At 8/11/09 08:56 PM, TehSlapHappy wrote: Maybe it's just me, but it's also good to get influenced but some good artists that you like and try to combine all of those different styles into one character. That's how I have my style anyway, but I digress.

Yeah, I do the same thing. I'll look at a picture I think looks good and think "what is this person doing that I'm not?" If I can identify, I'll take it with me.

But, the reason I suggest to start with real people instead of anime/manga is not about the artist, because it is good to look at anime/manga and study how it's drawn. It's about, like I said, getting proportions down. I've seen so many people skip real life and move straight to manga so that the proportions of their characters, unless they have a reference, are completely off.

Manga is a type of cartooning where styles can vary drastically from artist to artist, but it's also based in reality.

At 8/11/09 09:11 PM, SpartanBunny wrote: Lol, IFUN, you completely annihilated that guy who was saying you could make a gay person straight in that furry thread.

Yeah, I was happy how that one turned out. :D

LOL, that's an awesome tip, but a little too late for me :P I've been drawing manga style since 5th grade actually. I started out drawing DBZ characters from one of my books and I just kept going from there.

You know, it's never too late. It can never hurt to look up a proportions tutorial or two. I mean, after a while you can learn to compensate just by memorization, but I think that researching art theory and proportions is always good.

And this goes for whatever style you practice. Even if you'd been drawing real-life characters since fifth grade, it may still help to look up tutorials. There's always something more to be learned, not to be cliche.

At 8/11/09 09:26 PM, SpartanBunny wrote:

At 8/11/09 06:57 PM, InsertFunnyUserName wrote: STUFF THAT IS HAWT

LOL, that's an awesome tip, but a little too late for me :P I've been drawing manga style since 5th grade actually. I started out drawing DBZ characters from one of my books and I just kept going from there.

I do the same thing and my art turns out decent. I usaully just draw out of a book or something to use as a reference for starters, and then I just try to draw it on my own without looking at the picture. I usually have the hair looking a little weird, or a hand a little unproportional, but that's it.

So in other news, I met this kid while in band and he's gay also! It's awesome, we talk about gay stuff and hang out. We're now friends and make an awesome trumpet sax duo.

At 8/11/09 10:13 PM, GOTHCLAWZ wrote: I saw this gay porno once where they got these 4 straight cousins to have sex. Awful it was.

Link pl0x?

I can't draw for shit.

:/

At 8/11/09 11:18 PM, AngryBanana wrote: I can't draw for shit.

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Then paint.

I have written down all of the tips and advice you guys gave me. I put the note inside of my "artist tips log". Thanks for the help, I really do appreciate it.

In other drawing related news. I am going to draw a pic of Becca and me next, in Anime style of course. I have the 14th and 15th off of work because of a 'special event', so I should have the work done by then. I'll keep a post on how it is going on my profile.

At 8/11/09 11:19 PM, Blush wrote:

At 8/11/09 11:18 PM, AngryBanana wrote: I can't draw for shit.

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Then paint.

I REALLY can't paint for shit.

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At 8/11/09 11:40 PM, AngryBanana wrote:

At 8/11/09 11:19 PM, Blush wrote:

At 8/11/09 11:18 PM, AngryBanana wrote: I can't draw for shit.

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Then paint.

I REALLY can't paint for shit.

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Then take pictures? or maybe film somthing?

At 8/11/09 11:46 PM, LinaInverseFan wrote: Then take pictures? or maybe film somthing?

As far as creativity goes, I'm supposed to be a decent writer.

At 8/11/09 11:47 PM, AngryBanana wrote:

At 8/11/09 11:46 PM, LinaInverseFan wrote: Then take pictures? or maybe film somthing?

As far as creativity goes, I'm supposed to be a decent writer.

Cool, what have you written recently? I love reading novels, narrative essays, and creative writings!

At 8/11/09 11:54 PM, LinaInverseFan wrote: Cool, what have you written recently? I love reading novels, narrative essays, and creative writings!

Poetry, Short story ish stuff.

Whatever randomly comes to mind.

At 8/12/09 12:01 AM, AngryBanana wrote:

At 8/11/09 11:54 PM, LinaInverseFan wrote: Cool, what have you written recently? I love reading novels, narrative essays, and creative writings!

Poetry, Short story ish stuff.

Whatever randomly comes to mind.

If you have some on the computer, can you post them, or send me a PM containing them? I would really like to see. : )

At 8/11/09 11:54 PM, LinaInverseFan wrote: Cool, what have you written recently? I love reading novels, narrative essays, and creative writings!

I've tried so many times to finish a long story, but I always lose interest. I'm hoping that there's a possibility that I'll finish my latest one - which is like 35 pages in microsoft word at this moment with a good chunk of additional parts that need to be transcribed from my notebook - but I'm not sure.

Some of my short stories are pretty good. Some of my other stories have been disasters, like Pet and this story that I wrote and never posted called "The Balance of Push and Pull."

Once the lit portal comes, I'll definitely be posting my stuff there.

At 8/12/09 12:04 AM, LinaInverseFan wrote: If you have some on the computer, can you post them, or send me a PM containing them? I would really like to see. : )

Maybe. If I work up the courage.

:P

InsertFunnyName wrote:

I've tried so many times to finish a long story, but I always lose interest. I'm hoping that there's a possibility that I'll finish my latest one - which is like 35 pages in microsoft word at this moment with a good chunk of additional parts that need to be transcribed from my notebook - but I'm not sure.
Some of my short stories are pretty good. Some of my other stories have been disasters, like Pet and this story that I wrote and never posted called "The Balance of Push and Pull."
Once the lit portal comes, I'll definitely be posting my stuff there.

Keep working on them, hopfully you will be next JK. Rolling or maybe even the next R. Kipling.
I also have been working on off on, not really books, but ideas for books. I'll tell you them later...

AngryBanana wrote:

:Maybe. If I work up the courage.

"Pretty please with a Foxxy on top?"

dang, messed up on last part...

I'll be checking in after work tomorrow, probably around 10 or 11.

At 8/12/09 01:21 AM, LinaInverseFan wrote: I'll be checking in after work tomorrow, probably around 10 or 11.

You don't have to post the next time you're going to post, you know.

:P

At 8/12/09 12:07 AM, InsertFunnyUserName wrote: Some of my short stories are pretty good. Some of my other stories have been disasters, like Pet and this story that I wrote and never posted called "The Balance of Push and Pull."

Once the lit portal comes, I'll definitely be posting my stuff there.

Another writer? Wonderful! I'd love to see some of your work. I'm currently writing a novel myself.

At 8/12/09 06:53 AM, Sensationalism wrote: Someone find me a girlfriend. Go go go.

Sexay.

At 8/12/09 06:53 AM, Sensationalism wrote: Someone find me a girlfriend. Go go go.

Hey babe, where you been all my life?

At 8/12/09 07:27 AM, Lost-Chances wrote: Sexay.

I came.

At 8/12/09 06:53 AM, Sensationalism wrote: Someone find me a girlfriend. Go go go.

Found two.

At 8/12/09 01:48 PM, AngryBanana wrote:

At 8/12/09 06:53 AM, Sensationalism wrote: Someone find me a girlfriend. Go go go.

Found two.

That old chick in the back is looking pretty damn good right about now......

At 8/12/09 02:01 PM, SorgensKammer wrote: That old chick in the back is looking pretty damn good right about now......

So you're into them gmilfs.

At 8/12/09 02:22 PM, AngryBanana wrote:

At 8/12/09 02:01 PM, SorgensKammer wrote: That old chick in the back is looking pretty damn good right about now......

So you're into them gmilfs.

Thats one nice wig shes got there

At 8/12/09 01:48 PM, AngryBanana wrote:

At 8/12/09 06:53 AM, Sensationalism wrote: Someone find me a girlfriend. Go go go.

Found two.

The one on the bottom shows no emotion.

At 8/12/09 02:22 PM, AngryBanana wrote:

At 8/12/09 02:01 PM, SorgensKammer wrote: That old chick in the back is looking pretty damn good right about now......

So you're into them gmilfs.

What's in that bag....

At 8/12/09 06:53 AM, Sensationalism wrote

Someone find me a girlfriend. Go go go.

At 8/12/09 07:27 AM, Lost-Chances wrote

Sexay.

At 8/12/09 11:55 AM, GOTHCLAWZ wrote

I came.
I came.

Oh my god, combo. Much?

You guys are too funny!

But seriously, I want to hear this. Sensa, what kind of girl to do you choose to go out with?
The masculine kind of woman or the feminine kind?

I need some ideas and opinions of how to execute my new art project. The theme is an Anime style version of Becca and me. I know well enough what we both look like, but I need ideas in like what kind of setting our Anime self's would be in. Should the setting be: romantic / sultry, funny / comical, highlighted personal moment, or a parody of famous art? I personally am leaning towards the romantic or the parody setting.

Like for romantic, we are at the breaking point of exchanging a lovers kiss. Both figures would be very close to each other, if not already touching. Hearts pounding, breathing heavy and deep, faces full of blush and loving emotion.

For parody I am thinking along the lines of either "Farmer who?" or "Full Moon".
Farmer who, is that famous one of the farmer and his wife standing outside of their home, the man holds a pitchfork, the wife looks scared. I would alter it slightly to make Becca and I look happy, and it would not be a pitch fork....
Full Moon is the picture that was used in that Ashten Kutcher movie "a lot like love".
The picture is of both him and the girl (who's name eludes me at the moment) standing naked on a small hill and situated in the full moon. Instead of Ashten kutcher and that girl, it would be Me and Becca, and our faces would not be distorted.

Go ahead and bounce some ideas off of me, any help would be appreciated.

At 8/13/09 12:33 AM, LinaInverseFan wrote: I need some ideas and opinions of how to execute my new art project. The theme is an Anime style version of Becca and me.

To be blunt: I think painting the canvas with yours and "Becca" 's brains would be a better art project. At least it would be remotely original.