[QUOTE=Akasori;34962104]Doesn't Intuos4 series have wireless models too?[/QUOTE]
Yes, but then you would have to buy just the model which has the wireless, which I believe is the medium size one. In this version you can buy an additional wireless kit to any model.
Happy lil doodle
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/booyah-kashaw.png[/img]
studies
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/the_eyes_look_tired_because_im_tired.png[/img]
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/lips1.png[/img]
[QUOTE=Detlef;34955924]people expect way too much of me. Even tho people might think I could do stuff like that if I "unleashed my potential", I really can't.
[editline]2nd March 2012[/editline]
Don't be sad just because I don't reach your expectations, I am feeling horribly demotivated when it comes to art lately and probably won't produce anything that isn't commissions in a while.[/QUOTE]
I feel the same way about myself. Seriously, when is the last time you saw artwork from me? Quite a while ago, wasn't it?
I think that I expect to much out of myself and therefore get depressed when I can't deliver or get too intimidated to even start. I have a problem.
snip
Started this acrylic painting Wednesday, it is a tiny bit bulky so I haven't been able to get it home until today.
The only thing currently close to being finished is the face and even then I am planning on adding in some kind of glowing eyes and tribal paint. Thinking about doing another oil glaze on it so it wont look so morbid.
Webcam quality as usual:
[img]http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn229/1chains1/Picture145-1.jpg[/img]
[img]http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn229/1chains1/Picture150-1.jpg[/img]
looks like he has small arms or something? its very cool otherwise
[QUOTE=Barnhouse;34963625]looks like he has small arms or something? its very cool otherwise[/QUOTE]
I believe his forearm is too short, and that skull adds so much size to his head that I am having difficulty trying to keep it in proportion with the actual head itself.
edit- That is why i always do the hands and feet last, so I can extend or shorten the limbs in case something like this happens. Also the canvas couldnt fit in the entire photo, the arm extends a bit further out.
I'd suggest viewing that upside down in a mirror to help finding those bits of flawed proportions and help sizing up the body in comparison to the head/skull.
[QUOTE=theLazyLion;34963778]I'd suggest viewing that in a mirror to help finding those bits of flawed proportions.[/QUOTE]
Yea that is why I like taking photos of the painting and viewing them too, if you notice, the ear lobe on the right is lower then the one on the left. The skull I was already aware was a bit slanted, but I haven't even started on it minus the horn. Some of the issues though are this webcam blending in my values so such as in the chin area.
edit- Now I have the urge to paint and fix these, but I can't right now. HNNGGG.
[QUOTE=1chains1;34963844]Yea that is why I like taking photos of the painting and viewing them too, if you notice, the ear lobe on the right is lower then the one on the left. The skull I was already aware was a bit slanted, but I haven't even started on it minus the horn. Some of the issues though are this webcam blending in my values so such as in the chin area.
edit- Now I have the urge to paint and fix these, but I can't right now. HNNGGG.[/QUOTE]
Send me a quality scan of that thing when you're done, I'd like to see/critique it.
[QUOTE=theLazyLion;34963870]Send me a quality scan of that thing when you're done, I'd like to see/critique it.[/QUOTE]
I dont know if there is a large enough scanner for it? But I will check my school office and the library.
[QUOTE=1chains1;34964086]I dont know if there is a large enough scanner for it? But I will check my school office and the library.[/QUOTE]
You're at an artschool right? usually they have painting sized scanners in some area on campus..
[QUOTE=theLazyLion;34964160]You're at an artschool right? usually they have painting sized scanners in some area on campus..[/QUOTE]
No? I am a senior in highschool..
[QUOTE=1chains1;34964210]No? I am a senior in highschool..[/QUOTE]
Oh alright, then Iunno.. you could try scanning the painting bit by bit then stitching it up in photoshop later.
[QUOTE=theLazyLion;34964379]Oh alright, then Iunno.. you could try scanning the painting bit by bit then stitching it up in photoshop later.[/QUOTE]
That could possibly work, it isn't absolutely huge, it would probably take 2 scans on a large one.
18''x24'' Acrylic paint. I wish I could get a better quality version of it. I'll probably go to a print shop with it to make a copy for my grandparents (its their summer house)
[IMG]http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/6673/cabinm.png[/IMG]
hot damn
The sky looks a little blank, but, dang, that's good.
I dunno why it's like that in the picture. It looks a lot brighter irl. Though it was all white in the photograph too.
oh wow almost thought it was a photo
[QUOTE=Detlef;34955924]people expect way too much of me. Even tho people might think I could do stuff like that if I "unleashed my potential", I really can't.
[editline]2nd March 2012[/editline]
Don't be sad just because I don't reach your expectations, I am feeling horribly demotivated when it comes to art lately and probably won't produce anything that isn't commissions in a while.[/QUOTE]
you're such a gimp
[QUOTE=Lilyo;34965055]18''x24'' Acrylic paint. I wish I could get a better quality version of it. I'll probably go to a print shop with it to make a copy for my grandparents (its their summer house)
[IMG]http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/6673/cabinm.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]
You are so good
I mean damn
[QUOTE=Lilyo;34965055]18''x24'' Acrylic paint. I wish I could get a better quality version of it. I'll probably go to a print shop with it to make a copy for my grandparents (its their summer house)
[IMG]http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/6673/cabinm.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]
lovely colours in this, really unifies the piece, makes it real
[QUOTE=ChestyMcGee;34965345]you're such a gimp[/QUOTE]
let's not start that again
Well, here is a snippet of a short that does not deserve its own thread. Enjoy.
[quote]
After a long hard day of burying the dead, Dallas sat down in his small, one room cabin. The compound had lost nine men that night. 5 from the enemy, 4 from that damned virus. Dallas knew that fighting both would be a losing battle, and that time was swiftly running out. The phone rang almost off of his desk.
- Hello? -
* We are your reinforcements. Phone the front gate and order them to let us in, security code 0BV2F9T1. *
The security code was older, but still checked in. Looks like General Mcfaullen finally decided to answer the plead for backup...
Dallas wasted no time phoning the front gate.
- We have reinforcements arriving. Let them in. -
# Yes sir. #
At last the cavalry had came. The little base just might make it after all.
Dallas decided to turn in for the night. The reinforcements were instructed orders en route, he had no business continuing to fight sleep after 5 days of having none. He finished his meal and lied down on his bunk, quickly dozing off.
A loud bang awakens Dallas 30 minutes into his rest. A figure wearing a black ops uniform enters the room, silenced pistol in hand.
"What? Who are you?"
"Your services are no longer required."
(THWIP)
[/quote]
Still learning the ropes of short stories. Am I on to something or do I still need massive amounts of improvement?
[QUOTE=Lilyo;34965055]18''x24'' Acrylic paint. I wish I could get a better quality version of it. I'll probably go to a print shop with it to make a copy for my grandparents (its their summer house)
[IMG]http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/6673/cabinm.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]
This is gorgeous
I assume you sketched it out on the canvas before you laid paint on?
Any progress shots?
[editline]3rd March 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=Lyonidis;34965750]Well, here is a snippet of a short that does not deserve its own thread. Enjoy.
[quote]After a long hard day of burying the dead, Dallas sat down in his small, one room cabin. The compound had lost nine men that night. 5 from the enemy, 4 from that damned virus. Dallas knew that fighting both would be a losing battle, and that time was swiftly running out. The phone rang almost off of his desk.
- Hello? -
* We are your reinforcements. Phone the front gate and order them to let us in, security code 0BV2F9T1. *
The security code was older, but still checked in. Looks like General Mcfaullen finally decided to answer the plead for backup...
Dallas wasted no time phoning the front gate.
- We have reinforcements arriving. Let them in. -
# Yes sir. #
At last the cavalry had came. The little base just might make it after all.
Dallas decided to turn in for the night. The reinforcements were instructed orders en route, he had no business continuing to fight sleep after 5 days of having none. He finished his meal and lied down on his bunk, quickly dozing off.
A loud bang awakens Dallas 30 minutes into his rest. A figure wearing a black ops uniform enters the room, silenced pistol in hand.
"What? Who are you?"
"Your services are no longer required."
(THWIP)[/quote]
Still learning the ropes of short stories. Am I on to something or do I still need massive amounts of improvement?[/QUOTE]
[i]5 from the enemy, 4 from that damned virus.[/i]
First, you're writing a story, spell your numbers. Numbers below ten especially stick out if not spelt.
[i]that damned virus.[/i]
You're writing from a neutral third-person viewpoint, or that's how you started anyway, so this Dallas person is not the narrator. Whose sentiment is it to "damn" this virus? At the moment it seems to be yours, the author's, which is fatal to the reader's flow. You should only use an involved third-person narration if the story is in the format of a diary or other record.
[i]Dallas knew that fighting both would be a losing battle, [b]and that time...[/b][/i]
Awkward awkward. Read every sentence you write, as a single sentence and also in relation to its neighbours and the context/paragraph it's in. You don't want to write in the same way that you speak; practice concise sentences.
[i]The phone rang almost [b]off of[/b] his desk.[/i]
See above.
[i]- Hello? -
* We are your reinforcements. Phone the front gate and order them to let us in, security code 0BV2F9T1. *[/i]
Where are the quotation marks
If you don't know how to write dialogue, look it up, rather than substituting hyphens and asterisks and hashes and shit.
While you're at it, look up paragraphing. You have line breaks without indication of passage of time, not even in place of paragraphs, just in place of any kind of proper formatting. Then when you DID want a new paragraph, you just hit enter twice instead of once.
And a story-related side note, why would someone at the front gate be allowed to phone the person in charge directly? They would either be speaking to the people ON the front gate, or the people on the front gate would be calling this Dallas guy, or both.
[i]The security code was older, but still checked in.[/i]
Star Wars? :v:
[i]Looks like General Mcfaullen finally decided to answer the plead for backup...[/i]
*McFaullen
*had finally
*Plea
And why put an ellipsis here?
[i]At last the cavalry had came. The little base just might make it after all. [/i]
*had come
[i]The little base just might make it after all.[/i]
Again, neutral viewpoint. You seem to be speaking for Dallas again, though he is not narrating.
[i]The reinforcements were instructed orders en route[/i]
This makes no sense
[i]He finished his meal and lied down on his bunk, quickly dozing off.[/i]
*lay
I don't like to mention aesthetics when you don't have the basics down, but your writing is very bland and uninteresting/undescriptive. You're only providing the vaguest ideas of the time period and setting and what is even going on, and it all sounds so uninspired that I can't bring myself to give a fuck what happens next. A story might play out great in your head, but putting that into words is something else.
[i]A loud bang awakens Dallas 30 minutes into his rest. A figure wearing a black ops uniform enters the room, silenced pistol in hand.
"What? Who are you?"
"Your services are no longer required."
[/i]
Inconsistency. You've changed from the past to the present tense without preamble, and here are the quotation marks (if not the paragraphing) that we missed earlier.
Also, what is a "black ops uniform"?
Food for thought.
[QUOTE=MakoSkyDub;34966466]This is gorgeous
I assume you sketched it out on the canvas before you laid paint on?
Any progress shots?
[editline]3rd March 2012[/editline]
[i]5 from the enemy, 4 from that damned virus.[/i]
First, you're writing a story, spell your numbers. Numbers below ten especially stick out if not spelt.
[i]that damned virus.[/i]
You're writing from a neutral third-person viewpoint, or that's how you started anyway, so this Dallas person is not the narrator. Whose sentiment is it to "damn" this virus? At the moment it seems to be yours, the author's, which is fatal to the reader's flow. You should only use an involved third-person narration if the story is in the format of a diary or other record.
[i]Dallas knew that fighting both would be a losing battle, [b]and that time...[/b][/i]
Awkward awkward. Read every sentence you write, as a single sentence and also in relation to its neighbours and the context/paragraph it's in. You don't want to write in the same way that you speak; practice concise sentences.
[i]The phone rang almost [b]off of[/b] his desk.[/i]
See above.
[i]- Hello? -
* We are your reinforcements. Phone the front gate and order them to let us in, security code 0BV2F9T1. *[/i]
Where are the quotation marks
If you don't know how to write dialogue, look it up, rather than substituting hyphens and asterisks and hashes and shit.
While you're at it, look up paragraphing. You have line breaks without indication of passage of time, not even in place of paragraphs, just in place of any kind of proper formatting. Then when you DID want a new paragraph, you just hit enter twice instead of once.
And a story-related side note, why would someone at the front gate be allowed to phone the person in charge directly? They would either be speaking to the people ON the front gate, or the people on the front gate would be calling this Dallas guy, or both.
[i]The security code was older, but still checked in.[/i]
Star Wars? :v:
[i]Looks like General Mcfaullen finally decided to answer the plead for backup...[/i]
*McFaullen
*had finally
*Plea
And why put an ellipsis here?
[i]At last the cavalry had came. The little base just might make it after all. [/i]
*had come
[i]The little base just might make it after all.[/i]
Again, neutral viewpoint. You seem to be speaking for Dallas again, though he is not narrating.
[i]The reinforcements were instructed orders en route[/i]
This makes no sense
[i]He finished his meal and lied down on his bunk, quickly dozing off.[/i]
*lay
I don't like to mention aesthetics when you don't have the basics down, but your writing is very bland and uninteresting/undescriptive. You're only providing the vaguest ideas of the time period and setting and what is even going on, and it all sounds so uninspired that I can't bring myself to give a fuck what happens next. A story might play out great in your head, but putting that into words is something else.
[i]A loud bang awakens Dallas 30 minutes into his rest. A figure wearing a black ops uniform enters the room, silenced pistol in hand.
"What? Who are you?"
"Your services are no longer required."
[/i]
Inconsistency. You've changed from the past to the present tense without preamble, and here are the quotation marks (if not the paragraphing) that we missed earlier.
Also, what is a "black ops uniform"?
Food for thought.[/QUOTE]
Thanks. Any criticism is good really. I will be sure to work on it.
I had those odd symbols to show they were talking on the phone. I will get rid of them and replace em with quotes.
Again, thanks for ripping me apart (no sarcasm. This is one of my first works and I will take any criticism I can get.)