Dark_Demesne Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 Hi everyone, I'm a long-time Tip.It forum denizen and occasional poster. I like to draw Runescape pictures every once in a (great) while, and while I used to post each image separately in the Gallery, I thought it might be more useful to have everything together in one spot under Runescape Media. I study Biology and English but I like to do art as a hobby, and I try to improve with every drawing. I've done five major Runescape drawings over the past three years, all in Photoshop. I particularly like translating game figures into an airbrush/photographic style, and I hope to do more of it in the future! In chronological order, my drawings are: 1. Dark Mage - February 2007 This was my first-ever piece of Runescape art, done after I'd just gotten Photoshop but before I'd figured out how to use it properly! This was my character Dark Demesne as a mage with black robes, a power ammy, and an air staff. I was still F2P at the time and this was my best mage outfit. I planned on doing melee and ranged variants as well, but never got around to them. Both this picture and my next one ("Dragon Slayer") got into the Runescape "Best of" Gallery 2. (Woot!) 2. Dragon Slayer - December 2007 This was my second piece of Runescape art, drawn after I'd finally started to get the hang of Photoshop. I'd gotten membership in July and by this point was happily slaying steel dragons with an antifire shield, whip, glory ammy, warrior helm, and proselyte armor. Back then the abyssal whip really did look like a string of sausages with open air between the pieces! 3. Picking Whiteberries - April 2008 Although I spent my first few months of membership slaying everything in sight, I soon discovered my true calling: farming. In April 2008, I got my first 99 in farming and drew this picture to celebrate. My character is supposed to be picking whiteberries from the bush patch in Miscellania. 4. Formal Portrait - June 2008 After getting 99 farming, I moved on to leveling construction, as one of the reasons I'd gotten membership in the first place was so I could build my very own player-owned house. I finally got everything just as I wanted it and drew this to commemorate my newly-installed formal garden. Back then black elegant was my favorite outfit ever, and I wore it for about a year straight! 5. RuneFest Gallery Competition Entry - August 2010 After my last bit of Runescape art ("Formal Portrait" in 2008), I didn't produce any new artwork (of any sort) for a long while. I focused on my studies and let my art hobby rust in disuse, pretty much. But in July 2010 I noticed a front-page post about the Runefest Gallery Competition, and I figured I could really use the practice. So I took the directions literally (evil Bob, a flagstaff of festivities, and a golden gnome) and set about trying to remember how do anything in my trusty old copy of Photoshop CS3. The result isn't leaps and bounds better than my earlier pics (which I wouldn't expect, seeing as I hadn't been practicing in the interum), but it was good to draw again. I was very happy to learn that this drawing was one of fourteen winners in the Runefest Gallery Competition, netting me a lifetime membership and a copy of my artwork on canvas! See the news announcement here, and my entry here. 6. Eek the Spider - October 2010 After producing my RuneFest entry, I still wanted to keep drawing Runescape art (for practice, mostly, because nothing motivates me like a good contest!). The problem is that it can take days or weeks to produce a single artwork, and after the school year started I was having real trouble getting any art done at all. I was able to scrape together half a day of free time to draw an entry for the Halloween theme gallery, but I didn't have time for my usual style. So instead I made a cartoon-y version of Eek and colored her with relatively blocky, flat layers, without a background or much of a foreground for that matter. Still, I got something done, and surprisingly fast! (Though still not as fast as I would like.) 7. Halloween Comic Strip Competition - October 2010 After making the Eek drawing, I figured I might as well do something for the Halloween Comic Strip Competition too. I came up with a total goofball entry that makes no sense, but I had fun doing it and best of all, the small size made it impossible for me to linger too long on minute details. May have to try more in this format in the future! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
das Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 Your talent and skill is amazing, Very few things impress me on these forums, your art however has. "Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world."Abraham Lincoln Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy_jim Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 Those are really great! The detail in your last three is amazing, good luck with the competition! RIP Michaelangelopolousu can control my tip it account, but youll never control how fine i am!This is by FAR my favorite song: I love N_odie and would never edit his posts! I love Rainy_Day too <3 And also Cowman_133. <33 Oh, and Laikrob is a going to hunt me down and kill me like a pest kangaroo if I reveal how awesome she is. I owe tripsis skittles. DarkDude feels like he's missing out. This is my siggy! - n_odie Rainy_Day MINE! - n_odie Rainy_Day And meol shouldn't feel left out. Oh, and Y_Guy is a noob awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bows Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 I personally like the whiteberry bush one the best. :thumbup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Demesne Posted August 19, 2010 Author Share Posted August 19, 2010 Your talent and skill is amazing, Very few things impress me on these forums, your art however has. Thanks, I'm glad you like it! I appreciate the work you and other admins do to give me a place to put this stuff. :) Those are really great! The detail in your last three is amazing, good luck with the competition! Thanks! I like detail, although I tend to go a little overboard, to the point where it can take me two weeks to get a single drawing done. I personally like the whiteberry bush one the best. :thumbup: I like the whiteberry one too. I remember it fondly as the picture where I almost went insane trying to draw 300 leaves by hand until I figured out how to make custom brushes in Photoshop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Den Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 They look really nice. Should definitly keep making pictures when you have the time. |^_^| ........::::: Rainy's YouTube Channel - Rainy's Twitter - Rainy's Facebook - Rainy's DeviantArt - Rainy's Tumblr - Rainy's Tip.It Profile :::::......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youmu Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 I love those pics, especially the Evil Bob one. You have some great talent. :D BlogTrimmed | Master Quester | Final BossBoss pets: Bombi | Shrimpy | Ellie | Tz-Rek Jad | Karil the Bobbled | Mega Ducklings120s: Dungeoneering | Invention Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clay_More12 Posted August 19, 2010 Share Posted August 19, 2010 Wow, very detailed, keep it up! Divine Forces | #DF on irc.seersirc.net | Most Motivated | http://rs-df.com/forums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N0x Posted August 22, 2010 Share Posted August 22, 2010 how do you make it look so clean and crisp :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Den Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 Congrats on making the RuneFest Gallery and getting unlimited membership! |^_^| ........::::: Rainy's YouTube Channel - Rainy's Twitter - Rainy's Facebook - Rainy's DeviantArt - Rainy's Tumblr - Rainy's Tip.It Profile :::::......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingless Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 Omaigod! Congratulations on the RuneFest win! You deserved it ^__^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronan Posted August 23, 2010 Share Posted August 23, 2010 That art is fantastic - I'm incredibly impressed by it, the latter ones in particular. I love the farming ones and their style is just brilliant - you're very talented! And, congratulations on the gallery-competition win! You definitely deserved that with the latest image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Demesne Posted August 23, 2010 Author Share Posted August 23, 2010 They look really nice. Should definitly keep making pictures when you have the time. |^_^|Thanks, even if I don't have time I'll try to make some! Even if it means opening up a wormhole and destroying the time-space continuum. I love those pics, especially the Evil Bob one. You have some great talent. :DAww thanks. I had fun with Evil Bob, as his evil grin reminds me of my own cat (although her nefarious activities are limited to eating my plants and stealing my place on the couch every time I get up). Wow, very detailed, keep it up!Thanks, will do! how do you make it look so clean and crisp :(I don't really know, lol. I've never actually taken an art class--all my knowledge is based on trial and error and Google searches if I can't figure something out. The crispness is probably due to the fact that 1) I do the outlines of objects with hard brushes, 2) I keep objects on different layers, so I can lock transparency and do fine work on the edges without the color straying off the object (unless I want it to), and 3) I use 1-pixel brushes on huge canvases (the RuneFest entry was done on a 4300x3200 pixel canvas). Hope that helps! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Demesne Posted August 23, 2010 Author Share Posted August 23, 2010 Congrats on making the RuneFest Gallery and getting unlimited membership! |^_^|Yay!!!!! Now I don't even have to pay in order to waste my time on games instead of school! (Or maybe it'll be the reverse--I won't feel the need to play as much since I'm not spending money on it and don't need to make sure I play my $5 worth every month? Only time will tell...) Omaigod! Congratulations on the RuneFest win! You deserved it ^__^Aww thanks, I'm so happy! :D I was actually really surprised to see that I'd won, because I wasn't sure that a) I was good enough, or b) Jagex even got anything I'd sent. I remember sending off the two farming pics to the gallery in 2008 and never got a reply, so it was hard to know if it was rejection or email problems. (Now I know--it was rejection! Burn!) Sorry if I'm incoherent, I'm just in the process of having a happy heart attack. That art is fantastic - I'm incredibly impressed by it, the latter ones in particular. I love the farming ones and their style is just brilliant - you're very talented! And, congratulations on the gallery-competition win! You definitely deserved that with the latest image.Thank you! I'm about to die of happy. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Demesne Posted October 17, 2010 Author Share Posted October 17, 2010 Added an entry for the 2010 Halloween gallery: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Den Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 Really cool. :o I wonder if in-game eek will have "special" chat with the Halloween NPC's if brought with while doing the holiday event this year. ........::::: Rainy's YouTube Channel - Rainy's Twitter - Rainy's Facebook - Rainy's DeviantArt - Rainy's Tumblr - Rainy's Tip.It Profile :::::......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gradeskip Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 Very nice! Good luck on wining this contest :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Demesne Posted October 17, 2010 Author Share Posted October 17, 2010 Added Halloween Comic Strip Entry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Den Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 Haha, I saw that one coming. :P ........::::: Rainy's YouTube Channel - Rainy's Twitter - Rainy's Facebook - Rainy's DeviantArt - Rainy's Tumblr - Rainy's Tip.It Profile :::::......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frede173 Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 How much time do you spend on average on each drawing? Owner of a comp cape since February 11th 2012. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruggig Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 Truly amazing #t0 #ce #teamsweden #se @swiftirc#clan_europe @Quakenet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Demesne Posted October 18, 2010 Author Share Posted October 18, 2010 Really cool. :o I wonder if in-game eek will have "special" chat with the Halloween NPC's if brought with while doing the holiday event this year.It appears Eek does indeed have a special chat with the new NPCs! Awesome huh? Very nice! Good luck on wining this contest :DThanks! Although I don't really need to win (already got a prize from the RuneFest competition)--I just really love contests. :) Haha, I saw that one coming. :PWhat's funny is I drew the comic before I even knew about the "metal" theme of this year's Halloween, but it actually seems to fit! How much time do you spend on average on each drawing?At absolute minimum (for, say the Eek drawing), 8 hours or so. For the more-detailed drawings, anywhere between 4 full days and 2 weeks of full days. I am a REALLY slow drawer--it's a labor of love, not something I could ever do fast enough to monetize! Truly amazingAww thanks. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Den Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 Really cool. :o I wonder if in-game eek will have "special" chat with the Halloween NPC's if brought with while doing the holiday event this year.It appears Eek does indeed have a special chat with the new NPCs! Awesome huh? Yeah, I found out when I did the event. :PIt added a nice touch. ........::::: Rainy's YouTube Channel - Rainy's Twitter - Rainy's Facebook - Rainy's DeviantArt - Rainy's Tumblr - Rainy's Tip.It Profile :::::......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danqazmlp Posted October 25, 2010 Share Posted October 25, 2010 I was speechless when I saw the whiteberry bush picture. The detail on the character is so impressive and almost photo realistic. On first glance I did think it may have been a photo. The colouring on her arms is incredible. I like the portrait too, you seem to manage to get emotion into the characters. Do you send all your Rs based drawings in the Jagex? Want to be my friend? Look under my name to the left<<< and click the 'Add as friend' button!Big thanks to Stevepole for the signature!^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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