May Challenge - BLACK, WHITE AND SHADES OF GRAY

tresamie ( ) posted Thu, 07 May 2009 at 10:46 PM · edited Fri, 29 November 2024 at 9:28 AM

Hi All!

It's Challenge Time again! Here is a snip from geoegress' note to me:

"how about a "Black and White" It is an under used artistic technique that produces some really great pictures. (B&W, grey scale, sketch render, it's what I mean) "

I always like this kind of topic! The challenge is for everyone, regardless of their creative tools. Everyone can enter, whether they are using 2D, 3D, fractal, animation or any other software; whether they are photographers, writers or even musicians. The challenge arena is open to all. Come and join in, test your creative tools against all the others!

The Challenge begins immediately and will close to entries at the end of May. I will give you a few days notice. All entries will be to this thread or with a link to a larger image. Voting will begin then in the same thread.

You may enter an existing work if you like, but we would prefer to see a new work created for this challenge... it IS a challenge after all, lol! You may enter more than one work, but remember that in the voting, each entry will be judged separately. If you choose to enter more than once, please NAME EACH OF YOUR ENTRIES!

Show us your inspiration!!

~Viv

Fractals will always amaze me!

melikia ( ) posted Thu, 07 May 2009 at 11:16 PM

EXCELLENT topic... should be great fun!

Rarer than a hairy egg and madder than a box of frogs....

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geoegress ( ) posted Fri, 08 May 2009 at 7:21 PM

This will be fun , :P :D

geoegress ( ) posted Sat, 09 May 2009 at 6:50 PM

Classic 1940's style pinup

:) off to add a bigger size to my gallery :)

tresamie ( ) posted Mon, 11 May 2009 at 10:23 PM

Great way to kick this off!

~Viv

Fractals will always amaze me!

Dave-So ( ) posted Sun, 17 May 2009 at 9:38 AM

Thanks geoegress, for pointing me to this challenge. I just posted a bw portrait which was created in Poser with a bit of PSP work...here it is for the contest. [ http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1883742](http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1883742) and a smaller version for the thread:

I've been doing more and more in black and white. I think it brings in emotion and drama.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together.
All things connect......Chief Seattle, 1854

Dave-So ( ) posted Sun, 17 May 2009 at 9:50 AM

here's another that I completed last night. might as well put it in here :)

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together.
All things connect......Chief Seattle, 1854

arlivre ( ) posted Sun, 17 May 2009 at 10:33 AM · edited Sun, 17 May 2009 at 10:35 AM

Super entries so far

Here is mine called "Flying Boat". It´s a seaplane of my own design, modelled in Rhino, then inserted in Bryce, finally converted to BW in Paint.NET

Regards to all from Portugal

koosievantutte ( ) posted Sun, 17 May 2009 at 10:36 AM

very fine entries!

"The light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming train"

Dave-So ( ) posted Sun, 17 May 2009 at 10:39 AM

forgot about the name, and now I can't edit ...
the top one is Eniletac in Black and White
Second is Bianca in BW

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together.
All things connect......Chief Seattle, 1854

geoegress ( ) posted Sun, 17 May 2009 at 5:12 PM

Excellent posts :)

three_grrr ( ) posted Mon, 18 May 2009 at 12:21 PM · edited Mon, 18 May 2009 at 5:12 PM

Very cool posts, love the bi-plane in the water! I think that's what it's called anyway.

Savage_dragon ( ) posted Thu, 21 May 2009 at 7:14 PM · edited Thu, 21 May 2009 at 8:34 PM

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1886655

Great idea! Here's mine with a link to the larger view. http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1886655

I'm Getting old.
My wings are cold.
I think I'll go sit on the sun.
Savage Dragon
"Chronicles of the Dragon Queen"

bclaytonphoto ( ) posted Thu, 21 May 2009 at 7:57 PM

actually, I do a lot of black and white/monochrome

www.bclaytonphoto.com

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bclaytonphoto ( ) posted Thu, 21 May 2009 at 7:58 PM

and one more

www.bclaytonphoto.com

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RodsArt ( ) posted Thu, 21 May 2009 at 8:40 PM

grayscale light work

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Ockham's razor- It's that simple

ArtPearl ( ) posted Thu, 21 May 2009 at 9:27 PM · edited Thu, 21 May 2009 at 9:39 PM

Attached Link: Triumph at Twilight

This image was generated using Vue. It had very little color in it so I thought I'll try and see how it looks in pure b&w. (I made several watercolor paintings too of this theme, you can see those too in my gallery, links in th e b&w image)

"I paint that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence."
Man Ray, modernist painter
http://artpearl.redbubble.com/

babuci ( ) posted Thu, 21 May 2009 at 10:06 PM

Wonderful entries...here is mine.

seeyus Tunde

dhama ( ) posted Fri, 22 May 2009 at 12:48 AM

Monochrome days. Bryce with volumetric clouds.

nazul ( ) posted Fri, 22 May 2009 at 2:23 AM

B/W Waterdrop

helanker ( ) posted Fri, 22 May 2009 at 3:48 AM

Blackcurrant field in the morning.

helanker ( ) posted Fri, 22 May 2009 at 3:53 AM

Family on Stone Fence

Cyba_Storm ( ) posted Fri, 22 May 2009 at 4:03 AM

Sweet Image Nazul. Bryce doing what it does best???

nazul ( ) posted Fri, 22 May 2009 at 4:39 AM

Cyba_storm - Exactly :-)

Katanas ( ) posted Fri, 22 May 2009 at 4:43 AM

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Hel is the ruler of Helheim, the realm of the dead. The monstrous daughter of the trickster god Loki and his wife Angrboda. She is the youngest child and is usually described as a horrible hag, half alive and half dead, with a gloomy and grim expression.

Hel - ruler of the realm of the dead.

TomDart ( ) posted Fri, 22 May 2009 at 7:08 AM

Memorial Rose

I have a few shots from this very old rose bush...

dhama ( ) posted Fri, 22 May 2009 at 7:25 AM

Quote - Sweet Image Nazul. Bryce doing what it does best???

Actually Bryce is capable of extremes...

helanker ( ) posted Fri, 22 May 2009 at 8:08 AM

Am I the only one who cannot see Katanas image?

nazul ( ) posted Fri, 22 May 2009 at 8:15 AM

Helanker - nope!!

helanker ( ) posted Fri, 22 May 2009 at 8:19 AM

Thanks Nazul. Atleast I know now :-)

koosievantutte ( ) posted Fri, 22 May 2009 at 8:41 AM

i can't either

"The light at the end of the tunnel may be an oncoming train"

Katanas ( ) posted Fri, 22 May 2009 at 8:53 AM · edited Fri, 22 May 2009 at 9:03 AM

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Don't understand why my image is missing, so here it is again....

helanker ( ) posted Fri, 22 May 2009 at 9:01 AM

YAY Now i see it . Very nice :)

Digital_Mischief ( ) posted Fri, 22 May 2009 at 9:03 AM · edited Fri, 22 May 2009 at 9:04 AM

Some nice B&W here. **

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Images that run around in my head eventually end up in my gallery.

Dragons like to have fun too! Dragon Mischief Art

Katanas ( ) posted Fri, 22 May 2009 at 9:12 AM

Sorry about the mix up with my image, must be the settings at my site, so I have added it as an attachment here..

Will check back later to see if it is still showing.

waldomac ( ) posted Fri, 22 May 2009 at 1:09 PM

OK, here's mine. A tribute to retro stuff everywhere. :)

Savage_dragon ( ) posted Fri, 22 May 2009 at 2:35 PM

Glad you fixed it Katanas. Sweet work! ")

I'm Getting old.
My wings are cold.
I think I'll go sit on the sun.
Savage Dragon
"Chronicles of the Dragon Queen"

Digital_Mischief ( ) posted Fri, 22 May 2009 at 2:49 PM · edited Fri, 22 May 2009 at 2:49 PM

I always felt B&W was a very difficult media, so I rarely do it. Still thought I'd give it a try using V4 and using filters from a plug in called *Virtual Photographer*. I tried various filters and liked this look the best.

Title: Remembering

Images that run around in my head eventually end up in my gallery.

Dragons like to have fun too! Dragon Mischief Art

tresamie ( ) posted Fri, 22 May 2009 at 2:51 PM

Wow! There are seriously striking images here! This is really going to be a hard one to judge.

~Viv

Fractals will always amaze me!

mcw1917 ( ) posted Fri, 22 May 2009 at 3:33 PM

Here's a horse of a different color.... or, um, flowers, actually. Created entirely in Vue; tweaked ever-so-slightly in PhotoShop. Unfortunately, the small size doesn't let you see the textures, which are, in my mind, what makes the arrangement worth looking at! ;-)

TomDart ( ) posted Fri, 22 May 2009 at 5:26 PM

All I get is the rex x box, no image.

SRAM ( ) posted Fri, 22 May 2009 at 5:32 PM

heres my entry cheer

Work It Harder. Make It Better. Do It Faster, Makes Us stronger. More than ever, hour after hour. Our work is never over. - Daft Punk

TomDart ( ) posted Fri, 22 May 2009 at 6:02 PM

Those are not comfortable. I would sleep somewhere else.

Inland-Artist ( ) posted Fri, 22 May 2009 at 7:17 PM · edited Fri, 22 May 2009 at 7:24 PM

Title: Birth Right.

I think Black and white is great personally. Color can be over rated :P

I like space, so I made 3 versions for this.

There's a forum version which is attached here.

A off site version (1280 by 720 JPEG) - CLICK HERE!

As well I have a colored version (I hope it's okay) on my gallery, but I won't link it.

The image is supposed to relay a kind of message. More that Earth is our planet, we are here, born on it, etc.

It relies on us as much as we rely on it.

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."

phil01 ( ) posted Sat, 23 May 2009 at 12:11 AM

Hello everybody, on this modelisation, only one works on métablobs I hope that you will appreciate friendly ***** Phil01

Katanas ( ) posted Sat, 23 May 2009 at 12:26 AM

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Hel #2

This time she was caught devouring a corpse....

cigany2 ( ) posted Sat, 23 May 2009 at 4:41 AM

This is one of my old FE fractals, from some years ago. Kati

ThunderStone ( ) posted Sat, 23 May 2009 at 7:25 AM

My piece is entitled "The Jazz Singer" . It's a B&W working of my older work "The Blues Singer".

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Bryce: Bryce Pro 7.1.074
Image Editing: Corel Paintshop Pro
Renderer: Superfly, Firefly

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geoegress ( ) posted Sat, 23 May 2009 at 5:44 PM

lol- you guys arn't makeing it any easier to vote- lol :)

phil01 ( ) posted Sun, 24 May 2009 at 4:50 PM

Suite ARCANGE

Digital_Mischief ( ) posted Sun, 24 May 2009 at 7:42 PM · edited Sun, 24 May 2009 at 7:42 PM

It seems dragons are under represented, so here's a try.

Images that run around in my head eventually end up in my gallery.

Dragons like to have fun too! Dragon Mischief Art

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