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Published: 2006-08-12 02:55:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 2362; Favourites: 21; Downloads: 23
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So, finished this... how to draw a background... WES style.There's gonna be tonnes of typos in there, I haven't bothered to proof read it... and I did the whole thing hungover.
The pic I did was based on my old High-school. Very simple reason for that... never draw a school scene before, so this seemed like a good oppertunity to have a shot. Australian High-school though, 'cause I'm Australian, and I could use our old yearbooks as a reference for uniforms and stuff.
Note, this is just how I do things. I don't belive it will work for everyone. But I hope it gives some help.
Oh, and flicking through the different scans in image-browser looks really funky... like a timelapse movie
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, LET ME KNOW. THERE'S A PRETTY GOOD CHANCE I DIDN'T CLARIFY A LOT OF THINGS IN THERE
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Cheers mate. Glad to hear this thing is of some use
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^^ Kewl XD
And heavens to mercy I actually read the text instead of looking at teh pictures XD Have a cookie
Now I can draw some backgrounds...mahn
Thanks for sharing =3
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Mmm... cookie *eats cookie*. Thank you!
Wow, you actually read it? I was kinda expecting most people to get board halfway through...
Thanks for the fav and watch by the way.
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Ooooh, soo gonna try this out soem time!?! mind if i save it for further reference?
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Sure, go right ahead.
Thanks mate.
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Now if only I could draw in the first place... though I suppose it's probably worth a read just to enjoy that dry, south-of-everywhere wit. )
Speaking of Australia... oh wait. Nevermind, I was going to ask why your school uniforms have hats... but it seems like a good idea with some of the weather you get (though it's rather wintry down there at the moment, yes?). Of course, that doesn't explain why your school hats are so funny-lookin. )
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Yes, it is a tad wintery just at the moment... but you still need a hat if you're going to be outside for any length of time. Where I live there's probably only a week or two in the entire year when you'd been a jumper or jacket all day. Most of the time we're back in a t-shirt by 10am.
As for the hats... the girls had this sort of maroon, wide-brim almost straw thing. As for the blokes, I drew the old style hats here (phased out the year before I started) which was a light grey Akubra style. When I came it became a darker grey and a more round Fur-Felt. It was good 'cause you only had to get it wet once, then wear it for a bit and it moulded to your head shape
If you're interested the school site is here: [link]
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Wow, you weren't kidding... I clicked on the link and the first thing I see is the scene from the tutorial. )
Seems like every school uses maroon as a color: my high school was maroon and gold and so was my brother's college, and my college is maroon and grey. I guess it just looks distinguished.
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Yep, that's the place (had to hit "refresh" a few times to get the pic up). The Main entrance is a bit different to what I remember it... there used to be a mound of grass and dirt behind that wall, so if you were in a hurry, or wanted to avoid the Prefect on the gate on the way out you could just hoy yourself over the wall and be off down the street. then they put in multi-purpose courts, the garden and a path up along the back. For some reason they never posted a Prefect or Marshall at the bottom of that, so avoidance got a whole lot easier...
Yeah, maroon does seem to be a popular colour for some reason. I know a few of the schools around here use it as well. I always thought ours looked abit more stylish than the others (lack of white stripes on blazer for starters)... hey, at least it beat the bright radioactive green of one of the schools
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Ach, striped blazers? Terrible. I bet that green looked neat, though I imagine the novelty wore off after a few consecutive days. )
My school didn't have a uniform, but we did have a dress code, so we generally looked decent, if not disciplined. My school was also small enough so that if some authority figure was looking for you, it took some real skill and luck to avoid them, if you could manage it at all... for the most part they knew many students personally, both the well-behaved ones and the... shall we say... less respectful students.
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I know, it looked kinda dicky... ours were just plain maroon, well, in winter they were, didn't have to use them in summer. And you ALWAYS knew where the bright lime green people were... very retro school that one. They were an all girls bunch, so there wasn't even a CHANCE I'd have to wear that uniform... thank God for that
Every so-often we used to get a dress inspection... but our school was pretty damn large, over 3000 students with all three schools together (primary, middle and senior schools, and later on Prep). Considering my primary school had had less than 250, it was a pretty big step. We had more people in my YEAR level for high-school than I did in my entire primary school. Sounds like your school was a bit similar to my primary: small enough that, if you were in strife the teachers didn't even need to take names
Man, I'd feel weird at school without a uniform. Heh, I feel weird NOW out of uniform. Spent the first 19 years of my life in one uniform or another. Not having one anymore just feels... strange.
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Indeed, we had different dress codes for different times of the year. I managed to get through most of my time there with polo shirts, turtlenecks, and sweaters.
Oh yeah, we had a small school. In my year, the gradating class from high school was 38 (though my brother's was only 24!).
"Heh, I feel weird NOW out of uniform. Spent the first 19 years of my life in one uniform or another." I remember you said something somewhere that made me think you were in the military at some point, is that right? We've got a bit of a family history in the service too, and right now I'm considering it. I might end up in uniform, too. )
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We had 27 in our class when I left primary school, and there we were the only year 7 class there
Yeah, I did Air Force Cadets for about 5-6 years... I terminated at the start of this year simply through running out of time. I went back on friday and it really had gone down hill since then. I wasn't the only one to go, both Warrant Officers went as well, but I think theirs was through vindictiveness
I'm thinking of going back as a reservist in a year or so. Heh, if I was following family tradition I'd have moved to the UK and joined the Royal Navy by now, or the Royal Marines
Which service you considering?
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Well, I'm a yank, so I doubt the Royal Navy would have me. )
Right now I'm considering the USAF and the USN, more leaning towards the Air Force. I never did any sort of cadet program, since my high school (age 13-17) didn't have one. My brother had an interesting experience with a program that puts you through the Officer Candidate School for the Marines during college (age 18-22). He then declined to take his commission, and later joined the Army and is now a lieutenant there... so he's been through two different services' officer programs - a rather unique experience!
However, it is partly because of his advice that I am considering the path that I am now. Namely, I would want to enter the service as an enlisted man, then after a time, go through the officer selection process and graduate into an officer. My brother (and my recruiter) recommend this idea because it avoids the conflict that often arises between newly minted lieutenants with no experience and their men who often have more service time. My father thinks instead that I should enter directly as an officer, but it's a long time since he was green: he spent something like 30 years in the national guard/army reserve, and retired (I think they made him retire) as a full colonel.
The decision to sign up hasn't been made yet, and I still need to go talk to an officer rep. for the USAF and a recruiter for the USN. I'm still keeping my civvie options open too, since I won't be graduating until May or so.
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Heh, my Old Man's British... so I can still claim citizenship 
I'd go Air Force mate, personally anyway. Then again, you lot get Naval Aviation, so little trade off I guess...
I'd definately go enlisted first. That's the advice most of the folks on the bases I visited gave me as well, officers and enlisted alike. It makes sure you get to see the story from both sides of the fence.
Our school didn't have a Cadets programme either, but I joined the Squadron out at Archerfield Airfield (civvie airfield, we just had a compound). The cool bit of that was that we kept the wing's planes there, barr one that lived out at RAAF Amberley.
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We've got other military history too, but it's older and more mysterious. I think one of both of my uncles had something to do with the military at one point (indeed, one of them works in the Army administration nowadays), and my grandfather served in WWII (I believe as an officer in the Army, in Italy, but we don't ask him about it). As my brother says, our family is terrible at handing down recent history. And as my mother says, none of us have an original thought in our heads, career-wise!
I'm sure the Navy fella will be telling me all about Naval Aviation once I tell him I've been to talk to the Air Force... but in truth, piloting is only one of the things that interests me. One of my top choices in the USAF would be to be a CCT, which is a type of 'special forces.' In fact, it may be the easiest way (physically) to get into any of the spec. ops. arms, which is good for a relative wimp like me. CCTs are principally air traffic controllers - when they drop the U.S. Army Rangers in to capture an airfield, they drop a CCT in with them, and he's the guy that 'flips' the airfield, making it useable by friendly forces. Sounds like fun to me!
Even if I were a pilot, I would probably rather fly the big planes rather than the fighters. Seems like it'd be a lot more enjoyable to spend hours in the air with the mates rather than trying to make sure my ass doesn't get shot down.
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Heh, what I meant is that you've had folks in the forces a bit more recently as well... ours kinda stopped after my Grandfather's generation. I can trace three though. My grandfather was a Royal Marine stationed on the HMS Prince of Wales during WWII. Engaged the Bismark and was Sunk off Singapore... spent four years in Changi and on the Burma Rail after that. His father (my great-grandfather) was killed at the Somme... and going back a lot further, to where it all started, one of my ancestors was a Bosun (an officer incharge of a gun-deck) on the HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar.
We have an equivalent to the CCTs in the RAAF as well... but buggered if I can remember what they're called... Was talking to one, he said it was a pretty awsome role to play... bloody tireing but great stuff.
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That's quite an ancestry! I didn't think the Bismarck was ever out by Singapore, but I'm no great authority on history.
I'm not sure how far back our military history goes, but I know it extends at least to the American Civil War (1860s), when one of our forebears was a Union officer.
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No, the Price of Wales engaged the Bismark while it was still under construction so not all its turrets were functioning. It was then finished, operated in the med and then sent to Singapore as part of Group X-ray, where it was sunk by Japanese torpedo bombers...
...I just read what I wrote before... It wasn't real clear was it
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Ahahaha. XDDD Fun to read. Really helpful!
Thanks a lot for doing this.
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No worries, and thanks mate.
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well done mate, very clear and concise.
and i didnt even realise it was school ha! that kid getting busted is so me
anyway, DA needs good tut's like this, keep it up.
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Heh, yeah. It was only very loosely based on the school, sort of "yeah, that looks kinda right" approach.
I used to walk up past the Multipurpose courts, for some reasnon there was never anyone there to check up...
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Very informative, mate.
BG's are one area I seriously need to practice.
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Thanks mate.
Nice to know I managed to get something across. I really wasn't sure how understandable any of what I wrote was going to be
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Or not.... let the headache go first...
WES
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Its the kinda dance where you don't really do much and act like a zombie
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Comprehensive and chock full of sass. Nice one mate!
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Finally!
That was probably THE most entertaining tut ever!
Now if this f'king finger would hurry the hell up and heal, I can give it a go.
Nice work, darlin'. Cheers! 
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Well, don't go putting strain on it too early... even wrenching... last thing you want is to be out of action even longer...
Thanks mate, woo!
WES
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Yeah, but I gotta be ready by next Friday...
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Wrench with the other hand...
WES
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Lovely read.
Didn't realise till the 5th image just what exactly the image was of... like... I read that it was school, and assumed St Peters, but didn't actually realise till the 5th
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Heh, well, I guess the 5th frame is where it first becomes a full scene in a way
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No worries, and thanks.
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Very comprehensive and helpful.Worth reading through for sure.
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That's what I was hoping it would be
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You certainly have pulled it off well for sure.
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The world in your head is far more interesting and enterianing then the real thing...
So this explains how you achieve the depth to the bg! cool! ... shall try to make use of this for the next drawing
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But it IS so much more entertaining...
Woo! Inspiration is awsome! I think I might go get some more from the fridge later... very inspiring thing the fridge
Thanks mate.
WES
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Hell yes FRIDGES are enternating!!!! ours is a modifed 2-door too!
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I really need to get back to pencil... Sure the tablet is good for certain things, but as you've clearly shown, you can't beat creating details with a bit of lead. Excellent work on the uniforms as well. The humour was cool too.
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Thanks mate... I kinda figured those who didn't need the tutorial could at least have a nice light read
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