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Kowz' DKC art project

Postby Kowbrainz » February 24th, 2008, 12:49 pm

I sort of outlined this in the other DKC art thread, but I'll say it again here.

I've decided to put myself to the test, and try to draw each of the DKC franchise's characters and enemies among other things. I'll try and upload at least one extra character each week if I can.

I'll be using coloured pencil to draw most drawings - although I do prefer pencil sketching, I think it may look better if they have a bit of colour. Expect the odd one out to be a simple pencil sketch though... when I get lazy.

Since the secondary objective of the project is to improve my skills as I go along, I might come back and do redraws of some of the older drawings which I don't feel are up to scratch. In this case I'll keep the older drawing up with the newer version next to it for comparison.

Enjoy. Requests are welcome.



Barbos (DKC3) | Buzz (DKC3)

Clapper (DKC2) | Click-Clack (DKC2)

Donkey Kong

Glimmer (DKC2)

Hogwash (DKL)

Klaptrap (DKC) | Klubba (DKC2) | Klump (DKC) | Krochead (DKC2) | Krow

Lockjaw (DKC2)

Neek (DKC2)

Puftup (DKC2)

Shuri (DKC2) | Squitter (DKC2, DKC3)

Zinger (DKC, DKC2)
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby cfh » February 24th, 2008, 12:52 pm

Do Glimmer :)
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby Kowbrainz » February 24th, 2008, 12:58 pm

There... finally found a way around that stupid '5 urls per post' code... >_<;

I'll try doing Glimmer today. :)
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby cfh » February 24th, 2008, 1:01 pm

It's to stop spambots.

And yay Glimmer!
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby Kowbrainz » February 24th, 2008, 8:14 pm

Glimmer is done, along with Puftup and Krochead.

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I'll try doing a Kremling of some sort this week.
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby cfh » February 25th, 2008, 12:21 am

Nice, I like the coloring, especially where the color changes :)
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby Jomingo » February 25th, 2008, 2:14 am

Lookin' good. You should do Squitter. And Hogwash, he sounds pretty easy.
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby cfh » February 25th, 2008, 2:31 am

Yeah, do Hogwash, he's cool.
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby Jomingo » February 25th, 2008, 2:54 am

And you should do Krow and Barbos. Those are some of the coolest bosses. If you want to make a kremling make Klubba, or Klump.
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby cfh » February 25th, 2008, 3:00 am

One at a time :shock:
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby Kowbrainz » February 25th, 2008, 4:26 pm

Jomingo wrote:And you should do Krow and Barbos. Those are some of the coolest bosses. If you want to make a kremling make Klubba, or Klump.



I did Klump already, but I think I could probably do a better job of him later. I was thinking about doing Klubba, too.

I need to look at the Kremling anatomy a bit first... anthropomorphic lizards are harder to do than I originally thought. :P

I'll see what I can do... thanks for the suggestions. :)
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby Jomingo » February 26th, 2008, 7:00 am

Oh, I didn't see you already did him. Cool, and yeah Kremlings can be a little tough at times.
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby Kowbrainz » February 26th, 2008, 9:48 pm

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Thar ye go. Oh, and ye can click here for the outline if ye wants to draw him. Click.

I've already done Hogwash, but I'll scan him in with another batch of smaller characters later. Cheers.
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby Jomingo » February 27th, 2008, 7:59 am

That's awesome! Better than I could've done.
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby cfh » February 27th, 2008, 8:04 am

Nice, I like all the shading.
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby Jomingo » February 27th, 2008, 8:11 am

Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby Qyzbud » February 27th, 2008, 10:56 am

Hey, lookin' good!

That Klubba drawing captures the big dude pretty well.

Pay up? ...maybe
Fight him? ...hell no.

RUN AWAY!
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby Qyzbud » February 27th, 2008, 5:44 pm

Kowbrainz wrote:that stupid '5 urls per post' code... >_<;

I've just relaxed the forum's spam security a little, so now you should be able to post as many URLs as you like. Have fun!
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby Kowbrainz » February 27th, 2008, 9:30 pm

Hehe, cheers for that. 8-)
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby Jomingo » February 28th, 2008, 7:49 am

Thanks, it is much appreciated.
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby cfh » February 28th, 2008, 8:43 am

There haven't been any spambots so far, I hope it stays like that!
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby Jomingo » February 28th, 2008, 8:46 am

That reminds you, the spambots also thank you! :D
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby Kowbrainz » March 2nd, 2008, 11:22 am

Two more up and two on their way!

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I'm not too familiar with Hogwash, seeing as I don't actually own the original Donkey Kong Land - I've only played it a few times on friends' gameboys (blasphemy, I know, I know). Ah well, hope you enjoy.

I wonder if Klaptrap likes bacon better than he does monkey meat...
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby holysnap » March 2nd, 2008, 11:26 am

They're all very good, but some I dunno, I just feel some need a bit more detail.

Great work though. ;)
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby Kowbrainz » March 2nd, 2008, 11:30 am

holysnap wrote:They're all very good, but some I dunno, I just feel some need a bit more detail.

Great work though. ;)


That's kay, you're right.

I don't really spend as much time with these drawings as I would a normal picture, so often I won't add very much detail in the shading and texturing, else it takes me too long to churn them out.

That said, I will go back and redo some of the drawings later on in different poses etc, and some of the ones that were really small in the original drawing, I may do a little larger so I can use more detail etc. Whatever works.
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby cfh » March 2nd, 2008, 12:27 pm

Haha, great. Hogwash looks a little pissed...
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby Qyzbud » March 2nd, 2008, 12:35 pm

I like those new ones, Kowz.

That Klaptrap looks pretty happy. Hogwash looks kinda... not-at-all happy. :P
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby Kowbrainz » March 2nd, 2008, 4:27 pm

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Yey Squitter. :P
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby Qyzbud » March 2nd, 2008, 5:49 pm

Squitter, my favourite!

Awesome job on this one, best yet. :D
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby nickp17 » March 3rd, 2008, 12:58 am

Wow, that Squitter looks great. You're a beast. I would love to see "Baron K. Roolstein"
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby cfh » March 3rd, 2008, 2:02 am

Squitter looks like his trophy in Brawl :)
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby Jomingo » March 3rd, 2008, 5:12 am

Awesome Squitter and Hogwash.
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby Kowbrainz » March 3rd, 2008, 5:32 pm

Hehe... cheers guys.

Here's Krow. Not my best, but looks alright. Original black pencil's lead broke halfway through, so I had to use a new one which gives an awful textured look - see the hat. Ah well.

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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby cfh » March 4th, 2008, 7:59 am

This one does look a little weird... but I actually like the colors. Makes it look old, like it was drawn on an old map.
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby Jomingo » March 4th, 2008, 8:02 am

Yeah, it's not your best, but good.
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby Kowbrainz » March 6th, 2008, 10:05 pm

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Tried something out with watercolour pencils + water; although you can't really see it. Aw well.
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby cfh » March 6th, 2008, 10:21 pm

He looks hairy. :P
I like eyes! they look like in the game.
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby nickp17 » March 7th, 2008, 2:42 pm

Looks very good. I always had trouble with that boss as a child. 8-) ( Not anymore ;) )
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby Kowbrainz » March 7th, 2008, 8:54 pm

nickp17 wrote:Looks very good. I always had trouble with that boss as a child. 8-) ( Not anymore ;) )


My earliest memories of the DKC series was when I was a wee lad and went to a daycare place in the holidays for kids up to 12 years old. They had a SNES there and had rented DKC3 but nobody could beat Barbos's second phase. :P
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby Jomingo » March 8th, 2008, 5:13 am

Yes, he is a hard one. Good job drawing him though.
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby Kowbrainz » March 8th, 2008, 7:30 pm

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Thought this project could do with a Kong. :D
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby cfh » March 9th, 2008, 6:03 am

Nice job... but he's a little tall and has wide eyes which scares me... I'm just being picky, looks good :P
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby Jomingo » March 9th, 2008, 10:35 am

That is awesome.
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby Kowbrainz » March 9th, 2008, 11:45 am

cfh wrote:Nice job... but he's a little tall and has wide eyes which scares me... I'm just being picky, looks good :P


Mm, a lot of the time I'll sit back from the drawing as I'm doing it, resulting in a stretched-out image like this. Ah well. :P
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby nickp17 » March 10th, 2008, 10:41 am

I wanna see a K.Rool soon ;)
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby Qyzbud » March 10th, 2008, 11:04 am

Nice drawing in general, but mostly I *really* like your toning. Perfect use of colour, my friend. :)
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby Kowbrainz » May 10th, 2008, 10:17 pm

Bumping this back up again... not because I have new art, but because I'd like to take another approach with this topic.

At the moment... I have study. For midyear exams and all that rubbish. So it's very unlikely that I'll be able to post much artwork, definitely not as much as before.

I was thinking this topic could start a new, in that the goal would be the same, except the way it would be achieved, different. I still want to have cool artwork for each of the DKC characters, but I'm not able to do this myself. So instead, I propose that anybody interested or with a bit of talent try their hand at drawing some DKC characters.

You can draw any character you like, whether somebody else has done it already or if it hasn't been done before. New drawings are great, but different styled pics are awesome, too. You can use any media you like - computer graphics program, pencil, pen, paint, collage - as long as you're not just taking someone else's work and editing it around. This includes sprites and gameart.

If you want to try your hand, make sure you're only drawing one character in the picture. Multiple characters on the same page are fine if they can be split up via an image program. Either way, submit your pic once it's done and I'll add it to the list with your name alongside it.

That's all I have to say, really. Add your thoughts if you like.
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Re: Kowz' DKC art project

Postby Metroixer » May 14th, 2008, 12:20 pm

How about trying to draw Kleaver? It sounds simple enough, and it could end up looking cool :P.
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