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Hi all!!!
I've just complete my first real sketchbook (almost 200 pages!!!!)
I want to show you some of my drawings,I've scanned the pages I like most.
Some are from photos, some from real life...someone invented...
And I post some of my digital sketch as well.
I use Photopaint and a Wacom tablet for digital paint.
I hope to update this sketchbook weekly...
Only old man and bikini girl are from refs
Batman is not from references!!! :-)
No refs for those pages
I use a real life references for the couple on the bench, and for the man with
moustache on right page
I use some detail reference from military veicle for the sketches on the right
all the digitals sketches are from photoreferences with a little bit interpretation.
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Sorry for my bad english...
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I specially like your sketches of everyday people and your digi stuff just really inspires me.
note: either your sketchbook is small or you have a big ass scanner!
my sketchbook:http://www.conceptart.org/forums/sho...d.php?t=113840
Cool studies, i love how you did the curves of the 'fat girl'!
Keep it up!
Very good pencils sketch, I like your stuff!
P.S. è sempre un piacere vedere altri italiani in questo forum
Great stuff I like it
Forgive me my bad english
my sketchbook and my homepage
Fantastic pencils and the colours and skin look really good on the digi's! Thanks
Really nice work, please post more!
I consider it a challenge before the whole human race, and I ain't gonna lose.
nice sketches, i like the line flow.
Really sweet stuff. No crits. Those vehicles look very nice, and the two old guys sitting talking are also very well captured. Looking forward to more posts.
Please take the time to give me some constructive criticism in my Sketchbook
Thanx all for replies, I'm working -and scanning! :-) - for more posts!
Stay tuned
Wow, EXCELLENT stuff. I love the drawings. Your figures look so...fleshy. The digitals are great as well. Excellent values and colors, but I think they could stand to be a little sharper. Keep up the incredible work!
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Hi guys! :-)
Some others images from my sketchbook as i promised...
no refs
no refs
I use a photo reference for the face of the fat man on the bottom left page
no refs
some digit
photo ref
ehm...no refs :-)
photo ref
photo reference
Last edited by DANKA; November 6th, 2009 at 08:40 AM.
nice to see your sketchbook, finally...
don't be shy, i know you got thons of great stuff to post, so
Check out:
my sketchbook
very very nice start!
I really like your sketches, they're pretty cool,, specially the castles
keep showing us the 200 pages !
Some new pages of my 200pages sketchbook :-)))))
I used a pair of photo references for the man with glasses on left pages
no refs
no refs
and the digital ones
photo ref
photo ref
no ref
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Sorry for my bad english...
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A pair of new pages to share!
Please leave your impression!
Photo refs for the four girls on left, no refs for the figures on right
no refs
and some digital...
no ref
no ref :-)
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Sorry for my bad english...
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Well, not bad. But awesome!
amazing sketches! look forward to more~
Hi again!
Many thanx for replyes!
New pages from my sketchbook
Refs for the girl images on the left
Refs for the man with glasses and the old man with cap
No refs
And the digitaaalsss
photo ref
No ref
Photo ref
No ref
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Sorry for my bad english...
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hey !
very cool sketchbook pages.
i like your pencils very much, especially the perspective views of the ladies
but really nice flow in all of your lines. very lively.
but i have some problems with the digital colored pieces.
the colors just dont want to jump to life somehow, in fact i miss the depth in most of them, seems you do little abstraction or close looking at nature.
rather you seem to use photoreferences (which is basically ok for sure) and copy the flat colors.
there is so much more going on in color varieties, maybe its all to sketchy to judge it from that point of view, but learning from life and closely observing what is there to see, not what you think you know about any given object, would add life to the colors as much as in your pencils and figures.
just my 2 cent, keep up the good work !
From the dive down to the wet
Usually I fall, tell myself
It doesn't matter anyway
That this is just another day
I don't speak the truth too much
Hear the roars and the hush
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azghoul´s sketchbook
I'd have to agree about the use of photo refs...you're people look great but the landscapes felt flat to me as well. I've gotta wonder what size sketchbook you're working with! I really like how you push the figures so much yet are still able to bang out something completely different as well. First the cars, then the castle, then the robots. It's something that I want to start doing in my SB. The only other thing I can note is that you're skipping out on the rendering of the fingers in most of your figures. Great work though!
azghoul_ Thanx for the constructive criticism on my digits landscape
I see your color study named "coastlight" and...man! it's amazing! thanx again
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I hope to post some more tomorrow!
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I used photo refs for the man and the screaming girl with glasses on bottom right.
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Ever heard of patent trolls? It's a term used to describe individuals or investors who purchase patents with no intent to manufacture or market the product. Rather, they generally sue for patent infringement or try to settle with companies that use the innovations. It's a growing trend that today's guest writers say cripples creativity and exerts a financial toll on small businesses.
Patent trolls restrain innovation
By Tino Mantella
An elementary schoolgirl named Suzy set up a lemonade stand in her parents' front yard. Each glass was sold for 50 cents. At the end of her sales, she made $12.50.
But what if Suzy was forced to shut down because a law firm sent her a letter demanding 75 cents per glass of lemonade sold because the technology she used for payment, including emailing a copy of each receipt to her customers, was under a so-called "patent?" Outrageous as that may seem, this type of practice is happening everyday as "patent trolls" target Georgia small businesses and organizations.
As a technology organization, our goal would never be to stifle innovation and technology growth. We understand firsthand the need to safeguard true innovative products and new technology inventions. But with little protection against patent trolls, often resulting in settlements totaling millions, it's difficult to stand by while small businesses are forced to close or pay fake companies with no truthful, new innovation.
More formally known as Patent Assertion Entities, patent trolls are people or shell companies that enforce patents — their only assets — for the sole purpose of filing lawsuits. These shell companies have no employees, assets or products. They only hold "patents" and sue for their patent rights. These patents are typically vague and overly broad and hurt business owners.
A recent Boston University School of Law study, "The Direct Costs from Non-Practicing Entity Disputes," shows that in 2011, patent trolls cost the American economy $29 billion. What's more, a huge number of patent lawsuits were patent trolls against small businesses. In her paper, "Start-ups and Patent Trolls," Professor Colleen Chien of the Santa Clara University School of Law reported that "companies with less than $100 million annual revenue represent at least 66 percent of defendants in troll suits, and that at least 55 percent of those defendants make $10 million per year or less."
This is proof that the number of outrageous patent cases is on the rise. Patent trolls target small business around the country. We have seen a growing number of cases in Georgia. It's time for Washington to take the lead against the patent troll epidemic for the sake of innovation and good of our nation's entrepreneurs.
Our elected representatives in Washington have begun to take notice. Their support reflects a bipartisan desire to take action and challenge these patent trolls with solid regulations. Earlier this month, the White House issued five executive actions and seven legislative recommendations designed to protect innovators from frivolous litigation and ensure the highest-quality patents in our system.
I am proud our leaders in Washington are making progress to improve patent quality and prevent litigation abuse. But business owners and technology innovators must continue to drive efforts for patent troll awareness to ensure that the patent system is not taken advantage of in a way that restrains innovation.
Tino Mantella is president of the Technology Association of Georgia.
Atlanta entrepreneurs experience patent trolls
By Jon Potter
Atlanta's tech start-up community has a lot to be proud of. Companies are emerging from Georgia Tech, being nurtured in communities like Hypepotomous and Atlanta Tech Village, getting funded locally. Unfortunately, success can also result in high-class problems. Atlanta entrepreneurs have recently begun experiencing the scourge of patent trolls, just like their industry colleagues in Silicon Valley and New York.
Patent trolls — or Patent Assertion Entities, as they prefer to be called — operate unusual businesses. They do not create products or provide services. They typically own a handful of poor-quality patents that do not support real products or operating businesses. They hire lawyers to scour the country for "targets," whom they offer a deal that is hard to refuse: License our patents for several thousand dollars and a percentage of future revenue, or spend hundreds of thousands of dollars defending a patent infringement lawsuit in federal court.
Several trolls are public companies that focus on large targets like Cisco, Motorola and AT&T. But a new class of has recently started to attack small companies, even pre-revenue start-ups. These trolls finance their operations by obtaining nuisance-fee settlements from small companies. The settlements create the patina of legitimate patents by documenting dozens of licensees and also fund the troll's focus on larger targets. It's a business model that's bad for innovators and entrepreneurs in Atlanta and nationwide.
Recently, one Atlanta-based company fought back against a troll and won. BlueWave Computing was targeted by a prominent troll that claims a patent on technology that converts scanned documents into email attachments. BlueWave's CEO thought the troll's original demand letter was laughable, and he ignored it. But when a lawsuit followed, the CEO hired a prominent Atlanta law firm and successfully defeated the troll. It cost tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees.
Unfortunately, the absurdity of a troll's patent claims usually does not matter because most small companies — including many in Atlanta — cannot afford to pay lawyers and fight back. They simply pay the troll to go away. This is a tax on innovation that threatens Georgia's vibrant start-up community and burgeoning tech industry.
Last year, the app industry generated more than $1 billion in economic activity in Georgia. Georgia's app economy is the seventh-largest in the nation, and the tech start-up scene is growing. Investment and energy are destabilized when a single patent troll letter can shutter a company, force it to change business models or scare investors.
Congress is just beginning to pay attention to patent trolls. Georgia Congressman Hank Johnson Jr. is a member of the influential Judiciary Committee that will consider new patent reform laws later this year. If you agree that Congress should stop patent trolls, visit devsbuild.it/fightpatenttrolls and send a letter to your Congressional representative.
Jon Potter is president of the Washington, D.C. based Application Developers Alliance.
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[...] Patent Trolls (Tino Mantella & Jon Potter / blogs.ajc.com) [...]
July 24th, 2013
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I've just patented irrational behavior. You shall all owe me money.
July 24th, 2013
12:29 pm
Protecting personal property including intellectual property is one of the legitimate roles of government. Obviously this has become much more difficult as products become more complicated and the actually designs less apparent. I agree that Patent Trolls are a real problem and support discussion on better ways to handle this. However, I'm slow to support new regulation and wonder if current policies could be "tweaked" to better address the issue without creating more layers of bureaucracy that itself stifles innovation.
July 24th, 2013
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Okay, I pretty much agree that something should be done. So what does the new law say? How do you distinguish between a "good" patent and a "troll" patent. Given how Congress operates, or doesn't operate these days, I'm not so sure I trust it to get it right.


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The holidays are finally over! That means it is time to find other fun distractions from the cold blistery weather. Youth ages 12 to 19 are invited to join Ms. Bobbie in the Teen Space for books, crafts and games all month long. Throughout December, we received shipment after shipment of new books for the Teen Space, so be sure to peruse our new books display!
We will honor Martin Luther King Jr. this month with a MLK quote collage craft on Monday, Jan. 7 as well as through our Book Club selection - Kekla Magoon's The Rock and the River. Book Club meets Monday, Jan. 28, so there is plenty of time to come grab a copy and read.
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Wow, this is finally completed. Well, to make the story of how this was made short~ Pulled an all nighter before a 5AM plane ride to get this done. Video was left at home because i was forced out of the house by other people as to make sure we didn't miss the plane I managed to have my friend upload it but i soon realized it was too long. So using some awesome stuff, i managed to get a copy of it, and edit down to the length it is now. I really hope you enjoy it! It took forever to make, and almost wasn't finished on time :) -Done for the world of Goo contest-
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Folks are sayin' World of Goo Corporation is up to no good. Watch as Guy in the Tie discovers the truth about what's happened to our world, and even learns the value of teamwork! This is my entry into the Life Imitating Goo contest. Materials used for the Goo Glove at the end of the film are wire, modeling clay, acrylic paint and those awesome googly eyes. Supporting props are made of cardboard, artists tape and acrylic paint. Hope you like it! Wayne Watrach (W2)- Director/Writer/Prop Designer/Guy in the Tie R2 - Camera/Production Assistant/Electric Zigzags (together we're W2 R2) Kyle Gabler - Music Special Thanks to Dan Curtindolph, 2D Boy, and gametrailers.com
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A kind of cancer called adenocarcinoma accounts for more than 95% of colorectal cancers. There are other rare types of cancer that can be found in the colon and rectum:
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors
Adenocarcinomas are tumors that start in cells with glandular properties, or cells that secrete. Adeno means gland. They can form in a lot of different organs, such as the colon, rectum, lung, or breast. In colorectal adenocarcinoma, early tumors start as small adenomatous polyps that continue to grow and then turn into malignant tumors.
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(Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland) Syrians and the international community are focused on the Geneva II conference regarding peace in our nation, Syria.
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On 28 May 2002, English Heritage, the Government's statutory adviser on the historic environment (sponsored by the Ministry for Culture, Media and Sport - DCMS), organised in London a seminar on the historic environment in England's wetlands at the occasion of the launch of its Wetlands Strategy, introduced by Adrian Olivier. A handful of speakers, representing archeology and historical science, as well as ecology and the administrative bodies responsible for cultural and natural heritage management (English Heritage, English Nature), covered current issues, practice and policies for better integrated management decisions and debated what can be learnt from the past in shaping the future. The Ramsar Bureau was invited to present the new "Guiding principles for identifying the cultural aspects of wetlands and incorporating them into the effective management of sites", proposed to COP8 for adoption.
English Heritage had earlier commissioned the 'Monuments at Risk in England's Wetlands' (MAREW) report to identify the state of 13,400 archeological monuments in wetlands, without counting those non-identified monuments remaining deeply buried in the alluviated lowlands and beneath upland peat. 78 per cent of this identifiable resource has been damaged or destroyed in the past 50 years through drainage, water abstraction, conversion of pasture into arable land, peat wastage, erosion and extraction, and urban and industrial development.
English Heritage's Wetlands Strategy will thus develop guidelines and manuals for wetland landscape conservation in partnership with other agencies, produce an inventory of the most important wetland monuments in England, promote site-specific conservation management strategies, encourage public participation and community involvement, and assist the European Archeology Council (EAC) in formulating guidance for wetland heritage management at a continent-wide scale (cf. www.ramsar.org/wwd2002_rpt_archaeology.htm).
The discussion amongst the sixty or so participants, how to get the balance right, showed a widespread consensus on the need to take an ecosystems approach and to converge different cultural and natural perspectives in order to bring originally incompatible interests together to find sustainable solutions. With this Wetlands Strategy, England shows the way how to integrate historical aspects into wetland management and conservation, providing a useful case for the forthcoming discussions during COP8, when preparing for the adoption of the proposed guiding principles.
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The UpTake: Banksy's art may be worth millions, but that doesn't necessarily mean he's raking in the dough.
Writing about the grafitti artist Banksy is just asking to be lampooned by the anonymous man (or at least most people assume it's a man), who repeatedly mocks attempts to place his creations in an elevated light.
"Are you kidding me?" he (or someone representing him) asked after reading what sounds like the work of some highfalutin critic on his 800 number, #1. "Who writes this stuff?"
But we're a business publication, so we get to talk about money, getting money, and generating publicity.
The artist whose work has sold for as much as $1.8 million and whose overhead typically consists of spray paint and cardboard stencils could easily be a wealthy individual, but something tells me he's not. Most of his artwork is left on other people's property, ranging from building walls, to leased trucks, where it is typically either painted over or surgically removed to be sold at auction to the benefit of whoever owned the property, not Banksy.
In one of the artist's most conventional business moves, over the weekend he sold his work in Central Park among other street artisist's pedaling their creations. Funny thing though, he was asking $60 a pop, when his original works regularly fetch six figures or more. Presumably the elderly man operating the Central Park booth was paid a wage, and another man, the driver of a truck Banksy filled with stuffed animals supposedly on their way to be butchered told Gothamist he was "just the delivery guy" and didn't know anything else. Again, more overhead—not a whole lot of opportunity for that big pay day.
Like many an entrepreneur, Banksy now has his own website, a toll free number, 1 (800) 656-4271, and is currently working in New York City on what might be considered part of an extended world tour, again, more overhead. Someone has been managing a Twitter account for @Banksy, retweeting people asking if this is really Banksy, but never once actually tweeting original content. If this is in fact the artist, at least it's free.
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Just said, there are always people buy, not always people donate.
Im not feeling shameful on any aspects, I do donate my little money to African Kids, to FOSS projects. All my money for those not important to life like games. I shall part my money to those never getting fund rather than an action many people do: purchase. I would donate, to games zero-k, springrts; to some tools - inkscape, a Chinese font project wqy.
Not yet for Scribus and GIMP. But I will, just later, and Hedgewars. Probably following with openclonk, armagetron, laidout.
I bought those humble bundle for few $, and played few of them. Some were nice, some were I waited for years(the And Yet It Moves since the IGF Award). Meanwhile, I found I shall give more money to Licho, he run SpringRTS server and took thousands of euro from own pocket for hosting. Then the money goes to Zero-K.
The open source community is already mainly about linux, having support from commercial companies is what we lack.
I understand your position of donating instead of buying, but for the HIB games, there isn't much difference, really.
Most HIB games have been open sourced after the sale.
A greater gap of financial balance, is the difference, as it is the commercial activity itself.
The event get HIB participants money no doubt.
Never a event to get attention on those free to play.
I saw sometimes indie gamers/developers questioning "why ****(anyone using springrts engine) the game is free?"
People always want more, if its game need payment, then pay for it; if its free game then download it, and it is end.
Ok, I don't care commercial support like other people do... that make me different maybe.
I am really in favour of these commercial-today/FOSS-later projects.
Take Minecraft or the HIB. The devs make some money and the source gets released (during the same decade).
With the economic downturn (call it "the USA f***ed us all" if you wish) less and less developers are going to have spare time for purely FOSS projects.
Sometimes you need to be able to compromise.
Yeah, thats why people shall donate...
I saw indie developer complaining their own fiscal situation. Right, people need to get pay for life and more. I just don't see much donations.
And I have limited money. Firstly, I'd donate to applications. PEOPLE ALL KNOW TO PURCHASE.
I think that you are missing my point.
Have a look at kickstarter's most funded projects: http://www.kickstarter.com/discover/most-funded?ref=sidebar
There are almost no FOSS projects there. People DOES NOT donate to FOSS.
Alternative ways of funding Open Source projects should be explored and welcome.
I recently had to give up working on a serious FOSS project mainly because no one donated. I think FOSS projects are just going to have to learn the hard way like I did that you can't work on it long term because no one is going to donate. And until it becomes widely known that you simply aren't going to be able to fund your FOSS game then your going to see more developers getting burned.
Your only hope is to be commercial and then FOSS after sales. Also nobody cares if it is FOSS until it is finished anyways.
Honestly I'd protest against trying to make money with games at all for the realistic average FOSS-type team. Games that make money normally require high demand, high paid incredible talent. That or money making is only for the lucky group to be first with a game genre to the platform who can even make a well rounded good game in the first place.
If every large genre have a FOSS. Then the gaming world may corrupt, as FOSS re-use resources minimizing labour. And if player play more FOSS then less income to non-FOSS. FOSS kill huge amount of income to IT industry. That's probably why few goveronment will support it as it also kills tax/employment.
Awesome point as to why government would not support FOSS. However I do not agree FOSS will kill commercial. Free labor does not produce at the rate that paid labor does. Also free labor does not tend to be in the consumers best interest but mainly in the developers interest. If people want / need something done then they will pay for it...
I think at best FOSS vs commercial will be much like windows vs linux - linux will always be "2nd" however will always be destined to be first.
And yes I agree that government should help FOSS projects. FOSS projects are in demand but by their nature are very hard to fund. This is the very kind of things that require tax / government intervention. Much like how roads or military would never get paid for.