Christopher Robin
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I mentioned it in my main art thread but in case you haven't read that yet I thought I would start a thread to say
welcome to all the new faces of late and say I think it's about time we had an artz contest around here.
Well okay it's not so much a contest as a "say hi in the welcome thread and your
name goes in a hat for a chance to win" but, you know, baby steps.
So go say hi and a bit about yourself (if you are new here or an OG from live,
what character you might be most known for etc) over there and if you win, PM me your
hero refs and I'll get started. Link to the welcome thread below, 7 days to post, good luck everyone!
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On 11/8/2019 at 9:01 PM, Oubliette_Red said:
It'd be nice if we had an alternated beret that adhered to military standards, close to the head on the right side, patch/badge centered over left eye.
The beret currently available in the game is more like a soggy mushroom.
@Oubliette_Red, seconded.
Also welcome @drgantz, @MaskedMan, @Fista, @Shadowsleuth, @Winder30, @Heraclea,
@Kismette, @KingofMonkeys, @Ferrus_Xeno and @Rathulfr to the best part of the forums!
Phew that's a bunch! I'm happy to see so many people showing up
and/or stepping out of the costume/bio threads lately though
and to those new here ---> this might be of interest <---
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Lol great pics people.
Oh and welcome to the best part of the forums
@wasuber, @Leiland, @BuzzKilla, @Coyotedancer and @FireBrandi !
Firebrandi I recognize that name from live and all the art that went with it.
Good to see more of the art collectors/appreciators showing up.
@Healix Lol I've done that same puke in the cup and I even remember
when boombox channels "broke" and you could do all kinds of crazy things on command.
One was doing the self-rez animation + the puke animation to get a rotating vortex of projectile vomiting.
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Thanks for the birthday notes and PM's everyone.
Even though it was my birthday I feel like giving something away
and I think we have enough people for a contest now.
Several people seem to be still be in lurk mode or
at least have not introduced themselves so I'll tell you what.
Anyone who says hi and a bit about themselves in the welcome thread in the next week
I will add their names to a hat and draw one at random to win some gift artz.
I may call it early if we get enough up front or I may choose more
than one name if there are a lot of responses.
So drop your stealth and say sup!
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This one I was demonstrating more how to punch up a piece and make it more visually interesting,
nothing wrong with the original but the artist thought it was a bit flat IIRC? He was not a forum regular
so apologies I do not remember his name off the top of my head but I would know his avatar if I saw it again.
So on this one I did add to the design to round out the forms. Notice the change to the horns and if you watch the neck
you'll see it change a few times as I tried different lighting schemes. Being that she's a villain I tried to really play up the menace.
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You're welcome @Oubliette_Red.
@QueenBethari This is a drawing by DD from many years ago when I was trying to tell
her the same kind of thing about adding shadows and going further than she though she should.
After her making some minor tweaks I decided to go overboard on it and show her what I
meant so she could see what some heavy dynamic range looked like on her own piece.
Hopefully she won't mind me using it for demonstrative purpose.
Bear in mind that I added nothing here. Like with your
piece I just darkened what was already there.
You obviously don't have to go this far (or you could go further) this is just to show what is possible.
I'll post another piece by a different artist a bit later where I did "add" to the piece by
making shading and lighting passes to really round out the forms, and it's in color.
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7 hours ago, Dacy said:
Guess I suck at starting topics. 😞
I'd thought the purpose of the topic was clear : " There was no place for longer pieces of fiction, and I KNOW they are out there! So I decided to start a topic. Sure, I could make it about just my stuff, but I know there are lots of great writers out there." Literally the first sentences. Guess I need to say it explicitly.
As to the bit about the critique and other stuff, I'd said "if" you want. Some do, some don't, and I indicated I was open to it (but I think most writers are hoping the reviews are more positive than picky! lol). TBH, I'd really like to just know if someone read the thing, and asking for feedback is a good way to see if anyone read it. As of right now, I doubt anyone has.
So, summing up, thought I was clear, obviously I wasn't, guess I'll just be over here in the corner, I promise not to start any more topics. Oh and I know @Flashtoo as an excellent base designer, but didn't know she wrote! I looked up that book, tho, and the only one I could find was written by a male, so not sure how to find that work. Or, really, any that you mentioned. Which is why I'd love to see a pinned topic (Obviously NOT started by me!) for posting fiction. Mine's quite long, but would people prefer to see it on the forums instead of having to download it?
There used to be a website that was strictly devoted to COH fanfic, and I had posted it entirely online there. (Well, an earlier version).
-Dacy
No need to go to extremes.
I never said you suck or told you to go sit in the corner. That was not to be the take away at all.
You did see me say it was an uniformed opinion, right? And to disregard it all if I am off the mark (even cracked
a tree joke with Ent and put in a winky face to make it extra clear). Those are just my first impressions,
not some sort of scathing commentary on your ability to start a topic.
Sent you a PM.
Flash is a base designer too and if you've looked about the
artz forums you'll find she's decent at the drawing stuff as well.
Her book series is called the Interminables and it is written by Paige Orwin
and you can find them on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Interminables-Paige-Orwin/dp/085766591X
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10 minutes ago, DJ1 said:
I know you said it was a trap but i dont get what you mean by that??? 😛
Not here as it is too far off topic but I will try
to explain my reasoning over in my thread... soon. ™
In the mean time I have more pics of Sam X, enjoy!
You put a spell on meeee...
okay more like a carcinogenic dose of Radiation on meee...
aaaaaaaand this is totally NOT a picture of Sam X doing a headlong Naruto Run
at the gate of a certain secret U.S. military base located in the Nevada desert...
...nope definitely not that.
On 11/1/2019 at 12:58 PM, Flashtoo said:That is a grade-A usage of the Insectoid Hybrid top, CR. I'm impressed!
Thank you kindly @Flashtoo.
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Well then hopefully you will meet some through this site.
I will say @Caemgen, while he doesn't write professionally,
is one of the best storytellers and concept creators I know. @Darth Delicious also writes and has a book in the works (non CoH).
@Flashtoo's hero The Hour Thief is in a real published series but I don't know if that's her writing under a pen name or a friend's work.
There are also a couple of other people who's writing I am not as familiar with (but I know it's set in the CoX verse) whom I am
trying to convince to post here as well. One is already here and playing the game and I posted a color pencil
coloring of Brahn that she did in my artz thread already. /e waves at @Bhudicae.
On the note of your thread, bear in mind I am not a writer so this is a less than informed opinion but when I reread the OP
I picked up on... "If you'd like critical feedback, editing suggestions, grammar and spelling checks........ reviews etc. "
and thought what if they don't want any of that? What if they just want a personal space to create or maybe
their stories have already been proofread and they just want to post them for others to enjoy?
Also, despite the hashtags, nothing in the title told me that it was a place for other writers to post,
(at least not in the way that say a "Post your best costumes here" title makes it clear)
which is one reason I wondered if you had consulted any other writers?
Also adding into the first paragraph of that thread "Sure, I could make it about just my stuff, but"
is perhaps not the most inviting thing ever? An datz not jus cuz ju iz putn' a comma before da werd but! (j/k)
Again just my two cents in an unfamiliar subject, please disregard if I am barking up the wrong Ent.
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This is better QueenBethari.
I have a few more different examples
I can post tomorrow that may help as well.
I will post them in Art Talk since they have
nothing to do with the OP title of commissions.
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On 11/3/2019 at 3:50 PM, Flashtoo said:
My latest - an oldschool street fighter (StJ/Nin).
Neat.
I like the name too it reminds me of ooooOooOOOh My God they've...
parked a truck on the South Park lawn.
Seriously how irresponsible.
You Bastards!
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Nice find @Oubliette_Red.
Do they say over how many years that redraw takes place?
P.S. the text goes to DA but the image is
linking to the top of page 3 Art Talk here F.Y.I.
P.P.S. I went and clicked through to DA, **forehead slap** oh of course, that is Ross Draws
I should have recognized his style right away. He has over 100 videos up on YT and 1mil+ subscribers.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLEVrhumRsK67JkP3G4w5cQ/featured
Also, I've always been jealous of his massive wacom Cintiq and studio setup.
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@Dacy Lol. Something about creative types and herding cats comes to mind.
I could point to a half dozen examples already in this section of the forums where
I tried to foresee what would be needed and set it up in advance...
some of them worked out better than others.
That said I will point out that if enough quantity starts happening there is merit in people having theirown art/writing threads and also having centralized general purpose threads to share stuff in.
Hard to tell in the early days but in the long run it can make things much easier to find.
It has been my experience (many times over now) that when you're the "first in the door" you do
your best and then let those that follow change and evolve it into something beyond your initial conception.
Also did you consult with any other CoH writers before setting it up?
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On 11/3/2019 at 4:35 AM, Midnight Blue Mage said:
I'm glad you had fun! 😄
and that's awfully nice of you to say, thank you ❤️ I'm no artist but I like storytelling (comics!), so I'm glad you think so
Three thoughts on that:
1: Every artist says that, if not aloud then in their head, dozens of times throughout their life.
Heck I say it to this day from time to time.
2. Art is a journey of sorts and you can never tell at the beginning where you might end up.
Think about the best modern day artist you know.
Now realize when he/she started out they were probably drawing stick
figures or tracing stuff and politely telling people who saw potential in them... "Oh I'm no artist."
3. You don't need to be Leonardo (Da Vinci not the Ninja Turtle) to make a comic for fun and profit.
The above are generalized truths, specifically in this case I was talking like a web comic series.
The fact that you like storytelling (and I could pick up on that from your Inktober stuff)
is all you really need in the beginning. The art will come with repetition. One of the
best and longest running webcomics out there started out looking like this...
https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2
Just a heads up the link is to a comic called "Questionable Content" and it does
have some adult themes, toilet humor, dating stuff and as Wil Wheaton's temp tattoo says... butts.
at well over 4k comics posted he has obviously gotten much better over the years and even
went back and redrew his first few hundred in his new style because the stories still held up and
he wanted to put them out in book form to sell at cons. Oh and speaking of I am sure if you told the
younger Jeff Jaques who started from almost nothing that people far more famous than him would wait in
line at conventions to meet him and get his comic drawn on their bodies I am sure he would not have believed you.
Besides if you ended up being Leonardo the Ninja Turtle at some
point along the way, that'd be pretty awesome too.
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Nice alt suit MBM.
Makes me think we need a Public Service Announcement though.
Ahem...
Has your cat gone missing? Good news! There's no need canvas the neighborhood or staple "have you seen me"
adds with a photo and number to call... just check around at the local armory, cybernetics shopz and/or ninja dojos.
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On 11/2/2019 at 9:37 AM, RikOz said:
To be totally fair, this thread was still in General Discussion when I followed/first posted to it, before the forum makeover 🙂
To be fair(er?) I knew that and had, after getting them to make us an art section sooner rather
than later, already created "best costume" & "best bios" threads for us in here.
They were some of the first threads I created for the art forums.
Once they imported already existing threads with dozens of costumes and
thousands of views mine became redundant and deleted. From an admin point of view it
made perfect sense and I would've done the same but personally I was not thrilled with the result on the day.
I'm not knocking anyone for focusing on what they like, we all do that, just thinking that since people
from the "General Discussion" section are here now anyway... maybe branch out a bit.
You might find other threads you love. We have a couple good writers that have posted stories
already (like @Dacy & @EyeLuvBooks), a costume help thread, an art request thread & like 10 artists
so far putting up content. Come to think of it if you guys have a costume you are particularly proud of there are a
couple artists still available for commissions yet (like @Flashtoo and @battlewraith) so you can have your best creations
made into a literal work of art. So, you know, maybe wander about for a bit & as I oft say, Welcome to the best part of the forums.
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Thank you for starting the thread MBM, it was a fun diversion.
You should make it a habit, you know the more I see your drawings the more they remind me of a single panel comic.
A speech bubble or two and a couple reoccurring characters or a pithy caption and you're there.
Something like "The Adventures of Missing Cat."
I would totally read that comic if it existed.
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You know I am getting the sense that some people come to the Artz
part of the forum but they are not actually here for the art (crazy right?
).
They seem to only be interested in the "Best Costume" & "Awesome Bio's" threads.
Midnight Blue Mage and his/her character Missing Cat are all over this
neck of the woods in everything from the Inktober thread...
To some of the Art and art request threads.
Heck I even drew Missing Cat once (she is basically a catgirl
silhouette with glowing green eyes) in my art thread.
Kinda hard to miss her unless you never stray
from the two aforementioned threads.
Yes I realize that was a really long
set up just for a cat pun. I regret nothing.
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27 minutes ago, Oubliette_Red said:
I wish the beret were closer to the military style, or st least a second version that wasn't so poofy on top and laid flatter against the head on the pulled down side.
"Thank you. I've worked hard to become so."
<sounds of rapiers clashing continue>Yeah that would make it more usable. You can deform it somewhat with
the sliders but a military style option would make a good addition.
Maybe add it to the "Costume Piece Request" thread?
**ring ting ting ating ting sounds continue**
"I admit it, you are better than I am"
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2 hours ago, Oubliette_Red said:
Bercilak Green, old style and more modern
Naturally. But I find that Thibault cancels out Capo Ferro, don't you?
I like both costumes @Oubliette_Red but I have a hard time seeing anyone other
than Sean Connery in the role so the beret looks out of place to me.
"Unless the enemy has-a study his Agrippa... which I haf."
***insert rapier/sidesword combat sound FX here***
"You are wanderful."
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2 hours ago, Winder30 said:
I would really like to see different colored balloon emotes added to the game.
Thought and speech balloons? Or do you actually mean
balloons like you find at a birthday party?
Unless I misunderstand what you are asking they
are already in the game and have been since waaaay back.
@Shadowsleuth I do like the idea of a Sugar Skull makeups being a face
option like we have a couple different Carnie masks now.
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You need to move the word slightly but otherwise correct.
I've added two hotspots to make it more obvious and an animation
so you can see the changes between the versions repeatedly if you want.
Seeing the change happen in a continuous loop may give you some clues about
where you want to add your shading for this kind of lighting scenario.
Also there are two mistakes, two places I put a shadow where there should be none.
I was going to fix them but thought why not leave them in case anyone wants to go hunting.
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Lemme guess... magic origin?
8 hours ago, RikOz said:Midnight Blue is a mutant 🙂
Missed the joke, you did.
I'll give you a hint. Open a reply box
and type @ and then the name Midnight Blue.
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Okay then have another!
This my Rad/Devices Sam X Erewhon
which stands for X-mas nowhere backwards.
It was an inside joke between her and her husband
whom she lost to "the coming storm" and Lord Nemesis.
She hated it when they were apart so to put her mind at ease
he would frequently say there was nowhere she could be without
him and him without her and that he would be with her one way or
another. Always. His last words to her on that fateful day were that he was
looking forward to spending "X-mas nowhere" with her.
19 hours ago, Oubliette_Red said:I thought it fitting, considering the rocky terrain.
Naturally, you must expect me to attack with Capoferro!
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CoH Fan Fiction
in Art & Multimedia
Posted · Edited by Christopher Robin
@Dacy I have read it.
I'm on my second read through now.
In short, I think it is excellent.
If this was a book I'd have quickly purchased it
and would most likely be clamoring for a sequel by now.
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As for the above, good on you for your redress, apology accepted and no worries.
We've all had days like that.
Thank you, that is very kind.
Thanks... I think?
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@DJ1 If we are talking Ratt I am definitely more of a "Way Cool Jr." than "Lay it Down"
and that was actually somewhat polite on your part. **/e claphands**
No dice suckaaah!
Not only am I not an English teacher or writer,
English wasn't even my first language.
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@Midnight Blue Mage I like it, smaller more
manageable chunks and a teaser are good ideas.