[Vesuvius]

poop. haha I said poop.

oh, and back on topic, I think that if they didn't know about your photoref overpaint at your contest, you are pretty immoral and a fraud.

[Gimbal8]

As much as I hate to admit it, I love these art-forensic threads. A guilty pleasure.

Someone should save these in a special section called 'Caught on Sijun' or something.

[Darkliege]

Well I didn't want to post again to this thread as it probably wouldn't help anything, but it has gone on enough.

1. Snarf: I wasn't talking about you. I was talking to Joachim. So you don't need to have such a pissy attitude. You just displayed so much more immaturity with those cool insults (btw, I am suffering from PMS, you have no idea how hard it is to have female processes going on in a male's body ...I think I'm going to settle down for a good cry now.) than I did when I called Joachim god because he knows everything. who wouldn't want to be called god anyways.

2. Balistic: thanks for an actual critique. I've only been digitally painting for about 2 months. I hate real life painting. I'll try defining shapes better.

3. Novacaptain: Thank you also for the few tips you gave. Wouldn't you get a little defensive if people thought you were using a technique that is considered cheating when you know yourself that that's not what you did. For the record this piece was just a filler assignment for my HIGHSCHOOL art class. So its not for anything except a grade. It isn't used anywhere else. If it were I wouldn't have used the quick way for making a piece of work. You want to know exactly what I did? Fine. I used the mask tool, scaled it, then filled it in with black once it was on a new canvas. I then set up the grids to approximate where things went. I payed more attention to the actual placement of the clothes so they'd be sharper more flat-like. I then took a 6 color sample, three different hues, a dark and a light for each. I then expanded on that base to give me different colors in the face.

4. Vesuvius: None of my computer pieces I entered into the contest were created by this means. Anything I ever enter that can get me scholarships or other money is always original. If it was taken from a photograph, I took the photograph. If it was a painting over a line drawing, it was my drawing, if it were a 3d rendering, all the textures were mine, etc. I know the consequences of trying to pass off other's work for your own, so I don't do it.

So it may have been easier, but it wasn't an overpaint. Looking back, no I shouldn't have posted it here, but you guys shouldn't have made it into the witch hunt that it was, trying to make me confess to something I didn't do. By my silence I was presumed guilty, with my defensive nature, guilty again.

I am happy that I did give a few people some entertainment.

[ January 18, 2002: Message edited by: Darkliege ]

[swampbug]

Ok... everyone quietly and calmly get off Darkliege's back and skip to the loo. He's not here boasting his mad skillz, he's just showing you what he made in 2 hrs.

[Beowulfthefallen]

He certainly seems to know a lot about painting for such a "sham" artist.