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At 1/28/13 12:21 AM, Fatelogic wrote: The VN called "Tsukihime" is a nice example of that. Almost no budged, but genious content... I'm looking for people who can understand that.

Tsukihime was sold though. This is a free game you're describing. There's not even the opportunity to make money once it's released.

At 1/24/13 10:01 AM, lovingthedark wrote: Speaking as a girl, amazing drawings definitely raise my opinion of a fellow, but if I didn't find him otherwise intelligent/attractive/sensible/good natured that wouldn't be enough to get him laid.

I'm so sensible I look both ways before crossing the street, ladies.

At 1/24/13 04:58 PM, big-jonny-13 wrote:

At 1/24/13 04:50 PM, Aigis wrote: People like him should really learn that you don't have to go the whole nine yards.

People like him probably can't count to nine

He has a PhD in economics.

At 1/24/13 01:46 PM, Spags wrote: Some guy in New Zealand wants to ban cats nationwide. I think that's awesome. You kiwi NG folk should be proud of your country.

I saw him on the news and he was saying something like "cats should be forced to wear bells, because it's been proven that that reduces their killing of native birds by up to 50%", and I thought "that sounds reasonable. Bells aren't such a hassle for cat owners."

But then he quickly went into his crazy thing about cats being serial killers, and suddenly he sounded like a crazy person.

People like him should really learn that you don't have to go the whole nine yards.

At 1/23/13 05:01 PM, Lucky wrote: I dont think it's happened in the history of ever BUT YOU NEVER KNOW

I'm pretty sure that happened in Titanic.

I have finished and sent my sketch.

At 1/17/13 11:10 PM, Luwano wrote:

At 1/14/13 11:45 PM, ornery wrote: WIPs for the final pieces can be shown here for those who want to show that stuff, but we would prefer if the sketches stayed hidden till the final result.

Agreed though, it would be a trillion times more fun if everyone would keep it secret until the end.

That's WIPs for the final pieces, though. Not WIPs for the sketches.

At 1/17/13 10:46 PM, RogueSoul wrote: jeezus kids, let up on the yammering.. Check the wip instead. Any advice on background? cant decide what would work for this...

You're not supposed to post your sketches. It's supposed to be a surprise.

At 1/17/13 12:44 AM, ornery wrote: You mean the art created by the talentless idiots who literally had to make a classification for art so bad that they claimed they meant it to be bad when in reality none of them had the skills to create anything worthwhile?

"yeah it sucks, but its supposed to, thats the whole point. We are taking the conventions that make everything good in art and since we lack the necessary ability to meet those conventions we are gonna make our own club where bad is good."

The label was invented to describe art made by literal crazy people. Nothing to do with any sort of club people place themselves in.

I'll do this thing.

I'll sign up for this.

At 1/11/13 05:10 AM, GOTHtheDEATHBRINGER wrote: 1 bipedal grizzly bear wearing a native headdress please.

The requests are closed. Also why am I getting so many requests for bears?

Anyway I've had other things to do so I haven't been prioritising finishing the requests I said I'd finish, but rest assured I do plan on doing that.

At 1/9/13 07:47 AM, Amaranthus wrote: Draw Otto as a tankman!

You got it, galpal!

At 1/9/13 07:44 AM, ThePsychoSheep wrote: A soviet crab playing the accordion

I'm being really slow at these, sorry.

At 1/9/13 07:35 AM, Kinsei01 wrote: A psychopathic looking cat riding a cartoonist nuclear bomb

trying not to just string ideas together, but my cat just attacked my leg...

I dunno.

At 1/9/13 05:25 AM, ColonelMagus wrote: Draw what you think SpeedoSausage looks like, but as a leprechaun.
Yes, he's Irish.

I don't know. I don't know who that is.

At 1/9/13 05:06 AM, test-object wrote: Your one true love.

You know, I don't know.

At 1/9/13 02:36 PM, Jester wrote: Draw yourself drawing yourself.

wait wasn't that a thread

I was already drawing this previous request when I saw this, so I changed it a bit and now I am killing TWO BIRDS.

With one stone.

Okay that's enough requests. I'll get these ones done.

At 1/9/13 03:29 AM, Luwano wrote: I would like to see another Space Monkey... in space. But an evil one. That means he's got an eyepatch or a mustache or anything else that is like.... a real proof of evilness. You decide.

He has a scar on his eye. That isn't a proof of his evilness. I'm not an ableist who thinks that everyone with scars is evil.

He is evil though. It's kind of incidental.

At 1/9/13 03:15 AM, Template88 wrote: How about an illustration of Template looking/being unpleasant.
Just like real life.

I hope I got the right character.

At 1/9/13 02:50 AM, Lintire wrote: Cyberpunk Kim and Amy. Make it happen, dude.

Okay I don't plan on spending this long on any more pictures in this thread, but this one both captured my imagination, and involved me drawing my own characters (so I felt a need to do it to the best of my abilities).

Anyway here's some silly outfits.

Life is such a frightful bore,
To get through the day is such a chore,
So for time to pass I have to draw.

I look in my brain where ideas I store,
And I locate my idea drawer,
(Not a literal drawer, but a metaphor).

I open the door to the core of the drawer,
(A literal door, a metaphorical drawer),
Expecting to find ideas galore,
But it's empty. Wow. I fall to the floor.

No ideas? Oh no. I'll need some more.
But where in the world can ideas be looked for?
It weighs on my mind, I almost let out a roar-
Oh wait, I know. I'll ask the Art For...
...Um.

So to you, Art Forum, I do implore,
Come and tell me what to draw,
Please validate the day I swore,
That today Aigis would be a whore.

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Right. That was dumb.

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So. Anyway. Ignore all that. The point of this thread is that if you tell me to draw something, I will draw it. For one day (that part's in the title).

Rules:

* You can only request one thing at a time.
* Try not to request anything overtly disgusting. That's not really what I want to be drawing.
* Try not to just request a stream of consciousness of the first five things that come into your head (Mike Tyson fighting a bear who's jumping on a trampoline which is on fire, etc. etc.) If there are too many elements to a drawing, I reserve the right to not draw it.
* Try not to be too disappointed when your request doesn't turn out very well.
* I won't make two consecutive pictures from one user unless there are no other requests for a little while.
* Also, to the regulars. Don't request the same thing you do in every one of these threads. Be original, dudes and dudettes. Come on.

I found this cool video explaining Andrew Loomis's approach to drawing the head. You should check it out if that's a thing you want to learn about.

How to Draw the Head from Any Angle

So what you're wanting is something you can use as a poster, or what?

At 12/23/12 10:31 AM, Escalus wrote: I love your lines! (So...thick)
inb4: "That's what she said"

At 12/23/12 06:27 PM, Captain-Carrion wrote: These are some damn tasty drawings.

At 12/23/12 06:58 PM, Sockembop wrote: I like how you've coloured this. How you transitioned from shadow to light but left the brushstrokes in.

Thank you!

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This is just a thing.

One thing to work on if you don't want to have panel borders is the placement of the speech bubbles. When you have no panel borders it becomes really important that each panel guides your eye towards the correct place to start reading the next panel. Since you're using such basic art and there are so many speech bubbles in this page you just posted, they should be the primary means of doing that.

The place in the comic page where this becomes a problem is between the first and the second panel. You have two speech bubbles directly on top of each other ("Why?" and "Is it my art?") with little space between. That means that the eye is going to be guided from the top one to the bottom one. This is a problem because you're reading the speech bubbles in that panel out of order (you should be reading "Why do I keep hurting myself?" first).

In the West we're conditioned to read comics left to right both in pages, and in each panel. But you have to make sure you help people along in that respect.

There's way more to learn about guiding people's eyes through comic pages, though. I'd recommend checking out the book Making Comics by Scott McCloud.

At 12/28/12 12:53 AM, AnimeTeam wrote: What are the things that I must fix?

I'd suggest not making it look so much like deviantART's logo.

At 12/27/12 05:50 AM, test-object wrote: Pick up a pencil and drop the idea you can't draw. Everyone can, it's just a question of how much you practice.

Tell that to Johnny No-Arms.

Let's get this party started back up again.

Here's a character of mine to draw, if you'd like.

Looks good.

The art and the concept, though, reminds me a lot of Aquaria. Have you done a lot to distinguish your game from that one?