Spasm Posted April 3, 2012 Author Share Posted April 3, 2012 Strapper Blimey, nice one. With you doing the barbed wire, me handing out the medals, Chris digging a WW1 trench in his garden and Mervyn writing the story we'll be made! Stand back JK Rowling, here we come Spaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strapper Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Hi Spaz, Hee, Hee, I'd have to paint a lot of barbed wire to front a trench, May I just ask, are your medals done in pencil or paint, coz i tried one in paint today and had to award it to the bin! I couldn't get small detail of dates and stuff like you have on your medal bar. Which I must say is amazingly done, from my brief attempt, straight lines are difficult, but any tips would be welcome. I'm going to try the medal again tomorrow, if it turns out OK I'll put a pic on. Cheers Strapper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strapper Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 ....and another one in the bin... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strapper Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 So...third time lucky. My grandfather's great war medal. SJT A. Strappini Royal Guernsey Light Infantry. A lewis gunner and a survivor, thank goodness. Done in paint, Reeves student water colour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TacHel Posted April 7, 2012 Share Posted April 7, 2012 Nice! Wish I could draw like that... :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spasm Posted April 10, 2012 Author Share Posted April 10, 2012 All Some inconsiderate sod tried to kill himself driving into the BT box at the end of our road last week. So, no phone, no internet. Hopefully will be fixed this week sometime but who knows with British Telecom. Doing this at work in the 30 seconds I have before the firewall kicks me off. Nice painting by the way, keep up the good work, maybe we can get a gallery togther for GMIC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mervyn Mitton Posted April 10, 2012 Share Posted April 10, 2012 Strapper - excellent - some great detail. Mervyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strapper Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 Thanks, Mervyn. A bit of practice and I'm sure I can do better. Damn eyes are not what they used to be.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mervyn Mitton Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 'Damn eyes aren't what they used to be !' Isn't that a truism - I say that about most of me - but, on a daily basis........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul R Posted April 11, 2012 Share Posted April 11, 2012 Your drawings are simply amazing. They are almost "photograph" quality! How many hours of work does the typical black and white take? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spasm Posted April 18, 2012 Author Share Posted April 18, 2012 Gents British telecom managed to reconnect us today so back on to annoy ya'll. But had some time to do some more drawings. Finished this one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spasm Posted April 18, 2012 Author Share Posted April 18, 2012 Japanese Chinese Incident medal on Good luck "meatball" flag background. Was really difficult getting the colour of the medal with crayons (not really that happy with this one) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spasm Posted April 18, 2012 Author Share Posted April 18, 2012 This one took a lot longer than it looks. The medal has been "brooched" at some point in the past and is really beat up. I like items that have been "used" so like this medal a lot. Applied thick outlines to bring out of the plain scratchy background. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spasm Posted April 18, 2012 Author Share Posted April 18, 2012 Paul It's quite difficult to give you a time as I tend to work on things as the want takes. I can happily work all day on some things but get bored with others so it becomes a struggle to complete (I mostly bin the stuff long before they are finished if i don't like them. The japanese medal nearly went there). The Crimean medal took about 15 hours, the Anywhere Anytime racked up about 40 hours. Something like this one called "Safe" the weapon has the safety on if you look closely (assuming the quality comes out) took over 70 hours By the way - all of my pictures have a wolf's paw print in them rather than signed. Go look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spasm Posted April 18, 2012 Author Share Posted April 18, 2012 Oooops, forgot to put the picture in. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul R Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 Keep em coming!! Those are amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mervyn Mitton Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 The detail on your weapon picture is amazing - I can easily see where 70 hours went. What I can't see is the paw print - I had it up to 400 mags. and still couldn't see it - give us a clue ? Chapter 3 of the novel will be out soon - don't let priorities slip.................... Mervyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spasm Posted April 19, 2012 Author Share Posted April 19, 2012 Merv Here's a close up showing the paw print. I upload at around 120k so there wouldn't be enough detail to see on the posts, particularly on the smaller pictures. let me know if you would like a bigger size and I can send you one by e-mail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mervyn Mitton Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 No - at 400 I can make it out. Very clever - and very sensible. So many people don't think of marking their original work to show copyright and ownership. Mervyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TacHel Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Wow... Wow... And if I may add... Wow... An incredible talent! You are a professional graphic artist right? You just don't doodle these works of art for fun do you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spasm Posted April 20, 2012 Author Share Posted April 20, 2012 Thank you all so very much unfortunately I just "doodle for fun" when I have the time. Just started on a WW1 Austro Hungarian 5 medal bar group thingy. Cor, the Iron Cross took ages. Will post the drawings as I get them done. Strapper - where's yours? Come along........ Mervyn and Paul, I will get on to yours, honest :whistle: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TacHel Posted April 21, 2012 Share Posted April 21, 2012 Incredible... You should really offer your services for book covers, calendars, anything really! Absolutely marvelous work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wild Card Posted April 21, 2012 Share Posted April 21, 2012 Merv Here's a close up showing the paw print. I upload at around 120k so there wouldn't be enough detail to see on the posts, particularly on the smaller pictures. let me know if you would like a bigger size and I can send you one by e-mail Come on! That's showing off, give us a break. Did I say incredible somewhere before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strapper Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 I'm afraid I have been off the military topic for a bit, i was trying my hand at painting some bits of dead chicken I found, interesting to do, but not to everyones taste I think...did I say taste and dead chicken in the same sentence, reminds me...I'm hungry...:-) Cheers Strapper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoyden R. Posted April 29, 2012 Share Posted April 29, 2012 Wow! Paul R asked me if I had seen this topic and it was hard to imagine this done with a pencil and color pencils. From the standpoint of someone who used to create print ads, billboards, TV commercials & other adverts, your talent surpasses that of many of the artists we paid a pretty penny to to draw components of our print ads. Really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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