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At 11/7/10 05:13 AM, Fifty-50 wrote: I know Jonny's gonna say this but I'll go ahead. Please refrain from bumping your thread with no pics if you don't have a valid reason. But I say your very good, your pure awesomeness. We are scared to comment because we like to post about mistakes. And you don't appear to have one.

Oh I see plenty mistakes, just afraid that Ill get lynched by you fanboys.

At 11/6/10 11:08 PM, gmanthesandwhichking wrote: In the news of games (other than that New Vegas is incredibly awesome) does anybody have any games that they can't wait for to come out.

D.i.a.b.l.o.3
I cant say it one go or Im gonna have to run around in the rain to cool down.... man every update/teaser they release makes it even more awesome, now they released some gameplay info which is just driving me crazy.... they are "hoping" to release it in 2011 but might push it back to 2012...:`(

Ill do plants, although that would off course not be totally abstract... Ill just not make it one single plant aight?

What is this?
It seems to have split up into two organisms!
OH the wonders of nature! What will happen now? How will these two evolve?

From now on, we have two branches. You can now evolve either one of these little guys, specify which one you will do. Old rules apply for each separate branch.

This was Nae and Kraig`s idea, dont just go off splitting everything up on your own account now, first contact either one of them.

At 11/5/10 09:21 PM, Knocturne wrote: Update

Is it a coincidence that the guy in front has the same facial structure as 2D?
all their heads seem a bit small, and the poster in general could use more definition everywhere. Sometimes it can help to just keep your soft base and add some strong lines to that.

At 11/6/10 12:14 AM, ReNaeNae wrote: With only 5 to review, I was able to get to all of them this time (at least the ones that were tagged)! So, yay for that!! If anyone has questions about what I said ('cuz I'm sort of retarded when I try to explain things lol) feel free to ask for clarification here or pm meh!!

Yes thanks for the review. I feel that this flood is perhaps in output a bit disappointing, but I did get 6 reviews against 3 last time, so its a succes allright!

...and... I hereby reclaim this 'project'! I will be doing the December flood (in 2 weeks) :P

YAY!

nae`s gonna lay down the law..

At 11/6/10 05:43 AM, Fifty-50 wrote: Oh come on guys! Thank you for the compliment but I think most of you improved greatly as well. I'd like to say Vero has shown prominent improvements. Ashman leveled up several times and lastly Zane has reached good points as well.

As official titleholder for Most-Improved artist I see great potential in you though. I think you are on the brink of a break-through into something phenomenal.
But yeah, the same goes for ash, well done man, after your months of non-artiness.

At 11/5/10 07:19 PM, Ashman wrote: he needs a mouth, so i gave him an adorable, yet functional little pincer mouth d'awww

I will do the next one, this weekend (within next 48 hours)

At 11/5/10 07:19 PM, Ashman wrote: he needs a mouth, so i gave him an adorable, yet functional little pincer mouth d'awww

This reminds me of spore even more.

that rhymes

At 11/5/10 06:27 PM, IcePanda wrote: That is kinda dumb what if your new to art and uploading work to show how you are getting on and then you can't upload any more?

remove some of your older stuff.

awww. wheres my disfigured blob?

At 11/5/10 05:49 PM, turtleco wrote: hey, I'm a shitty artist, but thats what practice on the art forum is for. Ask for something and I'll attempt to quickly sketch it. Though if you ask for two women making out you'll probably just get a disfigured blob, let the requests begin.

(get it while its hot, I'm only doing this today.

Two women making out!
seriously though, the rules say that you should start every new thread with a pic. If you quickly make one, mods might forgive you ;)

At 11/5/10 04:28 PM, Luwano wrote: I can't get into the room.

its still up though, and jonny managed to just come in....try again.

At 11/5/10 07:07 AM, Lundsfryd wrote: Sooo.. Am I the only one who is bothered by how the art portal always show the same four thumbnails from your gallery when people are watching your pictures? It would be nice if it would show the four most recent for if it was all random I think.

Yeah, I agree

Yay story collab!

At 11/5/10 04:34 AM, Lintire wrote: People are at the stage where doing contests for the sake of doing contests isn't really an option anymore.

I dont think this is really the case. What made the various weeklys less interesting to me is the other competitors; It would like it if id be competing agains poeple of roughly my skilllevel rather than just the giants like jagondudo or those that are (with all respect) not very good. Additionaly, when less poeple join, I feel less inclined to join; which makes other poeple feel less inclined to join.

Anyways; If you think a certain weekly should be/could be started up again contact a/the previous host. You will need a certain amount of skill and dedication if you want to host them yourselves, otherwise your best bet is to stimulate someone else to do so.

At 11/5/10 04:31 AM, Zombie-Eskimo wrote: I think it would be very nice to get both a laptop and a tablet all in one shot but i know that some tablets are made specifically for art. My question is how a tablet laptop would work with art programs, or if there a tablet laptop specifically made for art.

If you want to make art you have to keep in mind that a lot of art programs are very cpu intensive; especially when you are dealing with large canvas (say if you want to make an A3 sized print at 300 dpi). I personally couldnt compete in the larry poster contest, just because my laptop couldnt handle the size. I am on a dual core 2*2gig processor so to be frank photoshop can only really use one of those cores. Anyways, thats something you will have to pay attention to. Otherwise I have no experience with tablet laptops or the alienware you mentioned.

At 11/4/10 06:29 PM, Toast-Tony wrote: so would i smooth and manipulate the shapes by using the black pointer tool the same as i did for the lines in the original? or do you have another, maybe more useful technique?

you could do that, but I personally prefer just using the brush.

At 11/4/10 02:24 AM, lookandsee wrote:

At 11/3/10 10:28 PM, argile wrote: Which one has gotten more notice by you the girl or the bear

Mmm... the girl I think. That teddy bear has already been doodle many times by others (thanks again for that, guys !), so yeah... the girl !

You would seperate them!?

At 11/4/10 05:28 PM, Toast-Tony wrote: Right, i used the setting one flash, i dont remember what it is called but it showed the lines of my line drawing in a different keyframe in green, i used this as a guideline and started again taking note of what was said.

Its already looking a lot better than it used to. You are going to want to eventually make the shapes a bit smoother, nice rounded shapes.

At 11/4/10 02:36 PM, Lundsfryd wrote: This may also be of interest of somebody..

OOoh, likey. Not exactly what im used to seeing from you (not that I dont like your other stuff ;))
Im not entirely happy with that background; I like it, and I love how it works on the kaiser himself, but at some places it is distractingly messy. You used really concentrated ecoline, but couldve wet the paper so as to ease it all up a bit. Of course I dont know if you did this intentionally, but either way I would have liked it a bit smoother.
The actual drawing I love very mucho great work on the head and neck, I like his right arm. His left hand (especially his thumb) seems a bit huge, especially compared to his right one. I guess you had a go at perspective but I think you overdid it; his right hand shouldnt actually be that much farther away than his left.
Another point of critique is on the cloth that is draped on his right arm; we are basically looking at it from the side, so it should look a lot more folded. The part nearest his elbow is quite clean, which makes it look like we are looking at it straight on instead of from the side. You did do this right on the cloth over his left shoulder.
All in all great work man! Im really happy that your back

At 11/4/10 12:38 PM, Kinsei01 wrote:

At 11/4/10 08:57 AM, J-qb wrote:

At 11/4/10 08:50 AM, Fifty-50 wrote: Hello guys. I wanna ask how to put a "Painting effect" in your coloring. You know, colorings like Nekow, or Arvalis. I want to learn it. Any advice?

Man, this migraine is as painful as hell. D:

http://www.melissaclifton.com/tutorial-f reehand.html that

aww damn Qb, and I was looking forward to reading that..... :(
maybe the link will be fixed later

aww I see its broken... It wouldnt load for me either, but I figured that was just my connection playing up, so I just pasted the url.
What you are looking for is called "digital painting", you can find some good tutorials by googling that. I liked the one I linked because it just covers the basics, instead of going in full detail to one specific case.

Hey I think you might want to try to look at shapes rather than lines; if you look at those references you posted, youll see that there are really no lines in there.
I did a quick, really crappy paintover to illustrate this. I didnt use any lines, instead you have areas of a certain color/brightness. Especially stuff like noses look a lot better this way. Of course you can use more or less different shades to get more detail/depth.

At 11/4/10 08:50 AM, Fifty-50 wrote: Hello guys. I wanna ask how to put a "Painting effect" in your coloring. You know, colorings like Nekow, or Arvalis. I want to learn it. Any advice?

Man, this migraine is as painful as hell. D:

http://www.melissaclifton.com/tutorial-f reehand.html that

Discus

At 11/3/10 02:09 PM, Kosuk wrote: Need help!! D :

I own a tablet (cintiq 12WX) and now it stopped working!
the screen does not want to work, it keeps black : /
if you guys have any idea how to fix this i would be very grateful if you tell how!

If it stopped working altogether maybe your cable broke?

Seeing you post all this stuff is making me want to get in art school...

At 11/3/10 11:34 AM, Lundsfryd wrote: This was made for an illustration class. The product was a cd-cover and the theme was frogs.

I dont really like the fonts you used on this one, especially the yellow is a bit icky...
Also, herons are marvellous birds, you didnt really manage to capture that... hes a bit flat and all...
Also layoutwise, Im not too fond of this one, its a bit boring.

Cubes and shaman

this one is nice. I think you could have made the "grinding against his face" part more convincing if you had him bend his head away from the cubes, at the moment its like he is pushing his head against the cubes. Another thing that could help is if you changed his mouth a bit so that it is ( > shaped rather than ( ), as if he is pulling away from the cubes...

Sorry for being so harsh, but I know you can take it rite?

At 11/2/10 04:22 PM, big-jonny-13 wrote: Well, I came across this the other day, and it's a pretty solid song, but I just love the sax in it.

Meh, im not too fond of his sound, its awfull flat, and his phrasing is just terrible. Hes playing his sax like it is a keyboard.

At 11/1/10 09:26 PM, big-jonny-13 wrote: I smell something, and it stinks of bullshit.
I don't like the look of this thread one bit.
...
Secondly, why the hell do you think we need to generate more views? Newgrounds is one of the most visited sites on the internet. We definitely don't need to generate views through television.

The more the merrier eh?

Thirdly, $2000? Excuse me, but I don't think that's worth it.

Dont agree with this one, I think thats actually terribly cheap.

Also, I would not trust sending money to you for it.

I agree with this one

Lastly, once again, you're trying to organize something where you'll contribute nothing to it whatsoever, but you'll still somehow take credit for everything that you haven't done.

I wholeheartedly agree with this one.

If I was tom, I might supply the money, but Id be damn sure to get someone else in the sadle of this little project. Nothing personal.

So, as we are having this conversation about the rules, and in relation to the conversation before this post and this post by the lovely renaenae v.

At 10/31/10 02:59 PM, Renaenae wrote: As 'helpful' as this topic might be... as it stands: All new threads... discussion or otherwise MUST start with a piece of original art. If there isn't a piece of art that pertains to the topic, then post in the lounge. Posting an unrelated pic to get around the rule is not allowed either.
POSTING in a thread that you KNOW breaks the rules is BREAKING THE RULES!

I think it would be nice if someone (or preferably a collection of certain someones) drew a line as to which rules are enforced here in the art forum. Because I, for one, am confused.
I kinda remember that in a previous discussion on this topic it was stated that if we could answer someones question we should do that rather than just redirect them to the rules (and/or appropriate thread). Likewise I remember some mods expressing that they thought it would be okay if regulars redirected poeple to the rules as long as they hadnt already been mentioned. But then there is this:

POSTING in a thread that you KNOW breaks the rules is BREAKING THE RULES!

I firmly believe that any set of rules is lacking. However, that only means its very important that there is a clear set of rules that is strictly enforced. I.E. Either get rid of that rules (or make the art forum an exception) or enforce it, which corrorrally means banning repeating offenders. Same goes for other rules.
Im not saying I agree with it, but I dont find it strange that poeple break the rules when they are so vague(ly enforced).

At 10/31/10 11:12 AM, J-qb wrote: that room is actually still up.

Yeah, luwano made me a mod and then disappeared....
NEW ROOM

At 10/31/10 01:59 PM, Luxembourg wrote:

The worst part of it, in my opinion, is the fact i can't use my scroll wheel to zoom. That was the deal breaker for me.

hold alt/command while using your scroll wheel.

At 10/31/10 12:26 PM, iamskot wrote: I have a list of things I'll download/check out demos/buy:
Photoshop, ...
At 10/31/10 12:37 PM, Ashman wrote: dont forget photoshop :P

Anyways, yeah demos are available for both flash and photoshop, so you should definitely check those out although especially in photoshop, dont expect to get amazing results without a tablet (its possible without one, just darn tedious).