Linsta's Art - A New Beginning

[linsta]

Hi, I'm Linsta and I just came back to Neopets after 7 years! I have barely drawn anything in the last 5 years and I've always wanted to get back into it, but I realized that I needed some kind of involvement in a community to motivate myself and make it more rewarding. Art school made me stop drawing I think (ironic, haha).

 

So since it's almost the new year, I'm going to put down some goals I have in mind with making this thread!

 

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Neopets history: I used to enter the Art Gallery regularly about 7 years ago. I deleted all my old neopets drawings so all I have left are what I could find through google of my work that's still in the AG.

 

1. Style evolution - I'm really going to work on changing my style, trying different styles, learning new programs, etc. Hopefully through this board, there will be a visible style evolution over time.

 

2. Keeping track of my art - I'm really bad about keeping track of my art ^^;. Since I use a few computers, it's never in one place, and then somehow it gets deleted.. etc. I used to draw a TON but I'd go on deleting sprees every few months when I looked back at how embarrassingly bad my art used to be. So this is another goal. no more deleting art!

 

3. Keeping myself motivated about art, meeting other artists, neopets players, etc.

 

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TLDR: Here is my new art! Critiques are GREATLY appreciated. I am trying to become much much better! I need to catch up on 7 years of not drawing xD.

 

Will try to condense my art into a list here:

 

December, 2011:

 

 

My dream pet water draik runs into a problem in cold weather... This one got into AG.

 

 

 

 

 

Borovan Day (did not get in):

 

 

 

 

 

Day of giving (did not get in):

 

 

 

 

 

Ogrin day (got in on a random day):

 

 

 

 

 

Got in for aisha day:

 

 

 

Got in for New Years special:

 

 

 

January 2012:

 

 

 

Got in for Gnorbu Day:

 

 

 

 

Got in for Buzz Day:

 

 

 

 

Got in for Sloth Appreciation Day:

 

 

 

 

 

Elephante Day (got in):

 

 

 

 

Kacheek Day (got in):

 

 

 

February 2012:

 

 

Zafara Day (got in):

 

 

 

 

 

Random:

 

 

 

 

Random:

 

 

 

May 2012 (New account: deiimos)

 

 

Tyrannian Victory Day:

 

 

 

 

 

Koi Day:

 

 

 

 

Yurble Day:

 

 

 

June 2012:

 

 

Fyora Day:

 

 

 

July 2012:

 

 

Desert Flotsam (random):

 

 

 

 

Old art: http://www.tdnforums...post__p__556131

and http://www.tdnforums...post__p__556132

 

Art Requests: Open (will take one at a time, may be slow depending on if I'm motivated :guiltysmiley:)

[Saxen]

Wowww your art is amazing!! I like very much <3 ^_^ I'm not really 'qualified' to critique; but I think they're perfect. I wish you the best of luck in the AG, I'm sure you'll get in.

 

Welcome back to Neopets, I bet things look mighty different after 7 years :P

 

Looking forward to seeing more of your artwork!!

[Tedhaun]

Both of these pictures look decent in my opinion. I really enjoyed your picture with a frozen Water Draik encountering an Ice Draik the most, I'm taking that the Ice Draik thought that the frozen Water Draik was one of them, which me me laugh. If you ever get into the Art Gallery, let us know! ^_^

[Saxen]

Both of these pictures look decent in my opinion. I really enjoyed your picture with a frozen Water Draik encountering an Ice Draik the most, I'm taking that the Ice Draik thought that the frozen Water Draik was one of them, which me me laugh. If you ever get into the Art Gallery, let us know! ^_^

 

I thought that it was that Water Draik had turned to ice in the cold? I tend to get this stuff wrong though XD

[linsta]

You're both right =). Water draik got frozen in the cold and the ice draik is confused/intrigued.

 

I'm trying to think of what to draw for Day of Giving/Ogrin day. Will probably post something later today when I make up my mind.

[Spritzie]

Wow! I absolutely love your first picture! :D

 

I have this running idea that explains how my Water Draik, stays water. (It's from her usual customization that's both fire and ice. So she's just perfect in the middle.)

[linsta]

Wow! I absolutely love your first picture! :D

 

I have this running idea that explains how my Water Draik, stays water. (It's from her usual customization that's both fire and ice. So she's just perfect in the middle.)

 

That's a cool theory! I never thought of that. I was just thinking about wintery themes, and how I really want a water draik, and what would happen to a water pet in the cold.

[Spritzie]

The idea came to me when I started placing her on a ice/fire background. Then I developed it a bit more. (It's just too bad she wasn't hatched from an Ice Egg, that way, I could make the back-story more complete.)

[linsta]

The new Borovan Day Art Gallery pictures are up! Mine isn't there but I think I submitted it too late for them to look at anyways ^^;. I just submitted it 12 hrs ago.

Maybe next time =D

[GlitteryCupcake]

These are wonderful - I love how not only is your technique amazing, but you also tell a story with your drawings.

[Angeló]

beautiful

 

wonderful art !!

 

i am not an artist - a very long way from being one , as i can't even draw stick figures ... but these are really amazing !!

 

more pure talent on TDN !! this is perfect ..

 

really looking forward for more of your art and welcome back to Neopets :)

[linsta]

I swear I posted this last night...but...I didn't? Very strange, maybe I was dreaming xD. (Unless I posted it in someone else's thread >.> but I can't find anything so I hope I'm safe).

 

Anyways here is my Day of Giving entry. Sorry for the watermarks. I'll remove them if it ends up getting in.

 

I took some WIP shots, since those are always cool to look at, if you're interested.

 

WIPS:

 

 

 

Also, I took the WIP shots to show you guys my process and steps. I am currently having a lot of trouble trying to paint without lineart. I feel like my process is very slow and tedious. If anyone has any suggestions or ideas on how to improve this process, or just cool ideas I could maybe try out and see what kind of effects I can get? I'm always trying to think of new techniques but the more brains the better!

 

Full process: sketch (2) --> colour --> basic shade --> (sometimes add 2nd layer of gradient shading) --> darken edges, more shading maybe --> main highlights --> leftover details/additional coloured highlights.

 

I think part of the problem I'm running into is the brush capability on photoshop. I don't normally use photoshop to paint (I use SAI, or OpenCanvas, trying to learn Painter too). I find the photoshop brushes don't really blend, but I'm sure I'm missing some kind of setting? I try to play around with the brush settings, but I can't seem to get what I want. It's just a bit frustrating because I like to try to blend different colours in so it looks more interesting, but the photoshop brush doesn't seem to do this (by blend I mean, it kind of takes up the colours around it).

[~Shoot Em All Peophin!~]

this is awesome!

you put so much effort and details on this, i can tell you that this is amazing!

awesome + amazing = awezing!

 

i am no master on this field but i would love to watch a good perspective and good focus point.

thats what i want to say, but your art is no joke.

really, really, really awesome.

[Tedhaun]

I hope your Christmas season will end up being a good one if this piece succeeds in the Neopets Art Gallery, it's pretty much getting me in a festive mood just by looking at it. You just made my day with that Christmas Aisha coming out and giving that Chocolate Aisha a Holiday surprise, good luck in getting this one in the Art Gallery just in time for Christmas! :santa:

[linsta]

I just realised I forgot to give the christmas aisha a tail *facepalm*. Now it's bugging me and I have to go fix it D=

 

Edit: Fixed it~ phew!

[leedom111]

AAAAA THIS IS TOO GOOD!

You are such a great artist it's ridiculous. I'm super jealous.

You should post some of your old art. I for one would love to see your improvement :)

 

How long does it take you to create one of these masterpieces? If I tried to do one it would take me hours and hours.

 

 

 

btw there seem to be some stripes on the chocolate aisha's back in the sketch that disappear.

[linsta]

You're right, I didn't notice the stripes til now xD. I guess that comes with just colouring it with the sketch hidden. I keep forgetting stuff D=.

 

Umm these took me quite a while. I haven't really drawn with a tablet in a long long time so I'm getting used to it again. Also I'm using my 4x5 graphire3 instead of my 12x8 intuos4 and I found out I totally can't draw smooth lines in photoshop anymore ^^;

 

The draik one probably took around 5 hours, so did the borovan one. The christmas one probably took a little bit longer, but I'm not sure because I was drawing it on and off all day and kept getting distracted because it grew tedious. I'm working on some more right now that's taking me a lot less time because I'm lazy. I kind of stopped drawing a long time ago because I wanted to draw better and more elaborate pictures, and it eventually ramped up so it was taking me 30+ hours and I never finished anything xD.

 

I'll link my old entries that got in here but just be warned they're really bad xD. Waaay back I tried forever to get in the AG and found that neopets didn't like the usual stuff I drew, but that stuff that was more similar to their style would get in easily, so most of my AG pictures I didn't really put much effort into. Usually ~30min to 1.5hrs of work. I'm a bit embarrassed so this time I'm determined to have some good art get in. I want to improve a lot instead of just drawing solely to get in.

 

Anyways, here they are. They're mostly signed by "boarder_lin" (my old frozen acc) but some of them were signed by my side accs. I guess this is why I got frozen, being too greedy. I don't think I realized it wasn't allowed at the time, as I saw another AG reg who had 60+ trophies at the time doing it =/

 

Warning: Lots of images!

 

2004: (19) - The first 3 are before I got my tablet.

 

 

2004/02/07

 

2004/03/30

 

2004/04/29

 

2004/08/18

 

2004/09/12

 

2004/09/16

 

2004/10/07

 

2004/10/20

 

2004/10/27

 

2004/11/08

 

2004/11/11

 

2004/11/12

 

2004/11/22

 

2004/12/07

 

2004/12/09

 

2004/12/10

 

 

 

2005: (9) - there was a big gap from march-december with no submissions due to being frozen

 

 

2005/01/20

 

2005/01/25

 

2005/01/31

 

2005/02/16

 

2005/03/13

 

2005/03/20

 

2005/12/30

 

 

 

2006: (2)

 

 

2006/01/06

 

2006/01/14

 

 

 

So I guess it's actually been 6 years instead of 7 since I quit ^^;.

[linsta]

Sorry to double post, but it said I had too many images so I had to split up my post.

 

Anyways, here is some of my non-AG neopets art. I did a lot of draik requests from the draik clan (if anyone has heard of it or been a part of it). They're mostly draiks with really cool designs ^.^. Also, I wanted to post them because my AG work wasn't really representative of my art and style, while these are more like it. They were done at the same time as my old AG pictures, so yea, you can see there's a difference, and why I didn't LOVE drawing for the AG, but it was more of a thing to make some np because I don't know how else to make np xD. I spent more time on these than the AG pictures. It took me a long time to dig these up and try to figure out the dates, etc. Had to dig through past BC winners and such.

 

2004: (6) - The first 3 aren't neopets art, but I wanted to post them because the first 2 are my first attempts at digital art (with mouse), and the 3rd one is my first thing I ever drew with my tablet! I remember I was so excited when I got it that I drew for like 24 hours straight xD.

 

 

Without tablet:

 

First ever drawing with tablet:

 

My old gelert fidelis_canis:

 

My old lenny Inferniya:

 

 

 

2005: (7) (no real order)

 

 

 

My draik InsomniacShadow (now InsomniusShadow, trying to get him back!)

 

 

 

 

2006: (11)

 

 

 

 

 

Sadly a lot of my old art from 2003-2004 were deleted and gone forever. I don't even know what they look like anymore, but it would be fun to look back if I could.

[~Shoot Em All Peophin!~]

thats a lot of images we have here!

i love this one

 

 

 

 

each and every single drawing you post

is really worth my time

post more please ^_^

(am being greedy, wasnt i?)

[linsta]

Been kind of busy but here's some new art finally!

Ogrin day was announced while I was doing the lineart for this so I was not so motivated to finish it soon, but I figured I'd use it for some practice. Plus robot ogrins are super cool and quite a challenge to draw ^.^

 

Thanks to Leedom for inspiring/teaching me to add a texture. I thought I'd try it out and I really like it. I'll need to look for more cool textures to try =D

 

 

Btw, I am considering doing a few requests :). Go ahead and request if you want. I'll only do one at a time but no guarantees! ^.^;

 

Edit: I just noticed my avatar disappeared. I wonder why that happened o_O

[Jacky]

wow this is totally awesome :O I love it!

[leedom111]

That Ogrin art is absolutely amazing! The metal on the robot ogrin looks so real.

 

I like the texture too, it adds to the mood :D

[linsta]

Entry for aisha day:

 

 

 

 

 

I decided not to spend as much time on some of these because I'll be getting busy soon, and I want to have time to do some requests and maybe some beauty contest stuff.

[Spritzie]

That's really pretty! I love how shiny their jewelry looks.

 

I hope it gets in. :D I love seeing the art shown here on TDN, appearing in the Art Gallery.

[Tedhaun]

If you do get that piece shown in the Art Gallery, I'll congratulate you!

By the way, I never a more elegant-looking Isca and Caylis picture than yours in my life. Good luck in the AG!