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Post by izacque on Oct 31, 2011 20:29:25 GMT
Please place orders now and gib monies. (see OP changes)
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Post by izacque on Oct 31, 2011 19:26:13 GMT
nmagane nmagane nmagane nmagane nmagane nmagane Goddamn Egyptian keyboards!
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Post by izacque on Oct 31, 2011 19:21:45 GMT
I don't see veers on this list :< oh well, next best thing.
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Post by izacque on Oct 31, 2011 19:19:01 GMT
Likep, I really don't think you should be praising your own work. It makes you look juvenile and incompetent. Now for the sig itself: Your font choice is dramatic and not terrible. However, I'd look for a font that has more proportional letters for example, look at the I compared to the E. Also, the K is strangely titled. Whatever you did to texture the letters and do the black paint splatters works really, really well. The background is terrible. It has no depth, and it obviously tiles. If you wanted a suggestion, I'd maybe do a graffiti wall that's Gaussian blurred with some tasteful vignetting. There's lots of good ways you could approach a background. Also, adding a border always helps. Usually, a 1px wide black border is all it takes. @mdog, That is actually a Very nice background. You've definitely been improving. The colors work well and the strange pixelated shading is great. I think the font choice is all wrong. The background is pixely-distorted and you chose a traditional serif font. I'd have gone with a font that has more straight lines, sort of like the font in Drax's sig. I think you could have done without the marbley texture on the letters; less is more. For some reason I like the blur at the edges of the letters. It works really well with your bevel effect. The drop shadow is way to far away. It's unrealistic. Notice how the bottom border is made of the individual squares? I'd love to see all the borders to that. It'd be a very nice effect.
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Oct 31, 2011 19:05:58 GMT
Post by izacque on Oct 31, 2011 19:05:58 GMT
The pixel circle is aliased as shit, I hope you're gonna fix that. The original iris is darker red near the pupil, giving it more depth. Emulate that. The veins are more transparent in the original, and there's a slight yellowing of tone near the blue border. So far it's coming around well, but try to get that depth back that you've lost from the lack of gradients.
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Post by izacque on Oct 28, 2011 5:48:54 GMT
Plenty goes on here, or at least as much as has always gone on here. That's funny. Hold on, let me find that one picture... Courtesy of izacque. I bet Chronologik is laughing in our face right now. Or probably not, considering there would be nobody to see him do so. If I were in his place, I would be too. I take great umbrage at your misuse of my comic. Chrono is not the hero of this comic. In fact, I think he's the dumbest character. The whole point of the comic is that "plenty goes on here, or at least as much as has always gone on here." It's silly and optimistic to think that we're actually growing, but it's also ignorant, stupid,and trollish to assert that we're "dying." Now please leave my works alone, you obviously can't handle them.
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Post by izacque on Oct 28, 2011 5:32:06 GMT
This post assumes merely mentioning the above post satisfies the rules.
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Post by izacque on Oct 28, 2011 5:29:14 GMT
Eh, the comic was created before this little episode of the drama even happened. I believe that when I made the comic, it was right int he middle of an activity spike that was purported proof of our growth. The idea of the comic is that there's much debate about nothing, since the forum is neither growing nor shrinking. If certain personalities were slandered in the making of this comic, I apologize, but I think it is a good comic, anyway. And I will continue to post it any time I see drama centered around forum activity.
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Post by izacque on Oct 28, 2011 5:24:30 GMT
I'm dressing up as jenna too
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Oct 28, 2011 5:14:09 GMT
Post by izacque on Oct 28, 2011 5:14:09 GMT
I think it looks better, maybe it is an opinion thing. Are you going to keep with that face?
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Oct 27, 2011 14:25:14 GMT
Post by izacque on Oct 27, 2011 14:25:14 GMT
I think the composition of the piece is a bit off, with the shape of the face and candle position and such. I think that the shading needs more contrast, too. I think the pumpkin's shading needs the dark orange to be darker. And the holes in his face need to be darker and more orange-toned.
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Post by izacque on Oct 27, 2011 14:20:02 GMT
I knew someone would be immature enough to post that...
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Post by izacque on Oct 27, 2011 2:25:18 GMT
He made these using tutorials, I believe. It is a good thing to do such, great way to learn, in my opinion. It is just to be careful to make sure that if a design relied heavily on something you learned on a tutorial, it is nice to cite the source, I think.
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Post by izacque on Oct 26, 2011 23:15:50 GMT
Hey, I have an essay here that is not long enough. I would like to make it longer, but I don't know how because I have written all the writables, I think. Does anyone have a suggestion that will help me to make this longer? The World Nettle Eating Championship takes place annually in early June as part of a beer festival for charity. It is hosted at the Bottle Inn, a pub in Dorset England. The Championship’s roots go back to a dispute between two farmers in the 1980s. Each was convinced that they had the longest nettle infestation in their fields than the other. The dispute turned into a yearly contest and farmers from around the area would bring in their longest nettles and compare length. At one of those events, a farmer boasted that he’d eat any nettle that was longer than his, a 15’ 6” stem. A 16-foot nettle was found, the farmer ate it, and the World Nettle Eating Championship was born. The competition takes place in the pub’s gardens. The contest has separate men’s and women’s sections and only 65 contestants may enter. Each contestant is given two-foot long stalks of nettle. The contestant must then strip each stalk of its leaves and eat the leaves. After an hour, the contestant with the most stripped stalks is the winner. The contestants are not allowed to spit out the nettles or otherwise let them out. They are, however allowed to have a drink to wash away the taste if they wish, usually beer. Recently another rule had to be added – contestants must eat only the nettles provided by the pub. This was added to address the issue of people bringing their own low-toxicity nettles to the competition, and even in one case sneaking high-toxicity bio-engineered nettles into their opponents’ batches. Contestants come from around the world, “as far away as Canada and Australia.” Rory Macleod, the pub’s landlord says that they see a lot of east Europeans enter “who take the whole thing very seriously.” In 2009, one thousand people came to compete or spectate. Nettles are leafy weeds with long stems. Each leaf is covered with tiny stinging hairs containing formic acid (the stinging ingredient of fire ant venom). Contact with the hairs releases the formic acid, causing irritation, stinging, and hives. Professional contestants have nettle-eating down to a science. “You need focus and rhythm and some beer to take the taste away,” said 48-year-old Simon Slee. Slee took the record for nettle eating by eating 76 feet of the stinging plant. Although the contest is an equal judge for all the participants of a given year, the ability to eat the nettles differs from year to year. Drier nettles are harder to eat because the formic acid is more concentrated. All of the greatest scores were achieved when the nettles were lush from wet conditions. One eating strategy is to mash the nettle leaves into tight pellets and throw them to the back molars. Then quickly chew and swallow the leaves, trying to minimize contact with them. Unfortunately, eventually the nettles start to back up in the mouth. The taste is “totally foul,” and the formic acid burns the tongue, palate, and throat. The taste has been described as “rancid salad with no dressing” and “a mixture of spinach and cow-pat”. Although the competitors aren’t allowed to spit out or otherwise remove the nettle leaves from their body, eventually facial paralysis begins to occur. The judges have to pay close attention to how much green-colored drool leaks from the mouth. Spectators have dubbed the saliva leak “green bearding.”
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Post by izacque on Oct 25, 2011 9:13:23 GMT
actually, to the speaker it seems most concrete
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Post by izacque on Oct 25, 2011 8:47:41 GMT
wow even I knew that, also: Anyone: HURR FORUM DED NAO Qwert&co: nu-uh, we're totally growing, dude! Reality: Flat-line EDIT: nmagane: Wow, go away hypocrite
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Post by izacque on Oct 20, 2011 0:02:18 GMT
Where does my suggestion fit in that list? I am assuming you posted it in response to my suggestion.
EDIT: wow, proboards TOS sucks.
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Post by izacque on Oct 19, 2011 23:53:18 GMT
thinks art not drawn one pixel at a time is "unpure"
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Post by izacque on Oct 19, 2011 23:49:35 GMT
It is best not to limit yourself too much, because it hampers the quality.
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Post by izacque on Oct 19, 2011 9:16:15 GMT
Oh, it's this kid.
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Post by izacque on Oct 19, 2011 9:14:50 GMT
right click and drag...
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Post by izacque on Oct 19, 2011 9:03:39 GMT
I know it can be done, but do any of us have the skills and motivation for it? Disabled seems skilled enough, if he actually wanted to do it.
I'd do it if I knew how on anything more than an abstract sense.
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Post by izacque on Oct 18, 2011 18:54:25 GMT
This probably isn't possible without much work, but being able to view the list of users by karma would be cool.
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Post by izacque on Oct 17, 2011 19:21:03 GMT
I shoulda made one... B(
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Post by izacque on Oct 17, 2011 19:17:14 GMT
didn't factor in odbf
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Oct 17, 2011 19:12:18 GMT
Post by izacque on Oct 17, 2011 19:12:18 GMT
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Post by izacque on Oct 17, 2011 19:11:26 GMT
three bees
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Post by izacque on Oct 17, 2011 19:04:15 GMT
tl;dr
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Post by izacque on Oct 17, 2011 18:51:22 GMT
not you
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Post by izacque on Oct 17, 2011 18:46:15 GMT
no one ever leaves...
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