#75---Deep Sea Creature---#75

[BiG ToE-3DT]

Speed Painting Challenge no. 75

Topic: Deep Sea Creature

Idea: Lets put it this way; you just paid a ton of money to go fishing in the ocean. You and your buddies toss out your lines and sit back, drink a few beers and wait for a tug. Suddenly, your line goes taught, kind of buzzed from the beers you stagger over to your rod and try to reel in your catch. But you are in for a surprise, as the animal at the end of your line has another thing in mind. The creature tugs against the line, pulling you in and dragging you deep into the sea where you come face to face with the creature. Unfortunately your camera doesn’t work at these depths, so you will have to paint what you see and fast, your running out of air.

Deadline: 11:59 pm (GMT) Sunday 6th of July. (use the time zone thread to make sure your done on time)

Prizes: (must be at least 6 entries)
Winner gets to choose one of the following options:
- 6-month subscription to the 2DCreative magazine
- 6-month subscription to the 3DCreative magazine

Rules:

-Any medium is allowed, as long as it can be put into digital form - scanned, photographed, etc.

- Since it's a speed painting, it should be finished in the smallest amount of time possible, but if you paint a whole day, you won't get disqualified . But for example, 4 days is too much

- IF YOU PAINT MULTIPLE ENTRIES, YOU NEED TO STATE BEFORE THE DEADLINE WHICH ONE YOU LIKE THE BEST. IF NOT – I’LL DO IT FOR YOU

- References can be used - 3D or photograph, BUT you can't paint over them. It has to be your own painting.

- Custom brushes can be used, but to some extent - they can't be pre-made parts of the future painting, like a whole tree, brush, cloud, explosion, lighting... you get the point. They can be - a couple of leaves, a couple of grass blades

- There will be a final entry thread for you to post your work in, use this thread to crit each others work.

[Bigley]

Darn I missed the last one... but I should be in on this one! Need to think of something cool though.

[bgen]

man i am loving this topic, count me in.

[ROB]

Sweet, this will be fun. I really enjoyed the last one.

[pitchus]

heehay, i guess my idea didn't just puff into the air! i'm in.

[M_Cederstrom]

Let have some fun.:D

[inveni0]

I'm gonna try this one today. I've been meaning to get in on one of these, and I think it's about time!

[Somepantsman]

finishing gone wrong

1 hour photoshop CS3 + tablet

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f215/GoreHoree/seacreaturecopy.jpg

[Dex]

Took around an hour and a half. PS CS2 + Tablet.

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c241/dllhunter/FinalDSC.jpg

Any crit's or comments welcome.

[pitchus]

2,5 hours in ps cs3, tablet. no references.
hope you like it.

http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/2490/progresc5ih8.jpg

good luck to all!

[artecnl]

great entries guys :D
my first one 38 min ps cs and wacom

[Undertow]

looking good folks.

heres my attempt, 1.5hrs in photoshop.
It was done in colour but i think this turned out better.

[DaddyDoom]

Here's a freaky ref pic, if anyone cares to try it out :D

[stormnboy]

Here is my first Speed painting submission!

About three hours in photoshop CS3.

"Darn, I think I left my wallet back on the boat. Just.. just wait here, And I'll be back in five..."

ps I love the colour in yours, DEX.. champion work.

[JHarford]

Great work guys

[M_Cederstrom]

Great entrys guys. :D
well here is my entry, 3 hours.

[artecnl]

anfibious :P 25 min pscs and a wacom

[omegamista]

here's my entry.
made in ps cs3 in 1 hour with a wacom tablet.

[bgen]

pitchus - ures is my favorite so far.
nice entries from everyone. here is mine - photoshop cs2/wacom bamboo - 1 hour. i am trying another one.

[bgen]

tryed one more - a little bit more stylized. 1 and 45min +5/-5

[ROB]

Hello everyone,
good stuff so far!
Just one thing I noticed, is that its hard to tell the size of the sea creature if there is nothing to measure against. bgen, M_Cederstrom and some others have put in little people which gives a reference to size. so if you were to take something bigger like a great white shark (on average is about 14 feet long) or a whale and make it small beside your creature, it would really make it look huge!

The below image is not a painting its just an example.

[pgomez]

Catch of the day

3hrs CS3.. great stuff here, everyone has done fantastic!

[Timbo_La]

this is my entry, i guess its more a Merwitch than a Mermaid it took me about 2 and a half hours in photoshop using a wacom bamboo.

Tim

[Milan]

so many cool entries
artencl - Like the both entries. simply the best
here is mine for this title. Photoshop and genuis tablet about an hour

[M3N7H0L5]

hey guys!i'm new in this thread..a lot of great entries I see around..
I decided to take part on this challenge..
yeehaw!

[M3N7H0L5]

hey guys..my first try..about 3:20..yeah..the creature had already eaten me..
I mixed up some of undersea creatures..
Oh,this one done using CS2 and of course a lovely tablet..
If I got free time,surely trying next one..maybe using corel painter..
regards,

[Avatar-3DT]

Cool challenge! I hope I'll have an hour or two to spare so I can enter.

[M_Cederstrom]

Avatar you better make an hour. :haha: i would love to see what you come up with. :)

[bgen]

here is another try. my personal favorite. 2 hrs. | ps cs2 |wacom bamboo

hope u guys like it.

[vnmribaya]

here is mine, 3 hours cs3 plus tablet

[RockstarKate]

Here's mine. Photoshop CS2, Bamboo, about 45 min
Some really cool paintings here!

[RockstarKate]

vnmribaya, that's awesome- my favorite so far.

Question: Does it have to be a scary underwater creature or can I paint something more serene?

[M_Cederstrom]

So many good painting, this is turning out really good. ;D

Rockstarkate - nice entry, i don't think it really matter, i think it just need to be something, unusual.
Bgen - i think your last one your best, nice lighting.

[pgomez]

@nd painting

Fishing scared, CS3 3hrs, I like this one best

[artecnl]

hi, great really great entries, here is my definitive entry i hope you like it

2 and a half hours pscs and a wacom

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/6478/creatpsdce4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/6478/creatpsdce4.02f38e8ce1.jpg (http://g.imageshack.us/g.php?h=209&i=creatpsdce4.jpg)

[Milan]

vnmribaya - wonderful piece
rock star - Nice use of colour
artecnl- every thing is nice as usual
pgomez- nice one

[pitchus]

artecnl - i liked the first one the most :) sometimes, the simplicity might help... this one's great too though

[M3N7H0L5]

artecnl:: nice glowing effect..I like it..awesome with the colors..

[Milan]

second

[M3N7H0L5]

Milan:: wow!jelly fishing..good times..good times..

[cid228]

About 4 hours ..more sketch than painting maybe, but what the H.

Actually two deep sea creatures merged into one, first the regular deep sea shark and then the deep sea mind worm sucking on some shark brains !

Hope u like it !

[JHarford]

30 mins
can't afford any more time on this right now
i'll do another one before time

[yoyomon]

Artecnl: Hey that background looks hot! Not too fond of the fish though.

JHarford: Nice piece, it has alot of potential. The only thing is that your image doesn't look like it's underwater. I'm not really sure why, maybe it's the lighting.

[drained spirit]

hi,

This is my voteable entry for this challenge, and the last thing i saw was this...

Software: Alias Sketchbook Pro 2.0, PSCS3(for final lighting and some touchups)
Time: 4hrs

Hope you like it. c&c's welcome.

[M_Cederstrom]

I would like to do one more in a very short time. Here is another one I did this in 2 hours.

A Crabby Surprise.

[Milan]

This is final one detailed work after 2 hours.

[M_Cederstrom]

so may great speed painting. :D

[ROB]

I finally got round to doing my entry, some great ones so far!
Painter X & Photoshop cs3
5 hours

[Sebiomegas]

Hi guys! i have not had the time to post anything. I was moving so i cancelled my internet connection. I have been working though and here's the result after 8 hours.

First, some WIP state i saved across three sessions

http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/4229/allwiplouq2.jpg


Here's the final image

Electric Sea Bat

http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/2665/sebiomegaselectricseabafk8.jpg


I'm here for comments and critics and to have some ideas to work on.

[BiG ToE-3DT]

OK EveryOne, TIME IS UP

First Place:
Second Place:
Third Place:

[DJdude]

First Place:vnmribaya
Second Place:drained spirit
Third Place:artecnl

[M3N7H0L5]

1- cid228
2- drained spirit
3- artecnl

[bgen]

1. vnmribaya
2. M3N7H0L5
3. artecnl

[ROB]

1) vnmribaya
2) M3N7H0L5
3) artecnl

[pitchus]

1 - vnmribaya
2 - cid228
3 - m_cederstorm - for the progression, you've clearly made ;)

[M_Cederstrom]

This one was hard to pick I spent 30 Min's looking at them, and have to say Wow!!! so many great entry's. :) good luck!

1 - Undertow - love the brush work.
2 - Somepantsman - simple but very well done.
3 - Cid228 - Love the perspective.(the first person view)

[Somepantsman]

1. M3N7H0L5 (in your face! i love it)
2. Drained Spirt
3. undertow

[pgomez]

1 Somepantsman
2 artecnl
3 cid228

This was hard voting, well done by all!

[Undertow]

1 - Actecnl -fits the description perfectly
2 - vnmribaya - awesome work
3 - milan - very smooth, neat styling

[Milan]

vnmribaya
Artencl 2 nd post
cid

[vnmribaya]

rob
drained spirit
undertow
great creatures, i realy like the concept and compositing of this 3

[BiG ToE-3DT]

Winners

1st: VNMRIBAYA
2nd: ARTECNL
3rd: DRAINED SPIRIT / CID228

[M_Cederstrom]

big congrat guy's. :D