Posts by Sarizee

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    An Introduction


    Hey friends! So it's summer time (woo) and I have been neglecting drawing for the past year, so I need practice! I love drawing for people, and I also love communities, so here's the idea: let's make this an art gift thread! I won't have a waitlist for requests or anything, but instead I'll be drawing the requests for free, at random, and posting them here (and messaging it to the requester :p ). And I encourage everyone to join in also. See a request you think would be fun to draw? Talking to someone here and want to give art to each other? Don't know how to draw and want an excuse to practice? Don't be shy... just do it! That way, we can all hang out here, make requests, and receive surprise gift art!


    So let's get drawing! :)


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    Rules and a little more detail on how this works


    Boring part, I know. But you should READ THROUGH THIS BEFORE YOU POST. If you do not follow the rules, your request will not be completed.


    [size=11pt]How this is going to work (from my end):[/size]


    [size=11pt]How this is going to work (from your end):[/size]

    ORDER FORM


    Pretty straight forward. Fill this out and post it to join in on the fun!


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    1. [color=limegreen][size=20pt] [b]Hey friends, draw me![/b][/size][/color]
    2. [color=white][b]Username:[/b]
    3. [b]OC Name:[/b]
    4. [b]Species:[/b]
    5. [b]Clan:[/b]
    6. [b]Gender:[/b]
    7. [b]Appearance:[/b] (description, image reference, or both :) )
    8. [b]Personality:[/b] (be brief, 1-2 sentences)
    9. [b]Any specifics?:[/b] (do you want text in the image? Clan sign? Specific pose? Anything else?)[/color]

    Unfufilled requests


    Want to join in on drawing requests? Don't want to search through page by page to see what's been requested? Look no further! Below is all of the requests that have not been drawn by anyone yet! That being said, if you see a request in the thread that has been drawn, but you want to draw it too, then go for it! :)


    pg 3:

    Hey there, I have come to give you pointers! First off, it's great that you've been practicing! That's the absolute best way to improve, haha. My biggest pointer is something you've probably read a million times if you've read any art tutorials, but seriously it works: practice drawing from photos, videos, and life. Direct references limit your drawing in pose/creativity, so it seems tedious and annoying a lot of the time, but the understanding of form, anatomy, and motion that you get from it is invaluable. I think doing that will help you out a lot! You're style is cute (love the eyes of the first one, btw) and you should totally roll with it, but getting a grip on realistic anatomy will translate through to your style and make it a lot more convincing/awesome :)
    I know that was super vague and generic, so for some more specific points:


    1) Internal consistency! What I mean by that is to make sure that when you're drawing, all the body parts and whatnot line up with eahother and are all appropriately formed in relation to one another. That's still kind of confusing sounding, so for a specific example: take a look at drawing number 2. The tail is looking pretty snazzy, but if we imagine the part of the tail that isn't visible, we realize that it wouldn't connect to the butt where the tail /should/ be coming from in a cat (unless it's weirdly bent). Easy to fix: You just need to move the tail down a bit, but really important. It'll make your drawing a lot more convincing if you keep an eye out for little things like that. The poses you have here are pretty simple and symmetrical, but as you draw more complex poses, it'll be VERY important to watch out for things like joints being the same distance down each leg, making sure arms/legs that are partially obscured would still connect to shoulder blades/thighs, etc.


    aaaand


    2) Poses! It's easy to latch on to one pose/face angle/etc once you've found one that you're good at drawing (I'm guilty of doing this all the time haha), but you should try and spice it up a bit! It'll be frustrating b/c hard poses are, by nature, harder to draw, but it'll help loads in improving. Plus it'll give you more creative freedom, because before you know it you'll be able to draw cats in all sorts of crazy poses that still look like awesome cat drawings! :D


    I could rant much more but I don't want to bore you. But seriously, keep up the great work! Seeking critique shows me you're really working to improve, which is awesome :D Let me know if you ever want any more of me ranting, or redlines, tips, critique on a specific piece, etc! <3

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    "Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villian by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengence; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. (giggles) Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."


    "Are you like a crazy person?"


    "I'm quite sure they will say so.."

    [fancypost borderwidth=0px; bordercolor=transparent; height: 201px; width: 125pt; background-image: url(http://i.imgur.com/agqAgcx.png); background-position: center;][fancypost] [fancypost borderwidth=0px; background=; bordercolor=transparent; width: 195pt; height: 260px; margin-left: -4px;][fancypost borderwidth=0px; bordercolor=transparent; margin-left: -25pt; font-size: 8pt; width: 187pt; height: 201px; overflow: auto; text-align: justify; ] Hey there. I'm experimenting with this fancy post stuff, but something's going wrong here. How do I get rid of that black box thing that's at the top of this? Thanks.




    [/fancypost][/fancypost]

    You can't unless you take away the [fancypost] fancy post parts. because its a fancy post and your not using the box. see? or you find another way somehow =)


    Hmm. I have two ideas, but I don't know how/if they're possible to implement:


    1) If I can't get rid of the border, is there at least a way to align it with the text portion, so that it borders the text instead of being wierd and skinny and intrusive like it currently is? Or,
    2)Is it possible to wrap text or insert a scroll barred area of text without a fancypost?


    Thanks fo all the help! :)

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    Ok cool, thanks guys. I managed to get the border out of the way now at least. No idea why it's doing this lol. I'll go look for someone who I can just request a custom from xP




    You'd think i wouldn't be this hard to just get a little speech bubble-esc fancypost! Geesh xD




    [/fancypost]
    [fancypost] [fancypost borderwidth=0px; bordercolor= transparent; margin-left: -250pt; font-size: 8pt; width: 187pt; height: 150px; overflow: auto; text-align: justify ]




    Hellooooo! Here with a question: I'm experimenting with fancyposts to get a speech bubble-esc post going on, but I can't get rid of this stupid border box that you see below. Any ideas on how to fix this?
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    [fancypost] [fancypost borderwidth=0px; bordercolor= transparent; margin-left: -250pt; font-size: 8pt; width: 187pt; height: 150px; overflow: auto; text-align: justify ]
    Hey friends! So basically I'm experimenting and trying to make a fancypost that will mimic a text bubble, like what you see here (although I will make an actual image to accompany it instead of this 2 second ms paint doodle xD ). I almost have it, EXCEPT FOR THIS STUPID BORDER YOU SEE BELOW. Blahhhh. Does anyone know how to get rid of it? Or alternatively, does anyone know how to make it actually border the text instead of awkwardly sitting below everything?




    Thanks so much guys!
    [/fancypost]

    Of course! Here you go:


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    1. [align=center][table][tr][td] [img]http://i.imgur.com/agqAgcx.png[/img][fancypost] [/td][td]
    2. [fancypost borderwidth=0px; bordercolor= transparent; margin-left: -250pt; font-size: 8pt; width: 187pt; height: 150px; overflow: auto; text-align: justify ]
    3. T e x t H e r e
    4. [/fancypost] [/td][/tr][/table][/align]


    In the mean time, anyone else have any ideas? :(