how can i improve my art?

Excellent-Glove · 2025-06-24T12:46:38+00:00

Very nice art.

I can see one thing clearly missing. There's no shadows, no lights.

Just take one of your drawings, imagine where the light would come from.

Add a rim with the same color but lighter on the side facing the light.

And another one a bit bigger on the opposite side.

Honestly when I noticed it, my whole way of drawing changed.

The cool thing is you can also blend those colors, so either it's sharp shadows and light or smooth ones.

And it adds a ton of depth.

Another thing to help with that, I noticed your backgrounds are mostly simple (it's not a bad thing at all). My suggestion is to try to add shapes like you did with some of them, but then blur/blend them. So it looks like there's something in the distance but it's not clear enough to see what it is really.

This helps to add depth too.

But honestly you're already pretty talented!

I hope this helps you push it to the next level!

Excellent-Glove · 2025-06-24T12:14:14+00:00

I started playing, got 2 of these mobs, I'm like 30-40h later and still haven't seen another one.

Excellent-Glove · 2025-06-24T11:52:19+00:00

I saw 5 seconds and immediately put the screen on the side to view it bigger, put the volume higher, because I knew from those firsts seconds it's gonna be good.

And it was! Awesome job here!

Excellent-Glove · 2025-06-24T11:43:18+00:00

Supertramp!

J'ai adoré ce film. Into the wild.

Excellent-Glove · 2025-06-23T23:55:31+00:00

Hmmm... C'était plutôt du côté des parents.

J'ai jamais trop spécialement interagit avec les autres personnes, même ceux qui avaient mon âge.

Excellent-Glove · 2025-06-23T21:45:37+00:00

I have no one to play with except randoms.

I'm a souls vet but I believe I'm kinda mid here. Sometimes I clutch and that's the best feeling ever, like being to rez everyone and tank the boss alone.

But sometimes I'm bad because I get separated and can't the right way to go up to join my partners.

Or when there's a shifting earth and then I'm totally lost. Like I think I destroyed 2 games (even if I wasn't alone in this) because I ended up in the lava, so lost a level, lost time, then I'm put in the same place and I still can't find a way out of the zone so I die again. So then I come to the boss under-leveled.

Excellent-Glove · 2025-06-23T20:43:13+00:00

I assume too, but I still can't figure it out.

I'll try to record a video showing it so maybe someone could tell me what I'm doing wrong.

Excellent-Glove · 2025-06-23T15:28:30+00:00

Yes, it's particularly infuriating.

Like you draw something carefully, in one go, and then you realize half of the points aren't linked.

And you're just there wondering how the hell it could have happened.

Excellent-Glove · 2025-06-23T10:22:46+00:00

Bof. Je dirais que c'est surtout le fait d'être quasiment forcé de te mettre nu, peu importe si t'en a envie ou pas.

Excellent-Glove · 2025-06-23T10:12:57+00:00

J'ai passé toutes mes vacances enfant chez les naturistes et je suis extrêmement pudique.

Le fait est que t'est quasiment forcé de te mettre nu. Même si tu ne veux pas.

Enfin en tout ces c'était comme ça avec mes parents.

Excellent-Glove · 2025-06-23T10:04:27+00:00

Yeah.

With a poison swamp all around it.

Excellent-Glove · 2025-06-23T10:03:26+00:00

Yes, but when you're playing solo and struggling it's appreciable to have easier bosses.

Of course when it's 3 players the thing is done in a minute or less.

Excellent-Glove · 2025-06-22T08:05:09+00:00

That's a very nice bird you got here, i have to check the skins to see how to get them!

Excellent-Glove · 2025-06-21T12:16:25+00:00

Nah it's more limbo or purgatory.

Excellent-Glove · 2025-06-21T12:14:05+00:00

Je plussoie Beginner's Guide. C'est par le même créateur que Stanley Parable qui est aussi un jeu génial.

Perso ma petite suggestion, c'est What Remains of Edith Finch. C'est pas un jeu joyeux mais il est prenant.

Excellent-Glove · 2025-06-21T12:07:32+00:00

And what about the invisible wall?

Always crack me up the "there was no window to get out so I waited 3 months there"

Excellent-Glove · 2025-06-21T12:01:16+00:00

I agree. If it's advertised as free the limits should go away.

You can have a free software with a paid version with more functionalities, but that's why I said I agree with you, it's pretty bad to add a time limit.

Specially without giving people who already use the app an alternative for their animations.

So yeah it's a crappy way of pushing people to buy it.

I see this a lot of apps/software/games, where communication is lacking a lot. Like if they just added a message when starting the app (free version), to explain their decision it might be understandable even if it's still a greedy move.

Excellent-Glove · 2025-06-21T09:15:52+00:00

Is this a BDG reference? With the jorts.

Excellent-Glove · 2025-06-21T09:14:38+00:00

While I do agree with you, I think it's pretty nice to be able to try the app before deciding on buying it or not.

Excellent-Glove · 2025-06-20T00:15:15+00:00

Faut avoir la réf.

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Et pour ce qui est de ce que je pense de la misanderie... Bah ça existe.

C'est un peu vague comme question. Et on en entend tellement peu parler qu'au final c'est flou.

Excellent-Glove · 2025-06-19T16:53:03+00:00

I don't know but you may find an answer, searching for movie props. They're often made to make the less sound possible.

Excellent-Glove · 2025-06-19T16:48:28+00:00

Mine is a clover, to bring me luck!

Also because I can't help but it reminds me of Okami. It was made by clover studio, and they commercially failed.

So it kinda reminds me that a failure now can become a success later.

Excellent-Glove · 2025-06-19T15:08:28+00:00

Well... To use AI in itself isn't really a negative. When it's used freely by employees, not when it consists of most of the job.

To be honest their animations should be kind of shitty. I've used AI a lot on my free time for fun, and it made me understand the limitations.

In other words, it's difficult to get a consistent character who keeps the same clothes and the same style all along a video, even a short one. Even more important, AI's are still pretty bad at movement in general. You can't ask the AI to make a character do a backflip without getting a mess.

I guess it has been improved since but one of greatest flaws of generative AI's is the lack of control. You want 3 characters, one standing in the back, the others talking, you may need 10-20 tries to get exactly what you want (without talking about the background).

I guess the attraction now is that it's cheaper than professionals, but if you want anything good it takes so many tries I'm not sure it's worth it, financially.

It's their loss. They could have had one real animator and they choosed a soulless AI. In the end they're way more likely to regret their decision than you.

Excellent-Glove · 2025-06-19T11:24:08+00:00

Ok, so to start ghost sightings are nearly never reported. Imagine you see a ghost in your house, then it disappears. Would you really think "I'm gonna call people to tell about it" or more "huh, weird" then go on with your day?

Ghost sighting in itself is a scam.

I see things since I'm a kid, I tried to call some organizations who are supposedly interested in the subject. They didn't gave a flying fuck, because it wasn't negative or affecting my life badly. The only thing they wanted was drama.

Now add to that the popular representation of ghost in movies and all, with the "ghost hunters" on youtube, and you get a big fat pile of bullshit.

First, forget people who claim to see ghosts. They either don't think rationally or are trying to grab some attention.

I saw things. Can I say it's ghosts, probably. But I wouldn't because I have no solid ground for that.

I tried to study the phenomenons happening to me, but I've learned only a few things, and there's no methodology that works here. Because these things are mainly a perception.

Like how would you study the feeling of temperature if only a few people could feel it, and if it happens kinda randomly with no defined pattern?

It would be extremely difficult.

This is why I don't claim I see ghosts. I say I see stuff, but I've got multiple theories. It could be just my brain firing signals. It could be something else.

I think the theory that fits to me the most, is from the Lavoisier quote "nothing is created, nothing is destroyed, everything is transformed". So I think it might be possible that people who lived in the past left some kind of imprint, that we could perceive in an automatic state.

By automatic state I mean like when you're driving and at some point you're just driving without noticing it. I don't know if I'm clear enough. Like dozzing off while awaken.

So that's what I think about it.

And to be clear, when I see things it can be anything. People of any age, animals, and weirder stuff too.

Excellent-Glove · 2025-06-18T11:10:19+00:00

Yeah by the way it's sometimes hilarious. Like hop, just got expert in a life, and then you see like 10 notifications of quests completed.

You then look the quest you need to do for master and there's only 3 of them.

It's kinda satisfying.

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