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    Tree fleet, above and beyond! Neat foreground foliage and backing rainbow too! :

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    The thought comes to mind, "A Whole New World"...this has nothing to do with Aladdin. but that's the phrase. Great job Mystyr!
    Find your dream and stick with it...or your life will have slipped past in a whisper with you still on the bottom.

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    Thankyou Max and Beautifull

    Thought I'd return to simple shapes but complex textures:


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    Looks quite cool!

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    Thanks Max - another with the reduction problem of losing detail in order to resize. I've resized a detail only by half to keep it relatively small


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    Resizing can be a whole subject depending on the results you want to achieve. If you have GIMP you may want to try a plug-in called Liquid Rescale. The basic idea, AKA content-aware resizing, is to resize portions of the image while leaving a selected area unaltered, meaning the area we want to keep as similar to the original as possible after rescaling is done. I don't know if it is exactly your problem, but here's an example of what I once tried:


    Back then I wanted to fit the whole first image into a 300 by 300 frame without altering the shape of the man, sun, clouds, and ice near him. As the central image shows I didn't make it by means of the normal rescaling procedure, which is obvious due to the irregularity in size of the new image with respect to the original (from a 488 by 355 pic to a 300 by 300 pic). The third image shows the result of the Liquid Rescaling Algorithm, and although the left side looks rather twisty, at least I was able to keep that certain part of the scene unaltered while fit into a smaller frame than the original... really close to my expectations.
    By the way, it's one of the first scenes in 30 Days of Night, which I then wanted rescaled in this fashion in order to be used as a profile pic. Of course it was also a good test for the plug-in and for myself too, since I was learning how to use it.

    Tutorial to the Liquid Rescale plug-in: http://liquidrescale.wikidot.com/en:tutorial

    Download page: http://liquidrescale.wikidot.com/en:download-page

    I hope it might help sometime

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    That's a big difference there Max, I like that.

    Mystyr, the colors inside the sphere remind me of legos. XD

    It's been a minute since I've had inspiration to draw something, but I did this one last night when I couldn't sleep. I'm thinking about fixing her eyebrows to make her look less hostile...

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    Here's another I've finished...that's not so...sketchy...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Beautifull View Post
    That's a big difference there Max, I like that.

    Mystyr, the colors inside the sphere remind me of legos. XD

    It's been a minute since I've had inspiration to draw something, but I did this one last night when I couldn't sleep. I'm thinking about fixing her eyebrows to make her look less hostile...

    Quote Originally Posted by Beautifull View Post
    Here's another I've finished...that's not so...sketchy...
    Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle...That is some mighty fine drawings you have there, Beautiful. I like the first drawing the most...I always like the simple look of a woman. Keep it up.
    "The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of the people and then they take themselves out of the slums. Christ changes men, who then changes their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature." ~ Ezra Taft Benson

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    They're great Beautifull! I like the sketchiness of the first, the rough edges and hair really adds to the expression, and vice versa. The second has a lot of latent energy - both the ready-to-spring pose and the solid black against white. The shadow and sense of foreground depth give it a sci fi feel.


    That was a good description and demonstration Max - I'll definitely keep it in mind The problem I was referring to however isn't quite that complex, just that sometimes when reducing the size of an image it occasionally doesn't give a very clear result, and I realise too late after I've moved onto something else instead of re-rendering at the new dimensions, and it's a hassle to reset (if I've neglected to save the scene, or changed the textures and models and lighting and stuff too drastically).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Neo_Sephiroth View Post
    Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle...That is some mighty fine drawings you have there, Beautiful. I like the first drawing the most...I always like the simple look of a woman. Keep it up.
    Thank you Neo.

    Quote Originally Posted by MystyrMystyry View Post
    They're great Beautifull! I like the sketchiness of the first, the rough edges and hair really adds to the expression, and vice versa. The second has a lot of latent energy - both the ready-to-spring pose and the solid black against white. The shadow and sense of foreground depth give it a sci fi feel.
    Thanks Mystyr. I'm thinking of drawing out a background for her, but two things hindering me. One of them being, I don't know what the background should be, and the other: Even if I did know what it should be, I suck at drawing backgrounds. XD But if I do think of a nice background, I'll give it a shot.
    Until then, she has a shadow. One a white background.
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    Great drawings B

    Some more miniatures, in yet another style:



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    Like this perhaps?




    That first one looks like a familiar fantasy scene Kyriakos - can't quite place it though

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    It is a medieval Siam set Thai buildings are very beautiful in my view.

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    Okay I am horrible at drawing. Always have been.
    However mustering up some courage I tried this quick sketch (took less than five minutes) after a long, long time! And even more shamelessly I have had the audacity of presenting it here! What an Artist indeed! A four year old could draw better!
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