Open to collaborate and draw something for you
I didn't know where to post this, sometimes I invite people on instagram to suggest ideas or things for me to draw and post; I found it's a nice way to interact on the internet in a different way and challenge myself and practice at the same time. If anyone's interested maybe we can do it here, this is not for commissions and it's totally free, I'm just trying to do something fun and collaborative with strangers.
Even if this doesn't take off feel free to contact me and see what we can do, I'd love to make something for somebody else, I can share some of my drawings so you know what to expect.
Maybe we could organize and turn it into a monthly topic with a different prompt for anyone who wants to draw and participate and share. Would love to read your opinions on this.
Apologies if this is the wrong space for it.
That's cool. I have a character called The Empty Man. I thought of turning it into a story. He is a man who is empty inside both figuratively and literally. Whenever The Empty Man falls in love with something or someone, through the act of admiring that thing he ends up swallowing or absorbing it in some way. Deep into his void.
I don't wanna give any direction that is more specific, because I think it would be interesting to see how you imagine this. But I do believe that idea was inspired by the manga Homunculus.
EDIT: The Empty Man is not really a villain. He is also not really good. He does not go about his life seeking to end people. He is just someone (or something...) who, by virtue of being empty, is intensely enamored by lots of things and people. Nature abhors a vacuum.
Maybe I took it too literal and went more into the horror interpretation of the character, here's a couple of sketches I made because it was hard to choose a definitive one
https://i.imgur.com/3OSFYES.jpeg
Thanks!!
Thank you so much. After so many years with this idea in my mind, seeing it rendered on paper feels... magical and cathartic. I can see that you really gave this a lot of thought. Because I did not give many directions, what I really wanted was to be inspired by you and perhaps use your own interpretations as a starting point for thinking about my story. You really understood the soul of this character in a way that reminds me of Sandman -- a series I love and that is essential to everything I do (which I now consider having its own life away from its author).
I will mentally number your eight drawings in three lines, starting on the top left and ending on the bottom right. I'll tell you what I like and also how it helps me imagine my story.
You gave me great visualizations of that character that will help me with finally putting it to paper. Looking at your drawings I am thinking that he could have two forms, one in which he is a regular human -- a handsome one, to make it easier to approach people -- and one that displays his true nature like The Empty Man.
Thanks!
It's crazy that you mentioned Sandman because that's something that was in mind during all the process, it wasn't a deliberate choice, more like a slow evolution, the guy with glasses was one of the last drawings I did and, seriously, I was calling it "Empty Man as a Sandman villain", guess we have a similar set of references in our artistic vocabulary.
How interesting, it was very fun to draw him but your reply and this fact makes it even more significant to me. Glad to know it was helpful for you too!
Thanks a lot!!
I just realized that one of the sketches looks a bit like an Office reference, totally not on purpose.
What a tragic being!
Have you read Piranesi? It captures a similar feeling for me, something like a metaphorical/mythical concept existing in physical space and the effect it has on people.
Vibes of the story of Midas about this one.
Either a rubik cube, but it's shaped like a sphere with 47 unique flat surfaces which, when assembled, is perfectly spherical and smooth. When it's messed up the surface is jagged and uneven. Where one surface depresses, the other rises. Kind of like a 3D heart pulse. The other one is a flattened paper boat in the style of ink tattoos.
I ended up going with the paper boat, I know it might not be exactly what you described but this was the best I could do to keep a "tattoo" look.
https://i.imgur.com/DAI7ARG.jpeg
let me know what you think, thanks a lot!
It's not what I had in mind, but it's awesome nevertheless with the HP Sorting Hat vibes that make it look sentient. Thank you for the time you invested!
hahaha you're right, it looks like the hat. To be honest it was a challenge to realize this one, I'm still thinking on giving the sphere a try.
Can I ask how did you imagine the boat? I like the concept so maybe we can work it a little more towards your vision.
I'll doodle something up when I finish work today. I used to draw as well back in the day.
I really like both ideas! thank you for replying
I feel this is the immortal difficulty level answer right here.
They are both ideas that have been in my mind for a long time.
Yeah it sounds awesome, just difficult to draw!
hahaha it's not really that hard but it takes time and dedication to figure out the approach with a lot of sketches and trial and error, a more patient person might be able to do it easily.
Ooh as a fellow artist (who needs to draw more! ) would love to participate with you in a regular topic/thread for drawing practice!
Feel free to join!! Take any prompt from here and let's get it rolling.
I describe my main characters van in the first couple of pages in my book, and I'm curious to see what other people see in their minds from my description. I'd be totally honoured if you felt like taking a stab at it. Here is the description from the book :
The 1977 Dodge B100 wasn’t born with a 383, nor was it designed for the kind of brutality that had been levied upon it since James had set his eyes on its retired and picked clean frame more than three years earlier, just after his sixteenth birthday. It had been his first ticket to freedom after leaving the foster “parents” he had grown up with, as Ted had offered the van and all the parts James could scrounge in return for help around the shop. Once it had become roadworthy, it began pulling double duty as both transportation and a home. Ted had initially offered to put James up in his trailer behind the shop, but considering the latent stench of cheap whiskey and stale cigarette smoke, and the innate lack of privacy afforded by a single axle travel trailer, the van proved a much more enticing alternative. It was his first apartment, first job, and first opportunity to make a name for himself.
He had finished the inside in deep red shag carpet, built in cabinets with a small fridge, on top of which sat a small two burner propane stove, a raised platform in the rear that held a small mattress, and a pair of swiveling captain's chairs finished in the finest vinyl Detroit had ever produced. The much larger than stock block under the hood had previously done time under the hood of a New Mexico State Trooper squad car, but James had carefully rebuilt the engine from the bottom to the top and it showed. The last time he had it on the Dyno, it pulled 462 horsepower, and he was positive it would crack 500 with his latest additions. Since nobody typically expected an old school Boogie Van to be packing that kind of heat, James had been able to make a pretty solid living taking Route 66 hot-rod tourists to the cleaners in late night street races. The paint, however, hadn’t been touched. A relic left over from the custom van craze of the early 1980s, it spoke to him on a personal level. A midnight blue base coat gave way to a mural of a full moon in the night sky on the back panel, while the menacing silhouette of a B24 Liberator bomber depicted side-on cruised just below it. He hadn’t touched it for that very reason: it had earned the name.
It's a very engaging lecture, let me see what I can do!
Awesome! I look forward to seeing what you come up with 😁
I can't really draw, so I'm not participating as active user.
But I love Mazda 787B and if you could draw it in its iconic Renown livery, I would love to see that!
I'll do my best, cars and mechanical drawings aren't my strength but always open to try, thanks a lot!
Let's say that Mazda 787B isn't a car but a piece of art then!
Wow, memories of Gran Turismo triggered. That vehicle performed competitively, if I recall.
I love it! It is great car to race woth in Gran Turismo, but in GT4 (and maybe later) I believe there are others in Le Mans class that outperform it - either in power or fuel efficiency. Still remains my favorite though, partly because of the Wankel engine (small engine, high revs, high power, GREAT NOISE) and partly because of that livery.
I've personally seen a few Le Mans cars from around that era, but I still haven't seen 787B with my own eyes. Well, there's only one in the world, no wonder I haven't seen it :-)
EDIT: According to wikipedia there are three 787B's.
A man flying over a hill after being launched from a catapult.
I've had a couple of images that I've thought about recently.
One, a unicorn skull nestled among spider chrysanthemums, kind of like a neo-Japanese tattoo.
Two, a mouse working on an embroidery project in a cozy space.
This is one prompt that I couldn't get out of my head, maybe it's a little lacking in detail but I wanted to finish as soon as possible
https://i.imgur.com/NogXcIU.jpeg
thanks a lot for participating!
Ohmygod this is GREAT! Thank you!
Glad you liked it! Thanks!
I like your style! I think it would fit well into a book or next to a beautiful story.
I'm terrible at being creative from zero myself. I always have to build up from experiences or world knowledge and stuff.
But what's always a nice picture to see is a kitty cat.
Perhaps a version from your head or if you want inspo, then perhaps Niti, who I got as a small kiddo, and grew up with and moved into my first own home with. https://imgur.com/a/B7MER62
Thanks a lot!!! Working on a story book would be a dream come true.
I couldn't resist so here's Niti:
https://i.imgur.com/wTFk5wH.jpeg
Some of these ideas sound a little like gen AI prompts. It's much more fun to see what a human will come up with. Vive la résistance!
I don't have a prompt to add but I'm looking forward to seeing the results. I'd love to see some of your existing stuff too, please post links!
Maybe my description form the worldbuilding thread https://tildes.net/~creative/1m7e/tildes_worldbuilding_thread#comment-eyly
Prompt
Follow a winding road through foothills, passing villages and rolling farmland. Up ahead, a great metropolis wraps around the base of a small mountain whose peak rises impossibly sharp and steep up through the clouds and beyond sight. To the left of the spire are a long mountain range and scars in the earth, like the spire itself were dragged through the earth by the gods. The sky that way is dark and gloomy, leading toward nighttime in the shadowfell. The spire - and the shadowfell itself - casts a long shadow far to your left, triggering thunderstorms as that cool nighttime air from the shadowfell begins to collide with the warmer humid air of the material plane. To the right of the spire is a bright afternoon coastline, the sun reflecting off the water busy with sailing ships around the docks. The spire cuts between these two background scenes like a bad photoshop, but the foreground is rolling hills and light-play that blends smoothly between the two. The feywild is not visible at all from your current position: you would have to pass through or around the city, looping counter-clockwise about the spire, to see it.
I've tried a few times to draw this but I haven't figured out perspective and landscapes. I think I just need more practice with "typical" landscapes to figure out how to do that perspective before I'll get something "atypical" like this prompt right.
Are you open to political drawings/things that are potentially offensive?
ooh, this sounds interesting.
i’m wondering if you’d ever give my prompt a fair try?:
what would you imagine an alien would look like?
perhaps the alien has the features of a human you know, but only a few.
something completely out of this world, with a distinguishable face and limbs.
This is always interesting to me. I feel like very few artists have captured fictional aliens in a way that feels "realistic" to me. Which might be because the concept is fully elusive. But I'm always interested in takes that aren't slimy monsters or humans with prosthetics.
Right, or the classic gassy/energy humanoid, this one is a tough thought exercise
I will!! But need to give some time and think about it, thanks for the idea!
This post inspired me to build a small project. I don’t want to publicly post it, but anyone that wants to check it out, please comment or message me. I want to just check if it works before I post a public link. It’s a “collaborative art platform” and it’s non commercial just for fun. But I just loved the idea of building it.
Ooh I'm interested! Happy to be a beta tester
I'm very interested! Sounds like a great idea.
I'd love to construct a prompt for you, but I don't know what kind of stuff you enjoy drawing. What sort of style do you use?
To be honest I'm a mix, I love being simple, and things like still life and photorealism aren't in my skill list. Just posted the first answers to some prompts so you can get a glimpse of what I'm doing right now, but usually I do simpler, cartoony things.
Buy anyways, throw you idea, the challenge and the unexpected are part of the fun.