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2005-05-30 [Moorn]: Well, you see those gems in the wings? Those are candy. ^_^
2005-05-31 [toycar]: *apologises for more bite marks* :D
2005-07-09 [Moorn]: o.o I had forgotten that this contest was running
2005-07-09 [pixish]: yay!
2005-07-11 [toycar]: i killed my backround.. perhaps i could do it..again o.O
2005-07-11 [pixish]: :-)
2005-07-12 [merilwen]: Woohoo! four hours straight of coloring!...*n
2005-07-12 [pixish]: *tucks you in*
2005-07-12 [toycar]: lovely job merilwen :D i must leave. parents screaming.
2005-07-12 [Charybdis]: That's Photoshop? How did you get it to look like paint, with the brush strokes and everything? *loves it*
2005-07-13 [merilwen]: thanks :D I was able to make it look like paint with the brush. I cant remember the exact one I used, but I think it was in the dry media section
2005-07-13 [Charybdis]: Okay, I can't do it then :P
2005-07-14 [merilwen]: which version of photoshop do you have?
2005-07-14 [Pandaz]: Does anyone else think the wings on mine make it look like there are mountains behind her
2005-07-14 [farawaygone]: sort of but that could make for a very interesting background. I think it is lovely.
2005-07-14 [Charybdis]: 5.0 LE. There's no dry media section that I know of, lol. // I love it! ^^
2005-07-18 [toycar]: ohh people have been lovely and busy *applauds* I've been lazy, and a lovehead... o.O
2005-07-18 [pixish]: :-O a lovehead!!! ^_____^
2005-07-18 [toycar]: i know. i wrote a poem as well. I think i'll put it in my diar ^.^
2005-07-18 [pixish]: ^_____________
2005-07-23 [toycar]: *snorts* im eating popcorn, perhaps i could work on the backround.....
2005-07-23 [pixish]: hehe ^__^ inspired by popcorn? :P
2005-07-23 [toycar]: kinda, it made me thirsty.......
2005-07-23 [pixish]: yay for inspiration!
2005-07-30 [pixish]: yay for new entries!
2005-07-30 [Elisha Kelly]: WOOT WOOT! finished in 2 hrs, my first ever colour in with software, hee hee, I could get used to this... By the way everyone's work is looking Lovely!
2005-07-30 [Charybdis]: Ooh ooh, two hours?! ^^ Very pretty!
2005-07-30 [Moorn]: Wow, that's nice. This particular Moorn is impressed.
2005-07-30 [toycar]: uh..YAY for being lazy...o.O *throws self*
2005-07-30 [Moorn]: *catches* Now, that takes talent. *pats on the head and gives a cookie*
2005-07-30 [toycar]: gods, i havent eaten cookies...in..
2005-07-30 [Rondel]: *hopes ToyCar isn't British* My own entry is taking just this side of forever, because real life keeps interfering, but it's still progressing, and I'm pretty happy with it so far, at least.
2005-07-30 [toycar]: hahah, nah im an australian *pets her pet koala*
2005-07-30 [Rondel]: Just as well -- I'm not sure that the British meaning of the term would be suitable for a family site. *chuckles* I'm an Aussie too, as of 1999, and the kangaroos which hop through my back yard and the adjacent paddocks have pretty much confirmed that status... ...but I still find the vagaries of our "shared" English language to be amusing. You'd be amazed at how many Aussies I horrified into silence by saying I needed to look in my "fanny pack" for one thing and another, before someone explained to me that not only are they known as "bum bags" here, but fanny has another meaning entirely, from the US one that I was used to prior to my move here. <LOL>
2005-07-30 [Rondel]: P.S. I like your entry, [Elisha Kelly]! Especially for a first colour with software -- I'm impressed! Me, I'm going backward -- I'm doing mine in a digital art program that mimics real media, so it's taking forever, brush stroke by brush stroke. But it feels more real to me than doing it in the computer styles with which I'm already familiar, and I think the challenge is good for me. Besides, I can't print it out right now, and I don't want to lose my real media skills to doing too much digital art. I think it's neat, the way each of us is challenging hirself. Besides, I can't use real oil or acrylic paints.
2005-07-31 [Elisha Kelly]: Thankyou... I am a acrylic/ oils artist mostly, but it is very messy and hard, specially when you got kids dippin their fingers in the paint and so on, so computer art I find is really refreshing... and I can get effects that I wouldn't have a clue how to do on a canvas, and they are easier to get onto the net! photos of paintings, never do the painting justice... I like everyone's colourin pic, they are just all so different, it is amazing how one picture represents so many different ideas.
2005-07-31 [Rondel]: In my case, it's not a matter of mess -- unless I want to go back about 600 years, and make my own paints from traditional recipes, I literally CAN'T use oils, and even THAT's not an option when it comes to acrylics. Chemical sensitivities, bleh. I'm one of those people you hear about from time to time, who are "allergic to the 20th/21st century". I can tolerate *some* plastic, if it's had months (or years, in some cases) to outgas, but I can't tolerate any more volatile petrochemicals
2005-07-31 [Charybdis]: Wow, really? I've never heard of that O_o Eesh, it must be really awkward!
2005-08-01 [Elisha Kelly]: I have a problem with the smells, like turps and that... but I can go on and use oderless solvent instead. Still Computer art is fun!
2005-08-01 [toycar]: the smells the good thing about it o.o *loves horrible things*
2005-08-01 [Elisha Kelly]: It affects me I am afraid... kinda can't think, gives me a headache... I can't wear perfume... certain cleaners... leaves me a total space cadet. It is really weird and drives my boyfriend nuts.
2005-08-03 [Rondel]: That's not all that uncommon -- in the Bay Area of California, which is probably one of the worse areas because of the pollutants from the Silicon Valley, but is also one of the areas for which there are actual statistics, it's been shown that about 25% of the residents have been diagnosed by their doctors with one or more chemical sensitivities. It is much worse when you have more than one chemical sensitivity; the problem *I* have is what is called "Multiple Chemical Sensitivity", which is part of a group of conditions known as "Environmental Illnesses". One of the standard signs of these kinds of problems is sensitivity to perfumes, or cleaning products; a lot of people first notice
2005-08-03 [Rondel]: these problems by way of developing symptoms when they go down the cleaning products aisle at the supermarket. That was one of my first problem areas; for my husband (who has the same problems), it was perfumes. The problems can also be induced in people who don't already have them, by exposing them to too much of these products. For instance, I know someone who got MCS as a result of childhood "perfume fights", while others have gotten it as a result of exposure to pesticides, or molds, or even combined relatively minor exposures while they were under stress (which makes the blood-brain barrier much more permeable to chemicals). My advice to those who notice symptoms when they're
2005-08-03 [Rondel]: around certain chemicals is to avoid exposure to them, or at least use them only in a VERY well-ventilate
2005-08-03 [Rondel]: Basically, it's best to take care of yourself EARLY, while the problems are still relatively minor, because they can all too easily become REALLY disabling if you ignore them - & people are taught (by example) to ignore them, & just trust that if a product is available for sale, it must be safe. Read the warning labels on the products that you use (whether they're art supplies, or cleansers, or whatever), & take them SERIOUSLY; most people never follow the instructions that are on warning labels, & the results can be VERY bad, especially if you have a vulnerable genetic makeup; some people can't metabolize certain chemicals, which is our bodies' way of processing them out/making them safe.
2005-08-03 [Moorn]: Personally I find that anytime a person is working with any kind of chemical, be it paints or sealants or thinners or what have you, that person should be in a ventilated area. There's nothing quite like a fume-headache, even if you're not allergic or especially vulnerable to such things. >.< Trust me, I was a chemistry major.
2005-08-04 [toycar]: again, i like smells, unnatural yes...but im allergic to certain creams and makeups, which is fun o.o
2005-08-04 [Elisha Kelly]: Oh, I just stay way from stuff that makes me feel bad, which thankfully isn't a great deal... that's why I use the oderless solvent instead of turps... hee hee, if it don't feel good don't do it... also I am prone to contact dertmatitis, nasty thing... most people get a rash, but my skin develops bubbles under the skin, that dry out and crack... vera painful,... the moral boys and girls... wear gloves when cleaning :)
2005-08-04 [Rondel]: Yuk, definitely a bad sign, and good advice. :) Hubby recently lost large chunks of his epidermis (right down to the capillary layer) in what seems to have been a reaction to something he INHALED, so my advice (from scary experience) if you're getting that kind of reaction, just be careful, and be aware that it can progress to related reactions (like the one he's got now). Freaked all of us out, including the doctor. I've got pictures (of the wounds in question) online, if anyone feels like losing their appetite for a week or so (or convincing a friend to be careful). *wry laugh*
2005-08-05 [Elisha Kelly]: EEEEEEEEEWwwww
2005-08-06 [toycar]: Haha i remember when i split my knee open, from jumping on a wedding photo's frame... the inside of skin looks awesome. I was tooo amused by its strange-lookin
2005-08-07 [Elisha Kelly]: hee hee, I walked onto a knife when I was pregnant with my daughter... that was funny... it hurt, but still was funny.
2005-08-07 [toycar]: o.o ! i...dont find it oh so amusing :S your daughter...and you were alright though.... ???
2005-08-07 [Rondel]: It's amazing what we can find funny, I guess. :D I've injured myself in some incredibly stupid & bizarre sounding ways, over the years. One of my personal all-time favourites involved having to explain to the ER docs that a bed with a guy on it fell on my hand (mind you, it was during a rehearsal for "Taming of the Shrew", & the bed was being lowered out of the stage wings... ...but the docs never really got to that part, they just sort of stared at me, age 15, & made assumptions) -- or the time I was "attacked by a jealous hamadryad" (see also "trying to find a good explanation of how I broke my wrist tripping over a 5-foot-wide tree stump, immediately after having turned off my light).
2005-08-07 [toycar]: hahah, like the time my sister threw a brick at me. though, there wasn't much to explain, except that she threw a brick at me............
2005-08-07 [Charybdis]: o_o And to think, the weirdest injury I've ever had was managing to give myself a deep cut on a Kleenex box... I can't compete at this level ^^;
2005-08-07 [toycar]: hahahahah
2005-08-08 [Elisha Kelly]: oh, the nknife thing was funny, cause we went fishing, and I had put the knife blade first into the sand so I couldn't step on it... well i stepped forward and sliced the inside of my second toe on the only cm of blade sticking out of the sand, hee hee, then i had to walk half a km back to the car, through sand, that was 5 years ago and my toe is still numb... I had forgotten i had put the knife there, hee hee. My brother once cut his finger in my piggy bank, His finger got stuck so i tried to use a hammer to get it out... *sigh* the things we do when we are young.
2005-08-08 [toycar]: Ive had my head stuck in stairs, ive been caught in barbed wire... oh, name it, ive prob done it. I also fell off the roof once, but that was only a year back o.O
2005-08-08 [farawaygone]: oh no... I have broken my arm when I was pushed off a garage roof when I was 7 and I trod on oysters at the beach and cut right in between my big toe and had to have stitches. I have a big scar on my leg where a horse rubbed me against a barbed wire fence. I had a gash in my head where a board of wood feel down under the house and hit me in the middle of my head, head injuries bleed so much and really hurt. I was blessed with bad knees with stretched tendons so I have dislocated my knees about 30 times. It really affects what type of sport I can play.
2005-08-08 [toycar]: yeah, i cant play loads of sports anymore. haha its amusing how so many of us get so hurt... yet, i ask my friends and they have never been hurt in thier lives.... rather...stran
2005-08-08 [farawaygone]: I know heaps of my friends have never had a broken bone or a big cut. I don't know why I just must be accident prone.
2005-08-08 [toycar]: yeah, i think that generally it has something to do with being artistic. We all here seem to have somewhat outgoing personalities.
2005-08-08 [farawaygone]: My sister is creative and she does too. :) Im not into cybering I think they should save that for some other site elftown is for artists, writers and friendly hangarounds. It should stay that way. I have a picture of my son and my boyfriend up in my house and I still get asked it drives me crazy. Oh well that is when I just hit mr block key or write back I don't cyber.
2005-08-08 [toycar]: I dont even bother doing that. I usually dont have a picture that shows much of what i look like. People are just lame, and i think half the fun about it is to see if someone will get annoyed, so, i merely ignore it.
2005-08-10 [farawaygone]: Your theory works well I guess I just like using that block key lol!
2005-08-10 [toycar]: hahaha i accidently blocked my friend once, somehow, and she was sending messages to me...and cause i couldnt recieve them...she thought i was ignoring her. it was...rather amusing... just...doesnt sound so amusing now that i have written it o.O
2005-08-10 [farawaygone]: hahaha that is so funny. She really would have thought you were ignoring her. Poor friend did it take you a while to realise what you had done?
2005-08-10 [toycar]: indeed. lucky she finally questioned me at school one day, thought i suddenly hated her
2005-08-10 [farawaygone]: :) Im glad you got it all sored out then :)
2005-08-10 [Elisha Kelly]: I don't really hurt myself much... and I am a creative person, I am also somewhat introverted, which is probably why... I dont cyber either, but when someone tries with me I just tell them that I am really a man... and then Lmao at their reactions... silly gits... :P
2005-08-10 [toycar]: of course. though, i do that in real life as well. *snorts*
2005-08-10 [Elisha Kelly]: *giggles* I pretended with a friend that I was into the opposite sex to get rid of a pesky guy, but it kinda backfired... in the end I had to hide.
2005-08-10 [toycar]: yeah, i have had the whole..pretend
2005-08-10 [farawaygone]: haha me and my sister went to this gaypub downtown and we held on to each other like we were the last girls alive all night. I think that people have the right to be into same sex relationships after all its all about what makes you happy. This night a girl came up and put her leather jacket over my sholders she was a very big girl and I didn't know what to do so I told her I was bisexual and in a relationship sorry. However I am straight and have always been, Im just not used to being hit on by other girls thats all. :)
2005-08-10 [toycar]: Yeah, i have bi friends, and i love them to death. I dont know, they seem to respect people so much more...cant explain it..really.
2005-08-10 [farawaygone]: I guess a lot of the time they have been through more than us and I think that is probably character building for them, thus helps them be more unterstanding people. My gay and bi friends are lovely and they have been as long as I can remember.
2005-08-10 [Rondel]: As a member of the LBGT community myself, I have to say this: being gay, bi, or whatever, doesn't guarantee that a person will be a better person. What it does do is pretty much guarantee that they'll have had to deal with the question of "who am I, and is it worth the crap I'll face from other people, in order to be myself". That does a lot to help a person wake up to their own decency, if they're going to. But accepting that people are just people, regardless, entails accepting that gay/bi people can be utter 'holes, too. Not that most are, but the point is, you don't see people as just people when you put them up on a pedestal, any more than when you look down your nose at 'em. :8-/
2005-08-10 [Rondel]: For those who are disconcerted by being "hit on" by people of their own gender, it's worth remembering this - unlike your average heterosexual, your average gay/lesbian/bi
2005-08-10 [ArchangelGabriel]: Persoanly, unless i know a person to be gay i wouldn't even think for a moment about hitting on them. Its a lesson i learnt very quickley...
2005-08-11 [farawaygone]: I didn't mean to offend any of you especially rondel. I am completely accepting of all kinds of relationships. like I said as long as it makes you happy. Unfortunately it can sometimes come across as steriotypical when talking about sexuality. It is like everyone we are all very very big individuals and shold not be classed any different due to race,colour or sexuality. Once again im sorry if I offended you.
2005-08-11 [Elisha Kelly]: U are who who u are, my stepbrother is gay... I have had a few gal pals who are gay (denied it to me, but it was ovious, they are out now though) and i say as long as u is a nice person, i have no problems with u... If a woman asked me out I would be flattered, I would have to say no, but I would be flattered all the same... pity my boyfriend isn't flattered when I say to him 'If i was a man honey, I ask you out in a mo' :P
2005-08-11 [farawaygone]: Anyway this page is about a colouring competition there are enough debates about sexuality in the world already and I don't particuarly want to start one because there is nothing to debate about. People should start realising that.
2005-08-11 [Rondel]: Goodness, no, I'm not offended by anything anyone's said here, I just found it worthwhile to point out that in any gathering of this many people, it's kind of silly to speak of heterosexuals as "us", & assume that will include all who are present. No offense is intended by that, toward you, [farawaygone], or toward anyone else -- I just spend a lot of my time as "den mother" to a lot of bisexual & lesbian girls & young women (yes, here on Elftown), and it makes me a bit more aware that comments and conversations like the one that was going on here can make a person feel excluded, or "different". On the other hand, going to a gay bar *is* kind of sending a signal that at the very least, one
2005-08-11 [Rondel]: won't be offended by someone making the inquiry as to whether you're interested in the usual things -- dancing, maybe a drink together, that sort of thing. Do *you* make sure a person is heterosexual before approaching them? Or do you just assume that if they're not interested in you (for whatever reason, sexual orientation included), they'll let you know in a decent and polite way? Most people I know fall in the latter category. It's pretty rare for a person to start out by ascertaining a person's sexual orientation, and honestly, it isn't nearly as important as whether or not they're interested in *you* -- something of which sexual orientation is no guarantee. I guess my point is that
2005-08-11 [Rondel]: sexual orientation is like anything else -- if you can't turn the comment around (say, swap the words "gay" & "heterosexual") & have it make sense & be an appropriate way to act, then it probably wasn't, in the first place. But I don't take it as a sign that there's something wrong with a person if they don't think that way, I just tend to think that they've never had the kind of experience that I'm putting y'all through, right now -- one where someone just plain said these things to them, bluntly, even though it's socially awkward. It really honestly is all just plain meant as "food for thought". :D People are people are people, that's all. :D
2005-08-11 [Rondel]: As for the topic of the page being the colouring competition, yeah, it is -- but we've talked about a batch of other things here, like weird and interesting ways we've hurt ourselves, and whether or not that correlates with creativity, so it seems to me that we're chatting about whatever comes up -- and this came up. I don't see any "debate" going on, and I certainly didn't mean to start one... ...I just tend to speak up when I see comments being made which I know are likely to make someone feel awkward, as if they're being assumed to be "them" by comments made about "us", regardless of who the "us" and "them" involved may be. *shrug* Sorry if it came across to anyone as inappropriate.
2005-08-11 [Elisha Kelly]: as I said... U are who you are... no point worrying about it... :) And it is fun talking about different things while waiting for a new entry... hee hee. I think the biggest mistake people make is treating people differently, Treat everyone how you would like to be treated and everything is cool *grins evilly* Doesn't matter who I am talking to... I am always saying inappropriate things, and cracking bad jokes... it is just me :P
2005-08-11 [ArchangelGabriel]: I'm ok with jokes. My friends make little wise cracks about it all the time. I'm fine with that because its all in good jest. What i do get annoyed by is stupid townies. For some reason all the chavs think its some sort of joke or defect. The irony is that i know at least a handfull of them are gay ^_^
2005-08-11 [toycar]: Hehehe, same, i didn't mean to offend either. I just know that from the people ive personally met that they are way more accepting and tolerant... and... well, fun. But i know there would be nasty kids out there... just as i can be nasty.... wee, i actually worked on the backround for this today :D
2005-08-11 [farawaygone]: Rondel you haven't offended me at all. I would never ever want to make people feel excluded or different on purpose I am very accepting of everything except cybering because that is by personal choice. I understand now that you have explained it more throughly and I didn't realise I could make someone feel left out. Everyone deserves to be included in our conversations after all that is what the comments section in a wiki is all about. We are all here to have fun and meet new friends well at least thats why I am here :)
2005-08-12 [Elisha Kelly]: hee hee, awwwww Group hug... :P
2005-08-12 [farawaygone]: *hugs Elysiann awwww*
2005-08-12 [toycar]: *takes photos and sells them on ebay...*
2005-08-12 [farawaygone]: ohh yay Im highest bidder I have won this item.
2005-08-12 [toycar]: hehe, i gots lazy again today...and drew a different picture. kill me. im going to work on this one now...
2005-08-12 [pixish]: We are not in a hurry :P Besides, The colouring competitions seem to serve as lovely little chat places, and people can make new buddies xDDD
2005-08-12 [toycar]: good good...cause it seems my backround wants to take forever to be coloured..... not my fault at all ^.^
2005-08-12 [pixish]: :P
2005-08-15 [toycar]: AHH! finally finished my picture...must
2005-08-15 [pixish]: :-O omg! ^___^ *starts cleaning up TheCrena*
2005-08-15 [LadyMoon]: *looks at thecrena's entry* ACK O.O; That is so bloody beautiful...ok
2005-08-15 [toycar]: no way, i love the way you have used a different medium and you idea is sweet! you cant compare, cause yours is just as awesome. *splodes more* im just giddy i finally got this finished..and managed to pull off something that looks watery o.O
2005-08-15 [LadyMoon]: Nah...It's anyways so pretty ^-^ Don't splode!!! O.O *gives cookie* Be happy you finished it X3
2005-08-15 [toycar]: cookies, and finishing. Makes me all happy inside. Though, i kinda like sploding as well.... but, i shall refrain from doing so...just this once... *hands around shiny inanimate objects*
2005-08-15 [pixish]: oh! lovely new entries! ^__^
2005-08-17 [Kaimee]: Whoaaa, awesome. Crazy, but awesome. Nunt: I especially love your wings :O
2005-08-18 [nunt]: Thanks! I'm quite pleased with how it's come out, I'm not very used to photoshop yet. I learned I few things doing that pic
2005-08-19 [Elisha Kelly]: ooooh, it amazing how one picture can look so different... nice new entries...
2005-08-20 [Rondel]: *sigh* Mine is starting to look similar to one of the other entries, though, despite the fact that I've been working on it, along these same lines, since long before the other one was posted. I always feel weird about that -- I don't want anyone to get the idea that I copied someone else's work.
2005-08-21 [pixish]: :P We are all open minded here *^__^* Do not worry about things like that :P
2005-08-21 [toycar]: wee, yeah we are all given the same image you have to expect some of us to think of things along the same lines... its only normal :D
2005-08-21 [Rondel]: I'm glad you said that, [toycar], since it's your image that mine resembles... LOL
2005-08-21 [toycar]: haha ok, cant wait to see it, ive actually been working more on the waterfall, cause i have been home sick with nothing else to do o.o
2005-08-21 [Rondel]: Mine's a rather different interpretation of the motif, so I don't think it'll look too much like a rip-off of your work. :) But it is a similar approach to the image.
2005-08-21 [toycar]: is yours flying over water too? :D pshh, its not a rip-off..we just have similar thinking minds *sends you messages mentally* Im hyper on medications :DD!
2005-08-22 [Rondel]: Not exactly; I'd toyed with a waterfall, but it's a similar landscape, and a similar concept.
2005-08-25 [beautiful _ darkness]: I hope everyone likes my piece
2005-08-26 [Elisha Kelly]: OOh, new entry... u know I am starting to get insanely jealous of the very VERY talented artists here on Elftown... (shame on me! ^__^)
2005-08-26 [Charybdis]: *pokes* You're one of them! ^^
2005-08-26 [beautiful _ darkness]: This is pretty much my first time ever coloring in photoshop -smiles shyly-
2005-08-26 [pixish]: *^___^* whee!
2005-08-26 [Elisha Kelly]: ooh, It is very good... *pokes* Charybdis back... I knew that... but I just can't help but be more appreciative of the artistic talents of others :P
2005-08-26 [Rondel]: [Beautiful darkness], I like your entry, very much. In particular, I like the way the butterfly stream seems to twine around the base of the rock, lending it an additional 3d effect. Your newness to the medium does show, a bit, but only in that you are (*in places*) using techniques which I've found tend to appeal to new users of the tool, and which experienced users tend to eventually ease back on, in favour of something a little more individualized
2005-08-26 [Charybdis]: Yup, I think I'll tell you right away that your first colouring job far outstrips the one I did when I was just beginning ^^
2005-08-26 [Charybdis]: *^____^* Thank you! It's mutual :)
2005-08-26 [beautiful _ darkness]: thank you very much
2005-08-26 [Elisha Kelly]: what techniques do you mean [Rondel]? Since I am a new user I am curious... ^__^
2005-08-27 [Charybdis]: If I were to take a stab at that, I would guess the scattered butterfly brush and the texture used on the rock. Perhaps the Burn tool is seen as part of that list as well, but I like it anyway ^^
2005-08-27 [toycar]: the dodge and burn tool is my fav tool, there is not one picture ive done in which i havent used it...i loves it so..^.^ and damn, i feel like popcorn and sauce....
2005-08-27 [beautiful _ darkness]: I only use dodge and burn tool for my photominps and i rarly use them on there
2005-08-27 [toycar]: Tis how i do most my shading, used to use airbrush all the time, but then i just got lazy >.<
2005-08-27 [beautiful _ darkness]: laziness is good and fun
2005-08-27 [nunt]: I haven't figured out what the dodge and burn tools do yet...
2005-08-27 [beautiful _ darkness]: they are intersting tools
2005-08-27 [toycar]: Well, really...all they do is lighten or darken the colour. Say, you put down a green, the dodge tool will remove some colour and make it lighter. The burn tool just does the opposite. Though there are different settings, which change things, but that may sound confusing if i explain...im not so good at explaining things o.O
2005-08-27 [Rondel]: The texture on the rock is definitely one of the things I noticed; yes, the butterfly brush caught my eye in that respect, but it was used so well that I discounted the "newbie" feel to it -- a bit more individualizat
2005-08-27 [toycar]: Sadly, the page changes arent't here cause of a new image...just me...i managed to get lazy (again) and barely edited my waterfall, but still..uploade
2005-08-27 [Charybdis]: I suppose the key is to use everything in moderation :) It's true that the D/B tools don't give as realistic a feel to the art, which is why it's rare indeed that I use them exclusively, but they do come in handy for many things ^^
2005-08-28 [Elisha Kelly]: OOOh so that is what dodge does... I wondered... I just lurve the airbrush... and the gradients... I use GIMP though, so some things are a little diff. I did a quick tutorial before I started colouring though... it helped me figure some of the tools out. I will have to experiment with the dodge burn thingy...
2005-08-28 [toycar]: hmm...people have been telling me to get painter, or something like that, i hear that it mixes the colours as it would with real paint, i think that is awesome... :D
2005-08-28 [nunt]: My favourate thing is using the render>clouds filter for my base colours, stops em looking flat and boring
2005-08-28 [Kaimee]: I am of the opinion that everyone, everywhere, should at least be using corelpainter/d
2005-08-28 [toycar]: Ah so the program i'm meant to get is corelpainter..
2005-08-28 [Elisha Kelly]: I didn't want to spend alot o money on a program, so that is why I got GIMP... it is pretty good... does what I want it to.
2005-08-28 [nunt]: wel, I'm tight, so I wouldn't spend lots on a program either.
2005-08-29 [toycar]: Well, i have rather nice friends o.o And i get discounts from going to a design college :D
2005-08-29 [Elisha Kelly]: yeah... well I am a bit of a tight A!! so Gimp was free, and I thought, WOOHOO! ^__^,
2005-08-29 [nunt]: I'm saving up for a tablet though
2005-08-29 [toycar]: I have one, but it isnt compatible with pc's...so i cant use it...until i get my mac, ugh.
2005-08-29 [Rondel]: I got my art program as part of my computer consulting business; it's an affordable intermediary level one, Jasc's Paint Shop Pro. I also sprang for a graphics tablet, but it was super cheap -- US$20, because it's a really basic one, they don't even make it any more. But it got me started using a tablet, and though they're quirky, I wouldn't go back, by choice. :)
2005-08-29 [Elisha Kelly]: What are they??? Are they those things like a pencil??? cause though I am getting better I find that the mouse can be akward (how the hell to u spell that word 0.o) specially when you want to do a bit of shading in a particular line... you need good cordination to do it... am I making sense at all??? <(@..@)>
2005-08-29 [Charybdis]: Tablets? The stylus is sort of like a pencil, although they take getting used to. You have way more control that you do with a mouse, although not as much as with an actual pencil or pen. They're great ^^ *loves hers*
2005-08-30 [toycar]: All this tablet talk makes me want to use mine. ugh. *needs to get her damn mac*
2005-08-30 [Elisha Kelly]: Oh I just love doing art on the puter *kicks self* damn me for not going to uni and studying graphic art!!!!!
2005-08-30 [nunt]: tut tut
2005-08-30 [toycar]: Yeah, that's what i said to myself....and i decided..to...
2005-08-30 [Elisha Kelly]: Well I am mum 'o 1.9kiddies, so Uni is not an option for many, many years... I also live in a very rural area, and don't have a licence... I don't think they have what I am looking for here, I could do correspondence
2005-09-02 [Rondel]: I'm in much the same situation; I don't have the ability to go to Uni in the city, and I don't have the money for it. But I enjoy learning on my own, and I'm stubborn enough to keep working at it, and patient enough to cope with the fact that it takes a long time to get good at it, especially without outside guidance. *sigh* :)
2005-09-03 [Elisha Kelly]: hee hee, but It is so much fun as welllll... ohh except when the puter freezes and you havn't saved for a while (:(
2005-09-03 [toycar]: yeah i see what you mean...the thing i like about where im at now though, is that they let you do what you want really... and if you need help, its there for you. so usually i just sit myself in a corner and fiddle with programs- which i could be doing at home- sept im getting a fancy degree for doing it there o.O It amuses me so...and annoys my friends who are studying their asses of day and night because they all want to be doctors >.<
2005-09-05 [nunt]: would anyone like to give me some constructive crits on my pic, as I'd like to do more of this photoshop kinda stuff, I'm be very grateful if you could
2005-09-05 [beautiful _ darkness]: My personal opion is that you made the wings more like clouds then wigns
2005-09-06 [Charybdis]: I agree, although I admit I find it fits your style there :) Perhaps less grey in the shadows? Also, and this is just a general suggestion, try making your own brushes in Photoshop ^^ If you do a smallone made up of a scattering of pixels, you can use it with the smudge tool and get a good hair effect ^^
2005-09-06 [toycar]: ah! dont change the wings, they kick ass. i loves them so. Ugh, i had once created over 1000 of my own brushes, and my computer crashed...and when i installed photoshop again, they were all gone. it...was sad... but, i got over it and made more :)
2005-09-06 [nunt]: I'll have to look into that.
2005-09-07 [Elisha Kelly]: Okay, I would say that the wings are coll, but I personally always favour a smooth blend between colours, looks a little neater that way, but hey that is preference, so my fav feature of colouring programs is the blur, it smooths that transition from light to dark, and gives a much neater finish... I love blur... yours is one of my favourites, I stress the words ONE OF, cause they is all so pretty... but don't take what I say as gospel truth, i have been doing colouring on the puter for about a month and a half... so I am still learning myself.
2005-09-07 [Elisha Kelly]: okay... i would like so constructive criticism too, okies... you always learn such interesting things from your peers... ^.^,
2005-09-07 [toycar]: I've been a photoshop nerd for almost a year now... i needs a new style, everything of mine is sooo clean... i want to somehow learn messy...or something like nokturAs style, i loves that style oh so much.
2005-09-07 [nunt]: I never use the blur tool, it annoys me, I prefer the smudge
2005-09-07 [nunt]: I personally would rather concentrate on light and shade than colour, and I would also advise trying to get rid of the lines, just put them faintly over the top while you work then delete them when you finish. But that's not a rule, that's jus what I'd do, but I think it does make a big differance to the effect of the picture.
2005-09-07 [toycar]: In lineart like this... i usually change the lines to the base colour of what my image would be..or waht that area would be... but i bit darker..so it also helps with adding shades..I also love smudge...i think i use it...way too often :D
2005-09-08 [Elisha Kelly]: I love lines... mainly because I do a more realistic style when working with paints. At the mo, I am doing more of a cartoonish style... hee hee, and I can't help but love well blended work... Just my preference... I think it's pen that makes that messy outline look, felt tip, but not sure... experiment... that is how you learn. :P
2005-09-08 [nunt]: I can't do lines, it always looks false. Other people seem to manage it wonderfully but I can't get the hang of it.
2005-09-10 [Elisha Kelly]: I think the idea is not to be realistic... if you are gonna do bold lines you want the picture to be slightly cartoonish... hmm if that makes sense, a good way to start is to ink the outer lines a couple of shades darker than the inside colour... it is more subtle, and gives the outline a little more definition... I hope that makes sense, cause it doesn't really make sense to me :P
2005-09-10 [Ego Diligo Tu]: I think I need to re do mine I acdiently got rid of the rock shes on...darn..
2005-09-26 [Elisha Kelly]: I want to see more entries ... PLEASE!!!! ^__^,
2005-09-26 [Charybdis]: Ack! I've been meaning to, and I still want to, but my homework load this semester is about twice as heavy as last semester's... I'll see if I can whip up an entry sometime before Christmas :P
2005-09-29 [Sir. Robert]: Ok...I put my entry up...I use Adobe photo deluxe which is the program that came out before photoshop (pretty much only has the option of layers, brush and smudging)...I hope I have some time to fix the errors in the picture but for now this is the entry! hope you like it :P
2005-09-29 [Elisha Kelly]: ummm... [Sir Robert of Foster] when i click on your thumbnail, i cannot see the full size version...
2005-09-29 [Elisha Kelly]: oh there it goes... guess it was being naughty first time around...
2005-09-30 [pixish]: yayy ^_^ more entries :)
2005-10-03 [Elisha Kelly]: woot woot
2005-10-15 [Elisha Kelly]: it's oh so quiet... shhhh shhhh, nice and quiet... shhh shhh, and then again... starts ANOTHER BIG RIOT!!!!! :P
2005-10-15 [pixish]: *^__^* I love that song!
2005-10-16 [Elisha Kelly]: so do I ... I sing it to annoy my daughter... oh and do a big dance number with it:P
2005-10-16 [pixish]: xD omg omg! I want to see the dance number :D
2005-10-16 [Sir. Robert]: Sounds rather impressive...I will have to look up the song to get a picture in my head of someone dancing to it 8)
2005-10-16 [Elisha Kelly]: ummmm... *very shy of dancing now that i has an audience
2005-10-16 [Sir. Robert]: Sorry...contin
2005-10-16 [Elisha Kelly]: ha ha ha yeah... i bet you is peaking... :P
2005-10-16 [Sir. Robert]: Well...I have to learn from someone *attempts a little dance but trips and falls flat on his face*
2005-10-16 [Elisha Kelly]: (=0, you have shake your tail feather <.<, >.>, *shakes tailfeather* watch that flubber fly!!! :P
2005-10-16 [Sir. Robert]: I dont have a tail feather...just lots of flubber...
2005-10-16 [toycar]: no no... not flubber LOVE handles... :D
2005-10-17 [pixish]: That is a good things :P
2005-10-17 [Elisha Kelly]: hmmm my love handles jiggle a lot better since I had my baby... /:0( not sure that is a good thing...
2005-10-17 [pixish]: of course it is a good thing :P *jiggle* is such a happy word :D *jiggles*
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