londerwost

I've been busy sketching mostly. If I have time, I'll start submitting somemore. I still have to do a final Freedom Shabbaz, Dark Blue Demon, and MarDun for a start...

This was a doodle sketch I did from my head in my sketchbook. I decided to ink and color it real quick. Not a great drawing, not really that accurate for the toon, but it was fun to do.

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All right, NOW I'm done lol. Here's the udpated version: CuppaJo's Coffee.

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Holy crap, dude! That totally looks like her, too! Amazing work!

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I'm going to try that advice above with the practice steps. For the doodling on the first 30 pages, anything I should aim for or avoid? I don't want to teach myself how to draw something wrong.

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I say draw. Draw a lot. When you draw things wrong, you look at it and go... that looks wrong. I'll try to avoid that next time. It's really the only way to establish a good foundation for drawing. As you go along, some books can help, some classes, advice from others works, but most of this is just tweeking what you are already doing. If you aren't doing it, then no amount of advice will help. You gotta just... DO IT.

#1 indicator for if you can become a decent or even great artists is dedication. I know this first hand cuz I don't have time to draw... hmmm yup, I still suck.

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Here is the Inked...
Coloring to come soon..

Gwen Snow-Ink WIP

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I love how this is turning out! Go with it man!

Congradulations, dude. Your prices are cheap for the quality of work!

One of your faq's made reference to a Print Shop page, where you have a picture called "Strip Poker." Has that been implimented yet?

This is nuts man. I mean, this isn't fan art. This isn't a drawing. This is a full blown art piece. I'm serious! When this is finished, it will be the kind of thing that you put in a really expensive frame and hang on the wall in some art gallery!

OMG! That is the funniest [censored] I've seen since the cat found a bag of pop rocks!

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The first one is better than the second. However, if GS is sitting outside or on the water tank, then it may look better.

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I agree. The second one is very busy and focus is mixed on the background and the subject. There is no doubt about the focus on the subject in the first one.

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The left leg of the guy at the bottom looks wierd.

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I think it's extreme perspective with a little bit of curvature.

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...used masking fluid over parts I didn't want to get color on.

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Ooooooohhh...

O.O

I have learned much from you, O Sensei San!

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_Sparky_

Nice work. I love this one Fishing and wish I knew how to do these edits.

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QFT and I think that's my favorite as well.

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Latest pencil:

Gordon

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I think this is, by far, my most favorite picture you have ever done! I love the perspective and detail! You are really getting good!

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Okay got my scanner fixed YAAAAY!!!

Here we go! Please don't look at the big versions as you will see lots of tiny little mistakes :P *jedi hand wave*

(Btw tomorrow I will edit it so the original pencil versions are up side by side)

First up, Leopard Queen - Jim Tessier ( Big version )

Then we have Slate - Pep Rally ( Big versoin )

Finally, the one you've all been waiting for, Rowr - Jomaro Kindred ( Big version )

So... please honest and direct feedback is highly appreciated!! I know I have a -lot- of room for improvement here.

Some things I learned about inking:
You can do straight lines if you move your hand fast, but you lose precision.
You can do precise lines if you move slow, but you get some jitter.
Fast quick strokes while drawing the outline is generally not a good idea as you get little 'bumps' where you lift your pen and again where you pick up the line.
It's better to pick up your line somewhere where you already drew not where you stopped.
Never ever 'pause' with the pen on the paper. Big bubbles! Always lift up at the end of each stroke.
Don't go overboard with ink shading! It'll make it look bad.

Anyway... Please critique!!!!

*sits and waits for the thrown tomatoes*

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Oooohh, I love them Rowr! I think you did an especially good job on Kindred's picture. So far nothing stands out to me as being off, but then again, I'm very inexperienced.

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SERIOUSLY!! Even if I was remotely capable of art that fantastically amazing, it would take me DAYS and DAYS on end to finish a sketch of such quality! Kudos to you, Gill!! lately it seems I'm always waiting with baited breath for your updates!

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This would take me DAYS and DAYS just to TRACE this (not that I participate in the act of tracing, i'm just saying). I think if you tacked on a few years of art school and a couple years on the job, I MIGHT be able to do something like this... in a day... a couple days... in my dreams...

*sigh*

They really are wonderful dreams too, drawing like DJ and Gill and Jim and Sayterra... hmmmm.

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Here ya go Rowr! Rowr Quick Pencil

Now back to the mmoart.com queue. I'm cooking up some crazy art and cant wait to share it with you guys!

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You are freaking insane, you know that? But you are nice so I don't think any of us here have anything to worry about. right...?

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And now DonnchadH.

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Those are coming along really nicely! Great work!

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... Over 80 in the zone, there were over 16 AMs up, and probably around 30 controllers. With the AMs I would say that should have been more then enough to hold him...

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Infinity's experience pre-I7 has been that about 30 trollers and 10AMs kept him held. I figure either your Victory server numbers were off, you had some weird server issues and/or disconnects, or they did more to the Hamidon than allow him to attack while held. Given the top-notch type of communication we receive from the devs, I wouldn't rule out the latter.

Someone should tell team-dev that ignoring threat level damage multipliers is not the same as ignoring the damage. Taunt aside, whoever is dealing more of it should get the aggro.

Now that they've buffed his AI and powers, where is the increased reward to match the increased risk?

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Given Victory's experiance, pre-I7, we should have kept him held. We have a long and glorious history of getting hami done with right around the fewest people as possible. This was one of our largest raids in a while.

<ul type="square">[*]We had very good communication from the leaders[*]We had no dissruption from greifers[*]We had more people than needed before[*]We seemed to have very good cooperation, even through the incredible amount of squishy deaths[/list]
And we still weren't able to pull this off. Why? Because the devs took away our ability to judge what is going on. This doesn't make this more interesting. This doesn't make this more interactive. Hell, this doesnt' even mean that the best practice for holding Hami changes.

This just makes it more likely to fail. A raid more likely to fail is going to attract less people. A raid that doesn't attract enough people will not get off the ground. Victory already is having trouble attracting enough people.

Why make this change?

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QFT

Victory has stuggled with raids before but we are a very tenatious server and will get things done with a limited number of people. I would venture to say, even with n00bs to the raid, the majority of the people in the Hive, know how to play their toons and know how to follow directions.

The most glaring thing, AGAIN, has been that the only difference the devs have made in the raid is to make it harder on the servers that are smaller. I'm not saying impossible, I think we can still pull it off, but it's hard man. The larger servers can shrug it off, we on Victory, just get left on the sidelines scratching our heads, trying to grasp what WE did wrong and what we can do next time.

Although I'm not opposed to a challenge, I hate being the odd man out.

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I never saw the big deal in hammi anyway, yeah you get hamio's but even they aren't what they used to be just like almost everything else in the game just another lag fest!

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For me, Hami raids are (usually) loads of fun. Seeing a large number of people coordinate and succeed is exilarating. And yes it is worth it. Even if Hami 'Os are no longer 50%, they are still double powers (ie acc/dmg). I'll take that over an oversided SO, anyday.

And as far as lag, just turn your graphics setting down or set to safemode. It's not that bad once you've done this.

I saw some of the same things in Victory's raid today, that the OP reported. I also noticed something else. Attacking defenders and controllers were dropping like flies. Not your normal drop rate, I talking about dead in 5-10 seconds. Repeatedly. Out of my team, the only support to survive was a controller who only used heal during the raid. Once we got 1/2 the mitos cleared, the death rate dropped off, but was still pretty heavy on support (almost like they ignore the massive damage done by scrappers/blasters and concentrated on trollers/def). I hit debt cap in about 5 minutes and was never up for more than 10 seconds unless I ran for the rock. I finally switched toons to help heal.

Victory got to through the mitos, through the hold phase, or what we thought was hold phase, then got hami to 25% health before he broke and mass death was had. Although it's hard to tell when he's held now so I don't know. It was a very long time before the attack phase was called.

Over 80 in the zone, there were over 16 AMs up, and probably around 30 controllers. With the AMs I would say that should have been more then enough to hold him. Unless... his mez resistance goes up significantly at 25%? Hmmmm.....

I was on a team with 2 scrappers and 2 blasters (who never stopped attacking mitos) and no one got any SO drops. I doubt anyone in the hive got any SO drops.

I would venture to say the raid is brokes right now.

Wow, man, I see your art improving with each picture. This last set of pictures you posted are a magnitude difference from your first set (all your stuff is really cute, btw). It's like watching a puzzle fit into place. It's really neat!

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Feral Kat - After a tough fight.

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I really like your drawings! I wish I could do anime style!

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A pause... a breather to get in a sketch of THE GOAT..

Sayterra...with knives #_#

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*squeels like a little girl* That looks great! I love your stuff! *claps*

I'm so not going to make it on this list anytime soon!