Starchasm

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Here we go.... Radey Ayte, MS Paint-style!

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Yaaaaay!!!! I love it!!!!

*runs off to put it in the Radey Art Gallery*

He he! I'm glad you guys liked it!!! It took FORFREAKINGEVER to finish.

I kinda like to think that if chibi TA and AT ever find a time to fight AT would have to call it off at the last minute because he couldn't find a ninja sitter

Michael's or Hobby Lobby should be fine for now (Although it will be a tad bit more expensive). Just get a sketchpad, some pencils and a kneadable eraser and work at drawing your little heart out.

If you're thinking about color or ink, get a cheap set and fiddle with it until you decide if it's something you want to continue with. (before I invested in a set of Prismacolor markers I doodled around with a set of Crayola ones just to make sure it wouldn't bore me after a day or two).

As you draw you'll start to want better things, or you'll find yourself thinking, "I wish my pencil made thinner lines", or "I need an eraser that takes off those smudges on the sides", or "This paper isn't smooth enough". Once you start thinking stuff like that you can go out and buy things you'll use to take you in the direction you want to go. While the old adage "You're only as good as your supplies" is true in most instances, you also don't want to get bogged down with a lot of watercolors or markers when you learn your true love is in black and white inking!

Good luck!!!

Edit: You changed the post on me!!!

And to be honest, I'm not sure what LJ means by that. I sketch in my sketchbook AND I do some finished work in it (although I usually use Bristol Board for my chibis my Windfallen was done in my sketchbook on ordinary sketch paper). My sketch pads cost me $4 online. *shrug*

It's too early in your drawing career to be worrying this much about what we think about supplies. While the right tools will *help* you improve, it's important that you focus on actually DRAWING, no matter what you're drawing on.

Oo neat! Very clean!

I'll second the "go with a different color background" The red is overcoming him. Run Zikar! Run!

EEEE!!! Fuzzy!!!!! Too cute, DJ!

Also check out Graver

I know he's kind of backed up right now so you'd have to wait a couple of months for a finished product.

As for the price discussion taboo, the Mods have been deleting threads with prices in them and there has been dark mutterings of lawsuits against the charging artists, since they're *technically* drawing the game's intellectual property (even if the characters are our invention ). So it's best not to tickle the sleeping dragon.

*wonders if JJ will PM her that screenie she asked him for like a month ago* :P

And here's something I want to see for costumes in I8!! Shoulder Dragons!!! C'mon, how cute would that be???

Dwagon

For pencils I use plain ol' mechanical bic pencils. For paper, if I'm doing chibis I'm using Strathmore 400 series smooth bristol. I experiment around sometimes just to see if I can find something that works better. I used a plain Strathmore sketchpad for the TA comic I just finished.

For pens, after much experimenting I've settled on a cheap ol' Papermate 1.2m pen you get for a dollar a bag. I like the thick lines but you have to let it dry before you erase on top of it. I'm about to get some brush pens, which work better for REALLY thick lines (for large black areas I use a black marker ).

For coloring, I have a set of Prismacolor markers and a set of Prismacolor pencils. My watercolors are Grumbacher and Winsor & Newton and I have a set of sable brushes.

I second the kneadable erasers, they rock (and they're fuuuun).

I usually buy all of my art supplies from Dick Blick since they're almost ALWAYS the cheapest, but sometimes I run to Hobby Lobby if it's an emergency.

Hope this helps!!

I'm forbidden too

Edit: I can see it now! Cool!! I like the perspective a lot!

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His name's TA! The T&A jokes are endless, people! I rant again!

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Endless -and- old.

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Not old! *Retro*

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Fine! EYES!

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*fwaps Quake* waddaya mean you suck at eyes?? Those look great! Too cute!

Neatarino!!

Still need to lower them boobies a liiiiittle bit more and maybe move that right one over towards her side a bit.

Is that a flaming ball of death she's holding? >

I want for Wind and Fenris to slide into 50 together three weeks from now. Get crackin'!!!

Yaaaaay I'm glad everyone liked their chibis!!! They're loads of fun to do.

I'm adding Vegas Strip to the list! You know I <3 trades

But....but....adult plushie???? Now I'll never be able to look at cutey pie chibi Hex the same way again!!!

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OMG! I love it, Starchasm! I can't wait to show this to my daughter (who watches me play Light-Speed all the time).

You made my day.

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Awwww I'm soooo glad you like her DJ!!

And Berry that is not a fire poop!!! Butthead *mutter* *mutter* flatulence pool *mutter*

*runs off to draw a moustache and goatee on Irish Lass*

Excitement! Expense! Ninjas! A lack of digits!

Part one!

Part two!

Suspense so thick you could cut it with a knife!

OOoo Mr Shock looks really cool!!!

If you ever get bored...or run out of people to draw... I've got Radey Aytejust hanging around

On a totally unrelated note, people who give me art get bumped up the chibi list should they ever want one!

*bops Rox* Don't get distracted by potty jokes!!! *snickerpottysnicker*

Radey is a dark/rad defender with flight!!

I can hardly wait!!!

Heyyy that's looking REALLY good!!! Her feet look great and I really like the knees. Might wanna lower her bewbs a little, they're still pretty high and shoulder-y

Can't wait to see it finished, I really like the look. *snatches the whip from TA* Get crackin' boy!!!

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Really like Windfallen. What are u using for your colors?

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Thanks! I'm using markers with colored pencils over them on plain sketch paper! Believe it or not, the sketch paper actually takes marker better than Bristol board XD

Got a little tired of chibis for a bit and took a break to draw my two main characters again.

Heyyyy, I'm allowed to do that!

Radey Ayte

Windfallen

I used a new type of paper and a new technique (I finally found my colored pencils! )

Alllllll right, here's the update! (And thanks to Graver for gibing me a USB cable)

Feral Kat chibi

Masta Mind

Hex Girl

Lady Thug

Fearghas

Headless

Lady Jade

Irish Lass

Lightspeed

Yaaaaay!!!

They LOCKED it??? [censored]? I think if a thread exists for over a month it just needs to stay out of principle fer cryin' out loud.

Since you can't link directly to an image on the boards though, people have to go there. I don't click on anything that comes up as imageshack any more, I HATE the popups.

As for photobucket, have you tried resizing it yourself to something smaller (it might come up larger than what PB resizes it to) there's also image compression, you lose a little resolution, but not enough to make a huge difference.

The big robot is HILARIOUS though!!! You sure are a nice guy to stand around taking requests.

Now I wanna be huge

oooo looking good squirrely!!! You might want to round out that front heel a little, it's a little squinched right now.

This is going to look gooood colored!!