These categories are not limited to keys I've already made, but it's nice to know people have some favorites.
Keep the responses coming! Centering the Chi or something.
Can't make any more topre fns, or else I won't be able to collect them all! >:D
Seriously though, I still need a Hoot. So there's that. :-*
But for new designs? I'd like to see more animals-enjoying-hifi-equipment designs, a-la Slo-Fi. ^-^
Can't make any more topre fns, or else I won't be able to collect them all! >:D
Seriously though, I still need a Hoot. So there's that. :-*
But for new designs? I'd like to see more animals-enjoying-hifi-equipment designs, a-la Slo-Fi. ^-^
Any molds I've retired are not likely to come back. That's just how I roll. :cool:
I think he means as in he would make new molds, but I don't want to speak for Binge, so I might be wrong.Can't make any more topre fns, or else I won't be able to collect them all! >:D
Seriously though, I still need a Hoot. So there's that. :-*
But for new designs? I'd like to see more animals-enjoying-hifi-equipment designs, a-la Slo-Fi. ^-^
Any molds I've retired are not likely to come back. That's just how I roll. :cool:
:-*
So no hand-e-cap then, right? Or would you sculpt a new one? And has Hoot been retired? Hoping not... :-[ :p Oh shoot, is that one retired now that the Mrs. isn't helping anymore?? :'(
I think he means as in he would make new molds, but I don't want to speak for Binge, so I might be wrong.Can't make any more topre fns, or else I won't be able to collect them all! >:D
Seriously though, I still need a Hoot. So there's that. :-*
But for new designs? I'd like to see more animals-enjoying-hifi-equipment designs, a-la Slo-Fi. ^-^
Any molds I've retired are not likely to come back. That's just how I roll. :cool:
:-*
So no hand-e-cap then, right? Or would you sculpt a new one? And has Hoot been retired? Hoping not... :-[ :p Oh shoot, is that one retired now that the Mrs. isn't helping anymore?? :'(
I'd love to see Konahrik's mask from Sky rimShow Image(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Q76v-g-XPfY/T3YMYZOFbDI/AAAAAAAAA7Q/QDpc3J1ob-s/s1600/Ultimate%2BDragon%2BMask.jpg)
How about a design that can be focus on in the long term and represent your brand
Something like from the fantasy world/animal (ie different dragon head design)Show Image(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/d0/f2/17/d0f2171d0b582ebb4807ce1490dac4de.jpg)
Why don't you post some art that you've really grooved on lately. Maybe not so much as subject matter you'd like to use, but something that shows the style you would like to draw from. Everybody here so far has posted examples of digital fantasy art with high detail. Is that what you like? Do you want to do something similar to what you have already done to further your 'brand' (I feel dirty saying that), or do you want to branch out into a style you haven't focused on in the past? Or is this just a way to determine what your users prefer so when you come up with the right thing, you know how to make it?
Why don't you post some art that you've really grooved on lately. Maybe not so much as subject matter you'd like to use, but something that shows the style you would like to draw from. Everybody here so far has posted examples of digital fantasy art with high detail. Is that what you like? Do you want to do something similar to what you have already done to further your 'brand' (I feel dirty saying that), or do you want to branch out into a style you haven't focused on in the past? Or is this just a way to determine what your users prefer so when you come up with the right thing, you know how to make it?
Gotta level with you man. The only art I've produced recently is for this site and its members. I'm a former career artist who really missed it and saw an application for my skills in this medium. I think if I didn't find keycaps I would sketch here and there but generally would have focused more on other things like... my retirement? I dunno. Needless to say if I'm doodling it's scratch and nothing else. Most of the time it's little pictures to make my wife laugh.
You're right I've seen a lot of fantasy art and really detailed work thrown at me, and I've got to say the artform it's presented to me in is the stuff I used to strive to achieve. Can't say I have wanted to remain in that circuit of creation because it lacks spontaneity. As odd as that sounds Fantasy Art as it is in popular books/media is not very free flowing. There are lots and lots of techniques, drafts, concepts, and to me that was stuff I had to learn from other people. When I began to express myself there was not a teacher in my life who could articulate perspective or the need to practice X, Y, Z artistic theories. Everything before I went to college I had without instruction, and that was probably the best creative period of my life. If the art was a lot like the the Fantasy Art I'm seeing in pictures here I made it with my own process, and now I can't very well go back to that process without wasting gobs and gobs of time. That annoys the learned artist in me.
Keycaps are a strange set of restrictions and nobody has been cruel or gracious enough to try and teach me anything about it outside of duplicating process. Some of the crafters and I exchange ideas, but that's the very limit of our relation as student/teacher. There days when presented with the challenges of a seemingly impossible request I'll choose not to tackle it and put it on the back burner. The more I get to go through the process the more improvements I can make to my set of standards. The purpose of this thread and poll are to help me take the energy from a bunch of people who see what I'm doing and see it improving and align myself as best as possible with a broad perspective.
I've got blinders on when I look at my work. I see every key design as part of a larger project while recently I realized they are all individual projects, and unfortunately for me and people interested in the art that is going to waste a lot of people's time before I get to where colleagues of mine have been able to take their vision. Unless I organize I can see myself just burning up with all of the variety my brain keeps churning out.
Any genres appealing to you lately?
Any genres appealing to you lately?
Pens. Is pens a genre? Let me write that down and nibble on the idea.
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Those chick legs on the keycap have serious curves. I see you like women how I like women. Nice bush.
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Ronan the accuser would be sick! Or any Kree like creatureShow Image(http://media.melty.fr/article-1714065-ajust_930-f1377272397/ronan-the-accuser-grand-mechant-de-gotg.jpg)
Don't you see the tiny feet? ;)
A "Zork"-themed keycap. It's an old text-based game, very retro. The letter 'Z', raised, made from stone bricks. If you could make the bricks opaque, and the rest of the keycap translucent, then it could be backlit.
animals moar lion keyng v3 ? maybe ? :-*
Would you ever consider making "landscapes"? I'm not sure how it would even work on a keycap, but something like a river or a mountain might be fun.
Would you ever consider making "landscapes"? I'm not sure how it would even work on a keycap, but something like a river or a mountain might be fun.
It sounds like you don't like fantasy/pop icons, and you do like animals. So obviously you are perfectly capable of finding a new and interesting animal and sculpting that, you don't need help there. Are you looking for alternate "genres" to get into (other than animals)? I'm honestly a bit confused what you're looking for here. :-*
Would you ever consider making "landscapes"? I'm not sure how it would even work on a keycap, but something like a river or a mountain might be fun.
It sounds like you don't like fantasy/pop icons, and you do like animals. So obviously you are perfectly capable of finding a new and interesting animal and sculpting that, you don't need help there. Are you looking for alternate "genres" to get into (other than animals)? I'm honestly a bit confused what you're looking for here. :-*
Would you ever consider making "landscapes"? I'm not sure how it would even work on a keycap, but something like a river or a mountain might be fun.
It sounds like you don't like fantasy/pop icons, and you do like animals. So obviously you are perfectly capable of finding a new and interesting animal and sculpting that, you don't need help there. Are you looking for alternate "genres" to get into (other than animals)? I'm honestly a bit confused what you're looking for here. :-*
The responses to the poll I posted are great! That's exactly the sort of broad direction I'm looking for from FANS. I'm looking for feedback from people who believe I could make something of quality from a broad genre.
Small descriptions of an interesting creature/monster/object and even encouragement to improve on projects I've already started was the original objective. I just find it odd that looking through the poll responses people are giving great answers. The very same people are using the thread to elaborate that broad spectrum creative juice into a creation that exists or that they have envisioned in their mind. That's not stuff I can use aside from going back to the root idea and taking it in a direction.
I feel as though this is self evident in the type of questions I'm asking, and I won't turn away ideas but I do not want people to get so.... deep. That's my job. I've got run into the shallow water in order to swim out into an ocean of creativity, and no amount of hyper-detailed concept art or references from other media sources will help me get there. Point me to water, ya I'll find it. Drop me in it and I'll have to swim out of it before I can ever do what I need to do with it.
... or if it's even something to make a keycap from. :P
Ran out of room for my comment, so I'll continue it here;
I think that making some really cool blanks would be super ****ing cool, but I don't just mean WASD/arrow clusters etc etc... I would love some proper sweet mod keys, like some special stepped caps lock where the step is a diff colour to the top, **** like that.
On/Off topic. I can definitely do some figures and have some interesting ideas in the work. Current cap owners. What parts about my caps other than the concept (squid/sloth/etc) do you NOT like? Are the finishes of the keys no good? Did you find one of my nose hairs? Do they smell bad?
Just trying to make stuff better for you all :)
What parts about my caps other than the concept (squid/sloth/etc) do you NOT like?
I'd like to see the departure from using a cap as the base and go full sculpture. Maybe a smaller platform but it would be cool to see you step away from cap + sculpture on top. More like your lumberjack cap perhaps.
...things that interest me that I'd like to see made into keycaps are landscapes (as mentioned before) and machinery.I really like the idea of keycaps that look like natural materials, I guess a faux finish of some sort... like a resin cap that looked like real hardwood w/woodgrain or bamboo or limestone or flagstone, something like that; kind of like what they can do with concrete. I also think a metal cap with engraving (like on a Holland & Holland) would be super dope.
What parts about my caps other than the concept (squid/sloth/etc) do you NOT like?
That I don't have enough. ^-^
Seriously though, this is a hard question. There aren't many "flaws", especially in your later work (some of the older caps had bowed walls when viewed from beneath, etc). I will inspect my caps later and try to give a better answer, but if there are improvements to be made I suspect you're aware of them. ;)
On/Off topic. I can definitely do some figures and have some interesting ideas in the work. Current cap owners. What parts about my caps other than the concept (squid/sloth/etc) do you NOT like? Are the finishes of the keys no good? Did you find one of my nose hairs? Do they smell bad?
Just trying to make stuff better for you all :)
I would love to see you take a stab at some Japanese folklore. I'm thinking Tengu, Oni, Dragons, Inugami, etc etc.
Here's some examples;Show Image(http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080802034927/megamitensei/images/8/84/TenguSMT.jpg)Show Image(http://thumb7.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/1007966/138659735/stock-vector-a-dragon-head-logo-this-is-vector-illustration-ideal-for-a-mascot-and-tattoo-or-t-shirt-graphic-138659735.jpg)Show Image(https://nohmask21.com/onimen/aka-ao/ao-oni1.jpg)
What do you think? :cool:
I would love to see you take a stab at some Japanese folklore. I'm thinking Tengu, Oni, Dragons, Inugami, etc etc.
Here's some examples;Show Image(http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080802034927/megamitensei/images/8/84/TenguSMT.jpg)Show Image(http://thumb7.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/1007966/138659735/stock-vector-a-dragon-head-logo-this-is-vector-illustration-ideal-for-a-mascot-and-tattoo-or-t-shirt-graphic-138659735.jpg)Show Image(https://nohmask21.com/onimen/aka-ao/ao-oni1.jpg)
What do you think? :cool:
I like your style man :) I'd love to remake one of my existing characters like this... Maybe a Teng-oot :3
If you need some inspiration for new key ideas then you might want to have a look at this
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Goetia-The-Lesser-Solomon-King/dp/087728847X/ref=pd_sim_b_27?ie=UTF8&refRID=16W20M4JCCW6JJPDYMZN (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Goetia-The-Lesser-Solomon-King/dp/087728847X/ref=pd_sim_b_27?ie=UTF8&refRID=16W20M4JCCW6JJPDYMZN)
as long as you don't mind looking at a book on magick. It depicts deamons that can be summoned. There are a few examples found via the links on this page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_demons_in_the_Ars_Goetia#Prince_Seere (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_demons_in_the_Ars_Goetia#Prince_Seere)
but don't blame me if something bad happens
If you need some inspiration for new key ideas then you might want to have a look at this
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Goetia-The-Lesser-Solomon-King/dp/087728847X/ref=pd_sim_b_27?ie=UTF8&refRID=16W20M4JCCW6JJPDYMZN (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Goetia-The-Lesser-Solomon-King/dp/087728847X/ref=pd_sim_b_27?ie=UTF8&refRID=16W20M4JCCW6JJPDYMZN)
as long as you don't mind looking at a book on magick. It depicts deamons that can be summoned. There are a few examples found via the links on this page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_demons_in_the_Ars_Goetia#Prince_Seere (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_demons_in_the_Ars_Goetia#Prince_Seere)
but don't blame me if something bad happens
As if my extensive collection of art by the Knights Templar and various cults wasn't enough :p
This thread isn't so much for inspiration as seeing if people are expecting something from me. I'd like to open it up to whatever, so if people want to suggest things like this I'm down to explore.
+1 for Cheshire Cat-inspired cap. Binge would be the perfect maker to produce them too.
+1 for Cheshire Cat-inspired cap. Binge would be the perfect maker to produce them too.
I second this. Love that cat. In topre please :thumb:
+1 for Cheshire Cat-inspired cap. Binge would be the perfect maker to produce them too.
I second this. Love that cat. In topre please :thumb:
Agreed
Just tried to form something too.MoreShow Image(http://abload.de/img/chesh2fux8.jpg)
(it's supposed to be the Cheshire Cat)
Would be cool to see Binges interpretation!
lion keyng with dreadlocks :-X
lion keyng with dreadlocks :-X
lion keyng with dreadlocks :-X
lion keyng with dreadlocks :-XShow Image(http://ddragon.leagueoflegends.com/cdn/img/champion/splash/Rengar_0.jpg)
lion keyng with dreadlocks :-XShow Image(http://ddragon.leagueoflegends.com/cdn/img/champion/splash/Rengar_0.jpg)
lion keyng with dreadlocks :-XShow Image(http://ddragon.leagueoflegends.com/cdn/img/champion/splash/Rengar_0.jpg)
Those are braids yo.
My collection of original sculpts grows every time I feel a design needs refinement.
Hey I'm STILL unhappy with what I'm producing, but I'd like to get an idea where people see my talent is put to the best use.
You won't be stopping me from creating what I want or force my hand to make something I don't want. It'd be nice to see some organized public opinion. With the options I've provided in the poll I feel you can ask for just about anything and then leave comments with your vote.
So I never see any of these for sale or trade. Definitely looking forward to getting a keythulu and an Orc! Looking great Binge!
Baller? YEAH!
This thread isn't so much for inspiration as seeing if people are expecting something from me. I'd like to open it up to whatever, so if people want to suggest things like this I'm down to explore.
I have a keycap by Nubbinator with gears inside of it actually.Show Image(http://i.imgur.com/z2TPoDy.jpg)