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Wait a minute, what's a kick boxer doing in the middle of heavily armoured imperial China?

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At 1/23/10 10:04 PM, JackDGreatest wrote: okay I'll ask again, Is there Color allowed?

At 1/7/10 11:51 PM, deadspread83 wrote: SPECS:
The final ad should be B&W.

Black and white. And grey.

THUNDEEEEEEERRRRRRRR.

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So I was going to change some stuff in my account details, and then I hit 'done' to which it replies my email to be invalid - which I assume has something to do with the fact that it's 'kuoke-@' because I've had the same thing happen on other sites.
I just found this odd because I originally signed up with another email, but changed it to kuoke- I think before the redesign and not it's not letting me change anything.
On a possibly related note, was I the only one to stop getting that daily 'Top 5' email? Not that it matters, but the last one I got was on the 24th of December.

So what do I do? I don't think this is overly important or anything, but yeah just saying incase it has something to do with something.

Hello chaps. I wasn't so sure about the text placement, so here's some vague alternatives.

[Art Portal]

MY GOD THOSE DOORS TOOK A LONG TIME.

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Your works are bland in content and composition, like, there's nothing going on, and it's not really portraying anything of interest. I'm not saying that they should be like jumping out of an exploding building, but the one you posted in this thread is just so ... pointless - it's just a person standing there with somewhat vague and ill-mannered placing of props.

All art should be trying to convey some sort of happening/event or a message/emotion.

My opinion.

How exactly are you making the latest ones you've done? Because it looks like you're using the smudge tool... A lot.

I think the reason you're stuck at a dead end is because you started with a certain style. The more orthodox method of mastering multiple techniques/styles is to have started from realism and life drawings and from that knowledge, develop core skills and fundamentals which you can later mould into differing styles as you see fit. Yeah, back to basics should do it.

I don't know your art history, so feel free to correct me.

At 1/4/10 06:46 AM, Kuoke wrote: LAST POST ^

I showed my friends this and they didn't get it until I told them, so I revised it. I sort of prefer the art style behind the other one in relation to its message, but oh well, this one is alot clearer on what I'm trying to convey.

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The structural artistic merit is pretty lacking, but I'd like to think there's some real hidden artistic message behind this image.

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At 1/3/10 06:04 AM, FL0PIE wrote: You sure have some great art in here, and I like your last one. keep up the good work !

Cheers bro.

Another in the same vein, but this is the first [and second] page.

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CRITIQUE: composition, anatomy, message interpretation?

I'm making some sort of comic book type deal for my major body of work for high school. I plan it on being some sort of obvious remark about the media vs. god; Aptly depicted here in the draft of the main double spread of the book.
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At 1/2/10 12:24 AM, Fifty-50 wrote: I don't seem to understand most of your statement, but I can see that you say I need to improve on something. What did you mean by that hatching stuff? Honestly I don't get it.

I drew you a picture.
And by hatching, I'm think that's how you're shading things, but using a build up of lines to get a darker colour. I'm not telling you to use a thick black, but as CypressDahlia also advised, make a range of shades because at the moment, you have 1 shade for the entire character and this causes the character to look flat.

At 1/1/10 11:34 PM, Fifty-50 wrote: Ok just to show you how much I suck at anime, here's another work of mine. This is not anime- style. See what I meant when I said my anime drawings are crap compared to my other ones?

I've seen your work around, and in my opinion, that hatching thing you do really irks me because it doesn't seem defiant enough, as if you hatched it, and was like "Hmmm, I dunno, but I'll leave it there just because". Structurally, I'd think it was because it seems to avoid the main outlines of the character, but also because it's at that shade of grey where it's too light to be shadow, but it's too dark to be sketch marks.

But hey, that's just my opinion. Maybe it's a thing you do to differentiate your self from the rest.

I read Explosm comics too.

At 1/1/10 05:41 AM, Nuttro wrote:

At 1/1/10 05:31 AM, HazeStigma wrote: I'm not sure what is it... Really, but it looks nice :D

isn't it obvious?

Oh, now that you mention it, to me it looks like a toucan where the question mark in your diagram is its wing.

At 1/1/10 12:29 AM, wesmeadow wrote: If a fifth rate artist has the best of tools it is still crap
If a master artist has crappy tools then it is still crap

Better?

Bullshit, A bad workman blames his tools.

To the OP, put some more effort in. Judging from your works, try solidifying your representation of objects as to fulfil the main reason of art/illustration - to communicate to others through creating an image that they can understand and interpret.

New Years.
I'm early, but that's because people would be watching the fatastical sparkles in the sky rather than browsing the art forums if I decided to be clever and upload it on the exact second.

lolololol furries.

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HOORAY DEPRESSING CHRISTMAS. And I don't care for your flippity American timezones, it's 5 hours to Christmas here because in Australia, WE'RE IN THE FUTURE.

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At 12/12/09 10:18 PM, havegum wrote:

At 12/12/09 10:12 PM, Kuoke wrote: Something ..

What language is that?

Translation?

It's a magical language spoken only by unicorns and leprechauns alike, for they require a brilliance in tongue to communicate the whereabouts of the rainbows and thus, the pot of gold at the end!

In short, it's made up.

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I actually saw a really good lump of text that summarises this ... but I lost it.

There's no such thing as originality in today's society. You might as well go on appropriating a culmination of ideas and present it as your own, while acknowledging the sources of which you based your 'new' idea.

Small section of actual work. Wip.

At 11/29/09 01:37 AM, M-Vero wrote: Took me a sec to notice it, the man falling off is a very nice touch.

Fun fact: He was supposed to be clinging on like in the draft posted earlier - but I did everything else and was like 'FUCK IT'.

At 11/26/09 04:56 AM, Kuoke wrote: I actually have a bunch of pencil drawings in my art book thing for my HSC work which I was planning to scan and post here - but I never got around to doing that, SO MAYBE NEXT TIME.

THIS IS NEXT TIME.
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At 11/22/09 11:01 AM, InTheBlue wrote: Compared to the things at the front of your thread, you have improved greatly, especially in the last picture. Well done :D

Hooray!

I actually have a bunch of pencil drawings in my art book thing for my HSC work which I was planning to scan and post here - but I never got around to doing that, SO MAYBE NEXT TIME.
But just to keep you occupied, here's an draft of a steampunk machine. Which I drew, IN THE FUTURE.

I dated it with tomorrows date because I'm a smart man.

It's like a guitar, but with turntables.

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