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Explain your avatar
#41
RE: Explain your avatar
Mine is Fei Fong Wong, protagonist of the PlayStation 1 game Xenogears (which happens to be my favorite game of all time). He's in his "gonna kick some ass today" stance.
"I was thirsty for everything, but blood wasn't my style" - Live, "Voodoo Lady"
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#42
RE: Explain your avatar
(August 6, 2015 at 12:09 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: It's a cartoon dog.
Ren from Ren and Stimpy I think.
Man, that takes me back. Always liked the Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy dance.
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
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#43
RE: Explain your avatar
(August 6, 2015 at 1:49 pm)Exian Wrote: That is incredible work, Jenny! I'll never know how people get such crisp borders with water colors. It's funny, just the other day I got a hair up my butt an wanted to try water colors. I didn't, but I wanted to, and then here you are inspiring me again.

It's all about osmosis.  Whether it's moisture or pigment, stuff moves from high concentration to low concentration.  Apply wet paint to a dry sheet of watercolor paper and you get a hard crisp edge.  Apply wet paint to damp or wet paper and you get a soft or even fuzzy edge.  Apply wet paint or water next to damp paint and the wet will invade the merely damp.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god.  If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
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#44
RE: Explain your avatar
I picked Rakharo from Game of Thrones purely because I think he's gorgeous. It's just stuck, can't be bothered to find a better one now.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane"  - sarcasm_only

"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable."
- Maryam Namazie

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#45
RE: Explain your avatar
(August 6, 2015 at 4:31 pm)Jenny A Wrote:
(August 6, 2015 at 1:49 pm)Exian Wrote: That is incredible work, Jenny! I'll never know how people get such crisp borders with water colors. It's funny, just the other day I got a hair up my butt an wanted to try water colors. I didn't, but I wanted to, and then here you are inspiring me again.

It's all about osmosis.  Whether it's moisture or pigment, stuff moves from high concentration to low concentration.  Apply wet paint to a dry sheet of watercolor paper and you get a hard crisp edge.  Apply wet paint to damp or wet paper and you get a soft or even fuzzy edge.  Apply wet paint or water next to damp paint and the wet will invade the merely damp.

That sounds so satisfying. The thing that appeals to me about it, and correct me if I'm wrong, but you can use one color and get multiple shades out of it, which is much more in line with what I'm good at; drawing/sketching/shading/highlighting, and more importantly, steers clear of what I'm horrible at; mixing colors. I can't paint worth a shit when it comes to getting the colors right. I have the strokes down, but the damn colors.
I can't remember where this verse is from, I think it got removed from canon:

"I don't hang around with mostly men because I'm gay. It's because men are better than women. Better trained, better equipped...better. Just better! I'm not gay."

For context, this is the previous verse:

"Hi Jesus" -robvalue
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#46
RE: Explain your avatar
(August 6, 2015 at 4:12 pm)mh.brewer Wrote:
(August 6, 2015 at 12:09 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: It's a cartoon dog.
Ren from Ren and Stimpy I think.
Man, that takes me back. Always liked the Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy dance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0V4TZAyd8I
How will we know, when the morning comes, we are still human? - 2D

Don't worry, my friend.  If this be the end, then so shall it be.
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#47
RE: Explain your avatar
(August 6, 2015 at 4:38 pm)Exian Wrote:
(August 6, 2015 at 4:31 pm)Jenny A Wrote: It's all about osmosis.  Whether it's moisture or pigment, stuff moves from high concentration to low concentration.  Apply wet paint to a dry sheet of watercolor paper and you get a hard crisp edge.  Apply wet paint to damp or wet paper and you get a soft or even fuzzy edge.  Apply wet paint or water next to damp paint and the wet will invade the merely damp.

That sounds so satisfying. The thing that appeals to me about it, and correct me if I'm wrong, but you can use one color and get multiple shades out of it, which is much more in line with what I'm good at; drawing/sketching/shading/highlighting, and more importantly, steers clear of what I'm horrible at; mixing colors. I can't paint worth a shit when it comes to getting the colors right. I have the strokes down, but the damn colors.

Well more water equals lighter color and less means darker.   But a shade is a technical term meaning a hue to which gray or a compliment or almost compliment has been added.  It's not just darker but muddier. For that you need another color.  But maybe we shouldn't derail this thread talking about paint. 

If you want to talk paint (and who in their right mind wouldn't), let's move the conversation elsewhere.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god.  If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
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#48
RE: Explain your avatar
Mine is the Roman Emperor Tiberius with geeky glasses, because my username is Tiberius and I'm a geek.

Cinjin made it for me. Smile
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#49
RE: Explain your avatar
Mine's me. Dressed as a nun. I was drunk.
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
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#50
RE: Explain your avatar
(August 6, 2015 at 4:46 pm)Jenny A Wrote: If you want to talk paint (and who in their right mind wouldn't), let's move the conversation elsewhere.

My, Mrs. A! I do declare! *fans self*

I feel like my knowledge of paints and my ability to talk about it wouldn't be able to hold up an entire thread. Sad Maybe we could start a generic art thread where we can discuss all things nibs, brushes, and Bristol? Funny that we haven't had one here.
I can't remember where this verse is from, I think it got removed from canon:

"I don't hang around with mostly men because I'm gay. It's because men are better than women. Better trained, better equipped...better. Just better! I'm not gay."

For context, this is the previous verse:

"Hi Jesus" -robvalue
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