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At 4/15/14 11:40 PM, Shadaw wrote: Quite a collection of weapons. It would make a good reference sheet if someone was to make a bunch of weapons.

Tiny pixel images are not very useful for reference unless you are intending to create tiny pixel images.

A better reference sheet would be a weapons list or history, such as this online text, with a downloadable pdf on the site, which not only has illustrations of weapons and weapon systems, but also has details on their function, how they are operated, and their history.

At 2/2/14 04:38 PM, Dessinmaitre wrote:

At 2/2/14 03:51 PM, maficmelody wrote: Try building the hand from spheres, rectangles, and tubes. The trick is keeping the shapes' volumes in tacked while rotating them in space. *cough* practice practice practice..

Thank you so much, this looks perfect! And yes I'll try that in my next pieces, I always thought that was reserved for super green beginners but It looks like I've missed something.

What was reserved for beginners? Building from shapes?

Nah, that's something that should be done all the time, every time. There are people who can draw without any preparation and have it look amazing (a particular example being Kim Jung Gi) but that's not really a good way for most people to draw, ESPECIALLY if you don't have a ton of experience.

Always always ALWAYS use basic shapes to plan out things, especially if you're working digital since you can just hide it all on another layer anyway.

At 2/1/14 05:57 PM, Template88 wrote: I'm not because the skype art chat is better imo~ and im already on skype all the time anyways

Nobody uses skype except losers who play pretend over the internet.

At 1/5/14 11:37 AM, Ciullo-Corporation wrote: All in one? How? I'm not very skilled in using forums... usually I didn't quote at all but then it look like you said:

I think you're not skilled with computers in general, not just forums.

At 1/2/14 10:39 AM, J-qb wrote:

Take any past creature to evolve from, best take a recent one since the dated one are most likely to be extinguished.

I'd personally rather build it up like the last one from a single cell thingy. We could then make it split up into a predator and a prey species after a couple of steps.

Starting from a single cell seems unnecessary, especially considering that basically any depiction of a single cell organism would be as a blob, a tube, or a cilia covered food hole. It'd probably be better to start as an aquatic animal, something resembling a fish fry or crustacean larvae.

At 1/2/14 02:50 AM, JamSession wrote:
kudos if you know who it is.

It looks Neat-o.

At 12/27/13 03:19 PM, test-object wrote:

At 12/27/13 01:07 PM, HaamarTime wrote: Do I have a problem?

Nah, Death's a cool dude.

Not to mention he's drop dead gorgeous.

At 12/20/13 01:54 AM, Monoklo wrote:

Some more art on the way:

This is a minor thing, but your shell casings in this drawing lack primer. I don't know anything about RBWY, but considering the casings appear to be based off of high velocity rifle rounds judging by their necked down top, these would be centerfire rounds, not rimfire, if the technology of real firearms still applied.

At 12/16/13 04:33 PM, Susanowoo wrote: Is it allowed to do a photoshop topic as this guy did in this link http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1356845

I mean if you post on Art Portal of course

Thanks

I'm going to presume you mean "are you allowed to submit image modifications to the art portal".

The answer is no. Only original pieces are allowed.

At 12/10/13 07:53 PM, DarkPrinceVI wrote: How do you get your content submitted to the art portal? Do lots of people just have to see it and be like "Yea that's good."

Pretty much.

You have to be scouted, which basically means that somebody who already can submit to the art portal has to give you their approval. It's an easy method of keeping garbage out of the portal.

Cool, this is my new art piece, titled "Are You Serious".

At 11/10/13 11:45 AM, tanikozo1 wrote: what program did you open my image.?P.s. sorry for the dumb question

An earlier version of the program you used, CS2 to be specific.

At 11/10/13 09:57 AM, Felis wrote:
In picture form because easier to explain.

Whoops, forgot to capture the most important part.

In any case, I think it's a bit too simple for 16 bit, nevermind the color restrictions on actual 16 bit or 8 bit hardware. Look at some SNES games and don't be afraid to make it more detailed.

At 11/10/13 09:51 AM, tanikozo1 wrote: BTW sorry the image is small

Bit of advice for next time you show stuff like this:

In picture form because easier to explain.

At 11/10/13 07:21 AM, 123mine123 wrote:
That's what I thought but I kinda don't know where and how...

A lot of people don't know and they do it anyway. If you want to do it right though, find an object and shine a light on it. Reference is always key to drawing things that you don't know.

If you don't have a light like a lamp or a flashlight then handheld electronics with backlights (which everything since the game boy advance SP has had, as far as games go) work in a pinch.

*pounds head*

*links to Loomis*

This guy Loomis is sort of the standard (as far as I hear) for learning how to draw professionally, he was an art teacher and he knew how to teach art. Fun stuff. Also art teachers today still use his methods, not that I know or anything and I'm totally not enrolled in a college being taught art things.

I haven't gone through all his books even though I should, but that link provides a download to most of his books in .pdf form, including one astoundingly shitty .pdf but we'll not talk about that one because that's the documenter's fault not Loomis's, plus it can't be Loomis's fault because he's been dead for about fifty years.

Reading books is definitely no replacement for practice and experimentation, because as much as you know about any technique, you can't just apply it to something, unless you're a fricking genius or a savant.

So draw more.

TLDR: Draw more.

At 10/29/13 08:26 AM, test-object wrote: worm

At 10/29/13 01:57 AM, TurkeyOnAStick wrote: - Christmas worm.

At 11/5/13 01:47 AM, TurkeyOnAStick wrote: XMas worm.

At 11/6/13 03:48 AM, Aigis wrote: worm

worms?

I've heard of this guy called Loomis being a pretty decent thing to learn from, I dunno, I've never heard of him, supposed to be famous or something, whatever.

There's even a site with downloadable free .pdf files of his books.

Might be worth checking out, who knows.

I guess I can't really complain.

Futurist cooking.

At 10/15/13 10:20 PM, LoboF wrote: I created this when I was testing lightning effects for halloween,
can i post it at art portal, or Tankman must be "made by me" to don't infringe Nengrounds copyright?

No, you can't use other people's art in submissions to the art portal.

At 9/30/13 10:34 PM, Rampager wrote: "Has not been scouted" Could someone explain? what does this mean? How do you become "Scouted"? ...What happens when your scouted? I'm not sure I fully grasp what this does for you.

First of all, Obligatory Ornery Scouting Guide Plug.

Scouted users have an option, when looking at your art, to "scout" you. Essentially it's being found and recommended. When you're scouted, the limit on how much art you can have submitted it taken off, and your work shows up in the actual portal instead of the unscouted section.

side note: it seems like this forum is slow.

Yes it is.

At 9/16/13 06:58 AM, philipv11 wrote: can someone see my art i made in adobe illustrator heres the art http://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/philipv11/a-elephant-by-philipv11

Ok I saw it

Draw Dracula from Castlevania.

At 8/5/13 08:09 PM, PolyVerse wrote:
bump

Your topic hadn't even fallen off of the first page. A bump was therefore not needed in the slightest.

I'm going to assume you knew this, but chose instead to not communicate clearly for some unknown reason.

What would have worked equally well would have been "I would like a quick answer to my requests to be scouted and to receive feedback."

First of all, you can't be scouted. You don't have four submissions, and having four submissions to the portal is a basic requirement if you want to be scouted.

That said, your work is, to put it bluntly, not up to par to be scouted.

You appear to lack basic anatomy skills, which are incredibly important if you want to draw humans, and especially nude humans.

At 7/28/13 01:18 AM, BetterGuy wrote:

I have more detailed ones, but they are way more then 200k. A few are in he MB range :p.

what is compression

At 5/15/13 09:48 AM, TurkeyOnAStick wrote:

At 5/15/13 09:42 AM, xXxDAPRO89xXx wrote: So we can't upload likepictures of things we took?

What do you mean, "took"? Like a photograph?

I think he means took, like that one guy took the Mona Lisa.

At 5/5/13 10:31 AM, iWarpStudios wrote: Thanks but i not trying to make a C64 game (Although i would really love to) I'm trying to make a flash game with Snes Like Graphics

If you want to make a game with SNES style graphics, I highly recommend that you use a raster program rather than a vector program.

I'm assuming you have one of those because it's probably the most common sort of image editing format thing out there.

In any case, SNES games use a 15 bit RBG pallete, which means you're limited to these colors.

You're allowed to use 15 colors per sprite, plus one color for the background that is transparent or whatever, don't ask for a detailed explanation on this shit, I just googled it, and I've done sprite editing exactly once and that was for GBA color requirements.

In what you posted, you've used ten colors. That's fine and all, but you could stick five more in there and make it look a whole lot better.

Also, as a suggestion, put some of those shading pixels under your guy's chin, he looks like a snail.

something
bigger for those that need it, idk

At 4/17/13 09:47 PM, 372 wrote:
4. You go through my ART FOURM posts and tell me how many one sentence posts I've made Seriously. Do it.

And then the goalposts grew feet.

Knock it off, nobody actually cares.

I recall this thread being about this guy's flash cartoon fan art, not about how your cock is immense and you have no option but to prove it.

At 4/14/13 07:19 PM, pokemon7777 wrote: Will someone PLEASE scout me!

No.

There's nothing in your gallery worth scouting you for. Sprite edits aren't considered art, and sprite edits are frankly the best looking things you have right now.