[Blakout420]

Approximately none of you will remember me, but I posted a bit back-in-the-day before mysteriously vanishing. Well, I'm back. Sorta. Still probably won't post much, but just wanted to pop in and get the opinion of some more experienced graphics people on my stuff.

To start, here's a vector I did a few days ago, first time I've done a person. Before it gets mentioned, I know the hair is crappy, but otherwise I'm fairly happy with it:


Next up is something I did just for fun, has no significance or meaning, not supposed to wow you or anything, I was just bored at the time:


This piece I'm actually quite fond of, despite it's incredible whore-itude. I really had no inspiration for it, just opened up Photoshop and started doing whatever came to mind:


Next up is something that I finished just a few minutes ago, actually. Again, boredom struck, and Photoshop was near. Inspired by Atreyu:


That's pretty much it for the actual pieces I'm willing to show off, but I do have another thing I wanted to post. I went through a sort of digital-graffiti phase, made a ton of little tags in Illustrator. Here's a few of my favorites:






Hm, just noticed something I'd forgotten:


Album art made for a friend.

So, yeah, I know I'm not the best evar, and I know there's plenty of people better than me here, so I just wanted to drop by and get some opinons. Thanks.

[Bigs]

Indeed, I remember you. Mr. I like Arrows.

You have a unique way of making art, and I like all of this stuff you are presenting. Nice work.

[Blakout420]

Why thankee. And I still defend my arrowisms, I swear I only used them in a couple pictures

[Surpress]

First one; For a minute i thought that was fido. I don't really like the shape. The smoothness around the face etc is not to my liking.

Second one; Very nice, good colour combination and quite imaginitive. Very good.

Third one; I see arrows... well anyway, i kinda like the idea of how, over it is the earth and ground etc, and then under the border line it's like something underwater. (That's the idea... right?) Anyway, very nice, though you could make the bototm part cyanish greenish to make it blend in more. And lose some of the arrows. There's abit too many.

Fourth one; Brilliant, i like how one side is grunge and the other is retro. Very good indeed.

The last one; Kinda plain, but nice graffitti font.

Did you make the graphic or did you use a font? May i ask which one?

[Scottendo]

Wow! You're graphics are very nice. They are very pleasing to me.

1.) Very nice, a tad too clean, but it gives the chick life.

2.) Looks like a sudo-3D sidescroller game, very nice.

3.) Now this is my favorite, the way that you make it sort of like.. a dark and light world and how the two men are fighting on the wall like thing. I really like this one, very awesome.

4.) This one is very good too, sort of random, but comes out very nice.

5.) All your sigs are beautiful, I've been looking for someone who could do grafitti or even a grafitti font but I had no luck.

[Waste]

Very nice work.
I really like the "digital-graffiti".
Could I bribe you to do one for me?

[Octember]

ah, i see you've started on the alpha omega thing me, you, and pyro are doing..

1: not liking the eye outlines, nor the hair.
2: the cloud and sun ruin it.. try changing the colors, otherwise.. cool.
3: lovin' those buildings on the bottom... though, not liking the scanlines, or colors.. the top is.. blech.
4: unique, like i said above.. the right side is cool, left ruins it.
5: that digital graffiti is damn awesome.. i tried it once, may try it again.

[Blakout420]

QUOTE (Surpress @ Apr 16 2005, 01:37)

Did you make the graphic or did you use a font? May i ask which one?

Drawn in Illustrator.

QUOTE ("Octember")

ah, i see you've started on the alpha omega thing me, you, and pyro are doing.. rolleyes.gif

Heh, I made that a long time ago, so no, still haven't started on that thing

Thanks for the comments.

[MnE]

very nice...i like the graffiti one..

[Scharkey]

Hey, I remember you off of GTAWH Forums hehe. By the way, are you using Adobe Photoshop and some brushes to make that stuff/just plain drawing?

[Blakout420]

What stuff are you talking about exactly? In the pink one I used a couple of downloaded grunge brushes, and I used a paint splat brush from AngryBlue at the very bottom of the greenish one, other than that it was all brushes that come with Photoshop or me drawing (drew all the graffiti logos, used the pen tool in Photoshop for the other stuff).

[Octember]

QUOTE (Blakout420 @ Apr 15 2005, 19:56)

QUOTE (Surpress @ Apr 16 2005, 01:37) Did you make the graphic or did you use a font? May i ask which one? Drawn in Illustrator. QUOTE ("Octember") ah, i see you've started on the alpha omega thing me, you, and pyro are doing.. rolleyes.gif Heh, I made that a long time ago, so no, still haven't started on that thing Thanks for the comments.

lucky.

i'm the f*ckin coder.. pain in the ass.

[Raptomex]

Interesting. It's different. I know you used Adobe Illustrator, what other programs? Or is that it?

[Scharkey]

QUOTE (Blakout420 @ Apr 16 2005, 03:47)

What stuff are you talking about exactly? In the pink one I used a couple of downloaded grunge brushes, and I used a paint splat brush from AngryBlue at the very bottom of the greenish one, other than that it was all brushes that come with Photoshop or me drawing (drew all the graffiti logos, used the pen tool in Photoshop for the other stuff).

Yeah, that's what I mean't. I really like the orange photo the most, I remember one of your arts at GTAWH that had planes on it. That one is my favorite amonst your creations. Fun graffiting in Adobe too, I should start doing that again. But, you're really good at it.

[Blakout420]

QUOTE (Scharkey @ Apr 16 2005, 04:36)

QUOTE (Blakout420 @ Apr 16 2005, 03:47) What stuff are you talking about exactly? In the pink one I used a couple of downloaded grunge brushes, and I used a paint splat brush from AngryBlue at the very bottom of the greenish one, other than that it was all brushes that come with Photoshop or me drawing (drew all the graffiti logos, used the pen tool in Photoshop for the other stuff). Yeah, that's what I mean't. I really like the orange photo the most, I remember one of your arts at GTAWH that had planes on it. That one is my favorite amonst your creations. Fun graffiting in Adobe too, I should start doing that again. But, you're really good at it.

Oh right, forgot about that one, thanks for reminding me.

[Jamie O'Dea]

It's freaking awesome - I love it! Variation and a unique sense of style - now that's how it's done! Bravo!

[Octember]

QUOTE (Blakout420 @ Apr 15 2005, 21:42)

QUOTE (Scharkey @ Apr 16 2005, 04:36) QUOTE (Blakout420 @ Apr 16 2005, 03:47) What stuff are you talking about exactly? In the pink one I used a couple of downloaded grunge brushes, and I used a paint splat brush from AngryBlue at the very bottom of the greenish one, other than that it was all brushes that come with Photoshop or me drawing (drew all the graffiti logos, used the pen tool in Photoshop for the other stuff). Yeah, that's what I mean't. I really like the orange photo the most, I remember one of your arts at GTAWH that had planes on it. That one is my favorite amonst your creations. Fun graffiting in Adobe too, I should start doing that again. But, you're really good at it. Oh right, forgot about that one, thanks for reminding me.

damn man.. we really need to get aeronautica up and running..

[Toro.]

its all so-so. Not bad, but definitly not good either. And please dont claim that you drew the pre-made vectors that you used in your pictures. They are taken from photoshop

Mm you choose some nice colours but the aeronautica just looks like a half-assed copy of something oct would do in his shibby days.

[Scharkey]

Well, they're not too hard to do what he did, but it's very good. He makes everything look so nice in his work, it doesn't matter if it has to be super crazy in graphics. Simple art is very nice. I agree, I've seen 'harder' projects but his I like.

[Harlem]

Nice stuff! Would you make me a signature that says "Harlem" and looks a lot like this:



I'd appreciate it.