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Psyco Jelly

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A Squidling I drew
« on: March 26, 2009, 11:56:46 pm »
This is a picture I drew a while back, before my niece lost my colored pencils. Criticize.

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Re: A Squidling I drew
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2009, 10:12:12 am »
Little hint: When using colored pencils, you have to take more time for the best effect. Colored pencils, and for that matter crayons, look best when you stroke them on the paper often enough so that there isn't any white to be seen where the color is. Also, you can use the direction of the strokes to influence the look, suggesting curves etc.

Mind you, I've little experience with this medium.
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Re: A Squidling I drew
« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2009, 11:51:27 am »
Squid? SQUID!?!? What sort of conflounderous conflounder draws squids in this octopus-centric world we live in.

You're a loose cannon Psycho Jelly, I suggest you cap that attitude of yours or I'll have your badge!
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Psyco Jelly

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Re: A Squidling I drew
« Reply #3 on: March 27, 2009, 12:57:53 pm »
Why can't we just agree that cuttlefish are the best?
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Quote from: Aqizzar on March 03, 2011, 10:16:12 pm
Not only is it not actually advertising anything, it's just copy/pasting word salads about gold, runescape, oil, yuan, and handbags.  It's like a transporter accident combined all the spambots into one shambling mass of online sales.

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Re: A Squidling I drew
« Reply #4 on: March 27, 2009, 02:44:40 pm »
I often argue so, yet people often aren't quite familiar with them.
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Re: A Squidling I drew
« Reply #5 on: March 27, 2009, 03:32:46 pm »
YAY! People are finally appreciating the squid... that steals eggs....
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Re: A Squidling I drew
« Reply #6 on: March 27, 2009, 04:07:50 pm »
Why do you call it a squidling?
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Re: A Squidling I drew
« Reply #7 on: March 27, 2009, 04:09:55 pm »
Because putting the -ling at the end gives it connotations of littleness.
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Psyco Jelly

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Re: A Squidling I drew
« Reply #8 on: March 27, 2009, 04:16:21 pm »
That and I don't remember what baby squid are called.
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Quote from: Aqizzar on March 03, 2011, 10:16:12 pm
Not only is it not actually advertising anything, it's just copy/pasting word salads about gold, runescape, oil, yuan, and handbags.  It's like a transporter accident combined all the spambots into one shambling mass of online sales.

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Re: A Squidling I drew
« Reply #9 on: March 27, 2009, 04:31:59 pm »
Hehe... baby squid don't look like that man :P



There's a species of squid called baby squid though.
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Re: A Squidling I drew
« Reply #10 on: March 27, 2009, 04:33:18 pm »
I vote for Squidlet.
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Re: A Squidling I drew
« Reply #11 on: March 27, 2009, 08:14:01 pm »
Cute!
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Re: A Squidling I drew
« Reply #12 on: March 27, 2009, 08:35:33 pm »
Hm, I always thought that squid tentacles were larger than what is being presented. Ah well, maybe I'm just thinking of giant squid; good drawing either way. There's only one thing bothering me, it's just why you outlined so darkly with the graphite. Looks to me like you already had a good handle on the squid shape even before you began.
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