Observant

"Someone", you say? Well, congratulations. Non-specific requests for help tend to be my domain. You're mine, now. Fuck it, you too. We are gonna get your everything hammered right out, come hell, high water, or crazy mouth tornado from the stars. (That's an Azathoth joke.) I have a feeling this will be the start of a wonderful curse.

This looks like a lot of fun actually! I've been text-rping in forums and games a little bit but have never gone past that to actually creating a wiki for my character nor tracking his development over many years. It'd be awesome if someone could guide me, especially since my character come 2.0 will be a youngling who wasn't old enough to understand what was going on 5 years ago.

Yea, turns out it is. It even said there in the metadata ... but who ever goes through those. I could totally see a city not allowing people to paint it from one side cause it looks disproportionate!

-highfive- Don't worry, if everyone else leaves you behind, I'll be with you all new and confused. We'll form our own linkshell and none of the stinky elitists from 1.0 are allowed! >3 Except you Vareal, if you can find the video, you'll be welcomed to our no-1.0-linkshell with open arms! And lots of sandwiches ...

Thanks guys for the amazing encouragement! I've literally just started drawing these things, so to see everyone actually not calling it ugly is very cool. Having said that, please give me lots of biting criticism! Also, whoever can tell me where this is ... gets lots of cookies and love. All the filename told me was "FF-RR-RW1.jpg" D: ... now I'm actually not even sure if this is FFXIV anymore. Edit: I did add the blossom and the tree, the bottom left of the image was too silly to draw. http://25.media.tumblr.com/deca4cc5dd69178bb9101aefcb329426/tumblr_mnxdo10ilU1su7oufo1_1280.jpg[/img]

Okay, here is a preliminary draft of things. I drew in two styles, one an abstract western style that I feel didn't really work as well as I hoped with the brush. The other is, while not completely traditional, more closely aligned with traditional techniques. Comments! Biting criticism, as much as possible! edit: Also, I need to adjust the f-stop settings on my camera, no need to point that out for now. edit 2: Also, top = traditional, bottom = more abstract http://24.media.tumblr.com/39769da8d2ba2e87eac637caa08c4f77/tumblr_mntqpbXU5K1su7oufo1_1280.jpg[/img] http://24.media.tumblr.com/f7cddc0fbfb2286663ab04c93f60ee9d/tumblr_mntp603rXJ1su7oufo1_500.jpg[/img]

Thank you guys for the comments, now I must do this! -fire lights up in his eyes- And special thanks to Alothia for the album, I'll start from the first one and work my way down!

Thank you friend! Any scenery from FFXIV you can recommend for me to draw?

I'm not sure if anyone's interested in brushes of the far east, but recently I've started drawing traditional chinese paintings, since I've been doing calligraphy almost all my life, this turns out to be quite easy. Chinese brushes are also the basis on which most Japanese stuff derives from, and I've been drawing some of that as well. What I want to try to do is take this art style, my limited skill in it, and apply it to FFXIV sceneries. To that effect, if anyone is interested, and has some amazing screenshots, I'd love to take one and try to turn it into a painting. Here's a sample I threw together in 5 minutes to test my brush and the new paper I bought. http://24.media.tumblr.com/2d2146facf4d23bb00a894713a7740bd/tumblr_mntbbmp9Y11su7oufo1_1280.jpg[/img]

I personally feel that it's as terrible as it has been at launch. Everyone's still playing sexy Harry Potter, and RP typically just consists of lots of hanging out in a bar, talking about how demon possessed they are. (True story) It's a large reason why I don't really play much at all anymore. >.> That's what I ran into back in the day. But I guess I'll check out the RP site and see how it goes.

Ah that sounds pretty damn sweet... I should get back to it. The game itself, felt a little grindy for me though. Probably because I did the quests in beta, and then really didn't want to do them again in live. That and the PvP was a little disappointing, as it seems I got experience without any actual growth. But with a recommendation like that, how can I not go play ...

Ahh, yea, =P. There's your problem. You didn't have a family!

Way to go! -teases- As far as disappointing goes, I think you've just trumped mine! -bows and runs off to bed-

Been on and off AoW for the past bit, but since I played on the Chinese server this isn't quite what I was expecting. And, is TSW RP really as good as you say? I remember being super excited by it, buying /Grand Master/ back in the day, and then stopping like a month in due to lack of RP. Has it matured much now?

Oh so we finally found out who's responsible for the end of the world ... WHAT DO WE DO NOW? (Think of all the Inns you wouldn't have stayed in if he got smacked down then and there!) But in all earnest. Thank you guys so much for the first hand descriptions of that fateful evening. It really makes me regret not getting the game when I should have, but also make me a little glad. - Glad that there are still so many who genuinely care about the world and the history, for whom it left such a lasting impact. That and chatting with tightlipped friends from Beta ... I absolutely cannot wait ... at all ... until August ...