The Dark Knight Rises The Official TDKR Fanart & Manips Thread

[Doctor Who]

Dear GOD!

*ponders about posting another popular 80's video to see if a Nicholas Cage freakout comes up as a response*

 

[TheBatman072]

*ponders about posting another popular 80's video to see if a Nicholas Cage freakout comes up as a response*

Jesus, WHICH Nic Cage freakout? There's like 200.

 

[Doctor Who]

Jesus, WHICH Nic Cage freakout? There's like 200.

I dunno; I always wished he would be the one to teach me the alphabet though. LOL

[YT]68BjP5f0ccE[/YT]

Okay, I'm done; back to art, people.

 

[.:TheDarkKnight]

Guys, I hate to be *that guy*, but could you stay on topic? I'm not trying to play moderator, it's just kind of frustrating. "fire_rising" probably spent a few minutes writing up that post and it's going to be a huge help to people that are looking to create some fanart. I'm going to quote it again as well.

What I've found to be annoying as hell is trying to find the right pose for batman. Problem is, most of the good ones are low res. Surprisingly, I've found the best promo shots on SHH forums

Batman Poses

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http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=348643
http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/3078/dkcscb0041.jpg
http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/6458/dkcscb0055.jpg
http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/7056/dkcscb0059.jpg
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/8581/dkcscb0056.jpg
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/8581/dkcscb0056.jpg
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/7793/dkcscb0064.jpg
http://img229.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=48397_tdn07_122_480lo.jpg#
http://img203.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=48409_tdn13_122_363lo.jpg
http://img203.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=48409_tdn13_122_363lo.jpg
http://img194.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=48568_tdn16_122_15lo.jpg

Joker Poses

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http://img128.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=48403_tdn12_122_620lo.jpg
http://img34.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=48563_tdn15_122_659lo.jpg
http://img215.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=48579_tdn17_122_502lo.jpg
http://img179.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=48580_tdn18_122_47lo.jpg

Now that you have main characters out of the way, you'll need high res pictures of other characters or more angled shots. To do this, visit libraries like these.

Dark Knight High Res Shots

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http://strackattack.com/random_files/pictures/Randoms/The Dark Knight Batman Hi Res/

Since The Dark Knight was filmed in Chicago, you'll need some shots of the skyline to show some Gotham.

Gotham Shots

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http://www.eugenef.com/free-digital-photography/images/06 - Aerial Wallpaper/Chicago Skyline.xl.jpg
http://rwrant.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/ChicagoSkyline.jpg
http://raisdorf-inside.de/images/onlinefotos/Bauwerke/fotos_bauwerke/Chicago.JPG
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Chicago_-_skyline.JPG

Now go on google and get some nice high res stock photos of...anything. As long as its free to use, I get photos of clouds, cameras, sparks, fires, explosions, animals, storms, monitors, and wires and blend them into my graphic.

As far as making your poster feel more "authentic", it's always good to either leave it completely untouched as a whole, or add in layers of textures. For example, I used this texture over my second poster to give it a "grittier" feel.

http://mayang.com/textures/Manmade/images/Paper/crumpled_paper_273117.JPG

Put textures in your graphic as a separate layer and set it to "overlay", "soft light", or another blending mode. Honestly, this is a big reason as to how my graphics come together.

When it comes down to it, though, it's all about how you blend them together. When dealing with photo manipulation or cutting out character from an image, I always use the principle of "less is more". It's fine to leave some edges in...I'm very messy with mine. Use a fairly large soft round-headed brush and gently erase around the figure. You can use the bracket keys ([ and ]) to increase or decrease brush size easily. Also, still using this brush, use the clone stamp to put characters in. Works great.

I use blending modes in photoshop to their full potential. I frequently use Difference, Overlay, Soft Light, Multiply, Dark Light, and Screen depending on what layer I'm working on.

Once you have your image blended and set, make a new layer and go to IMAGE-APPLY IMAGE. Then work on the colors, levels, shadows, brightness and contrast, etc to make everything look more unified. As I said before, most of my stuff looks like complete crap until I actually unify everything through contrast and color.

And a little bit of film grain always helps.

For me, I ALWAYS do my text last, as it needs to fit the graphic and the graphic constantly changes.

Of course, there are a bunch of tutorials online and if you need any specific help, just reply through here or through PM. I'd be glad to help.

 

[TheBatman072]

Guys, I hate to be *that guy*, but could you stay on topic? I'm not trying to play moderator, it's just kind of frustrating. "fire_rising" probably spent a few minutes writing up that post and it's going to be a huge help to people that are looking to create some fanart. I'm going to quote it again as well.

How'd it get burned?!

 

[fire_rising]

Guys, I hate to be *that guy*, but could you stay on topic? I'm not trying to play moderator, it's just kind of frustrating. "fire_rising" probably spent a few minutes writing up that post and it's going to be a huge help to people that are looking to create some fanart. I'm going to quote it again as well.

Thanks man. Hopefully people find it useful when they make posters. t:

 

[.:TheDarkKnight]

Saw what happened with the other poster, so I'm not taking any chances (watermarked).

 

[Doctor Who]

Compliments to LaurieGoodridge for this awesome Bane piece.

http://browse.deviantart.com/?order=11&q=bane#/d3kqcnp

 

[Yurka]

Oh damn thats pretty cool. The tubes in the back are a little extreme but overall it looks awesome

 

[EliteF50]

Damn, I hate when fan art/manips make Bane look like comic book Bane. It gets my hopes up, but I know he won't look like that in TDKR.

 

[Indy Flash]

Great stuff in here

 

[Indy Flash]

Saw what happened with the other poster, so I'm not taking any chances (watermarked).

Very nice

 

[Indy Flash]

Wow, nice catch.

I remember that.

 

[TheBatman072]

Saw what happened with the other poster, so I'm not taking any chances (watermarked).

In Batman growl: "Scotty! One to beam up!"

 

[ultimatefan]

Compliments to LaurieGoodridge for this awesome Bane piece.

http://browse.deviantart.com/?order=11&q=bane#/d3kqcnp

Very cool.

 

[Indy Flash]

Compliments to LaurieGoodridge for this awesome Bane piece.

http://browse.deviantart.com/?order=11&q=bane#/d3kqcnp

very cool.

 

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

That Bane piece is so friggin badass, that is my favorite Bane fan art piece I've seen so far aside from DK7's. It's really too bad that Hardy is alot smaller than that.

 

[DeFett]

Wow, nice catch.

Good times!

That Bane artwork is awesome, good work!!

 

[Indy Flash]

Good times!

That Bane artwork is awesome, good work!!

Ah memories

 

[Indy Flash]

Something simple

 

[.:TheDarkKnight]

 

[agustin09]

Ok, I was inspired by Shokxone-studios http://shokxone-studios.deviantart.com/

So, well, this is the result! I hope you like it!!

 

[Indy Flash]

Ok, I was inspired by Shokxone-studios http://shokxone-studios.deviantart.com/

So, well, this is the result! I hope you like it!!

I love it

 

[The_Raganork]

I am in no way any kind of graphic artist, in fact paint (the program I made these on) confuses the hell out of me.

These aren't a representation of Talent as I have none but, more of an insight to what I think conceptually would be nice to see from some teaser posters that may reflect the film's tone.

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I wanted one for Bane but, couldn't find a picture of the mask alone to represent him.

Alternatively I envision a "Who are you?" campaign with Headshots of Wayne, Kyle and Bane with half their faces masked and the other half unmasked.

 

[Marx]

I actually like the Bane manip above.