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If you choose the "download" option, you can see the picture on a bigger scale. Making the letters easy to read.

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Oh... Abdul Alharzed, amirite?

EDIT: More specifically, Necromonicon.

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Nope. If it helps, the text is the same on each hand -- and it was not written for any fantasy literature\game\means.

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I do believe there is a food one for doing chocolates but don't quote me on that

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*twitch* Too... much.... pleasure... imagination... overload... *explodes*

And to try and avoid hijacking the thread, I will now vaguely attempt a stab at responsability by saying "Sayterra is right" -- not even the most advanced and expensive items will make you a better artist.

They might help, yes they do, in broadning your horizons (I have a taste for portraitism I never knew I had until the day someone gifted me with a 12-lead pencil box -- until then all I did was clean line artwork with my faithful HB pencil). My suggestion is try different means and items until you find the ones that suit you best. The good art supply brands are good for a reason. Most of them have really good stuff that while not being obscenely expensive can make a few things easier.

I have an art teacher friend who nagged me constantly to learn to paint in the traditional means before I took it to digital. She felt I would become lax and lazy from being used to use UNDO buttons. I'm sure she was right, but shame on me, I never really tried painting with gouaches, watercolours, etc -- I have the notion I'd be a far better and more complete artist if I did.

I tried charcoal once.

It wasn't pretty.

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The words are HP Lovecraft in nature, IIRC.

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Afraid not. They might have been used by him, but they preceed him by about... a few centuries.

Also, here is the original screenshot.

Good luck! May the best man win!

Also... *cues in the "Highlander" theme*

I know I should be patient and slowly try to learn to work the Wacom... but I feel so frustrated at not being able of doing anything more than scratches and lines.

Also on the subject of 3D printers, two words: Edible Paintings.

Think you could try and put flour and oil and stuff into one of those printers and print out dessert? That would be just too awesome! I can see it now "Unexpected guests? Just download our five course meal .jpg and ... print it!"

Hey, feel free to add your own to be traced!

Actually, I will have to state otherwise.

I did use clipart. (or, now that I think of it, what passed for clipart) And that design has been used many many times in many many sources. I can name a few, such as a D&D coverbook (as an amulet a character is holding). And the Aria Studios logo) -- which lend credibility to the whole "hello, this is clipart" thing.

Now, it wouldn't surprise me if the original artist was ripped off to begin with -- and illegally distributed as clipart, seeing I used a directly "black and white" clipart version of it (and never altered an artist's rendition of it).

Now, please, I know this will sound as if I'm trying to dodge being brought into the spotlight again, but if you do find my ripping off of something can you just email me and berate me privately and drop the argument here altogether? I really would prefer this thread not to become (any more than it already has) a battleground of freedom vs. copyright.

Inspired by LadyJudgement (I think), I decided to try my hand at screenshot tracing (and try to use a few of the funky Photoshop tools -- I'm still afraid of it. So many buttons!) so I chose this to start, featuring Ragnarockette.

I found it an amazingly good exercise for a fast training of shadowing and colouring (and also because you have an original image to trace from which makes it helpful to know where to place the shadows) so I decided I wanted to do a few more of this.

Also, if some other gallant artists wanting to give a try to their colouring, I'd here by suggest to start a Screenshot Tracing Project.

Post your best screenshot here -- and hopefully someone will pick it up. I think that high res and high quality ones would be best (and personaly I'd prefer tracing over characters rather than landscapes).

Me? I had a lot of fun doing this -- since Ragnarockette is a valkyrie, I figure her Energy melee is actually rune magic -- those funky letters around her hands were supposed to be runes but seems I'm lacking in a rune font.

Also... I'll gift art (of the person's choice) the first person to identify where do those words come from.

Goddamnit! None of mine! I'm not even good enough to be ripped off!

I'm totally going to sulk now.

The pad I was talking about (and am using currently) can be found here.

It's 90g paper (I have no idea how much grams translate into non metric system) in a slightly ivory colour which makes it fun to draw in.

Err.. from the indication I got from people who answered the thread, it seemed the person could be using the place as storage, not to claim it's his...

I am a sort of abnormality, I think.

First, because I do own a Wacom tablet but I can't use it. I feel strange and awkward and I had to restrain myself not to throw it out the window (it was a gift, after all). I always use the mouse to colour.

Secondly, because I used mixed means: pencilling and inking are in traditional techniques, and only colouring is done digitally.

Pencilwise, I favour soft pencils, preferably Staedler brand. My pencil of choice is the 2B, soft and good for shadowing, but not too soft. Which means I can ink directly or just use it for sketching and then erase easily to do tighter pencils with a HB pencil. If I'm going for a fully pencilled\shaded piece, I'll use anything from 2B to 8B.

Erasing is a serious matter, and so I use the Milan brand erasers. Trust me, they're the best. They don't smudge and they don't get hard. They can handle heavily graphited areas... and the funny thing is -- you can't find the good ones (the little square ones) in sale in good art shops. To get mine I need to hit the local supermarket during September when classes are about to start again -- which means I usually get a HUGE supply. Each set of 4 erasers costs around 2 dollars so it's totally more than worth it.

To ink, I usually go for Faber-Castell sets: 3 widths and a brush pen. For fine detail, I go for the Japanese brand Sakura, 1, 0,5 and 0,005 sizes, but I usually only use those in work that will not be scanned and is going to be kept "inked" only.

Paper has to be firm and thick, but not too much. I usually get along well with ClaireFontaine sketch pads. If you don't use too much pressure on your pencils it can be easily erased and it has this pleasant, micro-rugged surface which is AWESOME to hold on the graphite if you plan on a piece with heavy pencilwork.

Where digital work is concerned I work with a mouse (can't handle those damn tablets) and Corel Photopaint. I only got Paintshop C2 very recently, and I still am trying to figure head from tails with that...

She has an incredibly sweet face (seeing pandas are mostly asian) I tried to make her look asian too (despite the big baby blues) that's why she has that full-lips, narrow eyes look going.

Here's the "unworked" final colour version where you can see her face properly

For those of you who haven't read "City of Zeroes", google it and go read. It's really really funny -- the awesome adventures of Paragon's totally normal (I use the term loosely) citizens.
This was done as a gift art to the awesome author, Derek Sweet.

Cupcake! MINE! RAWR! *pounce*

After checking DA's submission policy, and not to risk it (and also to avoid more controversy), I have brought those pieces down and sent the artists requests for permission of the use of their artwork as inspiration -- if I get said permission I'll post them back up.

These pieces were indeed old (and I didn't know better at the time), and if I had been contacted privately about the matter, I would have also try to correct the matter. However, that was not the case, but now it's too late to worry about it.

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I am... to say the least, unimpressed.... I've been looking through your gallery thinking, "Hey I've seen this stuff before..."

And lo and behold:

Your "artwork": http://ladyentropy.deviantart.com/ar...-Final-8028005

The Original: http://www.denbeauvais.com/Content/G...1280x1024).jpg


Your "artwork":
http://ladyentropy.deviantart.com/ar...piress-3584257

Adam Hughe's Original:
http://www.linesandcolors.com/images...hughes_450.jpg


Please stick to creating original artwork. Thanks.

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Ah, yes, my pecadilloes of youth when I was trying to learn how to do draw, and I tried to emulate the pieces I found beautiful. Of course, since then I realized that if I really want to evolve, I need to try and do original pieces.

I'm glad to say that is what has happened (those pieces are old and the only ones that use other artists as referrences) and since then I have gone fully original.

That reminds me of the "A S&W beats four aces."

Paypal is usually easier and faster, hence why it's preferred. I can't speak for others, but I'd have no problem taking cash orders, except with me being abroad would make things take a while more to solve (and there would always be the risk of the money getting lost in the mail).

I only now noticed... I never put up any of my (few) drawings of my namesake, Anwyeth.

I'm aiming to clear that regretful lapse by posting here a gift art of her made for a friend, and so I give you Anwyeth, the Half-dragon -- CLICK ME!

I don't mind helping with that plan. Or alternatively, we could tie him up and make him work for us!

Amazingly quick job -- and one of my own favourite costume designs in COH. So simple and just so cute...wouldn't you like going to hell with her?

Aw shucks, you're going to make me blush!

Oh my god. That is SERIOUSLY awesome.

I particularly love the backgrounds (god knows I couldn't draw proper backgrounds to save my life) and her pose is incredibly endearing.

Hmmm, wonder if I can get this artist to draw me a picture of a certain handsome Arbiter as a Ms. Millie fan....