The Request Thread - Request Art Here!

[Inaaca]

Nov 26, 2009 19:13:41 GMT -8 The Dankness said:

Finally, my first request.

I want House MD to be riding a motorcycle down the road wearing his usual getup. A medical bag is stored right behind the seat. The motorcycle has a sidecar and I'm sitting in the sidecar with goggles on, holding that ball that House always has in the show when he's talking.

A title on top should read "House and Andrew Hit the Road".

You can maybe have an explosion in the background or something.

Sounds awesome. Adding it to the list.

I'm thinking that after finals I'll be able to start working on these requests again.

[ShortPerson]

OMG! That sound awesome. Andrew your a genius.

[The Dankness]

Nov 28, 2009 21:40:42 GMT -8 ShortPerson said:

OMG! That sound awesome. Andrew your a genius.

Yeah, that's what House said as well. You flatterers, you.

[Inaaca]

The finished pencil drawing for Sara's second request.

Considering it's for a frame, I may ink and/or color this later. For now, though, I'm considering it complete.

Enjoy

[ShortPerson]

YAY!!!! YOUR AWESOME!!! XD
We look cute.

[Captain Galaxy]

I don't think Sara has arms that long.

[Inaaca]

I actually had her pose for me to get this. Rest assure, her arms are capable of this.

[Inaaca]

Anta's latest request is now complete.



I'll shed a little background into the thought process on this one. Anta requested a robot design with a strong Vectorman influence. A seemingly simple request ended up being tricky due to the fact that the majority of my already existing robot designs had strong Vectorman influences. This meant that I had to figure out a way to create something something not only influenced by Vectorman, but also uniquely distinct from my other designs.

After several failed designs creating robots based on Vectorman's physical style (my usual approach), I decided to look at it a little differently. I decided to, instead, base the design on Vectorman's personality and character rather than his physical build. All of a sudden things started to click.

I like to think of this design as kind of a Vectorman parallel in a more modern day role. If you're not aware, Vectorman piloted a junk barge and collected/transported trash through the galaxy, so a janitorial role isn't too farfetched. This is also very reminiscent of the opening cutscene in the first Vectorman game. In that scene, he's grooving to music as he lands the barge, thus the headphones in this adaptation.

To be fair, though, I did incorporate other influences besides Vectorman, including Atomic Robo, Megaman, and my own personal creations.

So yeah, that's what I came up with. Enjoy.

[Muramasa]

Jan 17, 2010 21:10:11 GMT -8 Inaaca said:

I'll shed a little background into the thought process on this one. Anta requested a robot design with a strong Vectorman influence. A seemingly simple request ended up being tricky due to the fact that the majority of my already existing robot designs had strong Vectorman influences. This meant that I had to figure out a way to create something something not only influenced by Vectorman, but also uniquely distinct from my other designs.

After several failed designs creating robots based on Vectorman's physical style (my usual approach), I decided to look at it a little differently. I decided to, instead, base the design on Vectorman's personality and character rather than his physical build. All of a sudden things started to click.

I like to think of this design as kind of a Vectorman parallel in a more modern day role. If you're not aware, Vectorman piloted a junk barge and collected/transported trash through the galaxy, so a janitorial role isn't too farfetched. This is also very reminiscent of the opening cutscene in the first Vectorman game. In that scene, he's grooving to music as he lands the barge, thus the headphones in this adaptation.

To be fair, though, I did incorporate other influences besides Vectorman, including Atomic Robo, Megaman, and my own personal creations.

So yeah, that's what I came up with. Enjoy.

Truth be told, all I asked was:

Sept 2, 2009 12:22:18 GMT -8 Muramasa said:

I want you to draw me a robot. No particular type of robot, but one with a Vectorman influence would be nice. I'd prefer the medium to be pencil and paper. No real time limit.

And you've achieved that smashingly. Now, here's my next assignment. Take that robot you designed, and break it down into it's components. I want you to design a thorough schematic and diagram of as much of the robots inner functions as you possibly can within a scope of that robots universe (that is to say, if you're going to use bullshit physics to explain certain mechanical details, that's fine. Just be sure that these natural laws are consistent within the context of it's own world).

At the very least, give the overall dimensions of the robot, components that are used in it's motorized mechanisms, alloys it's created with, it's power source, it's processing unit, what mechanism is keeping the robot together at the waist and how does it do it; all within context of the world this robot exists in.

Bonus points for history, function, interesting factoids.

Have fun.

[Inaaca]

Heh, I haven't done a robot schematic in a while. Should be interesting. Added to the queue.

The next couple requests are fairly complex, so I'll probably take a little extra time with those.

[Inaaca]

Just in case anyone was considering making another request here, I 'm currently closing off this thread from accepting more until further notice. Any existing requests will of course still be carried out as expected, though I probably won't get to them until the summer.

[Muramasa]

Oh yeah, we knew you were going to be busy, so I haven't bothered posting any new ones (aside from the fact that you still haven't finished my current request). It's cool, man.

[Captain Galaxy]

Ha! I was just looking at this thread again, that picture of you and Sara looks like a picture of you and random little girl. You creep you, letting your subconsciousness come out onto paper.

[Inaaca]

So, while I've pretty much ceased posting art here in lieu of DA and my blog, it makes sense to post long overdue requests here.

There's not much I can say to excuse the rather inexcusable amount of time that its taken for me to get to these, so I'll just post them.

First up is Brian's request, done.



This one gave me considerable difficulty when it came to settling on a composition. In the end, I couldn't think of anything that could suitably cover all the details requested in the description, so I hope this is a fair compromise.

[Muramasa]

This is Brian's request, and if it satisfies him, then all is good. I will say though that it's a shame you didn't have enough time to fill in the details of the Eldrich abomination assembly in the background, it could have been real neat to see, or at least amusing if we assume that they conduct their meetings like British parliament.

[Inaaca]

It's not a matter of not having time, it's a matter of establishing focus. If the background is given too much detail, it will distract from the rest of the image.

There were a lot of elements in Brian's request, and they were placed in such a way and so far apart that I couldn't include everything in a single scene (I tried many compositions in an effort to). The minotaur and the audience got shoved into the foreground and background so I could spotlight what was most important, the cloaked man and the armored woman.

[Muramasa]

Well, I was thinking about the composition, and personally, I feel that every seems too ultra-compact. It's fine that you put the minotaurs and the audience in the foreground and background, respectively. But you probably could have easily remedied the "compact-feeling" of the picture by making them smaller. Right now, it seems like they're stuffed in a shack than in an grand Colosseum.

I don't think adding more detail to the audience would have detracted from the man and woman. The positioning you choose for the man and woman is optimal, because they're in the dead center of the image. They stand between elements in the foreground and background, and they in the middle of the image. In addition to that, the cloaked man takes up a good 30% of the image, I don't think a bit more detail to the background audience would've hurt. In addition to that, you choose an excellent posture for the cloaked man,
it shows a liveliness and animation that distinguishes him from the stoic stances of the minotaurs, and the audience (that really isn't there).

[Inaaca]

Fair points.

One thing I felt like I wanted to do when composing the final layout of this was to make my paper bigger. I feel like more panoramic dimensions would suit this piece better and give it more space. The minotaurs I really feel should be big, hulking and imposing, so I didn't really want to make them smaller, nor did I want to have them compete with the man (You can see in the final piece that I made it a point to make sure that the man was higher in the image than the minotaurs). At the same time, I wanted to show them more fully, particularly their big axes, which simply wouldn't fit well in that composition.

As far as the crowd, after reading your argument I feel they could probably use a bit more detail than they currently have. What I'd really like to do though (if I were to give this color), is give them full detail and then mute their colors down a bit so that they don't compete with the foreground elements.

So yeah. Maybe if I still feel up to it I'll come back to this piece later down the road and bring it into Painter to solve each of these issues.

[Inaaca]

So here's Andrew's request, at long last.



This one was pretty challenging, considering I needed to create the likeness of two people AND the likeness of a particular motorcycle, and of course I chose to do all of this at a low dramatic angle. So a lot of detail was involved. That being said, this was actually pretty fun to do, and I hope you like how it turned out.

The motorcycle is as close as I could manage given the reference material, and while undoubtedly technically incorrect, and more of a mishmash of different motorcycle parts and models more than anything, I think it does the job.

Oh yeah, as you can see I pretty much put in the lettering via Photoshop after the fact since I didn't really feel like doing typography. Not sure if you had a preference to hand drawn, but hope you don't mind.

Anyways, let me know what you think! :`

[The Dankness]

Flippin perfect, and well worth the wait. Now how do I order a print, hmmm?