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emilymartian — Lacking an Idea
Published: 2005-05-22 00:53:20 +0000 UTC; Views: 701; Favourites: 8; Downloads: 93
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well I've been feeling quite uninspired as for drawing these days. Today I saw a thumbnail and totally misinterprated what it was. This deviation is my version of what I saw and fits perfectly with how I feel today. Please let me know what you think as I haven't had much experience drawing in photoshop.Original pic here ----> [link] thanks to for the inspiration
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i've read that book cept it was called hitchhikers guide to the galaxy and i very much enjoyed it lol
pepsi
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actually one of my friends said my robot reminded him of the one from hitchhikers guide...guess it's that whole big head thing. But if it's gonna be compared to something, than that would be a good thing
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oh hells yes its a good thing lol when i first read the books your robot was more what i imagined that the one in the movie but hey now when i read that movie has corrupted my imagination and i see what they showed me the characters were spoced to look like... kinda weird same thing happened with HP and LOTR and next up Narnia cept I've already seen two different renditions of that so i guess my imagination wil have a choice lol.
pepsi
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movies tend to do that. I was a little let down by hitchhikers but not LOTR and I'm totally psyched for Chronacles of Narnia. I've seen several versions of that as well and remember liking them.
I'm glad you like my robot 
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Yeah i just got back from hitchhikers and it was fun and yeah its hard to live up to the randomness in that book i was glad they left the whale in i wanted to see the giant statue of arthor and the bird people and the cafe at the end of the world but oh well LOTR was awsome the EV was even better
pepsi
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for a first, this is actually very good. i dare say it will probably be better than the first time i actually USE my tablet.
i find the background a little strange but the parts you drew are VERY good, espescially the bow in the string and the bulb.. very nice. The coolest thing about this piece is where and how you got the inspiration for it. I often do the same thing, but when i hear things. like somebody will say "im gonna kick your ass" and i think i hear them say "i want your tasty egg-roll."
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now how in the hell do you get "i want your tasty egg-roll." out of "im gonna kick your ass"?
now I can understand some thing like "my angel in the centerfold" for "my anus is the center hole"
I had a friend of mine who always thought the Go Go's song "our lips are sealed" was saying "Andre the Seal" so now everytime i hear it I think of that 
I'm pretty bad about hearing things wrong as well.
PS
the background was a lazy copout because I don't know how to make good textures and I needed something minimalistic...I would have much rather used the background of the peice that inspired me
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lol, no you are right. the misinterpretations are more like the ones you mentioned, only they're not usually in songs. well, except for "ripped up like a douche" (blinded by the light) lol. now I dont know why this happens, probably because I am standing there daydreaming while people are trying to talk to me. I am not very social anyhow
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I think I day dream too much and have gone to, one too many concerts so I'm right there with you on here people wrong.
Back when I was a hairdresser I was cutting this guys hair when he said "can I ask you something?" now whenever someone starts out lik that rather than just asking, it's usually something bad or personal. I'm pretty open so I said "sure" and he replied with "is sister sex better wet?" 
Turns out he had asked "Do scissors cut better wet?" 
not social aye? hmmmm....I am 
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omg, that is one of the better stories of misinterpretation I've ever heard.. sister sex, lol eww. I think the clippers made you a little deaf maybe
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I'm pretty good with the short cercuit thing...happens more than I like to admit...I have a habbit of walking into things as well...like dorrways...with my head
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woah, now theres a new one.. Luck is definitely on your side insn't it? man...
I've had a few of those ones where i am down on the ground and i get up and whack my skull on something really hard but not for a while. I hate it when I hit my head and it causes me to bite my tongue. that is the worst.
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that's why my nickname is dexter....for my lack of dextarity....it's pretty bad
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omg are you serious? that is funny as hell.
they REALLY call you dexter, hahaha.. oh my, you are a riot.
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yes...well one person calls me Dexter...kind of a pet name
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Haha, I need to buy an "ideas for dummies" book too
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It reminds me off...me actually...hmm
Just me trying to force some ideas out and just getting dumbstruck
while they're just all around me.
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yeah some times it's not so easy. and thinking about it makes it worse...I was thoroughly impressed with myself for making this
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uh huh...and you should be its very...umm...very..I cant find the word I'm looking for I'll have to get back to you on this.
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hmmm...that's too bad! well i love your drawing!
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I love the lightbulb! Anything abnormal and you get my attension!
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yayyyyyyy! I'm so proud of this peice...glad you liked my bulb
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I couldn't resist it! It looked so cool!
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why thank you! 
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Not too shaby my dear. Careful with the airbrush though. Try and cut down the flow. I can see that you do indeed need practice, it is a very good drawing though. Remeber this too: When using text and you want the text to blend better into the whole of the drawing, make sure to rasterise the layer that the text is on. I have been teaching Photoshop for about 3 years now and can tell you that this is good. You need practice though. I could go on and on. Love the fact that you are expanding into drawing. I so much look forward to seeing more work like this!
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I'm not sure what you mean by being carefull with the airbrush. I used it on various different settings and then smudged the hell out of it. only thing that bugs me is getting cleaner edges they either show too sharp or too fuzzy. I thought all rasterizing did was make it secure....guess I should start opening my photoshop bible
Thanks!
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I still think that its great! As for the rasterization, I always do that to my text layers (unless I am going out to print) because it transforms the text from vector to pixle. Makes it easier to work with. 
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so do you rasterize before free transforming the text? I remember rasterizing once and getting the "no no no" response from the boyfriend...he's a pro at all this crap (3D studio max, VHX, Photoshop) it's what he does for a living. Most of the time I'm on my own but on occasion I ask him for help. all though I don't think I ever got the explanation as why I wasn't suppose to rasterize at that time. He's got some really amazing stuff but won't post on DA, it just doesn't interest him....guess some of us like the attention 
I still want a Wacom....I won't get anything unless it's the best...plus I think I might have a hook up to get me one close to wholesale
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We all have our reasons for doing things that we do. My reason for rasterizing the text is this: If I want to make the text editable for let's say, adding a gradiant map to it. Yes...You can do this with by leaving the text as a vector but by rasterization, you can then add it more freely to an image that isnt going to go out to print. Let say if you were to have rasterized your text on this image, you then would have the ability to blend it more smoothly into the overall look and feel to your drawing. We all do things differently. Thats just the way I do it.
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I take advantage of it all the time...usually ends up with him getting aggrivated with me and then coming back and going "wow, that looks great. You should be paying me for this". I told him he should never be a teacher
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he is sad....he has no ideas
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indeed. He does not have ideas.
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awww... that's the problem with thumbnails... it's like having eyesight as bad as mine!
lol
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tell me about it...and some things just don't look good small
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you are a rude girl arent you!
lol
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