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lots of great work vinky, looking forward to your next piece.

I'm currently drawing a comic on the exams I'm sitting for... I don't think it would make sense posting it here, but if you want to see it, I could. But I must warn you that only a very few people may understand it even in France!

Hi guys, I'm back, and as I finished my exams, I found an old drawing in my school stuff, and I hope you'll like it
(I think it's a funny one)

Ha ha thats a good one Vinky keep it up.

Thanks

Here is my last drawing. Once again, aliens ^^ because it's the funniest kind of characters to draw. I think this is the most complex coloring I've ever done. I used a lot of layers for the shading, colors , etc. and it took me a lot of time to finish it. Please comment in order for me to improve.

nice art work! whats up with the rabid chicken fish thing though lol he seems pretty happy

er, the what?

Haha, nice! But why are they shooting a cake? Is this an artist thing?

They're not really shooting it, they're decorating it... But why...? I don't know it myself, and I'm asking people what happened ^^

You know, I am convinced that there's a "French kind of strange" that pervades their art and aesthetic. This isn't a bad thing; it's quite a unique thing.

Like their best examples of music, and Citroen and their film and any number of other things, there's this sense of the absurd that I can't emulate that comes so naturally. It's great!

As for this pic, I feel that you were trying to get at a certain lighting effect, but that it isn't quite finished yet. What I mean is that the shadows radiate from the flare from that, er...glazing gun? But the picture still looks a bit flat.

Why is this? Because we may have shadows but we still need the actual light and the glow! If the program you use has an overlay brush, you will find this will greatly help you to capture the lighting perfectly. Just apply said brush (in your color to taste) in decreasing amounts radially from the point where there is most light, and voila, you have light!

I haven't got that tool in Paint.NET, so I tried my best with the paintbrush and several layers (and of course my faithful track pad ^^). Can't wait to get my tablet and a decent program.

And you seem to have a good overview of French culture ^^, but I didn't realized how unique was that "French kind of strange". In France, we usually think that British people have that unique sense of the absurd, not us ^^

wow, thanks ^^

Oh darn, that's hard then...hm, how about OpenCanvas? I'd love to see what you come up with in that program! The interface is even simpler and once you get the brush-controls worked out, it's the awesomest tablet-oriented program evar! Well, maybe.

As for French culture, let's just say this: nobody designs cars like Citroen do. I can't think of another car that placed the horn control on the side of the indicator stalk! Was it supposed to be reminiscent of the air-horns from the vintage car era? It's these kinds of touches that just don't seem to make any connection, but they're awesome all the same.

Alternatively you could ask Jeremy Clarkson what he thinks of Citroen (please, somebody tell me they watch TopGear!) I can kinda see what you mean by the British sense of the absurd but I'm not sure it's quite so far removed from an ordered sense of reality.

I'll try OpenCanva, then, thanks for the tip