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

GIMP, Paint.NET and to a (undeserevely) smaller degree MyPaint are the bigger fish amoungst the freeware. Unless you fancy something along the lines of 3D or fractals...

With that said, nothing beats strong skills with classic, rudimentary pencil and paper. No software or tablet is going to be a gateway to instant awesomeness, it's the underlying technical skills - something that a quick look at your gallery shows you to be lacking.

TL;DR - If you thought digital art makes you instantly awesome, you are mistaken. If not, carry on.

At 3/13/11 03:21 PM, big-jonny-13 wrote: Aerial photos taken over Japan have revealed the scale of devastation across dozens of suburbs and tens of thousands of homes and businesses.
It's a set of before and after shots.

The hell? Why do all the after shots like there was less of a tsunami and more like an inferno?

Please do post them here, it is annoying for everybody to click back and forth to see them.

Looking good so far though, I really like the use of colours (especially in the STALKER image).
I did notice, though, that the urban landscape image has this strange thing that the foreground buildings are nice and detailed, but the left of the image is left quite scrawly. Consider giving the buildings on the left simple shadows so that they wouldn't look so off.

Unless they aren't buildings afterall and a cluttered beach instead....hmmm.

Oh god, I feel like I'm raining on my own parade. Never again such delays!

I have David Revoy's awesome brush kit for the GIMP. But along with it came a selection of colour palettes and I started itching to do something with them. This is the first of the palette madnesses, with the palette used in the top-left corner.
It's a nice experiment, nudges one out of their colour comfort zone.

*Yet* another schoolwork, this time for Russian lesson, illustrating a scene from a short story we are/were reading.

I used a 6-pencil set of sepia pencils for that, curious to see what effect they might give (this excludes the purple sky). Still have a good deal to learn about their usage, but I'm intrigued by the initial results.

Small in-class sketches of people presenting.
TO-DO LIST: study 'em faces.

I don't have a whole lot to say about this. I was staring at those slick, shiny speakers on my English teacher's table one day and caught myself thinking - man, what a great hovercar they would make!

<_<
>_>

As part of a German lesson assigment, we had to read a book and then do some small taks related to the text. Amongst them was designing the book a new cover.
So, this is my rendition of what Erich Kästner's "Drei Männer im Schnee" might have looked like. Got kinda blue though.

Also, this shows why one has to plan out everything before painting with watercolours. Mid-way moodswings a'la "Oh, let's draw an aurora here!" will lead to lots of frustration.

The second set of the watercolour doodles.

As many others, I believe, I too have accumulated a good deal of art supplies over time. Amongst them are 4 sets of watercolours, only one of which I really care for.
So I took the most primitive of my watercolour sets, a cheap 6-colour one, and figured that if I doodled up enough things I could have a crappy set of colours well spent.

I ran out of paper before I ran out paint. Goddamn.

Made for an school assignment, a comic about the 1920's in the US.

Last of the mini-paintings. This was comissioned for an ex-teacher of mine who desired something wintery. I remembered a sketch of a nearly daily scene at my home and offered to draw that.

At 12/28/10 06:47 PM, big-jonny-13 wrote: So wait, are you back for good now, or is this just another one of your teases which ends up with you leaving for a great deal of time?

.....No *silly grin*
Erm yeah, consistency isn't a strong point of mine. On the other hand, I've used that time well and built up a large collection of stuff to showcase.

I'm so going to hate the 4 posts/30 minutes limit...

Starting up with the last of the mini-paintings. A 7X10 cm chameleon. On a strangely-coloured background, staring into your soul with a strange look.

At 2/6/11 04:51 PM, MJOLNIRchief90 wrote: Because everyone on newgrounds has a computer. We would be more likely to want computers to be used in schooling.

To remove bias, I think it would be best to refine the survey and pass it out to people at your school.

You do have a wonderful point, but it's one that I have little to do against other than increase the selection group. The big, more famous tablet computers are not even for sale over here so I would stumble over the same brick in our school as I am here.

But thanks to you and everybody else for taking the survey. My face = SouthAsian's sig.

At 2/6/11 04:41 PM, KingLightning123 wrote: Call me a dumbass if you want, but what do you EXACTLY mean by "special emphasis" in question 3?

I'm asking if it's a school that puts special emphasis on something in its curriculum. For example, a vocational school, a school that puts more emphasis on humanitarian subjects, a military academy etc.

At 2/6/11 04:40 PM, ChainsawNinjaZX wrote: You do realize you just put bias in your survey right? Unless of course you are surveying Newgrounds.

Do elaborate please.

I'm currently doing a research on using laptops and/or tablet computers in education. As a part of it I'm doing a small survey of how you study currently and how you feel about using them in education.

Take the survey here

The more the merrier! And remember, all answers apply to schoolwork and doing schoolwork only!

I am confused. Is this to be a showcase for all to stick in their Muro-made images or a personal showcase for you?

At 12/29/10 04:47 PM, SBB wrote:
sweet!! but just one thing, would you mind putting a halo on it?

Eh, sorry, but I don't keep the source files and can't be arsed editing the existing stuff.

At 12/29/10 05:35 PM, Felis wrote: Not to shit on your parade, but,

Ah, thanks for pointing that out. I'll think I'll leave the "has sex with Jesus" part out indeed.

Speaking of, there are strangely many Jesuses around.

With that, NO MORE REQUESTS. I have a sufficient backlog to chew through in the morning.

Also, a big banner picture for those with attention deficit syndromes.

At 12/29/10 09:47 AM, CloudEater wrote: Draw your interpretations of the physical humanoid embodiments of happiness and fear playing music and performing magic tricks together in a relatively busy cobble stone city street of the 17th century.

It's not busy regrettably. And Happy's magic trick is exactly a happy one.... As for Fearful, I imagined him playing the Leviathan theme. It's just such a strange, panicky piece that I couldn't keep it and Fearful apart.

At 12/29/10 09:01 AM, argile wrote: Draw something that is satirical to the music industry.

Satire - am I doing it right?

At 12/29/10 08:57 AM, SBB wrote: draw jesus as a super-muscular evil far eastern warrior stereotype.

Whoops. I misread that as middle eastern warrior. Oh well, it'll have to do.
Red eyes make everything evil-er.

At 12/29/10 12:37 PM, big-jonny-13 wrote: Hopefully I'm not too late.

Still got 4 hours to 22.30 GMT (which is 17.30 NG Time).

I can't even understand the question. Is it coolest game with voice acting or coolest voice acting in games?

At 12/29/10 08:04 AM, Jow279 wrote: okay .. how about a cool banana wearing sunglasses flying around with a jetpack saying deal with it ?

What's the deal with this "Deal with it" thing again?

At 12/29/10 06:29 AM, Felis wrote: A man with a mace for a head bludgeoning someone with their face.

What? Zidane is evolving! Zidane has evolved into Maceface!

Before somebody says - yes, I did trace their rough outline before painting. Nothing else.

At 12/29/10 06:05 AM, Spaghetti14 wrote: obese women fighting over a large piece of ham in the supermarket. There is a tv studio audience of dinosaurs in the back with cameras. One of the cameras flashes has gone off and it hurts the cashiers head due to its brightness because he has chronic migraines but he left his medication at home.

Sure you didn't forget anything?

Friggin obese women, how do they work?

At 12/29/10 05:59 AM, LegolaSS wrote: i would like to see a girl jumping up and down on the belly of a giant stuffed teddy bear

Noy sure how much of a girl she is, but here it is-

At 12/29/10 05:58 AM, JackDGreatest wrote: Draw me a picture of one dude about to execute another
Reference: Boondock Saints: where the guy about to die is on their knees with a dude behind him with a gun to his head.

Why yes I am watching the Boondock Saints right now.

I haven't seen that movie so I don't know who should execute who. I just chose the fatty because he looked the happiest.

At 12/29/10 05:57 AM, Wivernryder wrote: I would like to see a large man attempting to put on a tiny pink tutu while simultaneously riding a unicycle and a bear.

I have no idea how to ride a unicycle and a bear simultaneously. This will have to do

It's going to feel strange finding that on my hard drive a couple of years from now....