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At 25 minutes ago, HiryuGouki wrote: I wonder why two people decided to zero bomb me and not leave a review as to why...I suspect Escalus, but then again...I've been wondering...Is this piece...
http://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/hiryugouki/2nd-earth-and-

its-neighbor

Really THAT bad? Let me know what you think.

Zeroes might be drastic, but quite frankly I'd say consider yourself lucky to be above 2.

* Lens flare suns. Just....no. You may or may not have used a lens flare there (as I haven't used the full-fledged Photoshops) but these suns look very artificial.

* The starfields. I see patterns in the starfields. Visible repetition is bad, bad, bad. It's like looking at a wall in a game and seeing the same texture repeat again and again. Most methods I've seen for making startfields for space images involve using multiple layers of white noise as base and then going over those layers with a human hand, deleting and adding at will.

* The clouds. They behave less as clouds and like a sheet of ice. Attached below is the famous "Blue marble" photo. Observe how some clouds swirl in cyclons and some appear to be dissipating.

There are a few other things that grind my gears too.....and that's for a image with so few things in it. So yeah.

At 11 minutes ago, viscioushero wrote:
Sorry, thought the image could be enlarged. http://akemi-shuu.deviantart.com/art/Tutorial-Pt-1-Lineart-3 2528255

It says quite clearly down there that "Image may not exceed 720px wide by 700 px tall." :/

Anyhow...

To clean up your lineart, go to Image >>> Adjustments >>>> Brightness/contrast

In GIMP, that is under Colors>>>Brightness-contrast

After you are satisfied with your lineart. do the following steps....

Uh....His way is somewhat longer and more work, I would just recomment that you make a new layer below that of where your lineart is for colour and that you set the layer mode of your lineart layer to "Multiply". That is, unless you want coloured lineart.

But if you insist...
The commands he uses are Select All, Cut, and Make New Layer, in that order.The corresponding hotkeys in GIMP are the same. Toggle Quick Mask is Shift+Q (or you can find it under the "Select" bar). Ctrl+D is Duplicate Image in GIMP, you need Deselect instead (Ctrl+Shift+A)

At 36 minutes ago, viscioushero wrote: See, this is what I would always follow when doing lineart. I just dont know how it would translate over to gimp.

Link to the original, this one is unreadable

At 12 minutes ago, viscioushero wrote: I'm trying to turn my drawings I've scanned into lineart that I can color without going over what I've drawn. I know how to do this with photoshop but I don't have access to it at the moment. Does anyone know how?

The exact same way you do in Photoshop, if I understand what you're trying to do correctly - stick your colours on a layer below the lineart and set the layer mode of the lineart layer to "Multiply".

At 10 minutes ago, Kashi wrote:
.... and the pen doesn't have any buttons or eraser side (correct me if I'm wrong).

My Bamboo Pen and Touch would indeed like to correct you.

At 9 minutes ago, DRONKO wrote: Hahaha I liked the 'ham' joke ahah :P (I can understant the English, but not that much ^^' )

Ok I see there that some people find that the actual logo look sick, and I do too ! But I need another one, because like I said, a lot of my friends/fans said the designer copied on Skrillex ... ( The designer is a dude I paid 30 FUCK** bucks to do it -___________- )

If someone wants to help me, I'm ready to pay on paypal.

Thanks,
Dronko

In that case I ask you, what would YOU like it to be like? Blocky? Thin-lettered? With your name/only a logo? Colourful/desaturated?
Afterall, you are the client, you should have at least a smidgen of an idea what you want.

Oh hello there writers. Don't mind me, just your neighbourhood artists that poked around the site and found something that might be of interest to you and that I haven't seen discussed anywhere.

This is the NG Style sheet found under Community->Downloads->NG Design assets.
Hello, who is this between Art and Channels?

And for those curious, the file was updated as of 18.01.12, so recent enough

Well this is new: DAZ 3D, Bryce and Hexagon are all free for a limited time.

I'm not sure what this DAZ 3D is, it sounds like a beefed up Poser.
Bryce should be a vastly more powerful version of Terragen, for creaing landscapes and scenes.
Hexagon.....I have no idea.

Either way, you might as well nab them now. Doesn't sound like there will be any time limitations - you should be use them and download them after the sale.

At 2/4/12 03:54 AM, msevaamore wrote: Im not using any transparency and, keeps telling me I am.

I think you accidentally a word there.

As for why they look boring...well, to answer that question, one would have to see your pieces, now wouldn't they?

File -> Open As Layers... and then find the thumbnail that you, hopefully, saved somewhere.

At 2/2/12 10:29 PM, ZaneZansorrow wrote:
Even though i'm not certain about the dark lines, knowing that you can't tell the beasts apart means something, so i made the kraken red-ish.

The redder Kraken helps, but I'd say tone down the water splashing too. It's not currently conveying the message that they are in water very effectively and they only serve to make the image more confusing. Also, try giving the dragon's body some more form-indicative shading, the one currently has trouble demonstrating that it has a round body.

At 1/29/12 06:24 AM, J-qb wrote: That's looking pretty great so far reginald.

More to come.

WIP 2:
Much to my agitation, I don't get well along with clouds so my skies just tend to be completely clear :/

@test-object - I have no idea what is going on in your piece, where the dragon starts and background begins, wheter the creature even has eyes or only oversized nostrils and wheter the image is suuposed to be surreal or note. Something to think about.

Ah, finally, a WIP. For too long did I try to make a different version work ( a Tron-based chinese dragon) that just didn't work out. Now I went back to the ol' classic Western dragon. Sitting there. Chilling.

I'm sorry Nae, but the idea of a phone interview instantly makes me very, very uncomfortable about this.

Photoshop help plz.

Upper image is GIMP, lower image is Photoshop Elements 8.
Does ANYBODY know if Photoshop allows me to have the colour picker visible at all times, just like in the upper image?
I uttery loathe having to click every time I want to change the colour every single bloody time.

Well, here's something interesting.
Forgive the lad, for he is French, but he reports that, having difficulties finding illustrations for fantasy books, Wikipedia is more than willing to display fan art on the book's page. An interesting opportunity...

It's always best if you actually show what website it is that you want the clock to look good on. If I were to make an orange clock and then find out that your website is bright pink, it wouldn't really look good.

Also, I think you already noticed that is not how you add images. Look for the "Include picture" row.

At 1/9/12 11:26 AM, southofheaven123 wrote: Scultris...one of the best programs for making 3D models.

Well that's an ambitious statement. I don't recall Sculptris having animation capabilities or rigging. Also, I suspect it outputs models at a hideously high polycount, making it unusable for game development (and animation that you want to have rendered in this millenia).

With that out of the way....3D sculpting is fun. Give it a shot.

Also, high res texture packs have absolutely hideous viewmodels. Just look at a random HD pack and look at their tools. LOOK AT IT.

I'm somewhat interested in this, but I'd need to know how skinning the game works first. Wanna be able to see the changes in-game before sending anything.

Oh....also, have you planned any content control system? Because if you just plan to do this via PM's, I wil start to worry about your sanity.

At 1/2/12 04:11 PM, argile wrote:

At 1/2/12 05:48 AM, Re2deemer wrote: Thumb war
Concept art 101

Have fun.

ffffound has has some great stuff to offer as well

.....what? The two lists I posted both were essentially lists of practice assignments. Your link seems like a Tumblr blog for pictures they found on the net unless I am missing something.

Yes, I know it's not technically Tumblr.

Thumb war
Concept art 101

Have fun.

*holds his head with his hands*

I....I'm just confused. You go from talking about artists' block and then to "giving us your creative imagery", concluding that you're collecting ideas for a video game....?
Isn't what you're doing the exact same thing your contraption does, shooting ideas into the wild and catching them as they come back.

I...just...what? I don't understand what you are looking for. Throw me a bone here.

At 12/31/11 09:58 PM, SineRider wrote: I hate this shit. Used most of my coal and all I got was a shitty 33% off valve game, when they already gave me to other valve coupons.

Steam is out of third-party games and coupons. You know what this means - no sense in crafting that coal anymore unless you're one of those strange men that haven't got all Valve games that they desire already.

Look winter, we gotta talk. You can't keep this stupid shit up forever.

You can't just keep all that snow to yourself, that's hoarding you greedy bastard.

+8 C today, what the hell?

It's always helpful if you include information about what you want done: what style do you want it in, what is the book about or at the very least, what is the theme of the cover.

At 12/23/11 07:14 AM, Larkatosa wrote: I wanna study skulls and fecez :[ )

skulls and fecez

fecez

That is a horrible, horrible typo to make.

If you don't get it, google "feces".

On a side note, what's all this hum-bum about Prometheus? Why so excited?

Ah, I think I remember seeing the stream for that.

I'm a bit bugged by his feet. The way they are positioned, it is almost as if he is leaning a bit backwards and using his tail as a third foot, sort of like a tripod. His right (our left) foot especially pronounces that problem.

Also, a minor nagging, but looking at his right (our left) hand, I don't see anything attaching his gauntlets. Looking at the WikiPedia page for spaulders, yuo'll notice that they have a small attachment strap, but these plates that make up the gauntlet just seem to be glued to his forearm.

At 12/3/11 05:21 PM, Kashi wrote:

At 12/3/11 04:05 PM, Knocturne wrote: Aigis, you're retarded.

At 12/3/11 04:47 PM, Knocturne wrote: Americans happen to be retarded.

Are you implying that Aigis is American?

Or maybe he implied that X-Boxes happen to sell really well in the US.

I should msot liekly also note that they msot likely won't be happy if you do that. Not because of teh copyright issues, but because you are spending their bandwidth that way, effectively costing them money.

This discussion? Again???

By now I've gotten to a point where I'm all "Sod this, we need to ditch the word "art". All it brings is pain".