Thread: Draw Your Dreams

Hee, this thread is fun. I had an awesome, super vivid dream this morning, and there are a whole bunch of scenes from it that I want to draw. But since I'm a slow, easily distracted artist, I'll go ahead and post the first here X3


This is before the huge earth-whale flies out of the ocean and swallows the sun. I spent half the dream either flying or diving into the ocean. *happy sigh*

(Ah, but since it's always embarrassing drawing yourself, and also since I am (happily) lacking in the rear end department, this features a random convenient chickadee who only shares my hair color. ;D Well. Curves are fun to draw. So're sunsets over water!)

Originally Posted by Rokuni

Hee, this thread is fun. I had an awesome, super vivid dream this morning, and there are a whole bunch of scenes from it that I want to draw. But since I'm a slow, easily distracted artist, I'll go ahead and post the first here X3


This is before the huge earth-whale flies out of the ocean and swallows the sun. I spent half the dream either flying or diving into the ocean. *happy sigh*

(Ah, but since it's always embarrassing drawing yourself, and also since I am (happily) lacking in the rear end department, this features a random convenient chickadee who only shares my hair color. ;D Well. Curves are fun to draw. So're sunsets over water&#33
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That is an amazing picture! What did you use to draw it? It looks really professional and just overall... amazing! It makes me want to draw out my dreams like that, i'll have to try one day.

Lordy, that's good. Curvey too.

Rokuni, that picture is dope!

The way the sun reflects off of the water is incredible. Seriously. Well done.

Thank you, everyone~!

Originally Posted by invadergarf

That is an amazing picture! What did you use to draw it? It looks really professional and just overall... amazing! It makes me want to draw out my dreams like that, i'll have to try one day.
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*blush* Thanks! I used corel painter IX and my trusty tablet. Dreams will throw me the most interesting images/stories sometimes. I always want to draw them... but then I usually lose the image D:

frikkin awesome Rokuni

can't wait to see the earth-whale

heres my dream.

Originally Posted by xcrissxcrossx

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Um, you may want to include some sort of explanation for all the scribbling.

it has 2 meanings. the first is to show chaos in my dream, the next is to show that the world has a wierd aura surrounding it which takes the sight of multiple colors.

Orange Sky and Purple Clouds with Blue Mountains, myself, and Tourists, dream I had two nights ago (and no I was not a stick figure, I just cannot draw good).

I'll just call this one finished....enough.
(Though I'll probably add to it more, later on.)


Done in Blender 3D. Slight post-pro in Photoshop.

Journal Entry:
01/24/2006
"Fragged"

This dream was in Canterbury again, at G's house, but she wasn't there. T was with there and we were sitting around shooting the shit. After a while, I remember hearing something in one of the back rooms. The house was very small with a hollow floor, so every noise was always heard through the whole house, and we could tell, in the dream, that there was someone there with us.
I'm not quite sure where we had them hid, but we both pulled out large handguns, like Desert Eagles, and I threw in a magazine, cocking the slide back once. We opened the door and went in the room. For a room that is a modest size, in real life, this room seemed to stretch on into another house; a dark labyrinth of old wooden columns and floorboards that seemed more like a massive horror movie attic than the suburban duplex that it represented in waking life.
Slowly, we crept around the area, hearing subtle noises and knowing that there was something hidden among the shadows. We ascended a small flight of stairs (that didn't exist in the real house) and into another dark level, weapons still drawn. Passing an assortment of pipes and wooden beams that were, themselves, shrouded by the lack of light reaching our position, I heard a sound right beside me.
The second I turned to wheel my gun in that direction, the wall exploded out toward me, the electrical wiring connected to it breaking and strobing the, once-blackened, area with white hot sparks. I could see a bright red flash of metal towering in the chaotic light before me, a large robotic arm whirring as it instantly shot up in my direction. In what seemed like less than a second, a metallic tentacle had launched out of the end of the arm, encircled my body once or twice, and held me in place. My right arm raised, as did T's and we both started busting off rounds into the face (and I use that term loosely) of this huge f'kin robot that has me in the grip of one arm. It was all happening so fast that I have no problem admitting I was scared shitless.
The firing was short-lived, however, as the robot's head focused in on me. A number of bladed and spear-headed weapons rotated outward from behind the robot's back, all aimed ominously in my direction as my finger squeezed over and over on the trigger. I only had a good one or two seconds to process what was about to happen, staring death in the face in the form of about 3 robotic-arm saws and 2-3 other nasty-looking sci-fi weaponry. The arms lurched toward me simultaneously, and I was splattered beyond all identification, my perspective changing momentarily, into a disembodied view of my remains splashing all over the wall behind me, and hearing T screaming something, even though his words were muffled by the fading of my senses as everything faded to black.
Suddenly, I woke up on the wooden floor, hearing the sound of T shooting. Panicked, and wondering what the hell happened, I turned over on my back to hear what the hell the noise was. That robot was standing RIGHT OVER ME and starting to attack again. Jumping to my feet I rolled out of the way and stood up again. Terrified, after having just been crushed like a grapefruit, I panicked, stil having no clue what in the hell was going on. Having a bit of a breakdown, I sprinted for the stairs. T was right on my heels, calling after me and wondering what I was up with me. I didn't stop running until I was out of the house, and almost collapsed to my knees because I was freaking out. (I've never lost my mind to fear like that, before, dreaming or awake. It was a strange experience.)
He was trying to calm me down, and I can just remember shouting something like "oh my god I fuckin Died! I just Died! What the hell is going on?!" Bear in mind that we were standing in the middle of my neighborhood at dusk waving guns around and I'm losing it.
T said something like "It's alright, man. You can just resurrect wherever you are. No need to freak out."
I stopped for a moment and was like. "....huh?" (Well if This wouldn't have been a good time to realize I was dreaming oh well.)
I didn't even have time to focus on his words. There was a loud noise seeming to rise from all directions at once. A sound, subtle at first, like a jet engine or something. "Is that...a plane?" T asked. We searched the sky and found nothing. Our eyes were then drawn to the house just as the side door flew open.
We didn't even wait for anything to come out of the house, breaking into a synchronized sprint as soon as we saw the door open. Rounding the side of the house, we took up hiding places in the open carports of the two houses next to each other, behind the house we were originally in and took aim at the corner of the building, waiting for this big ass robot to come 'round the corner. Instead, it was an 11 year old boy name Brian that used to live in the neighborhood.

In short, he came around the corner and we walked out to meet him, glad as hell that it was him and not the robot thing. He wondered why we had guns and told us that everyone was still waiting for us, inside. Going back around the house, we lookd in the window and saw all our friends sitting on the couches watching tv and waiting for us to come in. >.> Weird, embarassing, shit.

I also remember a false awakening where I woke up in a mix between G's room and my own and I still had the gun from the first dream under my pillow. After lying in bed and playing with the weapon for a while, I woke up for real.

Okay okay, this isn't a drawing, but... uh, I'm claiming artistic license. LOL.

I've got the dreams to go with it in my dream journal, just wanted to post the images here, hope that's okay?? :-) Enjoy!

that robot DOES look nasty!
(i love the "false awakening" collage-thing, and the cats too)

Originally Posted by JenWoodhouse

[size=1][font=Verdana]Okay okay, this isn't a drawing, but... uh, I'm claiming artistic license. LOL.

I've got the dreams to go with it in my dream journal, just wanted to post the images here, hope that's okay?? :-) Enjoy!
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Those images are very cool! Congratulations on your great talent! Even though it's not technically a drawing, I think it still counts here, lol.

Ugh, I wish I could draw last night's dream. The two parts I would want to draw involved Superman (from the new movie) and at one point he's fighting these "vampires" (that's just the word that was used) who were basically made up of sand, but looked like there were hoods and mouths and it was pretty cool. The second one was of him fighting these two people who had been turned into stone creatures... which are kind of hard to describe.

Someday.

Ok, this isn't handrawn or anything. Believe it or not my drawing skills are even worse than what I can do on a pc!

This is a fairly inaccurate drawing and doesn't do such a good job of representing the dream that I had, but it was the best I could (be bothered to) do. Basically there were infinate moons getting smaller and smaller as they went into the distance (I couldn't really do that on Flash mx&#33, like when you put two mirrors opposite each other, and there were loads of animals all over the grass - weird made up ones which I couldn't draw or even remember properly. I'll probably update my DJ on this site soon so that there will be a more accurate discription. It was an LD where I spent the whole time just exploring the landscape without doing anything too interesting. There were also a lot more rocks, but I couldn't fit many more in once I had started on the small stage area.

that's cool bob

I have dreams alot where there are alot of planets and moons up clsose in the sky like that, but I was never lucid when I dreamt it

what program did you use to make that by the way? it looks really cool

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

that's cool bob

I have dreams alot where there are alot of planets and moons up clsose in the sky like that, but I was never lucid when I dreamt it

what program did you use to make that by the way? it looks really cool
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Thanks Ophelia. I used Flash mx 2004. It's good for drawing as well as animating - for beginners who can't use photoshop anyway!

Originally Posted by badassbob

Thanks Ophelia. I used Flash mx 2004. It's good for drawing as well as animating - for beginners who can't use photoshop anyway!
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Hey!!! I can't use photoshop!

I think I'll look into that, thanks

That's tight, Bob. I like the subtle shading on the trees, grass and clouds.

Keep 'em comin.

Btw, niiice new avatar, Ophie.

Here's a little tribute to a dream I had, me and Joker together. Sketched it out a couple of nights ago just to see if I still got it.

It's kind of rough as it was a hurried job. And it's slightly out of proportion and missing some elements but hey, it was 1am when I did it. Don't know what else to do with it so I'll post it here.

^^ WOW - that's really cool, Vex!

Thats great :bravo:

Originally Posted by Vex

It's kind of rough as it was a hurried job. And it's slightly out of proportion and missing some elements but hey, it was 1am when I did it.
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Thats great for 1am, I'd like to see your drawings when your more awake .

Niiiiiiiiiice job, Vex.

Very impressive.