Re: Your Awesome Pictures IX

by **Rage** on Sat Feb 04, 2012 10:39 am

Speed drawing, two minutes.

by Tim Hortans on Sat Feb 04, 2012 10:44 am

speed draw ~3 minutes

by **Rage** on Sat Feb 04, 2012 10:47 am

Two Speed drawings, two minutes each.

And this is where I would like to share with every *** **** artist on this forum a wonderful program that concept artists use to get quick and fast ideas.

It's called Alchemy.

It is amazing.

It is free.

You have no reason NOT to get it. Digital artists all over the world use it. It is an industry standard for concepting. Check it out for yourselves:

http://al.chemy.org/

I will post a quick setup tut if anyone wants.

by V on Sat Feb 04, 2012 12:52 pm

by **Cial** on Sat Feb 04, 2012 9:57 pm

Ohgod I suck at Alchemy.

by **Rage** on Sat Feb 04, 2012 11:32 pm

Here, let me give you some beginning settings so you can start doing stuff. Afterwards, you can change it however you like once you are used to the program:

1. Once you open Alchemy, hover to the top of the canvas to see the options panel.

2. Where it says "Shapes", activate the thicker rectangle. This turns on dragging shapes, similar to how the lasso tool works in other programs (except you draw with it now).

3. On the far right, hit "Create" and select the "Speed Shapes" option. This'll give you fuzzy shapes so that you're drawing with random patterns.

4. Lastly, hit "Affect" and select "Mirror" two draw in symmetry mode. I'd suggest starting off an image that way and then switching to asymmetry mode by turning it off again to add some details near the end.

5. In order to save an image that you drew, go to File > Export. Save it out as a JPG or PNG, NOT an SVG which is what Alchemy defaults to (and I have no idea how to open SVGs).

These setting oughta get you started on the right foot. Of course, there are many other options in the program so please feel free to experiment with different settings. This is a concepting tool, so mistakes are *supposed* to be made (which is why there is no ctrl+z :D).

by **Cial** on Sat Feb 04, 2012 11:40 pm

My fail butterfly:

EDIT:
Venom

Cool thing

by Tim Hortans on Sun Feb 05, 2012 12:24 am

Cial, under Style choose the larger rectangle

by **Xusha** on Sun Feb 05, 2012 1:46 am

(´◉◞౪◟◉｀) (*´ω｀*)

by Tim Hortans on Sun Feb 05, 2012 1:54 am

5 minutes

by **Rage** on Sun Feb 05, 2012 2:07 am

That's pretty rad, bro

by Tim Hortans on Sun Feb 05, 2012 10:22 am

And here is the finished version.

by V on Sun Feb 05, 2012 11:53 am

Hahah that's freaking awesome Tim

I'm starting to see why people use this program for concepting.

Also, did you just retrace it in Flash or did you manage to export it so it was a live trace?

by Tim Hortans on Sun Feb 05, 2012 11:54 am

Retraced in flash.

by V on Sun Feb 05, 2012 11:55 am

Aww, that's no fun. I think you could have actually exported it as an SVG and start shading it off the cuff.

Or, they should at least allow to export it as an .ai so you can do that.