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I'm going to assume you want it to say "Best and Brightest"...

At 9/15/09 05:25 PM, T-850 wrote: I've already made corrections to my girl's potrait. See if it's better or not?

Looks better already.

Is she holding a fleshlight?

I really have a hard time believing that the same person who did the first painting also did all the other crappy photoshops.

Seems kinda fishy to me.

At 8/27/09 03:37 PM, Dexter3000 wrote: Just something i did.

by the way,i would mainly like some advice on how to improve my art,but i also like some opinions on my art style.

I really wish that you would get your head out of style. This is a pandemic I see amongst all younger drawers. They adopt a style that they feel is pretty fun to draw, and they stick with that for eeeever. I got stuck in the same rut when I was your age. I would draw things a lot like LazyMuffin for over a year. I didn't improve hardly at all until I dropped the notion of "style" and just started to draw. Now, even though it doesn't really show in my art posts in the portal, I'm pretty versatile in my ability to draw and I don't feel a need to draw everything in one particular "style".

Try not to settle on a style at such a young age. Be flexible and try to not get stuck drawing the same quality pictures over and over. The only time I would stick on a "style" is if you find that people seem to love your art and want to see more that are similar.

At 8/26/09 08:16 PM, J-qb wrote: Id suggest drawing something for reference....
I never really did anything like that before today, But I tried it , and I instantly felt myself getting in touch with why certain shapes were like they were... (although that could be because I didnt draw from reference before...).
Just try it, posemaniacs could be a good reference site if youre looking for human anatomy...

Basically from what you draw now, I think the first thing you should work on is the linework. Of course, some art doesnt seem to have lines. but actually it has, theyve just been painted over. Having the right shapes is the first step to making a good drawing....

What he said. After just a few life drawings, I have improved incredibly fast. Especially in quick sketching a semi-accurate human body. I found myself sketching in class today (without reference) and because of my practice, I was able to sketch some full body action poses in about a minute each. I've never been able to do that before I tried drawing from life.

Aside from that, I could name a few things, but one problem I'm noticing is your shadows.

Right now, you just have a single line as your shadow. It's all on one side, which is all well and good, but there needs to be much more shadow if you're going to use any.

Drawing a light source always helps visualize where it is and how it will effect the object. Another way to help this is to divide your drawing into recognizable segments when shading.

Let's use your pikmin drawing as a reference and say that the light is in the top left corner.

-You know his head is a sphere, so you can shade it as one. If need be, you can use google images to find a sphere for a reference.
-His body is like an egg, which is very similar to his sphere head. So shade it in a very similar way.
-His arms, legs, and stem-head are all, for the most part, cylinders. So shade them as such.

Once you're done shading every segment, you can fill in any awkward looking gaps, and voila! A cleanly shaded figure that will pop out of the page (or computer) much more than before.

My best score. OOOOOOH YEEEEAH!

I JUST got back from seeing it with my girlfriend. It's pretty good. It's got some funny bits in it and it's kinda cute.

At 8/13/09 04:46 AM, jamesb1995 wrote:

Im actually trying to advaance the plot, sofar, all ive seen from you guys (aka. he ones who keep yelling: "NO SPAMMERS!!!1!!!1!1!!") is randomness. And yes i think it was a good time for my character to appear, there couldnt have been a better time!

You know, you don't HAVE to recycle your little uninteresting bee character ALL THE TIME. You could just, I dunno, not even add him. Or heck, you could even be original and design a character that fits the plot as opposed to some half-assed avatar that doesn't even fit.

And its not your choice if i can join! Its up to zoidz whether i stay or go, its his thread, and i happen to be his friend!

You know, when you said that, I immediately pictured you as some little kid trying to avoid a fight by telling others that his daddy is a kick boxer or something.
Something along the lines of, "You can't argue with me! I got connections with the OP! He's my friend so your opinions don't matter." I hate that attitude you got there, kid.

So, stop being children, and think for more than 10 seconds about the picture youre about to make.

Oh, don't even start that. Your pictures have no thought put into them. Here, I'm gonna quote one of the pictures you made and you tell me if you don't think it sounds crappy and rudimentary.

"and then suddenly Jamesb flew out of a plot portal, knocking Dex down an endless (?) pit."

Seriously, you had your friggin character literally fall from the sky and you think that that's "a good time for my character to appear, there couldnt have been a better time!"

But here's another one-
"Jamesb wakes up and emerges from a crate he was blasted into from the lazer"

Oooooh, but why stop there? Lets get some TNEJ1 quotes to prove my point, shall we?

"and then jamesb, seeing the commotion, flew in with the man's cat"

"you didn't think I would miss an epic adventure, did you?" - note: on this picture you merely copy/pasted your picture onto an existing one.

"Panel 1: Jamesb, seeing the dead monster, asked what we were going to do about all the pregnant women...

Panel 2: Zelldoom, conveniently spotted a time portal that... well... "worked"

Panel 3: Jamesb opens the machine and sees it is working properly

Panel 4: Jamesb, Zelldoom, and all the other MEN enter the portal."

So, you call other people's posts crappy, unthoughtful, and random when you post that time portals come out of nowhere (as well as that stupid bee).

Also, I think I'm witnessing a trend here... Yeah. Your posts don't advance the plot. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE POSTS was a picture of you shamelessly throwing your character in the story. Yep, you just keep posting in an attempt to shove your character in the story.

Oh, and take that blatantly traced .gif off your art submissions because you know damn well that you traced that.

Here's a picture. Good day.

At 8/10/09 09:26 AM, jamesb1995 wrote:

Jamesb wakes up and emerges from a crate he was blasted into from the lazer, and wonders why they're on the moon. And more importantly, wheres all the blue cheese???

For Heaven's sake, let it go.

The shadows are too light and small. Since the background is pitch black, having his shadows darker would fit it better.

The shadow from the top of the head should also seep down a bit more. Really, just have more shadow and make it darker. Keep in mind that the shadows for this type of creepy-look picture should really be used to accent the lighter spots.

I vote jagondudo

Katatafisch's was better drawn in that it looked more lifelike, but Jagondudo's had energy that set it apart from the rest.

The punches look much nicer now. I'm also digging the new graphics on the character (accept his barfing head graphic stayed the same. You probably know that, but just in case).

I'll also add that it's pretty darn fun flying around in this game. It's working nicely.

At 7/28/09 10:05 PM, MeMB wrote:

Congratulations, you made him lose his job. Now what?

male prostitution

At 7/26/09 01:43 PM, LordAdon wrote: DAMN sry ears too small now comment!

Now they're a bit too big. A good guide for ear placement is from the bottom of the nose to the eyebrow. Just a little more or less will still look alright, though.

For these kind of things, you can also just use your fingers to measure things on your face if you're not sure. For instance, I can move my fingers straight down from my pupils and find out that the ends of the mouth are just about below the pupil.

After a poor night's sleep, Zoidz woke up. He never forgot that he was in a space ship, but he was still discombobulated when he woke up. Within seconds of waking up, his cell opened and a robot came in, grabbed him, and transported him into a large, empty room. He was relatively pleased to see Giant Black Guy standing alone in the room. The robot quickly dropped Zoidz next to Giant Black Guy and turned to face them both.
"YOUR TRAINING WILL NOW COMMENCE. AS NEWLY RECRUITED PIRATES, IT IS REQUIRED FOR YOU TO BE PREPARED FOR ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. YOUR DAILY TRAINING WILL BEGIN EVERY MORNING AROUND THE EQUIVALENT OF YOUR EARTHLING 6:00.

WE WILL BEGIN WITH SOME STRETCHES TOUGH BY RICHARD SIMMONS."

Yes, the protagonist pair weren't the only ones abducted... The pirates also snatched world-famous fitness guru, Richard Simmons.

The punches look kinda weak. Try to give them a bit more wind-up. Maybe move the torso back and front, too. Here, for your entertainment, is a sloppy little animation of some punches with more force. I even gave the last punch a few more frames of animation. It makes it look like he's really punching hard on that last punch.(please forgive the fact that he starts shrinking).

Also, a good reference for any action/fighting animation can sometimes be sprite sheets. Maybe if there's a Street Fighter 3rd Strike sprite sheet, that may be a good reference (that game has some pretty good animation).

Hope that helps.

At 7/26/09 10:26 PM, TheChomper wrote:

At 7/26/09 10:24 PM, TheChomper wrote: l DID PATRICK

...yeah...

That's actually pretty darn cool.

Bring it aroooooound town.

At 7/26/09 11:16 AM, fishboy121 wrote: It's completely lost it's pace, we used to cover the amount of stuff done in 3 days in 1 day
it's pretty stupid

Quantity matters not, boy. If there are just tons of pictures being posted really fast, odds are they're not gonna be that good.

With lil' Fishbourne opening fire, Giant-Black-Guy's thin clothes stood no chance. His clothes were quickly ripped to shreds.
His vest was forced upon him after being arrested for public exposure. The vest was the only thing keeping him from more punishment from the authorities. But, now that it was off, he felt free again. He remembered the feeling of the sun against his muscles, the morning dew tickling at his feet, and the swift breeze caressing his ball sack. He was motivated. Ready to fight.

At 7/26/09 01:26 PM, TheDaveAngle wrote: Junior opens Fire!

P.S, ten points to whoever spots the recurring joke first!

OOOH OOOH! Pick me!

Is it "My ass?"

At 7/26/09 10:36 AM, LordAdon wrote: how about this?

besides the mouth lol can't stop laughing

Fixed a lot already. Nice.

Though, the head (and correct me if I'm wrong) is a bit too wide. I think there's a 4 eyes head with rule, and this head is about 5 eyes wide.

At 7/25/09 03:06 PM, Zoidz wrote:

The reason I put this thread here for the fun, since I like the art story genre. In my opinion, I never even seen this thread as a (Like a MeMB said) "shitfest". So what if it's random? Sometimes random is fun, it doesn't have to be a plot like "So there I was", take "A story including you 2" as an example, the plot is about the protagonist, a robot, a test object, Hank from Madness Combat, etc. going on a trip to New York, but suddenly got hijacked by Bin Laden, which crash into a skyscraper containing a a villain with half of his face burned, and a female that has super powers by using a Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It is just me, or is that random? And "The Huge House Adventure" is another example.

Am I getting this right that you are setting your standards of story telling to the Huge House Adventure? Now, I never posted in that thread, but I saw it, and it was a HORRIBLE story thread. Tons of random pictures with no flow of a story, all horrible 1 minute pictures, and countless unneeded characters... BLEH! But, then again, I've never really SEEN a story thread that turned out to my ideal expectation. Raise the bar, man. There is no need to look on past art story threads and base the quality of your story on THOSE pieces of garbage. Forget them and make a good story. But, if you really want to base it off of anything, I think Epic Quest is turning out to be pretty darn funny.

CefyJr, You do have some points, but if you double check on MeMB's post, he wasn't trying to help this thread improve at all, he was just whining and complaining about how this thread "sucks" and how TNEJ is a "shitfest".

It kinda is.

Does, it matter if Zoidz is a shitty and boring protagonist?

Wait... Why on earth wouldn't it matter?

I doesn't have to be an important one. I made Zoid in this thread, because I enjoy him when I created his last year, so it doesn't completely matter if he is boring to you. That's just you opinion on him, not anyone else's.

He is kinda boring. I wouldn't say he's shitty like MeMB, but he doesn't make you care about him much. And keep in mind, we're making a story. It does matter what others think about it, because what's the point in making a story if nobody want's to read it, right?

Oh, and guys, we don't need 10 imageless posts before another picture. I'm fine with this whole discussion we're having, but it doesn't have to interfere with the drawings, right? (Dexter, I'm kinda pointing at you.)

I'M DONE (Again)

Alright, this was just a blatant exuse to draw a revamped version of Verrükt, but here, let me tie it in somehow.

The gang was going all bananas with this little guy beating on the Giant-No-Longer-Naked-Half-Robot-Black-G uy.
"FISHY FISHY FISH FISH FISH!"
They were all in gracious relief when the little tyke finally stopped. He looked up and started mumbling a bit. The gang then heard the sound of lil' Fishbourne's hover board. Verrükt wasn't just staring off into space, he heard the hover board. And he didn't mean "fish," he meant "fishbourne!" He then started up again.

"FISH FISH FISH FISHITTY FISH FISH FISH FISH FISHYFISHY FISH FISH!"

At 7/25/09 01:16 PM, crazygiraffe wrote: m'kay XP

but i still think ur too young to be on this website

I would say you're much more immature than him. Besides, what you said has no bearing on anything.

Anyway, as for the drawings, they're looking good. The ones done on paper are especially good. I would just try to make things look less rigid. Letting the pencil flow and move more loose should do the trick.

I agree wholeheartedly with MeMB.

Zoidz

The purpose for this thread is to have fun, not just to draw highly masterpiece pictures. You are only doing that just to start shit, and just to make me pissed. So, if you want to start shit, do it somewhere else, please.

He only mentioned art quality once, and he said it was for the most part alright. He's talking about the random story that has no coherent flow. And I don't think he's saying this just to "start shit." From what I gather (and I may be wrong, I'm not a mind reader), he would genuinely like this thread to progress, but with much higher expectations than the masses of this thread.

Dexter

man,you really bounced back at us there.whilst you are correct about this,you didn't have to be so mean about it.

but yes,you are right.so bassically,you think we're all fucking it up?well,im still contributing anyway...

If mean is what it takes. As you may or may not know, I play the trumpet and I've had lessons with numerous college professors. My best lessons are the ones where they say nothing nice and only tell me what I'm doing wrong and how to improve. I improve later because I take their advice, rather than just hating their guts and ignoring them. That's exactly the kind of advice MeMB gave. He was straight to the point. Rather than allowing it to construct you guys, you are all getting pissed and blabber mouthing about how he's trying to "cause trouble." He's trying to help you guys.

...i do contribute here to help improve on my art skills,but the other main reason is because its alot of fun.

I don't think you contribute to help your art skills, or if you are, you're doing it kinda wrong. Throughout this whoooole thread (and the previous one) you have drawn all your characters exactly the same. With no visible improvement. Try to think outside the box. Be risky with your drawings. If you wanna improve on anything, you can't keep repeating what you've always done, because it just won't get you better. With the next person you draw, I dare you to draw in a different style with your next post. Make your next drawing not have that huge blocky head with the cartoony eyes. Trust me, if you try new things, you'll improve 10 times as fast. This isn't deriding your cartoon style, but I'm sure you would like to improve faster than you are. This is how.

And as for, "It's a lot of fun," that goes for the thread's regulars. As you saw, I jumped into this thread about halfway in it, right after the bacon beast. Well, I reeeeally had to force myself to draw a picture because I just didn't like where this thread was going. In fact, the only reason I joined was because I was bored as hell. But now that I've drawn a few pictures, I'm having some fun with it. But that's just it. I had to force myself to have fun with it, because the thread is a mess, and I can guarantee I'm not having as much fun as you guys. Is it because I'm a sourpuss? NO! It's because the regs on this thread do not sense the turd that this thread is becoming and everyone else does. My only hypothesis is that this is because the regs are mostly 13 year olds who might not be able to detect the over-random plot which is killing this thread.

Long story short, you guy's random plot which you find fun is kinda killing the fun for everyone else. What I would like would for this thread to end up as a quality story that I could read even after the thread is over. But at this rate, it's becoming a very uninteresting story. As said many times, the first page of NEJ was pretty darn good. Not all the drawings were great, and that JamesB fellow kept forcing himself in like a dummy, but it was a nice story that kinda died right about when the nuclear bomb went off on page 2.

Ok, I'm done.

Here's a picture.

At 7/21/09 02:17 PM, TurkeyOnAStick wrote:

Design a creature that creates delicious substances

Wasn't that last week's topic?

ba dum tsh

Daniel sneaked an attack on Fishborn with his sword. Rather than a simple kill, Fishborn was split into two, revealing that half of his previous state composed of Zelldoom, and the other half was... something else.

WHAAAAAAT WILL HAPPEN NEEEEEXT?!?!!?

No, I didn't get a lot better at drawing bodies from my head. I used a human reference for proportion help.

At 7/19/09 10:35 AM, lolxxXDarkSideXxxlol wrote: But the stickman gets teletransported to another place :O

But zombies are the least of his troubles.

At 7/18/09 05:54 PM, TheDaveAngle wrote: DAMN YOU FISHBOURNE!! WHY DO YOU WANT TO KILL ME!?

Why do you wanna kill me?

So let me get this straight. The dang kid is flying away, Giant-No-Longer-Naked-Black-Guy is a robot, and everyone is surrounded by a few dancing missiles?

OK...