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No. Just... No.

At 2/11/11 03:14 PM, Calintz wrote: derp

My boyfriend is a smoker, my father is a smoker, a lot of my friends are smokers and everything I told you comes from someone who has never smoked.. but has dealt with a lot of people that tried to quit.
1) No. Deep down you really just don't want to. Find the reason why, find what keeps you from really quitting, or what gets you to start again, and then find a way to overcome that. Some people I know have a hard time quitting because smoking reminds them of being young (as young as twelve.. ) and has some strong memories attached to it.
Research shows that quitting cold turkey has on of the highest chances of succeeding, btw.
2)Yeah, I love my dude for the way he is. He doesn't have to change for me, but that doesn't mean I can't encourage him. Encouragement from people close to you can really help.
3)People that try to quit smoking become fucking assholes for a while. That just happens. It's better your friends know beforhand. Of course that doesn't give you a license to permanently piss people off.
4)Good for you.
Lastly:
Um.. I'm not a native English speaker. English isn't even my second language. Cigarette is called 'sigaret' in my native toungue. I'm very sorry that one recurring typo put you off.

If you can't quit cold turkey, you just don't want to quit.
Find a good reason to stop smoking. Go to the doctor, get your lungs checked. Ask the people you care about to help you and support you. Having a girlfriend/boyfriend/loved transsexual and letting them help and encourage you to quit, also helps a lot.
Prepare for moodyness, hunger, boredom, fidgeting and nerveousness. Grab things that you know help you with those things. Tell the people around you you're quitting, so they know you have a reason to be a dick.

Anyway, the hardest part will be when you go out with friends to a party or a bar or something, since you'll really feel the need to smoke. Pack a shitload of gum and tell your friends to slap the sigarette out of your hands whenever you want to light one, or better, just not lend you one.
And if you feel the need to buy sigarettes, make a list of what you can buy with the money you smoke away in a week, and keep that in your wallet. You could also keep track of what you spend on sigarettes and put money in a jar for every time you'd go out and buy some. Promise yourself to buy or do something awesome with your saved money after a month, as long as you don't smoke.

This advice coming from someone who hasn't smoked one sigarette in her life. But it's good advice, though.

Ugh. The question of what is art and what isn't art has been answered a long time ago and the people still asking that are obviously not acquainted with art and probably never had any form of or self-education in art-history.

I forgot the name of the guy that made the painting, but I remember learning about him. I think he was a Jewish American that had a depression and I also remember actually liking his art. There is talent in various forms, and if you're still stuck in the idea that something can only be art if it represents nature as closely as possible, I think you kind of missed the last century and a half.
There were various reasons the abstract movement was so overwhelmingly popular, reasons in art as well as in social life, so please educate yourself before you go "DURR I COULD DO THAT TOO".

Or like (a modern artist) once said: "You could... but you didn't."

Anyway, abstract art was a few decades ago though it has its children in minimal art, if that's still going. It's not contemporary art. Stop whining about it.

From what I see, your drawings look more like sketches, yes. The line is thin, and I often like sketches more than I like pretty and clean finished products, but I advise you to put some of your sketches in pen or add a little colour or more background to make them more finished without necessarily becoming very clean.
The picture you posted in this topic looks good enough to me though, but I'd shade it a little more so it looks more finished and 'intended', instead of a sketch on a loose piece of paper.

Listen kid, if you see this girl as just some kind of spermrecipient that'll get you devirginised, you're a douche. I don't care how slutty she is, she probably kind of maybe has a personality and a life of her own. If you ever decide to have sex with her, don't forget it'll come with consequences, probably negative ones if you need to ask goddamn newgrounds about losing your virginity.

My advice: stop looking at girls like they were put on the world to have a hole that matches your dick. If you want to lose your virginity simply for the sake of losing your virginity: fine. Go ahead. Screw the slut. Just don't forget you're fucking a person, not just a devirginising vagina. Otherwise you better just stick to the fleshlight and lie to your friends.

After thinking long and hard, the best I can come up with is raiding a (comic)bookstore.
Or maybe an art supply store.
Or a moviestore?
I'd probably try to combine those three in those 30 min.

At 2/8/11 10:11 PM, Ryanson wrote: In a world without consequences, people would drop their "proper" charade and do horrible unspeakable things. Even if that world was only so for just 30 minutes.

As said previously: No. They wouldn't. That's the same excuse religionists use to keep religion strongly seated in daily life. Even if there were no (eternal) consequences, morals, compassion and your conscience will stop most people from doing horrible things.

At 2/7/11 09:54 PM, SouthAsian wrote: Yes,I'm not doubting there are other countries other than the U.S. that are reaching new levels of achievement in all manners of developments.But its mostly institutions, corporations, based in the U.S. that have produced lots of goods, and technology enjoyed by citizens of foreign countries.Its our fast food,our music, our entertainment and financial mediums that have the world by its balls.If we fall, lots of other counties fall too.

Give me a couple examples where there are other countries where they are innovating or inventing anything new that is on par or surpasses good old American ingenuity.Im not a US fan boy, I just think we still maintain a lead and whatever stagnant bouts we've suffered we can easily rebound.

I think China would be the obvious choice, here. That country already owns half of your money and they're pumping a lot of their own in technological innovation. I'm not an economist, far from it, so I'm not really perfectly up-to-date on which country is on the awesome road, but India is on there too. Those are two of the fastest growing economical nations and there's no doubt they're going to pass you by at some point. The USA has contributed an enormous amount to the world, but your power and economical strength are dying, and that's perfectly normal. Countries have their good years/decades/centuries, and as the world changes, so does your strength. Thats wy I get half an ass-implosion when the US calls its president "The most powerful man in the world" since that seems to completely overlook everyone else and sounds incredibly pompous.
I'm fairly certain that you'll never again reach the power and influence you had in your highdays and it'll only go downhill from here. But that's okay, just get used to it beforehand.

Oh, and if anything, the USA's strong religious view are really interfering with their innovation on scientific terms. I recall American scientist that have 'fled' to Belgium and other European countries that don't bitch about stem-cell research and the like, so that seems to be holding you back too.

Okay wait forget what I said

If being genderless means I can't have sexy times, I'm being all sexes I can get.

As an uptight dweeb, I'm more interested in to what being both sexes would make me in the eyes of my surroundings. Being able to shift sexes would be pretty awesome, but not both at the same time. Rather none, then. Oh man, I'd be the ultimate neutral creature. Awesome.
But does not being either sex make it impossible to have sexy times?

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Why is this so hard.

I can download porn and fap even with my ladyparts, so whatever on that part.

I'd like to express my opinions on social, political and slightly philosophical matters (especially regarding the sexes) and experience how I'm actually capable of vocalising a voice globally seen as one thats capable of being neutral and even objective, and to be viewed instantly as a rational being before having to prove it.
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And I guess I'd try to suck myself off or something.

I'd be fucking annoyed if the USA came in and saved the day like they like to do. Stop being a goddamn selfpronounced daddy-nation to the rest of the world and let countries solve their own problems. The people will learn to stand on their own feet and you'd only get everything more messy. Thumbs up for expressing concern and support and maybe providing humanitarian aid, but leave politics and certainly the fighting to the people of the country they live in. Stop meddling.
I'm talking about overthrowing governments, invasion of other nations by other nations is a different matter. But no country should overthrow a government of a people that's not theirs.

At 2/7/11 06:55 PM, SouthAsian wrote: The U.S cant become isolationist simply because we are are a major technological,cultural,social, source for the world.That song by Rammstein comes to mind.Everyone wants or needs the advances and developments that we have produced.They crave it.When there is conflict with our commercial interests, then we get drawn into fights.

Oh please. You were a major technological,cultural,social, source for the world for the last couple of decades, but that kind of power is definitly fading. In almost every aspect you name other countries are catching up with you or passing you by. I really have the feeling you're strongly stuck in your everlasting grandeur-illusion, but you'll never again be the nation you were in your top-years. I'm getting really sick of the American idea that the rest of the world has to bow for their needs and desperatly needs them.
America has become isolationist in a way already because of their imagined countrypenissize (which, granted, used to be justified) that has seriously made the rest of the world start to dislike you.

Yes, this is a strong generalisation and I'm not talking about the inhabitants of the USA, but mostly about the image the USA is portaying of itself nowadays.

Huhu. 'Bursl prot'.
That's like.. double funny for me 'cause 'prot' means fart in flemish..
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At 2/7/11 03:33 PM, homsarrunner3 wrote:

P.S. If you're going to America, the word is "College". Seriously, don't call it University when you get there.

I know this is totally offtopic and all, but I always thought you had college and university. Seriously, it's only 'college' over there? Weird.

@topic
Well, one of the safest places is on the shoulders and the back in general since that spot shouldn't change a lot, but it has a little douchebag-allure and you can hardly ever see it yourself. You can put it on your foot if you want to look original/alternative/kinda girly but that depends on your posture and it'll look weird when you're old. You could put it on the back of your hand as long as you're not looking for a job that's not manual labor. Chest if you want to look manly but also kind of nationalist. Upper arm is safe, but soooo like conformist and already done and all. Inside of the forearm seems like a nice choice, can't really find a downside. Ribs if you want a tattoo solely to brag about how that shit hurt like hell but you still got it anyway.
And of course ass or face if you want to make money off it.

Sounds like you've been confusing Gini for Sprite, dude.

The YTwatchdog.

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Nope. Tobacco is the most useless drug to do, it doesn't do jack shit except get you addicted. Oh, and it can make you poop. Awright.

I do sometimes consider taking up pipe-smoking, for sheer coolness. And it'll probably skyrocket my hipster cred.

I really suck at typography, so the only thing I can say is that you have to change the font, but I don't know what you should change it to. Maybe something a little more sturdy and thick.
A border around the yellow could do something, yeah. To make it a little more dynamic you could try to make the words and year bigger so they go over the corners of the yellow star, maybe but them in some kind of banner?

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HA HA I JUST RUINED A PART OF MY OWN CHILDHOOD

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The one that's um, going to alaska is so.. cute, yet slightly unsettling.
But cute.

I like your style! It looks pretty original.

Oh. At first I thought this was an open invitation to everyone to draw popular characters as hipsters.

At 2/4/11 09:19 PM, MasterMerol wrote: And I made this one too!

Oh, wow, I really like your air! Your moon and the swirls are really nice.
Haha, the whole drawing kind of reminds me of the southern oracle from the Neverending Story.

As for compensation.. anything else besides a cd?

Um.. Don't forget it's totally okay to not be a super awesome drawer. A lot of people just draw for their own enternainment and don't have the ambition to become 'super awesome'. And that's totally fine. I sing when I pee, but that doesn't mean I have to practice every day 'till I'm good enough to sing and pee in public or on stage.
.. Cough.
Anyway, if you're having fun while drawing, good for you. That's the most important thing.

But posting this in an art forum gives the idea that you do want to become better, and 'we' (if I may use that word, as pretty much a total NGnoob) take it seriously.
So if you just like to draw without a lot of ambition, great, no sweat! But posting it here will just lower your self-esteem, then. If you would really like to get better, though: keep posting and trying and practising and reading tips, you'll notice progress in no time.

At 2/3/11 06:48 AM, Droghead wrote: Alright guys, let me clear this up... I am not here to pick a fight, just looking for opinions on how I could improve a baby sketch into something neat. That I have received so I am content. Now I don't really understand why last poster said it's getting vicious, but I have moderate retardation in social interaction and reading cues.

No one has criticized my last pic though, and thats when I get a kick on my butt. But no, I want what I am working with right now to look good, not starting a new picture.

You could start a new picture.. of the same thing. Scribbling all over the same drawing in the hopes of it getting better is not really a productive strategy. Drawing things over and over may be boring, but it's also good exercise. And by drawing it again you might be able to adjust little basic things to make it look better, you could try and draw your robot from different angles. It could also be you're so focussed on this drawing you're blind to improvent, if that makes sense. If you're frustrated, leave it alone for a while.

Now, for a little advice: drawing robots is never very easy, since there's a lot of detail to think of when you want to make them look like they could actually move. Keep in mind joints need hinges, and anywhere you place a solid steel plate can't bend or move. The robot you drew looks like its legs are welded in place: keep joints open, think of how they move and how they would look. Look at a few skeletons (humans, birds, horses, ..), that's a very good way to understand the 'mechanics' of a moving machine.
Your new picture looks a lot lighter and more moveable than the first one, so that's an improvement.

Maybe I'm being a bit backwards (if that makes sense), but I don't really agree with sketching in pen, since that doesn't leave a lot of space open for variation of lines and softer tones. I guess you'll just have to find out for yourself what suits you best.
(I do agree with not using an eraser when you sketch, though)

Any use for an ironically horrible/horribly ironic hipster? He could be an undercover journalist in the art-scene or something..

This really sounds like something I'd like to do and be good at, so I'm interested. It could be that I'm busy for school, though, but even if that's the case I will probably find a few days where I can draw a couple of characters. They don't really take that long. I don't think I'm that good at backdrops, but I could try if I get guidelines.
The hipster wasn't exactly pondered over, he kind of popped out the pencil. I have three more characters waiting from the same sketch, if this one is liked..

At 2/1/11 11:40 AM, Breaktroll wrote: Why don't you ever draw such awesome things in your sketchbook or at home? :c You don't draw enough violent, dark stuff.

Breaky, you draw enough dark and violent stuff for the both of us.
(But yes, a little more variation probably wouldn't hurt)

Awrite. Better? Worse? Okay but meh? ..Too dark?