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Published: 2011-02-04 18:09:25 +0000 UTC; Views: 5130; Favourites: 70; Downloads: 1126
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Snivy, this is my starter... I choose this starter because...not sure... probably because I feel it wouldnt like me and that sounds like my kinda starterXDdrew this first, redone on gimp.
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Great drawing. I think this is the best Snivy drawing I've seen on deviantart. Excellent work.Β
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wow thank you so much. but it isn't that great. this is an old drawing and I used a mouse+gimp to make it. I can do such a better job now days XD
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Well in that case I'm in desperate need of you're assistance. I'm currently writing a story about Snivy (feel free to hide this comment if you feel I am advertising) Β and am in desperate need of a partner to help me bring this story to life (business partner not marriage partner.) if you have gotten better then this then I'd love you're assistance in my story telling. I feel it would help take my stories to a new level that I can not reach alone. Β
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ok. Let me read the stories you have. now. what exactly would I help you with? I'm no writer. but I'm more then happy to make pictures to go with each chapter. However I would ask for points as payment. nothing to much. I never ask for much. normally less then a dollars worth for pictures. so yeah.
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Ummmm, I have no idea what points areΒ Β .Β
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ah....you have only been on here for a month. um... points are money on the site. people can earn money by doing things for others such as art or journal coding. however to get points without doing that you would need to put real money into the site, $1=80 points. but... you are new to the site so Β wouldnt expect you to know that. however I don't do favors. I work for points to keep my subscription up. so I can't afford to just help you out without payment. Especially if I don't know you as a friend. just a fellow artist.
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Hmmmm, well that will not do. I will have to find a way to get some points then. I will contact you when I find a cheaper way to get them.Β
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ok well I'm almost always available so let me know when you are ready ok?
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Snivy was my starter too! Serperior is my all-time favorite grass-type, and this is coming from a guy who never uses grass-type creatures! :3 For once the game itself was balanced enough to the point that picking the grass type as your main partner wouldn't turn the whole experience into a logical nightmare, working around your critter's many weaknesses with fallback characters you didn't want to raise or have in your party.
Anyway, this is very well done, not just the artwork, but the choice of pose as well, which is pretty key in Pokemon art; it's the difference between boring or exciting the player, even if it's their favorite creature. (Vaporeon's pose was kinda meh/predictable in Platinum, for instance, but the new animated pose in Black/White made me think how cute the thing was! :3)
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you were the first person to ever critique me. thank you so much! yes. it was gonna be a different pose but I ended up picking this because I liked seeing it use that attack the most. I don't know why. maybe because it looks very stuck up attacking without moving its body XD the only issue I have is with the size of the head. but I let it go. I'm sure you read the description. it looks so neat and smooth because I didnt use a tablet. it was all pen tool and path tool. for the most part I didnt use a ref. but I'm so glad you liked it! and yes. pose does mean alot. That's why I made all three starters moving (not to much with the water because... not sure what I could have done XD) but ya know. yes the moving sprites game them more life. and I love how they slow their movement when poisoned or low on HP. you can almost FEEL how weak they get X3
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Your welcome! ^_^ Although when I wrote it, I forgot to actually critique it, but any obvious flaws that were visible at the original working resolution disappeared quite nicely at the smaller one you published, so I couldn't find anything wrong with it. xD And yeah, Snivy would have looked awkward doing the vine whip just standing there! Glad you went this pose.
I never saw the head size as a issue though, because, from what I've observed, sometimes the body proportions are a little more lax in animation when it comes to fighting scenes. (Not sure if it's a stylistic thing to do or just minor mistakes on the animator's part.) Wish I could go into more detail, but it's kinda hard for me to explain. xD
Gotta love the path tool! One of GIMP's best features if you ask me. 
Also, I'm amazed you barely referred to official artwork while drawing a character totally new to you, I was stuck referring to pictures of Vaporeon and Dawn all the way through my latest experiment piece! (Never drew Vaporeon before, despite it being my favorite creature. :#)
And I loved the extra details GameFreak added to the game too! It was one of the first things I noticed when one of my party members were hypnotized, it's eyes actually closed! Sure blew me away, and it made me feel bad for them when they slowed down; sometimes I'd pull a few risky moves in trainer battles I wanted to end sooner, so they'd get hit pretty hard. xD
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yes! their eyes close! I almost forgot! it took me a long time before I noticed it. and I love how the camera moves too so you can see their whole body! letting me see how the body moves front and back without having to always refer to the anime for anatomy issues XD and I drew Snivy a few times before this picture happened. I was in love with it. but I only drew this one around the time their english names first came out. I told myself I wouldnt look at them and try and be all shocked and new when playing the game... I failed... but im glad I did XD snivy is pretty simple once you draw it a few times.
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Haha, I spoiled their english names for myself too! Just had to know. xD And the camera really does take advantage of the 3D space it's in. It changes the angle a lot, which is one more thing, to me, that really kept the experience from being as stiff as Platinum was. (I really liked that game, but jeez the frame-rate was so slow all the time, and there's so little movement it'd kill most analog projectors!) After playing Black version, I might never go back to Platinum! xD
The front and back option was pretty nice too, because I just go into my party's menu and look at the creature from both angles for a quick reference, instead of digging through the pokedex for the sprites. (The crazy thing is I actually completed the Unova dex just from trading with people in GTS Negotiations, almost without even realizing it! :#)
Also, I didn't know you doodled Snivy a few times beforehand, but that's what I always do before drawing a new character anyway.
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yeah. I hate making mistakes that can't be simply fixed. I know it one of my better drawings I screwed up on the breasts of the character, made it too pointed XD and it looked creepy so I needed to fix it... however I already finished the lines, color, and shading/lighting soooo... I had to go through all my path layers and color layer and at this point you know gimp has no folders AND I had well over 100 layers if you count paths... didnt name any of them -_-; so it took me so much longer to fix it then it should have.
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I've been in that position before on paper, lol, colored pencils are near impossible to erase! xD (Totally ruined a Burning Blaze drawing with saggy breasts. :# She doesn't have bra-size to begin with, so that was pretty bad.)
GIMP could really use a folder for the paths. (Maybe they'll do that in version 2.7? Which was delayed until May I think.) Even though I do most of my inks in large, single paths and name them all, I can't realistically do that for every path I use to color/shade in, so the list of paths fill up real fast; I'm in the same boat with you there. xD
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well I started using sai now because they have folders and less BS that gimp has that I don't use. however Gimp does have some tools I need. so using both does happen. its just. with gimp. because it doesnt have folders. when I take a sai file and bring it over to gimp the folders get locked ;_; even photoshop locks the folders when I try opening a sai file in there ;_; so I often only place everything in a folder after I'm done with EVERYTHING in case I need to use the other stuff.
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Sai is a pretty nice app, I really liked interface and would have bought a license key for it if it just had some of the tools that GIMP does. I don't have a touchpad, which is mostly what it's optimized for iirc, so it wouldn't have done me much good compared to GIMP anyway. xD
Yeah, and GIMP can be pretty backwards sometimes; their support of the psd format especially is almost intentionally watered down, so anyone can blame the devs directly for doing that purposely. Doesn't Sai allow you to convert a native project file over to Photoshop's? That might help cut down on some of your incompatibility issues between programs. I don't remember my trial of Sai letting me change save stuff to xcf, though, so if GIMP's support for psd sucks too much, you're still stuck at this impasse. D':
It's one reason why I stopped trying to use Artweaver 3 (Free edition.) and GIMP together, there were too many problems with getting stuff to cooperate between the two, alongside error messages from sketchy support of certain file formats. Might have been a bad combination in the first place anyway. xD
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well... I found a free full version of sai. took me a while to get it working without having to redownload it. but thats because I'm broke. I made a promise to myself and my other friends that when I have the money I will actually buy it. something thats worth searching for for free is worth paying for.
(which is why I often have two of the same movies at home. bootleg and legit.)
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True, but Sai is pretty cheap compared to Photoshop, (Compare $10 or $15 to $600 + tax. Worth it for commercial use, but not for hobbies if you ask me!) it probably could have waited while you stuck it out with GIMP. xD I try to avoid the shady stuff these days, personally. I got sick of all the rootkits and spyware that comes with searching for those things while clean, open-source software could do what I needed just as well. It didn't matter how careful I was, I always got a nasty backdoor trojan or two on a monthly basis. :# (The only things I catch now are false-alarms from anti-spyware apps! xD)
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true. somehow I never got anything though :/ even after getting the sims 3 for free (its still like 60 bloody bucks! they are trying to be cheap so I'mma gonna be cheaper!) but I mean. I still have yet to get anything ^^ doesnt matter now that my pc died on me from slamming it shut anyway -_-;;;
I got my tablet (bamboo create) for 200 and it comes with a simpler version of photoshop elements. its like the same as gimp but has different things. so both together makes like... real photoshop XD but I liked that.
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I can blame the sites themselves for infecting me with malware, (mostly the invasive advertisements.) not the materials themselves, so you probably have better sites to resort to than I did. xD
And yeah, $60 just for a game is insane. They're still charging $40 for titles like Pokemon Diamond/Pearl versions too, and how many versions have come out since 2006? A good five I think! xD Don't you just love price-gouging?
I always wait for used copies to crop up for far less, (I once found Metroid Prime for 3 bucks at a used book store, with the case and MP2 demo! It was like five years after the game came out, but still, it worked.
Photoshop Elements isn't too bad, but it's still missing a lot of features; (Hence the "Elements" in its name.) mostly the more advanced tools, so most users wouldn't really notice what's missing right off the bat. At least it was bundled with your tablet, I think Elements was like $90 last time I checked. (Feel free to prove me wrong if that's otherwise now, haven't seen the price tag in several years. xD)
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game prices... meh... im still waiting for little big planet 2 to drop enough in price.... but PS5 will be out by that time -_-'
like. I got that micky mouse paint game. and I was really looking forward to it. so I got the collectors addition with the figure and extra disc! for $100 but then... like hardly a month later a new box, not open... BRAND SPANKING NEW! was 60 bucks! so unfair. I figured after a year it would go down like 20 bucks but no... granted the game had no replay value (well.. it did but how replayed it REALLY!) but still. gah.
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Isn't Littlebigplanet 2 like $30 now? Last time I was at Walmart, that was the price I saw on it. (Or maybe I'm thinking of the downloadable version on the PSN, but it's no fair to charge full retail for something you can't even put on your shelf. :/)
And owch, there are lot of 3DS owners who got just as burned by a sudden price-drop; they'd feel your pain too! That's why I always wait anyway, one TMNT game I wanted once dropped to $40 in just two weeks! Would have been screwed out of twenty extra dollars if I had bought it on a whim. xD
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thank you very much^^ I will, any suggestions on the next speed drawing?
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Try Riolu or Zorua, those two would be a great addition to your Art Gallery.
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^^ thank you, i was trying to like the new pokemon (it did help btw) and also try something new, it was the first time drawing them, so I feel I did well^^
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You did, so just keep it up. I'll be waiting to see which Pokemon you draw next.
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^^ maybe I will start it sooner then later
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No Problem. (I am the Stalk Master, you still have much to learn young Apprentice)
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lol do I now? why not have anything to show;_; but then again talking can be its own art!!!! lolXD when im done im sure you will see but i will let you know anyways! the picture should only take me 3 hours but its not how long it takes.... its WHEN I actually start it....
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Take your Time when it comes to your Art. We critiques are patient people.
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eh? well then, anything you wanna say about my snivy work? if there is anything bed about it? (the only thing I would change that I have noticed is that its head might be a little bit big in the back>.>)
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I would have to say that the only thing I would change is drawing Snivy in another Pose, just so you can have 2 of them. I've seen about over 300 Different Snivy Heads, and they're all different. Just look at a few Snivy Pictures and Start Drawing what you think is Your Favorite Snivy. XD
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