Paladin_Musashi

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Heh, you should try it with a cintiq or (Like me) a Tablet PC

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HA I wish, maybe next year if Santa likes me...

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Heh, I'd still be waiting too... Except that I got lucky a year ago and snagged a Toshiba Tecra M4 for $900 from toshibadirect's refurb page

Heh, you should try it with a cintiq or (Like me) a Tablet PC

I went to check out Imageshack and xs.to... But since xs.to sent me my validation email instantly and Imageshack still hasn't... 30 minutes later... I went with xs.to.

Here's my screenshots in a much higher resolution

http://xs106.xs.to/xs106/06363/scree...5-19-32-26.jpg

http://xs206.xs.to/xs206/06363/scree...5-19-33-07.jpg

http://xs106.xs.to/xs106/06363/scree...5-19-48-06.jpg

http://xs206.xs.to/xs206/06363/scree...5-19-58-11.jpg

I may mine my demo recordings for more screenies later. Or maybe just upload the demos

Well I'm not gonna pay for image hosting. I have my own webserver, I just prefer not to increase it's traffic load if I can help it, so I don't put stuff like screenshots up on it.

I'm not using bitmaps either... I was using the game's actual screenshot function, which saved them in jpeg format, so no conversion should have been necessary, and they're all smaller than a meg, which is what photobucket claims to be the file size limit...

Yet they still get shrunk

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Maybe it's for the best I got booted. I would have stayed logged on for weeks straight, not willing to give up my might.

Did anyone who was there take a picture of me sitting on the ledge? That was my favorite emote.

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Just for you buddy

Incidentally anyone know a better image hosting service than photobucket? One that won't resize my 1400x1050 images to... really small?

Heh, I created a /thermal corruptor and ran him through breakout just so that I could put fire shield on the giant robot!

It's happening right now... just make a new villain on Freedom and skip the tutorial and you can see him

OMG, this is hilarious... a Brute player on Freedom just got made 20 feet tall through some sort of bug... you guys have to see this:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...5-19-32-26.jpg

Even his boombox is huge:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...5-19-33-10.jpg

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I don't know if you can call me a pro, but i can give you some tips.

Don't use "How to Draw" books (i never did anyway), they don't help IMHO. Just go out to a comic shop and look through some of the books, look for one (or a few) with some poses and a style you might like (perhaps your favorite artist) and take them home (pay for them, of course!) and trace the poses, faces, whatever you'd like to get better at creating. Sort of give yourself "lessons."

After you've traced a few and got a feel for the anatomy and such, try doing some work of your own. Use the books as referance material if you need to.

And, last but not least, always always ALWAYS use your imagination.

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I cant say I agree with you…at all. Its very important that you learn and understand the basic structure of your subject, whether it’s an inanimate object or a dynamic super hero. In fact I’ve had no formal training and got my basic direction from “How to Draw” books. As The_PMD mentioned, I have all of the Burne Hogarth books, Christopher Hart has 2 really good ones, and I have 4 or 5 great anatomy books that I reference on a regular basis. Another good thing to do is to just draw things in life. Just go out to a park and do quick sketches of people so you can see how they move and how they actually interact with things.

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I dunno. I learned completely by working from comic books. Later in life I took some life drawing classes... But I've never found the "how to draw" books helpful, nor anatomy reference. I just get confused if I try to think about muscle groups and things like that... I know what a person looks like, and how they should look when they're in a given position. Trying to break the whole into parts doesn't help me at all. That whole technique of drawing a skeleton or cylinder/ball model and then work from that doesn't help me at all... in fact it almost inevitably leads to me balling up that piece of paper and tossing it in the trash.

For some reason the only way my brain can process the task of drawing is to draw the whole, and not the component parts. Oftentimes I don't even draw the figure under the clothes.

I've found that the simple act of drawing, over and over, teaches you anatomy. Because you can tell when something looks wrong... You don't need a book to tell you something's weird about the arm in the drawing you just did... And if you keep trying you'll eventually get it to look right... And now you've learned the proper anatomy without having to shell out on a book

It's a perfectly viable method of learning to draw, to just draw from other people's drawings, from photos, from life, and keep drawing until it all makes sense. This is probably a REALLY right brained method of going at it... But it's what works for me.

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nice! psion deserves some color...

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Heh, I dunno. I spent probably 5-10 hours pencilling that back in the day (I have a really meticulous shading style... Starting with 4H and working my way down to B or 2B... It takes a long time but it produces results that can't be replicated through any other method). I'm not really eager to try coloring it.

Besides, I rarely do a conventional ink and color... I either leave it at pencils or do a full digital paint.

A few old pieces from when I was a kid:

http://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...y/Old%20Stuff/

Hmm. Ya know, I usually have NO trouble with costumes... But... I have one that is killin' me.

I rolled a fire/kinetics controller (Yeah yeah, FoTM, I know, but it's fun!) and I got the greatest name for him (I was surprised it wasn't already taken). But I can't come up with a costume that works. At all. In fact, the costume I ended up using for him was SO bad, that I looked at it and thought "Ugh, that's like what a 12 year old D&D geek would make for a convention or something." Which is why I set his bio to "This is what happens when you let your children play too much D&D. Sad, isn't it?"

Anyway... I'd like to see what you can come up with.

His name is the Scarlet Sorceror.

He's a powerful wizard who has been struck with an enchantment trapping him in the body of a little boy. What I want from the costume is for it to look very fantasy wizardish. Merlin, Gandalf, you get the idea. I'll be doing the Katie Hannon TF with him at some point for the nifty wizard hat... so if you want to do one with that in mind it would certainly work.

I only have one stipulation... He has to use young face 5... And I use this slider setup on most of my characters: http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...my/sliders.png

I really want him to look wizardy. Honestly I'd use the toga for him if I had access to it but I don't.

I just can't make it look the way I want. I'm thinking of falling back to a Dr. Strange or Dr. Fate kind of look, but I can't seem to get that to work either so...

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Heh, I love empathy. Granted, my empath's job is easier when there's a defensive defender on board as well, but I don't think empaths are inferior to other defenders in any way.

I remember a mission in my teen levels, playing on Unyielding... Tanker got wiped out when he stepped into the boss room... about 10-12 mobs, all orange/red/purple to us (Boss was purple, all LTs were red, minions were orange).

Tanker said "Don't come, the boss is here and he hits like a $%&@! I'll hosp it"

And I said "[censored], I'm coming."

Mobs were blocking the door, couldn't slip past with stealth, so I just rushed it, popped rez, fort, heal other, and hit my auto-healing-aura key and kept him up. He was smart enough to taunt immediately as he rose from the grave, and went to work... Our blaster started blasting, and we pulled it out without any death. I may have had to pop AP a couple of times, but it was no sweat in the end.

He was like, "Dude, you're the best healer I've ever seen!"

But honestly it was pretty easy. I don't understand how you can be a bad healer... It's an easy job.

Ah, see... that was my problem. I never click the power when I'm going to combine a slotted enhancer with an unslotted one. I just drag the unslotted enhancer from my tray over the slotted enhancer I want to combine it with, and drop it.

It works a lot faster that way.

So I didn't think to do it the other way with the slotted ones.

I have one big question on this... You say take the enhancers you've already slotted and combine them... How? As far as I know you can't remove them once they're slotted except to destroy them... I tried dragging one over onto another one and it does nothing...

I just exemp/malf with my lower level friends all the time. I don't care how fast I level (And at low levels when you decide to go get a level it takes like 10 minutes, up to maybe an hour or so when you're in your twenties... So it's not like it's a big deal. I go and Exemp whenever I get the chance... Wait until you're level 16 to do the Positron TF, for instance. You'll come out with a ton of "extra" influence. The reason is that then you can afford to completely kit yourself out with DOs when you hit 17.

I just like being completely kitted out and I'm willing to spend a lot of extra time at low level in order to do it