The Discourse Gallery

[moonexe]

I'm sure you have noticed that we have some talented artists here, but why limit ourselves to playing cards?
I'm curious to see what you guys have to show off. Portfolio pieces, midnight sketches, web design, whatever - just post some of your favorite creations.

Alright, I'll start, since I'm the one creating the thread. Here's something I'm working on right as we speak. It's just the beginning, but I quite like the look of it so far so I'll share it with you.
And before you ask, no, it's not meant to be a Queen design.

[Don Boyer]

I'm sure you have noticed that we have some talented artists here, but why limit ourselves to playing cards?
I'm curious to see what you guys have to show off. Portfolio pieces, midnight sketches, web design, whatever - just post some of your favorite creations.

Alright, I'll start, since I'm the one creating the thread. Here's something I'm working on right as we speak. It's just the beginning, but I quite like the look of it so far so I'll share it with you.
And before you ask, no, it's not meant to be a Queen design.

She may not be a Queen, but she's darn cute!  I detect an anime/manga influence in this piece...

[Joshua Robinson]

very beautiful, im working on a few things myself, just need to pull them out of the case and take some photos

[Jin Jian]

very nice my drawing suck

[moonexe]

She may not be a Queen, but she's darn cute!  I detect an anime/manga influence in this piece...

That's where I started.  I'm trying to get away from the style a bit though, both for personal choice and portfolio requirements in college. This lady here is a first step towards a more personal style.

And I must admit most of my female characters all have at least one common inspiration...
If only she knew.
Yes, she's just as cute.

[Derek]

Well aside from collecting cards, I'm also an automotive photographer. I made this website and you can check out some pics here - AfocusPhotography.com


Here's a few pics to check out now.


















Also do some graphic design work which I'll post if I can find anything. Been awhile haha.

[Don Boyer]

Well aside from collecting cards, I'm also an automotive photographer. I made this website and you can check out some pics here - AfocusPhotography.com


Here's a few pics to check out now.

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Also do some graphic design work which I'll post if I can find anything. Been awhile haha.

Oooo.  Pretty...  Can I have one?    I'll trade you a BG1E!

[Derek]

Well aside from collecting cards, I'm also an automotive photographer. I made this website and you can check out some pics here - AfocusPhotography.com


Here's a few pics to check out now.

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Also do some graphic design work which I'll post if I can find anything. Been awhile haha.

Oooo.  Pretty...  Can I have one?    I'll trade you a BG1E!

If I owned those I wouldn't NEED to trade 

[moonexe]

Those pictures look amazing, I love the bright colors and reflections on the cars... Do you do photography as a hobby besides your job, too? A few personal non-commercial pieces would also be interesting to see.

[Derek]

Those pictures look amazing, I love the bright colors and reflections on the cars... Do you do photography as a hobby besides your job, too? A few personal non-commercial pieces would also be interesting to see.

It's half and half. I do some rallies and shows just for fun to take pictures and sometimes I do photoshoots or cover events and get paid. I'll see if I can dig up some personal pics and post them 

[RandyButterfield]

I mostly work with the Spirits industry. These are some of my favorite projects over the past couple years.

[RandyButterfield]

The banners were for the city of Indianapolis and the Fox is a still image from an animated short I did back in 2005 called "Silent Fox and the Hen House". I used to work on animation projects at night after my day job. That slowly stopped once the kiddos came along.

[moonexe]

Wow, there's definitely some great designs in there! I especially like the banners.
Wouldn't have expected any less from you.

[Derek]

Those are beautiful banners, nice work! Love the background you used.

[RandyButterfield]

Those are beautiful banners, nice work! Love the background you used.

Thanks Derek and Moon.exe,

That was a fun project. They even had a press conference to unveil the banners and I got to
meet Danny Granger of the Indiana Pacers. He was very tall and seemed pretty nice!

The only downside was because of budget they had to downsize the banners from the original
14 to the 8 that I show up above. There were versions with the Indy Speedway, the Indy AAA Baseball
team and some other museums and parks.

thanks, Randy

[RandyButterfield]

Meeting Danny Granger

[dmbaggs]

Thats pretty cool!! The banners look cool. I've always loved seeing the different ones they have up in my city.


Although I think you're going to have to work on a new one for the colts with Andrew Luck and not Peyton Manning 

[moonexe]

I was just messing around in Photoshop, but I like the result... Digital painting just for practice

[Don Boyer]

If that was real, it would be one WICKED card throw.  That's almost a Gambit throw!

[dmbaggs]

That apple would explode if it was a gambit throw! haha but that is a cool little sketch you did 

[moonexe]

I'm pretty sure a lot of card throwers can throw a card into an apple, though to have the card displayed straight up like that they'd need to be pretty lucky.
Which makes me think I should have added a queen somewhere to make a blackjack...

[Emmanuel]

Here's work from my portfolio:

These works are in ink:














These 2 are in charcoal:




These were cut from paper:






And some photos I've shot:






Sorry for the long post!

[Billywiz]

Wow those look amazing. You are one talented artist, great job.
 
Billy.

[Derek]

Simply amazing! I love your unique twist on everything. My favorite is the man with the extinguisher on the birthday candle.. I can tell why you make such a nice deck since you're an extremely creative artist. Keep it up!! 

[moonexe]

  Epic is all I can say.
Is the red dragon paper cutting?

[Evan]

@Ncyclopedia, those are amazing! You are very, very talented.

Can I post photos that I have taken?

[moonexe]

I don't see why not. That's why I made this thread after all.

[Evan]

Here are just a few of the few thousand pics I have taken

[Emmanuel]

Thank you everybody! @Moon.exe, the red dragon is a paper cutting work.

Evan, your photos are great! What kind of camera do you have?

[Evan]

Thank you everybody! @Moon.exe, the red dragon is a paper cutting work.

Evan, your photos are great! What kind of camera do you have?

Thank you!
I have a Canon SX10IS and love it. But I am hoping to move up to a more professional camera in April. I've been looking at the Canon T3i but haven't decided on anything yet.

[Emmanuel]

You can't go wrong with Canon. I use an older Olympus camera, but I'll get a Canon in the future.

[Don Boyer]

@Ncyclopedia: Dude - your artwork is seriously WORLD-CLASS.  You need to get an agent.  No joke.

[Aaron]

Here's work from my portfolio:

These works are in ink:














These 2 are in charcoal:




These were cut from paper:






And some photos I've shot:






Sorry for the long post!

Those are AMAZING! I really like the lady shaving LOL

[dmbaggs]

@Ncyclopedia that is some really good work!! Love the photography too! A real eye for the picture, that's something you don't see often. That is some work you've done.

[Emmanuel]

Y'all are great, thank you! lol, I wish I had an agent, art isn't my day job 

[Don Boyer]

Y'all are great, thank you! lol, I wish I had an agent, art isn't my day job 

It doesn't have to be.  And with the right agent, it COULD be.  Agents don't make you punch a clock, but they do help get your work into galleries and magazines and get it sold.  You can create your art whenever you want.  All the agent wants to see is sellable work on a fairly steady basis, since you and his other artists are his source of income.

[RandyButterfield]

In honor of Opening Day next week, here's a Poster I got to design today for Hornitos and the San Diego Padres!
It's not my favorite team (Detroit Tigers!), but it was still a fun project.

thanks, Randy

[NathanCanadas]

Wow, Randy, thx for reviving this topic! I haden't seen any of this. This is amazing. I just don't know what to say, especially since I have no artistic abilities... 

[Russell CircleCityCards]

Randy, are you from Indy?  I think I remember seeing those banners downtown some years ago.  Great work!

[RandyButterfield]

Randy, are you from Indy?  I think I remember seeing those banners downtown some years ago.  Great work!

Thanks Russell!

Yep, my wife and I have been here for almost 5 years now. Great city! We love it here. We're in the Lawrence area, by the Geist.
It was actually the Brimstone and Americana decks that inspired me to check out this whole custom playing cards universe when
I saw them on Kickstarter last summer.

thanks, Randy

[Paul Carpenter]

Thank you everybody! @Moon.exe, the red dragon is a paper cutting work.

Evan, your photos are great! What kind of camera do you have?

Thank you!
I have a Canon SX10IS and love it. But I am hoping to move up to a more professional camera in April. I've been looking at the Canon T3i but haven't decided on anything yet.

The Canon T3i is a wonderful camera, I highly recommend it. Image and video quality is superb and it handles well. Maybe not a 7D or the like, but a very nice piece of gear.

[RandyButterfield]

I know a lot of you guys (and girl!) are interested in Photography. A friend of mine just sent me a link to this really cool Photography
video created by a couple of his buddies. A lot of cool techniques were used. It really makes me miss the bay area!



thanks, Randy

[Don Boyer]

In honor of Opening Day next week, here's a Poster I got to design today for Hornitos and the San Diego Padres!
It's not my favorite team (Detroit Tigers!), but it was still a fun project.

thanks, Randy

"Hornitos - the official tequila of the San Diego Padres!  Yay, tequila!"

This country really is something else, isn't it...?

[RandyButterfield]

In honor of Opening Day next week, here's a Poster I got to design today for Hornitos and the San Diego Padres!
It's not my favorite team (Detroit Tigers!), but it was still a fun project.

thanks, Randy

"Hornitos - the official tequila of the San Diego Padres!  Yay, tequila!"

This country really is something else, isn't it...?

Definitely!!!

Seeing as around 95% of our work deals with the Spirits Industry, I love the U.S. and our liqour laws!

thanks, Randy

[Aaron]

Here is a picture I took tonite:

EDIT: file ended up empty, nevermind this post.

[xZEROx]

@Aaron,
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[NathanCanadas]

I know a lot of you guys (and girl!) are interested in Photography. A friend of mine just sent me a link to this really cool Photography
video created by a couple of his buddies. A lot of cool techniques were used. It really makes me miss the bay area!



thanks, Randy

Really like that. Looks awesome! Is it only photography or are some of the first parts film as well? This makes me proud of living in the Bay Area!

[RandyButterfield]

I know a lot of you guys (and girl!) are interested in Photography. A friend of mine just sent me a link to this really cool Photography
video created by a couple of his buddies. A lot of cool techniques were used. It really makes me miss the bay area!



thanks, Randy

Really like that. Looks awesome! Is it only photography or are some of the first parts film as well? This makes me proud of living in the Bay Area!

Hey Nathan,

I have no idea if it's all just time-lapse photography or some video mixed in as well. I would guess just photography. The work was created by a friend of a friend, so I don't know much about it. I just thought a lot of the photography fans on The Discourse would like it.

I didn't know you live in the Bay Area Nathan. From 2000-2007 I lived on the good ol' island of Alameda! I loved it there and it was awesome going to downtown San Francisco for work. It really is a georgeous area. My wife's family still lives out there so we visit the Bay Area at least once a year.

thanks, Randy

[NathanCanadas]

I know a lot of you guys (and girl!) are interested in Photography. A friend of mine just sent me a link to this really cool Photography
video created by a couple of his buddies. A lot of cool techniques were used. It really makes me miss the bay area!



thanks, Randy

Really like that. Looks awesome! Is it only photography or are some of the first parts film as well? This makes me proud of living in the Bay Area!

Hey Nathan,

I have no idea if it's all just time-lapse photography or some video mixed in as well. I would guess just photography. The work was created by a friend of a friend, so I don't know much about it. I just thought a lot of the photography fans on The Discourse would like it.

I didn't know you live in the Bay Area Nathan. From 2000-2007 I lived on the good ol' island of Alameda! I loved it there and it was awesome going to downtown San Francisco for work. It really is a georgeous area. My wife's family still lives out there so we visit the Bay Area at least once a year.

thanks, Randy

Ok, thx.
I live in Oakland since 2001. I moved twice: in my first house I could see all of San Francisco. It was beautiful! Now, I am very close to both Piedmont, Grand Lake, and Downtown, and I can see the beautiful hills as well as a bit of SF.
I take Bart and MUNI to SF to go to school everyday, and a 5 times a week I take bart to El Cerrito to either go to my Judo classes or to go to my piano lessons.

[Don Boyer]

Ok, thx.
I live in Oakland since 2001. I moved twice: in my first house I could see all of San Francisco. It was beautiful! Now, I am very close to both Piedmont, Grand Lake, and Downtown, and I can see the beautiful hills as well as a bit of SF.
I take Bart and MUNI to SF to go to school everyday, and a 5 times a week I take bart to El Cerrito to either go to my Judo classes or to go to my piano lessons.
 

Next time I visit my stepbrother in the lower Bay, I'll drop you a line.  I was there two summers ago for a big aikido seminar in the woods to the north of SF.

[RandyButterfield]

I just finished a fun Pro Bono job for a friend-of-a-friend. The subject is something I've loved since a kid, Star Wars (no Prequel crap)! It's for the Indiana chapter of the 501st, a group that dresses up as Star Wars characters for a lot of charity events and conventions.

They asked me to design three different logos for their 10th Anniversary so they could all vote on which version to use. I know they're not worried about copyright material so I'm guessing the parent group is associated with Lucasfilms directly or it's something to do with their charity work. All I know is they said I had free reign to redraw any character, vehicle or weapon!

thanks, Randy

[Don Boyer]

I just finished a fun Pro Bono job for a friend-of-a-friend. The subject is something I've loved since a kid, Star Wars (no Prequel crap)! It's for the Indiana chapter of the 501st, a group that dresses up as Star Wars characters for a lot of charity events and conventions.

They asked me to design three different logos for their 10th Anniversary so they could all vote on which version to use. I know they're not worried about copyright material so I'm guessing the parent group is associated with Lucasfilms directly or it's something to do with their charity work. All I know is they said I had free reign to redraw any character, vehicle or weapon!

thanks, Randy

I'm a Star Wars fan, and more than a little familiar with the 501st Legion!  I have a friend on the NYPD who has  Imperial Forces icon stickers on his riot helmet and a stormtrooper's uniform as well!  They've divided the world into regions called "garrisons" represented by places in the Star Wars Universe - naturally, New York State is Coruscant.  While there may be more urban locales, our state motto (which still appears prominently on out cars' license plates) is "EMPIRE STATE"!

Because they're not making any money and doing charitable work, Lucasfilm is not simply tolerant but supportive of the group's activities.  They've even been known to request member-volunteers to appear in costume at official events like premieres, award ceremonies, etc.

I'm just trying to figure out what "SAOA" stands for.  It's what's written in that "alien alphabet" (better known to fans as Aurebesh) on all three of the designs.

[RandyButterfield]

Yeah, I'm not sure what the SAOA type means. It was one of the type requirements that needed on each version.

We used to see these guys dressed up when my wife and I would go to WonderCon in San Francisco (similar to ComicCon).
I didn't know they did so much charity work though until this project. Pretty cool!

thanks, Randy