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Published: 2013-08-02 15:50:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 1021; Favourites: 39; Downloads: 3
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Finished version of the sketch. Thanks to ~BrentOGara for introducing me to the wonders of noclip. Vectors using SAI. Based off of this screenshot: sta.sh/01ne96ve829qRelated content
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Okay, seriously, how is this creepy?
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It's GLaDOS. How is it not?
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She's not the embodiment of creepiness, you know.
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You've made her very creepy to me through your fiction.
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Oh. I was trying to make you sympathetic, not creeped out... oh well, you're the only one
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She looks good! I'm glad I could help you. I like the details and perspective here. Are you taking this any further?
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Thanks, Brent. What do you mean by 'taking this any further'?
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I mean to say how much detail/work are you going to put into it? For example, look at this image, and then look at where I took it .
... so how far are you going to take this?
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Oh, I saw that deviation too... woulda said something nice, but I don't like ponies.
That's as far as it's gonna go, I can't do what you can. I don't know how, and whenever I try it looks crappy. So I usually just stop at flats with maybe highlights.
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Ah, so you judge the artistic merit of a work on it's content, and not, for example, its media or the skill involved in its execution.
... that makes you normal.
On the other hand, there are only so many hours in a day, and days in a lifetime (and the second quantity is wholly unknown). You have talent in both visual arts and literature, but you clearly have a greater interest, and a much greater number of hours invested in writing, as opposed to graphic arts. From this I assume you have more interest (and possibly more raw talent) in writing, as opposed to drawing.
If any of the above it true, then I would encourage you to spend your precious (irreplaceable) hours improving your skill at writing, which you clearly love and are very good at. You do show interest and talent in drawing, and I would suggest you practice when you can, but if you don't feel the need to push yourself in that area, then don't. Never let anyone force you to do something you love... lest you grow to hate it. It's also important to cultivate the attitude that while practice and work-for-hire are important parts of your artistic life, nobody is "forcing" you to do it... you choose when, how, and how long to practice, and when to take work-for-hire.
TL;DR: If you don't want to improve your drawing skills, then don't. But never say "I can't". You Can!
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Nah, I just don't like commenting on things I know nothing about. Such as excellent lighting, shading, and ponies. Makes me feel presumptuous.
I can probably bear children, but I can't roll my tongue, and I suppose that was what I meant. And yes, I've seen your tutorial, but I have not yet gotten to the point where I can colour an image in greyscale when it's in colour in my head.
Thank you, but I've honestly spent about the same amount of time on both. You've managed to catch me at a time where all I'm uploading is lit deviations... it used to be two or three digital drawings every few days. I would agree that I have more raw talent in writing. It's not about interest, really. Sometimes there're words in my head, and sometimes pictures, and right now it happens to be words. I could forego the words and look for pictures, I suppose, but that would be silly, since I would probably be throwing away quite the good story.
I do practice when I can, which is usually on my break at work or when I can convince myself to stop fooling around when I could be doing something better. I would love to be able to colour like you. But it's hard to get started on something that's gonna take me fifteen hours when I know that it's not going to be what I wanted it to be. I don't even know if I love writing. I just get these words in my head and I need to write them down. I was getting that with pictures for awhile, but that's specifically why I don't really do requests, even when I offer. Because if the words or the picture isn't there, it's not going to be any good.
Of course I'd read what you wrote me, silly. I'm not a kid, remember? XD
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Funny... I comment on all kinds of things I know nothing about... I've been told that is a common American trait... 
I can only shade greyscale images and color them later because I was forced to learn how in order to pass a college course... it took a lot of practice to get it right. You can use the skills in the tutorial to do the shading with color from the very beginning, it's just that color can be a bit distracting, so I used greyscale in the first few example images to keep it simple... it's not necessary.
I had honestly not seen all your visual art... now I have... except I only looked at the thumbs if it had Sonic in it (you're not the only one who doesn't comment on things they don't understand... and I'm not at all sure why Sonic is so cool... probably because I never owned any Sega product ever). I'm glad I found your work when you are writing fics... you are a really good visual artist, but you are a great writer. Pretty much all my ideas are visual... every time I write anything, I'm actually describing the images I see in my mind. The only thing's I don't "see" are the character's emotions... those I feel. It sometimes makes it difficult to write, as there is so much in the mental image that I spend too many words describing the moment or how a thing works, and the story slows down. Which is why my stories are all exposition and visual images... and why they tend to suck when dialogue is involved.
I'm glad you are writing the stories and not throwing them away!
Yeah, if there's no inspiration, then the image never has a chance to 'live'... it just dies under your hands, and that's no fun. Coloring like I do it took so long to get right (so many years of practice and school), and I'm still not nearly as good as I think I should be considering how much time I've put into it. That image probably was something like 15 hours, and it could be better, but I've got to let it sit for a while so I can come back to it 'fresh' and not mess it up. On the other hand, I know I'm a crazy perfectionist, so I don't beat myself up for not being perfect... too much.
" I don't even know if I love writing. I just get these words in my head and I need to write them down"... yeah, my girlfriend has that exact problem! She get's almost violent in her writing, pacing up and down the hallway and muttering to herself... it's funny and a bit scary.
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Well, I'm supposed to be polite and all, maybe that's why I don't do it! (I don't think I've said eh yet though, I should look into that XD) And you should, because you did very well. I just don't feel qualified to say so.
I think my problem is that I never establish where my lightsource is, I just colour away and light it where I think it needs lit... which of course ends up looking messy.
I doubt most of my watchers have, there's far too much of it. Why Sonic? Because when I was a kid, it was that or Mario. I grew up and started writing fanfiction, and then I became obsessed with Sonic. It's what I do, become obsessed with things. It was eight years of Star Wars, about two or three of Batman, two or three of Sonic, and now Portal. I used to be obsessed with Sonic as a kid but I don't remember it. Thanks, I'm getting better at drawing but I've always been pretty good at writing. When I write, I see the paragraphs in my head, I don't see pictures. Just words. And since I tend to think in words and not descriptions, I have a lot of trouble writing action scenes or describing rooms accurately. I have a scene in one of my Sonic fics that was supposed to be an epic fight, but it was only a paragraph long. That's how bad I am at describing things. It ended up being a page or so, far as I recall, but I think more in dialogue.
I have two more longer stories pretty much fully written, and hopefully I won't have this much inspiration when school comes around. That gets annoying, honestly.
Fifteen hours, eh? When I get to about eight and it's not finished, I kinda give up on it, depending on how long the sketch took. A good sketch is done between thirty and sixty minutes, any longer than that and I'm not going to finish it. Digital I get bored after eight hours or so. What bothers me is that I work on things so zoomed in that I put in this colouring or whatever, and then no one can see it but me.
Well, I don't quite do that! I tend to stay in one place when I write XD
Hell no, I actually get quite a lot of fawning compliments for my writing... someone told me yesterday that Core was so near perfect they thought it should be canon. It's stuff like that that I keep posting this stuff for. And I try not to be like that, since it would be hypocritical of me. I simply hate reviewing someone's fic/critiquing their art, and then they just ignore me. Someone asked me to review their Dexter fanfic for them, and I left them a couple of reviews saying that it wasn't quite right and why, and that I didn't like it, and all they said back was it was okay if I didn't like it. Really? I mean okay, if you hadn't asked me to review it wouldn't've mattered so much. But you asked, I gave... and you are going to write it wrong on purpose. But you're welcome! I'm honestly surprised that I did that, and I have no idea how you relate GLaDOS and Wheatley to yourself, but hey, whatever works
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Some of it. Some of it is terrible. Therefore the Queen will be going nowhere near it.
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I'm sure she'll be happy to crumble it into her morning porridge
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Uh how is that even possible? I didn't think she was senile just yet...
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she isn't porridge is enjoyable for all ages
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Yeah but how did she manage to put pixels on it?
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You said she was going to crumble my lineart over her porridge.
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yeah, it's good enough to eat
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I'm sorry GLaDOS *cries*
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"YoU'rE nOt A mUtE.... i ThInK yOu'Re OkAy..."
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I'm okay because I'm not mute? Well, I'll take that.
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"NeVeR mInD....I tAkE tHaT bAcK...."
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Okay GLaDOS *cries*
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