ChristopherRobin
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Hey why just have one birthday per day? By all means lets double down and stuff.
Happy Birthday QuarriosSoul! Hope you have a great day.
*awaits the obligatory message from Kheldarn muttering about an
ever growing list of H.B.A.S.'s*
Yeah I know why you are behind, this is intended as a lighthearted poke and not to be mean in any way Kheldan... beside mah b-day is comin up n' stuffz an' I want an HBAS. ;-)
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Happy Birthday DD!
Hope all is going well with your new job and that you have a great day.
Busy day for me (gearing up for the Black Friday deals on computer parts
) but I will see if I can get something drawn up later tonight. Cheers!
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Quote:I wish the normal costume parts to a veat were unlockable on all characters once you got one (except proprietary things like the backpack or mace etc ).Originally Posted by Henri
That's very true mate...
...this screenie however...
I would long ago have stolen that collar they get for my vampire... it's not perfect but it's better than anything blue-side has.
I refuse to make a villain just to get access to a costume piece!
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Quote:Was the event only open to the SG or was anyone that shows up?Originally Posted by Camille Thompson
In September the Virtue Super Group The American Legion(of which I am a member) had their annual Patriot Day Event. The main costume contests (a MR and Mrs type costume contest) Had the prize of a full color art image(provided by me) instead of the standard inf prize. The Polaris Patriot won the female category with her toon Maiden Virtue but because I was already working on that large scale commission for her she wanted me to wait until I'd finished it before I finished her prize (which I had so much fun with I drew two)
btw I like what you did with her chest detail.
Heh and thanks, not too many people pick up on that. I love using options in the costume creator in creative ways to get a custom effect.
It makes your characters a little more unique and often stumps people as to how you did it. I've got tons of little fun tweaks like that.
Like how about...
a patch of chest fur and arm scars on my streetfighting wrestler? I had someone ask me the other day...
"hey where did you get scars! Those aren't in the game!"
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Lady, in Elements, after you have the image scanned in and are ready to export it goto:
File---> Save for Web (or you can hit the shortcut Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S)
From the window that opens you will see either at the right side or the bottom
(depending on what version of elements you have) two editable fields called "Height" and "Width"
and also there will be either a little picture of an chain link or a check box (again depending on your version) called "Constrain Properties"
Make sure this box is checked and then set the largest of the two numbers to 1024 and hit the "Apply" button.
Then hit "OK" (Sidenote: the option is called Save for Web and Devices in newer versions).
Then choose where to save your pic etc etc the usual. The average monitor these days is 19" or larger so this should accommodate
most everyone and still be plenty big for viewing on the forums. Let me know if you have any further difficulties.
P.S. I touched on the standardized size thing a while back in that large post earlier in your thread if you ever made it through that monstrosity.
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Quote:Love the coloring on this!Originally Posted by Camille Thompson
finally finished these since I finished the Opus
Maiden Virtue-Polaris Patriot winning costume from the AL Patriot day event
Lot's of cool stuff happening in this one. You know I don't think I've ever attempted a battle on this kind of scale...Quote:Originally Posted by Camille Thompson
ok put a fork in me
I decided to suck it up and finish it.
If you click on it you will go to my dA page where if you hit download you can view the full size....cause it's HUGE
Characters belong to the Polaris Patriot.
the most I remember is 2-3 duking it out and that was a long time ago. I think the demon summoner with the top hat is my favorite in this piece.
Wait there was an all patriot day event? How did I not hear of this! I would've entered Shieldara, speaking of which...
I had to do a double take when looking at this battle cuz for a sec I could've sworn that was
Shieldara
(click me!)
up at the top. Lose the white gloves add some blue shorts and
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Quote:Adds? What adds? I never see any on Livestream... cough... cough... Firefox cough... AdBlockPlus... cough.Originally Posted by Rosen_ice
Hehe, I went back to my first posts and found temporal scout (my first hero i started drawing) was able to escape the mass-coverup of starting arts ><
If anyone gets super bored, I'm going to live-stream as I work on this next picture I'll be working on it off and on a lot tonight (dinner breaks are important! P. It's at www.livestream.com/ivoryoasis (i hate their ads though :|
I was on Cashoo's (another of our artists here) stream Rosen so I missed this but I would like to see you paint sometime.
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Quote:These are digital sketches... she is using Photoshop CS5.Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Cash, mind if I ask what materials you use? These 'sketches' (mini artworks in their own right in my opinion...) are coming out bloomin' fantastic. Way to make a guy very, very envious...keep it up
Yeah I know right? They almost look like they could be drawn with traditional media.
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Honestly they could call it Switch, Flip, Reverse or heck call it the Bacon Button for all I care it's the functionality that I want.
Also I agree it would be nice that if you have say the chest emblem in reverse colors (B/W instead of W/B) that it should remain swapped if you change it to B/Y.
Not sure about putting a swap button between the color radio buttons... it might be too easy to hit accidentally when going from primary to secondary but it could be just to the right of the secondary color as in
(_) (_) (Swap)
to keep them closer together and more efficient while not splitting up like kind buttons.
Any other suggestions or ideas to improve upon it?
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Quote:Well you are not the only one to remember it... I'll leave it at that.Originally Posted by SenseiBlur
Am I the only person in existence who actually remembers Transformers: Beast wars and actually enjoyed it? =P
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Quote:I think this may be my favorite week (#7) so far Lady. I like the Char Cat and Meowce (their poses are very expressive) one and the Var and Sybellea (lot's of great details in this) one both.Originally Posted by Lady_Cyrsei
Hi everyone,
As promised here is Week 7 for you, during week 7 I rdecided to work on dual figure poses, I'll be continuing on with this (as well as my hand study) for a second week. I need to try and color more pieces so I'll be trying to make time for that as well. Anyway I hope you enjoy them as much as I did drawing them.
Cheers!
~Lady C
Oh you're married to Eat? and he had a birthday? You totally should've started a Happy Birthday thread for him.
P.S. I'z is jealous of Kant n' stuffz... I never got a double smooch when I dinged 50.
Sup wit dat?
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Quote:If you mean how to reply to someone who just sent you a private tell Cashoo, just hit the backspace key and type your message and hit enter.Originally Posted by Pirate Cashoo
WHAT?! It's Pyro's birthday?!
Happy birthday, my friend! I want to draw you something!!
EDIT: Also, sorry for not replying to your tell ingame! I forgot the code on how to message someone...
Alternatively you can right-click someone and choose chat and now you can even right-click their actual name in the chat window and choose chat to respond too in case they weren't talking to you (good to know since backspace only works on the person who last spoke to you).
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Happy Birthday Shia, hope you have a great day as well.
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Quote:Hahaha nicely done VexXxa. Hey I wonder how hot that fire is? Maybe 450 degrees?Originally Posted by VexXxa
Ok folks! Here is my November submission! *gobble gobble*
Maybe ol' Mighty should spend an hour or two inside... you know to make sure he got everyone out in time?
He could work on his tan so he comes out all nice and golden brown. *now I'm hungry lol*
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Quote:Originally Posted by Henri
Hi guys. Just thought i'd post something i've been working on, and prehaps add anymore stuffs i do in the future too.
Some of you might have seen i posted some screenies and bio in the 'post you best costume thread' in a very rough and ready comic book format. It was a bit haphazzard as i just had the idea as i was posting them and kind of threw it together. It did get me to thinking tho, that i could take some time and try and create a mini-comic from screenshots.
So i did, here it is
Any and all comments are welcome as always. I know i can't take credit for the actually artwork, but any critique of the composition of the shots, the storyline, the presentation, etc would be cool. Cheers H.
I really like what you've done so far man. Looking forward to the next installment.
Some thoughts/feedback.
1st panel
We don't see anyone outside the door in this shot but then suddenly they appear in the next panel?
It's a double door in the first panel and a single door in the 2nd panel. Perhaps the gangsters are already inside?
Cooper's needs an apostrophe.
2nd panel
How's that lock "coming" might work better than "doing"
The boss in the green vest appears to be doing the "afraid" emote when there might be a better one available to show lock picking. Either the one villains actually use ingame (where it looks like they are hammering) or any of the hands up emotes (cheer, root, type,) might look more convincing. Maybe experiment a bit more.
Also since it appears to be dark outside in the first panel one of the underlings should be doing the flashlight emote on the lock so the boss can see what he's doing.
3rd panel
Are they whispering so as not to draw attention? Mohawks comment ends with a ! which suggests loud talking or shouting?
4th panel
Good composition and I like the broken outline denoting it's a whistle sound and not the word being spoken.
5th panel.
If security is blowing the whistle how is it the cop has his back turned? I do like how Boss is creeping up on him though that works well. Maybe this should happen before (or without) the alarm is triggered?
6th panel
Maybe /e batsmash would be more convincing? or use the temp power Louisville Slugger.
7th panel.
Love this shot with the gangsters standing over the downed cop. One thing though the gangster with the cockney accent (Red shirt and sneakers) appears to be talking without it in this panel. Shouldn't he say something like... "Man! You 'ear im crack?"
8th and 9th. Both these are fine and I love the glowing eyes in the dark bit.
10th panel
Awesome. Love the perspective of looking up at the robot so it's like he is towering over the viewer.
11th panel
It should be "tears" through not tore through. Present tense because it's happening currently not in the past. Also it might read better as... "dealt to either disable or incapacitate. Never to kill."
12th panel
It shouldn't be bounced past tense for the same reason. Bounce (present tense) at the very least but how about careened? Or ricocheted? Either of those imply more action... a whiffle ball can bounce off a wall but bullets ricochet (hit with enough force to change direction but not stop forward momentum). Should be "pitiful" instead of pityful.
I would also take the AIYEEE!!! from the next panel and swap it with the GRURRK!! from this one as the panel is saying men "screamed" in fear and pain and AIYEEE! is more of a scream sound and GRURRK is more of a grunt.
13th panel
Should say "its" assault not "it" assault. Also it might read better if you combine the two sentences since the last bit doesn't work so well on its own. Something like...
"Remorseless, deaf to their pleas, the machine continued its relentless assault on the hapless thugs." (added the word relentless)
14th panel
Not sure why there are spaces in between the exclamation points and the words they are modifying. If you are going to do that it should be done throughout.
15th panel.
Great. Love it.
16th panel
I like how the combat aura switched off here to show he's done kicking butt for now.
The "To be continued" should be on the bottom of the next panel though since this is not the last one.
17th panel
Should be "its" not "it's" since it is not a contraction of "it is" that you are using here. Also you need an "It" or a "He" to describe the robot ( I would use he because you just described him as a metal "man") as in...
"Then abruptly {he/it} turns and stalks down the corridor. Its work here is done.
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Not a comprehensive list and I didn't really look too closely at all the text, this is just what jumped out at me upon a quick read through.
Good stuff Henri and I look forward to what else you have in store.
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Very nice headshot's Cachet.
You have a great talent for capturing a lot with a minimal amount of lines.
The 1st and 4th really stand out to me as exceptional.
Quote:Clearly part of my ebil plan.Originally Posted by Pep_Rally
Anyways, I hope Cashoo uses the $$ I paid her for this -->http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/k.../popndough.png to reactivate her account, but school probably comes first.
Originally Posted by Pep_Rally Hmmm, apparently MMORPGs come first. AS IT SHOULD BE!
You should Liz. Now would certainly be the time as I count at least 9 (and maybe a few I'm forgetting at this early hour) artists that have cropped up out of nowhere in the last few months.Quote:Originally Posted by Liz Bathory
OMG! This stuff is sooo good! It makes me want to practice my drawing again... haven't drawn anything in ages..........
Some not having drawn in many many years as well, some just starting up and others returning from hiatus. It's a good time to be drawing in the CoH forums.
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Quote:This. Many times over.Originally Posted by Gideon_F
I should start off by saying this is for fans of the classic Transformers not those Michael Bay abominations.
I grew up watching the original transformer cartoons and those movies just don't deserve to carry the name. Half way decent flicks about robots yes but they are NOT transformer movies.
Very nice work on the costumes as well Gideon. Soundwave should be possible to come up with... unless the thread gets locked first.
Oh hey that's pretty damn cool.Quote:Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha
Think I got a little closer with Primes face;
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Congratz on making it to another Annual Remembrance of Uterine Expulsion Day!
(maybe I should stop coming up with creative ways of saying Birthday lol)
Hope you have an awesome day buddy and I'll see what I can come
up with later tonight when I get some free time.
Edit: Here's what I've been working
on most of the evening. Enjoy.
Click Click!
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I mention this every so often and even had a red name tell me "Hey that's a great idea" but nothing ever seems to happen with it. It would've been useful at launch but the more time passes and the more costume options we get (by all means keep 'em coming) the more necessary something like this becomes so on behalf of anyone who spends an inordinate amount of time in the CC here's hoping yet again that it's on some to do list somewhere but maybe needs a reminder to be bumped up the list a bit.
The CC in my humble opinion is in desperate need of a color swap button. I made a sample button in this pic to show what it might look like/where it might be placed...
Examples of why I think it's needed:
Say you're going through the list of chest emblems... that takes long enough as is but, as the picture above shows, just by swapping the colors you can potentially make two completely different emblems from one option. Now the list is that much longer but each time you want to do this it takes 3-4 clicks to swap the primary and secondary colors... this could be cut down to 1 click with a swap button.
How about your SG has a color scheme of blue and white but some parts of your costume look better with blue on white and other parts with white on blue? Some parts you can't decide which way you like it better so you flip back and forth and end up wastefully clicking dozens of times finding out which way you prefer it (a flip flop would be a 2 click affair with a Swap button but instead it takes 6+ clicks without)
Also, combined with a handy Swap button, the "Copy current colors across entire body" and the similar ones for primary, secondary and "all" powers customization you could make sweeping changes to your look within seconds while staying within a certain color scheme.
The are many possibilities and honestly this one change would make a world of difference to all of us costume-a-holics... please consider implementing it.
My sore wrist and click finger thank you in advance.
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So! At last my cunning and ebil plan has come to fruition and you have returned Mwhahahah.... ha... ha... cough... cough.
Okay actually I just sat in on her stream the other night until some ungodly hour of the morning (the sun actually came up...
good gravy how long were you on that thing?) and make wise crack remarks to entertain myself but hey that's sorta like a plan n stuffz.
It was pretty cool to see a bunch of other 606-ers pop in too and it was a fun time, plus the piece she was working on came out great.
Oh and if you are looking for heroes to use for your sketches feel free to take a crack
at any of the below if you like or PM me if you want to do an art trade.
P.S. Welcome back Cashoo.
Sidenote: The white names below link to a slideshow while clicking the
thumbnails will take you to a larger version of the image itself.
Chloe
(Dark/Rad Defender)
Or Vladric/aka Strahd
(Dual Blade/Willpower Scrapper )
Or Shieldara
(Martial Arts/Shield Scrapper)
Or Brahn Fuhrnos
(Fire/Regen/SS Tank)
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Quote:Has a very Christina Hendricks look to her.Originally Posted by Katfood
And yes, this one turned out bustier then I expected. :P
Can't go wrong with CH as a ref I say.
P.S. after I noticed there was in fact a background in this picture (lol) I gotta say that concrete is amazing. So believable. -
Welcome back... again?
I like the banter you've got going on here. Funny stuff.
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Quote:Well "waddle" ya expect. Repeat pun-nishment?Originally Posted by Dark Ether
You sure gobbled that one up, CR!
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Another sweet addition. Very steam punk look and feel to the character and that makes the crab backpack idea somehow more palatable to me lol.
I have a blaster named the Tick Tock Clock with a very similar look/color scheme (also makes use of the mangler gears).
I've only ever drawn him once for a contest but I always enjoy running around
with my clockwork "army" because I like the concept so much.
Click for larger image.
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Sorry to hear of your loss Kheldarn. My condolences to you and your family.
