Halloween

@Viridescent yah, i dont think i would have even heard of it if it wasn't kicking up a storm. im gonna see it next week with yet another indian friend i've acquired recently, stoked to see what the fuzz is about. also watched an 3,5 hour long biology about Bose, bollywood roll! are you planning to see it, or are the prospects of free time looking bleak to you? the good sire F upcoming

"Pirate Hunters" is such an anime name to give something like that but yeah. i'm feeling roughly the same, nothing is released legally where i live – but on the other hand, i really do understand why they're doing it. if i was losing millions on my shit being illegally torrented i'd probably try to stop it too.

Historic: Greenland left EU before – albeit an earlier version. Economic: That's a straight up lie. Nigel even admitted it was, only an hour after they had announced the results. The actual sum is around £190 million/week, which they might have to cash out anyway just to access the common market. Along the fall of the pound, and the difficulty they will have to re-arrange their trade agreements, the benefits they reaped from being part of the international EU trade agreements, this was a huge economic loss for the UK. Political: Also worth mentioning, younger voters where overwhelmingly on the "Remain" side; what pushed us over to "Leave" was voters over 65. And let's not pretend this wasn't racially motivated, because it predominantly was. The Bank of England, HM Treasury, pwc, National Institute of Economical and Social Research, International Momentary Fond, Oxford Economics, Oxford University and their researchers and OECD was just some of the institutions predicting an economic loss. People knew this. Geographic: Yes, Scotland and Northern Ireland might leave the UK – but what's a bigger problem is all the people that might have to leave London. I, personally, travel to London to work 2-3 times a year. Of the companies I've worked on, roughly 1/3 of the people working there are UK citizens – London has simply become a mecca of people coming there from all over Europe to make money. If this means that the UK will disallow this kind of working situation, the media industry will simply move elsewhere – Berlin, Amsterdam and Stockholm being the main contenders. On top of that, the 1.3 million expats living in the rest of Europe might have to move back to England again, losing their jobs in the process. And the working market in the UK is not gonna be a fun place to be – with the pound doing a free-fall, and tourism decreasing because of the borders closing, I can't see a lot of positions opening. The UK leaving EU also means things will change in EU. Stronger push for tax harmonization, weaker copyright protection, smaller budget (and thus the other countries has to pay more, which might result in more leaving). More regulations. All that being said, I agree that EU, as it is right now, is deeply and horribly flawed, and need to their shit together if they don't want other countries leaving. There are countries that would be way better of without them, and there's countries that should be expelled, seeing as they don't live up to the requirements anyway.

those lovely ppl don't have colors in their names thou Micky?

im rusty at this forgive me Cobalt, huh. along with Viridescent, Blue Moon Icecream, Dhanush the Blue and whoever im forgetting u guys should start a club. next is RainbowHugs, ur supreme leader by default

hey gal first of all – super nice thread!! i like your rules and, that you accept revisions and all that. i'm not commissioning (this time), i just appreciate when people state that they do that. i have some feedback for you thou. under the cut since it's raaamble

heya. i'm sorry I went to far with the feedback. But your new stuff is amazing, and i'm really happy you keep posting. As i said before, you are incredible at mixing mediums! And the glitch!! i love glitchy stuff, the colors melting from her are dazzling ◉◡◉

that's just passive-aggressive, Viridescent. like saying "i just think it's funny how..." so guys, are you watching anything atm? indians (and the rest of u uneducated masses too i guess), have you seen udta punjab yet?

finally fucking finished typing this thing so i can move on to my love polygon tmrw See. See? See! this is how you color. A multitude of colors, but they coordinate and look incredible together. aside from the blue, but, eh, official design so whatevs and long time no see, default oh-so smug Viri-expression, i have missed your punchableness like a dog misses its owner. how frequently you make draw this expression makes me think this is how you look while you're drawing – mmhyes i know I'm good okay, I guess there's a general direction to the shadows now... but the orange rose, it throws it off by looking like it's shaded from a different direction than his body. make an effort Viridescent ლ(́≧Д≦‵ლ) the shading on the foremost leg is pretty cheetos thou – the lil white line ♡ but as a matter of course the best part of this is the creativity in the design. the coat! the leaf shirt! the scarf, the hat, the mantle - super fucking ingenious. that he has one large and one small blue and orange rose, respectively, i can dig it. the pose is lackluster though; there's no movement to the action, it isn't facing the attack, and the angle of the arm is... somewhat odd. that you see the rose slightly from behind contributes – it makes it look like it's bending his arm in an uncomfortable angle backwards. the orange rose is also the center of the design, despite not being the focal point. AND. i love the hat design, it's a shame we don't see it in the picture. his judge hair is pretty cool too i like that the tips of his thorns are blue thou. could it be... nail polish?? somehow you're really great at making swirly organic shapes too. it seems like something that should be easy, but as i struggle with keeping them balanced – it's not, so nicely done. the things on his leaf-plume, especially. the mantle – i love the design, but when you shade things thickly around the edges, and lighter towards the center, it gets volume. leaves, especially, should be shaded the other way around, so the light penetrated the edges. subsurface scattering! once i had a conversation about skin with a friend and another friend butted in like "are you talking about skin and elli hasn't said 'surface scattering' yet?", that's how much i apparently like to talk about how totally sweet it is. give into it, Viridescent! on the topic of shading, the details on the side of his face could have needed some more shaidng and volume, so i could see how it's layered - now i only see it in the side view pic i remember you took a dig at 'lame shakespearian references' before and i don't know if you aimed it at me but i'm not gonna stop ill pm the 3d thang.

oh my fucking god Viridescent stop updating i only have so much time these updates was just sheer bait for me though. polygon2! chandelure! ghosts and glitches! chandelure thing doesn't even look like a Pokémon but WHO CARES GHOST TYPE especially the extra ring with two tiny fires there. And the shape!! of it's body!! chandelure is one of my (q. many) favorite pokémon designs, so im super pleased with this take on it's mega form overall, how it looks like another kind of chandelier and yet is so recognizable. but as i said before, with all the small stuff flying around, it doesn't really look like a Pokémon; it's the lack of focus, compared to how solid Pokémon designs usually are. Why are there floating chain pieces where there's no chain? what are the crystals coming off the... magic rod? the concept of it being stuck mid-destruction, polaroid of war, is brilliant. there's a word for this in japanese, さすが, sasuga – it roughly translates to "as expected [from you]" in this context, without the impediment of me sounding like a raging douche father in atrocious literature saying it. and now i sound like one anyway, but i do have high expectations every time you post something, and you usually live up to them. but as excited i am for this design it's time did you get so tired of me raging about light sources that you decided to screw lightning altogether? or am i supposed to read the various lighter patches as lightning? is the purple supposed to be light? these are rhetorical questions i can't really tell what's going on with the bottom. is that also glass? and on the sides the "shading" is too dark to distinguish what i assume is the metal frame from the probably-glass. also, there's a hook on one circle-rim intersection where there's thorns on all intersections. and, i get the distinct impression that you didn't look very hard at fire references before you drew this. your palettes are hit or miss, and true to your name, the bright green ones tend to be the best. this one is a bit too all over the place – with everything else going on, six colors is just too much, and they don't even match. and the coloring of the ribbons is super lazy... i can tell it's not much effort put into the practical execution, which is a shame with this beautiful concept. anyway. i have a few hours traveling ahead, may i make a 3d model of one of your designs? maybe even this one, but my software isn't very good at anything non-solid, or yanmega, i don't think i have enough hours to tackle genesect. it's been a while since i made someone else design, it'd be good practice

what didchu cosplay as, Micky?

come at me bro

first time i check this thread in ages and u guys still predict me? im touched, spine now that school is over (sssh Viridescent, sssh), whacchu all up to? Dhan? has school resumed for you as well or are the rumours around here that engineers are slackers true?

this last page of this thread hit me with the cold, hard realization that other people than Viridescent read my critiques. euaah. they're the furthers thing from well-thought out – i open a notepad document, put it beside the picture, and stare until i find something to criticize. Viridescent is especially easy – all you have to know is that he's colorblind, so you can just go "that's not green, man". it doesn't even have to be true. what's the bird i keep seeing Hukuna request and keep seeing Viridescent try to refuse? there's only so many times i can see this dance play out without getting curious about the song playing.

double-posting in a thread not mine. for shame. But aaah this one is fucking cool. most of all it feels like a natural evolution of Haxorus, with the head axe and all. excellent use of negative space as well; it has a nice silhouette. im actually struggling to come up with valid critique, which is unusual; usually i'm more like "okay, ellie, you need to say something nice now". the layered shoulder pads makes me think of sailor moon. And give what we see of the shoulder pad on the right side, the angle is off at the left side – and like Milotic, the pad should be behind the arm. As for the shading. LIGHT SOURCE!! Since you're so fucking amazing at shading steel it's almost disconnecting to not have a consistent lightning – like seeing a teenage girl with a late 20's guy – you're too good for that shit, Viridescent. too good, too pure i don't know if his has to do with your color-blindness, but for reviewing purposes i don't really care either – mixing yellow and red colors to get copper still looks more like yellow, mixed with red. it's especially glaring at the almost solely red scale on his tail, which stands out for being the only one more red than yellow. When you shade stuff, it's like you have two modes of shading: steel, and not steel. And you're really really incredible at the one being a specific type of stainless anisotropy steel, but there's different ways of shading steel, check this out. it works out for this piece, where i interpret it being drawn more as golden steel than actual gold, but actual gold would have brighter, more yellow highlight and browner shadows. that being said, especially on his face and shoulder plate, s+ shading and while we're on the scales – Haxorus scales actually go upwards, so i feel like his mega evolution's scales should do the same. But the square plates are consistently pretty as hell, especially on his right leg and foot. the contrast between them and his black skin is very visually pleasing. You also nailed the balance – it's leaning over a lot, but the counterweight of the tail makes it not look like it's falling over. the bottom is looking a bit thin though, especially with regards to the original design. i think it's especially that the crotch plate looks a lot thinner than his neck that creates this impression. i know all Pokémon are "it" but i keep wanting to write "he" for some reason. also: really tired so if this isn't up to par with my usual reviews, please tell me and i might rewrite it i can't tell rn. hey, would you be willing to look over my admission test answers, actually? i know that you're a busy guy so i wanna cite and vehemently empatise that i already have two others giving me feedback, and they both know me well enough to be blunt about it - it just struck me that you're like, what thomas edison is to innovation, you are to sentence structure.

i had one hell of a week, and then i got to the top 10% of the applicants of the school im trying for, so now i need to write the next part of their admissions tests. ill probably be gone at least until that is over, then it's still in the air whenever ill come back, but i wouldn't want you to start slacking off with your drawings, so i might just pop in here and wreck havoc "sigh" why u ungrateful lil as for the tail, if you look at the dark blue top fin near the end, it's from an almost perfect side way – coming up a little from behind milotic perhaps, but nearly side view. then the tail tip itself is from an almost perfect front view, and it just doesn't look like it's twisting enough. you like drawing stuff like it's kinda pined up, so everything is visible in it's full glory so im gonna be nitpicky about it until you shtaph, haha ah shit, i meant to say this in the last post, but i seem to have forgotten while typing up everything else: could you do a lighter re-scan of haxorus? i ran it through photoshop to see if i was missing out on stuff and photoshop was like "yep". i don't think it'll do much difference in the review, but it's like having a version that's been re-saved in low-res jpg a couple of times and therefore just plain doesn't do it justice. edit: breaking news: Viridescent does mistakes holy shit

MM The design overall is almost pretty enough that I'm willing to overlook what's going on with the lightning. Almost. But i see zero effort in even trying for a specific light source. Since I've seen you you for some incomprehensible reason has started using LoL slang anyway: "Viridescent pls". Light sources! The colors are extraordinary pretty, i especially like the sparse usage of the magenta – but I feel like the orange and the magenta should have been switched, in regards for Milotic's actual design. That is also not not scales are shaded. Even super special multi that are "opaque like rock is" have to abide to the holy laws of shading. Basically – in case of fishy scales, not every scale is shaded individually, the shading should be harder, and it wouldn't hurt to put in some different colors, like a bit of green into the blue – that would have helped a lot with distinguishing the blue of the scales from the exact same blue of the fins. And in case of more snake-y scales, way more blown-out highlights, less roundness – whatever you were going for, they look very soft and plushy right now. i also think the main body should have harder highlights, to look shinier. i like the little ridge on its neck thou. The black dots on its neck are bothering me, but since they're on the original design as well, I guess that will have to satisfy my annoyance with passive-aggressive glaring rather than any actual feedback. The fins, well, they're gorgerous, buut I feel like i'm giving a lot of negative feedback to a design that i actually rather liked. But, first of all – i can't tell how the neck fins are connected – i mean, it's sorta understandable, but when i first looked at it i thought they were all connected to the neck rather than to one another – something I'm still not sure they aren't – the bottom segment of the left one should go under the one above it, not on top as it does now, for symmetry. They're also fading in color. Something i didn't realize at first, since you faded them like you shaded them – i thought it was just shading. Look at the dark blue – it's not lighter at the tips, at it should be, it's just less of it. How you drew and shaded the folds thou – that shit is amazeballs. Anatomically, well, it's a snake –– But did you really think you'd get away with that tail? Honestly i'm legitimately surprised you keep doing this – do you have like, a pinboard with nailed bugs that you use a reference for everything you draw The blue fin is, as clearly illustrated by the side view, which I almost called reference, is at the top of it. And yet the tail is in almost perfect front view. grumble. This is just one of these pieces where the first impression takes your breath, but the more you look at it... sort of like Courtney Love, really.

somehow i keep visualizing the two of you sitting 5 feet away from each other while making those predictions either irish terrier

im almost completely on the opposite side of the spectrum; only a faint appreciation for classical remains of my side of the the bridge over the endless abyss of musical differences. lyrics, for me, is the color of the story the instruments ink. it makes the setting palpable to me; although i painted myself into a corner by saying "speaks to you"; it's rarely i identify with music. rap, especially, is one of my favorite genres, but it isn't made for me. i can't think of any song that has spoken to me personally of late; perhaps jamie t's man's machine? what's the most controversial opinion you have when it comes to food? alternatively, if thy name is Viridescent, speak, brother, of thee times past, i really wanna know how you got traumatized out of liking lyrical music

the punmaking is teetering on the edge of 'using your powers for evil' thou. with great power... which song is the one that speaks the most to you purely lyrically?

i see so many users in this thread now that i almost dont dare to post in fear of getting ninja'd Ducktales, i don't think i have predicted you before so it's about time

Viridescent is making puns in the showdown when does the summer holidays start in on ireland? i can't believe you're still having class. shit like this is why i don't go to school yo. Micky

i'm ecstatic about it; more customers + outdoors labour like woodchopping gets a lot more pleasant when it's not cold and rainy. do you "get your value" from the time you spend on the reborn forums, or do you perceive it as a time waste?

welp Viridescent?

man, Juu, youre hype tonite forlorn as it sounds, working is my favorite past-time. i relish in what i'm doing. working with friends on pet projects, in particular dream position, including stuff like location, own firm/corporate and number of coffee machines in general vicinity?