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We are a society trained to look for the end.

Also, disasters happen around the world everywhere. Earthquakes happen everyday, but Japan got hit by a big one, so it's obviously going to be observed. I'm not saying I don't feel any sympathy for the Japanese (I do), but don't let huge disasters bring you to a false sense of "doomsday."

People will say a lot of things, either to make you scared or to make you believe in something. I tend not to do either and let disasters happen, observe them, and react accordingly. There's no reason for me to get riled up over "2012" or any of that other bullshit.

Seriously, there are people out there who use natural disasters to prove something. Watch out for these people. These are also the same people who stand on street corners and preach about the rapture that never comes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UmotTE-VlY

She's doing it to get attention. She's probably an atheist herself. You have been bamboozled sir.

That particular piece looks fine for the Blizz gallery.

However I would like to discuss your desire to make it not that gory. Why? Why would you want to make it not that gory? Why not make it over the top? Aside from the fact that you want blizz to take it. I don't see whats wrong with making people uncomfortable, especially in regards to this topic. A bit of discomfort and uneasiness would be a great thing to convey for a work being attributed to the lord of terror.

Warning: Link contains sexual content and suggestive language.

http://people.ambrosiasw.com/~andrew/funny/bloodcyber.html


You must read this. It's amazing.

I was shown this via Zhar!

Mmmk. Time to rip you to shreads!!!!!...lol j/k.

Positive: Good tonal change. Your definitely starting to understand how light creates depth and dimension.
Very good facial structure too!
Decent rendering too.
Clear light source.
You did a great job rendering shadow and light in the lower eye skin and nose region.

Negatives: The tone, fine as a blue, is however, far too bright. Through the center of the face and form, is a lot of almost white blue. I understand you're trying to show that the light source is right in her face, but there are more subtle ways to do this. Lighten the background a bit, and then darken all of her. Allll of her. By a few notches ya know? That way, you will have stronger shadows. Why is that important? Because strong hard shadows and contrast implies to the viewer that the light source is very strong. now, after you have those stronger shadows, add much smaller and more subtle strokes of that light blue. Do you see what I'm saying? I understand that the shadow can't be too dark anywhere because of the light, but if you darken everything a bit, you don't need as much of that strong blue white.

Idk whats goin on with that eye make up lol. Put some sort of light in there so it doesn't look too flat.

the lines on the lips, make them less defined. The brush is too hard for them. Hard brushes are for things like mountains and cliffs. Lips are soft with no reallly hard edged. Thnose edges are too hard on those highlights. I understand they are there, but still, they are softer.

The line that defines the length of the shoulders, aka the shoulders, is far to narrow in comparison to the size of her head. But I'm sure that wasn't a focall point in your study.

OVERALL: Really good work. You're understanding of light and how it hits a face and the anatomy of the face has certainly improved *applaud* Keep it up!

Update:

What am I listening to you ask? The fuckin' Jam!

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Once I render this one more I'll upload it bigger for you guys.

This was my first real successful landscape(IMO). I've had a lot of trouble with them. So...I thought, painting a scene from the A2 Desert would be really simple and nice! So I did.

I used a screenshot from the Act 2 cinematic of Diablo 2 as reference. Let me know what you think!




About 1 hour 30 minutes of work.


Updated 12/10/10

I think it's a kinda lame point tbh. I don't presume to know that he would be malevolent based on his decisions. After all, he would be god. I highly doubt my logic could even conceive the reason why he/she/it did something..Maybe the atheists would like to question a being that has existed for an infinite amount of time prior to their own existence but, I'll leave that one to them.

And some would say that I was being a blind faith follower or something(for the record, no I'm not religious), but it has nothing to do with that. Could God be wrong in his decisions? No, it's literally not possible. God, being the creator of existence(by most standards, at least in this instance he is), he/she/it(lol) is the ultimate standard for good and bad. If there is a such thing as good and bad, the only way it could be anything more than a mere concept that changes constantly based on perception is if it has an ultimate standard such as God.

See..this is why I have a problem with some atheists. My aunt is an atheist. And her most prolific argument is "well, I don't believe in a god that would let all this evil happen in the world and let all these people die." Why do people have this peculiar idea that they would ever be able to understand why God chose to do or not do something? And why does not understanding this, mean that there is no god(s) at all? I guess it boils down to them not understanding that God does not hav to fit in the small parameters given by the bible. Although, he does some serious ownage of people in the bible as well.

YA! That brings me to my next point. This one is mostly for Americans. Why would anybody in their right mind who has ever read the bible think that America is God's country and he protects us? That has to be the dumbest thing I've ever heard. What would be faaaaarrr more plausible in perspective to that claim would be that God sent those airplanes into the twin towers. Why? Well, read the bible. Remember Sodom and Gamorrah? Cities with gay people, everyone was fucking in general, murder, worshiping of false gods and idols. Then take a look at America. If thats how it went down back then with those 2 cities, I'm surprised America still exists even as a land mass lol.

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And it's a good argument you're posing. "Since humans were all dumb back then, the prophets went easy on them and turned the facts into nice little fairy tales that they could swallow". Humans were very dumb indeed, with their bows and arrows, iron and steel armors; infrastructure, agriculture, the math they knew that reached to an early college education today. Very dumb indeed.

Look, if you could tone down the sarcasm a bit that would be wonderful. It's condescending sarcastic attitudes like this that make me want to close this thread. If you are going to discuss this, discuss it, don't bash the beliefs of others. Be mature please.

I'm actually disappointed no one causes trouble anymore. It's boring.

So... You're gonna grab some dude, throw a wig, miniskirt, and make-up on him and then proceed to rape him.

You make quite the assumption thinking that the other players are going to be giving you what you want out of their drops.

One of the main reasons I like Diablofans is because I know that a lot of you guys have been here for a very, very long time, patiently waiting for D3. And I hope you continue to stick around long after the game(s) are done! I want to be able to come back here in 10 years to talk about diablo 3! Kudos to you all!

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Quote from Nekrodrac

All the evidence points to the activity of a poltergeist.

I think rats would freak me out more than a poltergeist, to be honest.

I can understand. The rumors go that rats from Finland wield nunchucks.

Quote from Umpa

I despise "Oh..The books are better".....Those people can jump off a cliff for their misdeeds. I'm so tired of hearing that. It's so cliche and irrelevant. "Ya, no shit. It's a book." Some things are obviously going to be left out when the entire book has to be summed up in less than 2 hours.

Thank. You.

I don't get it. I don't get why people expect the film to be better than the book. That very rarely ever happens. The book will always be better, these fuckers need to get their heads out of their asses and realize that either they like the movie for what it is or like the book for having all the stuff that didn't make it in the movie that they hold so fucking dearly.

The only movie that I can consider better than the original text that the movie is based on is Kenneth Branagh's adaption of Hamlet. Absolutely fucking brilliant.

Dinosaurs don't brush their teeth. I don't envy you. Welcome to the board

red and blue dye = CAPTAIN AMERICA!!

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Your all tripping, the items REALLY do not look that impressive, your just for lack of a better description, diablo whipped, and you would pretty much love anything they throw at you,
look REAL close at the items, they are ok ya, nothing to throw a hissy fit about, but seriously not that impressive, I know 15 year olds who can draw armor/weapons that would blow those away

Thing about these icons.... people either LOVE them, or they HATE them. Or they think they're just ok. One thing is for sure.. the hater tears are DELICIOUS.

It primarily didn't work because people could also give a negative mark for it. Along with a message.

The rep wars...good times.