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Trapezium Dave posted:I had a poke around on the site and the weird thing is, they've all got this WTF air about them, every single one, all in similar but different ways. I don't know whether to post all or none of them.
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How many loving tempts fates did he make?
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Minrad posted:How many loving tempts fates did he make? They get increasingly convoluted.
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Minrad posted:How many loving tempts fates did he make?
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Trapezium Dave posted:I had a poke around on the site and the weird thing is, they've all got this WTF air about them, every single one, all in similar but different ways. I don't know whether to post all or none of them. my work is deep and insightful, if you disagree you are obviously one of those sheep
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Apr 10, 2014 14:01
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hey zen pencils its only natural to want to continue existence even after your meat suit wears out welp toodles~
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Trapezium Dave posted:I had a poke around on the site and the weird thing is, they've all got this WTF air about them, every single one, all in similar but different ways. I don't know whether to post all or none of them. quote:Caitlin Moran (born Catherine Elizabeth Moran; 5 April 1975) is a British broadcaster, TV critic and columnist at The Times, where she writes three columns a week: one for the Saturday Magazine, a TV review column, and the satirical Friday column "Celebrity Watch". Moran is British Press Awards (BPA) Columnist of the Year for 2010, and both BPA Critic of the Year 2011, and Interviewer of the Year 2011.[1] quote:Moran's Irish-Catholic father is a one-time "drummer and psychedelic rock pioneer" who became "confined to the sofa by osteoarthritis".[2] She is the eldest of eight children and has four sisters and three brothers. She was born in Brighton and then lived in a three bedroom council house in Wolverhampton with her parents and siblings. She attended Springdale Junior School and was then educated at home from the age of 11, having attended secondary school for only three weeks.[3] Not to knock Moran's childhood, but I can see how it might have been the seed of that quote. Doesn't make me wanna punch the pencils guy any less on general principle. I even made the effort to see things from his world view! (I looked up Moran's article on Wikipedia)
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Psygnosis posted:This Zen Pencils guy is starting to remind me of Dobson. Except in this case it's if dobson took a ton of anti-depressants and suddenly became very cheery After many years he still draws the same doodles. Because every van Gogh's painting is The Starry Night.
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Apr 10, 2014 14:24
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The meanie teacher told me I wasn't good but, I'll show her!
Now i have my own web comic HA!
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Why does the small child have the face of a full grown adult? It's really creepy.
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Apr 10, 2014 14:30
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It's worth noting that Vincent Van Gogh was actually fairly shitballs crazy
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loquacius posted:It's worth noting that Vincent Van Gogh was actually fairly shitballs crazy DO IT
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So... This is the classic Nickelodeon TV cartoon CatDog with a dinosaur-themed reskin mod applied to it. Is there anything else to it?
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Trapezium Dave posted:I had a poke around on the site and the weird thing is, they've all got this WTF air about them, every single one, all in similar but different ways. I don't know whether to post all or none of them. I wonder if he only knows exactly one quote from Moran that gets thrown around among atheist tumbleristas. I just can't imagine him reading "How to Be a Woman". Or any book, really.
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Apr 10, 2014 14:41
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loquacius posted:So... One of them is blind and also I think the art is cute
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Trapezium Dave posted:I had a poke around on the site and the weird thing is, they've all got this WTF air about them, every single one, all in similar but different ways. I don't know whether to post all or none of them. Let's just crib a philosophy from Fight Club, not recognizing that you weren't actually supposed to agree with it.
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muscles like this? posted:Let's just crib a philosophy from Fight Club, not recognizing that you weren't actually supposed to agree with it. I dunno, blowing up baby boomer corporations has a nice ring to it.
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Trapezium Dave posted:The Zen Pencils guy was a professional graphic designer for eight years before quitting to be a freelance cartoonist. No wonder all his characters look like they should be off some sort of clip art program or greeting card. They all have that "designer" look to them.
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Young Freud posted:No wonder all his characters look like they should be off some sort of clip art program or greeting card. They all have that "designer" look to them. Is that good or bad exactly?
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Apr 10, 2014 14:54
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Its amazing how smug the Zen Pencils guy can be when all of his quotes come from other people in the first place.
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Apr 10, 2014 14:55
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Internet Kraken posted:Its amazing how smug the Zen Pencils guy can be when all of his quotes come from other people in the first place. "You are a beautiful, unique snowflake who is capable of doing anything if you set your mind to it and ignore all the people who tell you otherwise!" -- Someone Else Who Is More Accomplished Than Me, A Guy Who Makes Bad Inspirational Comics For Free On The Internet
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Apr 10, 2014 14:57
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I realized I was just sitting here reading about interesting people instead of being interesting, so I decided to draw them also.
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scarycave posted:Is that good or bad exactly? Either/or. ZP's art is competent but staid. Everything seems to be very infographic, like each panel or beat is going THIS IS THE MESSAGE. The one with the robot valedictorian even more so, since there's a literal diagram shown half-way in. It's also rather safe, which is funny because the dude is quoting about creativity and challenge and such without showing it or doing anything experimental in his work
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Young Freud posted:Either/or. ZP's art is competent but staid. Maybe that's why its so boring. It doesn't really make my eyes "pop" or whatever the term is for attracting the eye. Everything is so uniform and clean - everything just sort of blends together and goes flat. Considering he dislikes learning stuff and would rather do his own thing (because people said he wasn't good or something) you'd expect the art to be...more out there. Like abstract, or generic anime or something.
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The little kid artist one is kind of funny because what kind of teacher critiques little kid art.
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Young Freud posted:No wonder all his characters look like they should be off some sort of clip art program or greeting card. They all have that "designer" look to them. Ooh, quite. Couldn't put my finger on it, but you are right. Every panel looks like an illustration from some 'highbrow' magazine to an article about how serious guys in business suits play Angry Birds, or what watches it's acceptable to wear when you are over thirty.
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Young Freud posted:Either/or. ZP's art is competent but staid. Bingo. That's probably where his background in graphic design is hurting him more than helping: he's used to have someone else do the thinking for him (clients, etc) so when left to his own devices, the result is pretty, but also pretty souless. It does not help that Zen Pencils is basically the tutorial level of "rear end in a top hat: the Game"
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scarycave posted:Maybe that's why its so boring. It doesn't really make my eyes "pop" or whatever the term is for attracting the eye. Oh yeah. I remember taking a class with an instructor who was a real abstract art type and getting admonished if I tried sketching out anything beforehand instead of letting the hand and the charcoal naturally put it down on paper. I learned something important about freedom of flow from the guy despite dropping the class in favor for more traditional art instruction with still-lifes and such. I remember seeing his professional work and he described his process as painting stuff on acetate sheets and mush it together and would do this a dozen times until it came out with something striking (since all art is done through repetition, be it figure drawing, design, or abstract art).
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muscles like this? posted:The little kid artist one is kind of funny because what kind of teacher critiques little kid art. I've had one of those in preschool. We were supposed to draw a bird in a bird cage, but I added in Mario and Luigi watching a TV and I got in trouble. Most art classes (grade school - early college basic courses) will pretty much try to spare your feelings, if you actually talk to them about it, they will go into more detail (since your asking for criticism). Generally though, the whole point is to try to help you. I've had people complain about classes before because they didn't want to draw nude figures and wanted to focus more on their style, though they snapped out of it after a few more courses once they started getting the hang of it - I'm guessing the Zen Pencils guy is like that too, except he never really grew out of it. Frankly I have a hard time doing productive art stuffs without someone giving me orders because I still lack a lot of discipline and I can't really focus on doing more intense stuff that I should be doing and just doodle random junk.
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muscles like this? posted:Let's just crib a philosophy from Fight Club, not recognizing that you weren't actually supposed to agree with it.
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The art may be bland but like others have said the real problem has that he doesn't understand the quotes he is using. No, telling someone to get up and go do something does not mean going crazy to live a stereotype. No, being a man does not involve carving up bullies with hammers. No, Rand meant "gently caress the common man" not steal cookies. It is like he gets them off those quote websites that post them out of context and he reads them at face value
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Dude getting paid to do professional art stuff, finds it unfulfilling Quits to make tumblrbait for retards whose best case scenario dream is getting paid to do professional art stuff Congrats on missing the point of art entirely, zenpencils. Kill yourself Edit: sorry don't read poser comics. Gotta draw the line somewhere right
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gently caress Your Website posted:Edit: sorry don't read poser comics. Gotta draw the line somewhere right I can't read poser comics Like, my eyes will literally unfocus whenever I see one
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1stGear posted:If you can't find entertainment in a formerly sheltered hyper-Christian guy making porn because it clearly pays better than his regular comic, I don't know why you even post in this thread. Presumably you have drunk alcohol and are thus on the verge of death. It's just amazing to me that a man who draws the sheer amount of porn Willis does now can be so loving bad at it. But then, webcomics, and all.
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Grondoth posted:Wait, the person who slammed someone's arm into a juicer is a good guy in this thing? Why do so many webcomics put terrible people in their leading roles? literally the one thing I know about that comic is someone posted in BSS that everyone in it is supposed to be an unlikeable psychopath. why? beats me Phlegmish posted:mostly it convinced me that discrimination and bigotry are sometimes good, rather than bad as is commonly assumed 
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