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I need help!

Its about done, but I am not very good at making backgrounds. This time I wanted to make one so I tried.

The photo-frames need to be filled, but what can I do about that very plain background? I dont really know. how about the colors of the background? maybe some decorations... make it look more like a table cloth or something.

I could use some input.

At 11/10/12 09:51 PM, Aigis wrote:

At 11/9/12 07:40 AM, Tomsan wrote: BUT in this case isnt it forgivable or even good? Because 1. those trees are very similar in real life and 2 I do want to create some form of symmetrie. It makes a picture cleaner and easier to look at (I am not sure if this is really so). Since there will be more elements in this picture wont those copied trees give some rest?

That's some way of justifying your own laziness, saying that it's actually preferable for you to do less work.

You keep saying 'symmetry'. Why do you want to create 'symmetry'? What does it add to your piece?

So you think what I am saying is BS? honestly maybe it is, I am really asking.

I explained why I wanted symmetry. but maybe my reasons are not valid

are there enough entries actually??

(presents are temporary)

At 11/10/12 03:33 PM, HiryuGouki wrote: Here's mine. I think everyone has seen this already, but whatever.

needs more highlight on the light area.. whats the irregular white line in the dark area all about? makes the sphere look less spherey

At 11/10/12 03:40 PM, HiryuGouki wrote:

At 11/10/12 08:07 AM, TurkeyOnAStick wrote:

At 11/9/12 04:02 PM, sweet21 wrote: Not really. If you've been scouted you should stay scouted, irregardless of the person who scouted you.

No, because some of the people who get scouted by crap artists are even worse. The quality threshold gets lower and lower the further down the scouting tree you go.

Just my two cents.

And i really hate when people use this phrase to pardon their opinion.

In reality, I think the art portal should be open to EVERYONE; not just a select few. This makes the art portal a lot less fair for those who want in, despite the quality of their work. I think the portal should be open to people of ALL skill levels and whose art comes from ALL qualities, regardless of standards. What you guys have now is WAY unfair. Just voicing my opinion, so don't un-scout me.

trolling or not, if the art portal is flooded with crappy MS paint drawings what business do I have there to scroll through all the art. If I have to look at 20 shitty pics to see one nice one, it will be a disaster. This is logical and intuitive. Only other option is a similar system as the flash entries where stuff is removed if it doesnt gets past a certain threshold. This has already been discussed.

... but you should count yourself lucky that isnt the case.

its just a solid system.

At 11/9/12 01:25 AM, Aigis wrote:
I'd recommend drawing the trees individually. Obviously copy pasted elements when they're so prominent have a way of making a picture look lazy and boring.

haha so much critique more then I could wish for in my own thread. I guess all I can say is 'it was really put together quickly' not done at all.

But I do wanted to react on you Aigis: Youre probably right, it looks lazy, which i also am, BUT in this case isnt it forgivable or even good? Because 1. those trees are very similar in real life and 2 I do want to create some form of symmetrie. It makes a picture cleaner and easier to look at (I am not sure if this is really so). Since there will be more elements in this picture wont those copied trees give some rest?

I dont know if what I am saying makes any sense, but I am curious as to how people look at this. 'cause I actually planned to add a silhouette of a jumping deer, copy that, and put it at random spots, I can easily make more silhouettes, but my idea was to create some form of symmetry.

At 11/8/12 07:11 PM, big-jonny-13 wrote:

At 11/8/12 04:09 PM, Tomsan wrote: oke then! a quicky to get people excited

Deer kinda looks traced though.....

actually the legs are.. not literally traced but slowly drawn while looking at the reference zoomed in, the rest is a mix of different references.

At 11/8/12 04:51 PM, Flowers10 wrote:

At 11/8/12 04:47 PM, Flowers10 wrote:

At 11/8/12 04:46 PM, Flowers10 wrote:

At 11/7/12 05:36 PM, Flowers10 wrote: I need to put text here...

bump

the fuck?
hows did this turn out inverted?

lets try AGAIN

Haha maybe try with a white background

At 11/8/12 09:59 AM, TurkeyOnAStick wrote:

That be really good, please. Crit is also highly welcomed.

oke then! a quicky to get people excited

Not that I have started but is it oke to post wchiphes in here?

At 11/6/12 08:28 PM, johnnycancer wrote:

I think THIS tutorial does a good job of walking you through the process using layers set to multiply mode if you want to take a look at it.

Thanks, after I did some more researching I figured that what I have in my head is just not possible. I will have to manually fill line work (the borders that is). The tutorial also used multiply but I still have no idea as to why. As long as my line layer is on top of my color layer it will go behind it. I may have to use a different program for coloring.

anyways.. end result.

My theme is snowglobe

At 11/7/12 08:24 PM, HiryuGouki wrote:

At 11/7/12 05:25 PM, Fifty-50 wrote: I'm saying that your current style isn't much of a difference from your old one. I actually think it's the same thing all over. Thisand this actually have no difference. It's the same old frustrating mistake over and over. Priscilla is actually a bit worse than Jillian because she has a botched boob job.

So you say, but her torso is at an angle, hence is why it makes sense.

dont listen to all those pricks Hiryu, they dont know what the fuck theyre talking about. Just look at how hard they try. Just do what you do best: make awesome art.

I actually believe youve outgrown NG for a while now. Just leave this shithole behind and reach for the metaphorical stars. I think there are more dedicated forums for artists like yourself. NG cant help you anymore

At 11/7/12 02:11 PM, Lucky wrote: so anyone planything anything artsy for the holidays? We doing doubles again soon? Secret santa? Or too early to discuss... *stops playing christmas music*

yes join the calender collab. why not join as well?

At 11/7/12 07:34 PM, macboo11 wrote: i dont construct any of the sketches ill start some were on the face build untill i got a complete head then work how i feel the body would react.

yes and the given advice from your fellow artists is to NOT do that since it will fuck up your end result.

its just how i learned.

You can unlearn right? or learn to do it differently

I dont need someone to explain how theprospectives could get off drawing like this.also i gotno idea who those people were only thing ill use to see a human contour lines is de vinci's old man sketch...

So you dont want critique then? kinda sounds like it atm, but then why post in the art forum?

I kinda like your drawings but I agree with nearly everything said by the others

At 11/6/12 06:42 PM, ForskinGump wrote: Cool works! The only thing I can think that bothers me is everyone seems awfully stiff in their poses, but that kind of works into the way you draw it somehow. Might be worth improving though

I like it

Hmm I might not have a good eye for it, but one of the things I really enjoy about these drawings is their ever changing and lively poses. I cant really place the stiffness. Maybe its due to the fact it isnt colored/ shaded?

At 11/6/12 06:22 PM, johnnycancer wrote:

At 11/6/12 06:06 PM, Tomsan wrote: Normally Ill use a variety of tricks to fill those empty pixels but I guess there should be an easier way for this. I am guessing something can be done with the layer mode, but I dont know which one. If someone has any good methods to color this line art easily plz advice.

I might be misunderstanding the question but I'll try to explain how I would do this. Now, I use GIMP almost exclusively, but this should be applicable to Photoshop as well.

As always, make a copy of your base layer first, just so you're not doing anything to the original.

Next, make a New Layer with a white background. Then, set the layer mode to Multiply.

Once you set the mode to Multiply, colors that you put on this new layer will show up on the original drawing as well. After that, just use the brush tool to fill in your line art with the colors that you want.

You might want to make multiple layers for different colors.

When it comes to shading, I usually use the brush tool and the smudge tool and draw over parts of the colored drawing with gray or shades of blue.

That's how I would color something like this. I'm not sure if that's what you were asking for or not, but hopefully that is helpful in some way.

Oke i will try that tomorrow, but from my head I dont see how a multiply layer will do anything. I usually color on a separate layer (normal mode) then select an area I want to color from my line layer, fill that area on my color layer and then fill the empty pixels with my brush later on. Another way is that I color on my color-layer with a large brush out of bounds of the line-layer and then select the line layer (outside) and delete the selection from the color layer.

What exactly does the multiply modus do in this case?

I got all individual monsters (the lines) on a separate layer. I just want to fill them with a color. Atm I am doing it as follows: select a monster-line-layer outside the lines (so that the whole screen is selected), inverse selection, modify --> contract, fill selection on color layer.

This doesnt fix all my pixel problems, there will still be pixels colored outside the lines (especially sharp corners, which I dont want). The only way I know that really gets a clean result is by carefully erasing (or filling whichever coloring method you chose to do) the colors along the lines. So you either color the empty pixels along the black lines on your separate color layer zoomed in heavily, or you erase the color pixels that are out of bounds, also zoomed in.

This just sounds way to complicated. But as far as I know a multiply layer works the same right?

At 11/6/12 12:53 PM, johnnycancer wrote:

At 11/6/12 12:11 PM, Tomsan wrote: whadda u think

I love this so far!

I would think that bright colors would probably go well with the subject matter. A lot of these little creatures look like they could be Kid Robot toys, and bright colors tend to work well with that.

What color will the actual t-shirt be?

yeah I am gonna go with bright colors, tshirt color is adjustable

Does anyone know a good way to color this in photoshop? I've been struggling with coloring for a while actually, I always use methods that seem overly complicated. the problem I have is with the paintbucket tool leaving pixel lines unfilled.

Normally Ill use a variety of tricks to fill those empty pixels but I guess there should be an easier way for this. I am guessing something can be done with the layer mode, but I dont know which one. If someone has any good methods to color this line art easily plz advice.

I did google this, I did not find anything useful, but I guess I could do a more extensive search. but never hurts to ask.

tshirt design line work. not sure yet If I am gonna go bright colors or a few greyish colors, to fill it up.

linework is not yet finished, but almost

whadda u think

t 11/4/12 09:06 AM, Template88 wrote:

Your single image is already better than anything i could probably come up with overall without a reference, and you are really young too. So either you are very talented or not legit, id love to see some more of your work though.

ha, extremely likely its not legit. He's 14? and makes this art? plus he is a blogger since 2007? meaning he was 9 then lol.

Or its Daniel MacGregor himself, but my guess he's just a kid that uploaded a picture, maybe no harm was intended.

At 11/1/12 06:17 PM, Boss wrote: thank you dudes who gave me support in my stretch into makking my firs eever thread t rach more than 1 page !! also i wiuld kleik to take this time to say that cocksuckin momo with yellow in his nam hwo fucken double posted, fuck you silly dummy, dont double post in my shit biatch

FU Boss get to bed or go make some art for me to jack to JFC

At 11/1/12 09:26 PM, Irrelephant wrote:

At 11/1/12 09:23 PM, Tomsan wrote:

At 11/1/12 08:31 PM, Irrelephant wrote:

ralph pootawn isnt a meme??? if he is, he's definitely not an overhyped one. i really dont know i've been out of internet commission for quite a few months and i've had this pic for a few months

either way my vagina is none of your concern

ugh profile pic not user icon!

and yeah do yourself and everyone else a favor and clean that muff cabbage

At 11/1/12 08:31 PM, Irrelephant wrote:

i mean i just dont understand i really dont like memes or internet hype in general it just upsets me

says the man with a big meme as profile picture. as for the rest, get that sand out of your vajayjay

At 11/1/12 05:04 PM, mega-supreme wrote: party time, i'll start posting up my art book stuff soon. It's too big for a scanner so i'll have camera photos of them, i'll take them with as much natural light as possible so it shouldn't be too low quality.

Does anyone else know a few camera tricks to help me out, i'm a bad photographer.

thats some buldge!

If i make a photo of a picture I use a ´solar light´ thingy, a lamp that people use in the winter to get enough light (like 1m2 large, its also diffused light), but I think its better to just do it outside during the day

At 11/1/12 08:11 PM, johnnycancer wrote: I can, in fact, draw women wearing clothes. I just don't do it often. This is the back cover for issue number three, which is off to the printers as of yesterday.

awesome colored stuff! like the way you colored his jeans. congratz on the rest!

At 10/31/12 07:20 PM, benjadaninja wrote:

Are you doubting me?

Or are you trying to be clever by implying that you can't literally "draw" something with a mouse? If so, then hardy-har-har to you sir.

lol, neither dude

got second place on the 'draw a zombie' contest with this one! jeej. Since I did see a few cabin in the woods submissions retagged under halloween I figured I'd also retag mine, I am not lazy.

competition is a bit harsher now though.

GL to all and have fun with halloween, I have no idea how big that is besides the stuff I see in movies.

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  zombie bitch by Tomsan

  Zombie bitch. ---edit--- some brush ups done. thanks to Johnnycancer and MrFap for helping me out.

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At 10/30/12 03:50 PM, Boss wrote: in general they banned me for making a thread asking the newgrounds demographic their favorite brand of chicken. i have returned after the 3 day unjustice to bring you more incredible drawings made with my penis

Your penis can draw on my chicken anytime

Awesome colors

At 10/30/12 12:02 PM, Escalus wrote: Can I enter one I uploaded yesterday?

add tag "halloween2012" but I see you already did.

strange... well

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  Entry for an Album cover contest. The picture was mostly based on the song Polaris of that album http://www.youtube.com/wa t...

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