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At 2/4/11 06:46 PM, Droghead wrote: There's no wrong or right in an imagined world. There is only style. A style follows no set of rules, it is up to the mind. What is considered bad could result in something good, or otherwise.

You need to know the rules before you can break them, stop being preachy about things you have no experience with. It makes you look like a douche, or what kakashi said.

If you're doing something wrong, and have no one to tell you otherwise you'll continue doing something wrong.

Serious about drawing or not, you came here looking for advice. I don't know whether it's intentional or not, but the way your going overboard on the vocabulary and long posts seems like you're talking down to the very people you came to looking for help; or it may just be the way I'm reading your posts.

As a rule of thumb, you want your lines to be darker than your colors

Widescreen forums would be nice, with larger image filesizes to go along with that

Imma just leave this here

At 2/3/11 06:35 PM, CloudEater wrote: You guys are idiots! Countries don't wear clothes.

of coarse they don't silly
they wear other countries

Frankly, I've never heard anyone recognize CD cover artists, even hardcore music buffs I know don't even glance at who did the art.
A 7 dollar CD is simply not enough compensation for how much money you may or may not make with your music.
Not only that you say you want to use the art work for other free publicity.
for 7 bucks

America really is a lot more underwear shaped than canada is hat shaped
still that america being underwear does not put mexico in a very good position.

Take more time, this couldn't have taken more than a couple minutes to make.

I give you props on your dive into some forced perspective, however it really hides any idea of fundamental knowledge of anatomy and whatnot, cause its either blocked or intentionally distorted.
If you have any other stuff that is a little less ambitious but will show off your skills a bit more, I'd suggest posting some up.
Other than that, insert rant about amine not being the best to start with but practice is better than no practices etc etc, here.

They are all so incredibly light that I can't even tell if you did them in pencil and scanned them in on some sort of setting, or just filtered some sprite in photoshop.

It seems like you're only going through the drawing once, merging the sketching phase and the finishing phase.
Sketch out a drawing, lightly erase over it, so you can still see what you drew faintly, and refine it. It takes a bit longer, but you patience will reward you with an all around better drawing.

I think you've gotten pretty decent at using textures and whatnot, however I don't think you're going to get much better until you start using more prominent lightsources and get some real definition in there.
You've come a long way bro, surprised the hell out of me.

You realize that even if they considered using this as a logo they wouldn't be able to cause the flash logo is copyrighted, right?

still doesn't look like a g in grounds bro

At 1/30/11 03:36 PM, MikeRomanul wrote: Anyway the rules do state that you have to start every thread with an image.

The rules have changed since the last time you've been around, might wanna reread them.
As for the thread, we have a sonic fanart thread, one character is too specific and will die down quicly anyway.

A lot of the colors you are using are max saturation, and a lot of the colors are clashing. It's really taking a toll on your art, visually.
Helpful tutorials: Colot theory and light(in depth explanation in the author's comments} and some saturation,

Hopefully it's not like my cartooning class, all we did was trace cartoons and comic characters
not even the good ones.

We probably won't
but theywill

So what you're saying is, that this thead.

puts on sunglasses

has no meanings?

I'd suggest rethinking the color scheme, it's kinda of an eyesore at the moment.

I'm confused what gadget what will we like? What is this thread for?

there are plenty of pros on da

I'd saymore illustrator than cartoonist cause cartoonist implies comics and stuff

Because anyone who wasn't stealing their work would be able to shoot something up like a WIP or something, as proof that it's theirs. Instead of getting super defensive AND WRITING IN ALL CAPS
proof is all we ask.

At 1/28/11 04:32 AM, abominal401 wrote: And the part when i said that i upload them and then i delete them.......i meant to say that i delete them from my computer!!!!!

Yes, I understood that, and it makes 0 sense to delete "your" hardwork.

At 1/28/11 04:20 AM, abominal401 wrote: I friggin' learned my lesson the first time! What reason could i have to do it again?

Undeserved compliments and buttpats.

And after i finish my characters i upload them and then delete them!

I can't even begin to describe how little sense this makes
Nothing you've posted has any stylistic consistancy, the things you say you do, ms paint simply aren't capable of.
You aren't fooling anyone

Alright, what would you like to discuss about it
that doesn't have to do with tits

It's a shame it's an eyesore eh?

These colors
I'm sure I could have made them work some how, but I didn't