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vittro wrote:

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You should always make widescreen versions of you backgrounds, however, and make the text blend in with the background.

I would like to chime in here and say that the first point isn't necessary, and the second point... what? "Make the text blend in with the background"? No, one should make the text complement the background, so that it is visible while not being ugly.

I didn't mean that, I meant to make it with a colour scheme that looks nice with the background, or with a font that isn't completely strange for the background.

For example, on a brick wall, I would never use a comic-like font, but instead something like a "worn out" font, something that looks old and rusty.

Ah. That makes sense.

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eb0ny wrote:
More papercraft! Okay, I'll stop spamming this thread, as I am not planning to do something similar for now.

eb0ny, by no means should you stop posting here! I am enjoying your papercraft very much. It makes a good break from <ahem> desktop backgrounds.

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bflatjeff wrote:
eb0ny, by no means should you stop posting here! I am enjoying your papercraft very much. It makes a good break from <ahem> desktop backgrounds.

I see. The fact that lessons aren't getting more interesting doesn't help either. Paper icosahedron (the shape made of twenty triangles):


Bonus shape:



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I think the word is 'Deutsch' und nicht 'Deutch'.

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mxvladi wrote:
Nope. It wasn't written on English. It was written on German. It's "Deutsch" on German.

Somehow I can't really make sense of the above - it's written "Das ist [das] deutsche Alphabet!" in German, but your image above disagrees with that...

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mxvladi wrote:

slimm tom wrote:
I think the word is 'Deutsch' und nicht 'Deutch'.

Nope. It wasn't written on English. It was written on German. It's "Deutsch" on German.

Well, at least you didn't wrote "Dutch".

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mxvladi wrote:
Anyway, I've done next art...

Should I be worried if all I'm thinking when I look at it is "gradient tool, mosaic filter, crackle filter"?

np: The Orb - Once More (Evening Session - 01.03.01) (The BBC Sessions (Disc 1))

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Worried about mxvladi or about yourself?

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zwetschenwasser wrote:
Worried about mxvladi or about yourself?

Well, me in particular, but a little bit of both in general...

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I thought I'd post a shot of my long-term unfinished drawing of a decrepit old pickup truck; it's almost totally done freehand, although it's not original in that I was supposed to look at an existing smallish color photo and draw it on a much larger scale using only graphite pencils with no color. My instructor wanted us to try and capture a sense of the value (i.e., shading) of the photo and what it would look like if it were in black-and-white.


[Edit: I'll post a better shot of it again when the dang thing is complete, although the illustration board I'm using is approximately 2' x 2.5' (or 60cm x 76cm), so it's gonna take a while.]

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More papercraft!


WIP shot:


The thing is based on dodecahedron/icosahedron. Took 15 A4 sheets. Forgive me uneven edges, the thing is difficult to put together.

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This was intended to be an octahedron with a pyramid on its every side. I failed to put it together that way and got this:



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eb0ny wrote:

Click here to view the secret text

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Bonus shape:

Click here to view the secret text

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By the way, I'd kill to learn how to make that one. Care to share the knowledge?

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Dex Stewart wrote:
By the way, I'd kill to learn how to make that one. Care to share the knowledge?

Will this work?

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Thanks a lot!

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Don't forget you can stuff the inside of it and use it as a ball.

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Inspired by this.

Edit: yes, I know the reverse gravity wasn't in there. I don't care.

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Oh, look! A greckle:

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Another (updated) shot of my long-term drawing of the pickup:

[Edit: I'll finish the grille...eventually.]

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I just made a sheet with a bunch of pictures remade by hand from DROD RPG. On it, there is, in order:

Yellow Key, Green Key, Blue Key, Wooden Shield, Bronze Shield, Short and Wooden Swords, Skeleton Key, Life Potion, Roach, Evil Eye, Antlion, Soulless, Adder, Fegundo.

What do you think?

EDIT: PNG formal available!

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I think that you shouldn't use BMP.

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Oops... forgot that. >_< Will re-upload in a sec.

EDIT: Converted to PNG format. Sorry for that, people.

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...well, it's a scanned sheet of paper, whaddya' expect? :\

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Jeff_Ray... wrote:
...well, it's a scanned sheet of paper, whaddya' expect? :\

Renaming a file to png doesn't give you a png format

Here's the same file, but really converted to png. (Although I didn't do anything else.)

Important note: This is not my drawing.

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Kind of makes more sense now... thanks Tim!

So... any comments on it, now?

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I very much like the Skeleton Key.

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slimm tom wrote:
I very much like the Skeleton Key.

Me too.

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Itsy bitsy paper cubes.



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There is something very special about the picture I attached. I made it myself, and it was generated by a program I wrote in C (if anybody desires the source code, PM me), but that's not what makes it special. There is something else.

Of course, mere mortals would have extreme difficulty figuring out such an obscure thing, but I would like to see what kind of people I am dealing with. If I do not get a response / correct answer within a week, I will post the solution. But please try it if you have time.

I am not sure if this makes a good enough puzzle, so I posted it under 'Art'. I would like to know what you, dear reader, think about the clouds, since the original purpose was to write code that generates realistic-looking clouds. But then I got into a funny mood and added the other stuff too.

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See, the problem with that is that we don't know what you think is special. For example, the wedges made by the black lines are not congruent, and neither are the lines themselves. There are two black lines in each quadrant except the one that is positive x and positive y. The blur between the red and the blue obscures all clouds in that ring. I am not a mind reader.

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