Right...from the top, people!

[Xadhoom]

Darth: Soon, my friend, soon...heh. I've just emerged from one the worst creative slumps of my life...lasted for a month, hardly got anything made...ack. But I'm feeling good again now. Expect to see some updates soon.
Ginny: Argh! Praise overload! Easy now, I'm not worthy!  
But seriously, the best advice I can give you is practice, practice, practice and use lots of reference. Feel free to ask if you have any specific questions.
Ben:Good points, my man. At the time of writing, I've more or less decided to simply use rendered 3D stills for spirtes and rendered backgrounds with photoshop editing as frosting.

[Darth Mandarb]

I've been down those slumps before!  But welcome back!

Look forward to seeing your stuff!

cheers,
dm

[Ginny]

Ok, practise, reference..

I do have one specific question though- When you sketched the wolf on paper, it looks like you used several different pencils. I read a tutorial on what supplies to buy for drawing on paper somewhere, but I was wondering what you use, if there's anything you reccomend for drawing.

Also, have you improved a lot since you started out? Or rather, were you much worse ( wrong choice of words, but you know what I mean, lol) when you started out?



Looking forward to more .

[Xadhoom]

Different pencils, indeed:

Initial shaping and sketch: H pencil.
Roughing it out: B pencil
Hard shadows: 2B-8B pencil

That's what I do, at least.

And yes, of course I have improved. I didn't start out one day and told myself "Hey, now I want to draw!" and drew like I do now. It has taken years upon years of practice, and I have still only scratched the surface. Drawing is like any other artform...start out at the bottom and work your way up. It takes patience and hard work, but it's worth it, every second of it.

[ratracer]

I probably arrived a bit late at this thread but...
wow - you rock, man, in all depts ...
your lores sprites are up with to Indy FOA and your 3d modeling is inspirational...
no critics whatsoever - they're perfect in my eyes...

[ratracer]

I really can't stop coming back to your drawings once in a while... They really hit MY spot - I don't remember being that impressed in a long while (and there are some really talented guys here)...

That nazi guy is amazing - beats Pixar in my book

[Xadhoom]

Heheh, well thanks alot, Ratracer. Glad to hear it. If you want and you like my stuff that much, you might consider a visit to my gallery. I got all sorts of different trash in there, I'm pretty proud of it, lol.
Gallery: http://xadhoom.deviantart.com

[TheKork]

Your plane reminds me of a movie I've seen a long time ago...
It's the Nazi Plane from Raiders of the lost arc but without propellers.

And one thing about your closeup of the Nazi: It's amazing, but a monocle might add something to this "pseudo-aristocratic" touch he seems to have (at least for me).

Offtopic:
And if you're ever going to dub this character - who is supposed to be a german (as far as I can imagine) - use a german. Nothing against anybody else but native english speakers tend to sound not really german (because of the umlauts and several typical pronounciation faults). "Ã,,nd ä tschermähn huu spieks inglisch tännds tuh saund sätt weh" (This is how a german would write 'And a german who speaks english tends to sound that way' phonetically. At least I would. I think.)

Back on topic:

Keep up the good work - I'd do it!

TheKork (just listened to a badly done german grunt)

[taryuu]

i reccomend you ditch the black outlines.  try it with just a darker colour of the uniform and see if you like it better.  just my preference i guess.  stellar work.

[agswannabe]

the 2d is fabulous. you should definately go with that for the ww2 game. looking at your 3d skills you might try to make a 3d game someday (or help me  ) . oh yeah, don't forget to put a 2d atlantis indy-like fights in the game. looking good.