(Part 3) Top products from r/tf2

I'm learning to be a professional artist atm, but I'm also eighteen so take what I say with a grain of salt!

1. Overall, I like it! However, depending on what you want your viewers to see, you might want to do more research on the proportions of the head. That is to say, if you want it to look more like a real thing, like an object or a statue, go for the more realistic approach. But if you want it to be more cartoony and more emotional, you should stray away from that a little.
   
   
2. You should try to see about getting some shadows in there, like the inside of the collar and around his goggles and under the helmet. See this picture of a snake I did once: http://imgur.com/1DuoUN3 I made the outline hella dark so that the shadows didn't just look like features; you can actually tell they're shadows. (I wouldn't recommend using outlines that thick for everything, though. Just do what you want! The blank page is a playground, so play!) Shading is pretty hard to master, but I try to use the shape of my pencil. One side is almost completely flat, so I use it for light shading over a large portion of the picture. The tip is very sharp, so I use that for hard details and outlines.
   
   
3. Back to what i said earlier about cartoons versus realism. Here's a picture I did of my band director in high school: http://imgur.com/eNBNsXW Pretty realistic; I wanted people to see Uncle Sam when they saw that picture. Now here's a picture I drew of myself dancing: http://imgur.com/X9F8eRg That one's a bit sillier because there's not much I want to communicate to my viewer other than the fact that I'm being funny and my limbs are all wobbly.
   
   Something that I do from time to time when I'm learning how to draw in a specific style or medium is that I look at what other people have drawn and I replicate their drawings as an exercise. Or sometimes when I'm on a flight or on the bus, I'll draw the people around me. I guess what I'm saying is you should just keep practicing and do what comes naturally!
   
   Note: a really, REALLY good book on drawing people can be found here: http://www.amazon.com/Drawing-People-Portray-Clothed-Figure/dp/1581803591

That will be pretty cool. Reminds me of the avatars in Archangel-Protocol, a great sci fi book series from a while back. Lots of what is happening today had been predicted in Scifi novels. Although I recall that many had said that India and China would end up being great centers of entertainment creation and selling that online/through cable/whatever as they had tons of people that would act/write cheaply. Haven't seen that come out yet...

I don't know all of them but the guy who did the voice of the heavy came into our CSE Animation class a few times. He had obviously seen a lot of the game's material but as I recall he said he didn't play. (This was a while back, before most of the new content like the Heavy patch came out).

The reason he was in was to serve as a face model for a man named Gary Faigin (Link to his book on Amazon). Gary was the guy who taught the valve team facial expressions for TF2. The "Meet the Heavy" video was actually just a proof-of-concept test for how their new system (based off of Gary's stuff) was going to work. We showed him meet the Engineer and Soldier, which were the only ones that were out at the time. He had never played the game or seen any gameplay footage really.

On a side note, if you read that book you'll know exactly how Valve's facial animations work and why. It's very interesting if you're into art/animation. Coolest class i took in all of college.

Abraham Lincoln the great vampire hunter

Ok so..

The show has an official manga. https://www.amazon.com/Panty-Stocking-Garterbelt-Tagro/dp/1616557354/ref=sr_1_3 (you can likely find it on free sites.

https://m.tapas.io/series/PSG this is the fan comic .

I had trouble locating it. But studio trigger made a "canon" comic for it. If you can find it. More power to ya.

i've been playing games with a trackball mouse for the past 3 or 4 years now and I love it. I have amazing control with it and my twitch reflexes are a lot faster now imo, especially since I play a lot of tf2. This is the model I have: trackman


it takes a while to get used to, but now I can't go back to a regular mouse. I dont need all the fancy buttons and insane sensitivity settings, so this was perfect for me.

First of all r/sfm

A Steam group

Valve official tutorials

These 5 beautiful people:

Zachariah Scott

Jimer Lins

Argodaemon

Thomas Larson (outdated maybe?)


12 principles of animation

Posing

Not SFM but still works

The Animator's Survival Kit: A Manual of Methods, Principles and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion and Internet Animators (This includes the 12 principles of animation of course) If you want to go this far.

Seems easier to find the relevant ones here. You'll still have to sift through some others, but hey.

You can buy it on Amazon for $4: https://www.amazon.com/Art-War-Sun-Tzu/dp/1599869772/

Waltzes
I try to kill in time to the music. Sometimes I will mute all the game sound effects and play with just the music. I find it works best when I am playing scout/soldier/pyro/huntsman sniper. It does not work as well with other classes. For spy/medic/heavy I do no music at all. For engineer/demoman/regular sniper/shortstop scout it does not really matter.

http://www.amazon.com/Sony-ECMCS3-Omnidirectional-Stereo-Microphone/dp/B0058MJX4O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1418618534&sr=8-1&keywords=sony+lavalier


http://www.amazon.com/Koss-KSC75-Portable-Stereophone-Headphones/dp/B0006B486K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1418618510&sr=8-1&keywords=koss+ksc75

There are tons more used ones then new ones now. They don't make it anymore so the only sealed ones left are the ones people bought and never opened, and how many people did that? The older the game the pricier the gap, such as Zelda on the NES

Serenity: The Shepherd's Tale

I havent read it yet but this comic is supposed to be about his "mysterious" past.

I'm here to help you.

https://www.amazon.com/Misogyny-Worlds-Prejudice-Jack-Holland/dp/0786718234

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C48&q=misogyny&btnG=

Go read a book, or an article or something. Educate yourself for once instead of regurgitating MRA and cringeanarchy bullcrap, mkay?

I've actually seen and read this book before:
http://www.amazon.com/Spoon-Every-Bite-Joe-Hayes/dp/0531094995

get a wmo for 15$ with no accel.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00025O7FC/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used

No problem!

I'm in the same boat man. I've been fucked by the DMV for 2 years now so I still don't have a license, and I'm 20. I'm pretty jealous of people that have the coordination to play instruments!

I understand the money struggle as well. I live on a dead-end island where all jobs are seasonal, so during winter jobs are scarce.

If you are scared about frying parts, you may want to look into getting an ESD mat, an ESD wrist strap, and a proper PC repair toolkit. Just some things every PC builder/user should have in their arsenal. Just follow proper procedure and ground/discharge yourself before working on parts and you'll be fine.