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At 1/31/15 03:42 AM, Daverom wrote: Saying words with every post's never been one of my strong suits.

More lack of words.

Saying words with every post's never been one of my strong suits.

some stuff I drew for a friend.

a little bit of vent, a little bit of a reminder.

What are you currently doing to practice perspective?

At 1/26/15 04:57 AM, Havegum wrote: Hey man, that's exciting news!
What are you up to these days anyway?

Not much different from before honestly. Still living at home working the same shitty cashier job. Still wanna get into comics but not confident enough to really get started. It's kind of astounding how much life can just stagnate when you just allow it to.

And a gif I started working on tonight.

So I'm back, more or less.
While I've never actually left, I check this place near daily and even occasionally chime in. But it's been a hell of a long time since the last time I posted any art. Partly due to the lack of posting, partly because I basically fell out of the art groove for like a year.

Putting all your weight on an art career when you have no established name to yourself, especially with refusing to work a job on the side WHILE you build that following is a very stubborn and reckless thing to do.

You can't get on top if you have no where to live and do your work.

At 1/16/15 01:15 PM, lovingthedark wrote: Not exactly? The primary form of quality control exerted over the portal is the scouting system, definitely run by artists. Do you really care about ratings and page views? You're so skilled I'd think you could rest confident in that respect.

I think he means quality control of the rating system.
I've never particularly liked the number system, on newgrounds or otherwise. I'd even like them removed from reviews in general and make them strictly text, but I know I'm probably in the minority on that. But for the flash portal it was a necessary evil to have some kind of quality control, even though it could be abused when the community was smaller. But I don't understand why it exists in any other part of the site. There's no real reason other than it's just what the flash portal did.

Merry christmas, ya nerds.

and anything else you may celebrate

Yeah. Literally no ones gonna download a rar file from an account that was made today with 1 post.

Because an image dump of roughly 200 images from a single person is fucking absurd.

At 10/7/14 05:03 PM, Nintendoobsessed wrote: Can anyone tell me if they know what this thing is/where it's from?

http://fi.somethingawful.com/safs/titles/74/37/00175787.0002.gif

Looks like a really unfittingly stylized slark from dota 2

Nah dawg, these be straight willies.

You've cracked the code.

Thanks, and sorry for the misunderstanding. I'm really impressed with the system here though, it seems as if this website is working really hard to fight art theives (unlike DA).

its all a size thing. Da is way too huge for its own good. Even if they did have a respectable theft prevention staff they'd never be able to keep up. We get as many art submissions in the portal in a day as they get in seconds.

At 7/14/14 09:41 AM, Chronamut wrote: If all my pledges exactly reflected the price I was raising I wouldn't raise any money dude.. so 300 for the lightbox, and 200 money RAISED..

Yet you keep saying you sell these out of studio for 150, where is the extra 150 coming from, let alone the extra 200 beyond that ON TOP of shipping? Not even touching on the fact that there is also a competitor who is beating your regular asking price hand over fist. More options, larger frames, and better prices with free shipping. Hell they're even frameless with custom artwork. I don't care about your studio price, that isn't what you're offering here. They sell what looks like a better product, cheaper, and hell they even go into detail about how they make it.

Transparency is incredibly important for a business, let alone a one person endeavor; and is more or less essential for a kickstarter (it's even in their TOS). If people don't know what you're doing with their money. If people can't trust you, they aren't going to give you their money.

kickstarter isn't just about getting people swag, it's also about raising money for your own projects.

I think you forget that one has to actually PROFIT from the pledges, and not just give the pledge worth away - this is raising money after all.

I'm gonna level with you.
Your business model is awful. It reeks of consumer mistrust and outright contempt, even after backpedaling about the ridiculous copyright stuff, you still refuse to plainly state where the money is going. People aren't coming to you, clamoring to get their hands on your product. You are going to them with a fundraiser and begging for money, and you won't even going to give them basic information on what their money is going towards beyond 'the expenses of pioneering?'

I'm not even interested in the product and I'm asking some pretty basic questions on things that concern me. Do you really think people aren't gonna ask these kinds of questions with half a grand as a pricepoint? You're even outright stating that the lightboxes cost significantly less than the pledge price. Do you think they'll except these vague answers and straight-up admission of blatant extortion?

Jack more or less has covered pretty much anything there is to be skeptic about on this, and just looking around for parts of what I can only assume goes into one of these, 200 to 300 doesn't seem all that unreasonable if you're factoring in custom-making each one while also paying for the use of the tools; although 300 does seem a bit steep to me but it's your pricing and I don't know exact numbers.

Something super problematic jumps out at me with the pledge tiers though. You are weighing these tiers way down with loads of stuff people may not actually want. The first one to actually have a lightbox as part of the reward is a $500 pledge, a whopping 200 more than the asking price for one. I would really recommend an option in there for $300 that's just a lightbox, and or a cheaper option for a smaller one.

By all means, sell your art through this as well if you want, it's your kickstarter. But I think it'd really help if there was more focus on getting people the actual product you are trying to get funding for.

At 7/13/14 12:35 PM, Sjiht wrote:

At 7/13/14 11:05 AM, Porn4Grim wrote: Its the way I was told to do art though.... I told that a finished picture is better then nothing

But a 10 sketches in the same time are even better than one finished picture. :3

Not if your goal is to make finished pictures.

At 7/8/14 12:55 PM, Fifty-50 wrote:

Also why do you not like people redrawing your art? It's not bad is it?

Like drawing his character or redrawing a submission but trying to one up him.
cause I could definitely see why someone wouldn't like the latter.

I can vouch for nakedzergling being legit, I used to post a bit on the pa forums.
I'd imagine if they were to start posting here it wouldn't be asking for critique on 5 year old work.

At 7/7/14 12:09 AM, M-Maher wrote: Quick! everyone stop what we're doing! were all wrong! Aigis has all the answers! please lead us oh lord Aigis Christ to the promised land! SPIN US A THREAD OH WISE PATRIARCH AND DELIVER US TO SERENITY!

Your snarky bullshit is even less welcome when you have no idea what you're talking about.
Seriously stop.

Do you have any examples of stuff you've programmed?

At 6/30/14 05:18 PM, Bloodyanimation wrote: so if i follow what your saying this is copying right same haire same costume same pose and same expression right

if you are copying someone else exact composition with only minor tweaks to lighting
yes
you are copying. You aren't tracing, but your image is not 100% your skill by any stretch.

At 6/26/14 02:26 PM, ThaFallenOne wrote: so i figured "why not" if his art isnt that good.

because that makes you look like a petty douche

At 6/17/14 12:50 PM, shykidzstudios wrote: http://www.patreon.com/MayorPixel?ty=a

This guys needs to pay the artists. :/. I don't know how people can do this kind of thing.

I like how he clearly has no idea how the milestones work.
That said, Slog, you should shoot this too artists beware

It's fine. It'll do what you need it to do.
though iv not tried it myself I've heard very good things about Krita

Any a y,all motherfuckers got Mario kart 8?

or Wii u in general

I'm Dave.verom on miiverse

My god you're more ridiculous and full of yourself than the last time you were here. It's like you're parodying yourself.
incredible.