leonasright
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Some things you keep and somethings you just loose
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Post by leonasright on Apr 22, 2010 15:07:58 GMT
how do you add your fan art again?? I am being dumb!
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Post by digikitty on Apr 22, 2010 21:11:06 GMT
Done! And it only took me a really long amount of time. Again Kat dressed as some guy from left 4 dead 2. I cannot say enough just how much I love your art.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Apr 23, 2010 0:42:00 GMT
how do you add your fan art again?? I am being dumb! Upload the pic to a website like photobucket or imageshack. After that, the site should give you a url for linking to the picture. Either you can paste it as a link, or stick it between two image tags like so: [img]http://sample-url[/img] to display the picture in your post.
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Post by cheddarius on Apr 23, 2010 2:26:22 GMT
I like TinyUrl, myself. It is very fast and does not have forced registering or obstrusive ads or whatnot (granted, other services may also have these features), and I find it really hard to remember whether it's photoshack.us or imagebucket.org or photohost.com or whatnot.
Also, regardless of what format you use, it's recommended to save the file into .png format. This is because hosting sites, wanting to save storage, could compress them into .jpg format, which is pretty good for huge photos but truly terrible, like Boxbot, for anything else. It blends neighboring colors into freakish pixelly abominations.
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Post by Mr Pitchfork on Apr 24, 2010 6:42:46 GMT
Copyright is a bunch of whooey. Intellectual property is completely intangible and, itself, has absolutely no value except to the people who want it, and making people pay for it is jerkish and exploitative against the people who like you. I am seriously all for giving money to good artists to encourage them, though.
Books and CD's and things like that have a physical value, they cost real money to produce. It makes sense to sell these things because, otherwise, they cannot be produced.
However, selling Gunnerkrigg Court T-Shirts for personal profit is seriously jerkish because it is exploiting all of Tom's efforts and leaving him out of the loop.
On recent topic: I don't like posting images larger than a forum signature directly onto the board because it makes the page load longer and uses up alot of bandwidth at once. Perhaps I should stop being a hypocrite and reduce the size of my avatar.
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Post by nikita on Apr 24, 2010 10:04:13 GMT
Problem is: Most people only use the discussion as an excuse to not ever paying anything to anybody.
Problem #2 is: The production of intellectual property like films does cost real money too.
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leonasright
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Some things you keep and somethings you just loose
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Post by leonasright on Apr 24, 2010 10:11:37 GMT
thanks guys n gals
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Post by alexscott on Apr 25, 2010 2:47:12 GMT
Hi there, y'all. I've been following this thread for a while, and I now have something to contribute. I was doodling in my sketchbook a while back, and came up with a drawing of Zimmy wearing a Dracula cape. I immediately wanted to see a full image of Zimmy fighting a Belmont, from the Castlevania series. And winning.
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Post by cheddarius on Apr 25, 2010 4:10:21 GMT
This is a sweatshirt I made. I think it came out pretty well, barring the fact that the background paint didn't quite match the original sweatshirt color. Immense props to Mezzaphor for his help in creating this.
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Post by Mr Pitchfork on Apr 25, 2010 4:48:38 GMT
See, THAT'S better than a company logo on one's clothes.
Great drawing, alexscott.
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Mesías
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Shine on You crazy Diamond!
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Post by Mesías on Apr 25, 2010 5:00:13 GMT
Hi there, y'all. I've been following this thread for a while, and I now have something to contribute. I was doodling in my sketchbook a while back, and came up with a drawing of Zimmy wearing a Dracula cape. I immediately wanted to see a full image of Zimmy fighting a Belmont, from the Castlevania series. And winning. Ahahahaha. "What is a man?"
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Post by bookworm on Apr 25, 2010 19:44:28 GMT
Ugh, there are so many things wrong with this, but here it is... Doodled this in my sketchbook a while ago, then was bored one day and colored it in. Inspired by the current chapter, obviously It's hard to tell, but that white thing is a spiderweb and Jack is scratching his head (got lazy with the oars xD).
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Post by Refugee on Apr 25, 2010 20:13:19 GMT
I like it; it has a dreamy (nightmarish?), impressionistic feel to it.
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Post by cazador on Apr 25, 2010 23:53:30 GMT
Ugh, there are so many things wrong with this, but here it is... Doodled this in my sketchbook a while ago, then was bored one day and colored it in. Inspired by the current chapter, obviously It's hard to tell, but that white thing is a spiderweb and Jack is scratching his head (got lazy with the oars xD). he dropped an oar.
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Post by rawrmander on Apr 26, 2010 17:28:12 GMT
Some context: it's 1am, I'm looking through this thread and decide to try something I haven't done since 6th grade art class: draw. I grab the nearest piece of paper to me, and the nearest pen. Then decide to draw my fellow Pole Gamma. Then not wanting to test my artistic capabilities, decided to draw something simple, Mort and Boxbot. This: Is what I was looking at in order to umm... Only term I remember that would make sense is "freehand tracing" as mentioned in the picture above. I used this: To refer to Mort Boxbot was from memory.
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Post by the bandit on Apr 26, 2010 17:32:26 GMT
He certainly has a terrible way of searing himself there, with scars that will never heal but are easy to trace from.
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Post by cheddarius on Apr 27, 2010 3:37:21 GMT
I'm trying to find a font that will suit Gunnerkrigg Court and Gillitie Woods. For GKC, I'm thinking the one from the first page - what do you guys think? Is it fitting? Is it possible to make a good stencil out of it (I'm thinking it could be too thin to make a proper stencil)? What about for Gillitie Woods?
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Post by Mezzaphor on Apr 27, 2010 6:03:29 GMT
By "the one from the first page", do you mean the comic's title font? That's (a slightly modified version of) Spirit Medium.
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Post by cheddarius on Apr 27, 2010 7:05:15 GMT
Ah, yes, that one. Is it possible to make a decent stencil of such a thin letter?
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Post by Tobu Ishi on Apr 27, 2010 9:13:25 GMT
You should feel grateful she has this much self control. ‘Sides, she could be shipping something a LOT worse. Case in point: (I blame Tom for this completely. I am quite fond of Zimmy and Gamma; if he would just stop making wry little jokes about this, I would never have been bunnied, I'm sure.) What? He just likes her smile, that's all.
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Post by legion on Apr 27, 2010 10:57:00 GMT
Haha, awesome, Tobu Ishi.
Zimmy doesn't seem very pleased.
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Post by Tobu Ishi on Apr 27, 2010 11:06:36 GMT
Oh, Zimmy is consummately unimpressed with our man Jack. Did anyone expect otherwise? XD;
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Post by the bandit on Apr 27, 2010 17:06:39 GMT
More like ShutX--whoa, cool pic. I like your style.
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Post by cheddarius on Apr 29, 2010 5:53:10 GMT
Ho ho ho.
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Post by Mezzaphor on Apr 29, 2010 13:27:01 GMT
Nice.
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Post by cheddarius on Apr 29, 2010 14:03:34 GMT
Man, this one was so difficult. The other one was basically just one stencil for each side, but this one was... about 20 stencils total, of which I used probably 10.
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Post by raddishh on Apr 30, 2010 19:59:17 GMT
citlalicue, that painting is fantastic! Wow, I am in awe. Recent events have me going at it again... The more of a dick Jack is, the more I love him. (I'm one of those people who can never seem to draw a character the same way twice, which is why they look so different from last time.)
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Post by legion on Apr 30, 2010 23:36:08 GMT
HAHAHAHA OH GOD. Awesome
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Post by Mr Pitchfork on May 1, 2010 1:35:09 GMT
I'm trying to find a font that will suit Gunnerkrigg Court and Gillitie Woods. For GKC, I'm thinking the one from the first page - what do you guys think? Is it fitting? Is it possible to make a good stencil out of it (I'm thinking it could be too thin to make a proper stencil)? What about for Gillitie Woods? If possible, do it by hand. It will look better.
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Post by digikitty on May 1, 2010 1:43:21 GMT
Raddish, once again I must say just how much you rock!
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