Thread: Draw Your Dreams

wow astral entities, thats great work.

I'm trying out a new technique, so I can start doing more dream scenes. According to post #10, in that thread:

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

I added some images to the OP. I had a bit of an idea that I'm going to start trying out: Instead of taking the time to draw or render scenes from my dreams, from scratch, I'm going to do some photo manipulations in PS. It's a lot more true to my original visions than just choosing standard pics off the net, and it's a lot less time consuming than drawing the scenes myself. The good thing is, though, that I can position objects and people in ways that are more close to how I actually see them, in the dream. Let me know what you all think!

I figure the artsy filters on them will let me worry less about the super-impositions looking "fake" because they look more drawn or painted in than photo-realistic. I'll still be tweaking the individual components of the pics, as much as I can, so by the time I apply the filter, they'll look as well-related as possible. hopefully, this way, I can start cranking out more depictions of my dreams.

01/11/2008 - "Prophetic"

When I have time, though, I'll still try to do some single-image shots, from scractch, either in pencil, PS, or Blender.

Those look great. I especially like how you were able to unify each image with its own mood using surface texture. I've always liked the collage/ surrealist type look that happens when you start cutting and pasting pieces into an image that have different lighting and perspectives. I think it is very appropriate to represent a dream. It adds that disorienting, disturbing feel of, "Something is not quite right." You did an awesome job of keeping it subtle and unified, so the environments read.

I can't wait to see where this goes

Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

Those look great. I especially like how you were able to unify each image with its own mood using surface texture. I've always liked the collage/ surrealist type look that happens when you start cutting and pasting pieces into an image that have different lighting and perspectives. I think it is very appropriate to represent a dream. It adds that disorienting, disturbing feel of, "Something is not quite right." You did an awesome job of keeping it subtle and unified, so the environments read.

I can't wait to see where this goes

Thanks, RB!

And what I kind of stumbled upon was erasing some of the filter from around key points in the images, to make them stick out a bit more. Like the face and shoulders of the robot, and the soldiers standing up in the Jeep. I'll use that more often to make some of the focal points of the scene stand out. I still try to keep it as subtle as possible, though.

I don't want to turn this into a photoshop techniques thread, but I have a million tips I would love to discuss. Should we start a "How to draw your dreams" thread?

Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

I don't want to turn this into a photoshop techniques thread, but I have a million tips I would love to discuss. Should we start a "How to draw your dreams" thread?

Done.

http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...22#post1038422

Went back and added some pictures to one of my favorite lucids of '07.

01/25/2007 - "Invincible"

Finally got this picture finished. It looks better in real life, but oh well.

Looks good. No background on the dream, itself?

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

Looks good. No background on the dream, itself?

Oh, it isn't about any particular dream. I just like flying in dreams, and one day had the impulse to draw something like this. Every three weeks I'd add another street (you can see the difference between the different times), and eventually I finally considered it "done."

Is that a plane, there near the middle? It's a nice touch.

Just did some pics for my very first (and probably my favorite) lucid epic since joining DV.

10/19/2005 - "Epic Lucid Dream"

Fixed the link, above. It was only linking to the first post in my journal, and not to the post with the pictures. It's all good now, though.

Wow Oneironaut, those pics are pretty cool.

I scanned a bit of my old DJ

Spoiler for 2000px pic:

Heh, oldschool

Shift grammar good.

A dream fragment right before I woke up. Masses of people in a vortex, like floating in space. I was not in the vortex itself.

The words on the right are the keywords I wrote down right after waking up.

i love drawing my dreams
theyre allllllllll here cutie pies

http://cl0ckradi0.deviantart.com/gallery/#Inked-dreams

Spoiler for My dream painting!!!:

Thats a cool picture Yellowlight. I don't know if this is what you were aiming for, but it really reminds me of a blistering hot summer day. Awesome.

Great work, yellowlight!

Thanks guys!

Originally Posted by mongreloctopus

unexpected violence from my fearless cooncat that i cold-heartedly left behind in america..

the post that turned this into a professionals only thread.

wow!! omg yellowlight!!! it looks like a photo, no joke. im having a hard time believing its a painting.