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This is too awesome not to pass it on to all you good people out there.

So today I received this review:

"mmm, no me gusta, la verdad, pero eso depende de la intención del artista. Si querias que tuviese realismo, le falta. Si querias que pareciera un dibujo de un niño de 12 años, eso parece. Jejeje."

It translates, roughly, into [] = not exact translation, but just the gist:

"Mmm...I don't like [the picture]. It's tru, but it depends on the intention of the artist. If you wanted to [draw] realistically, you [missed the mark]. If you wanted [to draw like a twelve year old kid], you succeeded...hahaha"

So, since this person could not be bothered to tell me HOW to NOT draw like a "twelve year old kid," I was hoping you guys could.

What am I screwing up on? Are the colors too bright? The subject matter to juvenile? I want to understand why this person felt the need to insult me, because there's probably some truth in it.

I say insult because a critique would you know, point out what's wrong >_> not just call me a little kid.

So I'm going to make a Photoshop tutorial for and it's going to star the picture I'm making for 's belated birthday. It might end up more than one tutorial depending on how big it gets, but I want to show how I'm drawing on the computer since my techniques have changed since my other tutorial.

What I'm planning to cover in the tutorial is:

1. composition - stages the picture goes through to get from stick figures to finished
2. pen tool - how do you use it? what do you need clicked on your computer to make it do what you want it to do?
3. clipping mask - more on this in said tutorial
4. color choosing on a pallet vs color choosing using variants (more on this later)
5. What brushes can you use so you don't have to gaus. blur everything for blending
6. how to change brush sets
7. How to change the color of your line art

And a few other things that will come up as I'm making this thing. There won't be any cloud talk since it's an indoor scene, but other aspects to the tutorial will appear as I compose.

My question to you is, is there anything you want to see? Like how to use a tool that might come up or how to do some sort of selection?

If I can include it into what I'm doing, I will, but I want to make this tutorial something everyone can enjoy.

As for the clouds, I can send you to the tutorial I learned cloud making from and then give pointers on color theory since that tutorial doesn't really go into how to make a sunset/sunrise, just how to make stormy stuff.

But yeah, do feel free to ask away

Dear Deviantart,

After receiving a three month subscription from I came to the realization that the subscription offers nothing that I desire. I am content to browse 24 deviations at a time, I've found that CSS styles are not very vision impaired friendly so there's not much I can do to my journal, and I don't really need to see more deviations as thumbnails when looking at my devwatchlist's submissions.

That said, I have a very humble request. Please stop trying to pressure me back into getting a subscription. Yes, I used the word pressure. I can understand the e-mail I received when my subscription was about to run out. That's a standard practice on websites that offer paid memberships. What is NOT standard practice is interrupting my browsing with a full page ad prodding me to resubscribe when the subscription ran out. Another non standard and rather spammish (but I'm not sure I want to call it spam since it is infrequent) is to send me messages through the notification section of the message center.

I am a smart person. I graduated with two degrees from a reputable state university. I have an IQ somewhere between 126 and 136. If I want a subscription, please have the faith in me that I can figure out that the link stating "upgrade now" must be where I can renew my subscription if I ever so desire.

I am not swayed by such tactics. If anything, and many of my teachers over the two decades I spent in some sort of school environment can attest to this, this type of pressure advertising bombardment always sends me in the opposite direction. I admit I was the kid who didn't get motivated by teacher's giving us candy. I don't get motivated by fliers shoved in my post box for various things. What motivates me is internal and my own desires, which currently cannot and do not involve a subscription.

I know that in this economy where people are reluctant to shuck out the money to have th membership, you are probably suffering a loss in the gains you typically make in a year here at Deviantart. I know this creates an environment which is tempting to carrot and stick everyone that can be carrotted and sticked into getting a subscription. That's business I know.

I just would like to be offered it once and be done with it. I'm not into buying luxuries right now. I'm not into purchasing something that is beyond my means right now.

I would like some respect. The site is already well advertised without assaulting my message center.

Thank you for your time I am really grateful for this site,
Uozumi

I would like to inform everyone who is waiting upon a chapter of any of my fanfic that the updates might be very slow currently. I have gotten inspiration for an original project which is going to take priority over fan projects. This does not mean I am abandoning my stories, but simply that my inspiration for them might not be as frequent in favor of the original project.

I am sorry that the updates will be sluggish but do not worry. I am not planning on abandoning what I write for you.

Thank you for your patience.