The Kiwi Coloring Corner - Calling all creative kiwis! Join in a workshop made for those who seek to improve in the arts.

[CallmeCicada]

Title: KiwiMoon
Medium: 0.8 fineliner
Challenge Name: Technical Line Work
Description: Inspired by Art Nouveau linework, an Kiwi sits atop a crescent moon, a symbol of 1920's elegance
Time Spent: 3 hours
Art Specific Critique: Please, as harsh as you like
Challenge Feedback: fun

Spoiler: draft

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Finished article
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You lost a lot of expression in the lines during the inking. Try experimenting with brushes and dip pens. Fineliners tend to make things feel very stiff when you are working with designs like this imo.

 

[Whatevermancer]

Title: Bluebear Warrior
Medium: 2B pencil, 0.7mm pen, colored pencils
Challenge Name: Technical Line Work
Description: the fabled bluebear warrior on his way to save a maiden from harassment! Basically it's Andrew Dobson's self-insert character in Aztec style.
Time Spent: ~40 minutes
Art Specific Critique: Yes
Challenge Feedback: from the creative point of view, it was fun, but from technical point of view, eh... Cause it's meant to make us practice line work, but there's no requirement to use different line with different thicknesses or anything like that.

Spoiler: WIPs

Spoiler: References

 

[Jimmy Dean Bowl]

It's pretty neat, the only thing I'd say is the inner curve of the crescent moon needs to be part of a continuous curve, especially to the right of the bird, at the bottom. It just looks a bit weird.

I can't believe I didn't notice that, it seems so obvious now you've pointed it out.
Thanks dude.

Edit to quote @CallmeCicada
You lost a lot of expression in the lines during the inking. Try experimenting with brushes and dip pens. Fineliners tend to make things feel very stiff when you are working with designs like this imo.

I knew as soon as I started the first big sweeping line that I'd chosen the wrong pen. It was so stiff and unyielding. I had the brush pen in my hand a second before too but thought it would be too thick.
But I agree, the flow is lost from the draft and it really disappointed me.

Thanks, this is really helpful.

 

[FedPostalService]

I have sincerely loved everything Ive seen so far.

 

[Mortan Shekelstorm]

Title: Tards Bunga
Medium: Tablet + Krita, GIMP for the rock effect
Challenge Name: Technical Line Work
Description: Unearthed cave drawing showing a group of Homo Tardis fending off the long extinct Saber Tooth Slobbermutt after it preyed on the fattest individual
Time Spent: I think like 45 minutes for the final one? Total time is longer but more segmented becauseI kept changing ideas and had to figure things out.
Art Specific Critique: Yes, but go easy on a noob >_<
Challenge Feedback: I liked the prompt, but I personally couldn't do what I envisioned of something egyptian because of a lack of skill and intentionally settled on an easier cave drawing.
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Only critique I have is the bright white I think a dark red, orange or shade of grey might have looked a bit more cohesive.

because of a lack of skill and intentionally settled on an easier cave drawing.

Some of those cave men could draw real good

Spoiler

 

[Double Taps]

from technical point of view, eh... Cause it's meant to make us practice line work, but there's no requirement to use different line with different thicknesses or anything like that.

This was something I worried about the closer the 6th got. I was strapped for time and had to rush things along to make it for the challenge date. The next technical will 100% be more clearly defined or is demonstrated better visually.

Edit: The challenge is still young, I'm going to cobble some basic stuff and tack it onto the challenge over the next day or so.

 

[dexx]

Damn... I really wanted to join in but I don’t think I'm familiar enough with the site history to think of anything interesting.
This is me

 

[CallmeCicada]

Damn... I really wanted to join in but I don’t think I'm familiar enough with the site history to think of anything interesting.
This is me

Aw, you're still invited to have fun. Making a cute kiwi is still nice, OP also said it doesn't have to a referenxe to site history though. Hope you change your mind, I am still thinking what to make mine about too.

 

[joebobmurphy]

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Title: Bluebear Warrior
Medium: 2B pencil, 0.7mm pen, colored pencils
Challenge Name: Technical Line Work
Description: the fabled bluebear warrior on his way to save a maiden from harassment! Basically it's Andrew Dobson's self-insert character in Aztec style.
Time Spent: ~40 minutes
Art Specific Critique: Yes
Challenge Feedback: from the creative point of view, it was fun, but from technical point of view, eh... Cause it's meant to make us practice line work, but there's no requirement to use different line with different thicknesses or anything like that.

Spoiler: WIPs

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Spoiler: References

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With your permission, I would import your drawing into illustrator and go over it to make it have the accents of your reference. Let me know. I won't touch it without approval.

 

[CallmeCicada]

With your permission, I would import your drawing into illustrator and go over it to make it have the accents of your reference. Let me know. I won't touch it without approval.

Oh this gave me a good idea.

@Double Taps please add into the submission forum for art entries, a field for permission to edit the work, a Y/N or "please ask" would be a good touch to let the thread flow better so people who want to make edits can just do it without waitng for a reply from the user.

 

[Whatevermancer]

This was something I worried about the closer the 6th got. I was strapped for time and had to rush things along to make it for the challenge date. The next technical will 100% be more clearly defined or is demonstrated better visually.

Edit: The challenge is still young, I'm going to cobble some basic stuff and tack it onto the challenge over the next day or so.

If it was up to me, I'd give out tasks involving drawing poses, faces, perspective, shading, etc.

With your permission, I would import your drawing into illustrator and go over it to make it have the accents of your reference. Let me know. I won't touch it without approval.

Go ahead.

 

[LoogerLike]

Title: Legends of the Ralpha Tribe
Medium: Aseprite
Challenge Name: Technical Line Work
Description: One of many Central American cave paintings from the mysterious Ralpha Tribe. Featured in the center is the Ralpha Male doing the Xannyberry Dance. Also featured are family hoof prints, an aggressive mutt beating a dead horse, and a Ralpha Male and his horse praying to an ominous medallion. Thus is the legacy of the Ralpha Tribe. Bish.
Time Spent: 2 1/2 hours
Art Specific Critique: If you want to, lol
Draft

 

[Tangerine]

Title: Hog and Kiwi Cave Painting (year unknown speculated 35,000 BC)
Medium: Slightly Big No.2 Pencil, Sketching Paper, RED, YELLOW , BLACK, and WHITE Acrylic Paint, Paint Brushes.
Challenge Name: Technical Line Work
Description: An ancient Bog Hog confronting a large Kiwi Bird. Also, several hand prints are shown as well.
Time Spent: 30 Minutes on sketch. 4 Hours for painted final picture
Art Specific Critique: Give it to me baby.
Challenge Feedback: This was wonderful. I had a fun time watching videos on the history of cave paintings and what ancient Humans did with the tools they had.
Also, I made the hand prints using a little hand I cut out from paper.

Spoiler: Draft + Lil Hand

 

[BohemianBorzoi]

Title: Kiwi Totems
Medium: Digital (on my phone as well)
Challenge Name: Technical Line Work
Description: Some Indo-European style inspired totems. The runes are gibberish.
Time Spent: I didn't keep track, but under 3 hours? I had to restart at a couple of points due to the software I was using fucking up and not saving properly.
Art Specific Critique: Sure. I'll be upfront and say I'm not super great with digital as a medium. Go a little easy on me lol.
Challenge Feedback: I thought the challenge was great. It was easy to think of several ideas and have them be both kiwi themed and non-kiwi themed.

Spoiler: Draft

 

[liam dees]

Two questions: Am I allowed to post Works In Progress? and Are Animated works eligible for submission?

 

[Fields Of Rye]

Title: The fall of Sneedom
Medium: Pen, paper, brush
Challenge Name: Technical Line Work
Description: Sneedom did not fall, Lot was all in, but his wifejack looked back, and was turned into a pillar of Not
Time Spent: 5 hours or so
Art Specific Critique: Sure. Hit me.
Challenge comment: I originally had the wife turning into a pooner and this work titled “The fall of Something Awful” but i wanted something I could display.

 

[Noebel]

Ok, here we go

Title: Third soy raid
Medium: HB pencil, eraser(a lot), paper A5(felt kinda small)
Challenge Name: Technical Line Work
Description: my artistic interpretation of the recent soyteen raid, the one with negrates. Josh is standing against the scriptkiddie horde. Broom-banhammer combitool he wields symbolizes the duality of being an operator of a relatively small website, since you are also a head janny. Kiwis are here to watch the show and encouraje Josh with such words like "Sweep it up, Jewsh!". Background felt kinda empty, so I've put a cave painting of ancient kiwis and a cow there.
Time Spent: I did it in two stages. First took around 2.5 hours, second - around 1.1 hour. Quite a lot of that time went into thinking what exactly I wanted to do, some is for unrelated activities.
Art Specific Critique: Yes, that's the point. Don't mind harshness, as long as it is actually critique. I don't need help to determine that I suck. Would appreciate advice on how to suck less.
Challenge Feedback: I'd like something about the basics, but feel like it's a ME problem. Still, so far my creativity is limited by my lack of ability way more than by anything else.
So, here's the pic

Spoiler: TL;DR with the final picture and the main inspiration

Spoiler: what I saw

Spoiler: what I got

Spoiler: Full 10-step process

keep in mind: never drew before, even in childhood, started practicing somewhat recently. My goal is to learn how to draw more or less consistently on model and then make it people's problem

Spoiler: 1

roughly mapped where everything should be

Spoiler: 2

here's Null

Spoiler: 3

added amogus chasises to be modified into soys

Spoiler: 4

first bunch of 'jacks(poor Cobson)

Spoiler: 5

second bunch of 'jacks

Spoiler: 6

at this point I've ran out of soyjacks I know, so here's some rage-faces, plus they've came bearing negrate

Spoiler: 7

found my colored pencills from school

Spoiler: 8

added kiwis and the broomhead

Spoiler: 9

added cave painting to the background; I like how the fire ended up

Spoiler: 10

added some detail to the kiwis, but shot it badly, so the ninth pic is the final one till I get enough light to reshoot

 

[Anonitolia]

The linework's got to be some kind of ancient art, right? Cave paintings, totems, aztec carvings, etc? I was thinking of doing a lithograph...

 

[joebobmurphy]

Bluebear Warrior after @Hardline Traditionalist with permission.

 

[Jimmy Dean Bowl]

The linework's got to be some kind of ancient art, right? Cave paintings, totems, aztec carvings, etc? I was thinking of doing a lithograph...

I followed the idea below because I like the typography and line art from the 1920's Art Nouveau period.
We aren't just confined to ancient history, it's very flexible.
Edit: a lithograph sounds cool as hell.

Maybe you're a fan of fonts from a certain era or typography