Larissa_Rasputin

Pretty nifty!

1. Pyro
2. Shia
3. Christopher Robin

justin.tv
says you can broadcast and chat with your friends. If the livestream thing doesn't work, perhaps this will.

I knew Vrykon would do it justice. Looks amazing!

Love the Heritage piece. The coloring style goes very well with the pencils. Almost has a traditiona feel to it.

You could nominate him.

I nomitated Cryptcrawler for a DD and he got a much deserved one. Not sure about anyone else.

We'll all get used to it and then they'll change it completely all over again.

Don't jab him too hard! He might not be able to fix it that way. :P

Happy Birthday!

Apparently your site is borked Wassy. I got the Server Not Found message.

Welcome back FF

Sorry you missed out Blood Wolffe, too bad though, BW has promised to do free art for the three of us that attended for life. Ah well, that's your luck huh? :P j/k

I'm slightly concerned that he's using a fork and the not quite sure look on his face isn't reassuring me, lol. Great snag though! Nema does do awesome work

LJ is one of the nicest, coolest, most awesome people in the world!

Happy Birthday! May your day be everything you wish it to.

Very nifty! Your girlfriend it talented

Ok, it seems like you have quite a lot of information going on there. You may consider getting a model sheet done that includes all the costume specifics you want in each piece. I think the musculature and photo reference are great ideas. I'm not an artist but you may want to separate his physical details from the costume details, they all kind of blend together and I think it would be easy for an artist to miss something that is important to you.

The best thing to do in the commisisoning process it to make sure to keep up communication. At the beginning make sure the artist knows and understands what you are looking for. If you want to see different stages of work make sure to state this before hand.

I am sure I missed something but there are tons of us here that would be more than happy to help you.

Cute but kinda evil *thumbs up* I just started reading Haggopian a collection of short stories by Brian Lumley. All Cthulhu Mythos stuff. Ia R'lyeh! Cthulhu fhtagn!

Perhaps they could pick the theme for the next month? Given, of course, that the person who is running it approves.

No specific memory for me. I dropped in just to see what was in here and haven't ventured out since. All in all I love how friendlly everyone is and the boards have kept me around at time when gameplay wasn't, lol. It's given me the opportunity to talk to some really awesome people and I hope to see us all here in another six years

No lag, I can't see anything. Well, tha'ts not true, I can see my characters names on the selection screen but the rest is black. I can even log in and see other peoples character names floating around in a black void.

Happy Birthday

I think this discussion can and has dissolved into infinite scenarios and possibilites. Given that the laws are different everywhere there is never going to be "one set of rules for all" I also do not believe that that is what FD was intending. I don't feel that he is forcing his opinions in anyones face (or however someone wants to word it) because they do not have to read it. He states what his idea of a proper reference was and I think he makes some really valid points. As a cake decorator I am often appalled at how many times people get angry with me because I will not draw a copyrighted character. Legal issues aside, i just feel it's wrong. I didn't create Mickey Mouse, or Spiderman. I cannot deny that I have done things like that in the past, but due to hearing different artists opinions on the matter, I saw things in a totally different light.
I would feel appalled if I created a completely original character and found out later on that someone had made profit (or not) on my design without my permission. Is it likely that Disney is going to sue me for drawing mickey mouse on a cake? Probably not very, if they even found out about it at all. Whenever I do reference something, I don't try to copy it exactly. Say I want to draw a deer (which has happened) I go over and get a magazine off the shelf and thumb through it. I basically know what a deer looks like but I want to make sure my proportions aren't horribly askew. I will look at several different photographs and (try to) draw something out based off of those.

If I saw a cake that I really liked and wanted to copy it and I asked the person who created it if they minded and they said no, I would feel no guilt about reproducing it. I would not, however, take credit for such a creation (and I don't, this has actually been happening at work a lot lately, we get these fliers with suggested ideas for product use) and I make sure to point out where credit is due.

As far as changing something into something else: If you took anything from the original and used it, it's stealing (defined as:to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, esp. secretly or by force) There really is no grey area there. Sometimes people will think it's acceptable and sometimes they won't, so people shouldn't get upset when they get called on it.

1. Frost
2. Shia
3. Scooter

Love the skulls coming from under her cape.

I agree! Very nice Going to Chicago tomorrow so I won't make the livestream. Maybe next time