Well, I'm down to one major project to get finished up real soon. I have also started on a new drawing project which I will try to have up here when it's done, but I can't promise anything.
Of course that project is a dragon, what else would it be?
Comments:
Outlaw Melfina:
I don't ask, I've learned that life is chaos, so I just take things as they come. You visit when you have time and feel like it.
I know it's a lot of money, you should have seen my expression when I saw the numbers the first time myself.
Thank you for your feedback on my artwork. I rarely check the comments on my individual pictures here so I almost missed it. I'm learning a lot from this experience, but I do have to say this, please pass it on: Western style dragons typically have wings, Tatsu, or Eastern style dragons, are more serpentlike, long and thin and few have wings that I'm aware of. My next picture will actually be specific to one style (not going to say which!), but my first one admittingly looks like a horrible blend of both styles which doesn't really work. Other than that, I'm not going to say any more.
Caprice
On CSS coding: Yeah that's what I meant. Which one works better for doing formatting (like the horizontal rules and tables I use) of just the blog entry? I want to start with something simple and not try to do too much to the whole page at all at once right now (it'll be easier to fix it if I only break something small at first).
On my art: Now that's what I like to see, specific information. I can improve with that level of clarity. Thank you for being detailed with your explanation. I really appreciate it.
Let me take the time now to apologize for my tone in the previous post, I overreacted. I'm also going lead by example and offer a bit of wisdom that I hope will be useful.
I learned early on in theatre how to critique. The format I use is very simple, but it's a structured way to evaluate someone else's work. I try to use it when people ask me for my opinion on anything really, it can be applied to more than just theatre. It's just three basic elements:
| Basic Elements of Critique: |
- Identify Strengths
- Identify Weaknesses
- Suggest Ways to Improve
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I can give anyone who wants them a more detailed explanation of each point, but those basics are a good start for anyone who wants to try to have some organization to the way they analyse and evaluate others' works. I could go through and try to adapt my notes on the specific questions to ask during a theatrical critique to apply to visual art, but that would take a while.
Kout3uka
Thanks, I'm glad you think so. Believe it or not, one of the points I left off my list was lack of embellishments. Actually, I was going to do a mane and plume(like the dragon in
Spirited Away) on this dragon, but none of my rough outs looked right to me so I dropped it. I mentioned alreay that I'm woring on a new dragon. I'm going to take more time with this one, and consider every bit of advice I've been given on my first attempt. I'd like to get
whtdragon's opinion on my first dragon picture too, but my impatience is kicking in and I'm eager to move on and try again.
That's usually the way with web stuff isn't it? I'm actually working on a mock-up of my page here to test anything I want to do on the CSS front. I learned to test anything HTML before posting it (and still fail to catch things till it's too late at times). But I expect a lot of CSS elements won't present their problems until put into use on the actual page here, if that's the case, I know I have to be ready to remove things if necessary to restore functionality to the page while I repair coding mistakes. I'm getting ahead of myself though, I still have to learn the all elements I need and want to use first. I can't expect to get anything done if I don't know what I'm doing in the first place.
Random Fact About Me:
I like to say the original Japanese names of Studio Ghibli films in conversations, like: I just watched
Neko no Ongaeshi the other night. Guesses on which one that is?
Anime Dreams
