Nique's happy fun time thread ~ Super general discussion

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This is Honey. She likes swimming and eating Tuna.

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Originally Posted by Niqote

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This is Honey. She likes swimming and eating Tuna.

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Awww.... *melts from the cute*

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Originally Posted by Niqote

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This is Honey. She likes swimming and eating Tuna.

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That is adorable

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Originally Posted by Rahsch

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Bah I can't sleep. :< Just doodling the La Noscea area. :P

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You call this "just doodling"?!?

/jaw drops

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Originally Posted by Niqote

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Annnnnd... splash~!

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As cats you should know better >.>;;

With so many great artists in here I was just wondering, how do you make your drawings digitally? Are you using some sort of electronic drawing pad? Any applications you use or would recommend for a beginner? I don't have any drawings to post but seeing all the nice art from everyone has gotten me interested in giving it a shot!

As another art form, I do like music a lot though and just thought I'd share a random song I wrote (forgive me, it's not FF related though):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAyo6G8p1P0

You would have to ask some of the real artists for a final opinion; but for myself, I have started drawing on a tablet and it is a real quality of life improvement when working digitally. I use Photoshop CS6 and Illustrator CS6. The former I use normally, but the latter has a much nicer crisp look that I like (really it's a crutch for my terrible abilities XD).

For starting out, I would grab Gimp, since it is a good analog to Photoshop and it's free. If you like the way it feels, look into getting Photoshop Elements (cheap) or CS6 (much more expensive). Tablets are pretty pricy too if you're planning on just drawing casually, so you may want to consider just working with mouse and keyboard until you decide to take it to the next level. A nice middle ground is a trackball mouse. It takes a day or so to get used to, but the fidelity is much higher than that of a laser mouse and great for fine motor control.

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Originally Posted by PortableFishy

With so many great artists in here I was just wondering, how do you make your drawings digitally? Are you using some sort of electronic drawing pad? Any applications you use or would recommend for a beginner? I don't have any drawings to post but seeing all the nice art from everyone has gotten me interested in giving it a shot!

As another art form, I do like music a lot though and just thought I'd share a random song I wrote (forgive me, it's not FF related though):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAyo6G8p1P0

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/bigclap
<3 your beats

big hulan is super good too & tanking :D

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Originally Posted by Hulan

You would have to ask some of the real artists for a final opinion; but for myself, I have started drawing on a tablet and it is a real quality of life improvement when working digitally. I use Photoshop CS6 and Illustrator CS6. The former I use normally, but the latter has a much nicer crisp look that I like (really it's a crutch for my terrible abilities XD).

For starting out, I would grab Gimp, since it is a good analog to Photoshop and it's free. If you like the way it feels, look into getting Photoshop Elements (cheap) or CS6 (much more expensive). Tablets are pretty pricy too if you're planning on just drawing casually, so you may want to consider just working with mouse and keyboard until you decide to take it to the next level. A nice middle ground is a trackball mouse. It takes a day or so to get used to, but the fidelity is much higher than that of a laser mouse and great for fine motor control.

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I would only add SAI Paint Program to that list. It has some incredible brush tools.

<Excalibur player here>

I do all my art atm traditionally, I call my stuff doodles because I can do better once I have the means to do my work digitally and there are alot of mistakes I do while just drawing in ink and not using pencil sketches as a guideline to guide my quill.

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Originally Posted by PortableFishy

With so many great artists in here I was just wondering, how do you make your drawings digitally? Are you using some sort of electronic drawing pad? Any applications you use or would recommend for a beginner? I don't have any drawings to post but seeing all the nice art from everyone has gotten me interested in giving it a shot!

As another art form, I do like music a lot though and just thought I'd share a random song I wrote (forgive me, it's not FF related though):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAyo6G8p1P0

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I use a tablet and switch between Paint Tool SAI and Photoshop CS6 for my art. :)
SAI is pretty darn good. You should give it a try!

While we're asking art advice; I know it's probably pretty tacky to ask to steal a palette, but I've always had a really hard time with skin tones (Yeah, I know I'm not the only one). I don't suppose any kind-hearted individual has a nice skintone palette lying around or knows where I can find one that would help me get a better feel for it?

Also, thanks for pointing out SAI, I had not heard of it, but I'll definately look into it as well.

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Originally Posted by PortableFishy

With so many great artists in here I was just wondering, how do you make your drawings digitally? Are you using some sort of electronic drawing pad? Any applications you use or would recommend for a beginner? I don't have any drawings to post but seeing all the nice art from everyone has gotten me interested in giving it a shot!

As another art form, I do like music a lot though and just thought I'd share a random song I wrote (forgive me, it's not FF related though):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAyo6G8p1P0

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I would definitely recommend a drawing pad of some kind, mice can only get you so far. (tablet, though if you can shell out the money for it, a screen tablet for sure.) Also, though I mainly draw for digital work, knowing to work by hand is great for practice.

I use either Manga Studio EX 4, or Photoshop CS5. Don't be too concerned with version numbers, they update like the dickens.(Though newer Manga Studio versions come with cropping, which is welcome.) There are also free options such as GIMP.

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Originally Posted by Soukyuu

Pretty much this, moving from Hyperion -> Ragnarok in hopes of being able to do endgame stuff at my timezone instead of having to play at 3-5am. Going to miss the people in (and outside of) my LS, but otherwise I might end up quitting completely <.<

P.S.: damnit Coris, your sig makes me stare at it endlessly >.< ;; (and i haven't even watched games of thrones)

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*posting so you'll see the signature again*
pahaha!

Here's the related scene: "One word and I'll hit you again."
Re-watched some more scenes and came to think that Jaime looks strange without a beard o.o

by the way... <.< >.> we're looking for members *whispers*

On my way home. Ironically I blew a tire a few min ago. Cars am I right? @-@ I see some new stuff has come out so ill play catchup in a few hours.

Mew, this one took a bit of effort. lol

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Ifrit from FFVIII doing his signature move, with my little flare mixed in. XD

Back, now i'm going to be the lazy person and take forever to look through the 600+ photos.

Be prepared though, i'm not going to hold back on the prairie dog shots. They were pretty dang cute. XD

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Originally Posted by Zerosion

Back, now i'm going to be the lazy person and take forever to look through the 600+ photos.

Be prepared though, i'm not going to hold back on the prairie dog shots. They were pretty dang cute. XD

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600+ photo's and you were only away for a few days? (O_O; ) I thought i made a lot of pictures (800 of them) during my 7 day vacation in Mallorca. (^_^; )

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Originally Posted by Aldora

600+ photo's and you were only away for a few days? (O_O; ) I thought i made a lot of pictures (800 of them) during my 7 day vacation in Mallorca. (^_^; )

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We had a family outing.

My mother is a professional photographer. Well, prof is a strong word maybe, she has a degree, but doesn't work much. It's more of a hobbie..that she went to school for. Don't you love art degrees?.

Back to topic. She took shots of everything she liked, and those at different angles etc. And then I took a few myself.

It is funny though, I didn't really know we had a place like Devil's Lake* only 2 hours away ^^, beautiful area. Definitely going back sometime whenever I can. We hiked all day and couldn't get through all the trails.

She took way more than me of course. But we used the same camera so i'm not sure who's is who's. Still haven't started and Wolverine opens at the theater later today so i'm not sure if I should start.... /lazy

I'm going to sit here in my chair for awhile though. I'm not even in "bad" shape and i'm hurting.

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Yes, yes it is called Devil's Lake. Creepy name I know. Even creepier is that it keeps getting bigger and bigger swallowing small town whole.

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Some XIV monsters.

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Originally Posted by Rahsch

Some XIV monsters.

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Top-right. Can only see nipples.

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Originally Posted by Mjollnir

Top-right. Can only see nipples.

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Will-of-the-Wisps

Pervert. XD

Rahsh!
Really good stuff! I like it ^^ Keep it up =D

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Originally Posted by Linka

Rahsh!
Really good stuff! I like it ^^ Keep it up =D

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Thank you, just been drawing alot of FF stuff since I got my new sketchbook. :D

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Originally Posted by Aldora

600+ photo's and you were only away for a few days? (O_O; ) I thought i made a lot of pictures (800 of them) during my 7 day vacation in Mallorca. (^_^; )

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I can easily do 300+ in a single session when I'm not lazy and go out to do some nature/landscape photography.. out of which I might keep 30.. I've gotten very picky/critical of what I choose to keep.

The beauty/joy of digital photography, i.e. shoot often, combined with a decent workflow. ^^

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Originally Posted by Ruethryl

I can easily do 300+ in a single session when I'm not lazy and go out to do some nature/landscape photography.. out of which I might keep 30.. I've gotten very picky/critical of what I choose to keep.

The beauty/joy of digital photography, i.e. shoot often, combined with a decent workflow. ^^

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I always get into one of those "Oh..we took how many pictures?? Were out of memory..." types of situations. Haha.

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Originally Posted by Ruethryl

The beauty/joy of digital photography, i.e. shoot often, combined with a decent workflow. ^^

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Indeed. (^_^ ) I keep shooting pictures ever since i got my hands on a digital camera, even it if it's my dad's. Hehe. Still looking for a better digital camera for myself. Probably something like this:

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A few photo's from my trip to Mallorca:

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Originally Posted by Coris

*posting so you'll see the signature again*
pahaha!

Here's the related scene: "One word and I'll hit you again."
Re-watched some more scenes and came to think that Jaime looks strange without a beard o.o

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I like the short guy's style XD
*sigh* looks like I will have to watch this one too... once I have time...

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by the way... <.< >.> we're looking for members *whispers*

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I'm more or less bound FC-wise, but my LS spaces are free :P

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Originally Posted by Ruethryl

The beauty/joy of digital photography, i.e. shoot often, combined with a decent workflow. ^^

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Yeah... I remember film photography... where you had to agonize whether or not to take a picture and hope to take it right since you only had 36 pictures per film... and developing wasn't exactly cheap since you had to develop and print all of them even if it turned out some of them were bad.

I remember developing b&w film with my father though, was pretty interesting to do it yourself... mom wasn't impressed though since the developing solution left black stains on the bathtub xD

I'm using a canon 550D atm, pretty decent for its price and not really inferior to the 60D... all the 60D has is the rotating display and a bit faster shooting speed. About the only reason I went with a canon is because we already had several lenses for them, from the analog times. I hear Nikon is better bang for the buck though.

I'm using Olympus at the moment.. when I upgrade I'll be switching to Canon or Nikon.. Olympus has pretty much dumped their D-SLR camera line at this point in favor of their mirrorless cameras that mimic DSLRs..

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Nique on a WHM-themed contraption! ;)

This needs dhalmel parody...it's getting funnier to me day by day.

http://youtu.be/wmErNJdRgEM

Though sadly not everything is great/funny.
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Serial Experiments Lain Director Ryutaro Nakamura Passes Away
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Originally Posted by Soukyuu

I like the short guy's style XD
*sigh* looks like I will have to watch this one too... once I have time...

I'm more or less bound FC-wise, but my LS spaces are free :P

Yeah... I remember film photography... where you had to agonize whether or not to take a picture and hope to take it right since you only had 36 pictures per film... and developing wasn't exactly cheap since you had to develop and print all of them even if it turned out some of them were bad.

I remember developing b&w film with my father though, was pretty interesting to do it yourself... mom wasn't impressed though since the developing solution left black stains on the bathtub xD

I'm using a canon 500D atm, pretty decent for its price and not really inferior to the 60D... all the 60D has is the rotating display and a bit faster shooting speed. About the only reason I went with a canon is because we already had several lenses for them, from the analog times. I hear Nikon is better bang for the buck though.

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You should watch it! Tyrion's the best (Lannister)! -> "A very small man can cast a very large shadow."
I, for myself, prefer the original version, not the german dubbed one.
Season 1's on amazon for 14,99€ ^^

Okay then ^^
I'll send you a message after release!

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Originally Posted by Coris

You should watch it!

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Stole Nii's Carby art and made my own. Behold!
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There I finally made a picture for my thread!

Request T-Board Mount Poll

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Originally Posted by Rahsch

Request T-Board Mount Poll

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That reminds me...2015 is getting close Mattel...

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Couple of physics problems to overcome first before that is reality. ^^;;

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Originally Posted by Niqote

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Ok ok! You should READ them @.@ *bow* (Got book 1 since my birthday but had no time yet.)
But I think the series is pretty well made :o