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egypturnashBrowsing art-related message boards. So many topics are "how do I do this?" "how do I do that?" "how do I do this?".
And half the time the same two answers apply: RTFM, or Analyze Photo Reference.
And I keep being a helpful, wise, nice person and either telling the person what feature they want to use, or repeating "use photo ref". I don't usually go so far as to hunt down photo ref, as people are likely to do on the Yerf how-to board.
After a while, though, I just want to smack some of these people and say "Look at the other damn posts some, the same damn question just got worked to death in another thread! And no, I won't give you a link - do some fucking research, you funktard!"
The other half of the questions usually are answered in one word: "Practice".
Why do I keep replying to these sorts of threads?
Maybe I need to persuade the people who run these various boards to add hooks for this to 'em and at least get some proto-Whuffie out of it.
And half the time the same two answers apply: RTFM, or Analyze Photo Reference.
And I keep being a helpful, wise, nice person and either telling the person what feature they want to use, or repeating "use photo ref". I don't usually go so far as to hunt down photo ref, as people are likely to do on the Yerf how-to board.
After a while, though, I just want to smack some of these people and say "Look at the other damn posts some, the same damn question just got worked to death in another thread! And no, I won't give you a link - do some fucking research, you funktard!"
The other half of the questions usually are answered in one word: "Practice".
Why do I keep replying to these sorts of threads?
Maybe I need to persuade the people who run these various boards to add hooks for this to 'em and at least get some proto-Whuffie out of it.
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Date: 2003-01-29 03:47 pm (UTC)reenactment:
(6_6).oO(holy shit the second toe does stick out a little...)
And although Illustrator still makes me goes "What the- DAMN YOU!! *smack smack smack*" Your illustrator tutorial from VCL helped me a lot too, until I gave up.
See I'm grateful! I appreciate you! Especially when I think photoshop can't make proper transparencies and then you tell me how it can and I feel like a tool.
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Date: 2003-01-29 04:47 pm (UTC)Plus the voyage of discovery feels unique to each blessed little bumkin as they bumble along.
Plus we love you.
Plus how do you convert paths to vectors?
Just kidding. Have a hermit. It's made with chocolate chips and stuff.
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Date: 2003-01-29 10:54 pm (UTC)1. Chew through your computer's power cord with your teeth.
2. Smash the monitor screen with your bare fist.
3. Get on the floor and run in circles like Curly. Going 'Woowhoowoowoowoo!' is optional.
4. Head + traintrack = vector success!
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Date: 2003-01-30 07:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-30 09:29 am (UTC)I'm sure your cookies are lovely... I'm just not hungry for sweets right now. I only hunger for death!
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Date: 2003-01-29 06:03 pm (UTC)^^
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Date: 2003-01-29 10:52 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2003-01-29 11:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-29 09:34 pm (UTC)If you wondered.
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Date: 2003-01-29 10:49 pm (UTC)Nobody trusts you! You must be a spammer.
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Date: 2003-01-29 11:07 pm (UTC)hey guys somethin new from me
Date: 2003-01-29 09:56 pm (UTC)plz ignore the fact you can't see her hands IM NOT GOOD AT DRAWING HANDS YET and I suck at ppl so plz don't laugh to hard.......Here's an ink I did and and some of those are pencil lines and some of those are notebook paper lines and GOD MATH SUCKS, I GET SO BORED IN MATH LOL!!! But I drew these while I was waiting for class to end and I knew you'd want to see them to so I scanned them at home and I couldn't fit the whole thing on the scanner at once so I scanned in pieces and OMG I HATE THIS SCANNER soory the image is so big but I haven't figured out how to shrink the pictures yet so plz ignore the edges ok thx and tell me what you think.
Rainwing
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Date: 2003-01-29 10:40 pm (UTC)Someday I need to see what happens if I trace over one of my own drawings with ballpoint and crayon. It would be great for confusing people.