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Wow, rough news indeed
Well Kiddo, I wish you luck in all your indeveors. I do hope you'll drop me a line from time to time and let me know how you, and things are doing.
We all have demons to fight in both the world and with in ourselves. Don't let them beat you.

Woah, hey some heavy stuff going on here as of late.

damn, I don't want to throw a fork in the road of conversation, but Yay! its my B-day :D

BTW Cypress, I do like your work, and still watch for it to pop on to my feed from time to time.

At 12/25/14 10:23 AM, bigjonny13 wrote: Merry Christmas everyone.

Merry christmas to all, and to all a good night!
Woo!

gah! why must it always be so far away and I never have enough time off or money to go... :'(

At 12/2/14 10:09 PM, Hero101 wrote: If you do use the programs mentioned in the title..... I am currently taking a beginner 3D modeling class at my college and we are using Maya. We haven't learned this in class yet but I noticed you could create a new layer and assign a selected object to it.

Why is the usefulness of using layers in these 3D programs other than being able to more easily find your objects (should you have a lot of them in one scene)? Like I understand the usefulness of using layers in other programs (Photoshop, Flash, etc) but I guess I'm just so new to 3D modeling that I don't see the big picture with them.

The layers work pretty similarly to that of photoshop.
you can turn them on and off. making some parts visible and some not, which comes inhandy later when rigging.

also you can select by layer, group by layer, have different shaders and such by layers yada yada

A lot of it is organization. and although in an intro class when your not dealing with a ton of different objects they seem a little much, but when you are doing more advanced things with more objects than you can count, having good tidiness with layers will save you a lot of sanity.

Trust me, learn the basics. No matter how much you learn, or what tricks you pick up, almost everything comes down to knowing the basics. And layers are one of the things you'll be very, very glad you learned.

At 10/20/14 05:46 AM, KunioStyle wrote: New character.
http://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/kuniostyle/3-yamamoto-hatako

its alright,
But it feels like you are trying to push a lot of advanced techniques on to the piece before you really know how to use them.
I see a lot of really strong highlights that make things look more like they have been embossed filtered rather than actually giving depth and value to the piece.

Perhaps you should do some basic lighting studies with some basic geometric shapes. I think you'll find that doing them will greatly increase your skill through understanding of the basics.

Keep at it. You'll only keep getting better if you take, practice and use the advice of the other artist of this forum

At 10/20/14 04:59 PM, Havegum wrote:

At 10/20/14 04:56 PM, Havegum wrote: Some 2m poses. I get a better sense of volume from these than I do from my 2m sketches earlier this year

A WIP thingy

reminds me alot of Hokusai's "The Great Wave off Kanagawa"
Nice job,
Agree with the guy above me though, Can I get a translation?

At 6/1/14 04:35 PM, LewisBerry wrote: When i search for my work, its name or tags, I cannot seem to find it. How can people see my work?

read this
and then accept my scout offer...

At 5/27/14 12:12 AM, Bloodyanimation wrote: I trim the videos on my iphone before sending it to myself because they said that the file was too large to send and i dont know why grid technique is so blacklisted here on these forum i use this technique all the time in artclass well thanks again for your commment ill tru to do best in my next video

its not so much as it being black listed, its that you never mention the technique when you present your work. Your the one using it as a crutch but then trying to act like your standing on your own two feet.

And if it is about the cutting of the video, perhaps you need to re edit it or cut it else where. Because just starting with the line work already down (and already matching the reference to an almost exact) it is a bit suspicious.

The grid comes in handy for replicating and enlarging and scaling down things. but when people are doing new and original things, which is what many do around here, its not as useful.

If you want to be a more successful artist, then work toward slowly getting off the grid. Eventually you'll be able to replicate from sight rather than from grid. Then that will be much more impressive.

At 5/26/14 08:42 PM, Bloodyanimation wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjBC55_saGE and plz subscribes !!!!

for the time-lapse video go on this link its a picture of my girlfriend and my dog

I'm not entirely sure I like you....
I thought your name sounded familiar. and I looked through your post history, and well, I remember lurking your first thread and being quite disappointed.
And here we are again. I screen shot a random frame from your video and overlayed your reference pic, and well... they line up an awful lot... More than I would allow anyway.

I'll let everyone else draw their own conclusion on this, but it seems like the exact same thing you did in the first thread.

Your video as "Proof" doesn't really work either in your defense since the lines are already layed down by time the video starts up...
Your other video isn't any better since it too starts up after the line work is already down.

I'm not seeing any preliminary sketch work on the paper either. in both videos.

And then their is the pieces you have uploaded to your profile. Sure they are 8 months old, give or take a month, but they don't show the final polished level that would come with someone who doesn't need to do preliminary sketch work

Also, don't beg for subscribers, thats the one sure thing to make me not a subscriber...
also you don't need a new thread for each new piece,
and at least post the final piece in the tread instead of just posting your reference and a link to a video...

So lets see if you can earn some redemption;"Is their anything you want to tell us about these two pieces you posted?"

At 5/26/14 12:36 PM, Sockembop wrote:

At 5/26/14 12:32 PM, Kinsei wrote: Go Here. CTRLPaint, watch all the tutorials and start practicing.
thats about the best advice I can give.
also.. have patients, lots of patients..

He said he wants to be an artist not a dentist.

And I wanna learn to spell one of these days... but we all know I live in america....
ahh such dreams of madmen ....

At 5/26/14 12:27 PM, Vitraxity wrote:

At 5/26/14 12:19 PM, ShizzleCreature wrote: best way- by hand,old school oil paintings.
less good way,but works fine for most people around here is photoshop and playing with shading and highlights tools..

I want the photoshop tutorial only

Go Here. CTRLPaint, watch all the tutorials and start practicing.
thats about the best advice I can give.
also.. have patients, lots of patients..

At 5/24/14 03:07 PM, Ciullo-Corporation wrote: How could you pretend I take you seriously?!

oh... I don't.
This is just me racking up +1's while making you squirm a little.
I love pointing out you can't 3d model, don't have any lighting knowledge, don't know how to use textures, can't compose a scene, voice act, or have any desire to listen to anyone to help you or to make yourself better. But as you have already said, we've been over this.
so this is just me, having fun...

At 5/24/14 02:52 PM, TheMajormel wrote:

At 5/24/14 02:37 PM, Kinsei wrote:

At 5/24/14 02:24 PM, TheMajormel wrote:

At 5/24/14 02:03 PM, Kinsei wrote: can you swap out the cord?
I say this because I had this problem yesterday with a voice recorder.

i tried, still doesn't work

Hopefully your tablet didn't go out all together
have you tried attaching it to another computer?
does it work on it?

tested it on another, and now im positive it's broken. guess its time to fix it myself

sorry yo hear that my friend. I hope you can fix it, if not, at least bamboo's aren't too expensive.

At 5/24/14 02:39 PM, Ciullo-Corporation wrote: Hope you've finished to wast my time.

Nope
For every piece of crap art uploaded, I'll be there
For every "artist" too full of himself, I'll be there
for every time someone claims their art is with out flaw, I will be there
for every one of you, their will be a me, waiting to critique and point out its short commings

I am the joker to your wanna be batman
am the blue kryptonite to your bizzaro
I am the erectile dysfunction to your nightly romp.

I will always be, always

Enjoy!

At 5/24/14 02:24 PM, TheMajormel wrote:

At 5/24/14 02:03 PM, Kinsei wrote: can you swap out the cord?
I say this because I had this problem yesterday with a voice recorder.

i tried, still doesn't work

Hopefully your tablet didn't go out all together
have you tried attaching it to another computer?
does it work on it?

At 5/24/14 02:26 PM, Ciullo-Corporation wrote:

At 5/24/14 02:16 PM, Kinsei wrote:

At 5/24/14 02:08 PM, Ciullo-Corporation wrote: the image is always been public

then how come I can't 0 it for the piece of crap it is?

Oh, I don't know... try to ask the guys who apprecciated it.

Haha Your ignorance and attempts to fabricate a "Reason" it's score is so high is laughable.
I love crappy wannabes like, you always give me a great time

At 5/24/14 02:08 PM, Ciullo-Corporation wrote: the image is always been public

then how come I can't 0 it for the piece of crap it is?

At 5/24/14 02:01 PM, TheMajormel wrote: so around last year december, my bamboo capture just stopped working. The led doesnt light up when plugged in and when i tried to install a new driver, it'll say there's a problem with the driver and no supported tablet was found on the system.
how do i fix this?

can you swap out the cord?
I say this because I had this problem yesterday with a voice recorder.

At 5/24/14 12:40 PM, Ciullo-Corporation wrote: Check out my Crap

These... are all terrible.. even for self taught

and whats with this one

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  Chyrkyan Curioso by Ciullo-Corporation

  LOW-RES PREVIEW -- BROWSE MY SITE (LINK BELOW) BEFORE VOTING Image protected by copyright Get 8k Resolution image -> http://...

  Score

  5.000000000 / 5.00

  Type

  3D Art

  Popularity

  52 Views

  Rated

  Everyone

31 votes... all fives... and not public.
So, do you do, like make it public, vote 5 and then remove it from public so no one can dispute it in the votes?
thats... pretty pathetic...
actually it looks like you pretty much 5 all your stuff every day... wow, just wow...

At 5/21/14 06:17 PM, ivcooler wrote: This topic is for anyone who plays animal jam and loves the game.

You know, If you hadn't had posted that Discord, I wouldn't have looked in to this piece all that much since I don't know what animal jam is, nor do I care.
But Since you brought up MLP,
I'll raise a little suspicion on this one.
I'm pretty sure this is just some base from a game now
cause I found this
and when you flip it over and compair with some overlay, it look pretty much the same.

Hey if your a fan of a game, great, more power to you and your fandom, but perhaps honoring your game with a little more original art rather than some clipped images from the game would probably go a bit farther....

At 5/21/14 09:24 PM, ivcooler wrote: look at the one digital art piece that I made of discord. I'm a new artist but I think it came out really well.

Getting a little close to the original screen shot though...I love MLP, but could you do something that might not be mistaken as a trace or perhaps a little more original?

At 5/21/14 05:22 AM, IdealLover wrote: View my awesome designs, Comment what you want to say to my artwork.

Junebert Losgapa, or as claim you name is name you blog post, Are you sure you want to say this is your design?
cause I'm sure that Anthony Holden guy who actually drew it (and animated it) might want to say otherwise...
same kind of goes for his zoro piece

At 5/13/14 11:04 PM, theclassybutler wrote: Made a real quick change.

your starting to lose your contrast with the black and white making it hard to read in the middle of the word angel.
If you do it like you did death, then it will be a little more clear/

At 5/13/14 10:22 PM, theclassybutler wrote:

At 5/13/14 10:03 PM, Seriousle wrote:

At 5/13/14 09:28 PM, theclassybutler wrote:

At 5/13/14 09:19 PM, Seriousle wrote:

At 5/13/14 09:18 PM, theclassybutler wrote: The New Version of the Logo. The black background might screw up the readability a bit, so I apologize in advance for that.

on the brightside. this font actually reads as death angel and no longer Arkel :D

YAY! That's what's important, right?

its fairly important unless you've considered just calling it Death Arkel :P

That name would make zero sense... And then everybody will be like, "Your comic sucks," and then I'll be all, "but I haven't even started it yet"...

I don't know, Death Arkel might be a fun way to leave your mark on the art world
could even lead to an interesting story line later on.

Anyway the new logo is readable and much better already.

At 5/13/14 07:52 PM, theclassybutler wrote: A hopefully easier to read version of the logo.

not really
still looks like a "K" in the middle of the angel.
I think you seriously need to reconsider the type face you are using.

At 5/13/14 09:12 AM, Seriousle wrote:

At 5/13/14 07:47 AM, Flowers10 wrote:

At 5/13/14 01:49 AM, theclassybutler wrote: So, I am going to start with my series Logo before I show you my characters to show my graphic design skills. I am going to do several designs of the logo, and this is my most current one.

Hi welcome back, we all still remember you as your style is very distinctive.
I have some critique for your logo, it doesnt read for me as death angel.
for me it reads death arkel.
I think ts a cool idea how you made the logo out of guns.
But id say its way too complex. it doesnt read from a distance and only when looking closly one can see its is guns

i do actually agree with this comment, when i look at your logo i also read it as Death Arkle and if you where to scale the image down in size at all the distinction would be even harder to recognise

So This makes three of us then...
although I thought it said Ankle rather than Arkle,
Any way Yeah the logo doesn't read at all. I know you already acknowledged this as an issue. but I really want to throw my two cents in.
I would get both words on the same line, shrink down the logo and use it as a spacer in the center with the bottom of the skull dipping between the two words.
Get a far more legible font. Pop over to http://www.dafont.com/ and look through their gothic modern section since that seems to be the style you are looking for and get one you like, and can read.

also having a full font will make things a hell of a lot easier

Kern out the lettering a little to help the readability and try and get an even contour or stroke around the lettering to help drag it out of the background.
Also perhaps think of a 3rd core color you can add to the logo design to help give you a couple more areas you can go with the color scheme. Perhaps a gray or just some more white might do the trick. Again, not a must o nthis last one, but still something to think bout.

At 5/6/14 05:46 AM, Havegum wrote:

At 5/5/14 10:32 PM, Kinsei wrote: I gotta say, I really, Really Like this statement
But, Toas, I must ask. How did you get past those first few steps.

...
fuck, now I really do feel like an ass
sorry about that...
I gotta work on that "paying attention" thing my boss is always on me about....
Thanks for the read and link. I'll get it read right now/

At 5/5/14 01:54 PM, Havegum wrote: I realized that I couldn't let my spare time go to waste no matter how tired or exhausted I may feel when I'm done at work for the day. I found that I just needed to fill my spare time with something, anything so as to not waste the hours wandering aimlessly around the internet.

I gotta say, I really, Really Like this statement
But, Toas, I must ask. How did you get past those first few steps.
I feel like this is exactly what is happening in my own life right now. I feel like I just waste my time every night. Surfing youtube, netflix, newgrounts etc. And I keep saying to myself every damn day that I need to draw more, I need to sculpt more, need to 3d model, paint, work on miniatures. I just need to CREATE!
But I come home every night and just do nothing, just so burned out from the day, It frustrates me. But I can't seem to kick start myself in to doing more. Sure I'm lucky enough to have a graphic designer's job so I do get to do some, but its different. All I do is simple type layouts, and stuff. Any real artistic stuff I get to do is usually rebuilding someone's jpeg logo in to vector art work.

So it sounds like you got something going for you ol' buddy. So how about sharing some in depth instructions on how to keep creating in every day life?

if it involves any sort of human sacrifice, I'm totally in. I even have an old man who I'm sure not many will miss.....

i Really don't feel like going in to a full critique right now, but I have to point out one serious thing...
his sword... its on the right side.... his right hand... its a hook....
so, yeah. thats not really going to work.
any reason for this design choice?