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At 6/16/11 09:36 AM, Aigis wrote: I don't see you rushing to critique anyone else's art.

Essentially....what he said. You increase you chances of getting more opinions by getting more people to see your works and going around leaving reviews is bound to get others to take a look at your profile, either out of curiosity or gratefulness. As of now you have a mere 1 art review so being sad about being ignored is uncalled for.
You reap what you sow.

As for..

It`s not that leaving few words would take a whole day long doesn`t it?

It does take quite some time to think up of a decent critique and find the necessary materials to prove your point and to add additional materials for further reading.

Well, feel free to post the other 5 silhouettes too.

As for this one, it could really use some definition. You have made extensive usage of small and/or blurry brushes and you have crafted the image out of details. However, you should be looking into blocking in the form before detailing since currently the result fells quite muddy (not helped by your choice of colour scheme.
What is especially bugging me is that his head seems to blend into his right wing and shoulder area. This is the area where you should really have been playing with values.

On a side note, while silhouettes are important to character differentiation, you should try and vary up the design within the bounds of the silhouette too. Gausswerks has an interesting article about designing characters. Notice that while he relies on the silhouette to distinguish them, he also uses value (Delgado and Church) to make them distinct.
If you have Team Fortress 2, boot up the developer commentary (the one on the Well map) since I recall that having much interesting info about how they designed their characters.

Nekow...read five posts above you. Now hang your head in shame and read the rest of the thread.

I'd echo his question. For a moment I thought I was looking at a bloated kitted (with the right being the head).

It is being delayed because Podcast 17 told Gabe to prioritze Ricochet 2 above Half-Life 2 Ep 3. True story, 34:10

For the magical rainbow-pooping side.

artist

1 more? Count me in!

At 6/9/11 03:07 PM, zachdamacman wrote: I know this is off topic, but how do you combine mutiple images into one image on GIMP? I can't seem to figure it out.

Ctrl-C + Ctrl-V?
Alternatively File->Open as Layers...

Hi-Q here

Location - Estonia
A/S - 18 Male
Fact - Okay, maybe I took it home. Forcefully

Mono? Barely over 100 000 points? Pfft, you puny, puny man.

I approve.

/join

Admittedly I have no way of knowing what you are still planning to detail or how, but here goes...

At 5/30/11 09:16 AM, TurkeyOnAStick wrote: - Body/eyes - do they look alright. (ignore lack of pupils for time being).

More or less. While the eyes below his/her/its tentacle convey squinting okay, I wish that the eye on its belly did the same, right now it looks more like it's tired.

- Icebergs - They look alright?

Curses, it's so hard to find iceberg photos with overcast lighting. But I would suggest that you make more use of grey tones /desaturated blue, right now the icebergs are awfully vivid. Speaking of, the whole picture is oddly vivd, considering that overcast weather has a tendency to murder all colours.

- Water - how are the ripples surrounding the iceberg?

Overdone, they look like they were painted on top of the water. Maybe try having a bit of the underwater part of the iceberg "shine" through the water.

gah, not "shine", but I can't find a better translation.

Water seems to ignore atmospheric scattering. I think it was called that way...well, the effect of distant subjects appearing lighter and bluer (usually).

- Shading/Lightning - I'm aiming for a diffuse lighting from the sky, rather than a direct light source. Is it apparent in the pic?

More or less, although the area between the critter's feet should be somewhat shadowed.

0.02 EEK

Because, to be honest, it's hard to figure out what "right" is.

You put together a few photos, stacked an overlay on top, drew some goggles and a grin and then wrote a slogan without spell checking it. WHAT is it that you were trying to do here?

Either explain yourself orstart working harder. Much harder.

Trolling - you're doing it right.
Semi-decent photo collage - you're doing it wrong.

I could add something helpful here, but I have sincere doubts that you are at all putting in an effort to do something decent.

Slow to arrive at the retirement party.

Bye Kraig. Have fun being a normal citizen again :)

Revenge of the Titans.
It's one frustrating game. It's a constant series of Phyrric victories....and yet it's that strange sort of fun, the against-all-odds-vicotry kind of fun.

A sketch of one of the drones from the game. Redesigned.

In the middle of the winter, the outside often looked like it was made out of two colours only - dark purple shades and light orange highlights.
Which sounds like a smashing colour scheme for a speedpainting.

Only it isn't, bawwww

Gnnngh, this has been the bane of my existence for a while. Think I repainted it 4-5 times but it still doesn't look the way I would want to to be.

not to mention it's bloody hard to photograph traditional paintings

I have a lousy memory. And thus, I occasionally blame the Mind Furnace. It nom, noms my memories for...something. World domination maybe. Or just uses them to generate electricity it can then sell to some corporation. Green energy, ahoy!

A scrapped version of a potential image for the Apocalypse Art Collab. The idea was to show a "nuclear winter" brought about by colossal amounts of space junk and the following slow, cold withering of civilization. Only, as I realised, it's darned hard to depict space junk blocking out the sun from ground level <_<

At 2/18/11 07:32 PM, ExtremeFudgeMaster wrote: Nice, some traditional work. I'm liking the paintings.

More on the way
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For the seventh Friday Flood. Only I was too slow to make it in. Gahhh.
It's a grey squirrel. By a grey bird feeder house. During the time of the year when FRIGGIN EVERYTHING is grey.

..why are you even paying attention to that guy's preaching? This idea is something that should have been forgotten the moment you heard of it.

You could have mentioned at least *something* about the game. What are you using to build it (I assume Flash, but you never know), what kind of game is it, what style/look do you want it to have, what kind of "pictures" do you need (isometric/side view/top view etc.)?

To compliment what test-object said.

At 4/29/11 12:27 PM, Zingking wrote:

At 4/29/11 12:21 PM, Mr-Shark wrote: err like this?

Well yeah but like better quality :P

Oh for the love of god, you still have a mouse, don't you? Use the darned thing.

I notice a pattern emerging here - somebody posts a comic that obviously parodies something, but I'm completely clueless as to what it parodies and don't know if it's meant to be seriously taken...

You might find this to be interesting. It doesn't mention character specifically (or maybe it does, it's late for thinking clear), but it has useful info.

The way in which copyright protection is secured is frequently

misunderstood. No publication or registration or other action
in the Copyright Office is required to secure copyright.

At 4/16/11 07:49 PM, ngman7 wrote:
I don't want to post actual characters without copyrighting them first- that has to wait.

...what? Unless your country has some strange copyright laws, all characters should be protected by copyright by default, from the moment they are created.

From what I've gathered, they are going to release Portal 2 when enough people *play* the games in the Potato Pack. This means you don't even have to have the whole pack, you can just boot up a game that is part of the pack and contribute to having Portal 2 released eariler.

Which....sounds like a awesome marketing strategy. Seriously, which company have you seen advertising *another* company's product alongside their own's? The idndie devs must be wetting their pants with joy.

Took a look at it out of curiosity. It's okay if you want to make a colourful and wavy doodle. Not for much else.
Here's a link with somebody test driving the demo. That wobbly "brush" is your only drawing tool and tring to do any actual drawing is near-impossible.

I tried to do it nonetheless. Can you see the space fighter below?

Camouflage would be the best. Grey's anatomy as a theme would mean that those unfamiliar could not participate.