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At 3/3/11 07:57 AM, Icandraw wrote: Is it joinable ?

Until it closes / the max amount of cupcake pictures are submitted.

At 3/3/11 01:50 AM, silversunned wrote: I can see that art is different in each persons eyes! :D however I don't think of cartoonish as being all that hard of art I mean is't much more simple and requires alot less detail I think I'm just saying that Art should have to take Effort! :D I don't condone Anime either as being Art (but that's for own personal reasons)

Cool story... bro.
However, I can understand where you might think my cartoons take little time. With cartoons though, it is less about how the final product looks, and more about the idea behind the picture. With your style of art, I could easily just draw a hand and call it quits with your art. With cartoons, it tends to be more abou the idea of the picture rather than the final outcome.

Since I am failing to create art, I decided to dabble in abstract... don't worry silversunned, it took me 8 hours just to ponder the positioning of the circles, let alone their color. Now THAT is art!

Here, I'll explain this picture to you. The picture itself taps into a fundamental, primitive part of our existence. There are no flaws within the circle, just one continuous perfect curve that will eventually come to represent my existence within this black world. The round and continuous circles are also in different colors, if you didn't already notice that, but you probably didn't. These different colors represent the different beliefs within society regarding true art.

Or... you can take my picture of circles as it really is, a picture with circles. Also, before you finish reading my post, make sure that you understand this:

Don't post your own art in someone else's art thread. Am I really such an astounding artist that my presence on these forums requires you to present me your art because of my godly art gaze? Will my mere gaze turn your pencil sketch into art? (Answer is: yes it will)

Anyway, I'm done with my incoherent speech.

At 3/3/11 06:34 AM, LazyAss23 wrote: Im doing this shit :D i will work on it later :D

Wow you truly are lazy.

Herp

If you don't push the button, the person in the box will die from starvation. Think of it as a quick and painless death. Push the button over and over until it breaks, get out of the experiment, then report the abductees (second possibility).

In 7.6 million years, the earth will be engulfed by the sun. When this happens, I immagine it will make the same sound that pac-man makes when he eats the dots...

Picture (1100x800)

At 3/2/11 05:13 PM, Kakashi1930 wrote:

At 3/1/11 10:24 PM, SoConfused wrote: My first attempt at posemaniacs.... my first 3 pics were the view from below of people curled up in balls, so I skipped those... For some reason photoshop is now saving my pictures in CMYK, and Newgrounds doesn't like, so I have to manually change it to RGB.

Any tips for doing posemaniacs? I feel like im doing it wrong.

Idk if you were, but try Posemaniac's 30-second drawing.
Basically, you have 30 seconds to draw the pose, and then a new one takes its place.
Its seems simple enough, but it is very helpful.
Going along with that, Lintire posted a very helpful link in Fifty's thread yesterday, gestural drawing
It may help with the 30 second drawing.
Have fun~

Thanks for the link, and yeah I was doing the Posemaniac's 30-second drawing. It was a challenge, especially when I had to make a new layer, hide the previous layer, then start drawing. It was more of a 25 second challenge when all was said and done. For some reason, the people just love curling into balls when I was doing the challenge. I omitted them from the picture that I posted because 5 people in balls would probably make it look as if I was just drawing circles and adding limbs and then calling it a Posemaniac's pose. About to start on another Artpocalypse Now submission...luckily, no human anatomy is involved with my idea.

At 3/2/11 11:20 AM, Japati wrote:

At 3/1/11 10:24 PM, SoConfused wrote: My first attempt at posemaniacs.... my first 3 pics were the view from below of people curled up in balls, so I skipped those... For some reason photoshop is now saving my pictures in CMYK, and Newgrounds doesn't like, so I have to manually change it to RGB.

Any tips for doing posemaniacs? I feel like im doing it wrong.

Looking good :)
I feel like I should contribute to this thread after 'not-knowingly' being an asshole.

I started going to life drawing sessions, you simply go in, pay the person some money, and then pose for you and several other artists at the same time. It's really good because they'll do about 10 different poses an hour and you can just sketch them down in about 5 minutes or so, helping you to get the figure right, and teaching you at the same time. I think I'll start going every Tuesday, simply so that I can progress on my human figure skills.
Maybe you should check that out, if you're into that

I don't hold grudges, so one sorry was enough, and knowing it wasn't you is even better. As for the sessions with the models, I don't think that would be my cup of tea... I'm not planning on becoming a fantastic artist, I just want a way to blow some free time, and possibly make a hobby out of it. I'm in college studying accounting an finance, so paying someone to pose just seems silly if I'm not going to benefit from it monetarily in the near future. Thanks for the suggestion, but I think posemaniacs will be good enough for me.

I was sitting at my computer reading some forum posts on NG when I said to myself, "I should sketch my hand as it draws itself...". I left the lines rough and added some color, but I used a different style to do so. At least I think it looks interesting... anyway....

At 3/2/11 02:18 PM, Abbyka wrote:

At 3/2/11 10:13 AM, AJtheRipper wrote:

At 3/2/11 10:06 AM, SoConfused wrote: AJ, I can help you out once I get back to my dorm after my morning classes. I'll be in my room in about 3 hours (1pm NG time) if you can wait that long. I'm stuck in criminology and accounting until then.

Sounds great, I'm in no hurry.

And to the other posts! Thanks for the advice I will use it.

Also, does anybody know any good custom t-shirt making websites? Cafepress doesn't work with me that much because I can't get the image big enough.

I don't know any sellers personally on etsy, but you should browse etsy.com for people that do screen printing on tshirts. There usually used to be a custom request area but it's been shut down for maitenence for a month now so you'll need to search through pages of sellers youself. :/ There are a lot of great people there that can work with you, I found someone that did some custom puzzles for my son a while ago.

Screen printing is quite expensive unless you are going to make the shirts in bulk. You have to pay for the screens (around $30 each per color) and the ink for each color. Your best bet would probably be a specialty shop that actually prints on the shirts with a giant printer. Something like this.

At 3/2/11 02:14 PM, big-jonny-13 wrote: Once you see it......

Once I see what? the 2 sets of shadows on the back wall? (look at the bottom right of the wall)
At least, I'm pretty sure there are 2 sets of shadows, looks like the shadow for the top of the trash pile is on the bottom right side of the back wall near the edge of the trash. I could be wrong...

AJ, I can help you out once I get back to my dorm after my morning classes. I'll be in my room in about 3 hours (1pm NG time) if you can wait that long. I'm stuck in criminology and accounting until then.

My first attempt at posemaniacs.... my first 3 pics were the view from below of people curled up in balls, so I skipped those... For some reason photoshop is now saving my pictures in CMYK, and Newgrounds doesn't like, so I have to manually change it to RGB.

Any tips for doing posemaniacs? I feel like im doing it wrong.

Me practicing doing quick sketches of my left hand (since doing a pose with my right hand and sketching would be impossible). I spent around 30 or 40 seconds per hand, nothing too major, just practicing since I have the most trouble with hands. I drew from bottom left to right, then random up top (holding keys in first pic). Next step, posemaniacs.

At 3/1/11 03:24 PM, IncendiaryProduction wrote:

At 3/1/11 03:12 PM, SoConfused wrote: Try these ad blockers if you dont want to see em, this is what my screen looks like

The ads are there for a reason. Newgrounds is expensive to run. Those ads make Tom money that allows him to keep it free for you to use. When you block it, he doesn't make money.

You can tell the blocker which sites to block the adds to. If you want to support Tom, you can just set the blocker to allow you to see the adds for Newgrounds only. Personally, I support the website whenever I view it on my ipod touch / public computers.

Try these ad blockers if you dont want to see em, this is what my screen looks like

Chrome Adblocker

Mozilla Firfox

Both work really well and are both from the official stores of the browsers. Try it, I never have to see an ad on this website except for the ones embedded in the videos/games.

It could definitely use something in the background other than just black. As of now, the picture has a total of 2 unique objects (4 if you count the duplicates) and text, one of them being the Newgrounds tank, which you probably got from the Downloads section of Newgrounds.com. I like this style and where it could lead to, but you need more original content and more objects in the background in order to give the viewer something to look at. Well, at least in my opinion, but since when did my opinion mean anything? If I had to rate it, I would prob give it a 3/5 for the interesting style.

At 2/27/11 03:28 PM, BlackmarketKraig wrote: ..::IMPORTANT::..

The deadline is being extended until March 15th.

There are some great submissions and I'd like a few more.

I've got a few more ideas... I guess I think about how the world will end too often.

At 2/27/11 05:11 AM, Falonefal wrote:

At 2/27/11 12:44 AM, SoConfused wrote:

At 2/27/11 12:34 AM, Aigis wrote: I call it:

"The Treachery of Foodstuffs".

I've noticed a lot of violent cupcake submissions... What does this say about this day and age?

Also, I like it.

Well because cupcakes are so "kawaii" (I hope I'm using that word right) everyone is trying to be as less 'mainstream' as possible making violent cupcakes making THAT the new mainstream lol

Don't say it like that, now I look like a hipster for being one of the first ones to make a violent cupcake picture.

At 2/26/11 11:59 PM, The3DragonsGroup wrote: Fucking racist to Mexicans. Fuck your mountain spring dial scents.

That is my favorite thread, it just teems with win...
Also, I've given up on the whole "racism" thing, probably because me and the white flag of surrender are both the same color.

At 2/27/11 12:34 AM, Aigis wrote: I call it:

"The Treachery of Foodstuffs".

I've noticed a lot of violent cupcake submissions... What does this say about this day and age?

Also, I like it.

At 2/26/11 11:09 PM, Kakashi1930 wrote:

At 2/26/11 08:07 PM, SoConfused wrote: Also...

By "younger generation" he means age. Not creation of user. He lists his age as 19 and, whether or not that is his actual age, I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt. You are also 19, though, so I am kind of confused there. At least, you also say you are, and I am also going to give you the benefit of the doubt.
Moving on, like Tem said, art is a matter of opinion. Furthermore, there is more than just one form/style of "art". Whether or not people like your style, just accept their critique or comments and say thank you and don't be a dick back to them, even if they are a complete asshole. If it is really that big of a problem, you could always ask a mod to delete it (not that they will, neccessarily)

I wouldn't mind being harshly critiqued. However, saying what I make isn't art and then posting a picture of "art" as some sort of example isn't exactly doing anyone good. I would have embraced a response that contained at least a scrap of useable information even if it was presented in a condescending way.

Basically you can be a complete ass to me and I wouldn't mind so long as you have some useable information that will allow me to improve on my future attempts at "art". I did actually thank him for stopping by, I wouldn't mind him commenting on my post again as long as he is attempting to be helpful instead of just poorly stating his opinion.

As for my reaction that made me seem like a sarcastic dick, yeah I would probably edit that small section out if I could, but I ultimately stand by my opinion. As for my age, yeah I'm actually 19 (whoa, one of the few members of NG who is actually the age he says he is), turning 20 in May.

At 2/26/11 09:17 PM, Harukawa wrote: I would absolutely love to contribute to this, but I do not draw digitally, and it seems like that is the only way I could participate.

If you are really determined to participate you could take a picture of one of your drawings, you could load the picture into gimp or inkscape (both free, google it), trace over your picture and then color it in. If you choose to go this route, I advise you to become good friends with the pen tool.

This is so bad that it is actually quite good.

(the song, not the video)

Try using crazy cakes as a reference, I've seen some crazy cake stacking for weddings and stuff. You've got to think outside of the box when looking for references....

Also...

At 2/26/11 07:24 PM, Japati wrote: I don't call this art.

For some reason much of the younger generation of Newgrounds has gotten into it's head that art is completely random comical comic. This is not the case.
Art is not making up random things such as a cake killing another cake, and drawing it on photoshop is a cartoonist style.
This is art:

First off, let me start by saying thanks for taking a look at my series of black lines and colors thread. Now, my "comical comic(s)" that you talk about are part of a few collabs here on the art forum, many of my... cartoonist style photoshop drawings... are merely my interpretations of the subject matter required for each said collab. I am by no means an artist, hell I'm in college and I intend on majoring in Finance/Accounting. Now, if you have nothing to say that would actually improve my pictures, I would greatly appreciate it if you could leave my thread the fuck alone. Thanks again for stopping by.

Here is a logo I made for SoundJunkie. The finished product is 2500x2500 pixels (8"x8"), I think it turned out all right. I have a boatload of different versions too hah. Now to get back to my final project for an 8 weeks college course.

At 2/26/11 10:37 AM, BlackmarketKraig wrote: Draft of the potential menu screen: here.

Thoughts, suggestions, critique?

I like how it looks so far, but I can't really tell what is in the background of the menu other than mountains. I was thinking that you could probably fit a mushroom cloud back there. Maybe even have a few ways that an apocalypse could happen, so in addition to the mushroom cloud, have a meteor falling and maybe a few other things. In addition to the nuke, you could also have the "A Newgrounds Art Forum Collaboration" with a really long shadow (because of the light given off by the nuke).

For transitions, if you can't figure out how to make the pictures explode, you can have a random transition between pictures. The transitions could represent different ways that the world could end, so one picture could crash into the ground (like a meteor), one picture could come into existence because of a large explosion, etc. However, this would give you a lot more work. I like the dramatic music, you should keep that. Those are just some ideas off of the top of my head.

I thought I was going to see a picture of a shark ice fishing...

At 2/24/11 11:02 PM, fatcat360 wrote: Alright. Now I'm really done.

I liked it better when I didn't get seizures from looking at it.