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Admittedly, I do both, depending on the image. I'm sure it shows.
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On its surface, it's an underground society conspiracy theory game.... Like, a motley of Doctors all doctoring together.... It hinges on religion, hubris, pride, an uphill battles. It is a game of indulgence and sacrifice, solely because such is humanity's nature.
It's pretty Fun.
I see; it's that kind of game. Sounds interesting, I'll take more of a look into it when I get the chance.
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Day 120:
Two Noh masks. Don't know how I came up with the idea, considering I know nothing about it. They do have very interesting shapes to draw though.
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Time: 40 minutes
Music: Pony
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THAT’S MORTALS FOR YOU. THEY’VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPEND THEM ALL IN MAKING THINGS COMPLICATED FOR THEMSELVES. FASCINATING.
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...in case Whuragen has to keep trying to bandage him:
You think so? The face just looks all wrong to me. The snout is too high, and the eyes are derped. But thank you. ^^
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Smooth lines?
You start with a huge canvas, and you zoom out. You use slightly too big a brush size, and then, when you have the general idea, you use fine eraser work to get rid of excess.
It is totally different from using a pencil, and quite frankly is a pain in the plot.
Yeah, it's a pain alright. That's pretty much what I do, though my lines should probably be thicker. Maybe I need to zoom out more and go for quicker strokes. Or something.
Anyway, I started work on another pic. Didn't progress very far; I have a habit of starting too late, then I'm tired and get irritable when things go wrong. I'll try and start drawing earlier in the day from now on. I'm hoping this one will be good though.
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Just call me Diego. Mr. Havoc was my father.
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Originally Posted by SiuiS
Diego Havoc, one of the hoopier froods I've met, up there with DeLancie.
You could compare your drawing on the Sliding Scale of Improvement instead of the Subjective Scale of Goodness too.
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Day 121:
A royal unicorn guard, surprised. Picture is blurry, as per usual.
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Time: 40 minutes
Music: Pony
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Day 122:
Some hands. The USB was just for contrast so my camera could focus.
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Time: Maybe 20-30 minutes?
Music: Pony
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Devoted artificer of the church of Scorching Ray.
THAT’S MORTALS FOR YOU. THEY’VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPEND THEM ALL IN MAKING THINGS COMPLICATED FOR THEMSELVES. FASCINATING.
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Originally Posted by Madcrafter
...in case Whuragen has to keep trying to bandage him:
The leaf hair works well I think. Body has a slightly pointy chest and the foreground back leg gets really really thin at the joint, but otherwise pretty good. Background is nice and simple.
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Day 123:
I went to the donjon random generator, and drew the first character it gave me.
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Gaffo: Male Halfling Slave, Evil. Gaffo is tall and stout, with copper hair and large green eyes. He wears worn clothing and a wide-brimmed hat. Gaffo has an animal companion, a gray rat named Halfreg.
Time: 20-30 minutes?
Music: Pony
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Devoted artificer of the church of Scorching Ray.
THAT’S MORTALS FOR YOU. THEY’VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPEND THEM ALL IN MAKING THINGS COMPLICATED FOR THEMSELVES. FASCINATING.
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Originally Posted by Madcrafter
...in case Whuragen has to keep trying to bandage him:
Madcrafter, you're doing well but your clothes still all look really flat. I advise looking for some kind of tutorial on clothing folds (I used an art book so I don't have a good link), and/or drawing people without much clothes on so you get a better feel for body shape.
Sub objective for myself, too. Legs!
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Learn the lessons of the dead"
Folds, got it. I agree, I've never really done those in my drawing before.
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Day 124:
So I took one of the most foldy pieces of clothing I know.
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Time: About an hour maybe
Music: Pony
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Day 125:
And because toga, might as well do a stola too.
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Time: 40 min?
Music: Pony
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Day 126:
And because I have no time, a baby drawing.
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Baby heads are hard to draw in profile, it's very square.
Time: 20 minutes?
Music: Pony
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Day 127:
And someone reading a book, only a rough sketch.
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Time: 25 minutes
Music: Pony
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Devoted artificer of the church of Scorching Ray.
THAT’S MORTALS FOR YOU. THEY’VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPEND THEM ALL IN MAKING THINGS COMPLICATED FOR THEMSELVES. FASCINATING.
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...in case Whuragen has to keep trying to bandage him:
Anthropomorphic and then Ponified is close enough for me.
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Originally Posted by flyingchicken
some crappy-ass paintings (not as big):
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unfinished
say bye bye to ear alignment
finally a quick one that I replaced the last one with as my Steam avatar:
I particularly like the unfinished one and the steam avatar.
Edit - Belatedly whipped up a slightly half-arsed halloween avatar. Larger Version;
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Kind of doubled as a very basic experiment in terrible lighting of multiple sources. Mostly just an excuse to draw pony, but that goes without saying, right?
Last edited by Tiki Snakes : 10-31-2012 at 12:34 PM.
Belatedly whipped up a slightly half-arsed halloween avatar. Larger Version;
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Kind of doubled as a very basic experiment in terrible lighting of multiple sources. Mostly just an excuse to draw pony, but that goes without saying, right?
Looks good to me, especially in small size. Like something sinister is going on with white paint.
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Day 128:
Happy Halloween (I keep spelling it Holloween). Shame it isn't really a thing here in Germany.
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Time: around 30 minutes maybe
Music: Pony
Now off to Civilization, the Halloween tradition!
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Devoted artificer of the church of Scorching Ray.
THAT’S MORTALS FOR YOU. THEY’VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPEND THEM ALL IN MAKING THINGS COMPLICATED FOR THEMSELVES. FASCINATING.
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Originally Posted by Madcrafter
...in case Whuragen has to keep trying to bandage him:
After a moment of panic when all of the USB ports on my computer decided to stop working...
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Day 129:
Corporate Mundo goes where he pleases!
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Time: unknown
Music: None
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Day 130:
A Vrock.
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Time: 40 minutes
Music: Pony
Threw the dude in at the end just to show flight. The expression in this one seems a little too human for my taste, too dispassionate and not CE enough.
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Day 131:
Ash and Pikachu.
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Time: about an hour
Music: Pony
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Day 132:
Theodore Roosevelt presidential portrait. Proportions are a little off in the jacket, and the head is noticeably off to one side. I had the face perfect too, before I decided I needed to redraw it.
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Time: an hour and some
Music: Pony
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Devoted artificer of the church of Scorching Ray.
THAT’S MORTALS FOR YOU. THEY’VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPEND THEM ALL IN MAKING THINGS COMPLICATED FOR THEMSELVES. FASCINATING.
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Originally Posted by Madcrafter
...in case Whuragen has to keep trying to bandage him:
I like your Vrock too. I think he could use his thighs being a little thicker at the back, but otherwise good.
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Anyone have any suggestions/requests?
Thanks. So, you're partial to the vrocks sexy demon ass is it? Why didn't you just say so?
Also seconding the request for suggestions.
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Devoted artificer of the church of Scorching Ray.
THAT’S MORTALS FOR YOU. THEY’VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPEND THEM ALL IN MAKING THINGS COMPLICATED FOR THEMSELVES. FASCINATING.
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Originally Posted by Madcrafter
...in case Whuragen has to keep trying to bandage him:
Ah man. I try to resist when you guys ask this, but two at once? I can't help myself.
Entirely Selfish Suggestion;
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Draw my oc, the Robo-Ponithid, doing something active/meeting another pony for the first time.
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Mane is a series of seperate and shortish tentacles, coiled around each other like a braid. Mouth tentacles are in a diamond formation, one at the front, one on each side of the mouth and one under the chin, so to speak. Freckles but no cutie mark.
More Serious Suggestions;
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Draw;
An Urban Location touched by magic.
A person who has been hollowed out, a strange entity and/or being is now wearing their body, looking at the world with alien perspective.
A Spirit of Regret.
A sexy Vrock. The Machine.
A cute robot.
A self-aware Android on the run.
Robots don't eat brains, and that's all I could think of off the top of my head, so I went with a different prompt. Having picked up the escaped android quest in Fallout 3 just yesterday, decided to pick that one. (Some games I just play really slowly...).
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Time: about an hour.
Music: Pony
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Devoted artificer of the church of Scorching Ray.
THAT’S MORTALS FOR YOU. THEY’VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPEND THEM ALL IN MAKING THINGS COMPLICATED FOR THEMSELVES. FASCINATING.
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Originally Posted by Madcrafter
...in case Whuragen has to keep trying to bandage him:
I see an illithid, illithids eat brains. Robots however, do not, and neither do ponies (usually). The result confused me.
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Devoted artificer of the church of Scorching Ray.
THAT’S MORTALS FOR YOU. THEY’VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPEND THEM ALL IN MAKING THINGS COMPLICATED FOR THEMSELVES. FASCINATING.
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Originally Posted by Madcrafter
...in case Whuragen has to keep trying to bandage him:
Oh, right, yes. I get you.
Well, Robo-Ponithid's backstory, so to speak, has been filtered through and formed via ponythread hijinks and is quite involved at this point.
Suffice to say, Robo Ponithid is a good pony and does not eat brains*.
*The above statement assumes we put asside whether a robot built in the shape of a pony bio-engineered in a blender run-off vat is infact a pony, or capable of genuine sentience enough as to qualify as anything more than an object and therrefor be said to be a morally good or bad anything. Not setting these other factors aside may result in metaphysical questionings of the nature of life and biological versus synthetic existence. Either way, Robo Ponithid does not eat brains, however.
The gift art I did for Artax of the Canterlot forums:
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Originally Posted by Madcrafter
Thanks. So, you're partial to the vrocks sexy demon ass is it? Why didn't you just say so?
...huh?
How did you get from thighs to sexy demon ass?
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Originally Posted by Tiki Snakes
Suggestions
Excellent! A lot to work with. I'll do a couple of these.
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Originally Posted by Madcrafter
Day 133:
Robots don't eat brains, and that's all I could think of off the top of my head, so I went with a different prompt. Having picked up the escaped android quest in Fallout 3 just yesterday, decided to pick that one. (Some games I just play really slowly...).
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Time: about an hour.
Music: Pony
Cool coat!
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Just call me Diego. Mr. Havoc was my father.
Quote:
Originally Posted by SiuiS
Diego Havoc, one of the hoopier froods I've met, up there with DeLancie.
__________________
Devoted artificer of the church of Scorching Ray.
THAT’S MORTALS FOR YOU. THEY’VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPEND THEM ALL IN MAKING THINGS COMPLICATED FOR THEMSELVES. FASCINATING.
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Originally Posted by Madcrafter
...in case Whuragen has to keep trying to bandage him:
I was going for a mix of terror and abject fear, but that much emotion is difficult to express without a mouth. It ended up as vague uncertainty instead.
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Devoted artificer of the church of Scorching Ray.
THAT’S MORTALS FOR YOU. THEY’VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPEND THEM ALL IN MAKING THINGS COMPLICATED FOR THEMSELVES. FASCINATING.
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Originally Posted by Madcrafter
...in case Whuragen has to keep trying to bandage him:
How can the pony in the poster be smiling so happily while its legs are so horribly broken? The general atmosphere of the piece works well, though the poster, despite being dark, still jumps out a little too much from the solid black wall.
Quite nice.
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Day 135:
The Machine.
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Time: 30-40 minutes.
Music: Pony
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Devoted artificer of the church of Scorching Ray.
THAT’S MORTALS FOR YOU. THEY’VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPEND THEM ALL IN MAKING THINGS COMPLICATED FOR THEMSELVES. FASCINATING.
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Originally Posted by Madcrafter
...in case Whuragen has to keep trying to bandage him:
Ponies are made of marshmallow and rubber. Also, you know, I totally forget to pay any attention at all to the way that pony legs are supposed to be jointed.
Also, it's a picture in a picture, so clearly the pony who drew that particular recruitment poster had a very flexible model to work from.
Suffice to say that no ponies were harmed in the production of the image or its constituant pieces, though Mask was at least mildly inconvenienced.
Oh I see. Not what I meant, of course, but I see what you did there.
So, I didn't do any of those suggestions yet, since I learned that there is now a 30 minute art challenge tumblr for us European folks and felt like joining in, despite how terribly tired I was.
It was actually a 50 minute challenge this time, and the subject was Winter.
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Originally Posted by 30 Minute Art Challenge
This week’s theme is: Seasons.
Winter is coming. Draw the pony/ponies of your choice either having fun during this season or them being an embodiment of its spirit.
Here's mine
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That's, uh, supposed to be a tree stump.
Also, didn't have time to fix Fluttershy's cutie mark. Probably because I took a break for dinner midway through.
Her rear hooves need to be thicker too.
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Just call me Diego. Mr. Havoc was my father.
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Originally Posted by SiuiS
Diego Havoc, one of the hoopier froods I've met, up there with DeLancie.
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Baby heads are hard to draw in profile, it's very square.
I took Autumn and Pony and put them together, conveniently missing the Anthropomorphic part. I was hoping nobody would notice.
