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some backgrounds for some projects that got stalled/delayed coming up:

At 6/19/12 09:57 AM, No573N wrote: Well, I think sit should be more to the imagination side. Look at the stick figure things...no art involved but you enjoy read or watching them...

only if there is some story-telling or animating skill involved.
Imagination without skill is perfectly fine; it just isn't art. Skill is how you take an idea out of your head and onto paper or whatever medium you choose. If you don't have proper skill the brilliance of your idea won't come across; if you don't have a good idea to start with the result will, even when skillfully put to paper, not be very interesting.
The value of a work of art originates in the idea behind it; but only through the skill with which it was created.

basta.

At 6/18/12 06:39 PM, DNoack757 wrote: Hey, put a lot of time into this. HOPE YOU LIKE IT!!!!!!!111!11

VIVA LA RESOLUTION

At 6/18/12 12:34 PM, Generations1st wrote:

At 6/17/12 07:19 PM, M-Vero wrote: It might be the graph in the background screwing with my eyes, but for the turnaround animation when he's facing forward, it seems like his legs are spaced out a little more than they should on a few frames.

They seem fine to me, This animation had to be quick and simple for me to create characters.

No I agree with Vero; the problem, I think, lies in the fact that as he turns to the right (i.e. you get to see his left side) his right leg moves inward. If you were to move the front-left position a bit to the right and the front-right position a bit to the left that should fix it.

although you might need to move some other frames a bit.

I don't really see the big problem; this guy is offering someone money for their shirt designs while he keeps all the risk. It's just that the terms need to be clear. I doubt you'll be able to make 100,- of a tshirt design any other way this easily.

At 6/14/12 01:50 PM, TheSin wrote: Hi, I'm looking for someone interested to join me in forming a Zombie animation

What exactly are you looking for? someone to split all the work 50/50; a background artist? an animator?

At 6/15/12 11:04 AM, JKR wrote: Seems your link is broken.

This is the correct one

At 6/14/12 10:31 AM, big-jonny-13 wrote:

At 6/14/12 05:50 AM, CypressDahlia wrote: Yo I don't have a pay pal or anything....

The prize isn't cash, it's store credit.

The prize isn't store credit, it's store items delivered to you.

what do you intend to do with these designs? For prize money, $100,- is ok, but if you're gonna make money selling shirts with the design printed on it that changes.

At 6/14/12 12:38 AM, Arikardo wrote: ...my question here is, since i'm fluent with drawing by hand, would switching to a Bamboo Tablet be any better for me?

Yes it would; I also suggest looking into some other software for making art; there's a couple of free ones but I hear manga studio (USD 50,-) is pretty good, so that might be a good one if you wanna do manga/anime.

good to have you posting art again. I do wish you'd post a bit more during semester instead of one big dump at the end and then nothing for 5 months.
Chipping in my p about the shape-shading thingy: If you focus on one shadow like ben suggested try to forget that it is actually the shadow at the bottom of your hand; try to forget it's supposed to be part of a hand alltogether, that way you can focus on solely the shape.
I like face-print one and the one-line headphones; I think you could in general have some darker darks on the ones with tone.

right, unlike that cursing baby above me photoshop cs5 has never crashed on me.

At 6/4/12 06:34 PM, BeckyRawr wrote:

At 6/4/12 06:32 PM, Kinsei01 wrote: or.... not?

you need to post the url on it's own line

At 5/30/12 09:30 AM, Flowers10 wrote: this one i call spaghetti hair

This one's really good, not just because of the subject matter.
Did this take you a lot more time than normal? it seems a lot more refined. Also: nice work on clothing drapery in recent stuff.

At 5/31/12 03:16 AM, isthatlegal wrote: Hey guys,

that paper-foldable bag thingy could have been a one piece template rather than three separate ones. Great stuff otherwise.

At 6/3/12 11:57 AM, CypressDahlia wrote: That's partly what I meant by honesty. If people are truly looking beyond the subject and voting based on their true opinions about the art quality. A dishonest opinion, in my mind, is one where a person will go: "Well, the art itself is not so good...but I will vote 5 because I like the subject". This also applies to people voting down a piece because they //don't// like the subject, but are actually impressed by the art.

nah, what i'm saying is that even if poeple look beyond their opinion; they still don't know quality. The only way to validate someone's criticism is to see if you agree with it; but if that is the case you might not have needed the criticism. And on the other hand someone might have a valid point even if you don't see it as such.

I'd say the main problem with scores has nothing to do with honesty of the voters. It has to do with the fact that quality has nothing to do with wether or not poeple like it; or even wether or not poeple think it has quality.

At 6/2/12 07:42 PM, J-qb wrote: I'd say that's more of a stylistic way of doing it;

that was referring to the hellboy thing, but yeah the one you posted seems alright, could even be a bit darker I think, but it works.

At 6/2/12 05:17 PM, arkrix wrote: Oh, I see. I saw on a hellboy comic that the creator used white to shade black, and I think I pretty much got stuck with that idea.
But then maybe this could be right?

I'd say that's more of a stylistic way of doing it; one that might not work in a game, detached from the consistent art style it was used in. You could use some white highlights though....

At 6/2/12 04:53 PM, arkrix wrote: I would like to, I just don't have a clue how to shade black.
(And I probably wouldn't use it for this game. Maybe in a sequel :) )

don't use actual black as base color.

At 6/2/12 08:08 AM, arkrix wrote: Hey guys.
I've decided to try and make a game for this year's stencyljam. I've made some chess pieces for it, and would like to hear some feedback from you Art guys/girls.
Do your worst :)

Those look really good actually, love the knights; some pointers:
- the chess on top doesn't fit with the rest coloring/line-wise
- I'd make the rook's neck a bit wider, and move indentations between the merlons a bit to the sides; so it looks more round.
- I'd make the pawn's collar a bit thicker & maybe sink his head into it a bit more.

At 6/2/12 05:41 AM, Template88 wrote: Oh god I really thought I was the only person on newgrounds who absolutely hated shadmans porn art. I was actually afraid to say anything because of the shitstorm i figured would erupt. I am so happy to know I am not the only one.

I think most poeple on the art forum aren't his biggest fans.

At 6/2/12 06:08 AM, Re2deemer wrote: Okay, this is really getting irksome: does anybody else experience problems with NG not loading media? Because this is effectively making NG unusable for me.
I can go to the art portal and thumbnails may refuse to load. I may go to a piece's page and it may not load. I may visit an art thread and half of the images don't load. Dumping grounds? Effectively unusable. Audio portal also has very questionable stability.

I only have this problem with art I view from the unscouted section; for those it helps (me) to delete part of the url:
www.newgrounds.com/art/view/[artist name]/[artwork title]?context=ratings:etm.scouted:.unscouted:1.allow_banned :1.offset:3
Removing everything after the title (?context=ratings:etm.scouted:.unscouted:1.allow_banned:1.of fset:3) makes it load properly... dunno if that's the same problem you are experiencing though.

At 6/1/12 10:57 PM, nakedxbabe wrote: I want a monster logo for my baby blog.

I'm gonna change my policies just for you; I can make you a sketch, Then it'll be $50,- for the final, including one small revision, half of which is to be paid in advance.

At 6/1/12 06:51 PM, CypressDahlia wrote: Oh, I have no problem with his fanbase not taking it well haha. It'll be a jolt to them. That's exactly what it's supposed to be: a jolt. An educational jolt. Personally, I think they need it. Wake 'em up; remind them what female bodies actually look like. I just want to know if it's against any kind of NG rules.

I say either be clear about what you're planning to do; or just do it. We can't tell if it's okay or not if we don't know what you're planning to do. I'm sure it'll be fine though.

At 5/31/12 09:02 AM, MiddleFingerRings wrote: I'm red-green colour blind, it really isn't so bad. If you are painting traditionally - you can get paints with the names written on them or get help from friends/family. If you work digitally, colours have codes which you can look up easily. It also tends to give your colouring a very unique style.

I'm not colourblind myself but I find it extremely backwards if a colourblind person would try to find ways around his colourblindness when making art. Why not embrace it and just paint what you see? I'm sure it gives some interesting results, and you're not gonna be able to compensate 100% for it anyway.

At 6/1/12 02:52 PM, Verspar wrote: You know, I've always wonder what you see with colorblindness. I know you can't see a certain color, but what do you see as a result?

It's impossible to get to know that. Usually poeple will be unable to distinguish between red and green; but what colour they do see (red or green or something in between) can't be communicated really.

At 5/31/12 09:08 PM, Doomman118 wrote: dude nothing is wrong with it. I was askign if i paid him he could improve it.......

You can have it as is for the 15,- (as a transparant png if you prefer.) Or i could do some alterations for 20. What would you like changed?

I believe legolass and knocturne are colourblind

At 5/30/12 06:18 PM, Template88 wrote: Probably not going to do this, but has anybody ever made a thread before that was open to anyone and basically just a free for all draw brawl?

As in; "my drawing is better than your drawing" (don't think that hasz been done) OR
" Heres my draawing of my character kickijg yiur character in the butt" (has been done numerous times)

At 5/30/12 05:10 PM, Template88 wrote: Ive seen you though, you do the work when they pay, and you do it if they dont alot of the timr.

That second part isnt actually true; a lot of the people starting these threads are actually willing to pay a bit; even if they don't say so in the starting post. Granted, my fees aren't very high

its your time though, i probably waste just as much time posting shit.

That exactly... and yeah i do art cause i like doing it; i don't want to depend on it financially, seen too many poeple lose their hobby to their job.

At 5/30/12 04:57 PM, Template88 wrote: Nice. Yes, but you are only encouraging them to do it again. INB4 plz make it transparent.

Why wouldn't I? They're a source of income, they're fun to do, I help someone out in the process.