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At 2/4/08 12:39 AM, ElMagico wrote: tg...again. last one. sorry.

No need to apologize. I really wanted to see more of them...
OK, you made it. I will upload my first version on it, made some months ago.
I drew a second version, looking at the original designs. Look for it in your thread.

At 2/6/08 12:01 AM, jagondudo wrote: the slaughterhouse!

Man, I see this and my face turns green with envy. How cool. That´s the word that best suit your style. You bear it proudly like a badge. Cool and excellent.
Oh, now that I´ve got to post here, just a question: When I saw your contribution to the C.A.P. #2, I immediatly thought of a King Of Fighters character. I can´t remember her name ´cause she wasn´t a playable character... (Well, I´m talking about the swordgirl who appears with Kula Diamond, just in case somebody´s wondering.). Was it coincidential?
Oh, and I haven´t seen your second movie yet... (Did you notice that Mouse Over had a review of mine?). I´ll watch it when I have the time.
Finally... I hope you stay here for a long time. Congrats and stay sharp.

At 2/6/08 03:31 AM, ZekeySpaceyLizard wrote: Oh lord.

Time to try to paint a photorealistic attractive woman, fail, delete it, and then pretend like I never tried.

What Zekey said.
Photorrealistic is not much in my taste, but trying would be a real challenge for me... And I can´t refuse on a challenge just like that. I been thinking on this all the time since I saw it yesterday... Oh God, here I go again.

Hey, M-F-Ringer, Don´t dis the magazines just like that. They´re not any sort of porno comics, The "Adult" of the ´80´s was just some oldschool blood´n´boobie mix. In my times, that were the comics that the cool teens bought and bragged about with the Marvel superhero readers. Nowadays, those people haven´t seem to have grown a bit, but that´s another story. What I´m trying to tell you is that in the days of Californication on TV, Manga being a big hit in the stores and Hard-boiled, soap-opera and Best-seller novel-like comics disguised as Super-Hero books... There´s really no point of scandalizing at those stories, honestly.

At 2/5/08 05:12 PM, Vousielle wrote: This just in: Fetusdoctor has generously offered to put the collab together!

That´s wonderful news. Awaiting to see more of all this.

At 2/4/08 06:22 PM, PrinceFlea wrote:

Oh What in the world that old thing... I honestly did'nt think that it was going get any attention at all. I just did it out of a little boredom and well I kind of had an thing for some cartoon chicks at the time.Hell When I drew that I didn't really even knew what Danger Lady was until you spoke of it.

I doodled this during 2 1/2 classes today day

Cartoon Chicks Rule. Betty Boop is for me what Betty Page is for Pin-up lovers. Someday I will pay her a proper homage (Or I´m doing it already?). Browsing your first pages I recognized Mazinger-Z... Now I know why do you have Dr. Hell as your icon. Why don´t you try to draw him? I´m sure you could make him look more hellish.
Your last submission is neat, but I´d like to see some people on it.
You know me... I can´t imagine a castle without a princess waiting to be rescued. Clad in fishnets, of course.

At 2/1/08 01:55 PM, Flap-doodlez wrote:

Hey Joe do you draw you people in pencil first and then ink them or is that all completely pen?

No pencil, some of them have been sketched before, but with the very own blue/black ballpen that you can see. I couldn´t call them doodles if they had been made otherwise.
Question: Would Bigfoot run the nation amok?

Well, A new installment of Campus Doodles coming up right now. The chesty blonde in shades is my favourite of the bunch.

At 1/29/08 03:54 PM, WilliWowza wrote: the random whore just made me crack out laughing, it's brilliant.

That´s no random whore, she´s Daisy from "Donkey Kong". Haven´t you played before? I think Prince got inspired by the looks of her in the cover of the 8-bit computers version... But what about the fishnets? Now I´ll always imagine them under her current princess dress... ;D

Hey PrinceFlea..., I wanted to ask you something. In your post of the 8/16/07, in the first page... That girl looked like a mix of Betty Boop and Danger Lady... Can you tell me more about this?
(Oh, and your last creature was really cool. Nice work.)

At 1/24/08 01:17 AM, Flap-doodlez wrote: even more random crap. I think on the top left page there is a bad guy from the old spiderman cartoons on tv... can't remeber his name though. spidey always called him fish bowl and crap like that.

Mysterio.
Good bunch of doods, by the way.

Well... I was in a sort of creative crisis lately. I´ll upload another sheet of my old crap just to let all of you know I´m still among the living. Bye.

At 1/14/08 12:15 PM, PrinceFlea wrote: Well this kind started of as like an doodle first but I would like to know what I could do about the anatomy on this one.

I wouldn´t worry so much about it, because that "flat" composition combined with the color choice and the faceless heads gives it an arty feeling. It looks like a mural of a fitness center built in the ´80´s.
Anyway, if you want to go serious about improving your figures, I´d suggest you to start practising to build your figures using basic shapes. That´s the method that almost every learn-how-to-draw book are using. I highly suggest you the Loomis one I told you before. But there´s a drawback to this method, if you´re not going to ink your drawings, is almost impossible to erase the extra lines.
You seem to be really inspired when depicting Nintendo characters... I loved that you have drawn Daisy in the Donkey Kong outfit. Yeah, she looks like a chubby slut, but it´s adorable. Make more girls like that. (Hey, why don´t you try Ice Climber next?).
Whoa... I´ll have to go brief on the rest...
Captain-Ben, way to go. Fancy that floating crown.
Flap-Doodlez, you´re the man who lives up the good-old tradition of oldschool doodling. Bring them all right here.
Draconian-Spirit... How did you made it to not getting caught in that one?. I first thought that you traced the Eldest cover... Anyway it´s nice, but I´ve seen you´ve uploaded that image like three times or so. Be careful with that, girl. Hope to see more of you here.

Well, sorry if I forgot somebody. Here´s another sheet.
(Did anybody know what´s Dookie doing, lately?)

At 1/13/08 05:48 PM, Vousielle wrote: By the way, if you aren't BizarroJoe, no more entries will be accepted no matter the quality, sorry, but we have to have some sort of cutoff, otherwise Daniel can't finish the flash.

After reading this, I lost suddenly about 10% of my body weight...
I´ve had lots of problems with this, so I thought the deadline had passed and gave up on it... But after that, I gave full priority to this and I got determined to finish it at all costs.
Yeah, if I´d drawn one of my usual cuties I would have finished much earlier, but NOOOOOOO, I felt like repeating myself and wanted to make something that I would never have done before. So I tried a first idea, no success, gave up, tried again with something different, even worse outcome. And I finally went back to my original idea. Mildy satisfied, I finished a rough which I couldn´t scan. So I was fucked. Then, an idea: I made a photo of my notebook, and used it to vector it. And then I thought: "Why if I don´t use curves...? I´ll use straight lines only!".
And that´s the story. Sorry for keep you waiting sooo long, especially if you don´t like it.
Well at least my guilty conscience will be put at ease...

At 1/20/08 02:12 PM, daniel123297 wrote: You guys...I tried saving my progress in the flash, but my computer crashed, and the whole flash collapsed, sorry.

Awwwww, DAMN!!

At 1/7/08 09:08 PM, PrinceFlea wrote: Mind If I post abit of my trash in your can? Yeah so i did this today While finding something to make it look after something but I'm really starting to see the lack of concentration since my little winter break.

It looks like a black Beef-eater guard. The color choice gives the picture a ghosly appearance. It gives me memories of my English Literature lessons. It´s really nice.
... But... Don´t you think it´s funny my submission didn´t get any comments? I´m telling this because, so far, I´m the only one that really took a picture from the trash and uploaded it. If I didn´t make it clear the first time, here it goes again: That art was not mine (OMG, the rules.). I just took it from the street in a rainy day. And strangely enough, I still keep it folded in toilet paper in my notebook... I don´t have courage to throw it away.
I encourage all of you to keep your eyes open and look for pictures in the floor when having a walk. Or look in the dustbins of your work places. We could make an interesting and unique thread that way.
Oh, and PrinceFlea, I was thinking in the same motto when I took that piece of wet paper. That´s so true.

At 1/8/08 01:20 PM, Captain-Ben wrote: whats your thread? got a link?

Just click on my profile. I suggest you to do it in all the artists that you find interesting or funny, you can get a lot of info that way. An example: I´ve just seen you´re a newbie. Welcome to the Newgrounds!

And so your true nature comes out, your just in the doodlage for the woman! I knew it :P

Yeah, I´m a pussy magnet. It´s a pity that the bitches here in León are as frigid as the climate.
I don´t know what´s happening to me lately. Maybe it´s only that Californication has just been aired here in Spain and some of the cynnical sarcasm of Duchovny has got into me. Meh.
Hey, PrinceFlea, your latest pics are really cool, they have put me in a sort of nostalgic mood... Ahh... all that young people in those chairs...
I like the ponytail girl in the second page. You nailed the hips and the crinkles in the pullover. I was about to put the hand in the monitor just to take a grasp of that butt. (Hehheh...)

Well, new post. Same as the previous ones. I liked the punkette, she´s cute. ´Till next time!

Well, about time I could get another one done already.
First, I´ll go with the comments about the latest submissions...

At 12/12/07 08:20 PM, Vousielle wrote: I finally got around to making one, She and BizarroJoe's girl can have a shootout, *pew pew*.

Agreed.

At 12/23/07 12:37 PM, Nacco wrote: here's one :
maybe it's to fast...

Yeah, It appears like the neon tube is malfunctioning. Try a slower pace next time.
One more thing... What kind of place is it supposed to be placed on? Looks like some sort of music store. Unless you´ve got an unhealthy fetish desire for electric guitars, the sexy element is missing. Next time, remember that we´re going for that "Red Lights" district look.
The tubes seem nicely drawn, though. You should´ve commented on how you made it.
Anyway, thanks for taking the effort to post here. I found your submission very inspiring... your efforts won´t go unrewarded.

Ok... Now, let´s talk about this pic. Originally, it was called "Cheeky Chicks", that´s why her buttocks are so round and prominent. The idea was to animate a hand spanking her or something like that... but the display design really gave a hard time. Why? Because it didn´t come out at first, so I had to make many sketches and, in the end, I only drew the girl figure on the rough. So I had to improvise on the screen... I made this shading that gave her a pinky look to her skin, and that´s how the design took shape at last. Thank God I´m quite satisfied with the result, after all... but I´d have liked a little more contrast between the on/off states of the animation. But I want to finish it now, and start another. I have to try and produce them in a more regular pace.
´k, I´m done. Hope you like it.

At 1/6/08 01:43 PM, Captain-Ben wrote: haha fun, whats a cathouse sign?

I´m starting to know why my thread is so little browsed...

At 1/7/08 09:38 PM, Captain-Ben wrote:

mondays are key doodleing days, especially done blatantly in front of the teacher, while there watching, and standing right next to you...

BALLS OF STEEL, man. Big ones.

Well, a little story about the girl without legs at the bottom. A chick from my class asked me to xerox this page ´cause she fancied to tatoo it on her. Damn, I should have taken advantage of that situation, she had a nice pair of breasts.

Here´s is the last one I made. Man, I´ve never missed so much not drawing the feet. It doesn´t really suits the big characters... That´s what you get when you try to mess with Mother Nature.
Well, I think all of you will know who is this big green guy. A very close friend of mine asked me for it in this late christmas period so I almost got frenzied trying to get this and my C.A.P. #2submissions done in time...
There´s very likely I´ll do more of these, so I´ll post them right here... Who will be the next?

Hoho... Looks like he´s having a talk with his own shoulder. The head´s begging it for pardon, but that upper part of limb is just giving him the cold shoulder. MAN, that´s really FUCKED UP. I think Jawhead is a great character for an avant-garde comic strip... The only character who needs to appear in it would be himself, ´cause he needs no one to talk to...
Dookie must´ve been busy with family matters, studies and stuff like that lately, but I´m sure he will be be back soon and take his thread back by storm, as he did some time ago.

Well, more of them. As my holidays are almost over, Today I´m having a posting bonanza for celebrating, just before going to work in my latest cathouse sign. So, here you have them.
Hey... hold it for a moment... These are the first doodles I made when I entered the university...
Aaah... the nostalgia...

Here´s another sheet.
No, I didn´t drew all three pictures in 15 min... It´s only that I like to get the most of each sheet.
Ah, by the way, the picture in the upper center is a good hint about how do I look like. Sorry, girls, I know many of you become infatuated, but I´m a dirty old unemployed scrbbler, and, on top of that, quite dorky.
I´ll try to get some more in the near future. ´Till next time.

At 12/28/07 04:07 PM, Memorize wrote:

At 12/19/07 10:44 AM, MindChamber wrote: messin with some ideas

You should draw that in a batman outfit.

Seriously, it looks like a different style of Bruce Wayne.

Haha, I thought the same.
It´s either Bruce Wayne, or an ellegant, dandy MindChamber...

Oh, PrinceFlea... You´re flattering me, you silly *^.^*

Well, I´ll be posting more art (?)made with the same idea in my mind.
This was 15 min., no eraser. So, as I told you before, it´s completely raw.

I found this on the floor last week, and I remembered this thread.
It is a tiny piece of paper, used by both sides. Apparently, its owner folded the picture and then tore it apart in small square pieces...
... and then some guy took one from the wet, dirty ground and uploaded it to the newgrounds.
Life can be so strange.
(P.D: It´s strange how the two pictures almost fit as part of the same picture. But that´s impossible, because both were drawn on the same piece of paper, one on each side. Funny, don´t you think so?)

At 1/3/08 09:11 AM, MindChamber wrote: Ok I could be wrong but is this, Manhunter?

People... We have a WINNER!!!
Yes, he´s Mark Shaw, the Manhunter from the early 90´s! Now I´m twice happy, I was really unsure about somebody would guess... and it resulted to be you! Now I´m sure you must have browsed lots of comics in your early ages.
That really have made me post one more time because people have been posting submissions that are best suited for the Create-A-Superhero thread...

Why don´t we all use this thread for comic book superheroes only? That way we wouldn´t have two identical threads in the Forum. Just do it for the sake of bandwidth...

Well, time for the next submission. This was made for a mate who lend me the best Image superhero series that is running right now (with permission of Savage Dragon, of course.).
Now I feel like singing.
...And with the power of conviction,
there is no sacrifice.
It´s a do-or-die situation...
We. Will. Be. INVINCIBLE!!!

At 1/2/08 03:49 PM, Captain-Ben wrote: Now some German class doodles!! Teacher made the mistake of giving me a highlighter and expecting me to pay attention.

This thread is fun, but you can't help feel slightly insignificant at how cool and clean BizarroJoes stuff is

Yeah, that´s what he gets for messing with an artist. You gotta love that orange ink (Oooh, shinyy...).
Thanks for the cumpliements, but just keep posting more of those doodles. You´re helping to raise the level on the thread. Retarded Baby-Man and JawHead Jeb are really cool, and what about the orange light from the door?. Insignificant my ass.

At 1/3/08 04:37 PM, PrinceFlea wrote: Holly shit was that Devil Man from Go Nagai the same creator who have made so many of the other mech/super robot/etc on saw on the bottom left corner!? I could tell who he was from the first second I've noticed him with the very similar designs .I wonder if he still makes anime at all.

Bingo, it´s DevilMan. I think Nagai is working more as producer and distributer than making comics now.
You know, that´s the type of comments I like... When people recognize a character and say "Hey, isn´t that...?". Feel like I´m among mateys.

So who or what particular was your drawing style influenced by anywhy? It always seems to be changing over time periodicly spawning from different looks. I simply don't know how you make your doodles just so clean and smooth aswell as to different thoughts.

Being honest, manga has been the most influent trend on my style. The first artist I wanted to copy from was Johji Manabe(Outlanders,Caravan Kidd,etc...) But I´ve read lots of comics of all sorts, and I´ve been always fascinated on the relationship about drawing style and storytelling. That´s why I tried all sorts of stuff in my drawings... And I still doing so.
Anyway, I want to recall you that, except when mentioned, almost all of my submissions in this thread are from almost ten years ago, when I was in the university. Notice that little Cloud from FF VII? Well, the PlayStation controller he´s holding is not a Dual Shock... I think that´s pretty explanatory about when those doodles were made.
Ah, and I haven´t forgot your comment on my userpage. I´ve been busy, just give some more time.

Well, more posting of my old stuff. As usual, hope you enjoy them.

Haha... Goddam, you´ve really hide very well her gender... But... don´t you have more recent drawings of her? I´d like to see how the design would´ve evolved.

Well... some of you may already know the story behind my Punisher submission... I´ve continued making some superhero avatars since then, and I think this is an appropiate thread to post them.
The first one is a DC character that my brother has cherished since he popped out back in the early 90´s... Do you remember him? Ehm... Maybe you didn´t know him in the first place... It´s okay we´ll play the game of "Who´s the Mystery Man" until my next post (That´ll be tomorrow, or the following day). And, no he is not Spider-man 2099. No, he isn´t Doom 2099 either!

Ok, no more chit-chatting... meet the man who stalks the world´s most dangerous game!!!

P.D.: You know, I´d really wanted to know what would MindChamber thought of this costume... I´m sure he really liked the mask.

At 12/20/07 09:34 PM, PrinceFlea wrote: Man If only their were other doodle threads on here,

Why? This is just perfect. One is the only one we need.
By the way, cool portrait. Keep on that.

There has passed a while since the last time anybody post here... It´s time to upload my old scribblings again. Hope you enjoy, as always.

Didn´t know about this thread... I find the exercise proposed by MindChamber highly interesting... I´m determined to take it seriously and try to make this type of quick sketches more often. I´ve always been afraid of facing my own failures, thus, I used the rubber a lot, and now, it often takes me ages to sketch a simple drawing.
Well, NOT ANYMORE.
It´s time to look at my own level face front. Here´s the first rough of my personal ordeal for improvement. I´ll continue making similar pics for a while, then I´ll study a little bit more some academic drawing, and finally, I´ll try it again to see what happens. Will I improve something? Only time will tell.

(Changing the subject, Balgaron´s submissions here are the ones which I like most from him, I hope to see more of them.)

It´s unclear to me if it fitted the 15 minutes or not, but I´m sure it didn´t took me more than 20. And I passed some time remarking the final lines to scan it properly. I build the figure using lines and shapes, but it´s difficult to see them now.
Here you have it. Absolutly raw. No eraser, all lines and mistakes shown.

And now, the second installment.

Hey, I´m not neglecting them... It´s only that the only way that those little bastards learn anything is to make them do LOTS of exercises... Which I prepare first in my home. So think it as a way of bringing back my lost time. Made on pieces of paper or the margins of my notebook.
Hope you enjoy them.

At 12/13/07 10:14 AM, El-Presidente wrote: At 12/13/07 07:10 AM, BizarroJoe did a lot of crazy shit:
Man those are amazing! You should definitely move those into Flash. I was just looking at your stuff like your High Def Sprite, which is all right, but not really good, compared to what these look like.

Señor Presidente... Are you trying to me that the stuff that I scribbled in class 8 years ago is better than my actual submissions...? Now I´m really down. All this has been for naught!!! I´ll turn Emo and die now.
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But not before completing my duties for the collabs... Anyway, thanks a lot for the criticsm. I´ll think about it.
Man, I´m in such a hype right now. Now that my pupils are on vacation, I´m all day in front of the computer working on my next submissions... But I´m taking a rest now to post here once again.

This time this will have a special twist on them.
This thread was meant to have the doodles people made in class, you know, while the teacher was doing what he/she has to do... Thus, the pupils were doodling, Ok?
...but... What if the teacher were doodling also?
Now you´ll have the answer. These are my Teacher Doodles!!! Made blatantly in front of the face of my kid students when giving them private english classes!!!
And scanned with the tool of one them! The nerve!
First installment:

At 12/9/07 10:49 PM, PrinceFlea wrote:
when he usually does play with it usually throws it an an basketball hoop,Stomp on his body , throw it againt the ceiling yeah He does an a lot of torture to one an inaminant object.

... and the poor Ducky McDuckerson still works after that...? You drew him like a terrible, maniac person... It´s only that I can´t imagine a toy annoying enough to be treated like that...

At 12/9/07 11:14 PM, PunchOrBePunched wrote: Joe, are your doodles done in blue ball point pen?

Yes, mostly. If not, I used black ball pen. Have you noticed many of my sheets have a group of spots in the corner...? It was me cleaning the point to avoid ink bloating.
I hope to see more of those (Your doodles, I mean.) in this thread.

...and also in the next year, when I had to retake Geometry because I failed it the year before. I wonder why.

I fucked up university as a whole. But it was either doodling or going on a sex-crazed bloody rampage. And I thought I chose the most unharmful way (because I did that, don´t you think so...?)
To illustrate that, I´ll post this sheet from that period. Look at the picture on the upper left corner. The object being thrown is one of the ashcans that could be seen on the passageways of my campus... I didn´t do that in real life, but almost. And I wouldn´t have stopped after the first one.

At 12/8/07 02:23 PM, PrinceFlea wrote: Whoops ignore that Last My computer is awfully slow even thought it's connected to an Cable modem. That's nice But I dont know what "Heroes is " because that's not really bad for an first.

Hmmm... I think he´s talking about "Heroes" the TV series...
The sig? Meh... No big deal, honestly.

At 12/7/07 07:38 PM, PrinceFlea wrote:

Oh look at me Blab on about this shit I just really don't see how my stuff comes to good ,when In technicality it isn't perfect,devinchi or botticini wise. I find it really hard otherwise to tell If i'm good at all in my own way. I have an Hard time telling if that was sarcasm or an actual complement.

Hmm... I think it´s time to get serious here...
When I say that I like something, I like it. Don´t think too much about it. Have you ever seen a contemporary art gallery? Most of the pictures there can´t be considered as technically (or anatomically, if human figures) "correct". There other values apart from that .
There is an art trend called "Hyperrealism" (I don´t know the proper english term, sorry.) that intends to portrait reality beyond of what the eye can see. Your latest submission reminded me a lot of that.
Of course you have to improve a lot in other aspects, but you´re still very young, you have a lot of time left to learn how to draw in tha art school style! What I am trying to state is that you have somthing very distinctive and personal and I´m afraid you could ditch it because it´s not "good drawing".
You have a strong point. treasure it, becuase one day, you could have to make use of it.
I hope this time I were able to make me understood.

And here it is, the final product.
This time is a neon-only banner, no light-ups. As I said in the previous post, I found really interesting the way shapes are displayed with tubes in this one, so I decided to go in that direction.
Before going to the Photoshop stage, I decided to have a look at some tutorials about making the tubes to try to improve and fix my technique... I realized that most of them made the thing very similar to the way I was already making it... But it was not for nothing, I learned some things about actual tube design that I have applied to this submission.
Well, with all this in mind I tried to use a different and simplier method of making the tubes and I´m going to tell you about it. Like a sort of mini-tut...

- The tubes have been drawn on a vector-based program. Two hints about it: Make the lines thick and set the endings of the lines and the corners to Round (I forgot to make the corners round in the Original Inn, and look at it. I didn´t notice until I uploaded... I got really angry.)
The tubes also have a start and an end to them. So, if you make close shapes like circles or squares, break them with a small gap.
Also, the tubes can be quite long, but they seem to be not very short... Try to get the most of each tube.

- Now for the main part... Import the tube traces to Photoshop. Make sure there´s no background in the same layer of the tubes. Now, with the layer selected, go to Layers>Layer Styles>Bevel and Emboss.
If Inner Bevel doesn´t appear by default, set to it now. In the Shadow box, change the angle to 90º (I use 45 of Height, but try it as you like.) Change the opacity of Highlight and Shadow to 15%.
- It´s time to separate the tubes in different layers according to two criteria: Time and Color. Different color, different layer. If there are tubes of the same color but they turn on/off at a different time, you´ll have to separate them in different layers, but in this case, you can do it after making the on/off states.
- Now we have the tubes ready to turn them on. I you´re going to make animated blinking lights, you´ll have to duplicate the layers of that tubes in order to make the two states of them.If not just go on with the "On" state.
Go to the Layer Styles box (On the Layer tab or clicking twice in a previous Layer Effect on the Layer window) and enter the following settings:

>For the "On" State:
- Inner Glow: White
- Outer Glow: Similar color to the tube. I use the web-safe palette and choose a slightly brighter tone.
- Bevel and Emboss: Don´t change anything.

>For the "Off" State:
- Bevel and Emboss: Change the Shadow Opacity to 75%
- Color Overlay (Under Bevel and Emboss and Satin.): Black color. Opacity set to 55%... I change the Fusion mode to Darken, but I don´t really see much difference from Normal... Just in case.
- Parallel Shadow: If the angle by default is not the same as the one you used in Bevel and Emboss (90%) set it like that.

Well, if you don´t use animations, it´s over... If you do, just go to Imageready and make frames, switching the visibility of the "on/off" layers of the tubes you want to blink... I think 0,5 seconds is allright for a neon blink.
About optimizing... I suggest you to reduce the size of the image. Don´t make too many frames,beware with using tubes of many different colors (they are gradients, so they will use up many colors of your palette. I´ve used 7 this time, so I´m afraid it´ll look like crap.) Try to use 128 colors instead of 256 if you´re still exceeding the filesize, and if all that fails, use the Loss tab in the Optimize window (If you have to set it over 10, i´d suggest you to make major changes in your design or try harder in my other advices...)
Try to get the image as smooth as possible because when uploading, the quality will surely drop if it wasn´t very high.

Well, it´s over... These words are not carved in stone, experiment and make comments if you find something interesting (In last minute I decided to include an extra black layer with the opacity to 35% to darken the board and the tubes.). As my Photoshop is in Spanish, some terms may differ, correct them if you find something. I´m using layer styles only to keep it easy and simple, but I used Gaussian Blur before for making bigger, controlled halos and things like that. I´ve made this to encourage you to use it and post some more pictures here (Although there´s not necessary to use neon in your banners... my latest didn´t have any of them.)
Anyway... Enjoy it!

Well, once again I had to ditch another picture. It´s the second one... At this rate, I´ll have to add the "Gallery of the Rejected" to my upcoming "Gallery of Failures"... It was a good idea, but I feel the picture was not really going as well as expected, so I´ll redo it with a different picture. Sorry for the delay.

Meanwhile... I had to go on to my next picture. This time it´s based in another real-life sign, the "Dani´s Show", located near the city centre of León. I´ve only been able to watch it by day, so I don´t really know what it´ll look like turned on. I know that there´s a tree covering part of it in the photo, but believe me, you´re not missing anything. Don´t you think the white background is sort of n00bish?
When I made the preliminary sketch, I found very interesting the way how the tubes are twisted and displayed to form the shape of the girl... some of them are cleverly designed... while others really don´t make sense. Have a look. I liked the detail of the strand of hair covering the nipple, it´s a pity I had to ditch it from the final design...
Note the bilingual little sign. I´ve only seen those in touristical coast cities... This leaves no doubt about the sort of place this is.
But the one next to it... "Ben-Hur"... Judah Ben-Hur?! WTF?! That doesn´t sound straight to me... Maybe the local is under new management and they decided to run it in a "different" way...? If so, they´ll have to change the neon board...

At 12/2/07 01:51 PM, PunchOrBePunched wrote: Savage is refering to a long lost drawing I did in his basement like 10 years ago. It looked sorta like this, but ten-times funnier.

Thanks for the comments Joe!
I love your work, crisp lines and color, and those stylized feet. I've been trying out that "chibi" style for your "Lewd Cathouse Banners" thread but it's giving me a hard time.

Whoa... Man, that´s a lotta wang. And, by the face it shows, it seems to be peeing red, too. It´s no surprise they´d gone extinct, They were able to make circumcisions, but they couldn´t invent the loo... No wonder why Savage was so interested in you to show it to us...
I´m sorry to hear that about the sign. It´s a pity because I consider your regular style well suited to make a banner of such characteristics, and nowadays you can even print gradients on the light-ups...(But the ones I´ve seen look like crap, so I don´t suggest them.) Still, I have some hope to seeing it in the future...
Keep up the good work.