marlyly

Yes, it's Photoshop CS6!

And why you can't use it anymore?

It's free (of course if you're on trial, then that explains everything o3o)

This one is free ? Well if that's so then I was wrong. I'm trying to get use to SAI right now so I don't think I'll try this one too anyway, or at least not right now, but it's good to know thanks.

Wonderfull work really.

And very nice of you to make a tutorial of it, I'm sure it'll help

It's photoshop isn't it ? Too bad I cant use it anymore.

Technically I think most of the game can become challenging if you give yourself some rules (like no excessive lv up for RPG, using every combo and not only spamming in fighting and adventure game).

But here's a list of games I consider as real chalenge:

Super meat boy:

The game in itself isn't easy, require a perfect control of your character, good reflex, and every new world force you to adapt to new mechanism. And the dark stages (which represent like 40%of the game) are freakin nightmares.

Dark Souls:

Before going further I need to say: I never played Demon Soul, and a lot of peoples pretend it's a harder game.

When peoples are developing a game, I'm sure there's always one to say "okay guys, I think we put enough obstacles here, one more and it's gonna be a nightmare". For this game this dude was replaced by one saying "yeah yeah good, but I think those enemies must be able to kill the player in one hit, and those tricky platform they should be invisible, and for this boss just put 3 copies of it to fight simultaneously and you're good".

This game is meant to be hard. Death is even a whole part of the gameplay with resurrection, the fact to find your body and recover our money, infinite lives. But even with that death will often be frustrating. Everything is a potential threat and event if you start as a tank the first little ennemie will be able to kill you in 4 hit maximum.

The game is huge and each place you'll visited has his own way of killing you which will force you to adapt and go step by step. And even then there's a PVP mode and some player dedicate they character to kill the others.

They are some way to make the game easy (extreme level up, some over powered weapon) but those things are exception, and unless you spend 120h farming some bosses will never be easy and will require adaptation, analysis, and hours of practice.

The witcher 2

Another RPG. And if you pick a setting above "hard" you're gonna cry, if you just take hard you'll die 10 times, during the tutorial. Your character is strong, swift, has a lot of potential to unlock, but he is still (kinda) human. And a human can't survive a sword in the chest. Every fight must be carefully prepared, by picking the good weapon, making and drinking drugs (take care of the side effect), take the good spell, and use the terrain at your advantage.

You're one against many and as such the smallest mistake will often leads you to the grave.

In hard setting a high level and good equipment (the enemies are limited and so is the level, and the best weapons needs quests and crafting) you'll start to feel "powerful" around the 2/3 of the game, with a higher setting you won't even survive without this power.

Plus the fact that if you pick the harder difficulty setting you have literally one life: you have only one save data which is automatically corrupted if you die.

X com enemy unknown:

You're playing since 5 hours and you hasn't invested enough in research: might as well restart.

You're playing since 5 hours and hasn't put enough satellite: might as well restart.

You're playing since 5 hours and doesn't have enough well trained soldier: might as well restart.

You're playing since 10 hours, our 6 expert soldiers are on a mission, they are well trained have the best equipment thanks to research and founding from the satellite cover, and 2 enemies managed to take you from behind: you lost your whole team, the mission is a failure, and you must organize a desperate defense against the alien's counter strike.

That's the spirit of X com, a hard strategy game that makes you fight an always evolving opponent. If you do something wrong or not fast enough the consequence will always be terrible, if they didn't just ended up with a "game over". And to get to the point where you have nothing else to fear from your enemies, it will take several time, and a huge amount of knowledge and skills.

There's also a "iron man" mode with only one fully automatic save data, but I already play like that with every games.

Monster hunter serie:

I played all those that came out on the european psp and I can tell this game is all about difficulty.

Once you've passed the little quest the only way to survive is to upgrade and adapt your equipment permanently, and knowing every movement of your enemies by heart. And even with that, some movements are so swifts that you need goodlike reflex to dodge them. And even if you're a ninja they'll always be a smaller enemies to hit you from behind, so that the big one can eat you just after.

The camera is hard to maneuver, the big enemies doesn't allowed any mistake, it's a hard series of game.

Hitman series:

The 1 and 2 in perticular, even if the last one is still great and challenging with high difficulties setting.

Once again it's a game about preparation, but also improvising with the unpredictable, it's waiting 15 mn for your target to go at his window, only so a bodyguard can come between you and him, are you going to try to wait, kill both, find another way ?

Good fact about the old ones: one headshop and you're dead.

A snake with a stomach-ache from eating an elephant. Come on, look at that face. That's not a happy snake.

 

It sounds like it's supposed to be something I've seen before, but honestly I don't remember. The children's stories that have stuck with me were a bit different from normal. Hobgoblins and kelpies and the like. My parents were a bit bohemian and didn't believe in 'sterilized modern childrearing'.

Wow, looks like this topic is comming back to life, partially thanks to Dave247 (dunno how to quote a member) who posted on it after 6 month of no replies.

Thank you all guys, and if you thing the same as I, try to keep your kid's way to be. Sometime peeples will look at you, you'll have some problem sometime, but if you live happy with that then I think it's something to do.

@@marlyly

You forgot to mention how when he showed the "grown-ups" his "Drawing Number 2" of the x-ray so that they could understand, they were instead disturbed, and told him to give up drawing and instead peruse geography, arithmetic, and grammar. :3

 

The Little price is very good book and also one of the best selling books ever published. I highly recommended it along with the audiobooks and move as well.

I just didn't mension it so peoples actually read and discover by themselves.

And yeah the little prince is actually an awesome book, it looks like it's for childrens but even grown up peoples can benefit from it.

Okay first of all thank you for reading those words

I also need to make it clear, I tried to find the answer on google, I tried several ways like enable press and hold or disabling tablet PC input service and the problem is still here.

My tablet is a Bamboo Wacom pen & touch and I unfortunately have windows 8. My computer is a ASUS republic of gamer G75V.

When I try to draw with paint tool sai I have some weird lag, the first two centimeters I move give nothing but the circle of the cursor staying where I first press (with a lil dot of the size and color of the tool I chose, the arrow part of the cursor is still following the move) and after I move a few a straight line appear between the "beginning" and where my cursor is regardless of the form I tried to draw.

Weird thing, if I press, and press again right away, I don't have problem with the second one.

I call it a lag because I had some with my old computer and it's closely the same, but it really looks like a problem with sai or windows 8 more than a lag, my new computer is just an atomic bomb and there's no way he can't run sai properly.

Now I'm going to leave my country tomorrow, bringing my tablet and computer with me, and I hope I'll get an answer as soon as possible.

I'm going to send a call for help to pretty much everyone I know, it's kinda selfish to do so but I'm sorry I tried everything I could do by myself and it's making me sick not being able to draw again.

Thank you again for your attention, and I hope for your help.

3 days ago I was watching a french movie called "star 80".

The main was subject was a show with all the 80's french singers.

After that I was wondering :

Most of those singers are seen as "not famous anymore" (even if they manage to make an incredible comeback). Some are still famous, the best example would be Patrick Hernandez and his "Born to be alive", but the most must only be famous in France, and had a very brief life as stars (most of them only made 1 single).

Do you have in your country culture similar cases, those singers pretty much everyone know, consider as "has been", but still enjoy from time to time ?

One word:

FABULOUS.

The only downside of this critic, which sum up everything I think about your awesome art, is that it wont work with the minimum character for posting.

It's very well done, creative for the OCs, and the only regret is that there's only 10 drawings in your DA page.

Seriously dude you're gifted, you're an artist, nothing less.

I love you sooooooo much ................... book.

10/10

 

 

He is a Texas ranger!

So he also need Chuck's bear.

And 5/10 for chaotic, I jsut dont like it.

11/11

Pinkie just brained her damage.

7/10

 

Anatomy looks a little weird on this one but i like the shading!

Where is it weird (not that I disagreed, but I want to be better so)

and 7/10, cuz cow boy shouldn't wear Texas ranger's hats.

10/10

Man, Pinkie sky hug must feel awesome.

You want more views? Social media is the way to go.

If you don't like using social media, it might be a slow-go until you embrace them.

You can put the link on your mlp signature to start...

 

hootsuite.com is a way to manage social media from one spot, but you'll first have to sign up from each respective site. Twitter & FB are the usual useful sites.

 

Tumblr.com is an addicting, image-based, type of blogging community where people post and share posts. Just be sure to enter your tags.

 

I'm an art director/graphic designer/illustrator for a living. If you need help regarding art and promotion, I'm happy to help you in anyway I can.

Woah!

Now there’s a professional advising me.

The signature: that so obvious I feel stupid that it’s not already done.

Since I really don’t like facebook policy with picture, and the way they make it hard to be informed of it, I won’t change my mind about this website.

Tumblr I’m waiting for my artist skills to increase, since I want to go for a “ask-…..” type Tumblr.

Thank you for the good, and rich answer.

Here's my dA

 

http://pikachu25sci95vt.deviantart.com/

 

Go to the groups page here: http://groups.deviantart.com/ and search for a group you're interested, by typing a keyword in the seach box. This will help you find the group you're looking for. 

Allready saw your DA, love the MLP memes.

Also thank you for indicating me how to found those "groups".

Hope to find some good ones  .

Hi! I also have a deviantart account. What's your username? Groups are a great way to get critique from others. There are many types of groups, each with their own style. Choose a group that is well rounded and accepts any type of art. I would love to see your art!

My DA account is in my profile, here's the link: http://dear-sweet-molestia.deviantart.com/

As I said my skills are low so dont expect nothing.

And how am I supose to find groups, there must be like hundreds of them (yeah, when I say I'm not good with computer, it means I'm a tard with its).

That’s your FIRST drawing !!!

I’s more than impressive, it’s really well done and accurate as hell.

Why did you waited for a day without class for drawing ponies, you’re made for this !!!

ps: I'm just gonna go and clap my hands

Hi !

My request might seem unusual and I must explain something about me before.

I’m also not sure if it will fit in the topic, it’s not really about art but about deviantart. So please godlike-moderator, forgive me if I did wrong.

I’m not into the “internet social stuffs” at all.

I’m not on facebook or twiter, or any forum.

MLP forum is THE exception, and I was so happy to fell like staying on it, I even celebrated my hundred brohoof http://mlpforums.com/topic/40665-my-thanks-to-the-forum/.

But, due to my paranoia, and the fact that I’m just not good with computers, I don’t know how to “be” on the internet, if you know what I mean.

And now here’s where I need your help.

I have a DA account since one year, it was first made for a work for my business school.

I first used it as an example for this work, then I posted a few arts on it (if you can call this art, my gosh it’s even worse than my actual level).

I didn’t care about getting feedback, and the main point was to have an URL of my drawings so I can repost them.

But a few weeks ago someone watched me, I watched him back, we had a nice chat.

And then another one, and another one. Now there’s 5 peoples watching me, and they are in “groups”.

I sincerely like this, having some feedback (it’s still practically nothing but that count a lot for me), talking, but this “group” thing perplex me.

Is that a way I could bring more peoples to see me?

And what group would you suggest for a low skilled brony artist like me?

Thank you for your help.

"I will not bow before you, filth!" Harmonic said, energy started to flow from his horn. He was not alone, Luna was also shooting energy at Voyage, trying to disrupt him. The hole was sucking the energy in. But it slowly started to glow, the portal was over loading, as was such the only way to close such a portal. Suddenly the portal imploded, sending energy inwards.

 

"Hahaha, Voyage, you tool. You thought you could kill me!? Hahahahaha! You were the only reason I could become this, your energy is MINE!" he shouted.

 

"I should thank you. I couldn't do this without you! You have done the ultimate service to mother Luna." Harmonic said. Luna herself let out a smile at this statement. Harmonic was Luna's champion, the very embodiment of Eternal Night. The last time the Doom-Bringer was summoned, Celestia weilded the Elements of Harmony against them, but even that only held them for one hundred years. The Order's destruction was the only thing that stopped them from coming back.

 

"Voyage, you were always on my side, whether willingly or not." Luna said, she had a grin spread across her face.

 

"Without your magic in the sanctuary Harmonic would be dead right now." She said.

 

"Hey, Doom-Bringer." A voice echoed from behind. Harmonic turned, and saw six mares walk in the room. He smiled.

 

"You rang? Let me guess, more of the tyrant's puppets, no?" Harmonic said.

"I will not bow before you, filth!" Harmonic said, energy started to flow from his horn. He was not alone, Luna was also shooting energy at Voyage, trying to disrupt him. The hole was sucking the energy in. But it slowly started to glow, the portal was over loading, as was such the only way to close such a portal. Suddenly the portal imploded, sending energy inwards.

 

"Hahaha, Voyage, you tool. You thought you could kill me!? Hahahahaha! You were the only reason I could become this, your energy is MINE!" he shouted.

 

"I should thank you. I couldn't do this without you! You have done the ultimate service to mother Luna." Harmonic said. Luna herself let out a smile at this statement. Harmonic was Luna's champion, the very embodiment of Eternal Night. The last time the Doom-Bringer was summoned, Celestia weilded the Elements of Harmony against them, but even that only held them for one hundred years. The Order's destruction was the only thing that stopped them from coming back.

 

"Voyage, you were always on my side, whether willingly or not." Luna said, she had a grin spread across her face.

 

"Without your magic in the sanctuary Harmonic would be dead right now." She said.

 

"Hey, Doom-Bringer." A voice echoed from behind. Harmonic turned, and saw six mares walk in the room. He smiled.

 

"You rang? Let me guess, more of the tyrant's puppets, no?" Harmonic said.

"You Elements wont be needed here, jsut keep an eye on Discord"

Crossbreed was smiling, and Voyage soul was doing the same.

“My power is yours evil creature, my power is yours corrupted princess.”

He raised his hooves.

“You creature of darkness, take every drop of my shining holy power.

As he said those words, Luna and Harmonic realized their mistakes.

They feel their dark powers turning into light, the power they absorbed was turning every bit of their own power, into the energy they feared the most.

 Luna felt into coma, as the evil spirit of nightmare moon was hold back once more.

Fate was less kind with Harmonic. His bone, his skin, his very soul began to burn, the light energy poured from every inch of his body, destroying it from the inside.

They were nothing left, not even a pile of dust. Crossbreed assure himself, looked into the physical, spirit and magic world. They were no trace, he was obliterated.

“Killed by his own greed”

As he said this, Crossbreed disapeared.

To the 6 mare's eyes and the princess' one he was never there.

(OOC: seems like my internet connection is fading away, I wont be back before maybe a day or 2, if you decide to make H come back or create another order please send me a message

Edit: considering Honestly is going away too, you would me kind to slow down (I'm trying to make this as polite as posible, dont feel offended by this sentence, Im' just not perfect at english).

The dark orb erupted, revealing a truly disturbing creature, it appeared to have the shape of a pony, but the skeletons that were pulled in were formed into an exoskeleton, some kind of bone-like armor.

 

"Blasphemy!? Me!? You fool! I've had enough of meddling with you Voyage, I have an appointment with Royalty." He said, smirking. The horn then glowed, and he teleported. His destination was obvious and disturbing.

The teleportation occured in a blink of an eye, but still Crossbreed managed to appear before Harmonic.

"You are not A blasphemy, you're the worst insult your sily pony kind has ever done to magic my mother, and in her name I shoul rip your existence of this world, as I rip your bones of your corrupted body".

His wings took the shape of a circle, and an unlimited quantity of pure energy began to flow through it, like a reversed black hole, absorbing everything that's evil. And Harmonic was facing it.

Shadowheart whirled around. His powers were gone, and he was alone in a room full of enemies. Backing toward the wall behind him, he smiled. "I suppose you're going to take me as your prisoner. Good. I've been hoping for a way into your headquarters. Take me away, officers." he held out his hooves, as if for handcuffs.

 

Realization struck him as he looked at the face of Fury, he knew that they weren't taking prisoners. Time to see if the plan he had been working on had been worth it. Of course, this was an adaptation, and not at all the time or place. With a scream, instead of taking magic from the shadows around him, he tapped into his own life source. He had the energy to teleport, but not to put himself back together once he got there. Right before he dissolved himself into atoms, he thought one thing, directed at Harmonic, wherever he was. Free me from Lord Discord.

 

To the guards around him, it seemed that the pony in front of them had just dissolved into a thin wisp of shadow. It flew through the ceiling, and shot across Equestria to Canterlot. With a hiss, it entered the throne room and into the Draconequus' mind.

 

It was an interesting experience, being inside the head of a god. All he could do watch. His vision was what Discord was seeing, hearing what he heard. The only communication that he could withstand was with his host. Still, he thought to the creature. Think how much more you could be. All that you're doing is serving the Alicorn that turned you to stone. Discord flashed a one-toothed smile that Shadowheart couldn't see. As right as you may be, I know that you're not my own thoughts. What are your motives? If he could, Shadowheart would have smiled back. Only a humble servant, waiting for his master to come to his senses.

Crossbreed, that how the other dragons used to call him I the tribe, felt another disgusting power being used. His eyes opened to the spirit world and one of his feathers of light he catched what was, a few second ago, Shadowheart.

“I could crush you in an instant, but I want your master to feel all my rage”. As he was saying, the light form the feather turned into a chain linking Shadowheart to Discord and enabeling his spirit to do a single moove.

“You wanted to feel the power of Discord ? You are now as a spectator as him as a statue, excepted that you’ll remain like this for ever, unable to talk, use magic, or influence him".

This action only took an instant, o the guards around him, it seemed that the pony in front of them had just dissolved into a thin wisp of shadow.

Suddenly, Harmonic's body teleported away. From the looks of it, he did not do it himself, his horn didn't glow and he hadn't regained consciousness. The undead there turned and faced the battle, looking on in a way that said they'd have no part in the combat, likely due to Harmonic's orders to only attack a specific pony. Harmonic reappeared back where he was before, but something was...different.

 

Harmonic's coat had shifted to a dark blue, and his mane was black, his eyes were pure white. Something was not right. He had an ethreal appearance, like a phantom.

 

"Haha..fools...you feel into the trap. You thought I didn't know of Fury's betrayal? He made it obvious to me every moment of every day. Scrya was an obvious defector. Perhaps the only one truly loyal to me is Shadowheart, for that, he will be rewarded. By the end of today, he will be the only one in this room who is still alive." Harmonic echoed, once more, there was a second layer to his voice. However, it sounded like there was some level of pain behind his words, like he was struggling with something.

 

"Do you want me to end it now? It would be much less painful. Praise mother Luna, our reign over all Equestria has come."

 

"Mother Luna has given me a second chance..." He bellows. He flies towards the corpse of Fury Blaze, and the eyes of the corpse open. Suddenly Fury's coat turns to match the coloration of the phantom, but does not look ethreal. The corpse twists and contorts in odd and grotesque ways. Skeletons start to collapse, and their bones seem pulled to the corpse. A wall of black surrounds it.

Unicorns are not magic creatures, they are like blacksmiths, and they take the magic energy, change its shape, and turned it into a spell.

The only specie that once earned the title of “true magic creature” was the dragon kind. Before they regressed to their state of flying lizards, they were able to live with magic, to become magic itself.

The rest of this old specie were holded back into Voyage very soul, but the echo of Harmonic reborn in the magic void suddenly awaken it.

The dragon mark on Voyage’s flank began to glow, he rise and opened his eyes, they were red, with a thin iris. The 20 remaining cards of his deck began to levitate, linking themselves with Voyage’s back, becoming the feathers of two wings of light.

“Stop this blasphemy”

He shouted. His voice seems far more older than usual, with millenaries of knowledge inside of it. But more than the knowledge of the ancient, or the greed of the dragon, the easiest thing to feel was the rage of the magic creature, and with it, the anger of magic itself.

He saw a dragon coming for the fight, apparently in his side.

It wasn't gonna be a fair fight, he was going to obliterate them.

Shadowheart's eyes began to glow. Rage filled him, and, with a yell, he concentrated all of the shadow he was sending toward the two traitors into one dense wall. "You see? Now you answer to Celestia, the tyrant, who destroyed free will and tries to command Mother Luna! Your death is certain!" he screamed and sent the wall towards them, right as Harmonic sent a card spiraling out of the deck.

The card vanished, taking the magic wall, and all of Shadowheart's powers with it.

As he felt the pain he absorbed from Pure, and the lost of one of his arcana, Voyage felt into coma.

With a smile on his face, knowing he was leaving Shadowheart powerless in Scrya's hooves, and the dragon's claws.

 "Brother Shadowheart, kill them both, I'll take the guard captain!" Harmonic yelled. He used his horn, which was relatively sharp, and jabbed Pure in the exposed stomach, splattering blood across both the floor and Harmonic's face.

That wasn't the way I intended it, thaught Voyage, but it will work.

As the blood of Pure touched his card it began to flow back, his open stomack and belly began to colse by themselves.

Voyage felt the terible pain but he knew he could handle it.

He wont be able to maintain his "purifying light" spell for much longer, but Pure was back on his hooves, and began to approch Harmonic's back.

"How many past students trying to kill us do you have?" he hissed to Harmonic.

 

He saw Scrya running towards the scene, a strange snake-like creature following her. He smiled. "You see, Voyage. It's three on one, now. Retreat with your life while you still can."

The battle started with Harmonic being charged by a guard in shining armor, the green light from Scrya’s spell was glistening on the precious metal, keeping the guard safe.

Voyage couldn’t face Harmonic in this condition, the guard was seeking a fair duel and he will have it. He quickly throws one of his cards so it goes between two plates of the armor.

He then looks at Shadow once more, as Scrya was coming next to him.

“Now, lets get back to business, shall we ?”

As walls of darkness were appearing arround them, he shouted:

"FEAR ME, IN ALL MY GLORY"

The green light turned into a shining white light, erasing the wall.

Voyage, brighter than the sun looked at Scrya.

"That should keep him busy, him him when he's weak"

Harmonic heard every word being spoken, and decided it  was his turn to speak. He glowed, and appeared directly infront of Shadowheart, facing the direction of Voyage.

 

"Oh my, my, my student has grown so much since we last met. Remember? Back in Celestia's school for gifted unicorns? I was chosen to be taken out, I was chosen to train under mother Luna, and I have mastered my skills, if you join us, we can teach you to control your abilities."

“Looks like centuries of corrupting dark magic had fried your brain. Do you even remember when we were studying ? 600 years ago? Open any historical book and you’ll discover that our dear princess was sealed in the moon. What you call Luna is nothing but a twisted dark part of your sick mind, it has always been back then, and it will always be”.