Hi! I just joined the forum but seconds or a minute ago. I look forward to making positive contributions to the site.
But first, this fanart update caught my eye. So I checked out all the fanart.
Damnit. Why do you all have this obsession with Lynx? And some of your fanart SUCKS! I've been a fanart collector for some time, and you know what? There are good rules for submitting fan art.
1) If you can take the time to draw a picture you plan on submitting to a site, do not do it inside a ledger or spiral pad of some kind! Your notebook and the desk you took a picture of -- yeah, those are pictures *of* pictures, lame-asses -- are not helpful in capturing what you are trying to convey. Tear that fucker out of the notebook.
2) Fuck stick-figures and speech-bubbles.
3) A picture of real people in their costumes is not fanart. Period.
4) Custom sprites, though fanciful, are also not fanart.
5) You know that when you scan a picture you drew by hand, it looks horribly faded. Take the time and use some image editing software freeware and fix the color saturation and brightness/tint of your drawing.
6) If you submit a photo of genuine artwork -- such as the new wire frame Chrono -- please, PLEASE use a suitable background. My methods for doctoring up the fanwork in my collection was able to reveal some good shadow and context, but it's not nearly as nice as it could have been if you had just submitted it against a black background with good overhead and foreground lighting. Easy to do.
Seriously, this HP Presario 6000 w/ XP home came with "Microsoft Picture It! Express 7.0", and all I have to do is auto-fix the brightness then contrast then tint, and alot of these sketches suddenly look marvelous. Even black/white ones. You'd be surprised how far it can go. I also like to use Picasa 2, Gimp, and sometimes the "sharpen" effect that came with the adobe photoshop editor freeware that came with the reader 7.x update. I can really do marvelous shit with your drawings guys.
In any case, some of the fanart here is pretty good. For example, DarkSerge.jpg. Very nuanced expression with the eyes. Good job. And Kid25ey. Very strong personality. Excellent. And when I autofixed the color saturation/brightness/contrast/tint, it really came out looking nice.
That picture Irenes-miki small.jpg. -- Ok, I get it. You like lesbians. Nice job detaling the contour cleavage of the thighs vs. groins. Ugh. Don't submit your masturbation material.
Some of you do try to add realistic contour and curves to characters' bodies. However, I can tell some of you can too hung up on the breasts. For example, Kidd_Long_Sketch_by_OhioErieCanalGirl.jpg (most of her work, even). Does anybody here remember the optical illusion where you see a diagonal being interrupted by a square/rectangle, you try to guess which line is the real continuance of that first diagonal coming from the other side of the box? This illusion applies to when you are drawing the contour of a body part (such as a breast) , and you must draw the contour 'continuing' from their undershirt to their coat/vest/whatever. If clothing is not skin-tight, i.e., it hangs on you like most clothes does, then contour lines are not continuous at the borders.
