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At 5/5/10 11:34 AM, ReNaeNae wrote: Out of curiosity ...to those that didn't enter... what do you guys think we can do to increase user participation? Not too long ago, there'd be 5-6 pages of entries. Now we're lucky if we hit 2-3. Is it that you don't like the themes? Are we not giving enough time? Prizes suck? What would it take to get you to enter?

I dont know... for this one it basically was a time issue; what with the doubles and a vacation and stuff... It wasnt impossible for me to do something but just not really had the time to make something great.
Which brings me to the real point; for contests; I want to make something really good, which is intimidating to me. I honestly dont know what it is; but I do know I have decided to just start joining in everything even if it means ill produce something not that good. I quite like that resolution.

Some of you will probably remember that during november/december of last year I made some great progress in my art; which was basically due to me just painting without making a big deal out of it. Then everybody (including myself) complimented me on the progress I had made (thanks for that), but that kinda made it difficult for me to just draw something for the heck of it...

Anyways; to answer your question: I dont know; but I plan to change it.

One last thing Id like to mention about these contest though: I get irritated when I see poeple turn up for the contests and make awesome submissions; but then they are never seen or heard of in the art forum except in the next contest. I know this is also a good thing, and there is not perfect. I dont necessarily want you to do something about it; but it does make me kinda frustrated.

At 5/7/10 09:35 PM, AwesomeSaurus wrote: New Doubles, yay!

YAY!

From now, until Monday, May 10th you post in this thread saying you are "in" and willing to participate.

Yayaya! I was worried i might not be back in time and would have to apply for a backup-place

Here's the pic from the Winners of Showdown 10, DooDooMeat and Nekow!

Im kinda sad Jagon and I didnt win; but DooDoo and Nekow really did an outstandingly beautifull job; Congrats Guys!

IM IN, who's with me?

I AM WITH YOU! SHAKE THAT DINOSAUR BUT!

Hey all, Im back from my second vacation.
This time it was Barcelona; I was supposed to go with TOAS, but he backed out. ;)
Barcelona is a quite beautiful city, but more than that its artistically very inspiring. First of you have Gaudi`s architecture and sculptures; The Sagrada Familia, Casa de Milo and Parc Guell are each on their own worth a visit. The Sagrada and Casa Mila are both very interesting to admire from outside; but for the EU10,- admission fee you get a great look at the inspirations of Gaudis work. The Casa Mila had a more interesting museum department plus a really cool rooftop terrace. If you were too choose, I suggest going into Casa Mila rather than the Sagrada... Impressive as it is; it is still being constructed; which makes large areas unaccessable, and its grandest features are observable from the outside anyways.
Barcelone also hosts a Museum dedicated to Salvador Dali, right in the city centre. The rather smallish museum did not exhibit many of his famous works; nor did it posses any but one of his so distinguishable paintings. It did however host a large collection of sketches and quite some sculptures. The sketches were very interesting in tracing his development through different styles. It really was quite a small museum (especially considering the number of works on display, so if you want to visit a dali museum I suggest you pick the one in figueras which is supposedly not that far from barcalona.
If we`re talking Spanish artists, I cant skip Pablo Picasso. The Museu Picasso in Barca owns a large collection of his earlier works as well as the very impressive "Las Meninas" series. Definitely worth a visit.
All in all it was a very inspiring trip, so Im kinda glad to be back and get arting myself.

Thats whats up with me; whats up with you?

At 5/4/10 04:28 PM, BlackmarketKraig wrote:

At 5/4/10 03:47 PM, J-qb wrote:

Yeah, tonikors collages of many different images following a theme and making a statement is the same thing as cutting out a trademarked image of Ironman and sticking it on some crappy fractal background. =P

Off course they arent; but your rule would disallow tonikors work... And Tonikor`s kind of work is basically the thing I was hoping to see in that sig thread.

At 5/4/10 03:41 PM, BlackmarketKraig wrote: Y'know 'cause that's how we roll in the Art Forum. =]

Then again; I love tonikors work...

At 5/4/10 03:13 PM, ReNaeNae wrote: What do you guys think of the Sig of the week threads?

creating my own drama! :P

I was worried from the start; but luckily my greatest fears havent come true... the submissions seem to be reasonably okay; but its more design then art...

At 5/4/10 09:14 AM, CloudEater wrote: Ok here's my first MCC entry... I'm kind of happy with the shading style I've come up with. I would have tried to make the shading better or emphasise it but because it's vector art and I had drawn so many lines the lag was pretty bad...

hopefully it's completely monochrome...

thats not 500 by 500 is it?

At 5/4/10 06:32 AM, Xentarim wrote: Hi all. I'd like to put something up too.

It's a bit plain, I know, and the angel's somewhat contrived. So far anything I've tried to add in (including the angel) only seems to be very artificial. If I could, I'd probably just leave the background blank.

Any opinion on this matter is welcome =)

it looks cool, and I dont think you need to add extra objects to it. I would like you to add some more shades though.

At 5/3/10 10:07 PM, xlh2000 wrote: Sorry for double post but i forgot to answer this.

replying to me is always worth a double post.

always

No story just a random assortment of some gory stuff i had in my head at the moment

ah, well that means I wont have to feel bad about not understanding the story then ;)
As I said, I liked the art of it, but it would be cool if there was some more cohesion.

At 5/3/10 05:39 PM, big-jonny-13 wrote: You stay classy Newgrounds

Too bad my suit is still traveling back from budapest.....
I would have outsuited you all.

At 5/4/10 12:33 AM, big-jonny-13 wrote:

At 5/4/10 12:11 AM, protoAuthor wrote: And here.

God, you're obsessed with firearms aren't you?
Also, katanas do not suck. They are brilliant pieces of weaponry, and would make great melee weapons for guards when push comes to shove.

actually... with guns and shit you wont have the space needed to weild a katana; if your that far away; your (gunwielding) opponent can take a step back and shoot you; A knife would be better suited.

At 5/4/10 01:11 AM, dreamzmighty wrote: I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW!!! : D The hair is way too light! HAH! I can fix that!

But there is more... Not just that... Hmm...

the upper lip seems to be two lips... catch my drift?
youve got the lip and then halfway on that lip is skin... or something... it confuses me...

At 5/3/10 09:33 PM, RoastySmith wrote: How's this?

As occluded and Spacecase said before me; no black allowed; It shouldnt be that big of a problem to change that though.
Besides that Id like you to clean up the background (I mean drastically clean up, I know you were probably going for a scetchy look but I dont like it; make it smooth like the portrait itself), and tried add in a few more shades instead of only the three.

At 5/3/10 08:43 PM, Spac3case916 wrote: the composition is excellent.
the colors are also very nice.

thanks, but what particular piece are you refering to?

At 5/3/10 03:42 PM, Havegum wrote:

At 5/3/10 02:54 PM, Ashman wrote: i just realised, since the old room exploded we never linked the new room

needs more people!

your userpage needs more poeple?

1 DooDooMeat and Nekow : Elephant Dragon
2 Danopus and Cook : Dragon Town
3 AwesomeSaurus and Mabelma : Team Air Extreme

At 5/3/10 07:46 AM, TechLeSSWaYz wrote: just another picture...

why didnt you post it in your art thread?

At 5/2/10 09:50 PM, Occluded wrote: I heard some kid say how 'lame it was that Micheal Jackson covered that Alien Ant Farm song'.

Youtube videos of Bob Dylan performing "To make you feel my love" sprouted a stream of comments after adele covered that song. They were all in the lines of "This guy is never gonna make it big with a voice like that, the original from adele is way better"

I tried to find it so I could properly quote it; but by now a youtube search on "make you feel my love bob dylan" yields 4 first pages of non-bob dylan versions of the song.

At 5/3/10 12:15 AM, xlh2000 wrote: YAY!

I dont really get it story wise; but artwise it looks cool

At 5/3/10 04:12 AM, Spac3case916 wrote: been awhile.

i need help with this character im making for a flash movie.
i feel like it's almost too complicated to be the main character.
if you could tell me what you think that would be extremely helpful.

This is definitely quite complicated for animation...

At 5/2/10 04:43 PM, Re2deemer wrote: .....I dunno.

Were you flying solo too?

Wacom bamboo
PS CS3

At 5/2/10 02:02 PM, test-object wrote: Also, I have no problem working with J-qb again :3
He's awesome.

Thanks man.

At 5/2/10 01:15 PM, Kinsei01 wrote: ooh I got a new one,
Sadly it's not as good in my opinion as some of my older ones but I present:
"Oh Noes It's The Lock Ness Monster"

this is a picture I took in Pecs (hungary) past thursday.

At 4/27/10 07:56 PM, BlackmarketKraig wrote: If people are still interested or are now becoming interested in this please post here. If you were a TEAM LEADER, please post whether or not you would like to continue with that position.

Yeah, still interested and motivated. I was the back-up team leader for NG/FlashPortal and am willing to be team leader in the revamp.

At 4/28/10 12:14 PM, TurkeyOnAStick wrote: I'd probably suggest that particular level's theme is redecided. I believe Jay Quibbles isn't enthralled with the theme, and the ideas were fairly weak at the concept stage.

Exactly! you know me so well its almost like I talked to you about this... I

At 4/29/10 03:50 PM, BlackmarketKraig wrote: Does anyone have anysuggestion for replacing the NG/flash portal level if people aren't interested in that idea?

I still like the Prehistoric idea

Hey everyone!
Some Great submissions coming; keep them coming!
I just got back from a concert tour to hungary, and im leaving for Barcalona on wednesday. Ill try to find some time before that the gives some reviews and quality calls. In the meantime; Listen to Occluded about what is(not) monochromatic etc.

also this mister;

At 4/27/10 02:38 PM, M-Vero wrote:

At 3/30/10 03:08 PM, Ashman wrote: 1. never merge layers until your completely satisfied with it and youv completely finished

Never merge layers at all really, there's no point unless it's something that goes together, I.E. Line art merged with more lineart, ect.

I sometimes merge layers to keep an overview. I tend to use a lot of layers so I end up lost ; dont know what should go where and end up making even more layers;

At 4/27/10 12:02 PM, Kane-Animation wrote: File keeps getting lost. Help?

try using google chrome or mozilla firefox; its apparently an issue with internet explorer.

At 4/27/10 07:40 AM, big-jonny-13 wrote:

At 4/27/10 04:16 AM, Ashman wrote: do want, can internet send sweets?

I tried sending someone a cookie through the interwebs, but my CD drive wouldn't accept it.

I once put a slice of ham into my cd player; it played a short movie about pigs.

At 4/27/10 06:42 AM, StickDinosaur wrote: I really like this contest idea, can't wait to see more entries.

that is so fuckingbrilliant