Roach - Rough fan art.

Roughed in some tone on it.. not very happy with how it turned out.

So I included the rough line work (which I am less disappointed in.).​

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Jeez, that's insane. Let me tell you this, anyone who didn't like the Roach's model before this ought to reconsider. Seriously dude, I dunno how you can be disappointed with that, and if you honestly are, I can't wait to see something you're happy with! Well done!

 

Great work man! It looks really good! A nice piece of concept art for the Roach!

 

Again, it's awesome. You should submit it for/enter it in the starcraft2forum gallery.

 

Great, im beginning to like the model of the Roach.

 

very nice, it's really good ^-^
As an artist i totally understand the concept of not being happy with what you do: but this is really good ^-^

 

It's great! I love it. :good:

 

Oh yeah, I forgot about always disliking your own works. I suffer from that as well.

 

I am very much like that too. When I used to animate, I would spend time and effort on it then I'd just get bored of it and leave it to catch dust in a folder forever.

What works is just draw and do not critisize every line. Draw it out and leave it as that. Never rub out your lines, and when the first is finished, go on to draw it again and again until you are happy with it.
And by doing that you are increasing your drawing skills too. Thats what they taught us in life drawings for college and it worked beautiflully.

 

It depends what kind of effect you're trying to achieve. If you want to portray a very emotive or bold work of art, then you're right, you shouldn't rub anything out. I guess the only exception might be if you're just using it as a draft and you're going to copy/trace/print it onto a new, probably higher quality, piece of paper.
The times when you do, not want, but need to rub out mistakes is if you're going for straight out detail, like a natural history or scientific illustrator, which is what I'd like to be one day. I've got a half completed illustration of a Harlequin Beetle that I did at work experience, bought all the extremely expensive water colour paints and brushes, but I'm afraid to go near it at risk of messing it up.

 

Yes, disliking your own works is a problem that artists often have. I have so many friends who are gods at art that it's pretty unfair. At the end of the day you end up wishing you had their level of skill. And everyone knows it whether or not they say it. I never really liked that "it's not better than yours. it's just a different style." it's like a nice way to say it isn't as good.

Overall, though, i agree. If it's awesome don't start trying to change things-erase things and add things-because often times it messes things up. It's happened to me a lot of times. I'd decide to change thigns while outlining and then i was really unhappy with the end result.

@ItzaHexGor: i was talking to Glenn McCoy [maker of a few comics that get in the newspaper like the duplex] at some thing and he said a good strategy for that is to photocopy it and print the copy out to color that with so you have a draft in case you mess up. Or, he said, you coudl try to trace it. But i was never good at tracing even my own works, and sometimes it's pretty impossible. that's my advice for the day.


back on topic: the roach is good for the pose it's in. I don't claim to be an expert on sc [obviously, we shoudl all know that I'm not] but as a drawing it's really good. Keep up the awesome work ^-^

 

This isn't just the outline or a sketch or anything, scientific/natural history illustration is an actual scientific, 100% detailed, photographic, hyperrealistic illustration. It's not something that you can just photocopy or trace, especially once you've started putting the paint on.

 

then just go with the flow and keep at it!
If you mess it up you can blame someone.
and all you gotta do is be careful. I wish you luck on your half finished creation~

 

That's a nice art men,keep it going!

 

Nice job mate! :thumbup: Yeah you doomed to dislike a good portion of your own work, but this is not bad at all.

 

You've managed to outdo the original roach, and making it spikey without making it "warcrafty". Excellent work.

 

Nice Job! owerup: your artwork is very good

 

So true. Great job ced!

 

Thanks guys,

Once I get some more free time.. i'll see if I can clean it up and maybe throw some colour on it.

 

Wow this is very good.

I have to give this a high rating!

4.5/5