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Solipsist

Solipsist

Member Since 30 Jun 2012
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#1853994 New manga site like bato.to

Posted by Solipsist on 08 January 2018 - 10:35 AM

To be honest, one of the things that I enjoyed about Batoto was the "Currently popular" tab. It introduced new stuff to read.
Other websites, however, only have things like "Latest updates" or "all-time popular", which doesn't help at all. Being a direct host for multiple scanalation groups also helps out.

I do wonder if someone is going to bring up a new website with the same idea in mind, since checking each individual scanalation groups' website is just not realistic.
EDIT: MangaDex.com seems to be a top contender in that regard.




#1115842 Different art styles

Posted by Solipsist on 15 February 2014 - 06:48 AM

Finally, just cause we arent brilliant artists (i dont think any of us are really trying to be) doesnt mean we cant post failed/silly attempts :<

 

Kayley 10/10, marry me

If the censorship nazi police had not remove what I had written, you'd see my intentions were not even remotely as ridiculous as you put them. Whatever, since --open-- debate is discouraged, here's something on topic.

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#1114711 Different art styles

Posted by Solipsist on 14 February 2014 - 11:51 AM

Honestly, this thread asks for nothing more than appreciation, and sure, criticism if they ask for it

 

And there you are, questioning why someone even posted their work.

Let's say this was the Photographs thread, and someone shared a blurry, indescribable picture of an indoor room with the description : "I just woke up after a drunken stupor and decided to take a snapshot of sun-rise while swinging my camera around".
What would you say to that, then? The moment people start 'sharing' everything and anything, it's more about attention whoring than anything; and if you guys advocate attention whoring, by all means I'll shut the fuck up for being eldritch.

And by the way, if you find this sort of drivel to be redundant and or annoying; feel free to ignore it. By replying you guys are perpetuating the conversation here. I'm not attempting to troll anyone, bad-mouth anyone or to suppress anyone; I was merely wondering what made someone take the bothersome route of scanning / photographing, importing, uploading and posting something which clearly is only good as a joke.

@You
^_^
Made me giggle there.




#1114648 Different art styles

Posted by Solipsist on 14 February 2014 - 10:27 AM

Solph is a moniker I had not heard until this point.
And I don't want to hear that crap from you guys, whom can only spew out : "Omg it looks so kewl!" without adding anything substantial.

Now you may collect the pitchforks and rally together to form a mob against an internet person.
Carry on.




#1098578 Different art styles

Posted by Solipsist on 05 February 2014 - 07:06 AM

@Carriacou

Ever thought of trying more...Vivid, saturated and contrasted palettes? Your paintings always seem very stiff to me as if you keep rinsing them in water after you're done. |: Do you happen to actually use water-colours or crayons? 
 

this thread needs more shitty art.

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Well you sure did murder that paper with those outlines.
Which pencils are you using to shade? I'd assume something messy like a B2...How about you try to soak that shit in a cotton-swab and mainly blend the lead with it? That's how I blend almost anything. At some point the cotton-swab becomes so drenched in lead, you can use just it as another brush for very subtle and light shading.
Here's an example:

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That cotton swab business takes time, and eventually you treat it like a therapy session. <:

P.S: Firesarebad, if you actually do think it's shitty (and not trying to get "there there" attention-whoring comments), I think you're already aware that everything at first can so much very easily seem like utter crap, but with more care and time turn it into something acceptable or even darn right gorgeous. If you really do think that, keep going at it until it stops looking "like shit".

P.P.S: Goddamnit Batoto you slow fucking harlot GAHHH




#1090507 Different art styles

Posted by Solipsist on 01 February 2014 - 05:40 AM

My profile picture as well as my lastest work.

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It is indeed cute, but your pencil-strokes are way too hard o_o You're killing the paper.
I assume that happens because you want to achieve nice dark tones on the outlines, to combat this try to use a mechanical pencil or a 'B' / 'B2' pencil after it was sharpened.

I remember in highshool I kept murdering my papers and I couldn't figure out why...
It was due to an 'H' pencil.




#1089691 Different art styles

Posted by Solipsist on 31 January 2014 - 08:24 PM

I think drawing on my ass will prove to be quite difficult....I'm not that dexterous.
...
To make sure I do not derail myself to the abyss in which I can easily inhabit, here's a mandatory-retaliation retarded mushroom:

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#1025028 [How to] Action Lines

Posted by Solipsist on 28 December 2013 - 01:13 PM

One day I had to make for myself some 'action lines' we all know so much from anime, and after fooling around in photoshop for a few minutes I figured out this effect is shockingly simple to make.

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So since this effect is so darn bloody simple, here's a flimsy excuse of a slideshow to accommodate it:

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Lazily put together, but you hopefully you caught my drift.
Someone here once told me nobody uses "catch my drift" anymore..Hmm...Carrying on.




#996260 writing combat scenes ....

Posted by Solipsist on 07 December 2013 - 06:06 AM

*shrug*
I think you pretty much covered it, all I did was to expand on a few small things. Just because I wrote a shit ton does not mean I actually added that much to the table.
In such topics, the most helpful and honest answer is usually : "Practice, practice, practice". But people want to punch you in the cunt for saying that for some reason.

@A.B
If I can add any possible tip, I suggest that you try to write anything and post it up on forums to get feedback. 




#994810 writing combat scenes ....

Posted by Solipsist on 06 December 2013 - 08:12 AM

I agree with what Strati wrote, and have very little to add.

But if you want to avoid focusing on hands or feet or specific details too much, just remember that the fight is about the characters.


Indeed, overall you can look at the quarrel as a different medium of communications. Instead of using words to bring some form of message out to the reader, they're using their fists, or swords, or any other tool of violent conduct.
As Strati said, generally highly detailed fights are very short. And when such high-technical scenes are long, the focus shifts away from what "exactly they do" to more like "How are they faring while facing each other". Think of a Dragonball Z fight scene. It's a flurry of random punches, the interesting part; the focus in such scenes, as Strati said; are the characters instead of the conduct itself. That means that the fight itself is the expression of a form of disagreement or a consequence of bad decisions which lead to a fight. I think that's why almost every shounen in existence always has overly-idealistic conversations while the characters are tossing punches (not that's a good thing, by the way).
Just to expand on this, let's say that a character is backed with a wall in a deadend street with a group of thugs facing him, closing in slowly. The character tries to fight them off, but punch by punch he loses his stamina and begins to react to the pain his nerves alert him of and his legs give out; his body crumbles as his mind shuts down with it. In such a scene the focus is the Desperation, the hopelessness of winning or escaping. Every punch the character receives expresses how less and less likely he is to win. So just like that, the focus shifts from the fight itself to what the fight means to the characters in question. You can think of it as a "metaphorical expression of his despair". Just like how a barren, empty village is a metaphorical sign for doom, fear, state of emergency and so on.

The first thing that comes to mind when I think of any battle scene is the novel Horus Rising, a Warhammer 40,000 novel. The novel pretty much starts with one big clusterfuck of planetary warfare which ranges from giant warships to the gigantic earth-bound assault squads known as the Space-Marines (the Luna Wolves in that specific scenario...Gosh, it's impossible to say "Space-Marines" without making it sound stupid <_<) laying siege and finally infiltrating a magnificent tower-like-atrium.

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So as you can see, it's a form of communication. Just like language, which has its own material-weight (thoughts); the physical body relays a different type of message. There's a play around 3 elements, as far as I see : 
1. Input (or "stimulus", Receiving a blow, "The blade rebounded off Loken's helm")
2.
Output (or "reaction", defending oneself or reacting to it in way way or another, "Loken struck low with his chainsword...")
3. Descriptive-narrative (What occurs from these reactions, "...ripping the lance out of the Invisible's silver gauntlets and buckling its haft.")

P.S: Getting some reference from books or videos is a good call, try to go to YouTube and watch some martial-arts clips and see if you can find a way to write a narrative for them.
Now, if you don't excuse me, I need to bandage my bleeding fingers.


#994788 Different art styles

Posted by Solipsist on 06 December 2013 - 07:27 AM

Oh yay \o/

 

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Just to bump your stuff to the next page. ;) I wonder where and why he got himself a dichotomous pair of shoe colors and jacket-laces. With someone of such picky fashion statement, he sure dresses poorly. <:
It seems we're starting to uncover the merit of his grumpiness? 

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#992938 Different art styles

Posted by Solipsist on 05 December 2013 - 06:43 AM

You guys are all filled with hugs and dreams, aren't you.
That motivational penguin..

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#975321 Different art styles

Posted by Solipsist on 22 November 2013 - 06:41 AM

Impressive, if you're having issues with colours try to avoid looking at it as such. Start with a monochrome drawing and paint over it with unsaturated skin-tones. When you're done shading it in black & white, you can easily pick out the colours via filters.
For an instance, this guy right here shows what I mean.
My green-alien-painting was coloured in that fashion, I began with a grayscale and used certain filters like gradient-map in order to convert it.
When you think of it as "shading" instead of "painting" or "colouring", your life may be easier when ye go over the job. One of the ways to practice this thing is to take any painting or picture you can find, or just those you find interesting enough to draw; and desaturate it to a grayscale to see how it works in terms of shading.




#970708 Different art styles

Posted by Solipsist on 18 November 2013 - 03:03 PM

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Tried to see how far I can go without any reference. Yes, the jaw-line is too long which of course pushes the ear far off nonsensically.




#961848 Different art styles

Posted by Solipsist on 11 November 2013 - 01:36 PM

 

I had to google pillow shading... and yeah, I think the shading could have been done better, well, maybe I could have spent a bit more time on it, I wanted to complete it before the new ToG chapter though... anyway, thanks for the feedback :]

 

Cool hand  :lol:

I really like the coloring around the eye-area ... and the rest seems to be lazy work.

Just remember : Pillow shading is evil. It makes no sense 99% of the time.
Dat is all.

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And regarding my 'painting', yeah it was just some lazy scribble for shit and giggles.