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Seeing some nice buns on those fly hons. Nice work, dude.

Digging the designs, though I do prefer the orange-palette version of the first picture you posted over on your Blogspot. How much would you say you use 3d models in your work?

At 1/21/15 04:48 AM, TurkeyOnAStick wrote: Another idea that I would quite like to start is an art duel thread. This is kind of similar to what campnorth.tv did in the past, but I'm not 100% clear how it would work. My thinking goes:
- one user issues a challenge to another user (character, creature, scene, comic),
- the other user accepts, provides a theme (space) and a deadline (a week from now)
- they draw,
- final pics are uploaded to the art portal, and voting takes place in a dedicated thread.
This idea isn't completely ironed out, so I'm wanted to hear some thoughts.

In theory I'm all for it.

But inbetween less outgoing users not participating period, not-regulars not knowing other users to call out, and general unwillingness to antagonize or declare one user better than the other, I'd say that user participation would be your biggest hurdle.

I ran out of videogames to play, so here's a comic book protagonist.

Eh, yeah that's pretty much what it'll look like. I named it Daisy, I hope you all appreciate the humour of that.

At 1/19/15 08:14 AM, TurkeyOnAStick wrote:

At 1/19/15 06:19 AM, Trashydolls wrote: nothing wrong with a taste

Yes.

But
- this shouldn't be a defense for errors in your pic or technique. For example, that head is far too long when you compare it's length to her torso.
- I find slapping penises on women an overdone idea, and not interesting. (I don't think I've ever seen a truly homathroditic pic, actually, it's just genital switches)
- some people's "tastes" extends to where it develops potentially harmful views on other people, which is wrong.

... And you should have labelled this thread nsfw.

I think trashydolls here was talking about literal taste. Like, wine-tasting, but with homemade prostate mayonnaise.

At 1/19/15 07:13 PM, Kinsei wrote: damn, I don't want to throw a fork in the road of conversation, but Yay! its my B-day :D

Good work not being dead for a whole year! Because I was pretty sure you were dead for like, the last year.

At 1/17/15 12:26 AM, lovingthedark wrote: Yo, let's tinychat.

Beep beep beep beep beeeeeee

At 1/14/15 07:27 AM, Chinnaru wrote: Heres a Fan art of Maka albarn I drew recently.

Look through my gallery on DA if you like :)

http://chinnaru.deviantart.com/

Sheesh, your internet gallery is a visual minefield. Like a shotgun to the eyes.

That said, nice picture. A little mishmash in terms of elements, and the composition doesn't particularly support that character pose, but I like it. Never heard of Maka Albarn before. Post more!

I'll just straight say that it being universal is an objective improvement. Seriously objective. As well as the option to submit a scoreless review. And the one vote per media piece. All on board. Great job, guys.

What I am confused on is the "Review data will become the new Score data" section. Do you need to submit a review for your vote to count (and if so, what's the point of voting)? I mean, even typing it out seems a stupid question, but you never know.

If this has already been answered in the thread, just don't answer and I'll eventually muster up the motivation to read the whole thread.

At 1/14/15 03:19 PM, Troisnyx wrote: What do you recommend then in the way of browsers?

Not using CamStudio for a start, it's a piece of shit. Try Open Broadcaster Software instead. It's freeware, accessible and toaster-compatible, the goto for most high quality streams and recording.

Trouble is that even on a hand-drawing, I have to do an armature of sorts, which is what the blue strokes are for. Once the armature is done, I'm able to draw smoothly by hand, but not on a tablet -- I'm not used to it.

What do you recommend?

The construction was what I was referring to. Line Efficiency is a concept I find is fetishized to an extreme degree among some circles, but it's nevertheless a concept worth paying attention to. Though it's uses I find don't lie in using less to achieve more, but more in achieving what you set out to initially do and being done with it.

A series of practices. Attached: A scanned few pages on line efficiency.

Simply practice, a page or two, of drawing simple shapes, form, and then slowly incorporate it into your work. It'd mostly look like this. Helps more than it looks like it would.

At 1/14/15 11:54 AM, CypressDahlia wrote: Haha I think that user got pissy that I posted that here. He just went ahead and zero bombed every piece of art in my gallery for the past two days.

Seems like a bit of a twat(watwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwatwat).

At 1/14/15 08:17 AM, Troisnyx wrote: while running this and Chrome -- THAT WAS IT -- and CamStudio FUCKING CRASHED.

Chrome is a CPU hog. If you're running it on a low-spec computer (a toaster) then concessions have to be made. Try running your recording software with any other browser, though you may miss out on some of Chome's fabulous features such as being a gigantic botnet.

At 1/14/15 02:52 PM, Troisnyx wrote: This is where it's at right now. I give up.

Well, lessons can be learned. The sheer amount of visual noise in your sketch indicates that you may be spending too much time whiling away on a form with 20 lines when you should be spending (in this hypothetical example) 3 at most. This may just be projecting, but I've personally found that trait underlies a personal lack of confidence in your art - being hesitant to proceed onto the next aspect of the illustration, and it consequentially suffering.

My advice would be to have more confidence in your art. More faith. Use bolder strokes, and less of them to put to paper your ideas. Being discouraged is perfectly natural. But never give up, never surrender. Salvage the unsalvageable with confidence and grit.

And good luck!

Didn't have any free time over ye olde holidays. Bleh. Here we are now, with Sockembop's character... I'm going to go ahead and call him Steve. Say hello to Steve.

Ignore fishlip rendering thanks.

At 12/31/14 01:02 AM, Sockembop wrote: lol my characters turn out boring when I try to design characters. Next time I'm just gonna make up some bs nonsense dude.

It was too big to be called a sword. Massive, thick, heavy, and far too rough. Indeed, it was a heap of raw iron.

I'll down a couple of bad drinks for adults and then draw the NG mascots naked in a writhing orgy. I encourage everyone to contribute.

At 12/27/14 12:37 PM, Cartridgeboy wrote: Can some one give me advise on how to go about painting hair on this picture.

If you're just going about looking for weirdly vapid recommendations I've got nothing, but as for the overall process I'd suggest having a gander at The Gurney Journey's blog articles on "The String Mop" and "The Ribbon Secret".

I've found that working in that direction overall leads to much more naturalistic looking hair, though I do tend towards defining individual hairs way too much, myself. Hope it helps, or whatever.

At 1/11/15 11:39 AM, CypressDahlia wrote: So uhh can someone do something about a user named tdafgt. I read one of his "reviews" on Alvin's latest work and decided to look into it. Apparently he only speaks this language.

It's probably chav for "live long and prosper".

At 1/3/15 02:10 PM, AngelsDead wrote: If I understood you correctly should I apply more contrast in my shading to create the illussion of an 3d shape?

More or less, when it suits you. Newground's very own Art101 has a nice little tutorial that explains it as well as the next guy.

Completely inane, but here's some things I drew for Miiverse. It's a horrible little drawing tool, actually. No layers, monochrome only, no zooming, very insensitive touchpad. But its quick and easy, so I use it anyway.

Wonderful 101 is easily my GOTY. I don't care that it came out last year, shut up. Bayonetta 2 is okay too, I guess. Ending is lame.

At 12/25/14 09:23 AM, Havegum wrote:

At 12/25/14 07:08 AM, Lintire wrote: Softened up the brush I used in Photoshop, too, since I'm kind of tired of my illustrations looking sharp enough to cut you.

Interesting! I'm curious about your work process - what does a quick sketch look like and how do you go from there?
Also how do you select colours to consistently make your rainbowgasmic eyecandy?

I'm not a fan of thumbnailing, or brainstorming or whatever. I find it's just a waste of time, I only ever go with the first idea anyway. So my sketch is just me throwing down the visual image I've already gotten in mind, rendering that to a point where I'm able to paint with easy, quickly throwing colours under it and then painting over it until I'm "satisfied" with the image.

Recently I've taken care not to do any rendering whatsoever under the sketch layer, since the sketch's values often mess with my own intended ones.

Colours are a similarly haphazard affair. Normally I choose two main colours - one warm and one cold. Doesn't have to be particularly warm or cold, don't have to be opposites, shadows can be warm and lights can be cold. Whatever it is that serves my whims at that particular time. Picture is based around that. There can be three or four colours, or sixteen if I'm in the mood for it.

I wouldn't call it random (well I would but smarmy assholes have called me out for it in the past), but it's certainly not overthought. Colours don't really matter, as long as your values are right you can get away with anything.

At 12/25/14 10:59 AM, 24901miles wrote: Also do you ever bind keyboard hotkeys to different brushes and colors?

If so, what's your layout?

I've got a couple of tools binded so I can quickly hit them all with the one hand, F for Brush, Q for Crop, W for Lasso, C and V for Decrease/Increase Brush size. Those are really the only hotkeys I used. Photoshop CS3 has that nifty F5 bind for when I feel like messing with brushes, which isn't often. Most of the time, it's just a brush.

But I did feel that my images were getting sharper when I decreased their size than I intended them to be, so I messed with it that once.

And a happy new year!

At 11/6/14 10:41 PM, Metastable-Steve wrote: I'll try to keep this one more active.

I've personally found that turning a thread like this into a chore, or any sort of commitment, just sees my motivation in actually posting stuff to it completely plummet. It stops being fun, maybe?

Very nice stuff, though despite the sexually tantalizing subject matter the illustrations/sketches are very similar. I don't know how you do it, I get bored drawing the same thing twice. Continue to update the thread with your obscene lips and downcast eye creations, and I will eagerly await them.

At 1/3/15 07:14 AM, JackAstrale wrote: let's start with a little fanart of "Castle Crashers"

I don't remember the Iceskimos looking that good. Industrialist/Fencer forever, though.

That's a goddamn dynamic style you've got going there. Outright bloody radical. Post more, man, I'd like to see more where this came from. Very character-focused stuff, though, think you could bring that same sense of energy to the whole illustration?

And your English, while bad on it's own merit, is above par for internet forums. Don't sweat it.

As radical as ever, Lundsfryd. Your use of pastal colours and distinctive facial abstraction kept me entertained where words would have failed anyway. Though I'm not going to pretend I have the attention span to read all that, even if I could have.

Your head for pleasing aesthetics and instantly recognizable style shall continue to serve you where your shopping sense will not.

Very soft and non-threatening style you've got going. Hope you continue to post work.

Offering any advice, I'd say to work on your values/contrast and the way you convey form. The few examples of "shading" I've seen in the thread are as soft as your style, and while that's cohesive it does a weak job of presenting the illustrations as 3-dimensional objects.

But considering you still seem to largely think on a flat plane it might be asking a bit much to expect you to suddenly become proficient at thinking in form. I'm sure as long as you continue to practice and experiment you'll continue to improve in the area you desire. Good luck!

Force of habit.

At 12/28/14 09:25 PM, rajNG wrote: Fuck You All! {Now I TRULY want to die.}

Hey buddy, have a snickers. Maybe consider a nap. Quit throwing tantrums on the internet.

At 12/26/14 09:00 AM, TomFulp wrote:

At 12/26/14 03:22 AM, JimmyTheCaterpillar wrote: Got a supafly WiiU, that I'm using to get on the site.

Murry Christmas guys.

Sweet, be sure to get Super Mario 3D World, Captain Toad, Shovel Knight and Mario Kart 8!

This succubus misleads you. What you really want is Bayonetta 2, The Wonderful 101, and Rayman Legends.

At 12/26/14 03:11 AM, Wiesi wrote: I got a potato masher. Merry Christmas!

How many potatoes did you attempt to mash with your bare hands that they decided that you required a mashing implement?

Happy New Year's, you collectively funky pile of nipples and toothpaste.

I hope none of you remain under the abject tyranny of sobriety.

Merry Christmas, you moldy sacks of endearing fruit-paste.

I got a t-shirt from an aunt. It even fits! So that was nice.

I just wing it, lol.

Wouldn't be overthinking it, brother. Just go with what looks natural to you. Or what looks banging, bamf.

Here's some fanart for an indie game called Sequence. It's a rhythm-based RPG.

I love painting UI and game mechanics into the illustration itself. One of my favourite things to do. Put a bit more effort in than usual. Softened up the brush I used in Photoshop, too, since I'm kind of tired of my illustrations looking sharp enough to cut you.

At 12/22/14 05:05 PM, lovingthedark wrote:

At 12/22/14 03:21 PM, lovingthedark wrote: anatomically accurate female genitalia? newgrounds, i didn't know you knew how!

oh but also i'd make that line that leads up to the hips and delineates the thighs from the abdomen (see arrows) a lot softer, since that's usually not quite that defined. though sometimes it is! just very rarely. bodies are strange. but it's a recession in depth created by a fat deposit rather than bone, so i wouldn't make it too sharp. especially when the rest of your figure is so slender.

also unless it's shaved that way hair usually covers more of the mons? and it tends to thin a bit as it gets to the edges. you probably knew that though.

I've been ruined - ruined by my days of drawing v-shaped lower abdomens strong enough to snap a balsa-wood plank just by hip-thrusting at it with the speed of a lust-powered jet engine. Probably.

I'll keep on eye on those delineating thigh-lines. I suppose it didn't cross my mind at the time that I could've just used a softer brush to do the work for me. Thanks for the radvice, Dark. And yeah, the completely unnatural kept fur patch was on purpose.

Perhaps it's an unpopular look. I'm unaware of the role pubic hair plays in fashion statements.

At 12/18/14 09:51 AM, TomFulp wrote: Just because you're angry inside doesn't mean you have a right to take it out on your fellow community members. We've added a sticky post intro to the VA forum to emphasized that bad attitudes aren't allowed.

Hmm. Whether or not you're being mean in the eyes of another person is entirely subject to their own interpretation. You can't control how another person reacts to your criticism - some of the more sensitive types react to all types of criticism as if you're "trolling" them. Empathy is all well and good but there's been many famous blowouts over entirely well-intentioned criticism - at least in illustration.

There's not exactly a metric for "meanness".

I wouldn't say that leaving a series of very personal calls over feelings in the hands of such vague criteria, while simultaneously encouraging hyperactive amounts of sugarcoating and other disgusting habits that worm their way into criticism, is a good idea. But then maybe the world of VA calls for that.