MrsAlphaOne

Bwahaha that's just beautiful!

"dude behind you!"
"wait what?"
*SMASH*

hmm that's interesting. I remember back when I was in highschool, we went to New Brunswick Community College Miramichi, and they have a real sweet animation program. Some of their students got picked for Disney...I was intrigued and wanted to sign up but...that kinda fell through with "Get me out of this crappy province" lol

Anyway, I'm taking baby steps right now. Little teeny baby steps. First, I have to work on my drawing, then, get better...I need to learn the basics before I jump into something. That's been my mistakes in the past, wanting to do BIG before little and winding up on my rear.

lol Yeah it does look kinda funny doesn't it? hehehe

Here ya go, A sketch. I took that book LJ talked about in another thread, opened up the preview and tried out the techniques

http://pandora114.deviantart.com/art...-toon-65856421

Here's his ref shots

http://www.freewebs.com/rimc/Files/A...-One%20Ref.bmp

I tried guidelines once and I totally got lost. I'm more of a freehand kinda gal.

My husband and I watched this show when we were kids *Yes we've known each other *that* long lol* that taught kids how to draw, perspectives, 3d imagery and the like. And for the life of me I totally forgot what it was called..It was on PBS I think..the guy was some sort of space dude...Anyway how that's relevant to this discussion, that's how I started learning to draw...and it was all freehand..

Oh yeah, once I find a store that sells clay and get access to a kiln, I'll be in absolute :bliss:

Well I figured I'd start with something I know how to draw. I really *really* suck at drawing people...just check out the maori surfer..he SUCKS...

I'll try to sketch a person...*try*

http://pandora114.deviantart.com/art...udgie-65846424

Parakeet it is sleeping....

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LJ:

Man, I wish someone had told me that instead of "No fantasy" when I did my portfolio. In any case, pulling the 4/5 wasn't a bad thing. I can tell you right now, not sure if they've revoked this, but 4 years ago when I did my portfolio -- The panel we sent our work to said "You cannot mix sculpting and 2D style art" which really gimped me.

My portfolio had the following:
1. Self-portrait in water colour -- I made sure to take advantage of the "rule of 3rds" in this.
2. A silhouette picture of my hands on a coloured background (the bands had intricate paisley like designs on them) and it was mostly to show my knowledge of colour schemes as recommended by the professor
3. A black and white pencil drawing of 3 eggs in a corner
4. An acrylic painting of women's upper halves seperated from their lower halves by a line (hard to explain) to show anatomical knowledge
5. Photography of someone getting their lip pierced (B&W, I won an award at my high school for it)
6. A photocollage of a woman drinking coffee
7. A portrait of a friend - oil painting
8. A black and white india inking of lips -- done in all horizontal lines
9. A watercolour of an elderly couple kissing
10. A black and white soft pastel landscape of SLC
11. A prismacolour marker (oh god, I love them) of a woman in a cafe -- it was retro looking. My mom has it framed somewhere in our storage closet.
12. An exaggerated picture of two koi fish done in india ink

I'm not saying do what I did, but thats an example of what my portfolio looked like. It scored me a fatty scholarship too.

MrsAlphaOne, a while ago Scarfgirl posted a sketch she did for critiquing. I recommend maybe doing that. It was great to have an entire group of people getting their input in. I really, really liked that idea!

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ooooh nice!

I just did one up... not comicbook anything though...I just took something simple...a parakeet lol *starts new thread*

thanks for the suggestions and advice..wow.

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A: I'm not in highschool. Havn't been for about 10 years now. The one I went to had no art program. None.

B: I was stupid when I left a place without taking pix of my clay work...I should email them and see if they have them still.

C: was thinking of taking a few beginners night courses to learn/relearn the basics. Since I am in obvious need of learning the basics....

Might be tl;dr if so Cliffnotes first: Wanna start up fine arts degree at local community college/university thingie. Need portfolio, not confident in skills to make portfolio, halp?

Long Story:

http://www.nic.bc.ca/calendar/fine_a...ts_and_design/

Now...I want to learn computer animation and well become a better artist. But, there's one *small* problem...other than getting the tuition for this course.

Portfolio...

I'm really REALLY not confident in my artistic abilities to even start one. How do I start one? What do I put in it? How much of what...KWIM?

Should I keep an eye out at the MFRC *military family resource center* for art courses so I can at least learn some basics? The highschool I went to did *Not* have any art courses at all. None. No art theory, history anything..well art history was mixed in with English lit...

I really need help. I *really* want this degree....I want to learn what they have there....

Toss ideas at me. I PROMISE I won't shoot them down. I WANT THIS SO BAD I CAN TASTE IT. I need help on how to upgrade my art skills. I'm more of a sculptor than a drawer/painter....but I *really* want to work in Computer animation. I do have a flair at creative writing too...

*head keyboard* So..many options...

Anyway, I want to get this all going, I have a few years at least (Call it my Five Year Plan comerades) because I don't plan on even *starting* this until my youngest is in school full time too.

BTW Here's what my work is like now:

http://pandora114.deviantart.com/art...urfer-64772029

Shudder at the horror.....

the Jabberwock was me! lol

I'm the one who handles in character interviews. And, unfortunately, I'm kinda, VERY Tied up right now. my husband is on the other side of the country, I'm stuck alone with two kids, and well, to be honest, it's a might bit difficult to do with a four year old nattering in your ear 24/7 and a nine month old clawing at your tit. (not to mention no sleep....)

Trust me, before my husband went away I had some decent output.

Right now, just logging into the game to check sales results in something catastrophic happening in my house due to my 4yo causing something to asplode. You should see my livingroom wall.

You'll get an in character interview from me this week...don't worry. But till you're willing to spring for a full time babysitter for me, my writing is well..very limited.

And short stories? I just wrote one. But it's DEFINITELY not Scoop safe lol.

Can I have your stuff? You won't have to fill out a green customs tag..

srsly though, good luck have fun, and GG...

*nom nom nom*

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We've had a few threads going on forum stuff... why not this one? I've heard of people waiting a year or more. I've also heard of people losing interest (both the artist and the person "requesting").

So, what do you think is an acceptable wait?

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I dunno. *looks at watch and taps foot*

I don't handle behind the mask, I handle Encounters, the roleplaying interviews...Teldon does the behind the Mask stuff....

Please stop...*cries into pillow*

ooooooooooooh

me likey

Crap. I dont have his standard PM/Email....

Teldon does Behind the Mask not me!!!!

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These are awesome! And I absolutely love the police drones XD

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Thanks! Everyone really seems to like that little guy. I have plans on making him a friend. I want to be able to offer that one to anyone who wants to buy it. My real dream is to make one that lights up. I have all the plans and everything, its just a matter of time, and trying to figure out how to hide the wires. =P

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LED's, one in each bubble , put a watch battery inside the main body of the drone, hook up each LED on a platform kinda like

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that

and place the LED Platform over the watch battery and put the police bubbles over...make sense??? all internal. you can reverse engineer any dollar store lightup toy to figure out how to get it all working

Ok; She got KO'd by a bomb blast during a raid on the Rikti mothership. A Magus saw her and dragged her inside to see if he could Riktify her into a Guardian or something. Her DNA, being from an even more alternate dimension than the Rikti, rejected their attempted modifications, and caused her to grow wings instead. The scarring on her face is a result of the bomb blast that originally knocked her out, and the burnt wings...well..realizing their failure, they tossed her out onto the mothership again during another assult. A bomb blast caught her again, and her wings caught fire....her villaingroup leader managed to drag her back to safety and..that's why she looks that way now.

Have at er.

Kahlan D'Rane rad/kin/scirocco corruptor. Recent casualty of the Rikti invasion and failed Rikti experiment.

I'd like to say I LOVE YOUR ART. Sorry to see you go

(edited: Didn't see that you picked people! sorry! lol)

poooo no Canadian shipping

so

Because

WANT...WANT SO BAD...