The Last Poster Wins! [v23]

**Bulbasaur** · 10-05-2018, 06:21 PM

Should I pay $245 to take a Java certification exam? It'd probably look good on a resume but that's money...

**Shruikan** · 10-05-2018, 07:22 PM

Gah, what's with all the name/banner changes? I went awol for a few weeks and now I can't tell who anyone is anymore... p_p

**Neo Emolga** · 10-05-2018, 07:28 PM

Originally Posted by Shruikan

Gah, what's with all the name/banner changes? I went awol for a few weeks and now I can't tell who anyone is anymore... p_p

Welcome to... MY CHAOS! HA HA HA HA!

Only kidding, it's just a funny, silly gag event idea of mine. You should join us, it's fun!

**Chakramaster** · 10-05-2018, 11:35 PM

Originally Posted by Victini

The big thing that I wasn't doing before was when I first starting drawing stuff with my tablet, I wasn't using reference pictures. USE reference pictures. No matter how much you remember how a character looks or how many times you've drawn them before. You'd be surprised at how many times I've gone "oh, Emolga's nose really isn't THAT close to his mouth, my bad" or "oh, the bottom of the eyes should be exactly level with his nose! Forgot about that!" If you don't do this, funky things happen and it never looks just right. Even if you're drawing an entirely new character, use an already existing one as a starting point and as a basis. Things like the size of the ears relative to the size of the head and length of the tail in proportion to the rest of the body all become clearer and more apparent. And for me, proportions were MURDER on me for the longest time. Using reference pictures helped with fixing that issue immensely.

Yeah most artists you that take requests ask for some reference. So if there's any specific styles they go by that. I'm sure that's another big reason. I tried using a reference, but I think my big issue is I'm picky with that. Where if it doesn't look "exactly" right. Then it's not right. Trust me...many of times Gemma has joked with my drawings xD. "Pikachu's tail looks like a staircase xD" and such like that (yeah, it's that bad hahaha). Proportions are a killer for me and making them even look natural in general honestly.

Also it looks like Photobucket is completely down now? So I can't even look back at the ones that were still lingering there in the void.

**Noblejanobii** · 10-06-2018, 03:02 AM

It was gonna happen one of these days

**Neo Emolga** · 10-06-2018, 04:01 AM

Originally Posted by Hammerstrider Manaphy

Yeah most artists you that take requests ask for some reference. So if there's any specific styles they go by that. I'm sure that's another big reason. I tried using a reference, but I think my big issue is I'm picky with that. Where if it doesn't look "exactly" right. Then it's not right. Trust me...many of times Gemma has joked with my drawings xD. "Pikachu's tail looks like a staircase xD" and such like that (yeah, it's that bad hahaha). Proportions are a killer for me and making them even look natural in general honestly.

Also it looks like Photobucket is completely down now? So I can't even look back at the ones that were still lingering there in the void.

It just takes time and practice as well as a drive and passion to get better. I'll admit, there are days I'm just too lazy and not motivated enough to draw and that's probably keeping me from being an expert. And that's where I feel starting a comic would be a good motivator to improve and do something fun while at it.

As for Photobucket, what they did was just terrible. No warning, no advance notice, just poof, everyone's stuff is gone, too bad. Come on. At least give people a week to grab whatever they wanted to keep and back it up someplace else if Photobucket's owners couldn't afford hosting or only wanted paying members to use the service. Instead, everyone's images were replaced with those infamous "Please update your account to enable third party hosting" things everywhere.

I checked and it still seems to be around, but pft, forget ever using that site again. There's better hosting sites out there that won't screw you over.

**Chakramaster** · 10-07-2018, 03:51 AM

That and a working version of Photoshop that doesn't take up nearly 50gb of memory for NO REASON in a blank template. I'm just gonna have to message support about that one of these days. Cause I'd love to pick it back up and start learning the Photoshop skill.

Yeah I really wish they had sent out emails to everyone about that. Wasn't very right to all the faithful users they picked up over the years. Kinda just kicked everyone who supported them aside.