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At 3/17/13 09:23 PM, PatBest22 wrote: Serious question now: Do we have to pack a realistic kit relative to the area we live or can we invent a kit of the favorite items / clothes we'd like to wear for such an event, because living in Canada, I'd have to prepare clothing for both winter and summer and that would take up more room than my backpack could carry.

Well, I kind of tried to pack clothes for both cold and warm weather, but Belgium doesn't have super-hot summers or super-cold winters, although I'd still be pretty damn cold during winter even with the clothes I picked out. Let's say you primarily choose the clothes you think would be the best choice for a zombie-infestation, but try to keep (not-too-extreme) changes in temperature and weather in mind.

At 3/17/13 08:44 PM, PatBest22 wrote:
But but.... I have so many...and most of them fit on my belt at once!

Well, I didn't expect batman to join in this thread.. But if you really want, I guess you could swap your big weapon for two small ones. But that doesn't seem like a very smart choice to me, really.

Anyway, here's another quick drawing of me in zombie-gear. The reason I packed that much clothes was because I kind of had a medium-term survival length in mind. But that reinforced motorcycle jacket for instance is pretty awesome, since zombies would have a pretty hard time biting through that I think. The shoes suck though, but I don't have anything sturdier at the moment. I can imagine having to ducttape them at some point.

At 3/17/13 08:36 PM, PatBest22 wrote: Only two weapons? Boooo

Too bad brah. Choose wisely.

Don't act like you haven't thought about it! This topic is here to give you a place to draw yourself in what you would most want to have on/with you during a (zombie) survival adventure. Now, there are some catches, to make it more realistic/difficult:

1. YOU MUST ALREADY OWN EVERYTHING YOU PUT IN YOUR KIT. Yep. No AK-47's, unless you happen to actually own one. And if you actually have a flamethrower in the garage but it's property of your little sister, too bad. IF YOU AREN'T THE SPECIFIC OWNER, YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU.
2. YOU HAVE LIMITED STORAGE SPACE. In theory, almost everything you take with you should fit in a medium-sized backpack. Therefore I have set a couple strict rules concerning what you can take with you in total. Here's the list (these are maximums, so feel free to take less with you, but not more of them):
1 COAT/JACKET
1 PAIR OF SHOES
1 SMALL WEAPON (should more or less fit in a pocket or small pouch)
1 LARGE WEAPON
2 SWEATERS
2 PAIRS OF PANTS (or skirts, I guess)
3 SHIRTS (or dresses, whatever)
3 CLOTHING ACCESSORIES (like hats, gloves, belts, etc)
4 PAIRS OF SOCKS
4 PAIRS OF UNDERPANTS
5 EXTRA SURVIVAL AIDS (note: stuff that belongs together like cellphone&charger count as one item)
3. ABOUT THE 5 EXTRA AIDS: These don't specifically have to be yours, just stuff you have in your house, since I don't think first-aid for instance is specifically property of certain family members.

Now draw! I know it sounds like a lot of work and it kind of is, but it's also lots of fun to rummage through your clothes and see what is optimal for fighting zombies. It's also easy to think you have a weapon lying around, but in actuality you'll probably have to look through your possessions a while before you find something useful.

Here's my kit!
(by the way, it's not an obligation to draw everything you take with you like I did. If you just want to draw yourself in your outfit, go ahead!)

Aw hey, thanks guys. The crappiness of it all will pass eventually, but thanks for your support in the meantime.

Congrats to everyone who participated and MilkyTentacles especially, and of course the judges because damn, I can imagine it being hard to choose winners out of the awesome drawings submitted in this contest. It was loads of fun and pretty exciting, actually.

Wow man, I love your linework. Your third figure is also pretty damn cool. Moar!

I made a comic. I think it's the longest continuous comic I've made so far. I kind of couldn't stop drawing, it's quite personal and there's a lot of feels in there.
Buh.
It's also in the Art Portal.

At 3/2/13 08:11 PM, Tomsan wrote:
top left; britney spears?

Haha, no. I actually think of that face as a male face. Just a made-up, earring-wearing male.

At 3/2/13 08:34 PM, Aigis wrote:
Hey, love your art. Can I ask you what you meant by this?

Well, that your characters always have a quite detailed outfit on them, and that it seems like you have this huge stockpile of clothes and accessories in the back of your brain from which you can borrow to draw on your people. It makes your characters a lot more distinct and personalised, if that even makes sense.
I feel like the clothes I have in the back of my head are: generic sweater, generic T-shirt, generic jeans, allstars. You know?

Oh, and some other faces.
I challenged myself to draw bald, fat, and relatively androgynous heads and have them still look significantly different.
Also good practice.

Aw man, the left side of my faces is always a little higher than the right side. Bleh.

Anyway, middle-aged women! The most underrated and unused characters ever. What use is a woman who's gone beyond her prettiest and most fuckable stage but not yet old enough to be the warm, asexual, coockie-baking grandma we so love? Middle-aged women in comics mostly look like youths with a wider jaw or smaller eyes. And that sucks. In an attempt to learn how to draw middle-aged women that aren't plastic-surgeried supermodels, I present:
Caucasian, Caucasian,
African, African,
Chinese, Turkish

Was good practice.

facesfacesfacesFACESFACESFACES
I've been drawing lots of faces. These are all ladyfaces at the moment. In order:
African-American, Japanese
Caucasian, Indian,
Turkish, Inuit.

Turkish face is a bit wonky but whatever.
I've been trying to come up with characters for a story of which I've known (and written) the beginning of a long time ago. But I don't know the middle and the end. I'm hoping I actually learn the rest of the story by sketching out potential characters, as well as practicing faces for if I should actually turn the thing into a full comic book.
Also for some weird reason I'm afraid to post the drawings of the main characters because I'm fucking in love with them and they should stay close and personal to me for the time being. So you can't see them. Nyeh.

At 2/24/13 07:43 PM, big-jonny-13 wrote:

At 2/24/13 07:04 PM, Kinsei01 wrote:

At 2/24/13 06:06 PM, Morthagg wrote: I watched the Blues Brothers
It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses.

We're on a mission from God

-Are you the police?
-No ma'am. We're musicians.

At 2/21/13 03:30 PM, gayhobbit wrote: I very much admire your pencil work. It is like if Febreze could actually sustain over the smell of rot.

I think you mean... ambi pur.

I watched the Blues Brothers again a couple days ago, and man, I never tire of that movie. So while listening to this, I scribbled their faces into my sketchbook. It's not the most original take, but whatevs.
Also, I think I might take up the saxophone again. Woop.

Goddamn computer. The screen is breaking and I've been making backups like crazy because every day now I have a moment in which I fear for my hard drive. Same for my wacom, the cord is so worm I have to hold it in place (a place that changes daily) or it loses power and disconnects from my laptop, after which it takes a couple seconds to reconnect again.
I am so, so happy I got the Sketch Swap image finished with little trouble. I tried to work on a paid illustration though today, and that was just not happening.
lkjsqckjdhsvksdddcvhsddddfrustrating.

I bumped into your thread and I thought I'd make a little image to help you with your running cycle. I got a little carried away so most of the info is already on the drawing, and I hope it isn't too scribbly and chaotic.
Just some extra things: unless you're an acrobat or balletdancer in the middle of a performance, your legs do not move like a morror image of the other leg, at the same time. For instance, if your back leg is in the most 'extreme' outward pose lifted toward the back, your front leg is already coming down and is not in a kind of mirror-extreme movement super-extended to the front. Like it says on the drawing, if one foot is in pose #4 (most extreme back pose), the other foot will not be in pose #6 (most extreme front pose), but somewhere around pose #1.
Of course, I was kind of loose in drawing this, so it will never be a perfect running cycle (the front leg is too high up for instance, but that made for a clearer drawing), but it'll give you an idea.
Remember that your feet are very rarely fixed in a kind of 90° angle with the lower leg, but kind of flop up and down according to the force and movement that's infuencing the joints.

Oh right, of course! Don't forget that your hips will never stay at the same height above the ground. A frame right after pose #3 should have the "highest" hips, since that's where the character really pushes himself away from the ground. Lowest hips will probably be in the frame inbetween legs 2-3, the knee will have a deeper bend there.
I think. It's been a while since I've made a running cycle.
Eh.. Sorry about the shitload of text. I hope you get something out of it.

Hurray! Larger Version. I had lots of fun with this one.

The sketch was made by Milkytentacles.

I constantly forget to eat if there's no-one around to call me to the table. If I had my way I'd live on bread and tea and cornflakes only, probably.
Oh wait, I've had that. College.

At 2/12/13 12:24 PM, Otto wrote: I think they're looking cool, though I know how you feel about the weird feeling you get forcing something unfamiliar on your own work. It's a good thing in the end, I'm certain.

smokin' legs for the one on the right

Thank you! (I know I find myself going "dayum" over those legs too)
But it's true, it feels really awkward to spend so much time on something that doesn't come naturally to me at all. I guess I should pull through that uneasy fase until it does become more spontaneous.
And yup, mechanical pencils. I used to use regular ones, but since I already draw quite sketchy it looks way cleaner with a permanently thin pencil tip. And no frustrating pencil shavings.

I got tired of seeing my characters all dressed in very generic kinds of clothing (particularly after looking at aigis' pristinely dressed specimens) so I tried to specify a clothing style for once, but.. It just feels and looks so fake. And lame. That might have to do with the fact that I have the fashion sense of a prickley pear with no sense of fashion.
It remains something I'll have to keep practicing on.
(also, balloonhead incoming, sheesh)

Wow holy crap, has it really been two months since I uploaded something in my art thread? Time to change that.
Here, have something stylised. That doesn't show up in my sketchbook very often.
(the stuff on the top is not mine, I sometimes let drunk people scribble in my sketchbook)

At 1/31/13 10:13 PM, Lintire wrote:
Yep.
You're the only one who has ever tried to improve.

Leonardo Da Vinci famously mooned people who ever dared try to commision his art, and I think most of us like to try and emulate that by dancing on a cam naked for 40 seconds and posting the recorded videos in activity threads. In fact these days I don't even do requests, I just fart on my tablet and let them have a whiff.

It's a good life.

Sweetpea, the point really flew miles over your head here, didn't it. I get stuck at drawing the same thing over and over if I don't have an outside source that asks something specific of me. It's getting better lately, but I seem to be surrounded by folks that whip up new styles, new works and new ideas with only themselves as a motivation and through careful observation I have come to the conclusion that I might have some trouble doing the same. Eh?

Um..
I already feel bad for this in general, but am I the only one that actually makes better art and tries to experiment more when given an assignment or asked for a commision? For instance, I have made some of my best pieces for newgrounds contests, and I have tried techniques that I previously avoided while drawing for a paying customer. I seem to get a lot of inspiration and drive from the idea of competition and a clear direction in which to work, and I find it kind of sad that people would lose respect for others who work their best work in similar conditions and like to get paid for it.

Also, I don't get the problem with people that think they ought to be able to make money with their art. I studied it for Darwin's sake, my mother put a ton of money in my education, but since mine involves drawing instead of calculus, I should be serving the higher power of art instead of expecting people to acknowledge my skills and pay me like they would any other supplier of services?
I plan to make money with my art, I like getting paid for what I find fun to do, I like working for people by making stuff for them all the while improving myself and taking myself to points I never thought I would reach on my own. And I don't think anyone should think less of anyone for making their job out of what they love.

This is actually the oldest thing I have lying around on my computer apparently.
I was 16 when I made this, it wasn't one of my bestest things but I remember being pretty satisfied with it. I have some way older (and way worse) stuff lying around but that's all in non-digital media.

At 1/28/13 01:00 PM, Escalus wrote:

gee I must be hearing things, I could've sworn I was talking to TOAS.

Gee I must be hallucinating, I thought his was a public damn forum where anyone could give their opinion on matters posted in public threads. Use private messages if you don't want others pointing shit out and joining your conversation.

At 1/28/13 02:10 PM, KiwiSundae wrote:
I see...Perhaps I should ask them. I have a good plot that I have written down for a lesbian-romance comedy, but am worried about paneling, writing structure and such.

I'm pretty much open to giving you advice, but I can't guarantee I'll have the patience to keep giving advice. Also, I consider myself a very mediocre 'paneler', not being very creative with page layouts and such, so I'm not very sure I can help you there. There are probably lots of tutorials online, if you look for them.

At 1/27/13 04:46 PM, Otto wrote: But I'm being super serious here. Being told this was the best thing that ever happened to my drawing. I can feel myself get better every time, whilst, when I was drawing with my wrist, it became a game of trial and error. You do not want that.

It's easy to forget drawing is a physical thing. Your body is the translator between your ideas and reality. Never forget.

This is very true. It's normal to think you can't really change the way you draw since it seems like it comes naturally, but there really are physical ways that can have an enormeously positive effect on your drawing (and mostly sketching) quality.
If you want to try and loosen your grip, the best things to do are:
1. Draw lots of circles. Not circles that are drawn in one line, but sketchy, quick, mutliple-lines circles you make without lifting your pen from te paper.
2. Make sketches (preferably pose references or another thing referenced), but set a very limited time in which to draw those sketches. Two minutes. One minute. 30 seconds. 15, even. This wil force you to quickly put down a recogniseable impression of an image, which makes it almost impossible to clamp down on your pencil and use those little 'hairy' lines. Try it!

Maybe ornery should send a reminder pm to everyone who hasn't checked in yet?

Sketch sent and checking in, sir.

At 1/22/13 02:51 AM, FIREzPHOENIX wrote:
yah that a good drowning but maybe she will not like what you write on it ??... because it was on the middle and the face now it's hard to see...

but I REALLY Thank you for your time making this picture...

BTW for you as this is the first time you drawing an anime style... the Eye was Excellent I'm amazed :)

It's sweet that you're naive, but don't waste your time on him, he's being a bit of a twat. If I have time, I'll try to make you something simple, but I hope others will want to help you too :) good luck.

At 1/20/13 04:54 PM, Zanroth wrote:
Here's a preview
Far from finished sketching, but in case anyone had a similar idea, I wanted to beat them to the punch... Because I'm a bastard of course.

Ehhhh your sketches are not supposed to be seen, especially not before your partner has had any chance to work on them.

Come on guys please, read the stuff they tell you..