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Offline Tash

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for all ye with an eye
on: January 12, 2005, 09:30:25 AM
my latest creation, not much, but is more focused on my cartoonish/illustrative side, based on my imagination. so for all the can see this (which i think would be everybody considering you're reading this) tell me what you think of this little fairy/pixie whatever she is- like do you find the style appealing? is there anything that irritates you, or looks wrong? i'm just attempting to perfect my style here a bit more and i'm either overly critical or too blind to see it myself, so any comments you have are bril thanks all :)

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Re: for all ye with an eye
Reply #1 on: January 12, 2005, 11:04:00 AM
Nice, Tash!

You certainly have a gift for drawing!

Just a few initial impressions:

She seems a little too stick-like for my taste (maybe it's just me)... maybe a few more curves so we know whe doesn't have an eating disorder?  ;)

Does she have arms?  I can only see part of one arm.

The eye on the left side looks a bit cocked.  I love the eye on the right side, and if the other one looked like a mirror image of that on the right, it'd be perfect.


Overall, I really like it/her/pixie/fairy/whatever...  ;D
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Reply #2 on: January 12, 2005, 12:32:08 PM
Nice, Tash!

You certainly have a gift for drawing!

Just a few initial impressions:

She seems a little too stick-like for my taste (maybe it's just me)... maybe a few more curves so we know whe doesn't have an eating disorder?  ;)

Does she have arms?  I can only see part of one arm.

The eye on the left side looks a bit cocked.  I love the eye on the right side, and if the other one looked like a mirror image of that on the right, it'd be perfect.


Overall, I really like it/her/pixie/fairy/whatever...  ;D


Wow! I wish I could draw. The postition (not size...lol...are kinda big though) of the feet are a little weird...try doing that with your feet. I realy like the abnormal proportions though, the wings, and ears, and the feet...gives it character. It needs a name!....um...Anorexic Elf with Massive Footsies...maybe?...no?

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Reply #3 on: January 13, 2005, 02:23:04 AM
Cute.

Big head.  Looks kinda like a female alien, esp with the pointy ears.  No nose! 

Big eyes are nice.

Big feet looks a little wierd.  (Needs more clothing)


It's very good though.


After reading other comments, she does look a little like a one of those twiggy, starving models.  Yes, her left eye does look a little larger.  I see both arms.  Although looking odd would be ok for some elf creature.  Are those wings?  I thought that was the tied up part like a bow of the dress.  The position of the lower half could be a little more 'proper.'  Those feet look a little "goblin-ish" and reminds me of Gollum from the Hobbit cartoon.


Impressive though.  How long does it take to learn to draw like that?  What do you use to make something like that?


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Re: for all ye with an eye
Reply #4 on: January 13, 2005, 03:02:46 AM
lol thanks all i'll just settle a few things

1) she's holding her arms behind her back, which is why you can't fully see them

2) yes i have stuffed up the left eye, i always manage to mess it up, however it doesn't look as retarded in the actual drawing

3) i have had a thing in my forever-long obsession with drawing cartoons that they are always very anorexic-looking, but i can't help it! it just seems to be the way they are, cos if i try making them fatter they look retarded.

4) i was testing largish feet to make it maybe look a bit more whimsical or something, but i think i shall ditch them again

5) she has a nose! it's just a little diagonal slant that you can barely see- if i gave her a normal looking nose it's just wrong

6) the leg position i also know is a bit off i wasn't really sure what i was doing there

and big head is just another inevitable characteristic of my drawing, i'm trying to work on that. the wings are wings yes, she's not fully a fairy because of that, they're to me more pixie-ish wings.

and bob- it's just pencil, i've been drawing little things like this basically my entire life, and i have it documented from about yr7 (12yrs) and it's so funny to see the change and improvements i've gone through! i could give you a whole visual essay of my pics haha

it's good, everything you've all mentioned are things i'm aware of that could do with fixing, so i'm not missing anything, so super duper thanks heaps!
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Re: for all ye with an eye
Reply #5 on: January 13, 2005, 04:34:47 AM
hmm...





...tinkerbell..
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Re: for all ye with an eye
Reply #6 on: January 13, 2005, 06:37:12 AM
The eyes look good and give her character. The only thing that struck my eye were the ears' proportions, as in being too symmetrical vertically. I don't understand all the talk about "eating disorders", that's a fantasy character and doesn't necessarily have the same problems that we have in real life. It is a fairy tale, not socialistic realism.

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Reply #7 on: January 13, 2005, 10:47:43 AM
it's not tinkerbell! she's nicer than tinkerbell!

hmmm yes they should be bigger at the top i'll fix that.

and then yeah i was thinking about it and realised that pixies don't eat meat or anything so i guess they would be pretty thin, they generally are in other people's depiction, so i'll probably keep doing that (not that i have a choice!)
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Re: for all ye with an eye
Reply #8 on: January 13, 2005, 12:43:13 PM
I don't understand all the talk about "eating disorders", that's a fantasy character and doesn't necessarily have the same problems that we have in real life. It is a fairy tale, not socialistic realism.

My comment about "eating disorders" was meant as a joke to point out that the character was a little thinner than I preferred.  Of course I know the drawing is not meant to be a realistic model, that would be absurd.  It's just personal preference, I think.
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Reply #9 on: January 13, 2005, 02:53:50 PM
My comment about "eating disorders" was meant as a joke to point out that the character was a little thinner than I preferred.  Of course I know the drawing is not meant to be a realistic model, that would be absurd.

Yeah of course.

I just get overly agitated from common conceptions of what is right and wrong. Like the "Catastrophe In Asia", I see it on news, I hear about it everywhere, its a hot topic. People on streets are approached and asked "What do you think about the Catastrophe In Asia?", "What are your feelings on Catastrophe In Asia?" - what can they answer? They'll say just what they're expected to. Its a rhetorical question which only exists to "prove" that we "care" thus making us feel hell of a lot better. Suffering is bad, good that we all agree! Now I'm only bringing this in as an example of the stabilization effect of consensus; anorexia seems to be theoretically despicable, but practically obtainable. We're making many things such big deals that they get tangled up with unrelated issues and the fear of being labeled as a supporter of unhealthy, unorthodox, etc., way of life/appearance/whatever, stops us from ever actually think through the subject, when the majority has already decided what the outcome should be. These issues are being held up to confirm the direction of the masses' thoughts and to strengthen idealism favourable for the "status quo".

Was the Catastrophe In Asia devastating? Yes.
Do I care? Yes.
Did I know anyone who died? No.
Am I really capable of fully empathizing? No.
Have natural disasters occured before? Yes.
Will natural disasters occur in the future? Yes.
Are there numerous people who could use our help everyday but don't get as much attention as the Catastrophe In Asia? Yes.

It doesn't matter if we're capable of caring and empathizing, as long as everyone assumes everyone does care and empathize. A lie becomes the truth when everyone believes in it and lives it.

Doesn't it relieve your conscience when you can just say you "care" and "feel the pain", when the media has our attention focused on a single misfortune in certain moment in time, granting us freedom from our responsibility to make better choices everyday, being part of the shortsighted consumer culture that will sooner or later ruin living conditions on Earth due to our own idiocy, not because nature wipes out a fraction of us once in a while. Well, "at least I cared."

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Re: for all ye with an eye
Reply #10 on: January 13, 2005, 09:22:21 PM


Yeah of course.

I just get overly agitated from common conceptions of what is right and wrong. Like the "Catastrophe In Asia", I see it on news, I hear about it everywhere, its a hot topic. People on streets are approached and asked "What do you think about the Catastrophe In Asia?", "What are your feelings on Catastrophe In Asia?" - what can they answer? They'll say just what they're expected to. Its a rhetorical question which only exists to "prove" that we "care" thus making us feel hell of a lot better. Suffering is bad, good that we all agree! Now I'm only bringing this in as an example of the stabilization effect of consensus; anorexia seems to be theoretically despicable, but practically obtainable. We're making many things such big deals that they get tangled up with unrelated issues and the fear of being labeled as a supporter of unhealthy, unorthodox, etc., way of life/appearance/whatever, stops us from ever actually think through the subject, when the majority has already decided what the outcome should be. These issues are being held up to confirm the direction of the masses' thoughts and to strengthen idealism favourable for the "status quo".

Was the Catastrophe In Asia devastating? Yes.
Do I care? Yes.
Did I know anyone who died? No.
Am I really capable of fully empathizing? No.
Have natural disasters occured before? Yes.
Will natural disasters occur in the future? Yes.
Are there numerous people who could use our help everyday but don't get as much attention as the Catastrophe In Asia? Yes.

It doesn't matter if we're capable of caring and empathizing, as long as everyone assumes everyone does care and empathize. A lie becomes the truth when everyone believes in it and lives it.

Doesn't it relieve your conscience when you can just say you "care" and "feel the pain", when the media has our attention focused on a single misfortune in certain moment in time, granting us freedom from our responsibility to make better choices everyday, being part of the shortsighted consumer culture that will sooner or later ruin living conditions on Earth due to our own idiocy, not because nature wipes out a fraction of us once in a while. Well, "at least I cared."


All of this from a whimsical drawing? It seems you've been holding some of this in for a long time...

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Re: for all ye with an eye
Reply #11 on: January 13, 2005, 10:36:00 PM


3) i have had a thing in my forever-long obsession with drawing cartoons that they are always very anorexic-looking, but i can't help it! it just seems to be the way they are, cos if i try making them fatter they look retarded.


I tend to find anorexic women kind of sexy.   I  don't like the porkier ones, I kind of think they tend to look retarded, too.
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Re: for all ye with an eye
Reply #12 on: January 13, 2005, 11:32:15 PM
Do ignore Egon.  He sometimes likes to stir things up just for for sport.  It's a shame.

Tash, I can't draw, so it looks fabulous to me, really.  Do you have any more art you'd like to share?

I take everyone's comments about how certain things look out of proportion, but . . . she's not real.  She's allowed to look out of proportion.  If Tash changed things to make her look more realistic, she'd be boring, IMHO.

Hmmmm.  Maybe I'll take up drawing.  I have a copy of "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain."  Or is it "Left Side?"  Anyway, it's a wonderful skill to have.

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Reply #13 on: January 14, 2005, 12:24:06 AM
Hmmmm.  Maybe I'll take up drawing.  I have a copy of "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain."  Or is it "Left Side?" 

Cindy:

Please, don't diminish the girl's talent.  Praise her for her acomplishment.  Don't make this thread about YOU and what YOU could or can't do. 

Buy your books, draw your pictures, maybe show them here.  But please let this thread (at least,) be about this girls fine talent,  not your ego.   >:(....... :(.......:'(
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Re: for all ye with an eye
Reply #14 on: January 14, 2005, 01:07:10 AM
oh i don't mind i interfere in enough threads about my own blah so if others want to do so then they can, in fact if anyone else has any art by all means put it up in here!
ok i drew another one yesterday


avoided drawing the left eye altogether haha, and the legs are still wacked cos i culdn't be bothered fixing them!

cindy i've already started a few other threads with some other art if you feel like checking them out

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,5406.0.html

https://pianoforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,4240.0.html

any comments you have are most appreciated!

willcowskitz you sound like my dad  ;)
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Re: for all ye with an eye
Reply #15 on: January 14, 2005, 02:50:33 AM
hmm I think cyclops pixie needs the other eye for sure, tash

and the wings sort of look like thought balloons -Maybe you would like to have them more butterfly like.., but otherwise it's cute!  I like it more than the anorexia one

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Re: for all ye with an eye
Reply #16 on: January 14, 2005, 03:07:08 AM

OMG Tash!   lol....  I hope it's not too much work to make these drawings.  It's kind of cool to see the evolution of the character though.

lol...

Personally, I find those long, whispy elf characters a little creepy.

(looks at new drawing.  Thinks its cool to critique these drawings.)
hmmm....
Still cute.  Starting to look a little too human maybe?

Much rounder this time, the wings, the chin...

The hair looks really soft.  I imagine that must be pretty difficult to achieve.


lol... I was wondering if you were trying to avoid drawing the other eye.  I've heard some artists have difficulty with hands so they just hide them.


This one has a much softer look.  Must be the roundness. 

hmmm... Both are looking off to the viewer's right.

The wings need something.  They look more drawn then the rest.  And the feet.  But I've seen art that leaves some parts less developed so the viewer focuses on what is meant to be emphasized.

I notice the left side of her face has more detail, the eye and ear.

That's all I can think of for now.  They're both very good.
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Reply #17 on: January 14, 2005, 12:40:34 PM
All of this from a whimsical drawing? It seems you've been holding some of this in for a long time...

DLu,

All that from the common conceptions of what you're Supposed To look like, and the same phenomenon of replacing actual thoughts by readily baked packages, related to what you're Supposed To think and how it deteriorates actual thinking. I got carried away from the actual subject (the drawing), but on a followable path. Do you think I should have left all that unsaid?

What comes to the first drawing, it is obvious that she's not anorectic, but small-boned. If you look at the relations of her limbs' and other parts' roundness to the width of her body's parts overall, its obvious that she's probably eaten enough to keep that small body functioning at it's best. Her bones aren't sticking out, there's nothing that would imply anorexia except for the thin body structure that is not comparable to humans' proportions, and is therefore in itself an absurd inclination.

Anorexia-phobia is just another form of the intolerance-mentality gaining more grounds nowadays. For example; People who don't smoke tobacco, obviously find the smoke of it disgusting, and because it is unhealthy to smoke, it is easy to bend people's mind into hating the smoke so much that it doesn't necessarily anymore stand on real grounds from the personal perspective of a non-smoker, but rather is a weapon used to drive through an "Opinion of Righteousness", that would be forced upon every individual with the help from the majority that has been aggravated into irrational heights of loathe and despise towards the smokers. Medically, smokers have no objections to this opinion, which is not the point. Whether you smoke or not, is your choice - whether you quit or not, is also your choice. If you go out to eat once a week and passively breathe small amounts of tobacco smoke, its not any more dangerous than the fact that you live in a city, so used to the exhaust fumes from motorized vehicles that you don't even realize what toxics you're predisposing yourself to daily. Medical, health reasons are not the main issue for passive smokers who have to suffer from the smoke. Channeling their aggressions via intolerance at the same time gaining security from other members of the same school and being used as a tool of a massive opinion-unifying campaign which would see the world to be best and most efficient if there only existed one type of people, with one type of personality, that only make choices that are already commonly approved, are their issues.



tash,

Have you ever tried cartooning, or writing in correlation with drawing in general?

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Reply #18 on: January 14, 2005, 01:34:00 PM
It's fascinating how people react differently to different drawings!

Regarding the eye,  I'd like to see a teensy bit of eye peeking out behind the bang, just to confirm that she has another eye.

The wings, I think, require some texture.  Mmmm, maybe some long bony things, or an angular shape at the top?  Hard to say . . .

And I gotta say, I still like the rather stylish legs on the first one, along with the elongated feet.  The skirt on the second one is very nice.

In case I wasn't clear in my prior remarks, I think your art is fabulous. 

Hey, wait!  I already *did* say they were fabulous!  ;)  Well, let's say fabulous and excellent, then!  Are you self-taught?

I'll have a look at the others . . .   Thanks for the link!

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Reply #19 on: January 14, 2005, 02:43:27 PM
Great drawings! 

I draw a bit too, but certainly not as good as you. 

I like the first one the most.  The way she's standing there gives her a sort of naughty look  :)

I've checked out your other artwork too.  It rocks! You got some amazing talent. 

You make my drawings look so amateurish  :-[ 
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Reply #20 on: January 14, 2005, 09:15:20 PM


Do you think I should have left all that unsaid?



No, I don't. I was actually impressed with your insights not aggitated by them.
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Reply #21 on: January 14, 2005, 10:29:16 PM
omg this is all seriously good people i'm highly impressed with all your comments, like i now actually have stuff to work on rather than just drawing the same blah over and over again.

adressing the problems- yes complete avoidance of the eye and hands mwahaha that's the way to go- if you can't draw it then just hide it! i hate drawing hands they're exceptionally annoying

the wings are basically like that because i'm lazy and haven't bothered mastering buterfly wings yet- but they are soon to come! hmm maybe i'll work on that today.

bob- the hair probably looks soft because- my top secret method haha- i use a smudger thingy, which is like this pencil-shaped piece of soft fibre stuff, i'm not really sure, kinda like when you make paper when you rip up old pieces of paper and mish it all together? and so it just blends the pencil marks to make it softer, it's my fave object!

they take a small while to do, i'm not sure how long exactly cos i tend to stop and come back to it later, maybe between 30 mins and and hr? but that's cos i tend to rub out and redo a lot of it. but i love it so it's ok!

and as for the rest of you drawers, it all just takes a lot of practice, so provided you persevere, you should be able to draw anything you like! you wanna see what these originally started off as? well maybe not completely originally, but when i started obsessivley drawing characters in little notebooks back when i was 15

https://tinypic.com/193wnc

big change eh?!

willcowskitz- i totally agree with what you're saying, jeez you've gone more into the physical details of the pixie more than i have! i haven't really tried cartooning before- i wanted to do an animation elective at uni this year but wanted to do etching more so might do it next year. do you mean by 'writing in corrolation with drawing' as in like writing a book on drawing or something? i promised my friend i'd write a book and call it 'how to draw apples morphing into black boxes and other things', after she had to draw such a thing for her graphic design course and she hates drawing, so i wrote her this massive email on how to draw the apple! but for now i'm sticking with my plan on being the illustrator of books- just wait, in another 4years or so hopefully you'll see books with my illustrations in them!
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Reply #22 on: January 15, 2005, 12:53:42 AM
tash, I like your first drawing.  It's a fantasy drawing, so I don't feel the proportions need to look real.  And nobody has symmetrical eyes, or ears, so any minor differences in those things just give her character.

 I like lines you have used to suggest her torso - the arch to her back, and the way her legs flow down to her feet.  Her feet have a nice gesture to them,  (much better than the second drawing) - the whole thing has sort of a "fashion drawing" feel to it.   It's good.   

The only thing I might change is the way her hair is falling in front of her neck.  It's a bit distracting, I'd rather see it off to the side a tad, with maybe part of it hanging behind her shoulder.

Keep up the good work!

:)  Jodi

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Reply #23 on: January 15, 2005, 01:03:50 AM
tash, keep at it ! You have some real talent.

And listen to jodi and any advice she offers. She herself is a wonderful artist and knows her stuff! :)

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Reply #24 on: January 15, 2005, 07:10:57 AM
oh is she now well i think she should put up some pics then!

ok i've been playing with wings today this is what i've come up with



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are these wings better? i don't think i like the first one's, hmm will work on it further later...
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Reply #25 on: January 15, 2005, 09:42:44 AM
oh is she now well i think she should put up some pics then!

ok i've been playing with wings today this is what i've come up with



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are these wings better? i don't think i like the first one's, hmm will work on it further later...


Tash,

I think all of your drawings are amazing. I can't give you any critical comments, only encouragement. Keep it up!  :-*

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Reply #26 on: January 15, 2005, 09:51:25 AM

People who don't smoke tobacco, obviously find the smoke of it disgusting, and because it is unhealthy to smoke, it is easy to bend people's mind into hating the smoke so much that it doesn't necessarily anymore stand on real grounds from the personal perspective of a non-smoker, but rather is a weapon used to drive through an "Opinion of Righteousness", that would be forced upon every individual with the help from the majority that has been aggravated into irrational heights of loathe and despise towards the smokers. Medically, smokers have no objections to this opinion, which is not the point. Whether you smoke or not, is your choice - whether you quit or not, is also your choice. If you go out to eat once a week and passively breathe small amounts of tobacco smoke, its not any more dangerous than the fact that you live in a city, so used to the exhaust fumes from motorized vehicles that you don't even realize what toxics you're predisposing yourself to daily. Medical, health reasons are not the main issue for passive smokers who have to suffer from the smoke. Channeling their aggressions via intolerance at the same time gaining security from other members of the same school and being used as a tool of a massive opinion-unifying campaign which would see the world to be best and most efficient if there only existed one type of people, with one type of personality, that only make choices that are already commonly approved, are their issues.


Willcowskitz,

Are you trying to tell me that the annoyance I feel when a smoker lights up near me and pollutes my breathing air with the disgusting second hand smoke is merely an “Opinion of Righteousness”? That I should accept I have already subjected myself to daily toxins of city life so the ‘extra’ bit of aggravation forced upon me by an ignorant smoker in my vicinity should be tolerated? After all, it’s their choice to smoke or not isn’t it? Where is MY choice in the matter? Do they ask for my preference BEFORE lighting up and robbing me of my personal smoke free area?

>Medical, health reasons are not the main issue for passive smokers
>who have to suffer from the smoke

Who appointed you speaker on my behalf? I find the smoke annoying and I couldn’t care less if all the scientists in the world agreed it wasn’t harmful. It makes my clothes STINK as well, I couldn’t care less what the medical repercussions of that are either.

If you choose to smoke, that's fine. Just don't do it near me.

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Reply #27 on: January 15, 2005, 12:41:44 PM
piano_learner,

I'm not trying to tell YOU anything, I'm speaking generally, and if you don't feel you fall within the picture that I painted of mindlessly irritable non-smokers, then feel free to not associate my description with yourself.

What is this "personal smoke free area" anyway? In restaurants, in Finland at least, there are smoke free areas and smoking areas, although because of dumb air conditioning (concerning the positions of these two areas) and directions of air currents, smoke usually wanders to the non-smokers area. So where can you really put limits to what is "your personal area", if you're outside in public places, unless as I said it is made obvious what you're allowed to do within certain area.

Again, I'm not speaking for YOU, but it sounds like you're easily irritated from the smoke. When I was a kid, I couldn't stand the smoke in restaurants, for the obvious reason that I had a child's young, healthy and pure lungs that I wanted to protect as well as possible from external poisons, and of course because the smoke is disgusting and smells of death. When I grew older, I just learnt not to breathe it if somebody was smoking not too near around, and instead just tolerate it. The annoyance that people get from the smoke is inspired by the opinion of masses that create an internal system of opinion of their own that will give it's participants a feeling of being approved and having the Right Opinion over the objecters, and to change things to their liking without having to adapt themselves to their environment, they label smokers as something dirty and even worthy of directing your hate towards.

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Re: for all ye with an eye
Reply #28 on: January 15, 2005, 03:47:13 PM
Impressive Tash!:)
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Reply #29 on: January 15, 2005, 08:14:52 PM
oh is she now well i think she should put up some pics then!

ok i've been playing with wings today this is what i've come up with



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are these wings better? i don't think i like the first one's, hmm will work on it further later...

Love the eyes and hair of the second one. I like both pairs of wings! Keep experimenting! I would love to see one of these in motion (ie not just standing there).

DLu

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Reply #30 on: January 15, 2005, 10:07:25 PM
Yeah, movement would look good too.  It looks like the character has certain position with it though.

Some graceful ballerina move might look nice.

Or something with music -- walking on the keyboard?  Sitting or sliding on a staff maybe?
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Reply #31 on: January 16, 2005, 02:28:20 AM
ah yes you're all thinking the same as me- doing something other than standing there was my next thing to get to. the thing with making them do something is that there is greater potential of stuffing it up thus i like to avoid that too! but will play with that today
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Reply #32 on: January 16, 2005, 03:08:23 AM
Well just start simple?
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Reply #33 on: January 16, 2005, 04:38:54 PM
Have a look at this. You're not the only one here with artistic abilities....schmwubmahahahahahahaha.

https://tinypic.com/view.html?pic=19pc2o

I kid, I kid,

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Reply #34 on: January 16, 2005, 07:09:59 PM
Have a look at this. You're not the only one here with artistic abilities....schmwubmahahahahahahaha.

https://tinypic.com/view.html?pic=19pc2o

I kid, I kid,

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lol

Tash, the drawings look terrific!  I think the legs have improved, too.  I don't know if you shortened them or what, but I like!


Next step... ANIMATION! lol just kidding...  :P
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Re: for all ye with an eye
Reply #35 on: January 16, 2005, 07:11:56 PM
oh is she now well i think she should put up some pics then!

ok i've been playing with wings today this is what i've come up with



and



are these wings better? i don't think i like the first one's, hmm will work on it further later...



I have gone through phases of drawing all sorts of things with wings (they're not really over) ... butterfly-wings, dragonfly-wings, bird-wings, bee-wings, scaled reptilian wings ... you name it =P
Mostly they come out as variations thereof, but if you're unsatisfied with whatever you can come up with out of your own creativity, I strongly recommend looking at some wildlife photographs and sketching some of the shapes!  Nature is the best artist, after all.

Nice work, though.  I love your paintings, especially --- keep it up!


If anyone's curious, here are some examples of my stuff:
https://www.efficacio.us/kimg/gift.gif
https://www.efficacio.us/kimg/draw.gif
https://www.efficacio.us/kimg/04_11_14.jpg
https://www.efficacio.us/kimg/drawing..gif (can you see the saxophone?)
https://www.efficacio.us/kimg/fairisfoulandfoulisfair.jpg

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Reply #36 on: January 16, 2005, 11:08:34 PM
oh too cool nice pics noelle! you go into a lot more detail than me. that's like the stuff i would like to do, all the really whimsical bizarre stuff, except i don't really think it's my kind of style which is a shame.

hey look at the ads at the bottom we've got cartoons and animation now!!
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Reply #37 on: January 17, 2005, 12:06:20 AM
Tash, your drawings keep getting better and better. I especially like the way the wind seems to have caught the dress in #3. I too would love to see some of them engaged in a bit of activity, or sitting instead of standing.

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Reply #38 on: January 17, 2005, 12:21:30 AM




I have gone through phases of drawing all sorts of things with wings (they're not really over) ... butterfly-wings, dragonfly-wings, bird-wings, bee-wings, scaled reptilian wings ... you name it =P
Mostly they come out as variations thereof, but if you're unsatisfied with whatever you can come up with out of your own creativity, I strongly recommend looking at some wildlife photographs and sketching some of the shapes!  Nature is the best artist, after all.

Nice work, though.  I love your paintings, especially --- keep it up!


If anyone's curious, here are some examples of my stuff:
https://www.efficacio.us/kimg/gift.gif
https://www.efficacio.us/kimg/draw.gif
https://www.efficacio.us/kimg/04_11_14.jpg
https://www.efficacio.us/kimg/drawing..gif (can you see the saxophone?)
https://www.efficacio.us/kimg/fairisfoulandfoulisfair.jpg

what is this saxophone you speak of....can't find it

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Re: for all ye with an eye
Reply #39 on: January 17, 2005, 12:34:27 AM


what is this saxophone you speak of....can't find it


https://www.efficacio.us/kimg/saxophone.gif

All of the buttons etc. are part of her/her dress.

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Reply #40 on: January 19, 2005, 07:14:13 AM
ok this is really rough, but a non-just standing one!

https://tinypic.com/1e7wj4
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Reply #41 on: January 19, 2005, 09:41:19 PM
ok this is really rough, but a non-just standing one!

https://tinypic.com/1e7wj4

Great! Love the legs ;D! Could make the outfit more interesting though...
DLu

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Reply #42 on: January 19, 2005, 11:54:57 PM
ok this is really rough, but a non-just standing one!

https://tinypic.com/1e7wj4
er...
what's that she is holding in her hands?
( ;D)

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Reply #43 on: January 20, 2005, 02:41:14 AM
she's holding onto an unfinishedly drawn bar!
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Reply #44 on: January 20, 2005, 05:43:40 AM
ohhh..thats different

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Reply #45 on: January 20, 2005, 10:15:41 AM
lol you turned your fairy/pixy into a ballerina!

Nice!
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