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Thanks Balathustrius ... It helps so much to get another eye on these things ... I know the picture isn't RIGHT (albeit I don't think it's bad either) but those comments are VERY helpful as to why.

It took me a phenomenal amount of concentration to even take the drawing to that level ... when I posted last night I was proper beat, couldn't stop thinking about it (it's probably the first 'proper' painting I have ever tried to do) ... but also a real good learning experience.

Probably explains why I threw a night-time backdrop on it (so I didn't have to do any detail!) after I had spent all my time drawing the central figure lit 'normally'.


Hopefully I can keep practicing and it should get easier! (and with luck my standard will increase as well ..)


I think I will revisit this in a couple of weeks and see if I can take it up a notch or two.


p.s. I don't think there are Dogmen in yet, I was inspired a little bit by the new 'animalmen' alluded to in the upcoming version ...

What are those implications?

Good question? I can't think of too much with a higher potential moral score than 'Love and Compassion' ...


Soon as the OP asked ... (cue meaningless ramble)

We are human, and this should be celebrated. And the Earth gives us a home. We should probably look after it (albeit I’m not sure that civilisation in its current iteration is ready to do this properly at the expense of personal comfort etc.).

What makes us human are the important points that we should seek to reinforce and encourage. Without these we are animals, or even worse, machines, grazing on the life-force of the planet for no purpose.

This could lead to celebrating things that are very dominant in Human culture which are potentially quite destructive, such as selfishness, overbearing egos, power-hungriness etc.

It’s only really context that moves a lot of these things from acceptable levels to unacceptable levels, so I think they need to be encouraged where they can be used positively. Otherwise you are acting against god-knows-how-many years of natural selection and saying ‘The current version of the human is flawed’.

Laugh at these flaws, for there absurdity, but accept them.

Our friends are the people we know whose flaws we are willing to accept.

Our loved ones are the people we know whose flaws we take joy in.

Never tell someone else how they should love.

Art, music, nature, friends, food, walks in the country, cooking (or whatever) all the things that give us some level of unexplainable enjoyment are probably a little bit more important than ensuring your organisations profit levels are meeting targets.

But in real terms you can’t do these things all the time, and we do have a responsibility to society to be productive (many years ago this would have been directly making food, nowadays we indirectly do it within the industry framework we sit on).

Keeping up with my daily posting ... I am now trying out a bit more careful painting of my previous dogman sketch.

I am quite liking the way it is starting to turn out. Not sure if I am handling the fur well or not.

Happy to receive criticism.

Yes, Balathustrius, that is indeed awesome.

I can't even begin to fathom how you paint so well.

I agree witih Deon, it is inspiring.

Time for a new round of predictions then? I predict February 14, unless toady finds a special someone to spend that particular day with in the meantime.

Which,

(if the chinese cookery pamphlet that came out of my monthly food magazine subscription is anything to go by)

Is (Chinese) New Year!

Which means the new year predictions were right all along ... (!?)

http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=42086.msg768996#msg768996

Maybe you could try these as suggested by Davions Post earlier in another thread ... the Loomis ones are (free) downloadable .PDFs and look quite informative, especially for accurate pencil sketching of general figures etc.

Thanks, I'll have a play with that. Finding some success with the scratchboard tool, initially.

Not too happy with how I am doing it at the minute, but I'll keep at it, post the results of my endeavours soon.

It is probably a question of practice, my background in drawing is largely based on biros and notepads, during phone calls at work ...

Completely unrelated, but I drew something else (my first go in photoshop) ...

Today I learnt a little bit about the benefits of Corel Painter over GIMP ...


However I find I can not seem to successfully colour something without bringing forward the lines from my 'sketch' to define the shape of the creature I am drawing. (they are but 'blobs' without the lines).

Maybe I'm too lazy to render properly and thoroughly (after all I quite like some of my line drawings!) ... need to work that one out ...