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...In everlasting silence, in corridors of time......The refuge of existence, in unison with light...
...Prisoner of time...Veiled in darkness and light...
...Creature of earth...smiling child of the sun...
Reflections from the Spheres Beyond
I'm pretty gosh darn proud of this. This is my first ever piece that I drew entirely with GIMP. No pencils or paper involved. Just my mouse, which works with a trackball. I'm amazed I have such great control over it.
No shading because it didn't seem to suit the style.
Also, I love how I did the Void. That took three layers and a LOT of blurring.
...Also, I managed to draw Frisk first-try. Wow.
Fem!Frisk because I needed to practice drawing a dress. Yeah, that's literally my only reason.
I'm not 100% satisfied, but this is really good for my first try, so I'm not complaining.
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I like the general concept and atmosphere of this. It's very eerie. Good job.
-RikuTheDarkPancake
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thank you! this was a very experimental piece (especially since I don't have a tablet and I have no experience doing sketches/lineart digitally) and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. I've been wanting to do a traditional redraw of this but a while ago I gave up on drawing humans in favor of specializing in animals, so I don't think I'm ever going back to this piece. it was fun to make though
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oh wow, this is creepy and interesting
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thank you! I don't really like how this turned out tbh, but I don't think I'll revisit it. digital is just not really my thing.
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it's tedious and depends too much on the program you have :/ u see this amazing stuff and are all like 'oh imma do that!' *gets out photoshop, unaware it doesn't have the same tools those other people used to make that stuff*
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that's not even it, every program has its benefits, but like... it takes so much time and energy and so much staring at a screen and I can't figure out how to use a tablet anyway so eh
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i have a tablet but again, it's not like what other people use so it's not a fair comparison of my work vs theirs. mine is small and has no pressure sensitivity and you have to go really slowly, and it makes wobbly lines by itself and so on. if u got a better tablet of course u do better art cuz u move ur hand fast and natural just like a pencil on paper, etc etc. it's all about what u have. better computer/better program/better tablet = better art. if you have lower quality stuff, u have to work twice as hard and some effects just aren't possible altogether no matter how hard u try, cuz they didn't make those effects themselves their program did it for them. and other stuff like transparency, sure mine does it, but it takes me hours to do it by hand. other people i've seen them just clickity-click and poof, done in seconds because the program auto-renders it for them automatically.
i think the only thing left people can still relate to is when u use only ms paint, but still, one person can do paint with a mouse, one with a tablet, and then a handheld mouse is different from a laptop mouse, and computers these days don't even have paint anymore. that used to the be last thing where everyone knew what it was. people don't the difference between all the photoshops and all those art programs they may never have heard of but people knew paint and knew how it worked so if u said u made a picture in paint, they knew whether it was impressive or not, they knew how much was u vs how much was just the program.Β
i like just pencil + paper because everyone knows what a pencil is and what it's capable of.
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(late reply is late, this got buried in my messages lmao)
oh yes, the program and tablet really matter a lot. I have GIMP and a mouse, and GIMP is generally ridiculed for not being as elaborate as most art programs, but it's good enough for what I need it for which is the occasional coloring and photomanipulation. I don't need a tablet for that
that said, I'd love to get into animation sometime, but I simply have no time or energy to devote to it, and getting a tablet for occasional experiments or practice doing digital art is just stupid.
pencil and paper is honestly the best way to show skills. I just wish art teachers understood that and stopped making everyone use poster paint. (I hate regular paint, I work better with watercolors)
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i fail at all manner of paint, lol :'D when i'm done it's all over me, the table, the walls.... baw haw haw.
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for me it's not that, it ends up in the right places, just not in the right way. my paintings look like I cut everything out of paper, it's literally fields of color because I can't figure out how to make the paints blend.
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*sends u blendin tips* well u could do cell-style like anime/cartoons where u dont need to blend i suppose o3o
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I could, I guess. I'll take a look at what you sent
the problem is mostly that I didn't have much time to work on a painting because that was middle school and we only had one hour a day to paint so by the time I came back to my painting everything had dried and I couldn't make the new layers see-through without using water (and using water meant it would take forever to dry and probably leave some bad stains). we did have another binding material that was supposed to make the new layers less opaque but it was⦠bad. and disagreed with water. and I couldn't figure out how to make it work. so ye, I didn't like it.
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oh i remember that :/ only having a short time to work on ur art in school :/
most of my painting experience is on figures rather than paper. i never liked painting regular pictures, but i used to like painting toy horses and stuff. and it was mostly, like, put down this color, then clean the brush and dab in the other color, and then dabbity dabbity and as there's less and less on the brush as u move away from the area u started, so it fades on color into the other. i painted with acrylics. it didn't really matter if the bottom layer was already dry cuz it still made the fade effect anyway as less and less paint was left on the brush after all the dabbin. or start with just a faint faint amount and dab dab dab, letting it gradually get stronger and stronger as u go toward the part u want to be darker. but it's hard to explain over the internet 
as far as it already being dry, like my figures were, cuz acrylic paint dries super fast, i just put on very tiny amounts of the second color and dab dab dab so it spread out as a thin layer with the base color showing through. and dab on more tiny bits a little at a time so it gradually gets darker over in this area, and stays see-thru/mixed/gradient in that area.
oil paints is for ppl who don't want their paint to dry very quickly, it stays wet for hours, sometimes days. which is why i don't use it :'D i like the quick-dry. i use a hair dryer to hurry it along lD;
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oh yes, painting figures is fun. I've done that a few times, but I haven't done it very often because I don't really have a lot of time for it. I have a few blank figures from the local crafts store ready to be painted as soon as I have time.
ugh, oil paints are hell to work with. they require so much effort and take forever to dry and the tiniest mistake can mess up the entire part of the painting. I understand why some people like them, but I don't. I'd rather work with kids' felt markers than with oil paint.
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i remember the art teachers in middle/high school being all about if u make a mistake, u make it part of the picture and all these tips for making an accidental blob into a rock or rabbit or something and you just work around the mistakes etc....Β
the kind of art i do now is extremely heavily planned though, i don't think that sort of stuff works anymore. not in the digital era where those artists have the undo button so they can have no excuses for everything not being pristine and perfect. i think people expect the same of traditional artists now too. u don't 'work around mistakes' u don't make them to begin with.
i guess maybe it's just two different kinds of art, the 'expressing yourself' art and the popular art, the stuff that's meant to sell, that's meant to get views, etc. ther'es obviously a lot more pressure on the second category than the first
also oil paints were for slow paintings that take days to complete, so u can come back tomorrow and ur paint is still wet so u can pick up where u left off. these days it's all about "speed paints" because again, the digital era.... and people are pumping out art in 20 minutes and whatever. u can't hope to spend a week on a painting and compete with someone who got 14 pictures done in the time it took you to do just one.
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I had a teacher who didn't think like that, it was a big problem for me because I tend to be a perfectionist and hearing from him that I couldn't make mistakes really hurt my attitude towards my art and caused me stress.
working around mistakes is still a thing people do, even in digital art, but the expectations have definitely gone up. I still make a lot of mistakes and try to work around them, but if they are too obvious I just make a joke about it and leave it be, if the rest of the piece is still decent enough to post. I always joke that anatomy is my nemesis because I'm very good at making anatomy mistakes in my lineart.
I think the speedpaint culture is definitely driving oil paints and other slow mediums a little to the more elite side, which kind of sucks. on the other hand, I personally don't care about learning oil paints, I already take long enough to complete my art with just pencils. all jokes aside though, I'm all for taking it slow. slow and steady wins the race, even in digital art.
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i hate mistakes like i look at my stuff and all i see is the anatomy errors and things and i want to just keep redoing it for days :/ riku's new attitude for the comic tho is from something someone said on youtube about focusing on getting something DONE, not getting it PERFECT, cuz he's really determined to finish this and knows it will take a long time and he's like 'if i keep going back and fixing everything i'ts never gonna get done. there's just going to have to be mistakes.' he's hoping people will be more interested in the story than the errors, like if ppl are looking at the errors it means they're not invested in the story, either because they're not interested in it ( not his problem ) or because he didn't successfully draw them in/get their attention/hook them ( and that's more important to improve than the little drawing mistakes ). he says if the story is good enough people wont care/notice that something is slightly out of proportion or something
-sora
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that's a pretty good attitude to have tbh, and I think it works really well for comics - or for art in general, honestly. an artist I admire says that small mistakes don't matter because the creator is the only one who will see them, so I try to not focus on my small mistakes and work on fixing big obvious mistakes like bad proportions or anatomy. but if the art is good enough to grab people's attention, the mistakes really don't matter.
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yessss we find mistakes in yugioh a lot and they are usually just endearing, although there is a HUGE difference between the episodes drawn by "the good artists" and the episodes drawn by "the bad artsts" and some of them just wow :/ it looks just so lazy and crappy that it's depressing. after seeing kaiba looks SO beautiful in this episode over here, and then later he just looks horrible ike its a bad fanart, it really takes the fun out of whatever is happening. and it blows my mind that the final climax of the story, the most important event of all, was done in the cheap art style. it gave me a very strong vibe of "let's hurry up and get this over with so we can start the hot new GX series". :<
so yeh like... there's a diff between "hee hee they made a mistake there" and "wow they just did not care at all, did they"
-sora
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oh yea, I have made a joke out of finding all the dumb mistakes. it's kind of a drinking game but with M&Ms. I start with 25 M&Ms and every time I see a dumb mistake, I eat one. the goal is to get through 10 episodes without running out of M&Ms. so far I have only succeeded once and that was when I was watching the first ten episodes of Battle City. won't say they are good episodes because they aren't (except for Yugi vs Pandora, that was actually good), but there weren't as many dumb mistakes that I could see at the time.
that said, the bad episodes are just⦠bad. there's no excuse for those. it's really a shame that the whole Millennium World arc, in both the manga and the anime, was rushed so badly. the manga was rushed because Kazuki was very sick and needed to go to the hospital so he hurried to finish everything before he had to go on a break for gods know how long (which is also why Kisara's story fell flat after two or three chapters, Kazu really wanted to do better but he couldn't), and the anime was rushed because they wanted to finish the anime as quickly as possible after the last chapter of the manga was released - and besides, I'm p sure Kazu needed to sign off on the anime episode scripts so they had to hurry to get those to him before he had to go to the hospital.
the bad episodes in the rest of the series I think are even worse because there was no reason for those to be so horribly bad. especially in Battle City, that was just the worst. I'm pretty sure the animators were experimenting a lot in Battle City and none of it worked out.
but my favorite dumb mistake has to be a recurring fail in s4. Timaeus is sometimes missing the scar over his eye and it's absolutely hilarious to catch that. it's such an important part of his character and they completely forgot to draw it, why does that even happen. (because the animators failed, that's why)
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YESSS!! TIMAEUS'S SCAR!!! and the way it looks on his dragon form does not match how it looks on his human form either, and neither version actually matches what dartz actually did to him cuz dartz stabbed him in the eye with a sword rather than slash him across the face. gosh that was one of the dumbest parts
we have noticed there is at least 3 definitely separate art teams and they cycle around. one of them is really, really awesome and the characters are so pretty and everything looks so nice. the other is kinda ok but u can tell it's not quite the same, but it's alright. and then there's one that is just.... awful, lol. just horrible, it looks like fans drew it. and they tend to quit mid-thing, like one episode will look fantastic then "to be continued" and when it picks up where it left off next episode, the art style has changed and it's so disorienting and disappointing :< when we take screenshots for drawing references we try hard to deliberately screen-shot the "good artists' episodes", but the "good artists" did almost nothing in season 5 :< there are NO episodes of sieg drawn by them, yami bakura looks the worst he's ever looked ever. they did do the intro for the ancient egypt stuff, during the credits, and maybe some of the ancient egypt episodes but i'm not as into the ancient egypt thing because i just don't consider "seto" to be "kaiba" they're too different for me and i just don't really care much about seto, and kaiba rejects that past and says he doesn't want to accept it or remember it and well personally i respect his wishes, because i also have a past i want to forget about and i hate people constantly making a thing out of it and reminding me i was born a girl and all that. it's the past, it doesn't matter, focus on who i am NOW.
*throws kisara out a window so freaking hard* her character would be really cool if she was not forced in as kaiba's completely unnecessary "love interest" when he's been single/asexual/no interest in anyone but yugi and atem for the entire story up to that point. makes me angry. ever single time i like a male character ( and he's even shown to be obsessed with another male character that i also like ) of course he just has to be straight and get a stupid girlfriend, and kaiba of all people! he never looked at ANYONE but yugi/atem. i compeltely 100% support his wishes to ignore that stupid ancient egypt backstory crap. i love how he sees her dead in season 5 and doesn't give a shit and just walks away. makes my day.
-sora
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the dumbest part imo is that in dragon form, Timaeus can apparently still see with his right eye, too. it's weird. this is how you know nobody on the writing or animation team had any idea how eye injuries work XD
another thing that bothers me is that the other two don't seem to have noticeable scars from the sealing swords. okay, it would be really hard to see for Hermos because we don't see his dragon form long enough to notice if he has any kind of scar on his claw and in his human form he wears gloves, but Critias should have a scar on his jaw and that would definitely be noticeable. (I know they probably weren't planning on anything like that and I'm trying to see a pattern where there isn't one, but this headcanon is too fun to not use so I totally headcanon that the other two do have scars from the sealing swords)
the bad team I think was called in when they needed to rush something, because the other teams always look like they took their time and at least tried. since the last season was so horribly rushed, the bad team was called in more often and made the season worse.
Kisara was not supposed to be Kaiba's love interest, she was supposed to be Seth's love interest (and in reality Seth was mostly supposed to be interested in her power and she was supposed to have a bigger crush on him because he saved her several times, and he would only get attached to her later on)... but because Kazu had to rush it, it got a little messed up and convoluted and then everyone started thinking she was supposed to be Kaiba's love interest. the whole millennium world arc was a mess of missed potential and mistakes tbh. there's also the very obvious implication that some of the priests are supposed to be ancestors or pre-incarnations of modern characters but that was never realized either, and there's the hint that Priest Shada might be Shadi except then the whole Hassan/Bobasa thing happened (which I think was a quick fix Kazu made up when it turned out that the other backstory thing would take too much time to work out) and they messed up on that...
I'm still salty about the "x character is a reincarnation of y character and also here's who Shadi really is" thing not working out btw, lots of potential there and they messed it up.
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yeeesss! scars on all three would have made more sense D: timaeus has a line "you are the one who gave me this wound" and says he wants revenge or something... which seems kinda un-heroic for me... like.... i donno, i guess they all have a reason to be vengeful but... it's been 10k years, yo. i just think they'd seem more noble if they were motivated by saving the world, and in our head canon thing we wrote a story where they were all four friends, cuz a knight is knighted by the king so.... we have it as either they were knighted by ironheart and were sort of dartz's bodyguards, or he's the one who knighted them when atlantis started to get violent and he had to accept that they would have to fight in order to protect it. and then he got corrupted and turned on them and it makes it all personal and it matters more than timaeus is so mad at him and why only they can stop him, etc
yes, the reincarnations, ugh :/ like ishizu being back then but doesn't realize it until after it reveals all that. she's like 'hi kaiba, u and atem knew each other in the past, and i know this because of my magic powers' and then he starts having memories and yadda yadda.......but SHE doesn't have memories of them!? she was there! she knew them! oi. :l and grandpa of all the people, lol.
i think yugi's case is "he was supposed to be the reincarnation of atem, but atem's soul was sealed in the puzzle so his present-day incarnation was born with a soul of its own" and that's supposed to be a big conflict for yugi, i think he kinda feels like he shouldn't exist/he's the one who lives in someone else's body not the other way around, and he's often referred to as "the pharoah's vessel" and i imagine that would be pretty damaging. originally that was going to be a part of his character in our old comic but we decided not to write sanctuary that way and his inner conflict is something else for that story *tosses spoilers over a bush*
i also didn't get how some people are reincarnated as living people ( ishizu, kaiba ) and others are reincarnated as cards??? ( and especially how dark magician girl exsits in the "dominion of the beasts" which has nothing to do with egypt.... ) i mean.... the dark magician thing is fun buuuuutttt it was yugi's favorite card first. and atem was using it because he was using yugi's deck...and yugi's original deck was his grandfather's deck..... i donno, i think a lot of this stuff wasn't planned from the beginning, it was sort "make it up as you go along" in some parts. but i do like the concept of this just being atem's favorite card but he has no memory of who that is, then finds out later "oh, this was a guy who loved me so much he killed himself to be my eternal servant." i think they're implied to be a little bit too close for straight guys ( especially that shy little way mahad looks away from him in that one part ) and then in modern days he got really really close to yugi.... and in the end he leaves yugi to go back to the one he was with first/meant to be with.... i like the idea of that as a story.
there is a song where just a couple random lines in it is "you know i've seen it before, this mist that covers your eyes. you've been looking for something that's not in your life." i think it fits atem's whole story arc but i kind of wanted to do a mini comic of yugi looking at him like he knows he's bothered by something but doesn't know what, and atem doesn't know what either, and have him lookin at his black magician card because that's the thing he's searching for that's not in his life, but he doesn't know that cuz he lost his memories. like what a bittersweet story to hold your former lover ( or "best friend" whatever e___e... ) right in your hand but you don't remember that's who they are, and he's always haunted by that feeling of not knowing who he is, etc... i love that love-triangle of being really attached to yugi but he left this other guy behind who swore his spirit to him forever and he's still loyal to him in card-form even tho atem forgot who he is and is making promises to some other guy ( yugi ) to stay with him forever and just omg it's so heartbreaking i love it DX ! even without them fully going all-out with the gay stuff and just softly implying so the striaght idiots don't get offended, and it's kinda in the background of all the other stuff going on, it is still such a really sad bittersweet story ; ;
but atem isn't one of my fav characters, kaiba is e3e;;;; and we can't write ALL THE STORIES so we had to pick one and focus on it :cΒ
-sora
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I use GIMP too 
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GIMP isn't all that bad. a little simpler than SAI or Photoshop but it works perfectly fine.
thanks! I really enjoyed this piece, though I really wish my tablet worked properly and I didn't have to use a mouse all the time. all those lines...
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it works fine for what i want to do.. and i just dont want to pay for those other programs at the moment 
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haha, yeah, why pay when you get it free? Krita is also pretty good, I heard, but I haven't really taken a look at it yet.
I could do that. I could also try and get my old one to work, but it's so old, it probably won't get recognized by my PC. I don't do a whole lot of digital art and I'm not too interested in actually going a lot further with it because traditional is more my kind of thing, so I guess I won't get a tablet any time soon.
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never heard of krita.. is that another free program? I eventually want to learn programs like photoshop, but if i want to go into the professional world of art that what a lot of the big guys use, so it probably looks good on a resume if i can use photoshop
I prefer traditional as well, but i want to be familiar with a wide range of mediums for personal and professional reasons.
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yeah, krita is free, and a little search on Tumblr gives a lot of positive results. it's similar to Sai, as far as I've seen.
that's a pretty good idea. I'm just a hobbyist, I don't plan to make art my job, so I'm happy exploring within the places I know.
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cool, i'll have to check it out.
I used to me like that.. just wanted it to beΒ hobby.. i wanted to be an archaeologist, but I don't have the smarts for that and art's about the only thing I'm good at... and it's become a lot more important to me now that im older.
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so far a lot of artists I know have switched to it. I still stick with GIMP, though. I'm just used to that program.
awh, that's a shame. I don't know what I want to do as a job...
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same... and i'm still figuring GIMP out so I dont think i want to try out a new one just yet
i say follow whatever interests you the most because you dont want to regret anything
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makes sense xD tho I heard Krita is a tad easier to figure out? maybe because it's made to be more semi-professional.
will do, thanks!
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heck yea
also, there's one artist who inspired me to make this. I let them know, and they're pretty happy they could be an inspiration OwO
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Amazing, I did one drawing that way once and It's hard as fuck XDU
Also that dude seems interesting
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yeah, it's really difficult XD
the guy is W.D.Gaster, a character from Undertale
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yes I did OwO
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you're welcome ^^ )
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