons two of the four engines, reverses it's orientation and decelerates using it's remaining thrusters. The jettisoned engines continue to accelerated towards the target. Both of these elements are crewed, with the engine crews living out the rest of their lives before impact.

The function of the engine crews is to
1: Determine whether a relativistic impact is necessary.
2: Collect intelligence and pass it to the main body.
3: Disassemble and jettison Expired systems on collision courses with orbital and planetary targets.

The original chassis maintains a living population to seed on the pacified planet.
In normal flight, the main body has a disk-shaped centrifuge towed behind the engines, which is normally spun about the axis of motion. When the craft arrives at the target, it begins to tumble end-over-end. This swings the centrifuge about the engines and produces artificial gravitation towards the broad face of the centrifuge, allowing it to accomodate a larger population in preparation for landfall. Finally, individual landing craft are jettisoned from the "bottom" of the centrifuge in a retrograde trajectory, causing atmospheric entry with minimal fuel waste. Core chassis maintains orbit and deploys communication systems.

Fucked up the perspective a good bit, but I'll be touching this up. Gotta love the classic 3025 Warhammer. At least before I started to work on it.

bumping a sticky.

Surprise, motherfucker!

One more thing to throw into the rejects pile.

>>12640
I think a battering ram would have been a better idea. That and shotguns, sledgehammers, and armored vehicles always make me think of the words "KNOCK KNOCK."

Hi all, just finished a little sketch :3

Cultural costume study.

Despoilers, the gangsters of the dead.

Got bored, thought I'd contribute some terrible, got out tablet, posting results.

Why does Travis have down syndrome?

>>12876
'cause thats the way I wanted to caricature him.

Got a tablet for my bday, so I've been redoing some old drawings. I'm glad I got it too, since my college is hosting its annual comic contest this semester.

second picture im done with.

I forgot the name of this rifle, but i love it =3

>>12935
>forgot the name
>magwell marked Mk. 11 Mod. 0
It's a Mk 11 fitted with an SPR rail tube.

>>12937
You know that the PRI Gen III tube wouldn't fit on an SR25, right?

>>13173
It's a drawing.

>>13258
they appear to have put so much detail into other parts of it, i figured they would want it correct. i was just offering some constructive criticism for those going for accuracy

Here's a picture of me welding on a sculpture some friends in my welding classes and I did together. Not drawn, but I guess it's art.

>>13271
how much does that weigh?

Learning me some vehicle design.

>>13275
450-500 pounds or so.

little sketch :3

  >>13327
You drew this? That's awesome work man, it really reminds me of vid related, which is a good thing!

You've been playing Guild Wars 2?

>>13369
haha yes they are very similar but not the same architecture, I did not know this monster. I am inspired by wheatley (portal 2) for the head

I need something less sci-fi, so...

I keep telling myself I'll finish my drawings.

For sure, this one is actually looking good and I plan on making variations. Need to figure out what kind of battle-belt I'd like, and maybe some thigh-rigs.

Finally.

I think I'm getting the hang of enviros now...

My last sketch *-*, created during my dutch course xD

>>13919
Ga eens opletten, joh.
Nederlands is hartstikke belangrijk.
Voor de rest ziet het er goed uit.

Meanwhile, trying to unfuck the perspective while starting to put details in. On the brighter side, I found a shitload of brushes that help a lot when laying grime in.

It's a start. Going to redraw this 50,000 times until I can claim it's not shit.
>Lol biologist trying to do art.

And working on some lines...

Fuck, could've sworn I posted in this thread.

Daubed the hell out of this. Clearly still need to clean it up and detail.

>>15091
cool, i like the rendering. cant wait to see the details!

more concepts for >>11443 now that i have the time.

Scanning some stuff in shortly. Should be pretty Operator. In the interim, a more finished iteration of the town.

I REALLY suck at getting the atmosphere right for this stuff...

>>16292
Just lower the brightness of the greens and add some brown to the green if you can speckle different colors of brown and darker yellows into the green also.

>>13800
Flag's facing the wrong way, it's retreating.

>>16338
Nah, flag patches go on the right shoulder and are reversed to give the impression that it's moving forward.

>>16340
Oh, you are correct. I simply saw the stars incorrectly. My bad.

>>16338
>>16340

Had a co-worker point out that "mistake" on my old field jacket, so I enlightened her.

>her: "Oh, well, you would know."
>me: "Yeah, I actually would. So why would you think it was wrong in the first place?"

Goddamn, some people. smh

>>16401
I'd just like to point out that the reason I made that mistake was not because of ignorance of the tradition, but rather seeing the image wrong.

>>16461

Oh no, I understand that in your case it was an honest mistake. I was "Goddamn some people" about my co-worker.

Next up: I try to cloud.

out of work and back to school! (sort of)

>>11782
shot you an email, brohan

forgot my trip.

After being inspired a little bit by the latest Feng Zhu video...

Big ol' picture from my sketchbook. Something I'm working on with SousEstime, actually.

On a related note, I have an absolute hatred for Canadian pencils.

Sort of like how the clouds are turning out, but it still feels like I horribly fucked up there.

>>17310
Cumulus clouds tend to be flat on the bottom, and higher clouds tend to be slightly translucent.

>>17365

Oh. Er, oops.

Kidding aside, I'm gonna definitely flatten the clouds a bit more and spread it out so it's not so sore thumb looking. For my next trick after somehow unfucking that: How to make nice-looking trees.

And I suppose I should have remembered to shrink the picture down.

Making a jolly roger based on my platoon back in Ft. Benning.

And trying to start with something more post-apocalyptic-ey.

i finished the summary of chapters/episodes in the story these characters are supposed to be in, now i'm just sketching more of them outside of homework and work applications.

>>17559
Your work just gets better and better every time you post something new.

>>17589
thanks. it's really all i have left to do to keep myself sane nowadays.

>>17589

Definitely concurring. I really need to work on my pen/marker skills a lot.

On the brighter side, I got some new sketchbooks and pencils so I'll try to post something from that soon.

>>17699
thanks, you're doing pretty good yourself. i actually sold my tablet some time ago to pay for some daily expenses, so pen, ink and markers are really all i have to draw with right now.

i'd like to see you do more scenes, where your characters interact more with the backgrounds or bg elements you create...more actiony stuff, basically.

i did this with india ink, some watercolor brushes and my copics a while ago. i'm about halfway through writing a short comic strip with her in it.

So, threw this together to test out some ideas I had about rendering.

>>13896
dat fuckin poster...

Some action-ey stuff. Still tightening it up a lot.

How the hell do I misspell Salty?

>>18312
cool, you should polish this up a bit more.

here's a panel for that comic im working on.

>>18697

Check dat anatomy out first...

On a related note, got a brush pen so I've been trying to figure it out in terms of pressure applied. It's great for drawing trees though.

And whoops, forgot to trip.

Some silliness involving WWI.

Oh my god. I have not used photoshop in a very long time. Or painted or drawn anything for that matter. Been trying to force myself into drawing and shit again now that I am on spring break and forced to be away from my lovely machines.

And a rather fast paint-up courtesy of post-con madness. Still working on it, but it's fairly presentable.

Sharing an old pic, just because.

>>19004

Whoa, what was that done with? Nice lines.

>>18707
which parts in particular? if i have time to fix it before the deadline then i'll get back to it.

>>19001
cool colors. you should do cleaner, more dynamic stuff though. like try finishing this one or something >>18312 also dat hand >>18708

>>18996
nice, wish i could make competent digital paintings.

>>19004
about damn time! looks pretty cool.

anyway more WIP stuff for my entry in that Premier Pulp anthology.

>>19031

The guy on the left's left arm. Well, it's more "foreshortening gone wrong" than anatomy I guess.

>nice, wish i could make competent digital paintings.

Me too man. Me too. I've never been very good with colors unless I was like, life painting or something. Or painting based off a photo. Or hell, I've never been very good paining in general. Drawing is more my strong suit.

Also, Did you get a .22 yet?

Here's a picture I drew about a year and a half ago, which I think was my last non-blueprint, non-ten second doodle I did. Or at least, I think. My hard drives are pretty disorganized, and my memories even worse.

>>19033
oh yeah i noticed that. it probably went wrong when i was inking and rendering it, but if there's time i'll try to fix it after i finish the pages i'm working on now.

also, no .22 yet. i'm still out of the job and relatively skill-less so its going to be a while before i'll be able to afford any guns of my own without dipping into my survival savings fund.

>>19006

My hand, a pencil and a pen? I basically draw on whatever's available, with whatever's available to draw with. Only recently did I come into some Micron art pens, and that was only because my art director said "you need these, so I'm buying some for you."

>>19034

I sincerely hate this character you draw so much.
It's proficient, yes, but I just hate it.

o-okay

is there a particular reason why?

>>19118
WOULD you?

Cleaning up the previous guy with some proper lines this time, and more MURRIKA.

>>19140

Upturned nose (personal beef, but whatever), extreme tightness in the hips (nonsexual) almost like... Too much tension, as if her hamstrings had been surgically cut shorter. >>16649 shows it really well. Tension, high-strung, I dunno what to call it.

It's good stuff, just the poses you have her in don't look quite right or natural. Almost robotic, impersonal, unfitting... I can understand she's OPURATIN' or whatever kids are on about these days, but try to loosen up maybe?
>>18697 is a good example of this.


>>19034
This is probably one of the best out of the whole set of her. It feels natural. The posing is much more relaxed and believable. I don't get the feeling that the artist took a swim in ice water followed by 10 cans of red bull and then drew this character.

>>19197
ok. i guess i have a lot of practice left to do before i'm able to make this a totally believable operator hot chick character.

>try to loosen up maybe?
i really don't practice as much gesture and life drawing as i preach to other people, i guess it shows.

thanks for the feedback.

Speaking of which, I need to get around to doodling out my "Operator-tan" idea properly. The face is basically set, but I'm not sure what sort of hair to give her since my work thus far has favored the practical shoulder-or-shorter hairstyles.

Also, cleaning up the lines a bit.

I doodled a little in class today.

Some near-future digs for the Indian army.

I think we're less than a decade away from really cheap infrared sensors, so the future of war is all about heat signatures.

I had an idea for a helmet with panoramic night vision around the brim, with the images stitched together on a goggle display. All this with room for an ordinary IRNVG in the middle.

You also need coveralls and some kind of chemical cooling system, since electric cooling is shitty.

Basically Neotokyo without cloaking haxx.

And robots. Killer robots.

I also drafted a sort of 'Playbook' for Project Reality.

I incorporated symbolism to communicate basic gameplay concepts.

I sort of lost my motivation midway into this though; PR is pretty much a dead mod, and my new rig is too ghetto for it anyway.

I really do like your art Opforian, it reminds me of another artist, but I can't quite seem to recall who, but at the same time it's unique.

Dirty, gritty, yet detailed and clear.

>>19275

I lost it here.

And now Anonymaus attempts to draw vehicles again!

Sharpy marker self portrait without the use of a mirror.

Ink pen drawing. Done with a basic Pentel R.S.V.P. writing pen. NO MISTAKES ALLOWED WHEN USING A PEN.

Ink pen yet again. I did this about 10 years ago.

Sharpy and ink pen combo.

More sharpy.

I did this one about 11 years ago during HS history class. Who says I wasn't paying attention?

Ink pen again.