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It could actually have fairly heavy implications for combat flow to allow attacks to initiate during eachother if a person so chooses, instead of simultaneously or in simple sequence, I could see it working out interestingly.

I drew a thing a while back.


Character for a game of Traveler, considering sketching up my Atomic Highway character and my Shadowrun 4 character too.

I personally would rather wait for multiplayer. The dev team is excellent at communication, it's not like we're being left in the dark while they're off partying in Switzerland.

I'm honestly surprised at the amount of "Oh my god why isn't it out yet release already guys", coming from this forum, rushed releases simply to appease a playerbase are never a good thing.

Hmm, haven't been around here in a good while.

Scribbled this up a while back.

We need the ability to add struts using eva

Nuff said.

That would indeed be pretty dammed awesome.

Dicking around until it looks right (also known as "winging it") happens usually when you don't understand the way something works, or how to get a certain result (like say me and most PS functions, don't really know why or how most of them work as they do but trough trial and error I can usually get what I need). The moment you don't need to dick around to make something usually means you know enough about it to accurately render it (again, happened to me with metals and their highlights, watched videos, images, tried it myself but one day it just worked and ever since I can do somewhat properly metals). That's usually the moment you should start working on other stuff you need to dick around with until they look right.

At a certain point in time you should theoretically know how everything works and how to get there, that unfortunately means you're about halfway done to becoming a master engraver

This is about exactly how I figured out most things I know about art at the moment.
Step 1: Brute force it, get irritated, toss out results.
Step 2: read some stuff on it, try again, get irritated toss out results.
Step 3: sleep, wake up, do normal stuff, get bored, try again, nail it (more or less)perfectly.

AS FOR YOUR LIZARDGRL, you're obviously aware that her shoulders appear rather raised (i wonder why, though, i'd get a horrible headache from sitting like that), but another thing is that her legs and feet appear rather large compared to the rest of the body. The feet could just be perspective (she's facing the camera, after all), but them thunder thighs, bro! I know, non-human anatomy, and legs ARE a lot thicker than arms, but i think these might be a little bit too thick.
Other than that, though, i'm seeing a tremendous improvement in your art. Kudos! c:

One of the most irritating thing I've had to deal with in art is different communities having radically different opinions on what is "correct".
Most of the time it seems like conceited ignorance due to embedded conceptions of how something with no groundings in reality is supposed to look in their head (An extreme problem in furry-centric communities), but other times, like in the case of this thread or the Data Realms forums, yall seem generally able to accept that something is in fact not a real creature and thusly does not have a "perfect" way to draw it.
You in particular Shook, along with Adriaan over on the Data Realms forums seem to get this better than most people, thanks for that.
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That being said, The legs issues was a minor mistake born of an attempt at perspective, I'll take that under advisement.

As an aside, is imgur a decent imagehost? Photobucket is giving me the craps lately due to their changed layout, and seemingly shrinking all of my images, even the 150kb ones.

Imgur is easy, but compresses images. Good for sharing things where the content is more important than the quality. or for quick sharing in general as it also allows direct pasting of print screens.
Img.ie is good for reliable hosting of things where quality is important enough to deal with slightly more work to upload something.

Both are good in my experience with them.

How do you make it lineless like that? Whenever I try sketching something and then freehanding over the sketch while shading, it turns out cruddy.

I can answer that one!

Step 1. draw linework.
Step 2. reduce opacity of linework to ~70-80%
Step 3. block in main color sections.

From here there are several feasible ways to go about it.
You could either erase the linework as you go correcting any issues that arise.
Or, for the more technical route that preserves your linework use a layer mask to hide the parts as you go.

From there you kinda work like normal except you might want to put more emphasis on the lighting than you normally would.

EDIT: Oh yeah, practice and time, those matter too. The more quickly you try to do something the worse the result is likely to be.