~the not worth your time thread~

[solwyvern]

0o, Happy Birthday~^^

Originally Posted by innominate

That's really good^^ Very nice concept design.
What was the original? Was it Suigintou?

[Deathkillz]

popping in to say ~

HAPPY BDAY!!

[Ice Climbers]

And arrived here in Southern California too lol, saying happy b-day once again =]

[TakutoKun]

Happy birthday! I love your work.

[innominate]

^^ thanks for the wishes, once again!

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I actually tried a bit of colouring yesterday, after not doing so for about 2 months...

It's pretty weird...
Sketch used (random character off my head)


In the end I didn't really colour the whole thing because I was lazy, and because the result was turning pretty bad.


I think I would try something else tomorrow, perhaps a vector or something D:.

Originally Posted by solwy

Was it Suigintou?

^^" I'm sorry... it wasn't... I've pmed you already I know but just in case. xD
I don't know who the character is.

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Because I wish not to commit the crime of double posting, I'd be editing this post. Hopefully it'd be seen >_____>

here's the vector... I'm working on it halfway.

*removed progress, wallpaper on next post*

Original pic:

[Sephi]

Nice tracing going there. You got a good thing with the eyes. I like the eyes in your trace more than the original one. Very nice nice.

And thanks for the help with my trace.

[innominate]

Hurrah! I escaped the woes of double posting, fufufu! xD
Sephi you're welcome, and thanks for the bump.

1024x768
imageshack link

photobucket link because imageshack is down, now. 3:07am gmt+8 23/08/07


I believe this is somewhat my third vector. I know I said I didn't think I would be vectoring anymore but again I always think wrong.

Time spent:
Vector- 14 hours D:
Bg- um, I lost count.

Oh, and, I had to shift all my icons to the right, sigh. ><

png-ish:


Might be subject to editing, because flaws are apparent. D:

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Oh yes, this is also the first time I'm using innominate to label my work. haiz, something's wrong.

[Shana]

Nice vector ! and why all the people is vectoring now ><?? The trace is a torture! but is funny to see how you, Daniel and Sephi jump off the window

[geki~]

Nice work

[Daniel E.]

Originally Posted by innominate

png-ish:

Oh yes, this is also the first time I'm using innominate to label my work. haiz, something's wrong.

Oh my god, this is just lovely!

Smooth lines and good use of colors; You certainly need to keep vectoring, you are a natural for this. Oh, and you used gradients for the hair colors, right?

The background for the wallpaper is very nice, but when you changed the size of the vector to make it fit the wallie, it really affected the quality of the image. IMHO, you should make another wallie using the natural size of the vector (i.e: 1600 x 1200) to prevent the quality loss.

I am pretty clueless when it comes to this but, you are supposed to be able to change the size of a vector without any quality loss, so take my comment with a grain of salt here. >_< !!

Originally Posted by ~Shana

Nice vector ! and why all the people is vectoring now ><?? The trace is a torture! but is funny to see how you, Daniel and Sephi jump off the window

After a while, one gets really good at landings!

[Sephi]

Originally Posted by ~Shana

Nice vector ! and why all the people is vectoring now ><?? The trace is a torture! but is funny to see how you, Daniel and Sephi jump off the window

How cruel
But you said The trace is a torture. Is that a hint you tried it ?
And meh ~~ the windows here are to small to jump out of... But i got a balcony!

After a while, one gets really good at landings!

"Jumps"

Oh noes.. i twisted my ankle !!
USODA !!!

But on a more serious note
I think innominate just used shading for the hair, or if you are talking about the zig zag line in the hair? Not sure how innominate did that. I would guess it's a outer glow. Or something with feathering and shading.

I believe this is somewhat my third vector. I know I said I didn't think I would be vectoring anymore but again I always think wrong.

And meh.. even though i said i don't wanna trace more... i'm getting the urge to trace something..... Just haven't found worth the time investment yet.
And mmm, make the vector bigger innominate, you can always make it smaller if you think it's to big

[Shana]

Originally Posted by Sephi

How cruel
But you said The trace is a torture. Is that a hint you tried it ?
And meh ~~ the windows here are to small to jump out of... But i got a balcony!

Yeah, I tried it >< it was torture!

[Daniel E.]

Originally Posted by Sephi

But on a more serious note
I think innominate just used shading for the hair, or if you are talking about the zig zag line in the hair? Not sure how innominate did that. I would guess it's a outer glow. Or something with feathering and shading.

I just got a reply on this:

Originally Posted by innominate

Daniel E if you are reading this... yeah, I used gradients, &brushes also. xD. They were evil.

@Sephi:

You can tell this by the way the color fades/changes. It really stands out in Satoko's case.

[Sephi]

Yeah, I tried it >< it was torture!

Cast aside your sanity and finish it Shana

@Sephi:

You can tell this by the way the color fades/changes. It really stands out in Satoko's case.

Ooooh now that you mentioned. Your talking about her whole hair. I didn't even notices it before. I was looking at the shiny line in there hair all the time, and the normal darker shadings. I still don't see it in Rika hair though. Perhaps i need a better laptop screen.

Now that i stared at it... Rika hair is missing a few lines. The hair at her back, just above her shoulder. And Satoko is missing her bag but you could of left that out on purpose since it wasn't adding much to it. But i do think the hair at her back of her head is important.

[bigdave]

inno>> really nice trace ^^
I like it a lot =3

and if i ever tried tracing i know i would be bald by the time i finish my first one

[innominate]

Originally Posted by ~Shana

Nice vector ! and why all the people is vectoring now ><?? The trace is a torture! but is funny to see how you, Daniel and Sephi jump off the window

Originally Posted by Daniel E.

After a while, one gets really good at landings!

Originally Posted by sephi

Oh noes.. i twisted my ankle !!
USODA !!!

Fufufu! Sephi needs more practice =O.
For now I shall mull around the ground floor.

Originally Posted by ~Shana

Yeah, I tried it >< it was torture!

Originally Posted by bigdave

and if i ever tried tracing i know i would be bald by the time i finish my first one

Good luck if you ever go about that torture again! xD
&bigdave, first time talking to you x) hello~

Originally Posted by Sephi

Now that i stared at it... Rika hair is missing a few lines. And Satoko is missing her bag .

O_O zOmg! Her bag! Her bag! How could I have missed it out! D: D: D: D: D:

D: ;

But I felt the lines at the back of rika's hair was unnecessary though =)

Originally Posted by Sephi

But on a more serious note
I think innominate just used shading for the hair, or if you are talking about the zig zag line in the hair? Not sure how innominate did that. I would guess it's a outer glow. Or something with feathering and shading.

And meh.. even though i said i don't wanna trace more... i'm getting the urge to trace something..... Just haven't found worth the time investment yet.
And mmm, make the vector bigger innominate, you can always make it smaller if you think it's to big

Originally Posted by Daniel E.

Oh, and you used gradients for the hair colors, right?

The background for the wallpaper is very nice, but when you changed the size of the vector to make it fit the wallie, it really affected the quality of the image. IMHO, you should make another wallie using the natural size of the vector (i.e: 1600 x 1200) to prevent the quality loss.

I am pretty clueless when it comes to this but, you are supposed to be able to change the size of a vector without any quality loss, so take my comment with a grain of salt here. >_< !!

Hmm, I did what you said, &if you spot any quality loss tell me xD, I'd try my best to change it if so:


And, mmhmm!; I replied: hair colours >> gradient.
The shiny line on the hair... Vectorshape + outerglow

I forgot what I did for the background already, though... just alot of filters and brushes... T_T

Hmm, someone told me the bg looked too cluttered, so I uploaded versions without the weird patterns in the background. Now it looks plainer. ^^ &you can see the ugly tree D:

Ran out of superlatives. Um, to name the file, that is xD

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& thanks for all the comments at any rate xD

[WanderingKnight]

I liked the style of writing on the Drift story... I can tell it has a purpose, and I like that, too. It's cryptic, though, which is not something good or bad by itself. Just cryptic

[innominate]

Haha, thx Wk... ^^

And I am really going to hope someone replies so I'd take my chance with this update...

#1 Fiction!~ xD It's probably the only thing I feel is worth viewing in this thread.

Of quantum immortality
http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2411735/1/

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#2
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#3 D= blearrgh.
This picture is quite fail. I feel sorry for the character.
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#4 Remember the book cover I did some time ago...
well... it was anime related so it got rejected. So I redesigned it:


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Oh yeah, and lastly... it's quite obvious... but I've changed my signature:


^^"

[Sephi]

#2.
You can just save it as PNG-8 or gif if you want to keep it within 50kb. I doubt it has over 256 colors, so you probably won't lose quality.

#3.
Don't think it's that bad. Only Yumemi facial expressions isn't as good as the original one.

#4.
I liked the old one more. But to bad it got rejected. The new one is still very nice. I'm just not to found of how the books look in front, but that is just meh.

[geki~]

#3 - Her right hand is way smaller than the left one. And they're both too small anyways