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October 10, 2003

So not only do I have a blog...

...but now, I'm posting OEKAKI PICTURES in it. Somebody crown me Empress of the Retarded Internet Cliches, kthnx. Or do I have to start posting Doll Palace graphics of myself wearing a prom dress and faerie/fairy/faery wings before I can claim my throne?

Anyway, these suck. I'm not going to try to defend them, because they don't deserve it. But they're the first three Oekaki drawings I've ever done in my entire fucking life, so they're allowed to be terrible.

From top to bottom: A crappy Drimmer, a crappy Maira with a crappy baby Drimmer, and a crappy demon a la Saint Sebastian, sans arrows.

I'm doing this because Painter is just too complex for me, right now. Baby steps. Still, I wish that PaintBBS had some way of allowing me to draw an antialiased opaque line.

I won't subject you to any more if I continue to suck this badly, but I'll try to post any decent drawings I do. I'm requiring one of these a day from myself. It's time I learned to paint.

Posted by Spike at October 10, 2003 12:26 AM

Comments

Hey, it's still one million percent better than most of the global oekaki output.
Now, that symbol being uttered by Dr. Immer up in the first picture,--it keeps showing up hither and yon in the Super-Comic-Fun-Pak, too. What th' heck is that? It looks kinda like a femur.

Posted by ainsley s at October 10, 2003 09:47 AM
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Can't tell. Gotta wait for Sparkneedle to go up at GAM first.

I'm so mysterious.

Posted by spike at October 10, 2003 11:43 AM
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Ooh, oekaki vanity.
I like the one on the bottom the best, it has this juicy oil pastel quality, which is something new I've seen. I've seen colored pencil, watercolor, marker and chunky pixellations, but never a good cre-pas drawing on oekaki.

Posted by Lyra at October 10, 2003 12:23 PM
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*_* Those are AWESOME. The lines in the first two are seriously phat. Especially the middle one. And the last one... is amazing. Damn, I wish my first few oekaki's looked that good.

Posted by Shannon at October 10, 2003 05:21 PM
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Painter is annoying, feature-bloated ASS.

Try Open Canvas instead: www.portalgraphics.net.
Painting tools and ONLY painting tools, because we want to PAINT, not be able to make a damn plaid mosaic background tile!

Posted by Lea at October 11, 2003 07:14 AM
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OMG OEKAKI! I've seen Oekaki boards before, but they always have fannish renditions of anime characters that I couldn't care less about. Since I haven't gotten my hipness treatments in awhile, tell me - what exactly IS Oekaki? is it a program?

Posted by Zack at October 11, 2003 09:44 AM
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Zack: There are a buncha programs called "oekaki." I've been told that's Japanese for sketch or doodle, and the original programs are Japanese in origin (Which explains why the American otaku communities love 'em so.) Depending on the program in question, they range from crummy little MSPaint-style doodleboards to boards advanced enough to render photorealistic portraits in soft tones. The most common version of the program's "OekakiPoteto," I think. They're basically messageboards you can draw in.

Lea: Can OpenCanvas do antialiased opaque lines?

And thank for the praise, you guys. It's really encouraging, especially, when I'm just starting out...

Posted by spike at October 11, 2003 11:16 AM
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絵描き 【えかき】 (n) artist; painter
Oekaki Keijiban is an artists' BBS.

openCanvas is quite good, but almost everyone I know uses the horrid monster Photoshop anyway :p

New here, nice pics :)

Cheers

Posted by clueless at October 12, 2003 12:11 PM
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Thanks for the correction. And welcome! STARE AT MY LIFE, PLZ.

Posted by spike at October 12, 2003 11:33 PM
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Yes, Open Canvas can do an antialiased opaque line.
It's everything I used to love about Painter, without everything I came to LOATHE.
Fuck Photoshop for painting.

Posted by Lea at October 13, 2003 12:58 AM
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