MoKat Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 I'll start this topic with an old pic that combined Sally and Solaire: 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Arcade Posted March 6, 2018 Share Posted March 6, 2018 PRAISE THE SUN! ...wait, wouldn't that mean Sally here is worshiping Solaris? XP 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akessel92 Posted March 7, 2018 Share Posted March 7, 2018 Actually I think she needs someone with two empty halves of coconuts and bang them together. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRedStranger Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 Glad to see you post some art Mokat. We appreciate it. I hope to see more from this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRedStranger Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 On 3/6/2018 at 5:28 PM, Mike Arcade said: PRAISE THE SUN! ...wait, wouldn't that mean Sally here is worshiping Solaris? XP Would this be playing? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akessel92 Posted March 16, 2018 Share Posted March 16, 2018 I think this would be playing. https://youtu.be/PHDycUXzNs0 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoKat Posted March 17, 2018 Author Share Posted March 17, 2018 Glad you guys had so much fun with that Don't have anything new yet, so I'll share two more pics from around that time... (I don't think I ever posted "Black Iron Bunnie" anywhere before now) 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akessel92 Posted March 17, 2018 Share Posted March 17, 2018 9 minutes ago, MoKat said: Glad you guys had so much fun with that Don't have anything new yet, so I'll share two more pics from around that time... (I don't think I ever posted "Black Iron Bunnie" anywhere before now) Robotnik look so ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRedStranger Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 8 hours ago, Akessel92 said: Robotnik look so ridiculous. Its majestic! Look at those glorious Daisy Nipples on his Potbelly Breastplate! Eat your heart out Joel Schumacuer! — Kat, you know, if you like fantasy like Souls - we are doing a D&D 5E style RP that takes place in Satam/EoT’s far past. Perhaps you would like to join up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoKat Posted March 24, 2018 Author Share Posted March 24, 2018 On 3/17/2018 at 4:16 PM, Akessel92 said: Robotnik look so ridiculous. Yeah, he does On 3/18/2018 at 12:38 AM, TheRedStranger said: Its majestic! Look at those glorious Daisy Nipples on his Potbelly Breastplate! Eat your heart out Joel Schumacuer! — Kat, you know, if you like fantasy like Souls - we are doing a D&D 5E style RP that takes place in Satam/EoT’s far past. Perhaps you would like to join up? I'm on rather irregularly, so I hate to commit to anything long term, especially given that Real Life has a habit of throwing curveballs at me. For example, I have an interview at the local TSA office Monday. If I get the TSO job, it will be split-shift (not so bad, but the first shift is from 4-6 am o.O;) Even if I did have time, I dunno which character to use for that. Kat Mokat is usually for comedic RP's. Kalindra would be more suitable, but every RPG I've used her in has stalled. A brand new character perhaps (?) And speaking of Kalindra... ... I really need to draw a new pic of her Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoKat Posted March 27, 2018 Author Share Posted March 27, 2018 Meh, that interview didn't go as well as I thought it did. Moving on to a more amusing topic... There's a restaurant in this area called "Catfish Kitchen". Recently, while I was talking about it I accidentally called it "Catfish Kitten". Hilarity (NOT to be confused with Hillary) resulted & inspired this drawing: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarTraveller Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 For him, that's probably a big lunch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Arcade Posted April 10, 2018 Share Posted April 10, 2018 Wow MoKat where have I been, your sketches are still amazing! There are such details in the style of Robotnik and Bunnie that feel classic which you don't get a lot from fan artists if at all, not to mention Kalindra looking great. Also we all love cats having a ball with a big fish as the catch of the day. Keep them coming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ishapar Posted April 13, 2018 Share Posted April 13, 2018 Not bad with your drawings (especially Robutnik). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoKat Posted May 7, 2018 Author Share Posted May 7, 2018 Colored the kitty & used it in a Powerpoint about social engineering (still putting the .PPT together, BTW) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRedStranger Posted May 8, 2018 Share Posted May 8, 2018 On 5/7/2018 at 4:36 PM, MoKat said: Colored the kitty & used it in a Powerpoint about social engineering (still putting the .PPT together, BTW) Excellent work! Your sense of composition is improving. This is more a constructive graphics-design tip than general art tip: notice how the tail at the bottom is cropped by the screen. You can make the curvilleanear motion of the fish ”flow@” across the composition better by zomming the subject (the cat and fish in a little bit more toward the center) and finishing the line work for the tail if you wish to use this as a later date. Your line work is also getting cleaner and more defined. Some tapering and thick’s and thins would make it even better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRedStranger Posted May 8, 2018 Share Posted May 8, 2018 On 3/24/2018 at 4:32 PM, MoKat said: Yeah, he does I'm on rather irregularly, so I hate to commit to anything long term, especially given that Real Life has a habit of throwing curveballs at me. For example, I have an interview at the local TSA office Monday. If I get the TSO job, it will be split-shift (not so bad, but the first shift is from 4-6 am o.O;) Even if I did have time, I dunno which character to use for that. Kat Mokat is usually for comedic RP's. Kalindra would be more suitable, but every RPG I've used her in has stalled. A brand new character perhaps (?) And speaking of Kalindra... ... I really need to draw a new pic of her Like I said in the above post - you have come a long way linework-wise. She looks perfect for the RP. But feel free to design a new character as well. I usually do all the grunt work to translate it into a character sheet and teach the rules as we play. She looks like she would be an “Eldricht Knight” class. As for the art work - give that gal some claws on her fingers and toes. She looks like the type to flaunt them rather than retract them. Note that RPs that stall here can be overridden and taken up by a new DM. Admins will continue games that stall for example that are in high demand to continue. Only one campaign here has ever stalled. We do a lot of them via PM and Skype then dump them into the RP section in a novel format. So it’s ends up making something that can be read like novel usually. They act like group literature projects by the end of play. We just edit them up and make sure they flow - and bingo. Only one RP so far here as stalled and that’s as because a now suspended member maliciously deleted content. It maybe restored but @WarTraveller idea for a traditional D&D game sounds real interesting so we will probably do that instead. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarTraveller Posted May 8, 2018 Share Posted May 8, 2018 11 minutes ago, TheRedStranger said: It maybe restored but @WarTraveller idea for a traditional D&D game sounds real interesting so we will probably do that instead. I do indeed! I even put a topic of it up on the forums, here; Granted I still need to work out a few of the ideas, but I've got plenty of people who will help there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoKat Posted May 15, 2018 Author Share Posted May 15, 2018 On 5/8/2018 at 6:25 PM, TheRedStranger said: Excellent work! Your sense of composition is improving. This is more a constructive graphics-design tip than general art tip: notice how the tail at the bottom is cropped by the screen. You can make the curvilleanear motion of the fish ”flow@” across the composition better by zomming the subject (the cat and fish in a little bit more toward the center) and finishing the line work for the tail if you wish to use this as a later date. Your line work is also getting cleaner and more defined. Some tapering and thick’s and thins would make it even better. Yeah, the tail was a casualty of my crappy software not providing me with a workspace that was large enough to accommodate the full image (Compare the color image to the line art above - both have the tail cut off and came close to cutting off the ear as well.). As for variation in line thickness goes, it would be a lot easier if I had a decent pen (or a brush; but brush & ink can get messy in a hurry - I'm the type of artist who tends to get as much paint on herself as on the painting :D) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRedStranger Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 18 hours ago, MoKat said: Yeah, the tail was a casualty of my crappy software not providing me with a workspace that was large enough to accommodate the full image (Compare the color image to the line art above - both have the tail cut off and came close to cutting off the ear as well.). As for variation in line thickness goes, it would be a lot easier if I had a decent pen (or a brush; but brush & ink can get messy in a hurry - I'm the type of artist who tends to get as much paint on herself as on the painting :D) Physical Solution: Fabre Castell Brush Pen and Soft-Brush pen. You can get a pack of their ink pens 40% off with Hobby Lobby or Micheal’s with their respective 40% on Anything Off Daily Digital Coupon’s. https://www.hobbylobby.com/ Digital: Try out Painting Tool SAI - it has a brilliantly intuitive fine-detail linework tool. If you work your way up to it, then I really recommend Adobe Illustrator. But that is a professional tool and to get it legally and most update does cost a monthly fee, which is not bad given something like a student discount. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRedStranger Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 @MoKat Anything new? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoKat Posted August 3, 2018 Author Share Posted August 3, 2018 Nope. July turned out to be a rather busy month for me When I get around to doing anything new I'll post it here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRedStranger Posted September 12, 2018 Share Posted September 12, 2018 On 8/3/2018 at 2:24 PM, MoKat said: Nope. July turned out to be a rather busy month for me When I get around to doing anything new I'll post it here. I know what you mean. My summer has been crazy as well...with literal crazies. XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoKat Posted September 29, 2018 Author Share Posted September 29, 2018 Just got around to taking photos of a few paintings I did earlier in the year (the theme was "pets",btw). I need to re-shoot the puppy one cuz I didn't realize how out of focus it was until I pulled it into Irfanview ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoKat Posted November 24, 2018 Author Share Posted November 24, 2018 Got a chance to re-visit an old drawing (I posted the old pic, then the new sketch): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRedStranger Posted February 8, 2020 Share Posted February 8, 2020 On 11/24/2018 at 3:20 PM, MoKat said: Got a chance to re-visit an old drawing (I posted the old pic, then the new sketch): See a lot of improvement here. Good foreshortening. Got anything new for us? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoKat Posted February 10, 2020 Author Share Posted February 10, 2020 Unfortunately, no; just haven't had the time (or inspiration) to just sit down & draw 😛 {edit: maybe some suggestions could help? Something like MoKat doing something silly? Or re-visit an old drawing from my fanart page?} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRedStranger Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 9 hours ago, MoKat said: Unfortunately, no; just haven't had the time (or inspiration) to just sit down & draw 😛 {edit: maybe some suggestions could help? Something like MoKat doing something silly? Or re-visit an old drawing from my fanart page?} I say get out of your comfort zone in a comfortable way. Bit by bit, through a process you can play with. Given my background, I think I can give you some good art/psychological advice, to help. Let's do this: 1) Get three pictures of landscapes you love, I mean really, really like. They can all be different - don't worry. Really good if they are slightly different, but have some main abstract theme, like their color scheme is shared but all are different outdoor scenes. 2) Sketch each, getting a detail for all three. Do each 10 seconds, then each one minute, then each ten. You will loosen up and this tricks your brain in to focusing on the big picture of the images compositionally, then refines it down to framing details into that image. This also gives you permission to not be a perfectionist and get less self-conscious of the process. Just do, there is no try - there is only doing and learning to do better. Art world calls these "gesture drawings" and the best of the best did them. 3) After doing that make a thirty minute sketch that merges parts of them in some way. This lets you synthesize data in a new way, which basically is the core mechanical hallmark of creativity. If you don't like the image - that is okay. Its a learning process. After that, scan it or take a flat-level, clear photo with no shadows. Just needs to be clear and focused. 4) Take your old sketches and use a software of your choice like GIMP or Photoshop. Anything that can layer and transform images. Play around with your sketches of characters by cutting and pasting them! Warp them, liquefy them, and resize them into the context of the landscape. Place them in the scene and try to make visualized story out of this. Print off versions of it you really like. 5) Take these images you really had fun with, and start drawing from scratch. Build off them. You can do a whole scene now, after all drew all this stuff before. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoKat Posted February 12, 2020 Author Share Posted February 12, 2020 Thanks 4 the advice; now I just need time to follow it. BTW, already knew what gesture drawings were, but that was from a class I took over 20 years ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoKat Posted May 11, 2020 Author Share Posted May 11, 2020 Sketch & a painting I'm working on. I'm thinking about filling them in with black to make them look like silhouettes. Maybe add eyes & noses in a metallic color; not sure at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRedStranger Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 19 hours ago, MoKat said: Sketch & a painting I'm working on. I'm thinking about filling them in with black to make them look like silhouettes. Maybe add eyes & noses in a metallic color; not sure at this point. You can build good hand discipline for your line work with simple styles like this. Draw a lot of these for just a few minutes every day as a daily hand exercise. Do yourself a solid and try to do a mirror one right next to it. Don’t expect it to be perfect, but it will help you build up the muscle memory to create more symmetrical figures, as well as make your hand more steady for clean inking. Try to keep the stylus to paper without lifting for each line segment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRedStranger Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 Anything new? @MoKat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoKat Posted July 21, 2020 Author Share Posted July 21, 2020 Not really. It's been too hot to paint & everytime I sit down to sketch, Candy teleports onto my lap ;D ... That reminds me that I need to check the pet thread because I don't think I've posted a photo of her there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoKat Posted April 27, 2021 Author Share Posted April 27, 2021 Pirate paintings! ( in progress) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoKat Posted May 28, 2021 Author Share Posted May 28, 2021 This time it's trees... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoKat Posted June 25, 2021 Author Share Posted June 25, 2021 New paintings... Haven't yet decided if the Tails painting is "done" or if I wanna do something more to it Definitely need to do a little touch-up work with the darker blue on the whale once it dries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoKat Posted June 25, 2021 Author Share Posted June 25, 2021 Overhaul on ol' goldtrunk... Will probably do more with it later. {Edit: I think it needs something near the base of the trunk; not sure what I wanna put there tho'. Any ideas guys?} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoKat Posted July 19, 2021 Author Share Posted July 19, 2021 Currently working on a Metal Sonic painting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoKat Posted July 19, 2021 Author Share Posted July 19, 2021 The finished Knuckles & Tails paintings have been installed: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoKat Posted August 9, 2021 Author Share Posted August 9, 2021 Finished some paintings this weekend... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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