@ Adam

Quality comes with practice, sweetie

You have to remember, all paintings go through an "ugly" phase, which starts from somewhere around 20% completion and ends only when the painting is about 90% complete.

At this stage, the painting may look horrible, terrible, and really bad, and you will very likely think "---- this, I'm not finishing it" at some point during this phase, but you have to push through that mental barrier and complete the painting. It may not be your best work, but it DOESN'T MATTER. The point is that you can and will complete whatever you set out to do; quitting halfway only starts a nasty downward spiral where you start to get discouraged very easily in future projects. So just bite the damn bullet and finish your work. You won't regret finishing it, and at the very least, you'll be able to train your mind to keep your tenacity when working on art.

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Unrelated, here's something I've been working on, and it's about 75% complete:

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Added on August 11, 2012, 8:22 amOh, so very cute and fluffy

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Meme funsies:



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@ Shinkawa

Feel free to visit the archived art yourself if you wish:

http://dragonreine.deviantart.com/art/Rion...trait-215067731

http://dragonreine.deviantart.com/art/Bran...Hanks-314598251

Clichéd, but fun:

@ Vypur

LOL yes, I know that now. The dA version has the right year, tho

There are a few technical issues...





I made a few adjustments to the drawing, to help illustrate the difference it makes if you change a few things. Mostly I corrected the lighting and the contrast, and I also took the liberty of changing the tones between the clothing and the figure, to further emphasize the contrast:

Why? No good?

... not entirely happy with how the landscape is turning out so far. Too Chinese-style for a Wild-West setting, haha

Thanks, Mr Mango!

Another WIP, college romance, yay!

It's awesome to see your improvement over time, Agito!

Greek myth!

You can find them in art speciality shops. I know of one shop in Klang Valley that sells these ("Art Friend" in The Gardens Mid Valley) and there are other shops in the commercial area near Sunway Pyramid that also sells art tools.

Should be able to. PM me what you're looking for, exactly?

She seems to be missing her hips.

I'd seen the serious kopitiam topic before I want to say something but not sure if I should

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Prop to be used for a larger painting



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A chelys, actually: It is an ancient Greek stringed instrument, said to be invented by Hermes from the guts of cattle he stole from Apollo and a tortoise shell. It isn't actually like a harp, because the harp is played by plucking; the Greeks played the chelys by strumming with a plectrum, like a guitar.

You can see the strumming technique in the video below, from 2:54 onwards, using a reconstructed lyre.

Haha, I actually had my art used without permission and without credit before, but no actual art thieves (yet).

Work in Progress...

Yeah, it is

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I probably should learn how to be less fussy on details, but I rather like how the mandolin design turned out:

Yup, reference

I want to put some wood texture on the surface, but the texture distracts from the main focus of the painting O_O ah well, it works as it is when zoomed out, LOL