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We get tired of opening new threads only to find yet another ten-second MS paint drawing and a demand for other people to do art.... If you want to have people post art in your thread, you had better start off with a decent piece of art, which has taken you at least a few hours.
The other thing is that it's always some low-level, low post-count person who nobody knows who comes in and does it... All the other MS-Paint-goblins usually just spam popular threads instead of trying to make new threads with their dire "artwork".
After just a few moments of our combined shouting at them, these people usually leave the forum, never to be seen again... And for the most part, they aren't missed.

Whilst I normally just come in, see that it's another flame-fest going on, and leave.... I noticed your post and thought I should fill you in on how we're all trigger-happy with tedium as far as MS-paint "draw a toaster" or "draw boobs" threads, accompanied with a piece of dire MS paint artwork.

And of course, all 'competitions' have to be approved by the admins.... As far as I'm aware.

Sorry to rant, but I have six hours free, and nothing to do with them. The rant-ship has set sail.

Nice, Comrade!
I think the only thing you need is practice... But you've got all the fundamentals, and bags of enthusiasm. (It takes quite a lot of "eager spirit" to draw a battlescene without getting bored towards the end.)

Vousielle - It's a very nice drawing of the Imperial Guard's standard issue weapon! I particularly like the addition of the purity seals... nice touch.
But your gun barrel deviates a little bit from the angle it should be... I think it's just a simple VP-error....

But still, it's barely noticeable. Good work!

Since I stuck in some decent artwork on this topic, everyone really seems to have put in much more effort...
So, in an effort to maintain the high standard that this topic now seems to expect, here's another of my characters. (Admittedly, I've posted this before, but my scanner's still on the Fritz.)

The scary guy's name is Ezekiel Morgathikhai. The little girl is soon to become his apprentice.
Hi-res here : http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/2056/
aquisitionofanapprenticfw3.png

I take it your RL name is Robert....

I really don't give a fuck if you guys don't like it.
Comment, you dirty motherfuckers.

Aren't those two phrases totally contradictory?
Anyway, my input - Because you "don't care" about negative input, and you're urging people to give you an input of some sort, I think that you're just trying to fish for compliments.

That put aside....
You need to spend more than a few seconds on your art. I mean, seriously.... If you can't be bothered to put the time in, how can you expect people to be bothered enough to write you a comment?

I agree. If you add one of your "curly bits" on the bottom of the "Y" (curling to the left, of course,) it'll look absolutely perfect.

Nice work. I like the smooth, flowing, almost ghostly feeling of the letters, and the "glowing outline" really makes it stand out.

At 2/15/08 05:33 AM, tooters wrote: a shitty starting pic never stopped me before!

heh heh... A clean-shaven hobo?

That's gotta be a first. XD
Still, it's a nice, characterful piece. Nice touch with the monobrow, and I like how he's holding the sword by the blade rather than the hilt...
A little dribble of blood would just set the pic off nicely.

Nice work!

The look of sheer joy on the "winner's" face is totally priceless, as is the looks of horror and dismay on the rest of them.
It is quite rare that I find such vivid expression in such a minimalist style.

I like this piece. It has a certain "surreal random charm" that I find endearing.

Nice work!

At 2/10/08 08:22 AM, Grezard wrote: Yay'z...lets start a thread and see if you can make a better fatty cartoon-like fat-boy like this..

At a GLANCE, I know he'd be ginger.

At 2/10/08 01:35 PM, Gromuluss wrote: her, i doodled this awhile ago, so thought i share it with ya
its a custom Orc mech- WarTruk

I agree... And I can tell you what's up with the gun barrel, and how to fix it.
For the "body" of the big shoota (?) You've used vanishing-point perspective, to give it that authentic three-dimensional feel. But when the time came to drawing the gun barrel, you stopped using vanishing point perspective and just used parallel lines instead, which results in a very bizarre, squint-looking gun barrel. (see attached example.)

If you want "anatomically correct" proportions, here they are....
Height = seven head lengths.
Elbows should sit just above the hip bones, and the hands should be about halfway between knee height and hip height.
The wrists should be about equal with the bottom of the crotch. (Ballsack height)
The hand should be the length from the tip of the chin to the hailine. (If you actually try to test this on your own body, bear in mind that you need to do it off to the side, so that your nose doesn't get in the way.)
The legs form roughly half the height of a human being.
The length of the foot is one head-length.

"Cartoon" proportions are slightly different, but I don't know them.... They vary from style to style.... For example - "Simpsons proportion" = big heads, big bellies.
"Anime proportions" - freakishly huge eyes, chins and boobs (if applicable)

Your muscle definition seems pretty accurate, so I won't prattle on about that.

Anyway, nice work all the same! Hope to see more of your stuff in the near future!

what is kaotiq kreations?
What exactly do they do?

-Ynek

I agree.... The hands are too small.
Are you actually aiming to have "correct" anatomy, here? Or are you going for something more "stylised?"
Because if it's the former, then the heads are way too big in relation to the body....
And if it's the latter, the hands should at least be a bit bigger....

Look, guy.... These pieces are terrible.
They literally do look like you spent less than a minute on them.
Stop posting your 0% effort crap in here.
Come back when you've got something you spent half an hour on (or possibly more) and we'll be more tolerant.

I'm sorry to have to ask this, but what's with the camel-lip?

I'll give this a go when I get home...
But it might have to wait until tomorrow, when I have more time, and my head's feeling less like a bag of hammers.

At 2/5/08 05:15 PM, Vousielle wrote: Definately twilight.

this is relatively new...

Very nice, mate...
I particularly like the softened colours and the feeling of distance that the tapering road gives.
Kinda gives the impression that they have a very long way to go....

But what's with the green skin on the officer (I'm assuming he's an officer, since he appears to be shouting orders)

I'll be perfectly honest.... This looks like a really rushed piece of art.
Spend more time on it.

Also, you should look up some tutorials on human anatomy and proportion...

But keep at it, and keep practicing. So long as you try hard, you'll improve.

At 2/5/08 08:22 AM, Lamoureux wrote: Well, first of all, that looks totally badass. It's seriously fucking awesome.

Now, to answer your question. You should go with the midnight battlescene, imo.
The sky would look wicked like link, just without the fireworks - explosions or some shit instead. But the bellowing smoke and red explosions, would make an epic scene with the red light falling on your characters and lighting the battlescene also.

Anyways, that's just my opinion.

Ooh, that would be pretty.... With anti-aircraft flak instead of fireworks, it would look especially epic...
But I guess that might mean I'd need to draw one or two aircraft... Or spaceships in extreme-low-orbit....
Hmm. I'm getting ideas here....

Lol liek tha whole thing lux 2 childysh, its rubbish kk but it cud be PWNAGE!. Chek 'dis owt n try 2 c wut u did SUCKAGE LOLOLOLOL

I hate leetspeak.... Isn't there a rule against that on here?

Anyone who is familiar with my artwork will probably know that it usually depicts horrible creatures/monsters and machines.
Well, in keeping with that tradition, here is a warscene I've been working on. I thought that, considering the quantity of time that I put into it, it deserves a whole thread of it's own rather than just sitting and stagnating somewhere in my art-dump thread.

Since the original of this drawing is quite badly damaged... (From my hands scooting over it, smudging the pencilwork and spreading hand-muck all over it)... I will probably be shading this piece on my computer at home.

So, my questions.... What colours do you think would look good? Should I colour it to look like a sunset scene, a midnight scene, or somewhere in between?
Any suggestions, comments and criticisms are welcome.

I would also love for some people to post their own battlescenes in this thread, to show off their work and to (maybe) inspire others.

So, without further ado, here is my battlescene....
(higher resolution version available here (you can see all the little details here) : http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/1286/
46089563vq1.png )

The facial expression and position of the feet leads me to believe that this bird is waiting to use the toilet.

A very nice piece of lineart... I can't really spot any major flaws...

But when I'm personally making character designs, I tend to make the character's pose a bit more "open" so that the details on regions like the chest, abdomen and groin can be seen clearly.
(I can see that you've kinda just shaded in an area to represent the torso... I would have liked to see a bit more detail of it.)

I like it.
It's colourful, without being too garish and brash... It's hitting the colour balance quite nicely.
It has a certain "nighttime feel" to it... With the black background and the streaks of what could be light streaking across the picture.

But why does that red thing on the right remind me of haemerrhoids?

At 2/3/08 08:04 PM, Oxygenwaster201 wrote: This is the creature that will be feature in New Hawkson episode 2. click here to watch episode 1

.... And that is how bollockebabs were invented. XD
Hahahaha!

At 2/1/08 08:56 AM, FATSHARK wrote: and ive also got this one !

Nice.... I laughed.

At 2/4/08 05:19 AM, inescapabestud wrote: uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhhhhhhh............................
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Don't multipost. It's bad manners, and some people (some admins included) see it as a means to just up your post-count.

So don't do it. (There are exceptions to this, such as posting multiple pictures at once, since each picture requires its own post, or if you forget to include a picture in your post.)

A post saying "uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.........
.." is not a worthwhile contribution. Keep it to yourself.

As for the question you asked earlier, that is a question for the "where is/how to board." Or maybe even the "general discussion" board at a push... But not the Art forum.

Or you could have just READ this rather than just scrolling to the bottom and clicking an "I agree" button....
http://www.newgrounds.com/lit/faq#upa_le vel

Okay, I'm bearing in mind that you have specified that this is a "toon character", and therefore, could be excused from most anatomical proportion....
But you need to fix those feet... They're both pointing off to one side, which would imply that your character has broken both of his ankles.
Also, the hands look like garden forks... Does he have thumbs?

You might also want to try a more interesting pose. A guy simply standing there in "idle" position, although good for character design and notes, shouldn't be used in a final draft.

Last note - Eyebrows?

*robotic voice* Oh, god... I just stood in dog shit! *robotic voice*

ah, some familiar pieces in there, and some not-so-familiar ones.
I find your lizard drawings intriguing and pleasantly colourful (colour being something that my artwork usually lacks), and your human anatomy is certainly improving with practice. Keep at it.

So, is there some sort of background story that connects all of these pieces of art? I notice that there's several recurring characters/features which hint that they are all connected...

Just one little tip - I notice on the last picture that the hands look a bit... off.
For example, the right hand doesn't really look like a proper hand.
To remedy this, try balling it up into a fist (look at your own and copy it) or add the rest of the fingers, and maybe a hint at the palm.

(P.S. I hate drawing backgrounds, too... Which is why I normally just leave 'em white... But recently, I've started remedying this, by making a background consisting of other characters. That way, I don't get bored quite so fast.)