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bipolarber	Just a few color sketches	Lead	[-]
Feb 8 09 11:13 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I was doodleing last night, and did these three while watching a few movies on DVD... I still don't have this "post an image" thing down yet. These images seem to be about 1/3 larger than their actual size... The movies I was watching was "Battle Beyond the Sun" and "Journey to the Seventh Planet." Hope you like my lame attempts at art.
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HalLane		#1	[-]
Feb 8 09 11:34 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Wow, these are very strong, and very detailed too. Where've you been hiding all this talent?
bipolarber		#2	[-]
Feb 8 09 12:01 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Thanks, but they aren't really all that detailed. I've found ways of just implying a lot of detail where there really isn't any. I'll feel much better about my attempts when I can start adding character to the paintings, and not have them look like some kind of atomic mutant. LOL
HalLane		#3	[-]
Feb 8 09 12:09 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	bipolarber wrote: I've found ways of just implying a lot of detail where there really isn't any. Well that's a whole artform in itself! I love the feeling of depth, and the textures too. Your work feels very confident, and effortless, and that's a good thing! Can't wait to see some more.
bipolarber		#4	[-]
Feb 8 09 12:38 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Well here's a couple from about a year ago. Again, doodling while bored, at a con art show table. The Trek is really small, about 2 x 3.5 inches. The station is about 6X8. I still am not sure why, when I scan these, they come out larger than the originals... You get too close, and they fall apart like a badly perfomed magic trick, I think. LOL
Zombie Dad		#5	[-]
Feb 8 09 1:51 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Very impressive and beautiful work! ZD Zombie Dad's Online Art Store www.zazzle.com/zombiedad
professor liebstrum		#6	[-]
Feb 8 09 3:18 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	A few colour shetches???????? These are very nice, Bipolar "I've found ways of just implying a lot of detail where there really isn't any." I don't think it matters how you did it. If it looks that good and you enjoy doing it, they're just great.
bipolarber		#7	[-]
Feb 8 09 5:31 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Thanks guys. It's always good to hear a little encouragment now and then.
HalLane		#8	[-]
Feb 8 09 7:08 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Love the Trek and the station too. I find space art to be a real challenge to do, but your stuff is better than a lot of movies I've seen! The size thing reminds me of animation cells, which are drawn relatively small and viewed relatively large. I think it works out just fine. By all means consider yourself encouraged, bipolarber!
bipolarber		#9	[-]
Feb 8 09 9:05 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	One of the nicest things anyone ever said about my style of doing "art" was an artist at one of the cons I was showing at. He said it reminded him of John Berkey's impressionistic style. Just squiggles and blotches of paint, but you "see" stuff that's not really there. ZD, Coming from you, that's a quite a compliment! (I love your drawings!) Thanks.
captainmarvel1957		#10	[-]
Feb 9 09 7:53 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	bipolarber, these are wonderful "doodles!" You said you did three of them while watching a couple of movies---wow! My question is, do find that when you do these you put yourself on automatic pilot? In other words, do you find yourself just sketching by instinct and in no time find that you have a finished piece? They exhibit a sense of aesthetics that just can't be learned, it has to be a second nature. Natural, like breathing. They are just absolutely beautiful! Thanks for sharing them with us!
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bipolarber		#11	[-]
Feb 9 09 9:22 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I don't have any set plan for a peice, if that's what you mean. I just sort of start from the background, and work my way into the foreground, arranging things for best effect. Take the painting of the space station floating above the rings... It started as just a background planet, but then when I added the "cracked" side to it, I realized that an impact would have created a ring system, at least temporarily. Once that was in place. (using a scratch technique along with a simple toothbrush "spatter" I dabbed in a couple of smaller moons. That looked great, but there was no focus to the scene. Nothing that put "us" there... so, I "dabbled in" the space station. First using black to get the general shape, then using gray blue and white to create the impression of lit and unlit sides to the shapes. Add a few pinpricks of yellow for portholes and... viola! (But, you'll notice, that this was done so fast, there's a big ol' nasty thumb print in the upper center of the painting... rarely, once I get started, do I let any of the paint layer completely dry. So, f-ups happen occasionally. I may go in an d try to fix that later...) Last Edited By: bipolarber Feb 9 09 9:28 AM. Edited 1 times.
Jethro Keane		#12	[-]
Feb 9 09 10:18 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Beautiful work, Bipolarber! That wonderful sunglare in that last one is really hits the eye- thanks so much for sharing those.
heavy metal monster		#13	[-]
Feb 9 09 5:52 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Bipolarber, those are fantastic.
captainmarvel1957		#14	[-]
Feb 10 09 12:49 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	That's kind of what I meant, bipolarber---by automatic pilot I meant that you just had a natural sense of intuition about your sketches. You know what to put where, whether lines or color, because you feel instinctively that's what the piece needs. They are stupendous! Got any more?
bipolarber		#15	[-]
Feb 10 09 9:13 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Oh, I'm still playing around... but I'm trying to get over a head cold right now, so it's a little tough to try and do anything detailed...
Doc Martin4		#16	[-]
Feb 10 09 12:16 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Very nice work! As for the scanning issues, I figured that one out for you. It looks like you scanned the images at 300 dpi. That's appropriate (or even minimum) when scanning for printing in a book or magazine. But the web typically displays items at 72 dpi, so those each of those 300 dpi get displayed, making the image larger. If you want to post anything online, I suggest resizing the images to 72 dpi first. Martin Arlt...................................... Publisher of Mad Scientist "I'm a scientist; I don't believe in anything."
bipolarber		#17	[-]
Feb 10 09 1:57 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Oh! Thanks, Doc! I'll give it a whirl...
bipolarber	150 dpi experiment	#18	[-]
Feb 10 09 11:05 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	A not so strong attempt this time, mostly to see how the lower dpi Doc was suggesting works. Not too bad, although I had to rescan, due to the image getting a little too soft for my tastes. I did this one while watching an old Outer Limits episode with Barry Morse and Carol O'Connor... "Controlled Experiment." I never realized the bubble headed blonde murderess in that story was Grace Lee Whitney before. OMG! Yeoman Rand is a jealous girfriend! Jim Kirk better watch his butt! LOL Last Edited By: bipolarber Feb 10 09 11:07 PM. Edited 1 times.
pat006		#19	[-]
Feb 11 09 1:21 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	AWESOME!!!!!
bipolarber	A little better...	#20	[-]
Feb 11 09 8:32 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	This one is an attempt to directly illustrate an old Murray Leinster story... radiation near Jupiter is a major problem. So, a scientific outpost near the planet is buried into a nickel iron asteroid in orbit around it. A close relative of the "Jules Verne" supply ship is on appraoch. Still quite small, the original is on an 8 X 10 canvas board...
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