New SW Art

[astarothathros]

It might not be the best, but it's something, right?

[TB Tabby]

Aren't attachments working again? But anyway, I like this.

Works for ME!


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[wolfman-al]

Okay but kinda random.
Also when do people lern NOT to use lined paper for artworks?

They have to be the worst colouring tool ever invented. Unreliable, too much contrast, they destroy the paper, are useless for volume, and any attempt to mix them turns the ink black! If you're going to hand colour use watercolour paint, or good old fashioned pencil crayons. And why would you hand colour when you're going to put it on the net? Photoshop does a much better job unless you're a fantastic colourist.

Okay rant over. But you have too admit, we see way too many good drawings ruined because the artist insisted on taking felts to them.

[KeiichiRX7]

Why would you bitch about that when they are providing new content?

To discourage further contribution?

An artist needs to withstand criticism, or he/she simply never improves. This idea that you can never state negatives or you'll "crush the budding self esteem of a perspective artist" is best left to elementary school teachers. Besides neither wolf not myself gave a criticism that wasn't easily remedied.

- Don't use lined paper.
- Don't use felt markers.

I don't see that as being overly demanding, or asking the impossible of the artist, and thus next time they submit a drawing they're likely to...

- not use lined paper.
- not use felt markers.

... and the world is left a little happier and a little hornier. What a lovely story!

[Captain Ash]

I leave the negative expects because they were all mention above.
I like this pic and the expresion on her face.
What I also like is the background, especially the wooden door.
For the first time not bad, and I'm sure that you will improve.

Captain Ash

[astarothathros]

Originally Posted by Sylphsight

They have to be the worst colouring tool ever invented. Unreliable, too much contrast, they destroy the paper, are useless for volume, and any attempt to mix them turns the ink black! If you're going to hand colour use watercolour paint, or good old fashioned pencil crayons. And why would you hand colour when you're going to put it on the net? Photoshop does a much better job unless you're a fantastic colourist.

Okay rant over. But you have to admit, we see way too many good drawings ruined because the artist insisted on taking felts to them.

Alright, I can handle some criticism, and your points are valid. But I used felt pens and lined paper because they were all that were available to me at the time. I'm sure anybody, as Keiichi demonstrated, could do a much finer job with Photoshop or something, but I simply didn't have those resources at the time.

[KeiichiRX7]

my job was hardly fine work, i just used the magic wand and the spray tool., just an attempt at coloring for the hell of it

[astarothathros]

I didn't say "fine", I said "finer."
Almost anything would have been a step up from my coloring.