From babies to giants

[jxie93]

Hello artists of Discovery community, whether you began your graphics design career before or after you joined us you have no doubt gained invaluable improvements and experience.

Everyone of us started from zero and some eventually became experienced and stylish artists. Tell us about your story, how you began and show us your art from your very first signature to one of your masterpieces most recently.

I began my career (more of a hobby, really) of graphics design just a few weeks before I joined this wonderful place (September 09). By the time I made my very first post on the forums I was still trawling the internet for tutorials that'll help me create my first signature. Before signatures, I worked on miscellaneous art such as animations. But I never experienced the thrill of painting your own artwork which represents a part of you from scratch.

I went from this, which I created by following a tutorial soon after I signed up



... to this completely original effort which took around 3 hours




*Notice the two signatures are designed for the same character I own.


Of course, this is only one examples of my many pieces. For a more complete showcase, go here. (shameless advertisement) My skills have developed to a level where I can now confidently inspire myself and create just about anything I want from a total blank canvas. I also gladly accept design requests from various members which I satisfy and never fail to impress.

That's enough about me. Tell us about yourself!

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*Signature Walkthrough* | *deviantART Gallery* | *Graphics Repository*

[r3vange]

I just about had a seizure when I saw the thread considering the fact that the sole reason of me being in this sub forum was creating exactly the same thread...It was like a déjà vu but creepier anyway . I am far from the idea that I can make quality signatures but they do suffice for me and my mates considering they are free

In order of creation


This one was on until today:D







This one was for Elven he didn'€™t like it


Caja with her old looks ^^ rejected as well due to the fact that I deleted the PSD file too soon'€¦



Those two were created in 2 minutes but I just couldn't stand the non transparent one anymore


For some reason I constantly get PMs saying that they lol'€™d a this one:D






Aaaand that'€™s pretty much it. I don'€™t think that my signatures are remotely at the level of Cab'€™s but they do just fine for me. I do take pride however in my Ship schematics (yes I am working a new ones), and the .gifs and pictures created for my RP stories which I won'€™t post here due to the fact that the page will load for good 15 minutes then
Here are the links

http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=90815
http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=91398

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[teschy]

Well I went from this:



To this:



I guess what changed is that I started using better renders and backgrounds. :P
I'm not gonna call myself a giant.

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https://i.imgur.com/rB3kqGS.png
https://i.imgur.com/rB3kqGS.png
https://i.imgur.com/scTMUZH.gif

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Mephistoles

[Rommie]

Well, I've known ever since I went to school that my brain works best with things related to art (paintings, music, and so on), but failed on my path when I joined a High School based on telecomunications(basically math and physics). I'm not bad with technology either, I love IT related things. I just can't learn a thing if I don't see any purpose from it. I'm in my last year now, and waiting for the exams to start. And I still don't know any math.:)

My earliest work is some sort of anime character(I can't show it because I don't have a scanner) I drew when I was really young.

My first signature on this forum was for my AI Role Play Story, which I change as the AI moves through systems.

The next version is the one currently in my signature.

And the latest work I'm proud of is this one (Size reduced).

Took me 4 hours, and is my second try of this kind.
This was my first one:

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In space, nobody knows I'm a panda

[Boss]

From this



to this



to this.

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Just go play the game and have fun dammit.

all in all the conclusion is that disco doesn't need antagonist factions, it doesn't need phantoms, it doesn't need nomads, it doesn't need coalition and it doesn't need many other things, no AIs, the game is hijacked by morons to confuse the game with their dickwaving generic competition games mixed up with troll-of-the-day.

[Tommeh]

From this:

To this:

To this:





What changed? I use higher quality backgrounds, and watch more on details and colors.

I started learning how to get custom ship renders, but stucked with Milkshape and preparing file to open it in 3DS Max.

I am nowhere near being great in PS.

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[Kuze]

Cool topic this is :D. So my 1st sig is lost :(:(:(maaybe is in the sugnatures topic...but my second one was terrible too. I did it not for Disco, I thing but for hell knows what :-D Just look at the combination: Albatros + Liberty flag + Russian names + Hayden Panettiere :lol::lol:



Thru sigs like these:




To the most recent ones:




Well they are not top notch but much better from the ones I did back then :)

Also my 1st ship attempt:

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/5350/sk...iveview3xc3.png

and the last one:

http://media.moddb.com/images/members/1/37...Sovereign.1.png

Little progress is visible, but imo not enough.

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Sketchfab - deviantART - p3d - ArtStation

[Anomander]

From:


To:

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<<< MuS|portfolio|RSF >>>

[Bain.J]

I first started using Photoshop, round this time last year actually :)
Going back to the first siggy i even done:


And some of my recent ones:




I think there is improvement, and i hope you can see it xD