hmm cuz they way u posted it iits diffrent,i used the IMG's tags the starting one and ending one (IMG,/IMG) but u didnt lol... werid.. ANYWAYS.. is it me or can i see nothing but the bottom part of ur pic marx?

I can see all of it and I honestly think that the tree completely pwns it lol.

Both artists have a unique style. It's which style you prefer. I like marxel's.

Marxels one form a really bad picture of a marine...
The tree however is unique and is well drawn, the lines work well, nicely shaded. Marxel's however has no shading just scribbles.

It's a lot harder to shade while in paint.

lol well u cant really give merxel bad critism, ill give u a wet match and a granola bar...now make a fire

what i mean is u cant really say it sucked cuz he did use paint its actually pretty good for paint

the marine is cool. but i dont count cus... i am one...
i rate 9 needs a bit o color

marxel next time if your picture is big put it into a link, it is quite large.

I actually like the marine aside from his face, gj

Weeell...
I'd went and doodled up something in MSPaint to demonstrate, and had a nice, decently-lengthed post ready to go, but then I decided it'd be better to just point out that...
a ballpoint pen suffers from the same 'problem' as MSPaint. It offers little to no power for smooth gradients etc. The tree-blob is still shaded though.
Assuming you don't use a tablet... MSPaint gives you a more awkard means to control, along with undo, erase, varying width tips, color choice ( gradients are easy to make when you can just explicitly tell it to use a darker shade ) , the fill tool, and, best of all, lowered expectations of viewers. People can get away with a lot when drawing without gradiented or transparent brushes, because people don't expect there to be a good picture, and so decent pictures are inflated into great ones in the mind.

http://www.explosm.net/comics/999/

despite the crappy outlines that is probably 20x better then the marine and also made in microsoft paint, there is no excuse for just scribbling...

The ballpoint pen is actually my favorite type of pen. You can shade with relative ease, it just depends on how much pressure you put on it. You can also cross hatch etc.

Well, that probably means I suck. Bigtime. Thanks or the criticism anyways. Not that I'm being sarcastic or anything. There's always room for constructive criticism and that's what I just want.

And if I have to explain myself- I actually like looking at "dirty" works. You know.. like it was just sketched or something... no erasures and just scribble...

If you look closely though, you would see the same marine in the "Nuke" wallpaper in starcraft2.com. Well it's not really the same thing, but it's where I based my doodle. And because I just based it on another image It's not original and therefore, I phail .

Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Sep 1 2007, 9:52 am by marxel.

I will begin by following the rule of this thread :

1st step ( rate ) : I find the marine is not that bad, but it the lines could be more direct. What I see is only a lot of lines with no precise goal but making a big line stack to give the impression it has been work a lot. I know that its more hard to draw something with paint but you can Undo and Erase, things that I cant do with my pen .

2nd step ( submit ) : This drawing was more joke than something else. When I finished it, I though it was not that bad



Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Sep 1 2007, 3:06 pm by Cob.

Seems like PS...

that looks like bernie... or was it ernie from sesame street

Thats really good for a pen like Damn.....

Heres sumtin i created with "microsoft Paint"



Edit Heres him with a body


Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Sep 2 2007, 5:25 pm by jetfusion.

Not that great at first look but I like it for some reason lol.

shocko show us some of your work then.

RATE
@jetusion: is that mario? I say a 6. There's something I dont like about it...
@Cob: another good piece you have there, mate! I say a 9.

SUBMIT
Well, I'll try to furnish my marine, but I have school so maybe until next week.

Well, I was bored, so here's me...

jetfusion: Um, 2 on the Mario? Seriously, 5 is supposed to be 'average,' and that thing doesn't seem to have had any effort put into it at all. =X


A tree I doodled in a couple minutes in Artweaver. I was bored, and I thought I would be to be going to the store about now, but my mother's still... not even getting ready. >-<