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Mero-Curgovina wrote:

Korva wrote:(Image)

a. this is sick

b. what scale is this

c. teach me how to draw people sensei

Thanks.

It is 1 pixel : 1 cm.

Five years ago:

8 yrs ago

everyone post old arts

10-11 years old JG kitbashes

are those polismans?

yeah lol

plus some anti-terrorist guys in shitty polish urban flecktarn.

first tank, two years ago



most recent tank, a few months ago

Elektrograd wrote:yeah lol

plus some anti-terrorist guys in shitty polish urban flecktarn.

o i was thinking the terrs were the yellow guys and the cops were the camo guys cos the cops had a almost hand painted logo on their vests <.>

two years ago, the second vehicle I ever made

My improvement hasn't been as drastic as I'd like

The biggest change:


Bottom is 2013. Top is ~2017-2018.

Mero-Curgovina wrote:(Image)

service rifles over a hundred years or so
8mm mauser is good actually

This is just really awesome, and it's just so cool I had to comment on the same general thing, again. xP

Touching up and refining the Groombridge 34 SDF EVC suit lines before colouring. (Not colouring today, it's late)

History lessons:
One of my earliest tablet drawings, 2014 versus this, from a few days ago
Submarine, 2014 versus submarine, 2018
And in things that are this thread's usual fare:
Gun, 2014 versus gun, 2019

Gallia- wrote:(Image)

8 yrs ago
everyone post old arts

From decades ago ......




From a few years ago


From a couple of weeks ago.


one of my all time faves....

Manokan Republic wrote:

Mero-Curgovina wrote:(Image)

service rifles over a hundred years or so
8mm mauser is good actually

This is just really awesome, and it's just so cool I had to comment on the same general thing, again. xP

Thanks man, I love hearing positive things about my work.

Next is probably service machine guns which is an absolutely wacky list to get through.

sub is high fresh

space ship reminds me of lexx

all good stuff good progress



first gat i try to draw



recent-ish

beatings will continue until morale improves

him smashes commies, anarchists, eco-fascists, and anti-nuke protesters

left is constabulary/provincial gendarmes

right is metro cops

Gallia- wrote:recent-ish

Is good gat. Support variant is probably my favorite.

oldest thing I could find, considering I deleted much of my older shizzle.

haven't really improved much at all tbh.

I started doing pixel stuff around late 2012? And that was when I found out about JG scale.



Compared to now, I'd say it was pretty good progress.

I threw a bunch of drawings of the same plane into one image as I think it's the best way to evaluate your own progress. I have earlier drawings but not of anything I'm still drawing. Date on file for top is 2013 but I'm pretty sure its at least a year older than that. Second from top is also 2013 or older. Third down is 2016. Bottom is from last fall/early this year. Not sure of scales for top two, bottom two are FD scale.

7 years have gone pretty fast

Mero-Curgovina wrote:

Korva wrote:(Image)

a. this is sick

b. what scale is this

c. teach me how to draw people sensei

If you're getting into pixel pushing, go with JG scale, if you are wondering what it is, check my sig.

Also, since we're doing thens and nows:

My first tank:


My latest tank:

I like how most people do magic floating tracks when they first start

Corindia wrote:(Image)
two years ago, the second vehicle I ever made

My improvement hasn't been as drastic as I'd like

Eliminate dark lines and use shadow to show edges, as you're sort of already doing, but the effect is muted by the use of black lines to show edges.

Retouch the picture in a raster software like GIMP to add texture to the vector(?) base image.

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Sadly my first tankus have been lost (or they're on one of many an old hard drive somewhere in my closet), including a particularly egregious Death Korps style rhombus doom thing with an actual screen door, and a :) Space Black Eagle but whatever.





8.5 years ago.

The 8 years ago CV90 is bad because it was the first tank I tried to draw from tracing rather than free hand proportions.

The actual 1 pixel thick machine gun barrel is what happens when I draw free hand.

Also 8 years ago I attempted to synthesize Anglo-American arms traditions by combining M16A1 and EM-2 into something awful:



Sadly free hand also didn't work.

Thankfully rUK did it for me by making L85 I guess.

Gallia- wrote:

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Corindia wrote:(Image)
two years ago, the second vehicle I ever made

My improvement hasn't been as drastic as I'd like

Eliminate dark lines and use shadow to show edges, as you're sort of already doing, but the effect is muted by the use of black lines to show edges.

Retouch the picture in a raster software like GIMP to add texture to the vector(?) base image.

The way I draw them now is pretty far away from the super early chunky black lines and two tone shadows I started with years ago. Believe it or not that was not a vector image, I was just making everything sort of cartoonish for some reason.