Dec 12 21:49:50 <felixmole> hey, anyone can advertise bomb mode on TDM plz?
Dec 12 21:50:34 <SvaRoX> @bigtext all ^1DSWP Bomb : ^2/connect dswp.de:22223 ^1NOW !!!
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Dec 12 22:05:25 <SvaRoX> @bigtext all ^1DSWP Bomb : ^2/connect dswp.de:22223 ^1NOW !!!
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Dec 12 22:09:11 <SvaRoX> @bigtext ^1DSWP Bomb : ^2/connect dswp.de:22223 ^1NOW !!!
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Dec 12 22:10:31 <JRandomNoob> OR ELSE!-)
Dec 12 22:10:48 <SvaRoX> :)
(Well, not actually, but it's hard to remember what exact order these ideas appeared in.)
This is my first digital painting ev4r. Well, actually I have an unfinished previous version (as seen from the file name), based on a different picture, but that doesn't count. I'm not nearly happy with the result, but it still feels good; you know, for a first ever painting it doesn't look all that bad:-) And no, I haven't painted IRL at all, only drawn in graphite pencil. I started it on December 12th and finished less than half an hour ago; there were several weeks I didn't even open the file. The size of the image is chosen so that it would be usable as a wallpaper on any monitor, unless you have a really monstrous one (or several). You can cut off the edges for a 4:3 aspect ratio monitor, and scale it as needed; if you have trouble with something, ask me. I hereby declare this image being in public domain and allow everyone to copy and modify it freely. You could still keep my signature, though;-)
The reference photograph was http://www.123rf.com/photo_5518791_aggressive-boxing-girl.html. To see the shadows more clearly, I tweaked its brightness and contrast. Well, to be fair, I painted the draft directly onto the image; it's against good practice, but screw that, I wanted results. The search that turned up this picture was "aggressive girl", by the way. Skin tones were taken from http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_goTkiAWnZuU/SK-lyR26pOI/AAAAAAAAAZY/pVQt6Ysqhm4/s1600-h/dark+skin!!!.jpg (you notice the result is considerably different). Hair tones came from http://www.dphotonews.com/tutorials/brunette_blond.php (I figured that as the boxing girl was blonde, this diff image would help me in turning her into brunette). Hand was the hardest part, I did at least three different sketches and finally painted it on upscaled http://fotosa.ru/stock_photo/Westend61_RF/p_1710473.jpg. The pistol is a Desert Eagle; I used several photos to get the shape and colors right, but the specific ones aren't important.
It's quite amazing how easy it was to draw the mouth, that has at least three distinct components (lips, teeth and tongue), each one completely different from others. And how difficult it was to get the large surfaces right... Additionally, I could've placed her finger on the trigger guard (holding your finger on the trigger when you don't want to shoot is a bad idea), but this painting has been tricky enough already as it is.
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As a side note, I FUCKING HATE THE NEW GIMP! Basically everything that worked has been munged badly; some things can be fixed, some not. Like, why in the sweetest hell should I use move tool to move the content of the selection??? (Might sound weird to you, but believe me, it isn't necessary and wasn't in older versions.) Status bar has a retarded help message on it, telling you that you can, imagine that, paint with painting tools, select with selection tools, etc, so you can't see what layer you're on (only when you mouse over). Uninstalling this crud and installing an older version (2.2.*) took me, like, half a day, because something got b0rked (DLL hell) and I had to manually download shit and install and uninstall three different versions several times before I succeeded. Or something. Christ, is there a backup copy of the developers somewhere that we could restore?
Next time I install a new system, I will check very carefully whether my favorite applications have been fucked up while I wasn't looking. 2.2.17 appears to be the last decent version of GIMP; it doesn't do you in the face, and it fixes few annoying bugs from previous version (and introduces few new ones, of course). The next version, 2.4.0, started with this status bar spam.
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Anyway, here it is. Share and enjoy. The ZIP contains a full-size PNG, and an animated GIF showing the work in progress (the weird splotches on the image are to pick colors from when drawing; palette, basically). (I wanted to add the raw file, too, inflating the ZIP to 9 MB, but for some reason the upload got borked every time).
