Durakken

the best thing you could ever do as an artist is sign up for or find some place that has live models that you can draw from... among the things that I took from the college I went to for animation are...

Draw from live models...
Try different techniques and impose different rules on yourself... for example:
Get a model to pose for you and then draw them without looking at the paper.
Impose time limits, A "decent" animator can get a full figure without detail within a minute (I can do 30 seconds ^.^)
Go to some place where people are and as they go by draw them.
You can also do things like think up an emotion or concept and draw it in silhouette form.

Don't get hung up on a style but rather get it ACCURATE, then you can flow to any other style like anime or western or any other style...

Practice hands. According to my professors... most professional artists consider if you can draw hands you can draw anything because they are hard to do.

as far as my advice...
Try doing crazy things like find a few lines somehow that are random and create an image from it.

LEARN everything you can about what you are drawing. This mainly my thing which i don't hear others saying but in my opinion, just like in writing, you should learn about what you are drawing because it allows you to be the most creative and allows your drawings to be more easily relateable and immersive.




as far as straight lines... I'm a little OCD about that, or at least I used to be... someone in elementary class asked if a line was straight and i had her redrawing the line for like an hour ^.^ There is a secret though... For clean, straight lines... plan ahead where you plan on beginning and stopping that line and then do it as fast as you can. The faster you draw a line the straighter it is.



As far as shadows and perspective... Almost noone uses 100% true 3D perspective because to do it is tedious. It's useful to know, but it really just comes down to knowing how x and boxes work. And shadows... that's a matter of skill and understanding unless you're doing things perfectly and then it's mathematical and fairly easy to do...


And last but not least... remember... Perfection has already been accomplished in almost all the arts. It is not perfection that makes things beautiful or skillful but rather the personal touches that some might consider flaws.


PS. nude models are traumatizing... prepare to see human flesh that should not be seen if you go to a nude model class... Advice I'd like to give my younger self that I can not.

QoL change... better mods that aren't biased and a return to sensible rules

How to tell if someone's a d-bag...

Do something really stupid...

Nice people general forgive and forget long before you apologize.
D-bags hold a grudge long after you've legitimately apologized.

more stories to take part in that i don't have to wade through 5+ levels of radio missions to get to? Going through Praetorian start up or switching to villain the only way im doing that because first 20 levels of villain side i have tried to get through and can't

Well it's not like it'd be the first attempt... Smallville already has it's own set of series'

Smallville Season 1 = year -9
Smallville Season 10 = year 0
Birds of Prey Season 1 = year 9ish

Since when is trying to help you a flame?

This is precisely why I stopped going to art forums too many people want to praised and not enough people actually want help and to become better.

And lastly, if you went to school for this, I'd ask what school? and if you realize that many art schools aren't about training artists so much as getting paid and care nothing for the artists' prosperity. Seriously there are quite a few schools that if you present a degree from them you get laughed at and sent to another college for retrain and if they are placed by the college they are often dropped within a given time period.

All your adding of panels makes it worse.

You don't need to explicitly draw every single action. You need to tell the story and let the reader/viewer build the rest in their mind. That's half the art of sequential art.

All you've done is cluttered things up, told the same story, and it's no more fetching than before. And that is largely due to what's there and not what isn't. Also none of the panels are very dynamic. One of the panels give scope but that one is very boring.

Capt America Filming locations revieled

so close to

Capt America Filming locations reviled

and that would be hilarious!

Everyone hates me. Don't see me leaving...

Also... CHEESEBURGERS!!!

Another thing to consider...

Someone like me can lay down a sketch in maybe 2 mins, and if I was a good inker I'd say it'd take no more than 10-20 mins to get to pro-quality-esque.

If I charge a flat rate...

Colors take me something like an 1-2 hours to do and some people take upwards of 40ish hours. So if you are only charging small amount for colors you are making a huge lose on time and it only gets worse with backgrounds that take forever if it's high detail...

Characters are easier to add and don't really take much more time and all you're doing is giving a bulk rate.

So if you charge what looks like a low amount you are getting tons more money for less work and more people, because of lower cost will go for it, that means you are getting more for less and getting more work at higher cost.

Think about it ^.^

Awesome Let's trade one piece of crap for another!

The coming storm is a massive cross over event with DC, Marvel, and Image :P

Copyright law is sticky...

My character, Cerberus Rawr, looks nothing like Wolverine, but you can see the resemblence in the concepts and such. It is clearly an "inspired by" character.

My character, Supreme-Man, looks nearly identical to Superman, but that can be seen as a parody and thus not a violation.

My character, Megaman-Z, is clearly a violation where Supreme-Man isn't mainly because of complete package which has the name, the look, and cannot be seen as a parody character.

None of these three characters were ever reported, probably cuz i don't play them any more, but if i went long enough 2 of the 3 are likely to be, but only one is an actual violation.

Depending on how close or far away from the legality of it is pretty much how much I would get annoyed with it if someone reported it. Cerberus I would fight that all the way and be mad, Supreme I'd try to argue for parody but understand the ruling, while Megaman I'm surprised he lasted as a long as he has even when I was actively playing him and I'd laugh that it took that long more than anything.

Yay, a ****** bag stole art from an artist at comicon, a place that a lot of artists and industry people go to share their work and such for the fans... what a great way to repay them!

You've probably already seen most of the costume pieces and just don't realize it >.>

by the way, I believe most if not all the costumes have been shown publicly in the comicon thingy...

The hard truth is that practice is how you get better. Mainly because the best way to learn is to draw from real life models, drawing what you see, and after you do it enough it get you doing things innately from an accurate source rather than using other references...

That way when you decide to draw something that isn't all together realistic you'll have the measurements ingrained in your head without having to fight with it.

Once you are at that point then you just move to basic shapes and learning how shadows and perspective actually works so you can accurately do them...


Depending on what path you go... some people have natural talent and can do what looks to be master pieces fairly rapidly, but they are only skin deep and anyone with a discerning eye can tell they aren't really all that good. Other people takes longer due to getting hung up on this issue or that issue that is caused by them trying the previous method and then having it stick, so instead of knowing what the problem is and fixing it, they continue with it and call it style but eventually they realize that because they don't know what their problem is exactly they don't know how to fix it and they hit a plateau.

It you go the method i said... it probably takes around 2-3 years to get to a good point.

Basically 1-5 years is the standard if your serious at getting excellent at art. If your not, can take a lot longer.

LJ the pod was never seen taxi-ing people you are either remembering a helicopter going up to the ship OR the shuttle dropping and it was clearly stated as dropping and being lost.

Considering that it has nav computers and is needed to get the rest of the ship working it probably is some kind of mini-bridge that they used for emergencies.

It was done during the exodus from the ship when Chris saw how the Prawns were being treated. He wouldn't do it before because no need. He wouldn't do it after because too late.

The "fuel" if i remember right was either never called fuel and was given that name by the audience or was referred to that was by MNU, not the Prawns. Either way, just because it is needed to make the shuttle/ship go does not mean that it is fuel. It may be any number of types of things.

my opinion...

1st page
I'd make the first panel larger.
2nd/3rd be an eye shot of both, shrinking it.
4th panel should have trailing perspective behind one of the heroes and add screams/roars from either.

2nd page remove the BOOM, shrink the image with the chars higher on the page and fit fully on the page, and add a caption.