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At 12/3/12 03:22 PM, KayaKure wrote: So long time no seen..
I got motivated to revisit my art thread.. So here is some of my newest work. I had done alot since the last post (see it in my gallery if interested)

Ofc I still want to improve, so here is it.. Somebody got some constructive feedback? :)

This piece I did for a friend to some cover art for his new track :)

Nice that you actually came back here, sorry for the late reply, seems like I missed when you bumped your thread.

As for the pic, I think the only thing it really lacks is some definition or I'd better say a more evenly distributed definition. For example the distant village and the closest, big rock are defined very well and you can see rather many small detail, while there are other parts like that pillar or pole in the right center, the characters body and above all his head that are undefined and kinda smudgy.

For my personal taste you could up the contrast even more. I mean add some brighter highlights, since the shadows seem dark enough already.

Since the light is coming from the huge planet, there should be some glow / light around those pillars and towers. It's basically backlighting where the center of an object is the darkest and it's lighter towards the edges.

All in all a nice piece. I hope you're not offended, but I have to ask. Did you paste parts of photos to get that rocky surface? Or is that a texture? I would be curious because it looks pretty good for the purpose.

At 12/8/12 04:25 PM, ReNaeNae wrote:

At 12/8/12 02:18 PM, Opposition wrote: Any help would be much obliged, thank you for your time.

It's something to do with the number of characters allowed in a row or something.
You could try a site like tinyurl.com to shorten them to fit.

That's all I got. Sorry.

No, as far as I know links are seperated automatically to prevent promotion of websites via the author comments section. Although many people would link to relevant websites, there is too much abuse, so NG prevents it.

So I have heard....

At 12/5/12 07:18 PM, Kofra wrote: When I see the posts of this forum section, people generalize "making art = drawing". Lets try something different: post anything you made and consider "art". Photos, sculptures, graffitis, theatre, poems , etc. BUT, don't post any drawing (at least not a common drawing ). Challenge accepted?

Well usually when someone wants to kick off an activity, they start with an own example. Otherwise you can find a lot of unusual and cool stuff in the art portal via tag search.

At 12/3/12 09:09 AM, Tomsan wrote:
I thought it was Frohe,

Both are correct and if anything the meaning is only slightly different. Froehliche is more common on christmas cards and other print stuff I guess.

but whatever here's my avatar

Now look at this! You know how to show off, huh? :P

At 12/3/12 12:21 PM, ZombieMonkey wrote: Are we still doing the avatar thing, or is that dropped. I can quickly whip up something for myself if you'd like.

Yes, they are still required. The group shot needs to be done by the 25th, but I am sure the avatars are needed earlier. I assume there will be another announcement clarifying this.

Thanks for the advent calendar plug! Great that artists and animators had the same idea. Next year we should work together on one even bigger, even better calendar!

Great holiday stuff going on overall! :D

At 12/1/12 08:03 AM, ReNaeNae wrote: Can people still working on theirs post with your status.

I thought I could work on it yesterday and today to finish it, but didn't have any time yesterday. :(

But I'll finish within that week.

thank ya's!

Thank YOU!

On my iPhone, couldn't check the flash yet.

Hey there, since you already made sure that the browser is not the issue and neither the filesize nor the max dimension limit is exceeded, I have one last (silly sounding) thing you could try.

Some users reported that the problem was fixed when they either resaved the file under a different name or saved it in a different folder or generally a different location on their harddrive. I know that sounds weird and I don't even know why it works, but it apparently helped some users with the issue.

At 11/29/12 09:09 PM, BostonJax wrote:
Yeah, I just got it saved as a .png
Now for whatever reason I can't seem to upload on NG's I keep getting the error message... what the heck?!

Well unfortunately this could be because of a variety of reasons. What browser are you using? Does another browser solve the problem? I guess you are not exceeding the filesize or dimension limits are you? What does the error say?

I dunno why or how that works, but for some people it appeared to solve the problem when they resaved the file under a different name or a different location (folder) on their computer.

At 11/29/12 08:52 PM, BostonJax wrote: Yeah, so I just made my first piece of work through Inkscape & as I go to save my wonderful creation I see that the only way to save is with .svg files. Does anyone know any other way to save your work without a converter?

That is weird, when I go to 'File -> Save As...' I can pick several options from the drop down menu below the filename bar. There is also "File -> Export bitmap" but I am not sure about the settings you'd have to choose in the window that appears when I click that.

At 11/29/12 09:08 AM, Tomsan wrote:

At 11/28/12 11:12 PM, Adam-Beilgard wrote:

At 11/26/12 04:04 PM, Artist-Lost wrote: Here is my avatar

Crap, forgot we had to do avatars...thanks for the reminder.

I have no idea what this is about. I dont see anything about an avatar... Do I need to make something else?

The opening post says that you have to draw a full body caricature of yourself for a group greeting card. TOAS told me it would get its own deadline however. If you are done already it's probably still a good idea to start it. It's not a pleasure for collab organizers to have to hunt down last minute entries.

such as mine... :S

Slow-gress....

At 11/27/12 02:07 PM, ZJ wrote: While I love all of this, I'm still anxiously waiting for you to announce the 2013 Calendar contest winners, Tom!!!

While I am totally with you, Luis explained it in the contest thread:

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1318786/8#bbspost2434717 5_post_text

So is this resolved? I like what you did, Jonny.

I choose you Dickachu!

derp

Aigis and Template are right about the issue itself, but I understand that you like to do audio for other users for free and expected a similar attitude here. There are people out there who would probably help you with your logo for free too. I think your opening post was polite and clear enough and that this doesn't need to turn into a huge argument. Interested users could just PM you.

Maybe you can help them out with some audio in exchange some day.

Good luck.

At 11/24/12 09:51 PM, StudioRvk wrote: yeah so i like drawing and would love do some concept art( now when i say concept i don't mean like crazy computer drawings, im not at that level yet) just like character creation and stuff link to my drawings down here
http://jazloverocket.deviantart.com/ not the best artist but i work for free so yeah turles

Hi there, you might wanna browse the art forum a bit. There are actually people looking for someone to team up or helping them out with art here and there. For example:

Someone looking for a comic artist.

Somebody in need of a logo.

This user spotted a indie movie that needs aliens designed.

Colonel Magus needs his avatar desgined.

So yeah, quite some people who would appreciate your help. That doesn't mean you should do free labour for a bunch of people, just if you are looking for something to do anyways, you could look at them or browse for more threads like these.

At 11/24/12 10:01 PM, Escalus wrote:
Best to advertise yourself in the collab forum (Or sticking to Deviantart since you seem to like to link yourself there)

Advising someone to stay on dA makes little Luwano cry. :'(

Collab forum however would be great. :)

At 11/24/12 07:49 AM, VulpesHilarianus wrote: Is this thing still open? Cuz I've got a Christmas-themed picture I've been working on. "That girl's been in the eggnog again." I've got the prelim sketches done and scanned, just need to linework them and colour them. I'm going to be posting three images and layering them into one, so it might take a few hours.

As far as I know, there are 4 spots open, so I'd say go for it. Our friendly neighbourhood TurkeyOnAStick is currently away, but I am sure the theme you chose is ok.

@ReNaeNae: I thought the exact same. Would be nice to know if people should wait with their submissions until "their day" has passed or if we should submit before so TOAS can link to the art portal submissions.

At 11/21/12 06:37 PM, ForNoReason wrote:

At 11/15/12 06:17 PM, test-object wrote: Yeah, to be honest, we're all basically already doing this exact thing.

Happy Holidays tho :)

And a Happy Holidays to you as well. The basic ideas might be the same, being holiday and such, but these are two separate and equal Holiday colabs :) I can understand if people don't want to participate in both however.

Above that, the deadline is 16 days later. So if anyone is done with their advent calendar collab entry, they can draw something for this one. Or join here once the spots in the other are full. OR just join here cause it's a fun collab that includes animation as well.

At 11/20/12 02:02 PM, Luwano wrote: Maybe a little blues

*Maybe add some blues

derp

At 11/20/12 10:10 AM, Escalus wrote: http://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/escalus/mr-frost
Made a few extra subtle changes to him :3

You might hate me for saying it now that it's done, but I think the snow on the ground could use some work. Maybe a little blues and you could experimet with applying some grain to it. Besides that, I really like it. Great dynamic pose, facial expression, colors and neat linework.

@TOAS: The pic is coming along great. I like how you distributed the different roles (shepherds, three kings etc).

At 11/19/12 01:24 PM, BinaryDood wrote: My first speedpaint vid!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gk43GE_TcY

I love this one a lot. Great thread so far. Can't add anything useful, so I just hope you keep it up!

At 11/19/12 02:12 PM, deathink wrote: So I went to make a tumbler account and someone already has "deathink". what do you suggest for a new name?

Todestinte

Hi Brendon!

Great news yet again. Looking forward to everything on that list, especially the mobile theme and the conversion servers.

Also, maybe some of the great NG artists wanna join this christmas collab hosted by TurkeyOnAStick (only a few spots left so get th while they are still hot!):

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1323534

Seeing as I only just started, I don't have a lot to show, but I hope this is ok:

I pick the theme "The Grinch" if that's ok.

At 11/16/12 02:34 AM, bigCman321 wrote:
Post it in the thread where people are drawing other people's characters. Someone might do it.

That would be this one:

http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/986964

Include the pic in the post though. Do not just link to it. Otherwise your chances of getting it draw won't be very high. Good luck.

At 11/14/12 06:10 AM, TurkeyOnAStick wrote: JackDGreatest / Krampus taking the Schlecht Kinder (idunno what that is, is it German poo porn?)

The Krampus taking the bad children with him.

Great collab. I'd love to join, but I couldn't think of anything yet.

At 11/11/12 12:10 AM, Absinthe wrote: I also have to ask Hiryu, are you a Republican? You have a tendency to derail conversations off the main topic, and pull up bogus numbers about subjective points. "95% of the time the artwork is absolutely stunning."

Why is it 95%? Why not 99% or 99.9%?

Look, you are right with the part where you reponded to the topic, so thanks for that. This last part however doesn't belong here. Optimally this doesn't belong anywhere, but if you want to discuss this with another user, you should PM him or take it to the politics forum.

On topic: As mentioned before, the mods usually make sure the majority of artists affected by the clipping of a user with many scoutees get rescouted as soon as possible. The only thing I'd wish for, was the option to include unscouted artists in your tag search, kinda like it works for the audio portal. Or just have the option to search in the already existing unscouted section.

At 11/8/12 06:30 PM, KanDuDor wrote: Is it normal for users to receive error messages when trying to publish uploaded artwork.Im new so my first experience being this "error" I have no empirical evidence to compare this experience to.Please let me know that this error is a bug that will dissipate by tomorrow (i.e is randomly occurring and sorts itself out) or if its because i'm new and "doing it wrong" cos its quite frustrating.Look forward to uploading stuff, server gods permitting.

Kiss kiss Lots of love

Unfortunately, these errors are not new or temporarily. It would help if you told us what browser you are using. Generally, Internet Explorer seems to have that problem more regularly than Chrome or Firefox. Additionally, you could tell us what the error message says. Your pic does not exceed the 4 million px² limit, does it?

At 11/8/12 02:40 PM, Skaren wrote: It seems as if I've been unscouted from the Art Portal, I wasn't notified about a reason or anything, can someone please explain as to why?

If you haven't been notified, chances are that the user who scouted you got unscouted. This also automatically affects you. If you remember the user's name you could check if he/she is unscouted now.