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Damn sorry to hear, that sucks would be an understatement. Hard not to feel gutted after losing your work like that.

I had a similar thing happen a few years back and started using One Drive to help keep things backed up.

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Mini update bump!

Working on some 'battery cover' stickers to put on the bottoms of the deck boxes





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Great job, really looks fantastic all together like that!

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Definitely an improvement!

I use this stuff called 'Rub n Buff' when going for a metallic look on plastic. Comes in a little tube and I dab a bit on a rag and just rub it into the surface:


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That figure looks fantastic, great job with the lighting. The back cloak especially looks convincing

No idea the character but way to finish with a great one! Decided to delete my cricut rant, but really like the fat princess one as well.

Picked this Art of Street Fighter book up to flip through to try and get back into figure drawing: https://www.amazon.com/Art-Street-Fighter-Hardcover/dp/1772941603
I'm awful at fighting games but have always loved fighting game character designs


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Haha, love the Fat Princess one.
Dude on the right reminds me of the Skyrim mc and the sketch version of the princess makes me think of something from Binding of Isaac.

Picked up a Cricut machine for cutting paper/stickers and while the hardware seems decent the software and company have me thinking of probably returning it.

The hardware is locked to the software which is basically a web site instead of a proper program.
On top of that it limits what you can do to such a degree that it's completely aggravating; you can't design/print if your internet is out, it defaults to importing images at 72 DPI so you have to manually scale everything you import, you can't adjust the size of the paper you're printing to (had to trick it with landscape mode on the printer to not waste huge amounts of sticker paper), has no preference memory so you need to tell it you want to print with system dialog every time, and on and on and on.

Also looking into the company they seem as awful as the software.
They had a change that they rolled back due to user backlash that basically made it so you had to have a premium subscription to use more than X images with it a month. That would be like a printer saying 'You printed 20 different images this month? Give us more money to use your hardware,' absolutely insane.
The wording of the rollback made it clear they plan on trying it again in the future.
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Was able to make a decent tuckbox after tricking the software to do what I wanted it to do though.


Thinking of looking into a silhouette cameo 4 instead.

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Great job with the lines, at first I thought it was the same image.
Lines are an area I've always kind of struggled with too, for a lot of my older stuff I would draw each one several times over to get some line variance and make things feel a bit more lively.

A few bits of helpful advice I got on them over the years:
-Break the entire drawing up into individual strokes so whenever you're inking a final line you know exactly where you're going to start and stop. This lets you really see if you got a line just how you wanted it and can easily undo and retry it a few times.
-Break up areas that have a lot of small detail with smoother sections for variation. Also using sharp corners opposite a straight line or smoother curve can create a very strong look.
-And the big one which you're already doing is try to find an artist that has lines you like and try to emulate their style.
Really try to see what about their lines stands out to you and nab some of those properties for your own style! I spent a whole lot of time looking at Jamie Helwett's Tarot art series: https://www.heavymetal.com/news/check-out-jamie-hewletts-spectacular-tarot-cards/ (so much so that I'm currently looking at one of the Death prints across from my desk!)


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That pose feels like it's familiar but I can't place it.

And I'm looking forward to more space skeleton robots! Almost ordered a few but managed to hold off.

Here are some of those cards from a few years ago, the art is a mixture of random sketches with no relation to what the cards do. Attack cards were vertical while Support cards were horizontal.


Might try to recall how it worked and get back to fleshing it out, could be fun to come up with actual themes and art for the cards.

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Thanks, and I've managed to not make any new variations over the last few days! Working on some updates to the box designs though.

Found those old cards I made a few years back, might try to get to snapping some photos of those / attempt to remember the rules this weekend.

And in fun weird news: got a small side gig designing the UI for an album releasing on a game cartridge. Looking forward to working on that.

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They weren't shredding documents, just making some puzzles.

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I love how absolutely pleased good Cole looks, and is that a tooth glisten? Perfect!

Ended up doing one last deck that I think might end up my actual favorite. The idea for a Virtual Boy version popped into my head and couldn't pass that up.
Have a draft copy on the way, excited to see how the red on black turns out on the actual cards.


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Yes!

Was working on one a few years back that played kind of like War, but with each person having 3 lanes and each lane having a front Attack position and a back Support. It had each player with 2 decks (one for support and one for attacks cards) and they would always draw to 3 of each in their hand.

Each battle only lasted a few minutes so each game would be like a series of matches.

I made mock up cards with a bunch of sketches from back when I was working on it, I'll have to see if I can find them.

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Thanks! It took a bit longer than I would probably admit to get the composition down, haha.
Kept ending up with a jumbled mess and deck boxes acting like dominos.

I was planning on working on that next deck idea, but might be a little burnt out on cards at the moment.
I feel like I should get back to figure drawing so I don't lose my progress there, but low poly modeling sounds a tad more fun.


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Family photo!


And now I think I'm finally about done endlessly tinkering with this project.

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Decided to go with the slightly larger size of the two.

Made a little deckbox for it modeled after the Pocket box:

That was pretty fun to design, need to get to the designs for the Color deckbox and the DMG deckbox next.

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Thanks!
I think I decided to go with 2 more variant decks: 1 all DMG green and 1 Pocket-screen colored but also pocket sized cards!

Can't decide if I want to go small or absolutely tiny.


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I think it'll end up the ugliest of the decks but probably my favorite!

Was going to grab a used DMG to try to make sure I get the shades right against the actual thing but holy shit are they expensive now. I think reference images will work well enough.

Retro pinball! The bakground texture on the right one shows up a bit better in person.


Trying out a few different options, I think I'll probably end up ordering a deck with 4 or 5 gradients and see what comes out best on the actual cards.

Thinking about having each set represent a system's screen (Green for DMG/Spade, dim gray for Pocket/Diamond, bright for Light/Clubs, limited colors for Color/Heart)
Not sure if I'll go with that or just go with the full green deck.

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Always fun to go back to nice fun bold shapes after some more realistic art. Lets you feel like you can really let loose.

Ordered a deck with the full color carts, these are just the drafts pretty excited to see how the colors turn out on the actual cards.


Just now realizing I should probably change the W and E to Js on the Jacks...

Also started working on a horrific retro screen green version that I'll probably get one printed just to have, still need to get the colors right.


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Turns out the true what-if was that there was currently a queen of England which in turn inspired Peggy to stay in the room

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I picked up one of those Logitech MMO mice with the 12 side buttons and have been loving it. https://www.logitechg.com/en-us/products/gaming-mice/g600-mmo-gaming-mouse.910-002864.html

Took a little getting used to, but if you include the ring-finger modifier key you have access to 24 skills with your thumb.


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Looks awesome, getting through the remainder of the PSAS quickly!
Hyped up for that Dead Space reboot.

I'm kind of bouncing back and forth between planning out some new playing card designs and low poly modeling.
Not much to post on either front yet.

Using Illustrator for the cards to try to brush some rust off and I forgot just how much I loathe Illustrator. Most of it's probably due to being so used to Photoshop that the minor differences trip me up, but then there are things like not being able to use the Shapebuilder tool on a standard object with an asset placed from your library.

It's like they want you to use the library to break art into components but then when you use the library one of the most useful tools of Illustrator becomes useless. /vent /I also could just be missing something

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UshiromiyaEva posted...

God dammit the poster collection just went up on Amazon preorder and IMEDIATELY sold out.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1646091450/

I got the encyclopedia preorders in a few days later though, so hopefully this rearoxks as well.

https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/dp/1646091450 !

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Couldn't think of who Weasel reminded me of but it finally hit me: the Sonic from the first movie trailer.

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Got my first round of team oddball, that was a lot of fun with the added maneuverability of the jetpacks. Makes me think oddball in Infinite with the grappling hook to flee will be amazing.

lol at the game process being called 'PortalWars' if you alt+tab


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lmao that would explain why I found the grenades extremely lacking, guess I'll keep that in mind next time

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Got in after about ~10 minutes of waiting in queue, was pretty dang fun.

Definitely scratches that Halo itch but I didn't bother with portal's too much aside from a few quick emergency retreats; seems like something that could be pretty crazy once people start to get used to how to use those effectively.

My only real complaint is that grenades and melee felt a little weak.

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Sounds pretty fun, might check it out with the wait for Infinite feeling like an eternity.

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Haha, gotta love/hate when that happens.
Being able to quickly rescale elements without having to completely redraw them is one of the things I'm loving about sketching digitally.

Hoping to find some time to start roughing out a new deck this weekend.

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I'm honestly not sure. >_>

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Just gave Venom a watch last week enjoyed it enough to look forward to the second.
Kind of sad Cletus lost his ridiculous hair from the Venom credits scene though.

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Was thinking of grabbing one of the Shantae skate decks but might try to get one of these instead.
Also everyone better be getting those pogs.

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RikkuAlmighty posted...

Tom from Toonami

Just not the scary thomas the tank looking version

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Away purge!

Great job on the HW lady, whose name I definitely never knew until now.
Which character is up next?

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If I kind want to re-experience ARR / HW which of the big new XIV streamers would you recommend watching through?

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I think I'd say Peridiam, his content actually seems to be about giving his takes on stuff and he seems to be a prominent figure in his sphere.
Holy shit at Forsaken taking off with Guitar Hero, that's pretty awesome.

Spoilers and Preston had/have a lot of reach but I don't think I'd really call it influential. Except for maybe influencing people to have very healthy forearms.

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Voted NMH3 but I'll almost definitely be playing New World first.

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I think that might be my favorite one yet, great job on the pose.

Does the Polygon Man meet the criteria to get included?

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Yeah, buying a house is pretty horrible.

There is an additional super secret timer that noone can see counting down, and once it hits 0 the next person to try to buy the house gets it.

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Clearly you've got 15 days.

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Redid the colors and shading for the face card art / stickers.


Going to order 2 more draft decks, one with the full color art and one with the updated shading instead of the flat shading used on the first draft.


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Hot damn, Amazon.co.jp doesn't mess around with shipping.



Up to 280 minions!

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Only way to win is to pass the finish line while turbo boosting!

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Wait, did they make the terrifying polygon man from early PS1 days into the boss of PSAS? That is awesome.

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Very cool, dig the symmetry you went with for the 2 of them. Kratos' face reminds me of something but I can't quite place it.

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If you don't mind a bit extra for shipping it looks like the english version is up for preorder on Amazon.co.jp. Comes out to around $75.

https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/1646091426/crid=4F4TR33YRNQV

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Draft copy of the deck arrived!
Gonna spend a day or two looking them over and see if I feel like making any design adjustments.



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Always fun to go back and look at older art and see how far you've come.

Archer time!


Had a second archer pose that I took fairly far that I might finish up or move onto another class.

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Aww yeah Lava Axe! My favorite deck as a ~10 year old was all about lava axes, fireballs, lavabursts, searing winds, and losing.

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