Alfisti's Sketchings

Nice of Triela not leaving the clean-up to Alfonso and Amadeo.

Nice use of color and shading.

That was great!

Wow! I love the 1st (made me laugh ^0^) Your backgrounds are awesome! The last one is really cool coloured...

Kiskaloo wrote:Nice of Triela not leaving the clean-up to Alfonso and Amadeo.

Nice use of color and shading.

Well, you know... sometimes there's just too much work on =P Or I guess Hilshire could have gone rogue again...

Is that a sofa in Triela's right hand?



Overall,it's a great art

emperor wrote:Is that a sofa in Triela's right hand?



Overall,it's a great art

bodybag i would guess

Awinnell wrote:

emperor wrote:Is that a sofa in Triela's right hand?



Overall,it's a great art

bodybag i would guess

Yeah, it was supposed to be a body bag. Unfortunately a large roll of black plastic is suprisingly difficult to portray with any resonable level of clarity.

It was meant to look like she was midway through unfurling it as part of the "cleanup"... I mean hey: Hilshire drives an E-class estate, you could fit a dead body or two in the back of that thing no worries, wouldn't even need to fold the seats down or remove the load cover

How the hell did I avoid looking at this stuff for so long?!

Amazing work, dude.

Piero wrote:How the hell did I avoid looking at this stuff for so long?!

Amazing work, dude.

...because if you're anything like me then you dodge around the joint procrastinating rather than actually doing much? =P

Cheers mate

Alfisti wrote:

Piero wrote:How the hell did I avoid looking at this stuff for so long?!

Amazing work, dude.

...because if you're anything like me then you dodge around the joint procrastinating rather than actually doing much? =P

Cheers mate

This pretty much applies for me as well.
This is nothing short of amazing! Wonderful work, Alf! Your art's main effect on me is making me feel increasingly inferior about mine but I've grown to except it

Godot wrote:

Alfisti wrote:

Piero wrote:How the hell did I avoid looking at this stuff for so long?!

Amazing work, dude.

...because if you're anything like me then you dodge around the joint procrastinating rather than actually doing much? =P

Cheers mate

This pretty much applies for me as well.
This is nothing short of amazing! Wonderful work, Alf! Your art's main effect on me is making me feel increasingly inferior about mine but I've grown to except it

Haha, oh I know that particular feeling all too well ^^;

Cheers mate.

Well, not technically a GSG drawing, but I figure a few people around here might be able to relate, particularly those studying.




Notes on Jesse: she's one of my OCs from outside GSG and basically gives me someone to express my opinions through. Usually she dresses better than this, but it's her "bumming around home" gear.

Hahahaha. I can really relate to that

Thats so good, nice, Fantastic, awesome, beautiful soooooo nice XD

@Whatface - Seriously, I'm fairly certain sleep's just a hobby these days, don't do it regular enough to do it anything else.

I saw something from your arts. You can't draw with the solid lines,is it?

All your art were drawn with curve lines.

@ emperor - I can do clean solid lines, but generally save it for doing layouts, logos and presentations. When it comes to actual drawing I far prefer to keep things sketchy/painted looking

O.K. Thanks for reply.

no straight lines in nature

Been bouncing around in my head since reading the Nerd Handbook over on Rands...

In particular: Each object in the [nerd] Cave has a particular place and purpose. Even the
clutter is well designed. Don’t believe me? Grab that seemingly
discarded Mac Mini which has been sitting on the floor for two months
and hide it. You’ll have 10 minutes before he’ll come stomping out of
the Cave — “Where’s the Mac?”



Lets face it: Hillshire has a nerd tendancy or two... starting with lacking social skills (even he admits that).

She's trying to search what Hilshire hiding in that '' Locked '' folders,eh?

LOL!!!

His Snow Leopard upgrade arrives on Friday and he is looking forward to install it on his Mac.

I love the design on her shirt!!! GO ZELDA!!!!! <333

Haha, actually it's the logo for The Cat Empire... probs one of my favorite "hot weather" bands.

...Gorram it, embedding disabled Cat Empire - "Hello"

We've had a warm spell recently (despite it being "winter"), so someone was going to wind up wearing a Cat Empire shirt, Triela just happend to get
in the firing line



@emperor - if she is I hope she's better at the Mac interface than I am...

Alas, that video is not available in the United States.

Really? Failsome...

Ah well: Myspace link

Kiskaloo wrote:Alas, that video is not available in the United States.

same here.

myspace link works though.

It seems Triela and Monty made it into my uni-presentation... ah well, it wouldn't seem right if there wasn't a few pop-culture references in there. Last semester it was Deadpool, semester before that it was ARIA...

Hero/context-ish/interaction-ish shot for initial concept presentations, recropped to make the girls the focus rather than the furniture system. Perspective's a bit dodge since this is actually made up of three sketches out of my concept book, stitched together and rendered.



Higher Res here

Now go listen to some Atomic Rooster, Tame Impala or even some Chris Joss


EDIT: ok, scratch that last... Chris Joss for Monty, possibly Blue Oyster Cult for Triela.

Great Work there!!!

Ooo...is that Triela in a ponytail? Lovely artwork as always. I really like the soft touch that comes out in your colored work.

Sakura wrote:Ooo...is that Triela in a ponytail? Lovely artwork as always. I really like the soft touch that comes out in your colored work.

Haha, yeah... I like Triela's ponytail look, plus it's easier to draw than the twin tails

Do the Sly

Well, since I've not had anything cool GSG related to put here for awhile, have some hyper-relaxed, overly-jaded, socialist-ish, psudo-intellectual, permabroke uni student Jesse...



As much as I love GSG, Jesse and her little group are still my favorite OCs. It's getting warm here so she's back in summer gear, should really do Monty up a summer look as well come to think of it.

Fullsize version here

Very nice color work.

Cue "Very best (worst?) of the 80s" soundtrack...



It's amazing what seems like a good idea after a string of all-nighters...

Oh, now that is just so awesome it just isn't fair.

Yeah, I think my epic-o-meter just broke from the awesome. Sweet stuff.

80's cheese best cheese

ARISE TRIELA 2.0

Kuransu wrote:80's cheese best cheese

ARISE TRIELA 2.0

...the 80s really did seem to be mostly cheese. Though to be honest I dodged most of them (and can't remember the rest) so probably can't really talk

Are we able to put photography in here?

Anyway, here's The Major from GitS, giving some "human" scale, to my uni models:



There's two more shots here

Unfortunately (fortunately?) I was mostly trying to take shots of the project so the Major didn't get much focus,

Clever idea!

I shed a little fanboy tear everytime I walk past it...



Between uni and town...

I like the lighting you've used for The Major. Beatrice Lane ( ) has a good sense of focus, although I think that there would have been a certain geometric strength to it if you'd made the windows on the left-hand building perfectly parallel with the street sign. Still, having a little difference as there is now helps to separate foreground from background and keep the composition coherent, so you could argue it either way.

Cheers Robert, and you're right about the picture working better if the windows and sign lined up better... to be honest though at the time my major concern was holding the focus right the focus ring on my old 35-70mm lens is pretty smooth, which feels nice but means it's really easy to bump the focus off by accident.

Hilltop Hoods + Gunslinger Girl = ....

Spoiler:

...Hillshire's gonna have a fit.

20min quickie in a style I've not used for awhile.

As a quick break between chapters... something not GSG (dA version, as usual, linked in title):

NEGRONI


Equal parts Gin, Sweet Vermouth and Campari Bitters. Stirred and served in a short glass over ice with orange rind as garnish...

...Best accompanied by chilled, down-beat jazz.

Make mine a double!

Kiskaloo wrote:Make mine a double!

Switches the short glass for a highball... I reckon we can manage that.

Alfisti wrote:NEGRONI
Equal parts Gin, Sweet Vermouth and Campari Bitters. Stirred and served in a short glass over ice with orange rind as garnish...

Just trying one now...not bad at all. I usually don't go in for the mixed drinks, but there's potential here. And to think, I'd only been mixing my vermouth with rye whiskey (ala Manhattan).

Professor Voodoo wrote:
Just trying one now...not bad at all. I usually don't go in for the mixed drinks, but there's potential here. And to think, I'd only been mixing my vermouth with rye whiskey (ala Manhattan).

Well it's definately one of my group of friends' staples... and a decent cold-weather alternative to the Gin and Tonic (doesn't go too badly sans-ice either in that case). Expect to see Jethro and Monty sucking them down if they ever get around to going somewhere cold.

Hmm, sadly I'm not much of a whiskey drinker (for some reason it gives me a headache), but next time I get the chance I shall risk some Vermouth with rye.

Your whiskey issue notwithstanding...if you like this Negroni you might also enjoy a Manhatten.
2 parts Canadian blended whiskey (or rye...I've even seen bourbon used)
1 part sweet vermouth
Bitters to taste

Random B/W photography... all shot on Kodak BW400CN film stock, Minolta XDs manual focus SLR.

From the Land Rover training day:

Spoiler:

Also went to dinner at Cloudland... kinda non-plussed on the food. Good, but not for the price. Was worth it for the interior design:

Spoiler:

BW400CN is technically a b/w film, but uses C41 colour processing, so if you scan it as a colour negative you get a sort of red-ish/magenta hue to the shots:

Spoiler:

Dumb question time:

Spoiler:

Very cool. I love the sharp contrasts you can get with B&W.

Alfisti wrote:Random B/W photography... all shot on Kodak BW400CN film stock, Minolta XDs manual focus SLR.

Very nice work, you got great depth of focus on that last one. It inspires me to pull my old Canon's out of the closet and brush up on my full-manual skills.

One thing I always got a kick out of was how many supposedly spectator restricted areas you could sneak into (particularly at motorsports events) with a manual SLR, a big lens and a hand-held light meter around your neck. Pretend you know what you're doing and people assume you belong there.

Professor Voodoo wrote:

Alfisti wrote:Random B/W photography... all shot on Kodak BW400CN film stock, Minolta XDs manual focus SLR.

Very nice work, you got great depth of focus on that last one. It inspires me to pull my old Canon's out of the closet and brush up on my full-manual skills.

One thing I always got a kick out of was how many supposedly spectator restricted areas you could sneak into (particularly at motorsports events) with a manual SLR, a big lens and a hand-held light meter around your neck. Pretend you know what you're doing and people assume you belong there.

Do it...

Haha, yeah... that's one of the reasons I like using film for street: film seems to carry more kudos than digital, you can get away with more using a film camera since people seem to assume that you're either professional/eccentric/an arts student/all of the above. Plus it's great plausible deniablity "can you show me your photos?" "Well I'd love to but it's film".

I've been seriously considering giving Monty a film camera for that exact reason.


Out of curiosity: what Canons have you got?

Alfisti wrote: Out of curiosity: what Canons have you got?

A pair of AE-1's (about 1983 I estimate) and a '68 FTb. They all use the FE style lenses, but the old FTb doesn't use the automatic f/stop feature.

It's getting hard to find competent developing though, so I admit I've been using digital for everything over the last few years.