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At 9/23/14 07:38 PM, TheCoachBrew wrote: Sup guys, looking for some bitchen art/writing critique for this webcomic of mine,

Which can be browsed here in its entirety here Here but I'll post some of the strips for your easy viewing. Tell me what you think and don't be afraid to go hard with your criticism.

This comic made me kinda annoyed. Not only is it extremely ignorant and dismissive, there's also no joke in it whatsoever. It's just crowd pleasing bullshit and the crowd you're pleasing is bad people.

At 7/21/14 01:42 AM, theclassybutler wrote: I see... Well, again, this was more of an experiment than anything. I'll keep that in mind next time I do something like this. I simply wanted to experiment with different colored light sources and so on.

If there's supposed to be more than one light source, what's the light source other the moon?

Here's a good source of fashion inspiration:

http://lookbook.nu/

When I opened this thread, I legitimately thought it was going to be Hot Wheels made out of paper.

At 7/14/14 01:19 PM, Chronamut wrote: Think of being able to walk around outside with a lightbox in your hands, and it is lit.

When would you ever want to do this?

At 7/12/14 10:49 AM, Chronamut wrote:

At 7/12/14 10:30 AM, Aigis wrote: Don't be frustrated that your Kickstarter isn't making as much as that one. The only reason the Coolest Cooler is making money is that it's actually worthwhile.

you're a jerk.

Okay, I apologise for being so curt. I'll explain to you a few of the issues with your Kickstarter and why it might not get funded.

1. Your goal is to have these light boxes in corporate meeting rooms. You're asking for funding for your grand goal of selling art to corporations to put in their meeting rooms so their dumb corporate managers can have something to look at while they fall asleep in their dumb corporate meetings.

There's no public benefit. There's no great goal the Kickstarter's working towards. You're not putting these somewhere everyone can see them. You're not making the products accessible to people. There's no reason to want to back this project, other than to receive your rewards.

2. Your rewards kind of suck. You severely overvalue low resolution files of your fractal images.

For comparison, let's look at this currently running art-related Kickstarter. For the value of 4 background images in your Kickstarter, I could get that guy's hardback art book with 180 pages of nice-looking high quality illustrations on paper. Then I could scan them in to make background images if I felt like it.

3. You don't treat your potential backers with respect. Your constant emphasis that backers don't actually own the images you're sending them is you preemptively treating them like thieves.

4. The illustrations in your video look like they were drawn by a 15 year old. They do not reflect well on the artistic value of the fractals you're actually trying to fund.

At 7/12/14 09:51 AM, Chronamut wrote: and yes so far the patience part is kiling me.. no pledges as of yet, which is discouraging, because project such as THIS one are already cresting 3 million dollars.. so people clearly have money, they are just choosey where they dump it it seems. It makes me a little frustrated..

Don't be frustrated that your Kickstarter isn't making as much as that one. The only reason the Coolest Cooler is making money is that it's actually worthwhile.

At 7/11/14 11:18 PM, RemminyCricket wrote: The armor is a metaphor for filling the shoes of his dad.

Will he eventually get his own armour, having realised that it's not his dad's shoes he needs to fill, but his own?

I'd like to bring this thread back.

At 7/6/14 11:23 PM, M-Maher wrote: but you can patent ideas.

No you can't. You can patent inventions.

anyway, if it looks too close to the origional then yes it's copyright infringement, simple as, though you're covered under fair use laws if you're not selling the materials

Please actually learn about fair use before giving advice about it. This isn't true. It's still copyright infringement.

At 7/6/14 11:29 PM, AlwaysFlexin wrote: However, I'm guessing that I AM allowed to post it on a blog or something as long as I'm not selling my art, correct?

No.

At 7/6/14 09:34 PM, Lintire wrote: You can't copyright ideas. Don't sweat it.

This isn't copying an idea, this is copying the expression of an idea. You can copyright the expression of an idea.

The test is whether the work you've created is 'substantially similar' to the copyrighted work. It doesn't matter if you haven't copied the image exactly if your image is substantially similar. It's a vague test, but you can use common sense to apply it. If you can call what you're doing 'copying' then you're probably infringing on copyright.

What you have posted would fall under copyright infringement.

I'm a couple of hours late with this, sorry about that.

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Long thought lost to the deep, former racer Silas Finch miraculously survived the sinking of the S.S. Illustria, having washed up on a deserted island in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle. Living by his wits, muscles, and a large dinosaur bone for the last twenty years, Silas kept himself sane through his devotion to God, and a small-scale racing league he started with the local hyper-intelligent fauna.

He just wants to get off this god damned island.

At 6/11/14 08:05 AM, XxMechaTechXx62 wrote: please don't just say "practice" actually give me criticism and tell me what I need to improve on

The thing is, since there's nothing especially good about your work, you need to improve on everything. If I was going to list every specific thing you need to work on, I'd just be listing every single element of art.

You can ask for specific criticism on pictures, but if you're asking for how to improve in general, the answer IS just to practice every single thing. Learn anatomy. Draw from life. Do studies on specific elements of the body until you're confident drawing them in any pose. Etc. Etc. Etc.

When the level of detail obscures the silhouette.

At 6/10/14 07:16 AM, LegolaSS wrote:

At 6/10/14 06:24 AM, BazookaBonsai wrote: Maybe we can do it like tributes to other artists that participate here by creating a short comic about a character made by them, to bring in a bit a collaboration (which was quiet awesome the first time).

Just look how popular the fighting game character week was, i really enjoyed looking what other people did. trying to get artists to communicate to team up hasn't worked in the past very well. where as using last weeks drawings as fuel for the current week challenge allows people to team up without ever talking to each other.

So you could do 'design a character' one week, and then the next week 'create a short comic about one of the characters someone made last week'?

At 6/10/14 01:55 AM, Template88 wrote: Any suggestions for future weeklies?

Do another one about comics. And then do every one after that about comics too.

I should really do these challenges more often. This was quite fun. I did a bunch of sketches based on suggestions from people on the NG Art Tinychat.

Here's a higher resolution image.

At 6/1/14 08:18 AM, Luciuspain wrote: And here is the hallway

Why is there a fireplace in the hallway?

At 5/31/14 07:40 PM, ProjectAwesomes wrote: And will it effect my work that much varying from bamboo series to intuos?

There was a pretty decent jump in line control from when I moved from Bamboo to Intuos for me, but I'd been using the Bamboo for a little while and was pretty used to tablets at that point. I'm not sure it'd make much difference for a person just starting out.

At 5/24/14 09:52 PM, DavusLuna wrote: Okay, so I've trawled the internet for tutorials on how to draw hands and feet manga-style, but even with a bit of practice, I don't feel like I'm making any progress. Do any of you have any tips on how to draw hands and/or feet?

Yeah. Look at hands and feet and draw them.

I assume you have two of each, use them as references.

At 5/15/14 02:33 AM, theclassybutler wrote: For shits and giggles. And because I love Kaneko Kazuma's art style. That, and I am a HUGE Megaten nut.

Doesn't really look any different from your usual stuff.

At 5/14/14 06:43 PM, theclassybutler wrote: See? No problems whatsoever uploading this pic! What gives, Newgrounds uploader? And, here's the best part: It was at 400 dpi! I wonder why it decided NOW to work?

I assume you saying it was 400 dpi means that it was a very high resolution. When you upload something that is more than 720 pixels wide or 700 pixels tall, Newgrounds resizes your picture and tends to lower the quality a lot to lower the filesize. That is probably the reason.

I think instead of trying to define this character by her outfit you should spend some more time trying to work on her general head and face, which is very bland and generic in all of those designs, sharp teeth notwithstanding. They all lack personality.

Lucky for you, sucking at something is the first step towards being sorta good at something.

This is like a kid asking if he grew taller last night.

I missed a couple of days.

At 4/10/14 04:56 PM, ZoMBieFRogTeacher wrote: The male chick will be ground alive and are turned in to chicken nuggets.

How much meat is there on a baby chick? Like, one chicken nugget's worth? Wouldn't it be largely bones and beaks and stuff in the chicken nugget meat?

This is a thing.