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Dec. 29th, 2010 07:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dmxratedSent back: Burn Up Excess, disk 3
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I've given up on drawing entirely. Chelle seems to be getting fed up with me only drawing anything when it's something that I care about, and told me that I'll never improve if I don't learn anatomical rules of real people. I also showed Jake what I had of Kasumi, and he pointed out a good handful of flaws.
Frankly, I just don't have the patience or willpower to bother with real people. Even though I still don't have a job yet, I think I'm probably better off with just buying points on DeviantArt to exchange for requests... especially since I sprained my wrist just a few hours later, which I'll go into detail about separately.
With that said, I joined a group called Point Commissioners, where members can spend points to make requests or accept requests to earn points. Points can also be obtained 400 at a time for just $5, and according to a recent back-entry in Chelle's blog, by giving Llama badges. I tried to do the latter of those, but the site was asking me to give points in order to get Llama badges, even though Chelle and six others were each able to give me one for free. I must be doing something wrong, but the blogpost did say that it's a slow method anyway.
(Still, what am I supposed to do with the seven I have still sitting in my DA inbox?)
Anyway, for the time being, I only made a request for any scene from Mondo & Rokuna's BIG Date, hoping to get multiple members working on different scenes from the fic. The club host asked me to let them know when I get a bite, and also to host their icon on my DA journal. Still have yet to figure out the latter, but I did ask them if it could remain up to get as many offers as I can afford. Still have yet to hear back.
http://point-commissioners.deviantart.com/blog/33684970/
(Deleted my current pic of Rokuna on DeviantArt. Not only is it still flawed, albeit better than any of my previous pics, but I specifically requested NOT soccer-ball-sized when I sent a note to the club host. Turns out, though, that they simplified everything and wrote "must be able to draw the characters accurately based on the descriptions in the fanfic", and since I never said how big her breasts had gotten, anyone might assume that that's what I'm looking for. (Actually, if the words had remained intact, it might've made me look hypocritical, so yeah.) I still have it on my hard drive, though.
Right now, characters exclusive to Monster Collection Chronicles can wait until I've got the prologue up on Fanfiction.net. I would also like to see girls from Sailor Moon, Lucky Star, or the Makendou series with their hair updone, the Sonic girls with their noses big, and anything of Hoshi, but those can wait until I've drawn some guidelines around some existing pictures to host on Photobucket. And, for anything that involves expansions of underage girls, I'll probably let Jake take care of them once he's good enough at drawing anything.
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About my wrist, I slipped on the driveway, which is still covered in a sheet of snow. Good thing Melissa suggested that she and I meet up tomorrow afternoon rather than today, since I'm meeting her specifically to find someone to play the Deoxys mission in Pokemon Ranger Guardian Signs. I did see how well I'd do by playing one of the Extra missions, and even though it was slightly more difficult, I was still able to beat it without much of a hassle. That's a good sign right there (no pun intended).
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Got my new Action Replay, but still have yet to even open it. That makes it even better that I should meet Melissa tomorrow.
Decided that I am going to hack the Azure Flute and Member Card in Pokemon Diamond after all, provided that the device works. If by some off chance either item comes out for Diamond and Pearl, I'll still have Pearl to download them onto.
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I've given up on drawing entirely. Chelle seems to be getting fed up with me only drawing anything when it's something that I care about, and told me that I'll never improve if I don't learn anatomical rules of real people. I also showed Jake what I had of Kasumi, and he pointed out a good handful of flaws.
Frankly, I just don't have the patience or willpower to bother with real people. Even though I still don't have a job yet, I think I'm probably better off with just buying points on DeviantArt to exchange for requests... especially since I sprained my wrist just a few hours later, which I'll go into detail about separately.
With that said, I joined a group called Point Commissioners, where members can spend points to make requests or accept requests to earn points. Points can also be obtained 400 at a time for just $5, and according to a recent back-entry in Chelle's blog, by giving Llama badges. I tried to do the latter of those, but the site was asking me to give points in order to get Llama badges, even though Chelle and six others were each able to give me one for free. I must be doing something wrong, but the blogpost did say that it's a slow method anyway.
(Still, what am I supposed to do with the seven I have still sitting in my DA inbox?)
Anyway, for the time being, I only made a request for any scene from Mondo & Rokuna's BIG Date, hoping to get multiple members working on different scenes from the fic. The club host asked me to let them know when I get a bite, and also to host their icon on my DA journal. Still have yet to figure out the latter, but I did ask them if it could remain up to get as many offers as I can afford. Still have yet to hear back.
http://point-commissioners.deviantart.com/blog/33684970/
(Deleted my current pic of Rokuna on DeviantArt. Not only is it still flawed, albeit better than any of my previous pics, but I specifically requested NOT soccer-ball-sized when I sent a note to the club host. Turns out, though, that they simplified everything and wrote "must be able to draw the characters accurately based on the descriptions in the fanfic", and since I never said how big her breasts had gotten, anyone might assume that that's what I'm looking for. (Actually, if the words had remained intact, it might've made me look hypocritical, so yeah.) I still have it on my hard drive, though.
Right now, characters exclusive to Monster Collection Chronicles can wait until I've got the prologue up on Fanfiction.net. I would also like to see girls from Sailor Moon, Lucky Star, or the Makendou series with their hair updone, the Sonic girls with their noses big, and anything of Hoshi, but those can wait until I've drawn some guidelines around some existing pictures to host on Photobucket. And, for anything that involves expansions of underage girls, I'll probably let Jake take care of them once he's good enough at drawing anything.
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About my wrist, I slipped on the driveway, which is still covered in a sheet of snow. Good thing Melissa suggested that she and I meet up tomorrow afternoon rather than today, since I'm meeting her specifically to find someone to play the Deoxys mission in Pokemon Ranger Guardian Signs. I did see how well I'd do by playing one of the Extra missions, and even though it was slightly more difficult, I was still able to beat it without much of a hassle. That's a good sign right there (no pun intended).
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Got my new Action Replay, but still have yet to even open it. That makes it even better that I should meet Melissa tomorrow.
Decided that I am going to hack the Azure Flute and Member Card in Pokemon Diamond after all, provided that the device works. If by some off chance either item comes out for Diamond and Pearl, I'll still have Pearl to download them onto.
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Date: 2019-07-15 01:42 pm (UTC)If you indeed don't have the patience/willpower to learn how the body fits together, then yeah, that's it then. Anatomy rules of real people are the foundation of any stylized character, if you don't have a hang of that, I could keep concritting and not much would change.
As for llama trade (http://llamatrade.deviantart.com/), only the top is for getting llamas, the people you can give llamas to will appear underneath, if available. The top is for people who are llama addicted and don't want to wait for people giving them llamas for free (llamas are generated whenever you click the give llama button).
You don't do anything with llamas, you can delete those messages, they'll still be hoarded in the top corner of your front page. Llamas really serve no purpose at all.