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It is possible to be social and athletic and still like to play Pokemon. You shouldn't maintain an interest in something only for as long as it is cool. Then it's just people living life by what they think everyone else will think of them, or what everyone else is doing.

Quite correct.

Even mildly boring or specific topics/questions that aren't an attempt at humour that attract some kind of minimal conversation is way better than most of the annoying ones. I didn't make any of these topics about the state of the forums personally but I did stop posting the last couple of months, or even the last 2 years. But I think a small amount of dumb topics keep things fresh too. However the amount of crap at the moment is too much.

I've had some personal experience with very similar family problems.

The best advice I can offer is to find an emotional counsel and support in friends and find a couple of reasonable and beneficial distractions. Like hobbies or something.

Have you tried bringing up your concern about college to your dad?

Well thanks for putting it into perspective for me there gfox. Good to see you are still doing your thing, by the way.

I've recently begun depositing my exp regularly so we'll see how far I get after 10,000. I've already passed 20-something people after becoming active again. Let's hope there's more to come.

He's assertive and likable? What a jackass! He totally should pay. Like.

At 3/6/08 08:34 AM, dennie wrote: and so the facist idiot succeeded. 31 pages of him preaching utter bullshit because a book, written by man, and told by man, AND MADE UP BY MAN, told him to. this is why religion fails.

oh and: IN THE BIBLE IT SAYS NOT TO LIE, IDIOT!

(caps attract the attention of 99% of a facists, studies i just made up say).

I'm pretty sure he was joking.

Gin tastes kind of like pine as a previous reply stated. It doesn't taste exactly like that.. it just sort of reminds me of it. Mainly it is considered a very refreshing drink for the warm months.

It really depends what kind of gin you get too, because companies like Bombay have a sapphire blend that is distilled from berries and other natural crap from all these different countries, and there are something like 5 or 6 different grains in it.

It's expensive as shit though. I recently bought a litre of Gordons London Dry (most common) gin for 16 dollars at a duty free on my way back from the states, but usually a 26oz bottle will cost at least 25 dollars in canada.

I think the concept of RetroGade was really not very solid as an idea when Bedn ran it. Itt was focussed more on how similar it was to Newgrounds than to actually providing the internet with a decent image portal.

It attracted an insanely tiny and limited audience that burned out, and what was left wasn't worth basing the site around a second time without some serious considerations.

For instance, try to make it completely different from NG. Even as far as scrapping the image portal idea and thinking of something a bit more inventive that hasn't been seen before.

I'm basically saying that if you just put up a more flashy NG clone, and ignore drawing attention and respect towards its main focus, which is image making, then it would be a waste of time.

At 1/28/08 12:07 AM, Ace-57 wrote: why not black?

Straight black is just, as a rule, not used in painting. It provides too much of a disconnect (example in my picture) from the value spectrum.

Even if something is really black, it is best to use a dark dark version of some other colour instead.

If it's a wallpaper, why are they all vertically oriented?

The drawings are fine but they need a composition or it won't work.

At 1/28/08 12:01 AM, reality-monkey wrote: well, i was impressed by it cause it started as this really ugly scribble...so i couldnt believe how i made it into this...im not going to finish it (it was just an ugly scribble) but i never thought it would be able to take form...

(the scribble became the eye btw...)

Well your scribble isn't really much of anything at this point. Real drawing would involve you constructing the shape and actually making a decent image based how well drawn it is, not the fact that it may or may not look decent as a pile of scribbles.

At 1/28/08 12:01 AM, Cabbster wrote: Not bad, although I dislike the large amount of unpainted area.

Yeah, that was one of the criticisms I've gotten so far. Others are:

Don't use black.
More contrast in face.

I haven't painted with acrylics for an extended period in well over 3 years.

Then last Wednesday I sat down and did a few speed paintings. This is one of them.

It's true what others here have said about the sky being repetitive. However, having a dozen or so good sky shots isn't a bad thing to have for a portfolio.

You can now try adding more collections, such as composed objects, or a number of photos that have the same lighting or theme (other than a sky).

This is sometimes how I arrange my process work, sketchbooks mostly. I have different sketchbooks set aside for different media and subject matter also. I started doing this because several professionals in my soon to be field also do it.

You seem to have a pretty good grasp on the compositional facets that make a photograph look aesthetically pleasing, and that's pretty cool.

A great number of you are drawing a block right before the bones of the fingers when, in fact, those carpal and metacarpal bones are actually clusters of smaller pea-shaped bones.

But you are probably not getting into realism with this stuff anyway.

Your lines and perspective skills are pretty good. Your line work is better than your coloured stuff but you're okay in that too.

Personally though, I don't really like anime.

At 11/25/07 01:06 PM, Kalm wrote: It might be, it might not be. Who's to even say? I guess there's no real way of proving global warming to be real or not, but if it is, I think it's safe to say that if we continue the things we do now, we're all completely fucked.

An Inconvenient Truth.

We're programmed to live beyond our means. Just like a beehive will rpoduce more bees or honey than it can hold and falls apart... or something like that.

It is a problem - even if it is our eventual destiny. The problem may even present itself in our lifetime - but the real issue is with our children and grandchildren who will have to live in the world we make.

I saw in an article something that said anyone born between 1985-2015 will have to save the world from what the babyboomer generation has done.

What if a deaf blind and mentally handicapped person came into a haunted room?

100% of the experience of encounters with ghosts require the gullible living's full attention to freak themselves out.

At 11/21/07 02:25 AM, BonusStage wrote: Excuse me kids (and soon to be original and clever posters of aforementioned shithole of a phrase), but the word is ellipsis

You LOSE, GOOD DAY SIR!

Fuck a dot about it.

Your scanned drawing should be on a separate layer, then you set its layer properties (theres lighten, darken, color dodge, etc) to MULTIPLY.

Now make a color layer where you will paint and make that a MULTIPLY LAYER too. now your lines wont be blotted out. It's really easy. Easier than the other options.

And you can edit out the original without damaging the colour or any other layer you add there.

I don't get what happened.

At 11/20/07 05:26 PM, hen123 wrote: where do you get photoshop and stuff?

I wouldn't bother with photoshop until you have a confident ability in traditional rendering. Otherwise you're wasting hundreds of dollars dicking around with stuff when you don't even know the basics of drawing by hand.

Gesture drawings really are far more effective in stuff like the whole figure where you need to effectively and accurately capture a pose or a movement without getting hung up on the details in the body. It serves as an aide to easier identify and accurately depict things that you're drawing from observation.

A face (like the one you posted first in this thread) has details that ought to be carefully rendered - but the positioning should be done carefully after you've done the structure.

So I'm saying - when you're doing a head exclusively, concentrate on the angles, and mark the eye/lip/mouth/brow lines.. and remember when you are doing the guiding circle for the ear on the side of the head, make sure it is placed on the lower right section of the circle (it has 4).

If you're serious about getting your figure down REALLY effectively, take a few life drawing classes. They pay off if you are serious about it.

At 11/16/07 05:10 PM, OrdinaryFreak wrote: Hmm.. striking resemblence?

Not at all really.

Except for maybe the pointy chin and the pose.

Pox - great work. Your anatomy has come a long way.

At 11/18/07 08:49 PM, Del-Toro wrote: congratulations, I heard you have to have uber-dirty hair to get those, congratulations on getting your hair stylishly uber dirty

That's one way of getting them. That's why Tom Hanks got them in Cast Away, cause he never shampooed his hair.

But usually dreads need to be washed quite frequently if they are made like this. So really, it's as clean, if not cleaner than other hair choices.

I think they look pretty good.

2 weeks of eating nothing but corn would probably be a really bad idea.

Just putting that out there.

It would disband from apathy.

It shouldn't be physically addictive, so just go back to maybe once a month or so.

I know what you mean about the decrease in focus. I smoke maybe once every couple of months and when I started I used to get those same effects. Only very briefly. You might also just be paranoid that its doing something, as it has not affected your grades. But I wouldn't doubt it's having some sort of impact. Once a week is still pretty tame compared to people I know who would smoke 8 blunts a day, which is an extreme case.

Thumbs up.

why does the guy sound like the waterboy?

It's ok. You need some music, an intro and a story.

I'd finish it, you seem to have a sense of how to use flash, now take your time on it and make something decent out of it.

At 11/7/07 12:31 AM, Spoony18 wrote:

At 11/7/07 12:13 AM, NinjaPirateMaster wrote: Um...2 condoms?

What would be the point of that? might as well just say fuck it because you wouldnt feel a thing with 2. Unless they are Thin condoms, which totally renders this discussion Useless.

WEARING 2 CONDOMS CAUSES FRICTION AND TEARING, thus pregnancy = much more probable.

Condoms are a measure against STDs. I doubt the HIV virus can pass through it, but then I haven't done much research on it. But condoms are known for being the main prevention against STDs.

If you don't know this, then I suggest getting yourself educated about some of this stuff.

Seriously, you guys are so dumb sometimes.