CA sketchbooks backup

[Anonymous No.2007363]

Just an idea: Shouldn't we be worried about eventually losing most of CA.org sketchbooks (or the images that go along with the text just like it happened with sijun) and whouldn't we be trying to make a community archive of those?

Related to that, does anyone know the best way to save a whole forum thread for offline access? Like the parameters to use in web rippers so that it downloads every page and everything related to the thread but nothing else.

[Anonymous No.2007367]

that site is for faggots anyway. fuck off bitch.

[Anonymous No.2007371]

>>2007367
Be quiet. Adults are talking.

>>2007363

All of the stuff I want is gone now, but there should be an effort to save what's left. Algenpfleder, Marko, Herman Ng's early stuff, Hawkprey, Dobsky, all of the old paintovers and critiques from the golden age should be around somewhere, but much of it is lost.

[Anonymous No.2007373]

>>2007371
I am an adult im 56 years old you disrespectful mother fucker.

[Anonymous No.2007375]

>>2007373
You sound 12. If you were anywhere over 20 you'd know that.

[Anonymous No.2007381]

>>2007371
Yeah, that's why I started fearing for the threads that still are mostly complete. We never know which one is going to go next.

There's still some hope for the ones that don't have the images anymore though. It would involve a ton of work but most zip files floating around have entire image rips from the forums, we would have to associate the images to the text where they are missing. At least they still exist somewhere, not like the Craig Mullins pdf problem which saddens me.

[Anonymous No.2007382]

>>2007375

Gramps still wants to be a toysrus kid, leave him alone.

[Anonymous No.2007389]

>>2007381
People will still have them somewhere, on hard drives older and older. I don't believe that for every thread there was at least one guy who downloaded everything. Finding THOSE people are hard.

[Anonymous No.2007394]

>>2007389
Hmm, I was thinking that maybe a good place to start would be a Github page or something similar (I don't know about the legality of doing this) where someone would rip a entire thread, upload it in a specific folder with the name of the artist and if any image is missing and you have it you could fork the folder updating it with the images that are missing so that it could be approved and integrated in the main project.

Too complicated?

[Anonymous No.2007397]

suck my balls.

[Anonymous No.2007420]

>>2007363
I'll work on a script for 1-2 hours and see what I can do. Do you only want the images or images + posts?

[Anonymous No.2007428]

>>2007420

I guess get images working first and then go for posts. I guess it'll be hard trying to account for images hosted locally and hosted externally, depending on how you choose to do it, so if you pull this off you have no idea how much everyone will appreciate it. Especially if we can somehow do it retroactively for the older threads with some of the images missing.

Unfortunately, you might be doomed from the start...

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/conceptart.org

I might start uploading zips of the threads I've already saved if CA doesn't come back up.

[Anonymous No.2007430]

>>2007420
Not OP but I love you for this anon...

[Anonymous No.2007456]

>>2007394
>Image
Who's the artist? Looks pretty cool.

[Anonymous No.2007459]

>>2007456
There's a url in the image, you serious?

[Anonymous No.2007463]

Is it just me or does everyone from ca.org pull from the same inspiration? Slightly different styles, but essentially the same ideas. For a site that is intended promote concept artists, there sure isn't a lot of original creativity happening in the concept department.

[Anonymous No.2007469]

>>2007463
Yeah, I kinda agree with you. Most of them share a very similar aesthetic and shape design look. Its like the three dots in every piece of futuristic armour thing.

I admit I'm mostly interested in the draftsmanship and technical quality though. The sketchbook are a great document to the way these artists trained and got were they are. Maybe having the design problem in consideration can bring some insight while looking at the sketchbooks in bulk. Why do they all fall close to each other in that spectrum?

[Anonymous No.2007474]

>>2007463
Just you trying to fit in I guess. Ca.org had more variety than any other art site. Fine artists, concept artists, industrial designers, illustrators all posting on one site. The only common denominator was that it all was representational art.

[Anonymous No.2007478]

>>2007469
its cause most of those artists just have technical skill but cant do dick because they lack creativity. they dont know how to brainstorm or be more daring with ideas, so they just copy what everyone else is doing and post it to get likes and ass pats. Theyre probably not the smartest people either, it doesnt take much intelligence to learn technical skill, but it requires some brain power to come up with solid ideas that are actually interesting.

[Anonymous No.2007484]

>>2007478
Oh yeah, the creative people on /ic/ are talking. Hahaha. You fucking delusional morons.

[Anonymous No.2007485]

>>2007478
>B-B-BUT ATLEAST M-MUH IDEAS A-ARE BETTER, RIGHT MUM?
pathetic

[Anonymous No.2007486]

>>2007484
i never once claimed i was creative, but i am observant.

[Anonymous No.2007492]

>>2007485
The hilarious thing is that these are the kind of people who have absolutely zero creativity whatsoever themselves. Their false sense of superioritiy doesn't come from them having good ideas, but from them acting like every idea and subject matter ever conceived is shit and "generic".

[Anonymous No.2007493]

>>2007492
yeah space marines have never been done before youre right maybe we should collaborate so we can make millions

[Anonymous No.2007494]

>>2007486
You are neither. It just makes you feel better about yourself acting as if you have some super high standards where everything is shit. In reality, you are just too stupid to understand how creativity can be displayed in a plethora of ways. Even the most generic subject matter can be done in very creative ways. But you can't look past the subject matter. /ic/ told you that all spaceships are not creative and boring, so an amazing Scott Robertson design will be the same to you as some Deathelm crap. In fact, just to be contrarian, you might say the Deathelm crap is more creative.

[Anonymous No.2007497]

>>2007493
Thanks for proving my point you dumb fucking noob. Creativity has nothing whatsoever to do with doing something that has never been done before. Everything in representational art has been done already. Creativity is displayed in HOW you do something, not in WHAT you do.

A good and creative artist can show creativity in the most mundane and boring subject matter, including your dreaded space marines. Meanwhile you couldn't be creative if your life depended on it because all creativity means to you is to be different just for the sake of being different.

[Anonymous No.2007513]

>>2007497
I didnt prove your point you fuckin blowjob. Yeah and they lack any sense of story. Give me one fucking ca.org artist who actually put any thought into story, sure it looks cool. Michael bay movies look cool, but everything else is so terrible (no substance) I hardly enjoy watching them. Most of the artists on there just copy scott robertson, its just the same bullshit recycled over and over again, its not even watered down.

I probably worded it wrong I didnt really mean do something thats never been done before, but have more personality I guess. Like in a movie youre not going to care about a character thats boring or doesnt show any character.

And I can be creative all I have to do is do what everyone else is doing thats the standard right?

[Anonymous No.2007514]

>>2007486
The last time someone made that argument to me they also linked me to some teenage pseudo-deep emo illustrations and claimed they were more creative than the art I like.

Just because something is subtle doesn't mean it isn't creative, quite on the contrary.

Creative can come in many forms. Was Sargent creative?

[Anonymous No.2007523]

>>2007428
Seems to be up now. Just another dumbass update Manley made to the website struggling to keep it relevant lol

[Anonymous No.2007527]

>>200751486

Yeah well, I'm not a teenager and I dont like that emo crap either. I dont think Sargent was creative, he was just really fucking good at what he did which influenced a shit ton of people.

That artist Dobu on ca.org is the kind of shit I like and is what I was trying to make a point about. He drew the same stuff as everyone else typical warrior characters, but the way they interacted with eachother was totally unique. He had all these nymph characters chopping off orcs heads off and stuff, it was kind of like something youd see in an old Heavy Metal magazine. And a bunch of weird pregnant centaur chicks and stuff, anyway, you knew something was going on more than just something that looked cool, like there was a narrative, there was definitely a world there. And his sketches didnt even look all that pretty, but they were full of ideas which is why I loved looking at them. Of course a lot of artists on ca.org were like that at that time, it was the place to be back then. My whole point was that now everything on there is pretty boring and I miss the old stuff.

[Anonymous No.2007529]

>>2007514
Yeah well, I'm not a teenager and I dont like that emo crap either. I dont think Sargent was creative, he was just really fucking good at what he did which influenced a shit ton of people.

That artist Dobu on ca.org is the kind of shit I like and is what I was trying to make a point about. He drew the same stuff as everyone else typical warrior characters, but the way they interacted with eachother was totally unique. He had all these nymph characters chopping orcs heads off and stuff, it was kind of like something youd see in an old Heavy Metal magazine. And a bunch of weird pregnant centaur chicks and stuff, anyway, you knew something was going on more than just something that looked cool, like there was a narrative, there was definitely a world there. And his sketches didnt even look all that pretty, but they were full of ideas which is why I loved looking at them. Of course a lot of artists on ca.org were like that at that time, it was the place to be back then. My whole point was that now everything on there is pretty boring and I miss the old stuff.

[Anonymous No.2007533]

>>2007478
It's funny. Every time I hear people say that they're an ideas-man they turn out to be neither creative or technically skilled. Any retard can come up with ideas but does the idea work on paper? The answer is almost always no because even the simplest most tried and true idea takes a tonne of work to flesh out into something that's even mildly presentable. The reason everything looks similar on CA is because they need to churn out a bunch of new ideas to draw from everyday and make sure that it's not too ambitious so that they can execute it well. Meanwhile people who draw nothing all day look at that work and think to themselves that they could imagine cooler looking concepts. Well no shit they can.

[Anonymous No.2007538]

>>2007533
but i do have the best ideas thats why im better than you.

[Anonymous No.2007543]

>>2007533
I dont know how to draw actually ive never done a single drawing in my life but i guarantee i have better ideas than you. I'm actually writing a story as we speak. Just imagine. An orc hero. Hes not mean though because his daddy was hella mean to him when he was a baby!!!! Well I dont want to give too much away youll steal my story.

[Anonymous No.2007548]

>>2007543
>>2007538
>>2007533
>>2007529
dude all of you guys are stupid as fuck and I got ictan pics so what now bitch he dont even come on here anymore he told me 3 months ago he was Fucking Done with 4chan all together.

[Anonymous No.2007556]

>>2007529
faggot. dobu sucks ass.

[Anonymous No.2007568]

It's funny how some people are on /ic/ because they already were in 4chan and its just another board where they get to derail threads. You guys are not here for art, you guys are here because this is just another way to occupy your worthless time and take a break from /b

I'm out.

[Anonymous No.2007569]

>>2007568
this thread is 2 low lifes bickering about nothing, not much to derail asshat.

[Anonymous No.2007598]

I be interested in zip archives please if anyone has any.

[Anonymous No.2007626]

>>2007568
>just another way to occupy your worthless time and take a break from /b
True for me.

But I do actually work as an artist.

[Anonymous No.2007660]

>>2007363
Are there any videos I can watch that helps me get to this level of clean sketches and rendering?

I'm not a novice, but my shit always ends up looking pretty sketchy until I ink it. I wouldn't mind having a more impressive sketchbook to look through.

[Anonymous No.2007663]

>>2007660
that can help me*

Sorry, haven't had my coffee yet.

[Anonymous No.2007682]

>>2007478
I love how not true this post is

[Anonymous No.2007795]

>>2007420
>>2007428
>>2007430

Ok I have a script, I fucking suck at python so it took me forever to learn how to do it. It will download all attached images in a sketchbook thread but it won't download external images. However, downloading external images is not impossible nor very difficult to do, but I'm going to take a break from this.

Send me 2-3 sketchbook URLs of some good artists there and I'll package them as a preview/test for this

[Anonymous No.2007810]

>>2007795
Thanks man.

[Anonymous No.2007816]

>>2007463
>Is it just me or does everyone from ca.org pull from the same inspiration? Slightly different styles, but essentially the same ideas.

A lot of the more famous CA "stars" were basically grinding away at the same time together towards more or less the same goals. In the mid-2000s (ish?) CA kinda had this "studio collective" feel to it, which is probably that 'spark' that so many former members lament nowadays.

In addition to that aspect, there were often many older illustrators who painted very differently and popped in here and there to give some sage/practical advice (Elwell, Illaeake (sp?), Chris Bennett...).

The part that people most remember now are the few "stars" that did paint and draw towards a similar aesthetic, but CA used to be a crazy melting pot of that sort of pseudo-studio scene with some older pros and a mish mash of whomever all else wandered in.

Personally, I wish I had my personal and artistic shit together at the time to have better participated in that environment. Nonetheless, I still have some really good memories of the place.

>TFW my first correspondence with Kev Ferrara was to call him a troll over I dunno even know what, and he totally blew me the fuck out and I had to give him mad respect
>TFW posting in "porn appreciation" threads with Illaeake
>TFW followed along with Seedling's "perspective workshop thread"
>TFW I really did spend too much time in the Lounge

[Anonymous No.2007829]

>>2007816
Holy fuck all those names bringing dat nostalgia back. Glad to see I'm not the only d/ic/k who was around back in those days.

Also yeah, never argue with Kev haha, he is relentless and if he is losing he can get super intellectual/wordy and win through sheer force of will. He is a smart guy though and super skilled and knowledgeable, really nice too, he even remembered me when I messaged him out of the blue recently to get Pyle notes.

[Anonymous No.2007996]

>>2007660
Bump for this

[Anonymous No.2008037]

Ok I tested my script on a 30 page sketchbook:
1062 images downloaded in 3 minutes

How do I share files anonymously?

[Anonymous No.2008047]

>>2007660
You are asking a board full of novices how to render like a expert.

[Anonymous No.2008057]

>>2007660
you just need to sketch lightly (preferably with the side of your pencil) and use pressure to refine certain lines and add value.

>>2008047
/ic/ isn't "full of novices", there's a lot of top talent here.

[Anonymous No.2008062]

>>2008057
Looks like hatching to me.

[Anonymous No.2008067]

>>2008062
Any good resources that cover this in depth?

[Anonymous No.2008072]

>>2008062
it's hatching + pressure/different pencil grades on top of light blocking, at least in the op.

[Anonymous No.2008082]

>>2007660
feel the form and the light before you draw bro.

[Anonymous No.2008103]

>>2008062

H-h-h-how's ma-m-my paper-er bag d-d-d-d-ddrawing?

[Anonymous No.2008105]

>>2008082
Not having to much trouble with that, I was more interested in the technique. My shading tends to look messy. It's correctly placed, but it never defines the form as well as OP's. Maybe also the pencils that might be used for the tones. I mostly just draw with a HB.

[Anonymous No.2008255]

>>2007373
then act your age

[Anonymous No.2008256]

>>2007381
is that drawing by phil hale?

[Anonymous No.2008451]

>>2008037
You could try mega? Just a suggestion, but I'm not sure if it's anonymous...

[Anonymous No.2008455]

>>2008037
bittorrent sync

[Anonymous No.2008456]

>>2008256

No, if I'm not mistaken that's by Marko Djurdjevic

[Anonymous No.2008486]

>>2007795
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php/79302-Rusty-Update-Feb-2013

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php/131036-sipher

Thanks man.

[Anonymous No.2008492]

>>2007795
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php/173938-%CA%95%EF%BC%9B-%E2%80%A2-%E1%B4%A5%E2%80%A2%C2%B4%CA%94-%E2%98%86Sketchbook%E2%98%86!-(Feb-05-2015)

[Anonymous No.2008513]

>>2007363
>>2007381
>>2007394
>>2007397
Who are the authors for these?

[Anonymous No.2008521]

>>2008513
Wesley Burt
Marko Djurdjevic
Alexandr Pascenko
Achadobu (i don't think anyone knows his real name or what he's been up to recently)

[Anonymous No.2008534]

>>2008513
Also, here you go:
>>/ic/thread/1716858

[Anonymous No.2008555]

>>2008455
That gives my IP to anyone who downloads it no?

>>2008492
There a lot of externally hosted images, I need to modify the script before I can send you that thread

>>2008486
Will keep these up for the next 3-4 hours or so
https://filetea.me/t1sLz24NYOMQWWcaKpH3LL0QA
https://filetea.me/t1s6qtBIk8LQMWffru8aVe1Fw

[Anonymous No.2008557]

>>2008555
no, weren't you here when that anon dropped about 11 gb of Mullins videos?

[Anonymous No.2008561]

>>2008521
>Achadobu (i don't think anyone knows his real name or what he's been up to recently)

I was always under the assumption that he had died.
There's literally no proof, but somebody at that skill level, actively posting on the forums just magically disappearing is really sketchy.

Or maybe he joined a monastery and is a monk now, who knows.
I like to think something drastic happened.

[Anonymous No.2008565]

>>2008561
Hey someone else with the same theory. I don't like to think it, but death is the most likely case given how skilled he is and how unique his art is.

That being said, you can see his posts do start to trail off a bit and the records show he logged in once even after a while of not posting. So maybe he did lost interest in online communities and does it for himself and never posts online. But yeah, all my attempts in the past to track him down, raise awareness, email him etc were fruitless.

[Anonymous No.2008566]

>achadobu
Where does these cool usernames come from?

[Anonymous No.2008568]

>>2008565
Maybe he had cancer and was slowly dying, unable to draw

[Anonymous No.2008570]

>>2008565
fruitless? you made a thread about this on ca.org? I remember reading a thread and someone pretty much saying the same shit you just said, unless its just coincidence. I thought most ca.org users stayed away from this place.

I think dobu did a lot of studying I remember seeing a lot of drawings of armor and faces in his sketchbook

[Anonymous No.2008571]

>>2007816
A wall of text and nothing said.

[Anonymous No.2008572]

>>2008557
No I'm just an anon who thought it would be easy to scrape off images from a forum

After reading the forums, and going over the privacy policy, it seems to me that anyone who you share the file with can obtain your IP

[Anonymous No.2008574]

>>2008571
thats cause no one cares, now fuck off.

[Anonymous No.2008581]

>>2008561
>actively posting on the forums just magically disappearing is really sketchy.
No. People just growing up. Online is not a life.

[Anonymous No.2008584]

>>2008555
2nd link was broken, sorry:
https://filetea.me/t1sOyxllgRhTWOPC2nbs5gQiQ

[Anonymous No.2008588]

>>2008574
Make me, bitch

[Anonymous No.2008589]

>>2008581
>leaving out
>''but somebody at that skill level''

Achadobu was a legit as fuck artist. It would make sense if he pursued a career in art which he presumably never did because people haven't found him online. Also keeping up a sketchbook on a forum is not as just posting 'normal' stuff on some random forum(which is how you chose to interpret that sentence).

Even then, I'd would make sense for him to leave a goodbye message or something, like 'I'm out plebs. gg'. He just magically stopped posting one day.

[Anonymous No.2008591]

>>2008570
Yeah I made a thread and updated it yearly for a few years in hopes of something. Also asked around various people and sent an email to the address he used to sign up on CA with. I really like his stuff, I'm also the one who a while back manually saved every image of his and then uploaded my folder to /ic/ (I'll bet 95% of the people here who know of him only do because I mentioned him a few times and posted his art, as you say pretty much no one from the old CA days visits here).

>>2008581
Yeah that's true, but you would think someone of a high skill like that would be working for a well known company or something by now, and his art is easily recognizable. But no one has heard or seen anything.

[Anonymous No.2008594]

>>2008589
he hardly ever finished anything though, maybe he wasnt as serious about it as you think, he just sketched all the time but wasnt really interested in making a portfolio or anything. he also never talked about art as a career in his sketchbook i dont think, he talked about his study methods sometimes but that was about it. i think he just likes to draw. or he could have died, who knows.

[Anonymous No.2008596]

>>2008589
or maybe he just went with another pen name.

[Anonymous No.2008598]

>>2008594
He was very serious in terms of studying and how much he drew. He literally drew only on printer paper because he said it became too expensive in sketchbooks given how much he drew. He also was learning how to paint digitally (learning at a very quick pace too) and was playing around with inking because he was thinking of doing a comic. Based on his self portraits he was probably like in his late 20's or early 30's, so I assume he had another job to support himself and wasn't doing art professionally then, but it seemed that he was quickly headed towards a career.

[Anonymous No.2008600]

>>2008596
>>2008594
>>2008591
>>2008589

maybe hes in prison for raping and murdering multiple women.

[Anonymous No.2008601]

>>2008594
I'm sure thing, that might be very possible. But you don't get to his level by just fucking around, he must've been decently serious.
It's a shame that he dropped off the map, but other than that I don't really care and I don't need to prove anything. The guy that I replied just misinterpreted the meaning of my statement so I thought I'd clear it up.

Anyhow, I'm gonna stop arguing about some random guy from a forum being dead or not.

>>2008596
Somebody would have recognized his work don't you think, he has a very particular style.

>>2008598
Wasn't he like 28 or something? I think he mentions it in one of his posts.
Could have been 31 or something towards the end of his sketchbook.

[Anonymous No.2008604]

>>2008601

Maybe he got married, women are notorious for shitting on your dreams.

[Anonymous No.2008605]

>>2008591
>>2008589
Thousand of portfolio pages are dead now, but you can found artists names in credits. This is life. You leave this place too some day.

[Anonymous No.2008607]

>>2008600
lel.

Seems a bit far fetched m8, but life is strange like that.
Could have been perfectly possible.
I mean, every time you watch one of those videos on liveleak of a slav getting run over by a bus or a BR getting stabbed in the neck, you could be watching the death of a potential Marko Djurdjicivjzic, or Crab Mullins.

[Anonymous No.2008609]

>>2008604
Who knows, man. The possibilities are next to infinite.

>inb4 dobu is actually browsing this thread and will make an appearance.

[Anonymous No.2008610]

>>2008607
yeah plus he drew pregnant chicks alot and women breastfeeding gorilla babies maybe he was fucked in the mind

fuckin love this particular drawing haha

[Anonymous No.2008622]

That's just how life works brahs.

Pick a random sketchbook from 2008, go to the last page, and you'll also notice that the user 'magically' stopped posting.

People keep these threads going for 5 years(or more), which is like 2 decades in internet years, they're gonna get tired of it sooner or later.
Sometimes people just quit, sometimes life gets in the way, that's just how it works.

People are giving this way too much thought just because Dobu is such an unique artist.

[Anonymous No.2008634]

>>2008622
>Dobu is such an unique artist.
i don't get what you guys find so special in dobu
his art is just generic chicks and trolls stuff, is anatomy isn't even good
there are countless artists with good improvement and various themes sketching and studies

[Anonymous No.2008635]

>>2008622
I remember seeing many sketchbooks on ca.org that were a lot crazier than dobus stuff like just really out there and violent sketchy stuff like dobu but I dont remember the names and was too stupid to save any of it but back in those days there were all kinds of badass artists back then.

[Anonymous No.2008640]

>>2008634
yeah I agree I think these guys just have shitty taste I always thought dobus stuff was boring and stupid.

[Anonymous No.2008641]

>>2008634
>le_edgy_contrarian_d/ic/k.psd

Name 3 such artists.


>>2008635
He is not the greatest artist in the world or anything, but his drawings have a certain vibe that appeals to a lot of people. I might not be *super* unique, but they're definitely not average.

[Anonymous No.2008642]

So guys what's the ca.org of today? Where are sketchbooks being posted?

[Anonymous No.2008650]

>>2008642
sucks now, just shitty attention whore noobs that get a shit ton of responses because nobody good posts anymore. oh yeah mike butkus still posts stuff, his 11 year old daughter did some painting thats like already pro level its insane.

[Anonymous No.2008653]

>>2008584
so is this

[Anonymous No.2008656]

>>2008653
Rusty:
https://filetea.me/t1sB5vpxnBVQJGVG4HXbKGdoA

Sipher:
https://filetea.me/t1sGOX04NElTnxCIrNopHDirQ

This filesharing thing is fucking shit

[Anonymous No.2008657]

>>2008656
thank you anon

[Anonymous No.2008662]

>>2008555
i must be retarded but I can't get either of the links to work.

[Anonymous No.2008664]

>>2008642
There is no ca.org of today.

Prime ca.org was pretty much a once in a life time thing.
We've got permanoobs and crimsondaggers, but it's not the same.
Or maybe it just hasn't garnered enough popularity, either way, as of now there is no 'ca.org of today'.

[Anonymous No.2008668]

>>2008662
refer to
>>2008656

[Anonymous No.2008682]

>>2008664
well that sucks, I missed out on something good

[Anonymous No.2008687]

>>2008656
Thanks for the Rusty link. I was under the impression he had posted waaaayyyyy more stuff though on CA back in the day. Are you sure that's all of it?

[Anonymous No.2008704]

>>2008682
You sure did, pal.

But hey, that's life. Something will come along eventually and you'll be a part of that.

[Anonymous No.2008718]

>>2008687
That's only 1 thread with externally hosted images excluded. If you want all of Rusty, you can link all of his sketchbook threads and I'll pull the images. I won't dig through CA myself because I've already committed a lot of time to the script

I also need a better solution for file sharing if anyone has suggestions that are anonymau5. If I can't find something safe enough I'll have to stop sharing these and will share the script instead

[Anonymous No.2008726]

>>2008656
Sorry to bother you anon but links don't work for me :(

[Anonymous No.2008728]

>>2008726
The file sharing site changes the links every once in a while; basically it's fucking useless. I'll find a better option but g2g for now

[Anonymous No.2008730]

>>2008728
Thanks anon.

[Anonymous No.2008737]

>>2008718
Ah k, and you can't get externally hosted images?

Anyways, I did a quick search for his threads and there are lots of dead images, but I think some of these threads have stuff that is still there hidden in the middle and such, unfortunately the older ones are all dead compeltely:

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php/199162-Rusty-self-portraits-2002-2010?highlight=

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php/37095-Rusty-Vol-2-Update-(July-2010)

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php/25816-Rusty-Sketchbook-1-new-digital-(Dec-8th)?highlight=

As for hosting, I just use mediafire for sharing artist links with people on /ic/. There's stuff I uploaded like a year ago that still is fine for download and seems to work for people. I think there is no way of knowing who uploaded it if they use a direct link, but I'm not sure. Does it really matter if it is 100% anonymous? Maybe just create a bogus email account to sign up with.

[Anonymous No.2008765]

>>2008456
ah, thanks. It looks a lot like this character by him

[Anonymous No.2008775]

>>2007363
Am i correct saying that most of the time all theses drawings are rendered with just ambient light?

[Anonymous No.2008818]

>>2008622
>Pick a random sketchbook from 2008, go to the last page, and you'll also notice that the user 'magically' stopped posting.

This, I've got a couple of 'em on CA from back when and one on Permanoobs.

Life happened, stopped drawing for a while, got back into it again but I haven't been very focused on posting online... and when I do it'll be under a new name anyhow.

>And nobody noticed 'cause my shit sucked, haha...

[Anonymous No.2008986]

>>2008534

only one breast is swinging
can see bottom of chin but side view of actual face
ear too low
back needs to flare out more to the left
right arm foreshortening is wrong
monster's right arm is too long, left hand is too small

i mean wtf?

[Anonymous No.2009101]

New link with a few extra rusty images. Will keep up for the next 2-3 hours and I'm done with sharing images

http://dtxtfe6hr72ijt5q.onion/6cnasla3i7mgehlgexgx365svm

[Anonymous No.2009617]

Can someone reupload the Rusty zip for me? I downloaded it but just now when I tried to unzip it it gave an error/file is damaged. Much appreciated!

[Anonymous No.2010591]

I recently found this 500mb large zip called "cghub"
Anyone interested ?

[Anonymous No.2010598]

>>2008986
Pretty sure that's a dated drawing, Anon.

Now go focus on your art.

[Anonymous No.2010599]

>>2010591

Sure, why not.

[Anonymous No.2010658]

>>2008986
My art btw.

[Anonymous No.2010668]

I always hated conceptart.org. I was glad when it went through a bit of trouble and came out a shadow of its former self. It doesn't deserve the respect it gets.

Since day one you could tell it was a place to boast and hype about your work. Understand, there's nothing wrong with a little flaunting, you got to whore yourself out to get noticed. That's how the market is played.

But the problem with CA was that's all it became about. It was just one annoying humble-brag and one-up-manship after the other. It got so bad, that going to CA to get noticed by potential employers was replaced by the fight to get noticed by other members.

And what made it worse was the kind of educated people who began to show up in droves. Arrogant tone deaf kids from these quick technical art schools. Any and all discussion about the art went to shit. Thier majority influenced how anyone was to talk about art.

Most of the talks became about setting noobs straight, or giving them brutal truth. When in actuality it was just them wanting to feel like the big guy for once. They just wanted to shit on someone else because that's what was done to them.

It was sad because has extraordinarily skilled as some of them were, they weren't that bright. Most couldn't explain what they were doing without echoing somebody else. You could tell there wasn't much deep thinking and exploration in what they did. Their education left a lot things out that would have helped them grow as human being

And that is why I hate CA.org. It has become a poisoned well, causing sickness in each new generation of kids that flock to it.

[Anonymous No.2010699]

>>2010599
>>2010591
https://mega.co.nz/#!B08C0D5b!VVa5mMTwgU-IaVg4b8iqYUZf04SiHWJ1NZNaxxffyQ0

[Anonymous No.2010927]

>>2010668
I can tell you never won any weekly contests and never had a 4-5 star SB.

[Anonymous No.2010938]

>>2010668
>Post-recession member detected

Prime CA.org was a long ass time ago, you're describing the CA of four or five years ago... maybe today for all I know.

[Anonymous No.2011931]

>>2010927
Never participated in the contests. So yeah youre right.

>>2010938
And the history just keeps on repeating itself in other sites. CA has became the model for how a base of immature brats will slowly degrade the usefulness those kinds of sites were meant to have.

[Anonymous No.2011942]

stupid question but: what is the new CA?

[Anonymous No.2011996]

>>2011942
the one after the old

[Anonymous No.2012068]

>>2010927

I had a 5 star book and won one of those creature contest badges, but I agree with a lot of what he said. It got very cliquey there after around 2008-9. Everyone trying to be Elwell and compete to be the most terse and snide to newbies. I came up on CA, but that place really did breed some puffed up motherfuckers. Remember Seedling? Jesus I hated her. dpaint was super arrogant for how bad his work was (though he had some decent landscapes). There was a shitton of people like that, who maybe their work was ok to decent but they were just utterly full of themselves and high on the adulation of all the highschoolers giving them asspats.

I think it was the "thanks" button that did it. Things started going to shit right about the time they added that. I think everyone wanted to get a really high thanks to post ratio, so they stopped trying to be helpful for the sake of helping, and just tried to be funny and sarcastic, because that's what worked.

El Coro was the guy who made old CA great. Android too, and yes, Manley. Manley gets shit on a lot, now, but, as much as he fucked up the site later on, he built it from the ground up just as much. The site was great when the Massive Black guys considered it there labor of love, and it fell apart when they left.

[Anonymous No.2012073]

>>2007816
>>TFW my first correspondence with Kev Ferrara was to call him a troll over I dunno even know what, and he totally blew me the fuck out and I had to give him mad respect

hahaha, me too. I was like 20 and I got in an argument with him over politics. Of course it ended with me feeling like the dipshit I was.

[Anonymous No.2012078]

Uploaded this a few weeks ago for someone here. Cool artist that used to post on CA under the name OccultArt or something like that. Never seen his stuff posted in one of these threads, so maybe someone wants it.

https://mega.co.nz/#!WcBzhBDL!__xYqtge9wdDygW8bKxXIWQXsFPFDisAu6u7WkPfEu0

[ickuntanman No.2012086]

>>2012078
dude i love stuff like this thank you, got anything similar from other artists?

[Anonymous No.2012115]

>>2012086

Um, maybe Styloide? His stuff is a little similar. It's all easy to find on his facebook page, though. There are lots of artists doing clean line art of pretty girls.