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For the UK, you need to get a copy of the Writers & Artists' Yearbook which is available in larger bookstores. It has lists of illustration agents and their URLs to give you an idea of the kind of th ...

It's worth doing a net search for anything published by the British publishers Savoy Books, responsible for (amongst other stuff) the infamous "Lord Horror" books which were roundly banned in the UK f ...

Do you mean on output or on screen?

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Thanks guys - I had a feeling MAC/PC TIFFs are (more or less) one and the same, but I wanted to be sure before looking even more like a Mac-virgin idiot. And Loki, you're right - TGA rules!

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My machine's a PC, but I've been asked to submit work via 'Mac-readable' TIFFs... what is the difference? If so, is there a conversion tool other than PS, which I believe writes to either format?

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Another freebie app is the odd-but-interesting Pixia, which is Japanese in origin. It's somewhere between Painter and PS, bitmap based and uses layers. However, the brush performance is fairly chopp ...

The toystore's called Hamleys

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I think I'm the only one round here who uses FilmFX, and despite its grim GUI, for me it still does the business because of the app's speed.

Getting really good results means spending a long time (an ...

Oh, just to correct The Magic Pen... only the very first image of his first scanned page belongs to Iain McCaige; all the rest are actually Dermot Power's.

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There's a lot to like in this new 'Art Of' book, particularly Dermot Power's lovely costume renderings that really reminded me of McQuarrie's pencil/wash stuff in the old days.

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Sorry for the lateness of this reply - I've been away for a few days.

While there are billions of benefits of working digitally, I think it's all too easy to lose that abstract texture and detail you ...

Just to say that I thought the first image you had, with the line-work really knocked back, was a real stunner... the most recent image, with the linework more clearly defined, seems to have lost some ...

i don't see why the eye has to be attached to the stick at all... much nicer just to have it hovering. Neat design, BTW

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Mmmm... I think at the moment he's a bit too passsive. I'd imagine that he should be more MUH-HA-HA-HAAAR!!! and dominating the poor people below.

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Trav, you'll hate me for saying this but I much preferred both the heavy texturing and 'ambiguity' of the original. While this version clarifies much, and is by it's nature far more realistic, I thin ...

Very good composition, but watch the perspective on the chair... it's left hand arm should be more straight on to the viewer.

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The red character's left leg is too short in comparison to it's right. Maybe we need to see some background also to look at the context of the pose.

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Yes, that'd make a lot more sense... your previous arrangement of layers was less logical. I look forward to seeing how this'll pan out.

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Hawk's pretty much covered everything I'd mention, but one area I'd be wary of is the perspective you've got going on the groundplane.

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Really, very, very good. You can almost taste the air.

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Audacity, since I've started to make an effort to crit people's work, I've found that the sheer number of submissions is a time-consuming task to work through. There are simply not the hours in the d ...

If I work in pencil, then I simply slip a sheet of copier paper under my hand to prevent too much smudging images/smiles/icon_wink.gif

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Really nice... the Pre-Raphaelites were not very imaginative (they referenced the hell out of everything) but their command of light was incredible. There's a work by (I think) Alfred Watkins called ...

Okay, for a first attempt it's not at all bad... trying a hand from the off takes a fair bit of courage.

The joint where the thumb meets the hand itself is too forward and up, making the thumb look l ...

yup, see it now... sb [ February 03, 2002: Message edited by: specialbrew ]

yup, see it now...

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Which picture am I supposed to be looking at? Why can't you post the pic to the forum? It's getting increasingly time consuming going to people's sites to hunt down images to c&c images/smiles/icon ...

Hmmm... dttrip probably has a point on the dark & depressing angle, but I would guess that most people who contribute to this forum - and who want to go pro - are preparing themselves for a SF/fantasy ...

I was thinking some about your original picture, particularly with respect to how I added in some deep hues to make it more 3D, and generally more 'real'.

The big question is whether something has no ...

No, I really like this too, particularly how the two main stumps roll into each other. Very solid composition... I'm interested to see where this goes. Only thought: maybe the lizard things are unne ...

Oh no, absolutely, maintain that lovely textured feel. Mine was just a rapid bit of overpainting images/smiles/icon_smile.gif

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