Innovator

Cause you make our work sound like it should be harder than it is. We learn by repetition of drawing things around us, and our "eye for anatomy" is not really about anatomy but for symmetry of shape and form, what little real anatomy we do study is mainly to know how body parts are joined and fold over others. I can't see how you can get a sense of that from someone with many many folds that cover that up. As for the classic approach, not many professional artist in the modern age I've met learned through the classic approach. Most of us learned by copying art we like.

What do art teachers know? All the art teachers I had were always against using modern tech. I recall, arguing with one of my teachers way back who was trying to talk me into hiring a model for a day for an dynamic pose assignment. The model charged too much an hour for my pocketbook at the time to hire for the day. I told her can't I just hire the model for an hour, and take pictures of her with my digital camera and work from the pictures? She looked at me like I was crazy, and commented how I was always trying to save money with my new fangled ideas for doing the work like doing it with Photoshop, a Wacom tablet, and an offset printer instead of paint, brush, and canvas...it was talking to someone in the middle ages...lol!

Modern artists use every reference techniques we can get a hold of to get the job done, whether it be a model posing a few minutes for some pictures to reference from, or doing searches on the internet, and even using 3D model programs like Poser or Daz 3D to get what we need in order to get the job done. As a great professor I had once told me, our first priority as artists is to solve problems.

Peel it? You're obviously not Asian. We eat fried shrimp shell and all.

That's how it starts, that's how it always starts.

As a professional artist of over 10 years myself, I can vouch for one thing...we draw what we or our clients like period. Most often we draw them sexy because the client wants it this way, even the females, or we are given free reign and we like to draw sexy because...um...we're dudes...and sexy keeps us...well...interested, inspired, and internet references we find are usually pretty sexed up.

A recent example comes to mind. I was commissioned to draw a 40's style pinup of the female lead singer of a band to be used for promotionals. I was given free reign at first, so I looked for references from other pinup artists, and by their example drew the early drafts very sexy. She loved it, however, she was vetoed by the male members of the band as they felt it would give the wrong impression of the group. I then came up with a compromise of a leggy pose with fairly-conservative attire. They all dug the result.

The Government, congress...well they had their own agenda to cover...um...worry about. As for the Media, umm remember what I said about them. They found out that Tony sanctioned an assasination of dignitaries of Atlantis...and they themselves decide to let that go, and even agreed with it.

You'd think so, but in comics Cap's shield had always been portrayed as THE FRIDGE of all Indiana Jones Fridges.

Cap's shield has absorbed forces far more powerful than Cyclops's optic blast.

To be fair, the majority of the side plots on Civil War was basically the other heroes debating the issues among themselves and/or becomming influenced to one side or another due to some event that swayed them, due to tragedy, family, or because they found a way to exploit it...I'm looking at you Howard T. Duck.

Because Nick Fury was MIA through all of the Civil War, and Tony Stark took his reigns just afterward.

Cap's relationship with the Government had typically been shaky at best. They were always glad when their viewpoints matched as they were able to use Cap's influence to bolster support. However Steve's ideals often also conflicted with individual political agendas causing them to backlash against him, even going to calls for replacing him as the symbol for America.

Tony Stark in the comics (not the movies), in spite of his idiosyncrasies, is a trained political lobbyist machine that spoke to government officials in ways they can relate to. So, Tony tended to have more pull on them then Steve.

As for the general populous, Steve generally has more pull, except in this case as the media was already biased toward the Government agenda because of the destruction of the school which started it all. Hell, there was one arc in which the media supported Tony's descision to release the Green Goblin so he can assassinate Atlantian dignitaries in order to pull Atlantis into the Civil War. I mean like WTH? But that's just the craziness of it all.

Cap has beaten Spidey in pretty much every encounter they've had. Cap's tactics exploits Spider-Man's reliance on his Spider Sense by basically tricking it to think an attack is comming one way when instead its comes from another. For instance Cap would throw his shield at Spidey in a way which would make him leap in one direction, then the shield would instead hit a lever on a crane behind him causing it to drop several tons of bricks it had been holding exactly where Spidey would land after the attack.

Cap has done this kind of tactical outmaneuvering to Spider-Man so many times to count over the years, even the Marvel PnP RPG highlighted the tactic on one of the strips illustrating combat between the two.

I'd wear a banana hammock to the beach if I could keep people from gouging out their own eyes as I walk by. 8) :

I'm currently working on an art commision for a pinup of a female customer, of which I got back the critique "Can I get cuter shoes?" of which I replied, "Um.. I'm a guy. How about you pick out some shoes, and I'll draw them?"

I disagree, I thought Rooney Mara made a better Lisbeth... I'm sorry for the sacrilege I'm making for all the people who are hardcore fans of the Swedish version, but I have to admit I liked the American version better in all respects.*

*I also felt the same for Let Me In when I compared with Let the Right One In.

If I thought the Resident Evil game storylines were worth it I'd agree with you. But really, Resident Evil plots were always pretty cheesy. I'll definately see this movie, and collect the blueray to add to my collection.

Hmm...that should work, I'll see if that's possible to code (I'm using Cocoa Touch's CoreGraphics framework for this).

If you want to try out go for it! There's already been at least a couple of CoH forumites that have appeared on a Reality TV show.

I've seen many posts linking to her Facebook page, so either she knows about it by now or someone else mistaken for her does.

I think she was trying to say that robots will only ever make preprogrammed responses. Which is a fair assumption if thought about in the broader sense, and if you are only looking at what is available commericially currently. But I have more faith in the future, considering much of the stuff we have available now was only science fiction just 20 years ago (some only 10 years ago).

And if in Paris, they will undoubtedly charge you an arm and a leg for it. One thing I learned about travelling to big cities in any country (even in the US), unless you like to waist money, eat at a fast food restaurant with set prices on the Menus displayed on the walls or find some small out of the way back-alley bistro that locals go to. Restaurants on main streets of big cities are notorious for feeding tourists crap and charging them duckets for it. There's a saying in San Francisico, "You should never go to Chinatown if you're looking for Chinese food."