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Why, oh why, doesn't it accept my password on new accounts? I made the account Ana-hime, which may still be on the bottom of the page, modified the profile page, and when it froze I had to close the window, and now I can't get back in. And since I used my main email on that account, it's lost forever now. Can't this be fixed? edit: I'll just stay with this crappy acount name. -_-;;\ EDIT2: I drew a picture for 1 1/2 hours, then was logged out when I clicked submit. The picture is ...

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Public Boards/Intermediate

legend of zelda: windwaker

Callypso (Aug 8, 2004)

i love this game. i'm so addicted to it.

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Koneko-sama (Aug 11, 2004)

I -used- to have it... But my dog chewed up the disc... *glares daggers at dog*

IkariIreuL (Sep 11, 2004)

Oh the elfic infancy stage [ so cute , ingenue ... ]

Animegirl250 (Nov 11, 2004)

i love zelda games! I know people think link looks childish but i think hes cute! Makar and the little koroks are so adorable also!

NOVEMBER93 (Apr 8, 2006)

I love link too....and i also have this game....but sadly i am stuck....agian...and haven't played it in a while....i am still thinking of ways to get out...and find that key!

Main Forums/Drawing Discussion

HELP

Sweetcell (Apr 7, 2006)

I'm working on a piece right now and I tried to use the magic wand/move tool, which didn't seem to work and I pressed undo till it said no more undo's, fine, so I've been trying to just normally paint but now none of my brush strokes seems to appear. There are no masks, I've tried on both layers, I put opacity and flow to max and there's nothing, no brush strokes. I don't want to upl;oad this till I'm done. Someone please... HELP! I'm on Lascaux.

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Public Boards/Beginner

Dino dude

DinoFlorist (Jan 11, 2004)

He is banana colored, for he loves bananas.

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marcello (Jan 12, 2004)

it's a slightly greenish yellow bordering on light olive color.

nice design, but I don't like all the white bits, you should probably use layers or at least the mask tool then draw with a colored brush instead of fill. (basically never use flood fill)

DinoFlorist (Jan 14, 2004)

I dont get layers...maybe someone can help me understand?

marcello (Jan 14, 2004)

just imagine transparencies you can paint on and switch order of and move around, but with the added ability to draw on any of them. then imagine drwaing lineart on one layer, then coloring on another. coloring on a second layer won't touch the lineart on your first layer.

staci (Apr 7, 2006)

hey remember when you thought this was yellow? haw haw..good times.

Public Boards/Advanced

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comd (Apr 2, 2006)

Trying a bit more than a head this time since I have all this canvas space in the advanced section. I'm just going to try to copy the photo directly this time as closely as possible.
http://www.kristiaknowles.net/images/gallery/fitness/fit2.jpg

I'm not sure I'll get anywhere. Thanks all for the encouragement.

[Edit] This is the opposite of what I'm striving to do artistically as my goal is to draw more loosely from references (using information from the reference to make a completely different picture, not drawing the reference) and ultimately without needing references at all, but I wanted to try a shot at being unpainterly and more photorealistic: the antethesis of what I've been trying to do. To get the line drawing and major landmarks as accurately as possible, I initially started with a grid for the line drawing. This allowed me to shade and color more loosely without worrying about correcting inaccuracies from the previous stages. I don't think I quite got there as I still got lazy on the shading and didn't quite interpret the values correctly. It looks correct sized down, but not up close.

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Zack (Apr 5, 2006)

You might find it an interesting exercise to take a ref and try drawing it at a different angle. As soon as I have more free time I intend to make a number of drawings that are loosely referenced like that; maybe they have the same angle but different lighting, or they have different shading styles, etc. Personally, I see loose references as training wheels and strict references as crutches, but that's in terms of my own artistic goals and not a criticism of other artists here. In light of your goals, I'd say dropping the grid system is probably a good idea.

comd (edited Apr 5, 2006)

Modifying angles, lighting, or the original 3D form of the reference is the kind of stuff I'd like to ultimately do when using references. Just anything that demands the 3D form is understood so that it could be used to produce other 3D forms is what would benefit me most. I tend to be more 2D-oriented when copying photos regardless of whether I'm using measuring devices or just freehanding, and that's useful for copying 2D images, but not for inventing 3D ones. I tend to ask questions like, "what's the 2D shape of this highlight? How does it relate vertically and horizontally to this other mark?" Rather than, "what's the 3D form of this figure"? If I understood the 3D form, then I could invent my own highlights without using the precise shapes in the photograph.

I pretty much knew this picture wasn't what I should have been doing when I started on it based on my goals, regardless of the grid (though the grid made it that much worse). I set out only to draw the reference as accurately as possible and nothing more. In that sense, it's one of my biggest failures since that's the last thing I want to be doing in the future as I progress. I didn't even try to experiment with painterly techniques - I was trying to be as unpainterly as possible in this one so that it would look just like a photo. Generally I get the most comments about the painterly aspects of my works when working from photos, but this time I really wanted to try not being painterly (I tend to be painterly for economical purposes, not intentionally). I didn't even really achieve the photorealism I intended to achieve despite the use of the grid for the line drawing, so I didn't even succeed in that respect. While it's completely against my personal goals, I still admire the artists on here who can make their paintings look just like a photograph. I was hoping to achieve it here, but I think I deviated too much in the shading and still relied too much on lines which gave that sort of cartoony effect in places.

frootcake (Apr 6, 2006)

omg biggest posts ever. great pic and i've been a victim of the grid in the past. when the masters of the past were working on frescoes - they couldn't draw straight from life, so they did their preliminary drawing and they would grid that whole wall up before doing some of the greatest paintings ever made, theres no shame :):)

HunterKiller_ (Apr 7, 2006)

Mmm... (damn you essay writters.)

Public Boards/Intermediate

Inuyasha+Suzaku

101_Torchic_101 (Apr 6, 2006)

(>,<) Do NOT nag me about yaoi! If you don't like it do NOT comment AT ALL! Please!.....Hhm..for some reason Suzaku looks a little wierd in this....(>3<) Slobbery kiss, mwa! (and, no, it's not suzaku from fishigi yugi, it's suzaku from inuyasha)

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xiang (Apr 6, 2006)

<3 Awesome job yet again, Torchic! :D
Hmm, I agree, "suzie" does look wierd... Maybe it's the nose?

101_Torchic_101 (Apr 6, 2006)

..Or maybe I made his head too big?......Wait....His neck's a little skinny...(0_0) No, I think it's the head..

BlitzCloud (Apr 6, 2006)

like marcello said before, stfu about yaoi already. In your last yaoi picture nobody commented anything bad... But you're kinda looking for it right?

NOVEMBER93 (Apr 7, 2006)

Like Inuyasah would be caught dead near that guy....unless of course he was trying to kill him...and...i was soooo happy when miroku came and took suzaku into his wind-tunnel...yes, suzaku does look quite strange.

Public Boards/Beginner

Something

Hopeless (Apr 2, 2006)

ref used..from some user from this site! ><sorry but i had to draw it ><

edit: i found the link:
http://cellosoft.com/2draw/view/66138/

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Noremac (edited Apr 2, 2006)

nicely done
edit: hahah, im a nobody :P

marcello (Apr 3, 2006)

well at least you're not hopeless

shults (Apr 5, 2006)

hehe. there's a chapter in friends like that.. "funny HAHA or fanny BAHPUHSHKSTG(and than comes your pic.)
:D

-I really have to stop watch that show. I don't theres a chapter I didnt see less than twice. ><

mikron (edited Apr 7, 2006)

And I thought Hopeless was hopeless...

Public Boards/Intermediate

Electric Dream Sequence

chan2005 (Apr 4, 2006)

Videogame inspired image (particularly one called Rez - an audio-visual extravaganza!), complete with naked flying polygon person. hope to add some more stuff cus it looks real empty atm

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chan2005 (Apr 4, 2006)

lol just typed 'Rez Orgasm Game' into google. Damn there goes all my credibility. Yeah, I think Rez is pretty funky. The Tron-like graphical style and whole idea of tying music, gameplay and visuals together is coolio.

Renuar (Apr 4, 2006)

good idea chan. looks ultra

LisaAnne (Apr 6, 2006)

I didn't read anything you wrote, but I like this. It tickles. Its visually appealing and different.

frootcake (edited Apr 6, 2006)

lol pwned by lisa. damn i wana draw something in this style. a few more pics and you'l be one of my faves on the site in no less that 10 drawings! you bitch!

btw the thumbnail looks cool too :)

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