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Sorry, [IMG] tags don't work here. Nor can you edit your psot :(
To insert a picture, you gotta use the "Include Picture" form down here and optionally link to a full-sized version of it.

Also, welcome to the madhouse.

Not quite.
More like "I HAD SOMETHING HERE AND NOW IT IS GONE" guy.

Whilst the WBC are in no way an appealing bunch to me...no, the idea of you going there to troll extremists wih signs that rival theirs in stupidity, making pictures of that and then posting them here in hopes of gaining some satisfaction and self-fulfillment in the form of "Oh boy, eI sure showed them!" is certainly not appealing.

Carrier has arri-- I mean, ready here.

Considering the context of your story, are you sure that you are looking for London bridge? Or was it the Tower Bridge that you wanted?

At 11/4/11 09:18 AM, big-jonny-13 wrote:

At 11/4/11 03:23 AM, Spaghetti14 wrote: This isn't directly art related, but it's directly internet related, and we're all using that to communicate. The Protect IP act is a potential bill from the US Congress that will be very very bad.
Watch this 2 minute video to understand basically what is going on.

Hooray for being in Canada!

Because Canadian websites totally don't care about the entire American demographic being blocked out and all ad revenue originating from American-based companies being shut down because of a few users.
</sarcasm>

Unless you're lamenting being unable to knock some senators over the head, being in another country and all.

At 11/3/11 10:54 AM, jeeshwa123 wrote: Are we still on about this? xD Jesus.

I don't know about you, but I certainly prefer this to something like...

At 10/12/11 12:59 PM, big-jonny-13 wrote:

At 10/12/11 12:58 PM, Sockembop wrote:

At 10/12/11 10:32 AM, J-qb wrote: I'd rather you suck my cock because you like it than because you think you need to...

Ew, gay...
Mmm, gay...

What's a gay horse's favourite food?
HAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY

This is one of those " I know you're joking, but I'm not laughing %u0CA0_%u0CA0" kind of videos.

I'm really surprised nobody has chewed you out on this, but...

Credit for the photo

I was going end here, but this has to be said - you don't look like you know what you are doing here. You need to understand anatomy and what is going on both on the skeletal level and muscle level if you are going to pull off drawing any half-believable nude/seminude character. Your shaky linework and your "fixes" being small Ctrl+T actions deeply infuse me with doubt as to whether you truly understand what you just fixed and hence whether you will ever be able to avoid that same error.

A thought I gathered from painting my own mouse - the sucker is reflective. It's not a mirror, but pay attention to it and the surroundings - The mouse's surface is reflecting the objects around it. I had a mouse on a wooden table and in front of a monitor so it would have a light brown line going along its underbelly and a large vaguely rectangular light spot on the top. From the coloration of yours, I'm guessing your was near a monitor and on a light blue mouse mat, am I close?
Now remember this and apply it to everything made of similar plastic (your tablet is a great example. The first time I understood it, mind=blown.

At 9/30/11 11:26 AM, Kashi wrote:

At 9/30/11 11:00 AM, Re2deemer wrote:

At 9/30/11 05:21 AM, M-Vero wrote: And so begins the second season of FUCK YOU, PAY ME!

The what now?

Ohoho....
Also 1
Also 2
Also 3

@kinsei: I was once like that too, and then.... woah!

I know of the first one, but I fail to understand how the other 3 are in any way connected to it or in any way indicate a "second season" coming.

Now that I think of it, I don't even recall a first season...

At 9/30/11 05:21 AM, M-Vero wrote: And so begins the second season of FUCK YOU, PAY ME!

The what now?

You *really* aren't doing those sketches any justice by posting them at 200px wide. Full size for the first one foranybody interested.

Anyhow, teh answer can only be more realistic. The reason isn't so much a sadistic hate for stylized work (I quite enjoy the...geometricness, I suppose?) as much as it is the fact that it is easier to transistion from real to stylized than it is to do in reverse. In the case of the former, you just have to exaggerate the features as you see fit since you know the underlying elements, but with stylized->real, you'd have to go through the trouble of figuring out the anatomy of the critter, the properties of the materials, the behaviour of light etc.
I think you'll understand one is easier than the other.

Scouted by Abbyka

Everything looks okay to me

At 9/16/11 11:53 PM, Ramatsu wrote: So I went ahead and said Fuck it and ordered the medium intuos4. And I know you can redeem some programs or so...and I just wanted to know what programs you think it'll be best to go with? Just a few suggestions if you don't mind. Thanx in advance!

...so, it would have been really nice if you had actually posted what programs are offered.
Photoshop Elements 8
Sketchbook Express 2010
Painter Sketch Pad

...a freelancer?

It's question that I see every once ina while over at conceptart.org's forums, here's one thread

TL;DR - You better have some discipline, boy.

Copyrighted characters are okay, although not encouraged for obvious reasons.

The first image of yours reminded me of something I saw while ago and thought you might find it useful - Droemar's scale tutorial

TL;Dr - you don't have to paint out every scale.

On a second note, it also has problems with a light source. The scales suggest that ther is one towards the top-left. However, for that to be true, the dragon's forehead shoul be illuminated. As it is here, his head is just evenly illuminate all over.

At 9/4/11 10:31 PM, FlyingNinjaBannanas wrote: Art forum, what's the best way to fight procrastination?

I just can't get anything done. I tell myself "Today I'm working on this". But I never do. I get to my tablet, and don't do anything. I know this will have an obvious answer, but whatever.

Get started. Don't start later, don't start after you have read that article. Once you realize you should be doing something, start it IMMEDIATELY. Smack yourself in the face if you have to and get to it! Starting something is harder than keeping going.

Timers can be your friends. Partition your time as drawing and entertainment. Stick to it. When the timer says it's drawing time, you OBEY. You start drawing. It's not even so bad when you don't finish drawing, as long as you have started.

Nope, you are half a day late. The deadline, according to NG time which is somewhere east-USA, was on the 3rd of September, 23:59. During your last post it was already 11:00 of the 4th of September, roughly 11 hours late.
I know, timezones. *shrugs*

Also, damn every american that thinks the whole world knows their timezones and just posts it with some 3-letter abbreviation. Not speaking of Newgrounds here, but of those that talk in EDT's, PST's, MDT's etc.

Then you'll have to point us to where you downloaded the brushes so that we could confirm if they have any colour data attached to them or if you are expected to choose the colours yourself.

After space exploration boomed, humans constructed colossal colony ships, behemoths built to land on a planet and become the central citadel for the developing space colony, providing resources and a safe haven for the residents.
Of course...some aliens were more territorial than others and didn't appreciate their landscape being polluted with mile-long towers....

Note to self: PLANETS = NEVER AGAIN

Patience, dear Kinsei, patience.

Unlike the rest of us who are just told to screw ourselves for living in the Old World

At 8/30/11 04:41 PM, test-object wrote: I'm not really getting the vibe to be fair... How does the pen work? You can't use a regular ballpoint pen or a pencil, can you?

Nope, you need their special pen.
With that said, I have to second that I'm not getting a very special vibe from it. On one hand, it sounds like a fancy gadget to use and the technology behind this interests me. However, it seems to be me like this provides the same functionality that scanning your drawing in would be. Sure, the sketch with Inkling will be cleaner ( I have no interest in the vectorization) but other than that I don't see Inkling having immense value when it provides the same functionality that a cheap pen and scanner does.

At 8/27/11 02:33 PM, Vonschlippe wrote:

I've decided to learn to speedpaint!
....learn to speedpaint!
....speedpaint!

Wat?

All joking aside, these look great. Do show more.
A thought about the last one - the waterfall blend so in with the background that it looks like it is at the same distance as the mountains in the distance, making it look beyond colossal.

Oh, it's that debate again.

Well screw it, if the US congress says it's art than it's art, end of story.

I don't know why anybody would bother trying to figure out whether something is art considering the bloatedness and all-encompassing nature of the term. Maybe they get some sort of divine ego boost from having an activity they enjoy being dumped into the same category with a urinal, paint dripping or a 5-hour film of some guy sleeping. Good job, buzzkiller.

At 8/19/11 12:35 PM, ornery wrote: Some friends of mine from college started a pretty sweet art challange blog. Its sorta like the doubles we have here, but with a twist. As of now what they are doing works so well because they work with a smaller group and in a more direct personal way with each artist, and only 2 at a time.

I bet we could figure out something similar for the forums. Some sort of sketch exchange type thing. If people like this idea I'll think of something and get it started.

You didn't get much response on that....but I'm intrigued. On the other hand, I'm also utterly confused as to how you would adapt this to the forums format so elaborate plz?

How interesting....just yesterday I was going through my messy resource lists, reorganizing them, and thought that these might be of use to others too. Though a newspost format would be preferable even if for the ability to edit the list.

Unlike yours, mine are more specific links, for articles and single pages rather than whole sites.

Please be formatted correctly, please be formatted correctly...

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And my favourite...Feng Zhu's design school (Youtube channel)

Ever since I heard Icarus I've wanted to post something Audiosurf related. However, as I've discovered, the game's art style is a bitch to mimic. Below are two of my favourite sketches.

IT'S HARD WORK KEEPING IN MIND TO UPDATE THIS REGULARLY.

For the legendary (not) AVAT round 2.

Grass textures courtesy of night-fate-stock and foxstock

Also, first time drawing an equine. Brrrrr

Welp, all done

A single fluffy cloud is easy to do. Making a skyful of clouds without making them look like god smacked cotton all over the sky, now that's hard.

Grass textures originate from http://browse.deviantart.com/resources/?
q=grassy%20field&order=9&offset=48#/d33g y03 and http://foxstox.deviantart.com/art/Grassy -Field-54931520?q=boost%3Apopular%20in%3 Aresources%20grassy%20field&qo=2