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YAY I love gambit awsome pic

WOWZIE!@@ THAT IS SO FREAKING COOL! awesome job!@@

we should all have trenchcoats yes! hehe i have one and i was wearing it in nyc today and it was really windy, so it was blowing out behind me all dramatically. twas fun<br />
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yes! smurfs rule! the original pic had some unintellible sign so i just put smurf's instead...<br />
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o thanks caz-chan! lol i'm not too good at perspective either, which is why i had to use a reference fot this one. but yea i can't wait to see yours!

HIYA! ^.^<br />
yayyyy Gambit gambit gambit!!! =^______^= your such a good artist! *admires your skills jealously* i suck at persective and stuff like that --_--; i think your shading is good and i just luv your skechy style! i like the way his hair is flowing aswell ^_^ well... Id better finnish off my gambit piccy 2... ==_==; COOL pic!! ^^

lol smurf's...

Yea, I meant staff ;) I always think of wood when I think of staff though and metal when I think of pole. I know, I'm weird ;) It isn't that you didn't shade the staff (Because you did), only that it sometimes is easier to tell it is further back if it is darker. Now that I look at the hand I see something else. It is quite probable that it isn't this way in the original, but comics are normally drawn to the extreme, so I would draw the hand a little higher as well as closer to the body. Lol yea, trenchcoats are cool. Why doesn't everyone have one? =D

lol yea i love his clothes too! it's all about the trenchcoat. and hmm yes i suppose i should've shaded the hair more... oops again<br />
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*ducks* woo that was close. haha whoever's standing behind me is going to have gambit's boot mark on their face. pssh sucks for them<br />
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and thanks very much, hearsegurl!

mhmm this was indeed rather hard to draw (which is why it took so long- i kept putting it off). but um yea thanks! lol glad you like the foot. o i wasn't sure about the staff (is that what you meant by "pole"?)- i thought it looked rather odd, but i wasn't sure exactly what was going on with his arm so i just drew whatever. and lol it probably was shaded and i just forgot. oops.<br />
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and yes freaky face! he didn't look that scary in the original pic, tho. eh backgrounds... i spent so much time on actually drawing him that i barely had any patience left for the background. if i could colour, i would have, because it's hard to sketch clouds and stars and stuff. hehe and i like the blurry backgrounds very much, which is what i tried to do in this pic... rather unsuccessfully. i wanted the whole thing completely blurred but my smudgeness didn't come out too well. hehe my hands were covered in graphite

Gambits' tha BEST. Your work is amazing! Nice Detail!

His face IS kinda freaky, but that is mostly just the expression he is making, not the quality of the art. Functionally it is practically perfect. Actually, I like how you drew his mouth ;)<br />
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The background isn't bad. The less detail you put in the background the less it will take the focus. Have you ever noticed how sometimes people actually blur their backgrounds? I know Mac Hall does it religiously and a few other online comics. I’m not saying “Detail bad!” I’m just saying that it isn’t terrible to not have it. After all, most of the time you aren’t showing off your backgrounds, you are showing off your foreground. Backgrounds are mainly just a tool to set the mood and to make it so the focus is not just floating in space. As long as there is enough in the background to make the viewer get a sense of actually space and volume in the pic then the background has served it’s purpose, if it emphasizes a feeling then it has been fully utilized.<br />
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Nice detail on Gambit though =) Great shading and manipulation of all the forms. He has funky cloths ;) The hair looks very windy, but somehow it looks flat. Maybe it is from lack of shading?<br />
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Hm… Someone is going to have Gambit’s boot mark on their forehead ;)

Yey more pics!<br />
Yey poses!<br />
Yey Gambit!<br />
Yea, I can tell this one was really hard to draw. It is the whole depth thing. Whenever you have something shooting towards or away from the viewer it makes it a lot harder because the size of the object(s) distort. Like in this pic his foot is as freakin' big as his entire torso + head! And it is supposed to be =) You did the depth on the foot very well, and you know I would tell you if you didn't *Grin* (And I have 20 or so pages of posts on your pics to prove it!) The depth, of course, is what I'm assuming you said was hard ;) With his pole it is a little harder to tell it is going back than it is to tell that the foot is coming to us. I think it mostly has to do with how far it is away from his body. In order for it to be that far away more of his arm length would have to be going outwards instead of backwards (If that makes sense). So you could either adjust that by making the pole a little bigger or closer to his body. It would probably be easier to make it bigger, but more dynamic to make it closer to his body. Also, typically, objects get darker as they go into the distance. This is not true in many cases, however, if the light isn't distributed evenly.<br />
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I love how you employed different types of shading =) You did the normal shading mostly throughout his body, and you did the chromatic (For lack of a better word) shading on his knee and made it all shiny =) Ooooo shiny! =D

o thank you so much, guys! that means a lot, because this pic didn't really turn out like i'd wanted... i'm glad you both like it, tho!

thats a fantastic pose. I live for drawing poses like this. I love seeing someone else draw them. good Gambit very good

WOW!!! thats really good!!! ::bows:: oh great artist.....