Artists of Erotica...

[Halo_n_horns]

Mmmm, spice --- YES!!!

Patty, you are awsome!!!

Yes she is.

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

http://www.creativespankedwife.com/images/suspended1.jpg

spice anyone?

yes please.

Great work patty, as always and love the way you capture that moment between strokes so powerfully.

 

[Alpheratz]

Here's a pencil sketch.

 

[Halo_n_horns]

Here's a pencil sketch.

Nice exercise work, and welcome to the thread. Please, by all means, post some more. The appetites here are pretty insatiable.

 

[Black Tulip]

Sweet_emOcean, I really like what you're offering here.

As I'm only one of the public, maybe a stupid question:
is the dreamy like quality due to photo shop or is that your doing?
Anyway, I like it.

Wish I could create that in my photo thingies too.

 

[Sweet_emOcean]

Sweet_emOcean, I really like what you're offering here.

As I'm only one of the public, maybe a stupid question:
is the dreamy like quality due to photo shop or is that your doing?
Anyway, I like it.

Wish I could create that in my photo thingies too.

Thank you Black Tulip!

Not a stupid question at all...I hope I don't give you a supid answer I take all my own pictures and mostly use natural lighting i.e. sunlight, candlelight, or whatever available light source I have on hand. Sometimes the originals come out somewhat dark because I haven't gotten my exposure set just so (mostly with trial and errror) As a result I have to work on the pictures to lighten them up and to create the ambiance I was looking for when I envisioned them before hand. To me I am creating a fantasy and that's why I tend to go for that dreamy quality in most of my pics. I'd like to think it is my doing with photoshop that creates it in the end.

 

[club_ectasy]

erotic art

I took me a while but I went through all 48 pages and looked at the erotic art. I must say PattyDraws is quite talented. I do have some erotic art I could share. However, I must confess that I have no talent myself and its stuff I found on the internet.
Ive posted in a few threads. I hope you will check my profile and look at some of my threads? Does anybody take requests here? I like erotic vampire art. I think a girl on girl scene betwween Buff and vampirella (or any female vampire, ) would be hot!

 

[Halo_n_horns]

I took me a while but I went through all 48 pages and looked at the erotic art. I must say PattyDraws is quite talented. I do have some erotic art I could share. However, I must confess that I have no talent myself and its stuff I found on the internet.
Ive posted in a few threads. I hope you will check my profile and look at some of my threads? Does anybody take requests here? I like erotic vampire art. I think a girl on girl scene betwween Buff and vampirella (or any female vampire, ) would be hot!

Thank you for checking out the thread, and welcome.

This particular thread is for original artworks done by the people who are posting them. At the very beginning of the thread are links to other art threads on this site, one of which deals specifically with vampire art. I'm sorry I didn't list the thread titles yet, that would make it easier to find.

Occasionally the artists here do take requests. I'm thinking that I might start a thread specifically for requests. That would help centralize something thats been pretty spread out up til now. There is something of an ongoing art contest happening, so requests might be slow to final product.

Patty is definitely a treasure!

Feel free to let us know if there's anything we can do for you.

 

[Alpheratz]

Here's a pen and ink drawing.

 

[Alpheratz]

And a pencil portrait of a cowboy friend of mine.

He's married, girls.

 

[Black Tulip]

And a pencil portrait of a cowboy friend of mine.

He's married, girls.

Damn!



Nice work, Alpheratz.

 

[Halo_n_horns]

Its amazing the talent and skill that so many don't ever get to see. Its good that we have these threads to help bring some of those out.

Thanks, Alpheratz. Please feel free to keep them coming.

 

[Halo_n_horns]

Step 2

Ok, so I didn't post a "step one" for this. I bit off far more than I could chew for an art contest submission (I'm gonna smack the shit out of the guy who came up with the seven day rule), and I was unable to get any further than step two of the process of creating this illustration.

I don't know how everyone else does theirs, so I might just be posting this for my own entertainment.

First step is concept/basic layout. While most people might consider them two different things, for me they are one. I get a basic idea that intrigues me enough and start conceptualizing as I'm putting it on paper. All my drawings begin with a 9H pencil and an eraser. I typically don't need the eraser much, its more so a process of instinct.

Step 2 is inking, or getting the colors laid out. This piece is getting inked, then I might add color. Step three, whether or not this stays black and white, will be getting shadows and light added in.

http://img365.imageshack.us/img365/7214/harbingerofshattereddreams12qb.jpg

 

[Black Tulip]

I don't care whatever step this is. (ok, a bit) Just make sure you show the end result as well.

It's fascinating. Not sure what the English word is, but it reminds me of the circular windows you can find in Roman churches. We call them "rose" windows.

 

[Halo_n_horns]

I don't care whatever step this is. (ok, a bit) Just make sure you show the end result as well.

It's fascinating. Not sure what the English word is, but it reminds me of the circular windows you can find in Roman churches. We call them "rose" windows.

Rose Window is correct. There's also the cinquefoil windows which inspired a pic that I put somewhere earlier in this thread. That pic was part of the inspiration for the pic above. I love shattered windows, despite having only illustrated two of them now. They're just a lot of work, but worth the effort.



Edit:

I thought I posted this somewhere earlier in the thread, but couldn't find it. Its a piece I was hired to do, but never finished because the person that comissioned it stopped the project. I never touched it again to work on it. The window is of the cinquefoil style that inspired the Harbinger illustration.
http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/7388/unfinishedwitchblade10im.jpg

 

[Halo_n_horns]

Well, it looks as though I will be out of working on this little project for a while.

This morning one of my dogs, the stud and the biggest of the three, managed to get his paw stuck in a fence. He started screaming bloody murder and I went to help. As with any animal who is pain and feeling trapped, he didn't know if I was there to help or harm, and he wasn't going to chance it. As I tried to help he thrust his mouth towards me and first latched onto my left forearm, easily sinking his teeth into my arm.

Years of experience with a very wide variety have taught me to move with the head of an animal that has sunk its teeth in, rather than against as that would cause significantly more damage.

I kept presence of mind despite a pretty massive amount of pain and moved with his head. He released and I again tried to free his paw, this time with my left arm behind me and right hand going for stuck paw. He latched onto my right hand and got some more of me as a souvenir, though not as bad as my left arm. Again I had to move with him, and then retreat and regroup for another attempt at freeing his claw.

While I had presence of mind to move with his bites, I apparently didn't have presence of mind to study the situation a bit more before acting. I went around the otherside of him and was easily able to kick out the wooden slat that was trapping him without taking anymore injury.

He knew immediately that I was in pain and I was bleeding pretty good all over myself. I got back in the house, gauze-wrapped the hell out of myself and went to work. This evening I went to the hospital for a tetanus shot and they cleaned my wounds and sent me home with narcotics and anti-biotics. Mmmmmm ... narcotics ...

The point of all this is that my right hand, while not as bad off as my left arm, hurts like hell, even while just typing this. I'll be out of the art creation for a good couple of weeks.

If anyone is wondering, no, I did NOT punish my dog. As a matter of fact I took him to work and he sat at the park with my wife and I and had cheeseburgers with us. Can't blame an animal for having their natural instincts kick in.

 

[pattydraws]

I hope you feel better soon.

Here's a little 'auto level' and t ouch of manual contrast manipulation. Not as good as a fully inked piece, but crisp enough to hint at the wonderful detail that will pop when you're done..... hope you don't mind the liberty ....

http://www.creativespankedwife.com/images/harbingerofshattereddreams12qb.jpg

 

[Halo_n_horns]

I hope you feel better soon.

Here's a little 'auto level' and t ouch of manual contrast manipulation. Not as good as a fully inked piece, but crisp enough to hint at the wonderful detail that will pop when you're done..... hope you don't mind the liberty ....

http://www.creativespankedwife.com/images/harbingerofshattereddreams12qb.jpg

That's great! It actually looks pretty much just like the inked original. If I knew how to do it, I would have done before submitting it. Thanks.

 

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[pattydraws]

That's great! It actually looks pretty much just like the inked original. If I knew how to do it, I would have done before submitting it. Thanks.

Most imaging software I'm familiar with is pretty similar. In photoshop & photoshop elements I found it under "Image" the "Adjustments" then Auto levels, the brightness/contrast and use the slider for contrast with preview enabled. Fireworks is pretty close to the same choices but I forget which main menu tab. I haven't used it in a couple of years. If I remember Paintshop pro the main menu tab was "Enhance Image" and from there you can choose "auto correct" for everything, or for just contrast, levels or sharpness.

Maybe that's a great idea for a thread or two or three. Simple techniques, using the different software options, for cleaning up scanned images so they approach the original work.

I'm a beginner with photoshop cs so I can't help much with it. I finally broke down and forked out the money for it based on the promise of what it can do though. I'm invested in the learning curve. I quite like Paintshop pro, it's inexpensive and very capable. Photoshop elements which is just as cheap is pretty darned good too for those of us who just want a simple tool that helps us tidy up and keep nice electronic archives of our scanned art work.

If you ever just want to tweek something like this one, lemme know I can do the same thing I did here with two or three clicks.

 

[Halo_n_horns]

If you ever just want to tweek something like this one, lemme know I can do the same thing I did here with two or three clicks.

I actually used to be pretty wiz-bang with a number of Adobe programs, including photoshop. I was in printing and graphics as my original vocation out of high school. Sadly I had to leave it behind after six and a half years. That was roughly ten years ago, and I haven't kept up on anything having to do with it since then.

In the future, should I have anything that needs a tweek or two (that sounds so much more exciting than what we're talking about), I'll let you know.

 

[Halo_n_horns]

The artists at Literotica finally have a forum to hang out in. New portfolio threads are popping up. And this thread, though it has served us well, has passed its time. Its time to peacefully let this thread slip away. At a later time, after a proper mourning period, I will put together my own portfolio thread.

Thank you to everyone who put this thread to use and contributed your works and words when we didn't have many other places to go.

Good luck and good fortune to everyone.

Taps

 

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[Halo_n_horns]

And HOW! Thanks to you, HAlo for your advocacy and persistance and concepts (espiacially the contests).
And Much thanks to Black tulip for HER efforts and tenaciousness in securing the corner.

Hear! Hear!

 

[QuietlyMakingNoise]

Of all the threads I belong to, this on I miss the most.

You were a great joy and I miss you all.