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The googles are still on a wrong angle and the hairline is too high, thus making his head looking half-bald.

You could add rivets to metal parts of the googles and/or make the metal look like copper or brass.

I would not have recognized a steampunk character in this myself, but I also don't see anything contrary, so don't worry too much.

You should however be careful not to blur top parts of buildings. They are at the same distance as their lower parts and need the same amount of blur or sharpness. The lighthouse looks strange now and takes away from the effect. Same with some taller buildings in two of your pics, johnny.

In addition to the tutorial one should use the lasso tool or something to get a better result, I guess.

But still these tilt-shifted pics look cool.

Here is a site with tilt-shifted Van Gogh paintings. Lintire posted that in the lounge some time ago.

At 11/17/10 06:54 PM, Ashman wrote:

At 11/17/10 06:06 PM, Knocturne wrote:

Maybe I should petition to make a D...

yes this, need moar creatures to mutilate, i mean evolve

True.

Two of them could interbreed and form a new line, but their own evolution should continue of course.

Icecargot, bunions and ovine candy. :D

"Edible animals" is a great topic.

A newgrounds celebrity joins the party:

Sorry, forgot link. Here it is!

The room is still alive. Wivernryder is the hero who saved it!

At 11/15/10 08:11 AM, Luwano wrote: horny stumps

Did I say horny stumps? :P

I meant stumps made of the body's own material "horn".

Freudian slip

At 11/15/10 01:07 AM, Luwano wrote: Ok I actually want to give it a try and so I call dibs on B.

I may need a little longer than the others, so give me some hours.

So here it is. The animal had to get stronger again to defend itself from the many predators. Therefore the musculatur grew and the additional weight lowered the height a little. It grew an opposable backfinger to be able to climb, to get to the higher hanging leaves and fruits. Luring insects is no longer necessary and the top orb vanished, because it became an omnivore hunter and can now catch fish and small mammals. The crippled arms shrunk to horny stumps and the tail got a little longer to provide more balance while climbing.

Long story cut short, B's basically somewhere between an ape and a big predator. It would get eaten otherwise.

Ok I actually want to give it a try and so I call dibs on B.

I may need a little longer than the others, so give me some hours.

At 11/14/10 08:46 PM, EZBAKE8 wrote: The cam quality is from my computer

Oh, stupid me. I missed that you already said that in your first post. :P

This last piece is your best to me. And the photo quality is much better too.

At 11/14/10 08:32 PM, JamieKitsune wrote: Is such way of arting a good way of arting? well i seem to have been drawn into sketch work of a anime/manga nature as of late, and was wondering if these sort of images can sometimes look better than finished pieces, what does everyone think?

Sure they canlook better than the finished piece. But if the piece is finished well it will most likely look better than the sketch.

This piece looks decent, but the bright thin lines on the white background are hurting my eyes. Anime style is generally a divisive topic, but it looks good to me.

The hands are not in the right position to hold the weapon, it rather looks like it's going through part of the hands.

Her pose looks like she's about to tilt backwards any moment.

I guess it would look better finished in this particular case, or at least more defined.

Not bad though.

The sketches are very basic so there isn't much to critique yet. But the proportions of the body are off. Do you look at references when you are sketching? You really should do that. It takes much skill to draw the correct anatomy without any reference. I can highly recommend posemaniacs to get a feeling for drawing human bodies.

I can't really make out the rock. Rocks are hard to draw very detailed, because every rock looks different and some look really weird in reality. In this case it looks very flat, more like a leaf or some cloth. You should add shading to give it depth.

Dunno what's going on in the last pic. The girl is sitting there and the headphones are plugged to.... erm.... what? And why are there waves shooting out of it?

And sorry but the cam quality is pretty low. I almost can't make out some of the lines. Everything looks kinda blurry. Are you photographing them in a unlit room or with your mobile phone cam? In case you do, turn on the light please, it could improve the quality.

I read that you just started sketching, so keep it up and you will improve in no time.

If you are looking for tutorials and stuff, then take a look at this.

Are we pushing the joke too far?

At 11/14/10 03:29 PM, ultron35186 wrote: Isn't annoying that no one gives a crap on this website

That's not true. But if someone would give you an honest feedback on this it would be devastating. There is basically nothing right is this drawing. So most people seem to be polite and say nothing.

If you want real and honest critcism, then I'd recommend doing some drawing practice and post some of your progress.

In case you want to do that, check this. Good luck!

At 11/12/10 11:50 PM, big-jonny-13 wrote: This is probably one of the most successful PMOTWs ever.

I blame the entry of Jonnycake.

Ya, we all boarded the Johnny plane and took a trip to PMOTW island.

Aaah yeah....

The pics are too small. You are right that one can read it, but it's very unconveniant and will stop possible audience from reading further.

The drawings look unfinished, this may or may not be done on purpose by you, but the possible readers will not know that this was intended by you. They will think it's not done yet, unless you tell every single reader what you did and why you did it.

Grammer issues have already been mentioned and punctuation is sometimes missing, too.

You show that you are able to draw some decent lineart in some panels, but often enough one can not really realise what is going on, especially in the smaller panels. Also because sometimes there's not enough shading.

I only realized there was a table with the "7 wise men" in the big room on page 1 after I read some more pages and went back to look at this page again.

The composition should be your business, but make sure you don't bore the users with too many panels and don't confuse them with too few panels for a scene.

If you think this site has nothing to offer for your art, then you are completely wrong. You can however go somewhere else were you get no honest answers and persuade yourself that your comic is fine the way it is.

And to be really honest, if the (well-meant) critic and this little flaming are disappointing you so much, you should reconsider if you want your comic only to be read by yourself and maybe some friends or if you want to show it to the public. It should appeal to the readers and not just the artist.

At 11/12/10 05:57 PM, Luwano wrote: All hail StrawberryFrog!

Frog

Strawberryness

Crown

Oh here is the link to the final pic. (Not sure what you meant, you could always right-click the pics and copy the URL for the voting, or not?)

All hail StrawberryFrog!

Frog

Strawberryness

Crown

At 11/12/10 04:19 PM, emiliapaw5 wrote: If anyone wants me to critique their art please let me know, post a link here of the piece you want me to look at and I will try my best to give some advice and keep it professional :)

I'm far from a pro but I'm sure I can at least help with the basics

I would actually recommend to refrain from doing so. It's your thread and your decision, but it's better to keep this a thread for your stuff only. It's very nice to offer constructive citicism for other people's pics, but they could also upload the art to their dumping grounds and pm the link to you.

Don't get me wrong, I guess there are many users appreciating your offer, but my advice is not to do that in your thread to save it from getting spammed.

I already said that I really like your art, but I gladly repeat myself in your case. ^^

On November, 10th 1969 the first episode of the Sesame Street was aired. ROOM

Happy Birthday LegolaSS!

As a gift I spare you those cheap Lord of the Rings puns.

That room is stil up, but it's endangered. And when I leave, Wivern will have to guard it alone.

At 11/8/10 06:43 PM, Aigis wrote: Apparently the members of Stickam cannot be civil.

Ya, curse those Stickam dudes!

*whistles*

At 11/8/10 07:50 AM, big-jonny-13 wrote:

At 11/8/10 02:34 AM, SteakandKidneyPie wrote: May I ask what colour people will be using for the art?

I'm thinking full colour illustrations. After all, nursery books have those.

Should it be in a style you find in a child book? Like this, this or this? Would be great, wouldn't it?

A wild room attacks!

Sparky the Friendly Dog

Sparky was a friendly dog, friendly dog
Loved his mistress and her sprog, friendly dog
But slowly Sparky became ill, sickly dog
The illness overtook his will, sickly dog
His owner made him sleep outside, angry dog
And one day Sparky took a bite, angry dog
He bit his owner and her tot
hunted them across their lot
caught his mistress and her kid
ate them up and gave a shit
... rabid dog

At 11/7/10 12:37 AM, Luwano wrote: I did my first piece:

ReNaeNae, big-johnny-13 and I reworked this and made it a masterpiece:

Skinny ninny pothead puffing on his weed
In came the narc to bust him for this deed
Then came the judge and put him on parole
Now skinny ninny pothead went home and lit a bowl

I did my first piece:

Inspired by johnny's "Little Miss Muffet" idea :P

Skinny ninny weedhead puffing on his pot
In came the knocko and locked the toker up
Then came the judge and put him on parole
Then skinny ninny weedhead went home to smoke some more!

Or would "home to smoke some mo'" be the better rhyme?

At 11/6/10 08:43 PM, JoseFonz wrote: heres mine!

Oh really? Looks kinda.... invisible....

Forgot pic, huh?