Some artwork I scanned

[Marine1969]

I only ahd one sketchbook handy, so this is pretty limited.

If you give me something specific to draw, I'll draw it and make it as good as I can, usually I can't think of anything so what I come up with isn't so good.

You can view the gallery at http://img28.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=artwork16lv.jpg

[Fawriel]

Not bad work. Are all of those older drawings of yours?

[Marine1969]

A couple are not so old, but I doubt many people on this forum will come and see : (

[Baggers]

I saw !...better than i can do so well done!...why only military stuff though. whats with the obsesion there ?

[Marine1969]

No obsession, I just can't draw something that's not in my mind.

[n00b]

Wheeee! I like it, save for the bird. I don't think that looked up to par with the solidiers in the same shot. Mmmyep. Liked it I did(Writing class sez: Always end by restating your first idea)

[Marine1969]

Yay!

[n00b]

Oh, and I have an idea on how to get more visitors. I'll upload it when I'm done.

[Marine1969]

I'll await in anticipation between throwing up.

I hate being ill, throwing up for 2 hours is ok, but when it gets intot he third hour theres increasing amounts of blood coming up.

Anyone know a remidy of sorts?

[n00b]

My evil plan went as follows:
A sprite, no matter HOW BAD attracts TONS of ATTENTION!!
Therefore I must come up with the worst edit idea I could come up with.
The idea: Jazz in a horrible Turtle Costume.
The Outcome: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v520/lijik/sprite.gif
The correctly colored(AKA Jazz 2 pallet version or Non Paint Screwed Up version thing) .bmp version is here http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v520/lijik/sprite.bmp
Now all you have to do is advertise my horrible sprite with your topic title. Watch the number of visitors rise.

[Marine1969]

(mubling to self) It's not jazz. It's not jazz, don't ruin dreams don't ruin dreams, dreams please stay good.

I can't modify the thread title.

[n00b]

(mubling to self) It's not jazz. It's not jazz, don't ruin dreams don't ruin dreams, dreams please stay good.
Well if the sprite was a masterpeice, then people would talk about that more than your sketches. And since my sprite isn't the point of the thread it would be a very mean thing to do on my part.

[Marine1969]

No, it's just that if I'm about to be... er..... 'taken' by Jazz in one of my more groovy dreams I don't want him to turn all turtly on me.

[Risp_old]

Hmm... I have a whole bunch of self-drawn sprites I haven't shown to many people. Then again, I still shouldn't. I have a suspicion if I post a lot of sprites at once people will ignore me.

[Marine1969]

Hey n00b, you were right.

[n00b]

A turtly jazz dream does seem odd. Good reason to learn Lucid Dreaming!
And of course I was right, I did some research in JSZ Jazz's thread.

[Risp_old]

Do you define 'tons of attention' as 'one person who was already reading this thread'?

[Marine1969]

If you were already reading it, why didn't you give me advice on my art?

[Risp_old]

Not everyone is a art critic. Actually, it appears very few people are. Anyway, I can't really give you advice. I mean, I have no experience whatsoever in military hardware and neither am I a master of human anatomy.

[Marine1969]

Well you could say "draw me a marine crouched behind a half destroyed wall peeking round as seen by the person he's peeking round to see, but don't give him any fangs or tattoos across his eyes" (like in my avater)

Then I'd draw it for you and you'd eb all like "this is lame/stupid/ok/groovy"

[Risp_old]

The two logical flaws in that argument is that I have not and will not ask you to draw things, nor do I use the word 'groovy' often.

[Marine1969]

I can give you a hug which will make your spine produce an aubible crack.

[Risp_old]

That requires you to physically be present. You assume a lot of things.

[Marine1969]

I'm sorry..............

*hangs head and produces a feeling of guilt in those watching*

[Risp_old]

My work here is done.

[Marine1969]

heh heh, you're funny, I like you

DO you want to touch my M16A3?

[n00b]

OH OH! Draw a zombie solider mutated with a erm... squriel!

[Marine1969]

You had me up to with.

How about a zombie.

And a soldier.

And the soldier pops the zombies head apart with a 5.56mm AP NATO round fired from an M16A3?

[n00b]

Yeah, that's awesome too.

[aokmaniac13]

Ever considered taking some of these sketches and making final versions? Like using a light table and another sheet of paper? It's very promising work, you should make a comic!

[Marine1969]

Light table? Sheet of paper? Final versions?

*looks lost*

I just draw and hope people like it, I don't know how to advanced things......

[n00b]

A lght table (i'm assuming) is a table that emits light so you can trace over sketches/whatever and then update them with paints or colored pencils or whatever.
I'm only assuming however.

[Radium]

A lght table (i'm assuming) is a table that emits light
Wow. You must have gone to college and stuff.

[Marine1969]

I went to college and I didn't know about a light table.

[LittleFreak]

I'm not an art expert, but nice sketches. :)

You should try drawing something different now. Is there anything which is important in your life?

Draw it. =D

[Marine1969]

I don't have anything important in my life which isn't in some way connected to the military.

[LittleFreak]

=o

Draw a pie then. :P

[Marine1969]

I'm so hungrey.... but there's nothing to eat.

I ate everything when I knew I was just going to throw it up anyway.

I'm so sick and hungrey.........

[LittleFreak]

Why are you sick all the time? =o Poor girl.

Anyways, you could try expressing your feelings via drawing. That's what art is about in general pretty often (I'm no expert, but I learned quiet a lot about art in school).

[Marine1969]

i've only been sick since sunday.

I started drawing shotrtly after being trnasferred directly from afghanistan to iraq. I started by drawinga rough map of my new home then started illustrating it. Then it got burnt when I got hit by an incendiary round. Then I got a sketchbook.

But recently I've had a kind of artists block.

[Bliss AKA Blink]

Cool I used to draw my action-men as well when i was 5 years old

[n00b]

That could be taken as an insult.

[Marine1969]

It has been taken as an insult.

[Bliss AKA Blink]

It was not ment as an insult.
It's me relating to the thread starter, i think its really cool that we share some things.

[Marine1969]

I'd hit you in the face if I could.

[Radium]

The internet would be so much cooler if there was a way to kick people in the groin, wouldn't it?

[Marine1969]

Hmm, people would abuse that system.

[Fawriel]

You could probably hack someone's CD drive into doing that.. ....worth a try at least.

[White Rabbit]

*activates trans-Atlantic neuron transmitter and eats some ppl*

I don't fully understand those drawings, but they look good, so I don't have much else to add. :p Oh, and plz explain the point of the character sketches.

[Radium]

You could probably hack someone's CD drive into doing that..
Only if they were straddling their CPU.

[Marine1969]

Well, the characcter sketches were for a cartoon I was going to do.

I'm going to scan in a couple more pages today.

[n00b]

Bassically Bliss, it's like going up to a kid who draws anime and saying "Hey, I thought pokemon was cool too, when I was in second grade", which leads the same results as going up to a gothic and saying the music they like sucks.

[Marine1969]

So what you're saying is if he came up to me in person and said that I'd hit him in the face pretty hard.

Well, only reason I can hit hard is because of the hand to hand training and working out we have to do every day mandatorily.

[n00b]

Yes, Yes. Exactly Marine! Exactly.
And don't forget the 3 rs of skool eceryone!
1-Repetition
2-Redundency
3-Repetition

[Marine1969]

I don't understand.