We'll admit that sometimes we start to think a little too highly of ourselves. We'll just be sitting in the back of the limo popping Cristal with Shiggy and Mario or getting massages with CliffyB, and we'll all of a sudden realize that we're getting above our raising, as they say. Luckily, YouTuber macpulenta's striking drawing of Master Chief is there to remind us that Ben Folds had it right - there's always someone cooler than you.
His art is fantastic, that's a given. But the special thing about macpulenta should become pretty quickly. Namely: He's a drawing android. Or he's using magic. If there's any other excuse for the speed with which he's able to render our favorite Spartan, we'd love to hear it.
He used either camtasia or fraps to record his entire process, then sped it up for easy watching. It's the same thing Ben Mathis and pretty much everyone who records artistic processes does.
Even if photoshop could support the volume and kinds of macros this painting would have taken (it cannot), why the hell would he bother scripting in the diameter/hardness window opening for a split second?
There are other programs though, that support that kind of full-picture "macro" while retaining pretty much all of the advanced drawing tools that Photoshop has. OpenCanvas is such a program, and the filesize of the full macro is actually many times smaller than the actual layered image. Which can be advantageous in some cases.
I admit, they were a bit cocky, but it's only due to the fact that most people already know this. It's fine that you didn't, and your comment was entirely relative and coherent.
Yes, speed painting in real life is actual SPEED PAINTING, but as far as YouTube and other video sites go speed painting is simply time-lapse/stop-motion video of a painting or drawing from start to finish.
It's far too easy to unintentionally get ahead of yourself and potentially come off as an ass to an unsuspecting, um, "cyber-civilian" on the internet. It definitely nothing personal...and now you know something new! I guess it's true when people say "You learn something new everyday".
(Wow, this is probably the lamest post I've ever made...oh well, I stand by it.)
You can't just take a term and use it for something else because you feel like it. It only serves to confuse. Speedpainting is something else entirely, it is to put together a coherent image as quickly as you can without going into tiny detail, and it's used as a tool to improve oneself.
You can call sped-up drawing videos a whole lot of things, like timelapse, which is an actual word appropriate for this.
Whoops, my previous comment was @ Sky Shark X2... I f***ed that up...too drunk, too drunk..
Anyway, pretty damned good. As others have pointed out the proportions are a bit off in spots, but not enough so that anyone should really be able to gripe about. (Personally I suck at realistic proportions..)
The main thing that impresses me when watching this is the lighting, shading, and overall metallic "texture"...it turned out VERY nice in that respect. Making something look metallic with consistent lighting/shading is MUCH harder than it looks.
Proportions are off (yes, even at the end, still), the lighting is all over the place, and I won't even start on the background. It seems they just "referenced" a few of the bits like the shineys on the helmet and arm, and filled in the rest by themselves or something. I'm sure I'm gonna get a lot of flak for this, but this is not a good painting.
Yeah, after seeing some of the other videos in his profile that were all simply copied from other pictures, I'd say half of this is "referenced" and the other half (the bits that look bad) are his own work.
There are a lot of amazing artists out there who do their OWN work without leeching off someone else's efforts and who deserve recognition, and this is not one of them.
This is why Halo will never be as good a mascot as Mario. I mean, look how hard he is to draw correctly. >_> Mario is super easy. Even a 6 year old can draw mario correctly. And thats why he will win. ... ... In all seriousness, neat drawing and what not.
couldn't it just be that the speed painter has a program running in tandem that takes a screen grab after so many minutes or seconds. After they turn off the capturing of thousands of frames, all the frames are imported into movie making software that makes each image last only one frame. The result is what you have (that is why you would also see his brushes palette pop in and out since it is screen captures.) I don't believe it would be as difficult as making a video or programming massive macros, but it is possible.
this is sped up at least 300 times or more. It also cannot be programmed as a macro. Photoshop can only store a limited ammount of commands. If it was possible to store the thousands and thousands of brush strokes he used Photoshop wouldn't even be able to open the macro.
Still a great drawing, but not speed painting. That is just making rapid sketches to warm up and help practice your sense of composition and proportion.
There are other programs though, that support that kind of full-picture "macro" while retaining pretty much all of the advanced drawing tools that Photoshop has. OpenCanvas is such a program, and the filesize of the full macro is actually many times smaller than the actual layered image. Which can be advantageous in some cases.
