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I could try and draw some 'Nacronet(s?)' and Black sun Federation peeps for you, but what are you actually planning to do with the game? What will the player do, how does the game work, is it just something you'll upload to Newgrounds?

At 3/4/11 05:27 AM, silversunned wrote: OK so here's a WIP I'm doing I felt that I needed to Redo a Pyramid Head (the last one I worked on was over a year ago and I've improved greatly since so here's what I have so far! :D :D

The shading looks nice, but there are some anatomical details that bother me a bit.
For a guy that muscular, his shouldermuscle should be a little more pronounced, that makes the arm look more natural. Now it looks like his arm is kind of popped on and doesn't have a joint.
Furthermore, his stomach looks like it has too many muscles, and they're kind of weaved together in a way that's not very natural.. his bellybutton is also too low.
Anyway, here's a good example of muscleform in the pose you're drawing. You can clearly see the shoulder 'pops out' a little, and the bellybutton is placed a lot higher. You can also see a difference in where the bicep is attached to the inside of the elbow.
But your technique looks really good, these are just some anatomical tweaks.

This was made with a post-apocalyptic nuclear winter in mind.. does it count?

You could always post some in this thread..

As far as I can see, you did a good job of adjusting the thighs and crotch. You even made that little 'wavy' shape a good set of inner thighs has :) Her hips look more natural too.
Something's kind of off about the feet, yeah, but I can't put my finger on it. Maybe if the feet were pointing outward or inward a little it'd look more natural..
Curious to how it'll look when it's finished.

Oh, that last one looks really nice! Very smooth and the colours match well.
I liked your drawings for their simplicity, it had a childish charm to it, but I'm glad you're trying new stuff too. It seems to be working for you, and there's more to look at than before.

At 2/28/11 06:36 AM, Shmossy wrote: I would actually rather have "Oh, thank you" or even "You really think so?"
Being surprised at a compliment is fine, but something like "you look really nice" "no I don't" is like... okay fine bitch, argue with me then.

Well, obviously. Just bluntly saying "Uh.. No I don't" or something like it is just annoying, that's true. But there's a difference between that and when someone, say, compliments your hair and you reply "Thanks, (I like it like this too,) but it's kind of greasy at the moment", which is something I would say if someone complimented me about my hair today. But that's because it's true.

Yeah, but sometimes they can take it to extremes. I wouldn't tell someone they're WRONG when they just complimented me, to make me feel good. It's like rejecting happiness, and alienating yourself from them at the same time. That's stupid.

Extremes are seldom good. But most of the time those kind of replies to compliments are just modesty. Be it learned and sometimes false modesty.

At 2/28/11 03:51 AM, Gagsy wrote: What's ridiculous to me is someone not understanding the fundamental differences in the male and female psyche.

Oh, puke.

What would you rather have? A girl that reacts to a compliment with "OMG I KNOW RIGHT", or one that doesn't want to sound haughty and tries to relativise it?
When someone starts summing up negative aspects about the thing you just complimented, it's not a way to tell you you have bad taste, it's actually a slightly twisted form of politeness, just like it's 'polite' to say no thank you when you're offered something.

Oh, and for a girl, your catperson has an enormous package.. It looks better when you place the legs closer together, or at least make the thighs a little broader so there isn't that much place between legs.
Like that. You can also see the hipbones begin a lot higher than the crotch.

At 2/25/11 07:22 PM, TheColourAwsome wrote:

:Don't they count as art?

I could try to answer that question, but then we would be here 'till tomorrow morning.
Regardless.. Dude. You made a scribbly penis joke cartoon on lined paper. That's not exactly creative, interesting, nice to look at or original.
If you have any of those detailed self portraits though, I'm curious.

Never tried to donate blood. I always assumed it wouldn't be decent enough to donate, even though it probably is. I have really visible veins too.
I can still get furious about gays getting rejected, though. As far as I know, people who ever had sex with someone of the same sex just lie on their forms, but they shouldn't have to.

Oh my GOD.
YOU, sir, are a MASTER at painting in photoshop! Never before have I seen a painting with such uncanny resemblance to a horrible and ugly photoshopped photo!
BOW TO THIS MAN

At 2/23/11 03:12 PM, J-qb wrote: actually, having the arm and leg raised at the same side gives him a very laidback in control walk.

Well, yes. I admit it doesn't look wrong either, but in real life it's completely impossible to walk like that unless you are actively trying to.

At 2/22/11 02:03 AM, maficmelody wrote: Your proposal.. is.. acceptable. (points to knowledge of reference)

I thought Patch would look fun truckin' it. =P

Haha, the drawing is cool, but your arms are wrong :D The arm stretched out should be on the opposite side of the leg streched out. I hope that makes sense.

Grannie Insect!
I know the colours aren't really grannie-like, but I like blue-green bugs :(

Yes. I know basic natural sources of vitamin C when fruit isn't available, I know what stones to use for a campfire without dying in a campfire explosion, I know how to purify water, I know a decent amount of edible plants, I can skin rodents etc etc.
I'd be a okay survivor, as far as I know.

That is, untill I lose or brake my glasses and become completely worthless.

I think you're partially born with it, even if being 'born with it' just means you can keep focussed on something like drawing, you have an urge to imitate (life) and/or your hand-eye-coordination and fine motor skills are good.
That's what I had, and I've been drawing ever since I could hold a pencil. A lot of my 'skill' sits in that I'm good at imitating in the sense that when I see something, the image sticks in my head. For instance, most young children start out with drawing these things. People with a head for a body. I never drew those and immediatly started drawing bodies on my people. That's a sign I saw and interpretated differently than other kids my age.
There are also people who are very vocal and fluent in their language at a very young age, so you might be able to compare it to that.

Anyway, I think it is obvious that most people can learn how to draw, as long as they are people that want to learn how to draw. There are a lot of different ways to practice fine motor skills, sight, interpretation of images and even creativity. And if you're born with an exeptional skill in drawing and you don't maintain it, it'll go to waste anyway.

Huh. When I do that to my male cat he freaks out and wants to bite me. He generally doesn't like being petted on his lower back, we have to stick to his head and 'shoulders' or he gets pissed.

Oh, and i'll call it... "Cloysthagg".

Hehe, I like this thread.
Made a sketch, and since I don't feel like getting all photoshoppy on it, it's going to stay just a sketch for a while.

None. Not really planning to either. Canada seems way more awesome.

It isn't very impressive, but this scar still puzzles me since I somehow managed to cut my foot on some shellfish.

At 2/12/11 09:15 PM, SoConfused wrote: Sorry, that was me, not the OP, I was practicing with my new tablet. I just wanted to show the OP what could be done with the sketch on the computer. Even then I still messed up the shadows.

Finishing someone else's drawing by completely drawing it over, colouring it in and posting it in his topic seems kind of dickish to me, actually.
But that might just be me. And the OP doesn't seem to mind.

Anyway, I like his sketchy style better than the clean digital line, so I hope he continues in that direction. A backround or some more clean shading can help. Try different kinds of shading, see what works best for your drawings.

That sounds like a fucking scam.

I never had an English speaker try to pronounce my name (hanne), but I'm sure it will sound weird, even though it's fairly easy.
The french, on the other hand, pronounce my name like 'âne'.
Which is great.

But if I have to go for a name, it'll probably be Qkuïrryann.
That comes from my brain and even I have no idea what it should sound like. Most of the time it just becomes Kweer-yahn.

At 2/13/11 09:02 PM, TheFarseer wrote: Main point is, your not RULED by your emotions. You have a choice. Blaming your urges or just completely enslaving yourself to them, is total bullsh*t. Everybody has urges, and a lot of them are not ever appropriate, like wanting to stab a classmate to death, so don't just label it as being human. Cause we are more than that.

Obviously. But if it wasn't for those emotions a lot of rational and reasonable discoveries and theories would never have been made. You'll always be ruled by your emotions to some degree, I kind of found that out when I realised I was very emotionally attached to the idea of reason and rationality.
I just think that reason will always be secondary to emotion, at least in this stage of our evolution. If you can speak about 'stages', really.
But then I tend to get biological and you get questions like 'where does the line between reason and emotion lie' etc etc.

Am I taking this too serious for Newgrounds?

At 2/13/11 08:37 PM, FUNKbrs wrote: Your statement, sir, is fundamentally true. Emotion is a vestigial precursor to logic. To be ruled by it is to be less than human.

Are you going Ayn Rand on our ass?

Honestly, I used to think the same. But I have a feeling that emotions are incredibly underappreciated in philosophy. A lot of philosophers got serious boners over rationality and reason, but all of them were driven by emotions and feelings they themselves often hated. I agree that reason is what sets us apart, but emotion is what keeps us down. Emotion is what urges us, reason is what brings us there. To be human is to combine those two, otherwise we were either without progress or without urge.

Around five years ago my then-boyfriend showed me Retarded Animal Babies. I think that was my first 'real' encounter with Newgrounds, but I never really stayed except for short visits.
But now my little bro spends a shitload of time here and encouraged me to make an account a few weeks ago.
Yup.

At 2/13/11 09:32 AM, JoseFonz wrote: Some nude sketching. It's suposed to look as if she's startled. Anyways I'm looking at this sketch and i know something is missing (other than clothes) Can you guys maybe point out any mistakes?

You can feel she's startled, so that's good. Her hips look way weird, though, those look like the hips of a fat man with skinny legs. Don't forget where the bones go, the little 'dent' in her hip can't really be there. Her legs are, well, yeah, too skinny and look kind of rubber-y and bendy, but not bad.
The stretched out 'karate hand' she has there also kind of negates the spontanity of the pose. Maybe if you put in front of her mouth or something..
But this drawing is not at all bad. The pose looks relatively natural and the basic proportions are good. The hips are the major 'problem'.

You could always post more of your stuff.
Anyway, I still think you're good at what you do, and your style seems to work well with the watercolours you used with the cyclops and the one thats going to alaska. Sometimes it looks like you should think a little longer about your monsters, since they can be a bit messy.
Your style looks like it could really work in a piece with a lot of different monsters and characters and items all scrambled together. Maybe you should try placing your characters in a background or a scene to begin with, so your drawings become more than single sketches.