Was it the six-word story? I think I liked Pseudo’s best out of all of ours…two-headed HPB, ha-ha. I wonder where she got the picture…*rambles* Anyway, I hope GAPAs post your Photoshop soon.
Yeah. When I made the thing I made, it took a while to find a good picture of an HPB that wasn’t fuzzy slippers. I played around with it and know it looks like [self-snipped so I don’t give it away].
I’m still working on my photography, though I haven’t taken nearly as much lately what with school and sports and winter. I’m better at taking pictures in spring/summer, I should really work on some fall/winter stuff…
For those of you who haven’t seen any of my stuff, there’s some on the last thread (closer to the end than the beginning but I don’t recall what comments exactly).
I have quite a few new cartoons that I think I’ll send in now. Most of them are on deviantart, for those who are deviants and would like to comment. :]
P.S. I apologize now for the cruddy quality, I took pictures of my pictures with a camera and then uploaded them to my hard drive, because I don’t have a scanner and it would have taken me awhile to find one.
Is it just my computer, or is everything anyone posts on this thread going above bubblebabe’s post on January ninth, 18:03? The last time I posted on here was January tenth, 9:50, and it’s a post higher than bubblebabe’s.
We’ve received new images from Keiffer, cromwell, and agrrfishi. Since I just got home a short while ago after a very long day, it will be tomorrow before I’ll have a chance to post them.
Wow, nobody’s posted on here in a while. Considering the thread’s still on Recent Posts, anyway.
I tried to make a really cool (In my opinion, anyway) picture of a pie war at MA, but something happened to it and now it won’t open.
And I don’t think I have much else that both doesn’t give away my location and is fairly artistic. It would be a photo, if I did; I’m not that good with drawing, much as I wish I were.
I can find the file, but every time I try to open it, it just displays some error message. *sigh*
I might redraw it, but it’d be really discouraging… I might also draw it on paper. Where it will remain, unless it’s thrown away, or something.
Or I could just stick with what I’m good at.
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What they meant was, “Please do not post that on this thread, as there is another page entirely devoted to it and here it is considered a pointless post.”
I’m drawing an “Apollo Muses” picture right now, and I’ll scan it when I’m done. Koko, Urania and Pwt are the astronauts, and Mimi’s a TV reporter interviewing them with Feather as the cameraman.
Hey look, all the soupy posts disappeared. Good. It was utterly confusing. Flash, aaahh! Savior of the universe! Flash aaahh! He’ll save every one of us!
Ella knows that song. She was singing it in science class. I was utterly shocked that she knew it, then she went, “I heard it on Blades of Glory!” Of course.
I have never heard of Blades of Glory in my life. But everyone in the pool of soupy comments was singing it, and I guess that post just didn’t get dragged in. No one but the pure of heart can find the Golden Grail, oooh oooh!
Me, to Ella: You know that’s a good thing right?
Ella: I’m sure my definition of good is different than yours.
Me: Oh God.
(Hey Lady B, are the pictures gonna be up soon?)
(27, 28, &c) Oops! Somehow I had it in my head that I had already posted all of these earlier in the week, but I guess I must have dreamed it. My apologies. Unfortunately, this time of year I’m at my day job all weekend, so I haven’t been home much while awake. But I’ll have some time tomorrow if I can’t get to them tonight.
Bluh. Creative standstill for visual arts at the moment. Some story stuff for school is going alright, but I haven’t even taken a picture in weeks it feels like. Also I keep meaning to try drawing something at some point…
OOOoooh. I especially like the Galaxyrise one, and I have to admit I’ve never ever thought about “personified space stations” before. You have officially brought a whole new dimension to my thinking.
By Keiffer:
(1) Kokopelli, (2) a seemingly harmless pile of leaves.
[Keiffer, I’ll post your other one later. Too many resource-greedy programs open at the moment to run the even greedier Photoshop.]
By agrrrfishi: (1) The awkward cat; (2) Awkward turtle (who needs life alert); (3) The awkward starfish, who knows no boundaries; (4) Zena from Bunny Apocalypse holding the key to the center of the earth.
Hee hee…I love the “Mind The Gap” one. Also, agrrfishi, your awkward turle is adorable!!! *squee!* And I love your Galaxyrise sketch, Kai. Keep up the great work, people!
The girl in the Galaxyrise picture is supposed to be Alex from that Cosmos story I wrote a while back. She was, to steal a term from Doctor Who, Sagan’s companion.
And from Randomosity 101, who says, “I made these in Paint. One shows some trees and is called “Symmetrical Forest”. The other is a “This is Sparta!” picture I found online that I edited. I now call it “This is MuseBlog!”
WOW. *jaw drops and then quickly shuts in fear of catching flies* That pencil girl is beYOUtiful! This is MuseBlog got me laughing really hard and telling myself, very very true.
In my mind, they each have a “personality” which you can sort of see a little bit in their expressions.
Skylab is very earnest but somewhat quiet and self-doubting. (Having Apollo as your big brother gives you one heck of an inferiority complex, and being nicknamed “The Junkyard Mission” really doesn’t help.)
Mir is quirky and curious, and he talks to himself and other inanimate objects like the little dragonfly statue he’s holding in the picture. (The station was called “The Dragonfly” because some people thought it looked like one.)
Alpha is very happy and energetic. She makes friends very easily and is very diplomatic. (Being from 16 countries at once helps in that respect.) Mir taught her and sees Alpha as his “niece” because her Russian components were based on his. (He’s also envious that she’s gotten to be friends with the shuttles since the beginning, while he didn’t get to meet them until after the end of the Cold War.)
Here they are, the Apollo Muses:
From left to right, we have:
Feather, cameraman for KCTV (Kokonino Country Television) filming Mimi and Koko.
Mimi, a television reporter interviewing the astronauts. She likes her ’60s bangles and high heels. Having her as a reporter just seemed like a good fit.
Kokopelli, astronaut. I didn’t assign positions, but he’s probably Commander just because he wouldn’t let anyone else get the glory. (How exactly he’s wearing a headset, I’m not sure.)
Urania, astronaut. (Duh) That’s supposed to be the Greek flag on her suit. (BTW, whoever thought Koko and Urania in a small capsule together for a week was a good idea need to be SACKED.)
Pwt, astronaut. En hopes to find some sort of aliens that en can chase around on the moon. The scan’s kind of bad, but I drew the Egyptian flag on en’s sleeve.
Chad is, obviously, an engineer who designed their rocket. (Probably all by himself.) He seems to like his slide rule, but he probably wants a calculator instead.
Aeiou is flight director, with a tasteful modification of Gene Kranz’s famous white vest.
Craw is the Capcom, (The guy in Mission Control who talks to the astronauts) because he’s already used to relaying what Aeiou thinks to the others. His speech bubble says: “FLIGHT DIRECTOR AEIOU SAYS FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION.”
Bo is another engineer working in Mission Control. I think she likes her glasses a lot.
Sorry for the slight tangent, but I thought the Pwt gender issue had been resolved? In a recent comic I thought Pwt was referred to as “he” in Larry’s main comic.
For good measure, someone asked the question on the official Muse site, in a Q&A with the Muses in the Town Hall section. The reply was: “I am a HE, for pete’s sake! What is it that throws people off? Is it the skirt? –Pwt”
I have some art, but my scanner wants me to ink it and inking nearly always ruins my stuff. I’ll see if I can take a picture with a camera in better light and send that in. One’s of my OC, one’s of Rainbow (hey, Miranda! Check your email!!), maybe some Death Note, and one of Rukia (from Bleach).
Hm. I’ve been interested in designing costumes, but unfortunately, I stink at drawing basic humans. Does anybody have any strategies for drawing people that would make it easier?
Art from Princess Magnolia, rosebud2, and three fromZinc. Their explanations follow their work:
“This WAS going to be my avatar. But it didn’t work, so I figured I’d just send it here, instead.”
“This is a picture of my Piranha Plant (from the mario games) model. The pipe is made out of a T.P. tube, colored green with oil pastel. The rim around the top is made of green felt. The stem and leaf of the plant is made out of green paper. I made the head out of the foam “scoop” from one of those ice cream shooter-thingies; the spots and lips are white 3-D fabric paint. For the teeth, I just pressed bits of paper into the glue while it was still wet.”
“Japan2adjust is just Japan, from Axis Powers: Hetalia, eating ramen. I was so proud of the hair and all everyone would talk about were the noodles…”
“Japan10002 is when Hiroshima and Nagasaki got bombed in WWII. Nations feel political struggles as aches, and actual attacks as sharp pains.”
“MMKittyears is me experimenting with inking and coloring. Surprisingly, it’s the only DN drawing in my sketchbook… Hetalia has taken me over. ^^”
You don’t need to tell anyone to fear you Princess, if people are smart, they already would. Or you might just attack them with plastic utensils. Believe me, it happened… I was there.
Pseudonym and I sent a picture in, but we sent it (by my email) twice. The first one, we were sidetracked by SR, and forgot to attach the file, so it’ll be in the second one you GAPAs received. Sorry about that.
I’ve thought a lot about The Call of the Wild…and drew a picture about that. However, Buck and Spitz were replaced by Pokemon. is it okay if I send that in?
Zinc: I like them… they’re interesting.
Enc: OhemGeorge, I am so freaked out by that.
Silver Lining: Sorry, I can’t see yours on my computer right now, but I like them anyway.
Oops, wait. It suddenly appeared as soon as I posted that last post. Isee my name! It’s cool, I like it.
Suggestion: GAPAs, maybe you could put Silver Lining’s on a t-shirt or a back at Musery Loves Company.
Oops, sorry. I saw your name, and I guess it didn’t register in my brain. Zinc’s name did, because she had been talking about Invader Zim or whatever it is. Agh, wait, that was you. I am sooooo confused now. *dies of brain over-workage*
For some reason the software stripped out the pictures the first time I posted, even though they showed up in the preview. It happens occasionally. Fortunately, I had copied and pasted elsewhere first.
Hello, Almighty GAPAs! I just sent in some pictures I took of some interesting things in my house today. I think, if I remember correctly, the subject is Visual Arts- KEIFFER. I think.
I will send my art homework in as soon as I get it back from the art teacher….which will have to happen after I complete the ten works and pass them in. I did one of a MuseBlogger that I’m rather fond of…
GAPAs, do you mind if I send in a picture of all the HPBs I drew? I did a series of different kinds of them. (Overgrown bunny, sea monster bunny, ninja bunny, Viking bunny, spider bunny, weird genie-thingy bunny, pirate bunny)
Sorry I cantz commentz more, but I AM BUSY TODAY. -_- I’m basically only on the computer because my mom wants me to look something up, which is: Does anyone know of a cheaper-than-Photoshop image manipulation program for Mac? I tried GIMP, and it messed up my computer. Anyhoo, thanks!
I have been looking over some old threads and kiwimuncher, you are an extremely talented artist. I am sure you are told this all the time but…you are VERY TALENTED.
Thanks! I;m actually really happy right now because I just gt first place at the local level for a patriotic art contest I entered, so now it’s going to state! I hope it goes through!
It’s a picture of a soldier looking over his soldier at the United States in a sort of spacey scene and the statue of liberty is coming out of the country with a beacon of light coming from her torch.
Here’s her description: left to right: Top row: The first bunny I drew (I traced it to make the other ones). The classic HPB. Pirate bunny. Middle row: Overgrown/garden bunny. Ninja bunny. Sort of a genie/djinn bunny, sort of just random. Bottom row: Failed sea monster bunny. Viking bunny. Spider bunny (not Spiderman bunny, though).
From Keiffer, a variety of craft items, who describes them as follows:
The first, second, and third are of a duct tape Kokopelli I made, sitting near our clock at home.
The fourth is an infested Banana Tree.
The fifth is a jail-themed ceramic monkey.
From post 46.1 and down, I can’t see any pictures. Or anyone’s Gravatars. But above 45.1 I can. Huh.
I was looking at some pix I took at the aquarium the other day and noticed this extremely awesome picture of the seahorses- somehow the were in a circle/square. I have no idea how it happened.
91.2-I used the profile on Muser Profiles, the *only* one I could find. *blushes* Thank you, Magnolia. Everyone else’s pics are awesome, too! Of course, not as awesome as mine. That’s not possible.
Yes, it does. XD
A hot pink-ified bunny with *cough* alpaca lips. Alpaca had a lot of fun making that.
To represent, uh, the bunny alpacalips. (Bunny Apocalypse. Thank you for making fun of my mispronunciation, Dad.)
You just don’t want to be in the same room when he’s got caffiene in his bloodstream. The bad puns just keep coming and coming and coming and he never stops. *remembers the time was in the car with Alpaca after he had a soy chai* *shudders*
… Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s computer! *clutches head in hands*
I want I want I want I want. It’s like you took my want for a typewriter and crossed it with my want for a clockwork machine, then added a large dose of I WANT. Fantastic.
Wow, all of these pictures look great. I am taking “Drawing B” at school right now, and am pulling a D, but only because the teacher has not graded my ink and wash woolly mammoth, and I lost quite a few points on my portrait (of my sister) for tardiness and the wrong size paper. I got a B on my picture of Luna Lovegood, which was surprising, seeing as I replaced her hand with a pirate hook (I re-drew it about 5 times, and it still looked diseased and mangled, so I gave her a hook).
I’m doing a Star Wars montage for my final, and I think it will contain an AT-AT, a snowspeeder, the death star, an ewok, and some other things. I’m pretty excited for it, because most of my other friends in drawing are Star Wars nerds (as am I).
102&related- *coughcough*
There’s a site that may or may not be called “old time computer” that may or may not sell actual steampunk-looking computers that actually work… and they are awesome.
You know you have a weird drawing style when you draw hair on a (supposed-to-be-male) wireframe head, it looks feminine, and then you give it longer hair and it looks masculine….. o.O *sighs*
Soooo I may have lost all my photos. Our computer crashed (while I was on it, but techguy says it can’t have been something I did since it crashed kind of oddly) There’s a few I have online at deviant art or photobucket, but few of those are original files and pretty much every picture I have ever taken was on the comp that crashed. And might not be there when they get it working again.
I am trying very, very, very, hard not to freak out.
We have some of your pictures, too, don’t know if they’re full size or not.
I’m paranoid about losing photos, far more so than I am about documents or most anything else. I keep them on two computers, one external drive, and at least two sets of DVDs, one I keep at work and one I keep at home. A professional photographer does all that and more. He also keeps raw photos both in their proprietary format and in DNG in case any of the other formats become obsolete. Well, I did have them on two computers before the operating system on the museum computer committed suicide. Fortunately, I had just finished making back up copies.
One of the first Photoshop books I read said make a CD or DVD copy of your pictures as soon as you can get to a computer, before you’ve done any photoediting whatsover. DVDs aren’t the most trustworthy of media, but at least that’s something.
On the bright side — and I mean this quite seriously — better to have this happen early on. Your future pictures will be even better, you still have all the knowledge and skill you’ve learned from making these, and you’ll be highly motivated to make back-up copies. But I’ll cross my fingers for you and hope your pictures are retrievable. That’s a real kick in the gut to lose your work.
It would also be good to have copies on an online storage site, in case something dramatically disastrous occurs and all of your physical backups are demolished. (I would recommend Dropbox because it’s fantastically simple to use–it just makes another folder somewhere on your hard drive that automatically syncs with Dropbox’s data center. Then, you can install Dropbox on any number of other computers (and even your phone or iPod Touch) and have all the files there as well, all automatically syncing between computers.)
That’s something I keep meaning to do. Dropbox is a bit pricey though for my needs. It also takes a tediously long time to upload 60 or so gigs of unedited photos and who knows how many of graphics. It would take an equally hideous length of time to sort out what’s really worth keeping.
Techguy can hopefully recover hard drive, but the problem as IN the hard drive somewhere so nothing’s for sure. The kicker is that I’m getting my laptop for college soon, so I was getting ready to move all my photos to an external hard drive but then this HAD to happen x_x
The thing with dropbox or drop.io and other sites is that they cost money or vanish after a while >.< I've been working on a different photosite (not DA or DAportfolio) that allows to have photos in "storage" that might be useful for this sort of thing in the future, but uploading is painfully slow >.<
At least I didn't have any photos I was using for somethign other than myself at the time–I already stored all my friend's prom pictures (I took pictures of her and her boyfriend before prom so they wouldn't have to spend $30 on them) on a USB, so there's that at least.
113.1.1.2- I have one already, so thankfully I had a lot of my favourites saved, but I still lost a lot.
Update on situation in general: Still waiting for recovery place to tell us if they could get stuff out or not. Bluh.
Also, does anyone know about the photoediting program Apature? It’s slightly less money that real Photoshop I think, but I’ve never talked to anyone who uses it. I’m thinking about getting better photoediting software sometime this year…
I don’t know anything about Aperture, but I do know that many professional photographers now prefer Adobe Lightroom over Photoshop for their photo processing. Among other virtues it apparently has a better, more comprehensive cataloging system as well as less clutter, since it’s dedicated to photography needs. It’s therefore considerably less expensive than PS yet incorporates the same Camera Raw software (which can now also be used with JPG and TIFF files, by the way). Also, both Lightroom and Photoshop are available in student editions, at a much lower cost than retail. You’ll have to look up whether the software is the same or not; companies differ in their policies.
I suggest you experiment with the free trials — although 30 days isn’t much time for such complex software, so it helps to know the basics before you try.
Have you looked at Photoshop.com? It’s a free site for editing, storing, and sharing photos. I haven’t looked at it in a long time, so I don’t know how much editing capability it has.
(I’m not trying to push Adobe by any means, their products just happen to be what I’m most familiar with these days.)
Cool. It’s great, not too plain, though could be fancified. My suggestions- add leather trim. Especially to the wire connecting the clockface. If you want to make it fantasy steampunk, you could add pieces of gears sticking out of the hat. If it’s not too heavy, tarnished brass will work well.
Hmm, I am trying out Sumo Paint, a free drawing program which is similar to Photoshop but of course much more basic. Sadly, it seems ill suited to spriting, but it is quite fun.
I just downloaded GIMP about a week ago. I’ve found some tricks already, but it still confuses me at times. If you had to say the Top 5 things to know about it, what would they be?
1. Paths. They are your friend.
2. Spending time on it does not count as wasting time on the computer. Tell your parents this, and say it is practice for your future career as a graphic artist.
3. Using this newfound time, read and watch as many tutorials as possible. This was probably what helped me most.
4. Using your time and new skills, use them! PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE!
5. PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE
Just popping in to let those wondering know- we got our hard drive back last week! And our photos were recovered. I spent a good portion of friday moving them to the computer.
They’re the original files (unedited), so I lost some stuff but that’s so not a problem. I’m just thrilled to have the originals back. Years of work, saved! Phew.
Congratulations! I’m so glad. And I bet your parents were glad to have their stuff, too. Now make backups pronto!
It’s always better to have salvaged the originals. Other factors aside, your editing skills will likely have improved in the meantime, so you can do a better job starting from scratch.
120.1- I will! Everything from the old hard drive came on a new external hard drive so we’ll keep that, and I plan to move them to my laptop and my personal (HUGE) external hard drive as well (seriously, a TERABYTE of space SO EXCITING).
And photoediting is something I enjoy as well, so at least I won’t be hating the work ^^
Speaking of photos, I need to get the pictures form the kokon onto the computer and sent in!
I made a Tardis rubber stamp. It’s. Freaking. Amazing. I wish I did the carving differently and my hands were steadier, but it looks really good overall. I even managed to put a teeny tiny “POLICE BOX” on top.
You know, I may send in a doodle I made of a random girl. I was just trying out head shapes and hair, and it expanded. First I need to get the scanner out of the stinkbug-infested attic…yuck.
Well, you know that thing I have going on on Muse fanfiction? Ja, I drew Sudo and made him a profile. It’s been posted on LJ (tagged with “museblog,” hopefully that’ll work), but if you want I can send it in… I’ll go draw more stupid things on Paint now. *scurries off*
That was a thoughtful hm. I’ve heard of Chasing the Sunset, but don’t read it. I looked at the first few pages to see what you were talking about. I’m not actually sure.
We thought you’d understand. But I did add the note in part to let people know the pictures had been posted, since by then they had drifted down the Recent Comments list.
Hi, all. I’ve just been through the past few visual arts threads and have been dazzled by some superior artwork. I haven’t time to comment on all the work right now, but I thought I’d let you know how beyond-fabulous I consider everything. Kudos, my friends.
Did you get my stuff? So terrible ( ; ^ ; ) But I’ll scan something eventually and send that in, because I got watercolor pencils for Christmas and I love them.
GAPAs, I’m going to send in some bunny art I did on Adobe, if that’s okay. The subject is ‘bunny help’. The address I send them to is thegapas @ gmail . com , right? Thanks.
To kick off the new year of Visual Arts, some GIMP productions by Enceladus:
Please excuse the chatspeak, but; ZOMG!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!! I really like the first two!
Ooh, I love those!!!!!
Speaking of visual art, Has anyone seen the ‘mind the gap’ signs in London?
Yes. What about them?
I took some pictures of them and edited the words. I need to get around to finishing them.
What did you edit them into?
‘Mind the GAPAs’. They didn’t turn out so well.
Oh, you meant the graphics. *is relieved*
Yeah-sorry about that. I meant the graphics.
Awesome pictures, Enceladus! I think I might get GIMP to…
Thanks, AM’s younger brother!
*cough* *cough* *dies of visual overdoses* I LOVE THOSE! I wish I could use computer programs like that.
To repeat from the old thread, have the almighty GAPAs recieved my drawing? The subject is “rosebud2’s visual arts picture” or something like that…
(5) My apologies, Rosebud2, I uploaded it ages ago and forgot to post it. Here you go:
Cool! I can’t do much of anything anime!
I’ll send in a couple of my photos.
Got them. I’m on my way out the door right now, so I’ll have to post them later this evening.
Later note: didn’t get home till late and had to be out early this morning; so I’ll try again tonight.
I’m going to send a picture, today maybe. Can you post stuff from Photoshop GAPAs?
I use Photoshop, so yes, though I have to convert PSDs to a format WordPress will accept.
Okay. I sent the email. Let me know if it didn’t work, because I’ve never really sent pictures by email and I don’t know if I did the right thing…
Got the email but no attachment. I sent you a return email with instructions on how to attach a file, just in case you missed a step. Hope that helps.
Thanks. I’ll do that now.
Was it the six-word story? I think I liked Pseudo’s best out of all of ours…two-headed HPB, ha-ha. I wonder where she got the picture…*rambles* Anyway, I hope GAPAs post your Photoshop soon.
No, it’s not the six-word story, but it has to do with HPBs. And all the muses as well, actually.
I Googled “bunny” and turned it pink using Photoshop.
Yeah. When I made the thing I made, it took a while to find a good picture of an HPB that wasn’t fuzzy slippers. I played around with it and know it looks like [self-snipped so I don’t give it away].
THat used to be someone’s avatar. (The bunny you used.)
Um, that IS my avatar.
No, someone else’s. I don’t remember whose.
Sorry if this is a DP, and you GAPAs might want to get out the Keiffer-Poison. DId you get my email? I think I did it right this time.
Got it, Keiffer. I’ll put it up once I get home and thawed out. (I work in a 19th-century house that has extremely inadequate heating.)
By the way, should anyone have need, you can find a variety of HPBs and other MuseBloggy items in one of my public Photobucket albums.
What are those graphs in your Photobucket album? Are they MuseBlog related?
Yes, they were posted here.
Those are some pretty awesome pictures. (Sorry about bugging you though, I’m just a freakishly impatient person. As you’ve probably figured out.)
For your viewing pleasure,
Bunny art from Keiffer:
and photographs from Ducky:
I love the bunny art….
The waterfall/daisies are my favorite.
Ducky, your swan one is my favorite! Black swans!
I love the black swans!
The bunny art is amazing! My favorite picture is the two black swans.
I’m made some more Photoshop things today, and I’m going to send those in too.
How do you get photos on the blog?
14- Send it to gapa @ musefanpage.com. Without spaces and no period after the com.
I’m still working on my photography, though I haven’t taken nearly as much lately what with school and sports and winter. I’m better at taking pictures in spring/summer, I should really work on some fall/winter stuff…
For those of you who haven’t seen any of my stuff, there’s some on the last thread (closer to the end than the beginning but I don’t recall what comments exactly).
https://musefanpage.com/blog/?p=2389#comment-304973
Hey, thank you ^^
I got GIMP, but I can’t really figure out how to use it at all…
I have quite a few new cartoons that I think I’ll send in now. Most of them are on deviantart, for those who are deviants and would like to comment. :]
P.S. I apologize now for the cruddy quality, I took pictures of my pictures with a camera and then uploaded them to my hard drive, because I don’t have a scanner and it would have taken me awhile to find one.
Did you get the stuff I sent? (Why can’t I shut up and be patient?!) Sorry.
Is it just my computer, or is everything anyone posts on this thread going above bubblebabe’s post on January ninth, 18:03? The last time I posted on here was January tenth, 9:50, and it’s a post higher than bubblebabe’s.
We’ve received new images from Keiffer, cromwell, and agrrfishi. Since I just got home a short while ago after a very long day, it will be tomorrow before I’ll have a chance to post them.
Cool! Thanks!
Yayness! Thanks!
Wow, nobody’s posted on here in a while. Considering the thread’s still on Recent Posts, anyway.
I tried to make a really cool (In my opinion, anyway) picture of a pie war at MA, but something happened to it and now it won’t open.
And I don’t think I have much else that both doesn’t give away my location and is fairly artistic. It would be a photo, if I did; I’m not that good with drawing, much as I wish I were.
You should send it in if you find it. I’m just waiting for the GAPAs to post some kind of ‘visual art’ so I can look at it. *coughpleasecough*
Me too. But, I’ll enjoy what’s up there until mine gets up, and yours gets up. *waits*
*waits with*
I can find the file, but every time I try to open it, it just displays some error message. *sigh*
I might redraw it, but it’d be really discouraging… I might also draw it on paper. Where it will remain, unless it’s thrown away, or something.
Or I could just stick with what I’m good at.
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That took longer than I thought!
Wrong thread.
23- There is another thread for that.
Yep and there is probably an app for it too.
What they meant was, “Please do not post that on this thread, as there is another page entirely devoted to it and here it is considered a pointless post.”
I’m drawing an “Apollo Muses” picture right now, and I’ll scan it when I’m done. Koko, Urania and Pwt are the astronauts, and Mimi’s a TV reporter interviewing them with Feather as the cameraman.
I hate to be pushy, I really hate to, but are my pics in yet?
*de-lurkifies*
27- Yeah. *hates to be pushy also* *asks if you got my pictures*
*re- lurkifies*
Keep your foot on that red pedal or the G-forces will kill us all!Well, THAT’S weird. >.>
Hey look, all the soupy posts disappeared. Good. It was utterly confusing.
Flash, aaahh! Savior of the universe! Flash aaahh! He’ll save every one of us!Ella knows that song. She was singing it in science class. I was utterly shocked that she knew it, then she went, “I heard it on Blades of Glory!” Of course.
I have never heard of Blades of Glory in my life. But everyone in the pool of soupy comments was singing it, and I guess that post just didn’t get dragged in.
No one but the pure of heart can find the Golden Grail, oooh oooh!Oops. I started a pool of soupy comments. That I actually didn’t see. Heh.
What on earth are soupy comments????!
I don’t know, but I started a pool of them trying to figure that out.
Apparently, soupy comments, are the ones with no numbers that drift to the bottom in backwards order.
Me: I posted about you on MuseBlog, Ella!
Ella: Oh God.
Me, to Ella: You know that’s a good thing right?
Ella: I’m sure my definition of good is different than yours.
Me: Oh God.
(Hey Lady B, are the pictures gonna be up soon?)
Ella would definitely not say a thing like “I’m sure my definition of good is different than yours”.
Yeah, I know. It wasn’t supposed to be realistic, and it was coming out of my brain, so… yeah.
(27, 28, &c) Oops! Somehow I had it in my head that I had already posted all of these earlier in the week, but I guess I must have dreamed it. My apologies. Unfortunately, this time of year I’m at my day job all weekend, so I haven’t been home much while awake. But I’ll have some time tomorrow if I can’t get to them tonight.
No problem, GAPAs are busy people.
Bluh. Creative standstill for visual arts at the moment. Some story stuff for school is going alright, but I haven’t even taken a picture in weeks it feels like. Also I keep meaning to try drawing something at some point…
Yeah, I haven’t drawn anything in weeks.
My Galaxyrise sketch:
Oh, and some personified space stations:
♥ the GalaxyRise sketch.
Ooooooooooo. I like the galaxyrise sketch!
Thanks, Enc and GAPAs!
Ooh, pretty. Me likes GalaxyRise sketch.
I less than sign three the GalaxyRise drawing!
By Keiffer:
(1) Kokopelli, (2) a seemingly harmless pile of leaves.
[Keiffer, I’ll post your other one later. Too many resource-greedy programs open at the moment to run the even greedier Photoshop.]
By agrrrfishi: (1) The awkward cat; (2) Awkward turtle (who needs life alert); (3) The awkward starfish, who knows no boundaries; (4) Zena from Bunny Apocalypse holding the key to the center of the earth.
By cromwell:
His improvement on “mind the gap”
SQUEE! They’re so cute! I like the awkward starfish.
& Mind the Gap!
The awkward starfish…ADORABLE!
Hee hee…I love the “Mind The Gap” one. Also, agrrfishi, your awkward turle is adorable!!! *squee!* And I love your Galaxyrise sketch, Kai. Keep up the great work, people!
Very cute turtle and sea star!
Do parodies of pictures you found online count?
35.2- I did individual portraits of the space stations, too.
Skylab:
Mir:
International Space Station (She goes by Alpha, it’s shorter):
So you really like space? Are you thinking about being an astronaut?
Nah, it’s just a hobby. I want to be an archeologist.
Archeologist? Cool. Me too, actually.
39- Okay, no problem. Post it whenever.
The girl in the Galaxyrise picture is supposed to be Alex from that Cosmos story I wrote a while back. She was, to steal a term from Doctor Who, Sagan’s companion.
Art by kiwimuncher:
And from Randomosity 101, who says, “I made these in Paint. One shows some trees and is called “Symmetrical Forest”. The other is a “This is Sparta!” picture I found online that I edited. I now call it “This is MuseBlog!”
Wait, I can’t see it…? Can anyone else? I see all the other art…
*is at a loss for words*
OH! OH I SAW IT! It assaulted my eyeballs in an explosion of penciling and shading! *falls over* Is it anyone specific?
Oooh, that penciled girl is beautiful.
Indeed.
I just realized it was someone on the cover of a CD or something. I saw it on a smartphone commercial.
WOW. *jaw drops and then quickly shuts in fear of catching flies* That pencil girl is beYOUtiful! This is MuseBlog got me laughing really hard and telling myself, very very true.
Me too!
Nice art, everyone (:
Mom picked up some prints of my pictures at Walgreens… they almost didn’t let her have them because they thought they were professional
Ohmygosh, Kiwi, your drawing is amazing! As always ^_^
Kiwi – A.M.A.Z.I.N.G!!!!! I love it!!!! I could never draw that well.
Don’t be so self-defeating, starr! Obama!
And KaiYves, I think it’s funny how you personify space stations. I like them a lot
In my mind, they each have a “personality” which you can sort of see a little bit in their expressions.
Skylab is very earnest but somewhat quiet and self-doubting. (Having Apollo as your big brother gives you one heck of an inferiority complex, and being nicknamed “The Junkyard Mission” really doesn’t help.)
Mir is quirky and curious, and he talks to himself and other inanimate objects like the little dragonfly statue he’s holding in the picture. (The station was called “The Dragonfly” because some people thought it looked like one.)
Alpha is very happy and energetic. She makes friends very easily and is very diplomatic. (Being from 16 countries at once helps in that respect.) Mir taught her and sees Alpha as his “niece” because her Russian components were based on his. (He’s also envious that she’s gotten to be friends with the shuttles since the beginning, while he didn’t get to meet them until after the end of the Cold War.)
Here they are, the Apollo Muses:
From left to right, we have:
Feather, cameraman for KCTV (Kokonino Country Television) filming Mimi and Koko.
Mimi, a television reporter interviewing the astronauts. She likes her ’60s bangles and high heels. Having her as a reporter just seemed like a good fit.
Kokopelli, astronaut. I didn’t assign positions, but he’s probably Commander just because he wouldn’t let anyone else get the glory. (How exactly he’s wearing a headset, I’m not sure.)
Urania, astronaut. (Duh) That’s supposed to be the Greek flag on her suit. (BTW, whoever thought Koko and Urania in a small capsule together for a week was a good idea need to be SACKED.)
Pwt, astronaut. En hopes to find some sort of aliens that en can chase around on the moon. The scan’s kind of bad, but I drew the Egyptian flag on en’s sleeve.
Chad is, obviously, an engineer who designed their rocket. (Probably all by himself.) He seems to like his slide rule, but he probably wants a calculator instead.
Aeiou is flight director, with a tasteful modification of Gene Kranz’s famous white vest.
Craw is the Capcom, (The guy in Mission Control who talks to the astronauts) because he’s already used to relaying what Aeiou thinks to the others. His speech bubble says: “FLIGHT DIRECTOR AEIOU SAYS FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION.”
Bo is another engineer working in Mission Control. I think she likes her glasses a lot.
Sorry for the slight tangent, but I thought the Pwt gender issue had been resolved? In a recent comic I thought Pwt was referred to as “he” in Larry’s main comic.
Yes, he’s been referred to as “he” numerous times now.
For good measure, someone asked the question on the official Muse site, in a Q&A with the Muses in the Town Hall section. The reply was: “I am a HE, for pete’s sake! What is it that throws people off? Is it the skirt? –Pwt”
I just wanted to be safe.
Kai- I love the space station art!
Kiwi- Amazing as ever. The detail on the flower in her hair and her sleeves are lovely ^.^
Wow, you guys are awesome artists!
Okay, a somewhat better scan of “Apollo Muses”:
I have some art, but my scanner wants me to ink it and inking nearly always ruins my stuff. I’ll see if I can take a picture with a camera in better light and send that in. One’s of my OC, one’s of Rainbow (hey, Miranda! Check your email!!), maybe some Death Note, and one of Rukia (from Bleach).
*dances* Zinc’s back, Zinc’s back. I hope you do get your art in someday..
Hm. I’ve been interested in designing costumes, but unfortunately, I stink at drawing basic humans. Does anybody have any strategies for drawing people that would make it easier?
Stick figures. Draw basically buffed up stick figures, with shoulders, oval feet and hands. And then refine.
Alright… Thanks.
You’d be good at that.
I just drew a picture of which I am quite proud; I will scan it and send it in later. I like all of you guys’s work, by the way. (This is MuseBlog!
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Thanks guys!
And I love the “This is Museblog” pic! It makes me happy!
Grrr! If I can’t have an edited picture as my avatar I’ll just post it here. *anger* Stupid Gravatar.
What? Mine is edited; you don’t think I just happened to find it with the ‘oops’ pre-installed, do you? Maybe you have to export it to another format?
No, it was too long and not wide enough on Gravatar. So I couldn’t see all of it as my avatar. I’m not too proficient at editing pictures.
Oh, okay.
I’ve inked some stuff… I’ll scan it when I’m bored with the internet and send it in then. :3
All right! I’ve scanned the stuff! One’s not inked, though… I’m sending through my gmail.
Sent!
Er, are my drawings there yet?
Oh, yeyy! They’re here! Thank you, Lady B!
((I’ve drawn some Invader Zim fanart which I am pretty pleased about, especially since they were freehand. I’ll send them in promptly!))
Good grief! Invader Zim is like the scariest show ever!!
Then again, I’m also afraid of Ozzy Osbourne.
Scary? Hardly! I think it’s adorable!
Just sent in a picture!
Art from Princess Magnolia, rosebud2, and three fromZinc. Their explanations follow their work:
“This WAS going to be my avatar. But it didn’t work, so I figured I’d just send it here, instead.”
“This is a picture of my Piranha Plant (from the mario games) model. The pipe is made out of a T.P. tube, colored green with oil pastel. The rim around the top is made of green felt. The stem and leaf of the plant is made out of green paper. I made the head out of the foam “scoop” from one of those ice cream shooter-thingies; the spots and lips are white 3-D fabric paint. For the teeth, I just pressed bits of paper into the glue while it was still wet.”
“Japan2adjust is just Japan, from Axis Powers: Hetalia, eating ramen. I was so proud of the hair and all everyone would talk about were the noodles…”
“Japan10002 is when Hiroshima and Nagasaki got bombed in WWII. Nations feel political struggles as aches, and actual attacks as sharp pains.”
“MMKittyears is me experimenting with inking and coloring. Surprisingly, it’s the only DN drawing in my sketchbook… Hetalia has taken me over. ^^”
Eeee! Zinc, I wuvs!
I love the new artwork! GAPAs, I just sent you guys an image.
You don’t need to tell anyone to fear you Princess, if people are smart, they already would. Or you might just attack them with plastic utensils. Believe me, it happened… I was there.
Wow, thanks, I love you too.
Umm, okay…. So this isn’t a PoPo, I love your drawings Zinc!
I was being verbally ironic.
Awww, thank you!
Love the new arts!
I sent in my drawings a few days ago, do you have em yet? *hopes*
*hopes again* Did you get them?
I sent in some bunnified pictures. Did you get them? One was to the new address, the other the old.
Got them. Will post when we have the chance.
Yay! Be sure to add in a terrifying warning for Robert.
Pseudonym and I sent a picture in, but we sent it (by my email) twice. The first one, we were sidetracked by SR, and forgot to attach the file, so it’ll be in the second one you GAPAs received. Sorry about that.
SFTDP- Did you get the email? We sent it to the one @gmail.com because my email permanently ejected the other email address for some reason.
I’ve thought a lot about The Call of the Wild…and drew a picture about that. However, Buck and Spitz were replaced by Pokemon. is it okay if I send that in?
SFTDP Where should I send my art to?
Have you gotten my pictures yet? I sent them a few weeks ago now…
Drawings by Agrrrfishi:
The first one is Zim, feeling unusually shy and docile.
The second one is Gir enjoying a victory cupcake.
From Enceladus, who requested that a warning be posted in consideration of Robert:
And a wordle creation from Silver Lining who apologizes to anyone whose name she inadvertently left out:
Ummm…where are the pics?
Zinc: I like them… they’re interesting.
Enc: OhemGeorge, I am so freaked out by that.
Silver Lining: Sorry, I can’t see yours on my computer right now, but I like them anyway.
Oops, wait. It suddenly appeared as soon as I posted that last post. Isee my name! It’s cool, I like it.
Suggestion: GAPAs, maybe you could put Silver Lining’s on a t-shirt or a back at Musery Loves Company.
First two are mine, not Zinc’s.
Oops, sorry. I saw your name, and I guess it didn’t register in my brain. Zinc’s name did, because she had been talking about Invader Zim or whatever it is. Agh, wait, that was you. I am sooooo confused now. *dies of brain over-workage*
Oops, never mind, they just showed up!
For some reason the software stripped out the pictures the first time I posted, even though they showed up in the preview. It happens occasionally. Fortunately, I had copied and pasted elsewhere first.
Squee! All of them are awesome! I love the wordle!
Oh yes, and if you can’t read it, the Beatles one says “Sgt. Xeer’s Pink Bunny Club Band”
Keiffer: Yes, that would be flammy.
Awesome!
*loves the first two, is freaked out by the next two, and loves the last one*
*sings* Robert… Robert…. Robert Coontz
I’d like to see your response to my pictures.
Wow, Bunny Beatles!
Ha ha, thanks everyone! I love the first two, agrrrfishi; sooo adorable! And I like the one of Sgt.
PepperXeer. It’s hilarious!My name… has periods?? Why? I’m losing sleep over this.
Maybies I should do something with MB and send it in…
The periods are so that “Zinc” and “the” and “sorceress” aren’t spread apart.
I sent in two of my pictures… wondering if the GAPAs got them?
*hopes*
Hello, Almighty GAPAs! I just sent in some pictures I took of some interesting things in my house today. I think, if I remember correctly, the subject is Visual Arts- KEIFFER. I think.
SFTDP and sorry for being annoying, but did you get any pictures I sent in?
I sent a picture in too! Did you get it?
And I sent in two! Hope you got them both.
*hopes*
I might send some more in…
I will send my art homework in as soon as I get it back from the art teacher….which will have to happen after I complete the ten works and pass them in. I did one of a MuseBlogger that I’m rather fond of…
GAPAs, do you mind if I send in a picture of all the HPBs I drew? I did a series of different kinds of them. (Overgrown bunny, sea monster bunny, ninja bunny, Viking bunny, spider bunny, weird genie-thingy bunny, pirate bunny)
Feel free to send them in, but it will probably be a few days before they get posted. There’s a backlog as it is.
Sorry I cantz commentz more, but I AM BUSY TODAY. -_- I’m basically only on the computer because my mom wants me to look something up, which is: Does anyone know of a cheaper-than-Photoshop image manipulation program for Mac? I tried GIMP, and it messed up my computer.
Anyhoo, thanks!
GIMP is for Windows, unfortunately. Sadly I don’t have any idea what you could use.*resists urge to rant about how nothing works for Macs*
It’s for X window systems, actually (mainly Linux variants). Windows is supported unofficially.
Photoshop.com is a free web-based image-editing site. It might be worth a look, depending on how much capability you want. It’s probably pretty basic.
Exactly what did you try to install? The program “GIMP on OS X” should work fine.
78: (last image) I don’t see my name. Hmmm… maybe I just don’t post enough. *Thinks about posting more often*
I have been looking over some old threads and kiwimuncher, you are an extremely talented artist. I am sure you are told this all the time but…you are VERY TALENTED.
Thanks!
I;m actually really happy right now because I just gt first place at the local level for a patriotic art contest I entered, so now it’s going to state! I hope it goes through! 
Good for you, kiwimuncher!
Congratulations! What is the picture like?
It’s a picture of a soldier looking over his soldier at the United States in a sort of spacey scene and the statue of liberty is coming out of the country with a beacon of light coming from her torch.
Visual Arts: a scene from the H&H by LittleBasementKitten and a marker drawing by kiwimuncher.
First one: Haha, I like that one. It’s funny.
Second one: Um. Wow. That is pretty amazing.
Ha ha, I like the H&H. Fairly accurate hair color for myself as well, somehow.
Bunny pictures from Pseudonym.
Here’s her description: left to right: Top row: The first bunny I drew (I traced it to make the other ones). The classic HPB. Pirate bunny. Middle row: Overgrown/garden bunny. Ninja bunny. Sort of a genie/djinn bunny, sort of just random. Bottom row: Failed sea monster bunny. Viking bunny. Spider bunny (not Spiderman bunny, though).
Thanks for posting those by the way.
From Keiffer, a variety of craft items, who describes them as follows:
The first, second, and third are of a duct tape Kokopelli I made, sitting near our clock at home.
The fourth is an infested Banana Tree.
The fifth is a jail-themed ceramic monkey.
That duck tape Kokopeli is epic.
From post 46.1 and down, I can’t see any pictures. Or anyone’s Gravatars. But above 45.1 I can. Huh.
I was looking at some pix I took at the aquarium the other day and noticed this extremely awesome picture of the seahorses- somehow the were in a circle/square. I have no idea how it happened.
Oh, and now the pictures are showing up on the computer. Maybe it’s just my iPod Touch.
Oh, I love them all!
Fireh– It’s the same thing for me on my iPod Touch. Odd.
I can see them all on my iPod. I’m using Opera, though. Maybe it’s just Safari that doesn’t work.
Everyone: *loves* LBK, you’re amazing
And kiwi, how long did that take you??
A few days.
91.2-I used the profile on Muser Profiles, the *only* one I could find. *blushes* Thank you, Magnolia. Everyone else’s pics are awesome, too!
Of course, not as awesome as mine. That’s not possible.Win. Epic win, Keiffer. Those are awesome!
*goes to make some in GIMP*
I’m working on a Jail-pig now, and Pseudonym and I made two Duct-tape bunnies that are standing next to Duct-Tape Kokopelli.
Fireh and her dad (AlpacaLips) sent this lagomorphic vision:
Does that *shudder* bunny, in fact, have alpaca lips?
It does rather look that way.
Yes, it does. XD
A hot pink-ified bunny with *cough* alpaca lips. Alpaca had a lot of fun making that.
To represent, uh, the bunny alpacalips. (Bunny Apocalypse. Thank you for making fun of my mispronunciation, Dad.)
‘S what dads are for.
*is speechless* That’s awesome.
:O
I officially love your father, fireandhemlock.
-A
You just don’t want to be in the same room when he’s got caffiene in his bloodstream. The bad puns just keep coming and coming and coming and he never stops. *remembers the time was in the car with Alpaca after he had a soy chai* *shudders*
And why, exactly….?
From Enceladus, a steampunk computer:
…
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s computer! *clutches head in hands*
I want I want I want I want. It’s like you took my want for a typewriter and crossed it with my want for a clockwork machine, then added a large dose of I WANT. Fantastic.
Thanks! Did you get my other picture?
Sorry, Cat’s Eye. It’s only virtual. I haven’t the faintest idea of how it works.
This was the only picture we received.
Wow, all of these pictures look great. I am taking “Drawing B” at school right now, and am pulling a D, but only because the teacher has not graded my ink and wash woolly mammoth, and I lost quite a few points on my portrait (of my sister) for tardiness and the wrong size paper. I got a B on my picture of Luna Lovegood, which was surprising, seeing as I replaced her hand with a pirate hook (I re-drew it about 5 times, and it still looked diseased and mangled, so I gave her a hook).
I’m doing a Star Wars montage for my final, and I think it will contain an AT-AT, a snowspeeder, the death star, an ewok, and some other things. I’m pretty excited for it, because most of my other friends in drawing are Star Wars nerds (as am I).
103- That sounds great!
Did you get the new picture I sent?
Collage by Enceladus:
*glomps collage* *likes*
Oooh, Beatles…
102&related- *coughcough*
There’s a site that may or may not be called “old time computer” that may or may not sell actual steampunk-looking computers that actually work… and they are awesome.
I sent another picture! It’s the steampunk Monet I told you about.
From Enceladus: Steampunk Monet.
Nice!
Thanks!
Oooh. Aaah. Bravo! *Applause*
Yay!
You know you have a weird drawing style when you draw hair on a (supposed-to-be-male) wireframe head, it looks feminine, and then you give it longer hair and it looks masculine….. o.O *sighs*
I should like to see that.
*laughs* You will soon. If I can get my scanner working… >.<
Dear GAPAs: I think I sent you two pictures a while ago. Have you gotten them?
~C.
Soooo I may have lost all my photos. Our computer crashed (while I was on it, but techguy says it can’t have been something I did since it crashed kind of oddly) There’s a few I have online at deviant art or photobucket, but few of those are original files and pretty much every picture I have ever taken was on the comp that crashed. And might not be there when they get it working again.
I am trying very, very, very, hard not to freak out.
We have some of your pictures, too, don’t know if they’re full size or not.
I’m paranoid about losing photos, far more so than I am about documents or most anything else. I keep them on two computers, one external drive, and at least two sets of DVDs, one I keep at work and one I keep at home. A professional photographer does all that and more. He also keeps raw photos both in their proprietary format and in DNG in case any of the other formats become obsolete. Well, I did have them on two computers before the operating system on the museum computer committed suicide. Fortunately, I had just finished making back up copies.
One of the first Photoshop books I read said make a CD or DVD copy of your pictures as soon as you can get to a computer, before you’ve done any photoediting whatsover. DVDs aren’t the most trustworthy of media, but at least that’s something.
On the bright side — and I mean this quite seriously — better to have this happen early on. Your future pictures will be even better, you still have all the knowledge and skill you’ve learned from making these, and you’ll be highly motivated to make back-up copies. But I’ll cross my fingers for you and hope your pictures are retrievable. That’s a real kick in the gut to lose your work.
It would also be good to have copies on an online storage site, in case something dramatically disastrous occurs and all of your physical backups are demolished. (I would recommend Dropbox because it’s fantastically simple to use–it just makes another folder somewhere on your hard drive that automatically syncs with Dropbox’s data center. Then, you can install Dropbox on any number of other computers (and even your phone or iPod Touch) and have all the files there as well, all automatically syncing between computers.)
That’s something I keep meaning to do. Dropbox is a bit pricey though for my needs. It also takes a tediously long time to upload 60 or so gigs of unedited photos and who knows how many of graphics. It would take an equally hideous length of time to sort out what’s really worth keeping.
You could puts your pictures on something like deviantart.
And the techguy can’t recover the hard drive?
Techguy can hopefully recover hard drive, but the problem as IN the hard drive somewhere so nothing’s for sure. The kicker is that I’m getting my laptop for college soon, so I was getting ready to move all my photos to an external hard drive but then this HAD to happen x_x
The thing with dropbox or drop.io and other sites is that they cost money or vanish after a while >.< I've been working on a different photosite (not DA or DAportfolio) that allows to have photos in "storage" that might be useful for this sort of thing in the future, but uploading is painfully slow >.<
At least I didn't have any photos I was using for somethign other than myself at the time–I already stored all my friend's prom pictures (I took pictures of her and her boyfriend before prom so they wouldn't have to spend $30 on them) on a USB, so there's that at least.
Can I send in a few drawings of mine? To which address should I send them?
Use thegapas [at] gmail[dot]com for pictures.
Okay, thanks. I just sent my drawing. You can get Photoshop stuff, right?
Did you get them? Did you get them? (Sorry for being so impaitient. Paitience is a quality I need to work on.)
113.1.1.2- I have one already, so thankfully I had a lot of my favourites saved, but I still lost a lot.
Update on situation in general: Still waiting for recovery place to tell us if they could get stuff out or not. Bluh.
Also, does anyone know about the photoediting program Apature? It’s slightly less money that real Photoshop I think, but I’ve never talked to anyone who uses it. I’m thinking about getting better photoediting software sometime this year…
I don’t know anything about Aperture, but I do know that many professional photographers now prefer Adobe Lightroom over Photoshop for their photo processing. Among other virtues it apparently has a better, more comprehensive cataloging system as well as less clutter, since it’s dedicated to photography needs. It’s therefore considerably less expensive than PS yet incorporates the same Camera Raw software (which can now also be used with JPG and TIFF files, by the way). Also, both Lightroom and Photoshop are available in student editions, at a much lower cost than retail. You’ll have to look up whether the software is the same or not; companies differ in their policies.
I suggest you experiment with the free trials — although 30 days isn’t much time for such complex software, so it helps to know the basics before you try.
Have you looked at Photoshop.com? It’s a free site for editing, storing, and sharing photos. I haven’t looked at it in a long time, so I don’t know how much editing capability it has.
(I’m not trying to push Adobe by any means, their products just happen to be what I’m most familiar with these days.)
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My attempt at creating a Steampunk hat earlier this morning. Do you guys think it’s too plain?
Front:
Back:
Awesome…
Cool. It’s great, not too plain, though could be fancified. My suggestions- add leather trim. Especially to the wire connecting the clockface. If you want to make it fantasy steampunk, you could add pieces of gears sticking out of the hat. If it’s not too heavy, tarnished brass will work well.
Leather on the wire connecting the belt to the clock? I did think the naked wood and wire there didn’t look the best.
Two pictures of Aggie from BA and BA:TNG, for WitchNeko’s consideration for the BA:TNG manga:
Looking pretty good!
I’ll post a sample script and profile of a page.
Thanks!
Hmm, I am trying out Sumo Paint, a free drawing program which is similar to Photoshop but of course much more basic. Sadly, it seems ill suited to spriting, but it is quite fun.
GIMP is pretty good for spriting on a pixel by pixel basis… And it’s free. (Opensource FOR THE WIN)
I just downloaded GIMP about a week ago. I’ve found some tricks already, but it still confuses me at times. If you had to say the Top 5 things to know about it, what would they be?
I would say:
1. Practice
2. Practice
3. Practice
4. Practice
5. Practice
1. Paths. They are your friend.
2. Spending time on it does not count as wasting time on the computer. Tell your parents this, and say it is practice for your future career as a graphic artist.
3. Using this newfound time, read and watch as many tutorials as possible. This was probably what helped me most.
4. Using your time and new skills, use them! PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE!
5. PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE
GIMP is free?! I did not know that!
Just popping in to let those wondering know- we got our hard drive back last week! And our photos were recovered. I spent a good portion of friday moving them to the computer.
They’re the original files (unedited), so I lost some stuff but that’s so not a problem. I’m just thrilled to have the originals back. Years of work, saved! Phew.
Congratulations! I’m so glad. And I bet your parents were glad to have their stuff, too. Now make backups pronto!
It’s always better to have salvaged the originals. Other factors aside, your editing skills will likely have improved in the meantime, so you can do a better job starting from scratch.
Yay!
(*o*)
*cheers and hollers*
120.1- I will! Everything from the old hard drive came on a new external hard drive so we’ll keep that, and I plan to move them to my laptop and my personal (HUGE) external hard drive as well (seriously, a TERABYTE of space SO EXCITING).
And photoediting is something I enjoy as well, so at least I won’t be hating the work ^^
Speaking of photos, I need to get the pictures form the kokon onto the computer and sent in!
I made a Tardis rubber stamp. It’s. Freaking. Amazing. I wish I did the carving differently and my hands were steadier, but it looks really good overall. I even managed to put a teeny tiny “POLICE BOX” on top.
Whoa…I’m in envy. I now want to do something like that.
Did you get the picture I sent you?
You know, I may send in a doodle I made of a random girl. I was just trying out head shapes and hair, and it expanded. First I need to get the scanner out of the stinkbug-infested attic…yuck.
Woo. Dead thread. Dead thread. *revives*
I sent in a picture, hopefully it worked.
Well, you know that thing I have going on on Muse fanfiction? Ja, I drew Sudo and made him a profile. It’s been posted on LJ (tagged with “museblog,” hopefully that’ll work), but if you want I can send it in… I’ll go draw more stupid things on Paint now. *scurries off*
Shadowfire created this drawing in GIMP for a comic she’s working on. The character’s name is Kyra.
Hm. I’m not sure why that didn’t work.Aha! I didn’t realize it was so huge. It wasn’t showing up at all on my screen. (First attempt at posting a picture from my iPod.)
*coughitalicscough*
*coughthankscough*
Thanks, Lady B! Sorry it’s huge.
No problem; it’s fixed now.
She reminds me of Leaf from “Chasing the Sunset.”
That comment was a WIN.
*reads* Ah. Hm.
It sounds as if Kyra is not, in fact, very much like Leaf.
That was a thoughtful hm. I’ve heard of Chasing the Sunset, but don’t read it. I looked at the first few pages to see what you were talking about. I’m not actually sure.
I modified my Steampunk hat with some ribbon and glass charms and cleaned some of the dust off the hat itself.
Hat:
Back of Hat:
Detail of charms, buckle, and cobweb earring decoration:
Sorry about the delay in posting your steampunk hat update, KaiYves.
It’s fine.
We thought you’d understand. But I did add the note in part to let people know the pictures had been posted, since by then they had drifted down the Recent Comments list.
Ooo! Awesome! I really like the cobweb earing.
Excellent! I love it!
Ohhhh… so lovely…
Yayness!
Will you actually wear this hat? Or will it be for display?
I’d like to wear it, although I’m not sure what I’d wear it with or when I’d find the occasion.
i just sent in a drawing (edited with shiny and confuzzling new GIMP!)
Hi, all. I’ve just been through the past few visual arts threads and have been dazzled by some superior artwork. I haven’t time to comment on all the work right now, but I thought I’d let you know how beyond-fabulous I consider everything. Kudos, my friends.
I shall send in more art once I get home. Maybe some pencil stuff too, although I’m using a lousy camera and the pictures are kinda fuzzy.
Did you get my stuff? So terrible ( ; ^ ; ) But I’ll scan something eventually and send that in, because I got watercolor pencils for Christmas and I love them.
GAPAs, I’m going to send in some bunny art I did on Adobe, if that’s okay. The subject is ‘bunny help’. The address I send them to is thegapas @ gmail . com , right? Thanks.
Sent two things in. Both of them are digital, since I still can’t be bothered to try and photograph my art. Oh well.