Hydralisk Speedpaint

[Mngzkhuel]

the hydralisk! =))) want to see it in reallife? :P this is the beginning of a full size statue /watch?v=M2t7r2MmrbU

[willisarts]

no eyes?

[dreadpirateroberts11]

Why did you start with the dark background and then erase it at the end? does it help you see what you're doing? or does it end up being part of the drawing? not trying to be critical, im just curious cause thats pretty amazing work.

[Nicro327]

@dreadpirateroberts11 He likes his paintings to have a solid line

[grosswick]

sick micro dude

[snakeyz12]

i think you did the painting slowly and sped up the vid so it would look like you doing that so fast >.>

[Kilmori]

@snakeyz12 That's the very idea of speedpainting, mate.

[snakeyz12]

@Kilmori lol sry then ^.^

[changegames]

awesome style ;)

[daztheviewest]

was this made using a mouse or graphic tablet? I'm guessing tablet, any recommendation on price/brand? I'm thinking of trying this myself

[timmymonsta]

Awww, look at that! He's Smiling! (*gets face riped off*)

[StfuSiriusly]

wow man that is crazy stuff. was this ur first go at making a hydra? how long did it take u to figure out which colors etc to use?

[jonakashima]

Wow, amazing!

[XENOMORPHMANIAC]

i need that in poster form



[kantana1022]

you are amazing!!!

[DudemanClide]

spawn moar overlords.

[TheEggroll4321]

i can't paint a stick figure and this guy paints a fucking hydralisk

[dawidsn]

What software do you use?

[Girrafeman]

Did you use a waco

[Girrafeman]

Ergh, just slash my remark about the layer thing since it is very unlokely

[Girrafeman]

Mr.Jack, were you erasing for the majority of your painting? It seems like you first had several layers underneath the primary orange you show at the beginning and use different brushes and pressures to relieve the darks. I love your piece and genuine talent.

[bradkey98765]

damn... I can't do anything in 45 minutes... Infact it took me longer than 45 minutes watching you paint that in 45 minutes

[Khanmanlol]

What kind of brushes and brush settings did you use to create this piece of awesome?

[SleepingShaman]

this all pc painting is so fking AWESOME! I really, really want to have a talent or whatever you call it.... Big envy from my side to all who can paint!

[runisunke]

Hey nice hydralisk, it look different from the SCII one...but maybe it better then the glass cannon that is the hydralisk now.

[TeufelGaming]

hydras always saved my ass in sc2... Zerg 4 life.

[zachatyahoo]

LOL SORRY BRO NEED MOAR OVURLERDS

[Unlorrd]

klasse du dummkopf

[safetypacifist]

MrJackArt: "I can speed paint a Hydralisk in 45 minutes. Your Arguement is Invalid"

[TheGadgetCat]

@safetypacifist Perfect for every situation

[malazt]

great talent

[SteveAkaDarktimes]

this in just 45 minutes? woah, just WOAH.

[psychoroxx]

hey

is it possible that you can do a version that looks like the preview picture in youtube(dark background)?would be nice.

[UltraNerdsOfTheWorld]

You did THAT in 45 minutes?! I can't even begin to imagine what you could do if you put a few hours into a painting!

checkin out your dA profile now^^

[Shirosaki300]

wow awesome!!!

[spycrabzftw]

When to tell a hydra to evolve into a lurker, they dont evolve through morphing, you pretty much tell them "Put on some weight bitch"

[AmmonIsTheWhat]

this is so good it should be fattining

[SexxyCereal]

thats sexy

[NufSC]

You did a good job

[Hwaigon]

very good job. Love the process of it when you see all the textures actually poping out in front of you

[stathisdjs]

That barely looks like a hydralisk o.o

[JShawtyKim]

It's a great rendition of a hydra, but not really that accurate. (Sorry for being such a dousche on that)

random hydra fact: funny thing about the hydras is that hydras actually spit out bits of their spine, not acid.

Real cool though

[Light4494]

@JShawtyKim Not spine, ribs :P

[JShawtyKim]

@Light4494

Ribs? Hm, thought it was spine :O

Still cool either way.

[whiplash1515]

very nice man!

[ingarsss]

Me: how cute!

(hydra chops off other guy's arm)

Me: I regret nothing!

(A guy appears of nowhere IDK)

Guy: Luke, I am your father!

Me: But my name isn't Luke, and ur not my father!

Guy: i was talking to the hydra!

Me: Yes doctor, all of my dreams are like that...

[JayDay111]

i think i had a mini seizure

[hizzlemafizzle]

great video man u have talent

and thx for the new music :)

[WLuico]

yo theres a mouth inside the mouth of the hydralisk's mouth!

[MrMyself111]

thats amazing, when i was young i never understood how it wa spossible to draw things in such a "realistic" way.

may i ask you how old you are?

i could imagine that something like this requires years of experience.

where do i start of i want to learn how to draw like that in photoshop? i already am experienced in photomanipulation (in photoshop cs3)

[itschewingu]

i would say nice job, but it is not painting, and it requires less skill than the otherwise ''artist'' would have required, and should be required for the viewer as well, to simply admire the piece of work.

it would be much more simple to appreciate if it had been made by hand, and without the aid of a simple program that leaves no brushstrokes and little signs of personal style.

still though, an admiral piece, nonetheless

[R4Akai]

my god. to much time and tons of skills .... >> this comes out

[feralstryke]

very cool

[3m0hyphy]

Would anyone hate me for saying Venomancer before thinking Hydralisk?

[americouk82]

wow very impressive

great job man

[jambeany155]

real amazing job! love the muscle structure, exoskeleton, and all around "Zergness" of it!

[xXLucariaGirlXx]

wow~! that's awesome!!! What program did you use?

[Thicketstar]

Bah. I like the Zerg, easy and deadly to work with. This is amazing, great work.

[HTMLFTW7]

This amazes me to no end.

[Wolfnx]

I have to say my poop shit itself...

[werenorf]

That is so hawt! :)

[DLotet]

ye, the face is a little bit dragonlike, but its a sweet render, and the essence of the hydra is there, so good job

[cownerd1]

i wouldn't say "dragonlike", it looks like the one in sc 2

[STarCRAFT4BRITS]

that is very good, but i think its a bit to serpent-like. in the original starcraft cintematics the hydralisks had a slight mammal-like feature to them, because they actually originate from grazing animals from some planet that were mutated by the zerg. also that tail is way to long, starcraft hydralisks are less orange but more tan, unless that is a hunter killer.

[russianguyovich22]

The Zerg rule, and so do you. Great work.

[KreatorOfDeath1985]

its all about the Terran

but zerg look pretty cool

[russianguyovich22]

Agreed, Terran is where it's at. but when it's Starcraft, all of the races are awesome.

[HwarangOfFaith]

that is amazing.

[ClockworkIndustries]

I loved the song you used. Instead of paper and such, I got the feeling of Zerg scales and leathery skin, which was appropriate.

I'm a big fan of your work. Keep painting!

[Metactyl]

hard edged roundbrush for the win !!

[HOTboy662]

how dis u flip da image from one side to da other side??

[TheJackal]

Set it as a hot key.

In photoshop its under: Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts

[xenonnati]

hehe i never could make out how hydralisks and zerglings looked like exactly in starcraft1, but thankfully we now have starcraft2 concept art as reference.

i really like your technique its more like in real life painting style 5*

[HwarangOfFaith]

lol any person who played starcraft more than like an hour can pretty much picture how they look like.

[xenonnati]

the "pretty much " part was what im talking about ... of course you can make out the basic shape ... but not exactly i never did really see how there jaw comes and connects to there neck and other small DETAILS not basic shape ...

[HwarangOfFaith]

well this isn't the sc version of hydralisk so ur statement is invalid. besides, hydralisk was shown in one of the cutscenes and was in many blizzard's artwork and stuff.

[xenonnati]

i wasn't referring to this particular artwork .. i only remembered this, since i noticed starcraft2 coming out,

im not really a hardcore gamer, and i never visited blizzards sites before...but yeah your right with that one.

[Rocksolid88]

yeah everybody knows the big head, the 2 scythes and the tail, but not the details dude.

now stop finding invalid arguments to diss xenonnati.

just enjoy the show

[D3Fanatic]

Hey this is Exzodium, man I got to say your stuff is the shit, why your not working for blizzard is a mystery.

[NeonSporing]

This looks GREAT

congratulations

[Ryuuga]

I'd like to know what image size and resolution values you use.

[MrJackArt]

I wasn't working very large on this one, it was about 1600x1000 px

[Ryuuga]

thx

[kalphiteownage]

nice made out of some orange paint :D

[SunBreaker6]

wow that would be so awezome monster in some kind mmorpg ;D great 5/5

[haloCE6]

that hydralisk has some nice white teeth lol :P

[KippurCatArts]

simply amazing

[isso09]

You've got skills. I can't believe only 690 views.

[nihilus163]

wow, how long did that accually take you? That looks exactly like a hydralisk.

[Kilmori]

I wish I had Photoshop or something. Pieces of paper and no zooming doesn't help my art very much...

[MrJackArt]

I don't know, a lot of the skills that one needs in Photoshop are perfectly (if not better) learnt traditionally. . . You don't need to be working digitally to get the hang of lighting or rendering or basic compositional balance.

And I have to say zooming is only good in the details, as a general rule. . . it's best to avoid to begin with.

(the only thing that's considerably better imo is the undo key)

[jerrodRHP]

@MrJackArt the only thing you benefit is the speed at which you can move pigment around digitally opposed traditionally, but completely true what he says

[Pr3tat0r]

@Kilmori There are many freeware programs out there like photoshop, i.e. Gimp or Paint.net

[melikeydajuice]

@Kilmori use GIMP. Its very similar to photoshop but free.

[Kilmori]

@melikeydajuice I tried, but it isn't nearly as good as Photoshop. I've used both yet I somehow failed with both :´D

[melikeydajuice]

@Kilmori its good for being free. i use it because i cant dump 1800 dollars on cs5

[JStryka]

Just awesome. I wish I had the skills of that.

[vangarden]

Noice!

[OmnipotentO]

wow

cant wait for your next one