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At 5/30/12 01:43 PM, Doomman118 wrote: Hi, i am the creator of DoommanProductions and we need a logo... that would be awesome ..... more info please contact me at doomman118@aol.com

Yes info please?

At 5/30/12 02:58 PM, Template88 wrote: stay classy newgrounds. stay classy.

Classy enough?

At 5/27/12 11:43 PM, Captain-Carrion wrote: Im an artist too

That must be whoreon

At 5/27/12 12:54 AM, PMMurphy wrote: My name is Patrick Murphy

Hiya, welcome to the art forum! Sorry to hear you had to give up on the dream of art school, but good that you found another passion. I'm looking forward to seeing your art in the art portal or right here in the art forum in your own personal showcase thread.

At 5/26/12 07:58 PM, xmadblood1 wrote: It's a movie actually .... 3 characters,4 backgrounds

would these need to be animated or just stills? if you need us to emulate the original artist's style it would be nice to have an example of his art direction.

At 5/24/12 04:28 PM, pyrince wrote: hey this is a new background i made hope you guys like it, im looking forward making more art and ill get more complex "hopefully with drawing people" when i get the skillz lol! Green Star

Frankly it's not very good. It's a bunch of brushes dropped onto each other without anti-aliasing or interesting colours.
I do hope you do make more art, however I suggest you try something different. As long as you don't have a tablet, use paper and pencil; most of what you learn about pencil drawing can be transferred to digital painting once you do get a tablet. As far as subject matter is concerned I suggest doing some drawings from reference. If you want to learn to draw poeple, posemaniacs has a great practice tool. Do a couple of those thirty-second drawings (or 90 or 60 or w/e secs if you prefer) each day and you should start seeing improvement pretty quickly.
If you do some anatomy studies together with the gesture drawing to help you understand why things look the way they do you're well on your way to drawing some damn fine humans pretty soon.

At 5/26/12 06:20 PM, Nonn3rs wrote: Is there a point for artist with my style to continue drawing?

yes

Any insight into this would be very appreciated.

I'd say you need to figure out why you draw. If you answer that question you can figure out if that is more easily acheived through 3d modeling.

nothing cheers someone up like a no-effort crappy picture. I value your enthusiasm amaranthus, but how about putting at least a bit of effort in these, same goes for blackmist.

At 5/25/12 11:09 AM, ZombieWhale wrote: First prize goes to guessing who I am without looking at my profile and second prize goes to the first gent to get me a beverage. I'M BACK BITCHES!

I recognized your profile pic from facebook! (after I checked your profile that is... Cool that you're back

I like the values and color in your digital paintings, they lack in definition though, everything is kinda blurry.

At 5/22/12 11:34 AM, Morthagg wrote: Sketchling of a dude at a cafÃf©. He later came by my table and put his name under the drawing.

Lundsfryd!

At 5/21/12 03:26 PM, HardAtWork wrote: I'm making a lot of stick wars in MS Paint lately. (It's the only option I have at work)

I know of another option: work!

At 5/16/12 06:01 PM, Wallstain wrote: I drew something. with my mouse.. on mspaint... with my hands. there weren't much time put into it either.

It looks like you drew something with inferior hardware using inferior software, and didn't put much time in it either.

At 5/15/12 01:53 PM, TurkeyOnAStick wrote:

At 5/15/12 01:43 PM, J-qb wrote: If it's not working, try pressing ctrl+r (refresh), that seems to work for me

Is that typical of Stickam now, to not work on the first connection attempt?

it is for me

goo goo goo
If it's not working, try pressing ctrl+r (refresh), that seems to work for me

At 5/15/12 06:14 AM, Flowers10 wrote: Value- anatomy study, no ref.

torso is too long...

At 5/14/12 12:43 PM, M-Maher wrote: I just dont know how to improve. I know I can, I'm positive I can but I'm missing something...

practice

So I need some objectives, things to work towards, that's all I need.

draw things from observation; an apple a mug a chair, that way you have an objective to work towards: realism. You should be able to see your drawings look more and more like the actual thing you're drawing.

P.S: what is speedpainting?

speedpainting is where you paint something quickly; Usually this means you pay less attention to details and more to the basics; shape form, anatomy, w/e. Oftentimes it can be more productive to start a new drawing than to keep working on the same one trying to get it perfect; speed-drawing follows more or less the same idea.

At 5/12/12 04:04 PM, Captain-Carrion wrote: Im getting paid a thousand dollars, but would like to split that down the middle having 500 for a laptop and 500 for a new tablet.

Congrats on the job!
I'd seriously recommend getting a pc instead of a laptop if making art is the only concern. 500 is not gonna get you a very good laptop, then again; if you're only using mspaint that might not be a problem... although you wouldn't need to spend 500 on a tablet then either.

At 5/12/12 10:12 AM, big-jonny-13 wrote: Jesus Christ Jasper, what are you? The fucking white knight?

shit, you found me out.

When I leave reviews, I want to help people and I want to see them improve, so if the person just calls me out as a troll and completely ignores my advice, yeah, that pisses me the hell off, ...

Don't get me wrong, I understand and (partly) share your frustration, I just think that it's misdirected. I also think that complaining about it in the lounge or in extra reviews is not just unproductive, it makes for a bad atmosphere.

....as I believe it does everyone else.

I wouldn't say that "pisses me the hell off" so if that's your definition of a white knight, yeah I guess I'm it.

definitely some poeple

At 5/12/12 03:22 AM, Template88 wrote: Help, I have strong opinions on what art is and what it is not, help educate me for my foolishness and immaturity.
I don't even care about what kind of person he is or what he says about himself or his techniques, his artwork is offensive to me. I find no redeemable quality to it whatsoever and that's just my opinion about it and I already stated why. Just as it is my opinion that he shouldn't have been scouted.

yeah and that's different alltogether from wishing someone "a horrible death". You're making it very difficult for me feel anything other than contempt for you. I'd like to say I don't care if you care about that or not, cause it's "just my opinion", but that'd be lying. I hope you do care and shape up a bit.

I think all the people complaining about reviews should reconsider why they give reviews in the first place:
a: you want to be recognized for your reviews, in which case you should apparently be less critica. OR
b: you want to give good reviews, in which case it shouldn't matter how they are received as long as you are satisfied with your "work". OR
c:you actually want to help poeple, in which case you should direct your efforts towardschanging these poeple's attitude towards their art instead of complaining about it.
bottomline: stop being pathetic.

At 5/12/12 01:51 AM, Template88 wrote: I am being harsh but FateLogic embodies everything that is wrong with art today and I wish whoever scouted him a horrible death.

I think this fatelogic guy is pretty stupid and immature, but you just beat him.

At 5/10/12 04:44 PM, SoundJunkie wrote: I'm putting together an album for my final college project and I'm really stuck with the frontcover design

you willing to pay for that?

booyah, art on top

Hey I read your newspost before and actually thought of joining. I won't have time untill june though, so don't know how that sits with your planning, should be plenty time for me to do some backgrounds unless you need em well in advance of robotday.

At 5/9/12 02:11 AM, DanJackson wrote: This is an idea I came up with a little while back.

It looks good but from just the pic I don't really get the game idea. If you want to get critiques on just the art style you're fine here, if you're looking for someone to help make this game you should prolly go to the collaboration forum.

At 5/8/12 08:57 PM, pockets08 wrote: So I got a PM from somone here on newgrounds,

:----

- Im not sure if I should, as I dont knwo if it was a legit request? as they joined NG a couple days ago rather than that precise moment to message me or something, kinda weird. I wanna do it, but just looking for a heads up if their might be one. thanks!

He also made a thread about that either here or in the collaboration forum, I can't seem to find it though, you should be able to find it through his post history. Odds are that he didn't get any replies in that thread so he started pm'ing poeple. I suggest you ask him for some more details, ask to get coauthored/a part of possible revenue if you want.

Wrapping this thing up:
I delivered Esko-man his logo (see below) and he paid me the agreed amount.

Are there any plans for another art AVAT this year?
If not, would poeple be interested in joining one in august-september?

At 5/8/12 12:16 AM, big-jonny-13 wrote:

At 5/7/12 11:27 PM, shadefalcon wrote: If I move my pen across the tablet, and lift the pen on and off the tablet to drag the mouse arrow across the screen, the mouse doesn't stay in the same place anymore, it jumps.

If I understand you correctly, you can't fix it. The tablet ends up corresponding to the screen of the computer. So if you touch the top right of the tablet surface, the mouse will be in the top right of the computer screen, etc etc.

That is a setting though, so it IS fixable. At least, on my bamboo it is and I really don't think they'd remove it for the intuous.
What you do is the following:
search for your "Intuous Preferences" or something along those lines, that should give you a window with some settings for pressure sensitivity, right clicking and "tracking". The last one is the one you want, it can be set to either "Pen mode" or "Mouse mode". Pen mode takes the location of the pen on the tablet and maps it to a corresponding position on your screen, that's what you have now. Mouse mode only tracks the movement of the pen, regardless of it's position.
Both modes have some additional settings you can fiddle around with.

At 5/7/12 05:47 AM, shadefalcon wrote: I have an Intuos 3 Wacom Tablet, model # PTZ-930, and it has no pressure sensitivity, in any program I use it in. Does anyone know how to fix this problem or do I need a new tablet? Xp

what programs have you used? typically you will need to setup pressure sensitivity inside those programs.