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Yordan, it took me a few hours to shape the body, and then a great many hours afterwards to modify it. I realize now that I could have done it in about a quarter of the time with Illustrator.

Who is Little Annie? Is she a famous dead girl? You mean she can't do pushups because her head hits her tombstone? Why would a fragment of bus take the shape of a cross?

I used Photoshop, although I think I will be doing most of my drawing in Illustrator from here on out. And I did it all on my computer, as I do not own a scanner.Thanks for the compliments, all.

I have seen it reported that 10% of Internet users have Javascript disabled. Whether for security concerns or to curtail annoyances like pop-up windows, it seriously limits your ability, as a web designer, to mold your website into something creative and novel. This is where CSS rollovers come in. You know that effect you get when you roll the cursor over an image, and then the image changes? Traditionally, that effect has been accomplished by using Javascript to swap out images. I present here my own index page which has been made only with CSS and html. If you are unfamiliar with CSS, you may find this tutorial difficult to follow (and maybe even if you are familiar with it!). If you look at the page, you will probably assume that I used 8 images. But in actuality, I used only this one image: Let me explain. I placed an unordered list in the center of the page and specified the background-image property to point to the image I just showed you. Ostensibly, you could use any element that takes a class or id, rather than just a list, but the ul lends itself to this example. Importantly, I set the height of the ul block to cut off the bottom half of the background image. Here are my class specifications for the unordered list: .circumcellion {[tab][/tab]background-image: url(circumcellion.gif);[tab][/tab]height: 176px;[tab][/tab]width: 755px;[tab][/tab]padding: 0;[tab][/tab]margin: 0;[tab][/tab]position: relative;[tab][/tab]}[tab][/tab].circumcellion a {[tab][/tab]display: block;[tab][/tab]}.circumcellion li {[tab][/tab]list-style: none; position: absolute;[tab][/tab]}All of the list items within the unordered list are made into links and given their own class. Using CSS, I specify the positions and sizes of the list items and their links, respectively, like so: .journal {left: 0px; top: 0px;}.trip {left: 180px; top: 46px;}.money {left: 467px; top: 16px;}.contact {left: 687px; top: 16px;}.journal a {width: 123px; height: 166px;}.trip a {width: 238px; height: 86px;}.money a {width: 163px; height: 149px;}.contact a {width: 67px; height: 151px;}As you may be aware, the CSS pseudo-class a:hover allows you to change attributes of a link when the cursor rolls over it. To add the rollover effect, I just have to call another instance of the same image. Using a:hover, you can pop up a background-image for the list item. So essentially, we are looking at a list item's background image in front of the list's background image. Understand? The following code tells the browser to use the image as a background and specifies how many pixels up and left to shift the image: .journal a:hover {background: url(circumcellion.gif) 0px -176px no-repeat;}.trip a:hover {background: url(circumcellion.gif) -180px -222px no-repeat;}.money a:hover {background: url(circumcellion.gif) -467px -192px no-repeat;}.contact a:hover {background: url(circumcellion.gif) -687px -192px no-repeat;}And that's basically it. If I explained anything poorly, just ask for clarification. This is a complicated subject, and difficult to explain, so I would not be surprised if I left out something important. You can also look at my source code from the link above. Also, I want to give credit to powderseekers.com, whose code I intently studied to figure this whole thing out, and thanks to the Xisto member who pointed out that CSS could be used thusly.

Good suggestion, rapco. The legs do look too short now that I think about it.Szupie, you might be right about the size of the head. I'll experiment with that factor when I'm doodling in class, tomorrow. To answer your question, I'm not very good at lines, so I have to go over my lines with the paintbrush and eraser many times until they're smooth. This gives me an opportunity to make them as thick as I want them.Techocian, your comment made me realize that I should have taken a feminine approach to this picture. She is a lioness, after all. I'm sure now that rounded edges would have been more effective. To answer your question, I used Photoshop CS to make this.

Actually, the Microsoft website makes it seem like they're developing two different Vistas; one for P.C.s and one for servers.

To yordan, this is just what my sketch became when I started drawing. I don't particularly like Westerns more than any other genre.To optykal, I think your criticisms are dead on. I will be a lot more careful with the placement of the head, next time. As for the lines on the vest, I was being lazy and hoped no one would notice that they weren't curved right To cyborgxxi, that's a good tip. I'll look into Stan Lee's book, as I've been an avid fan of his for years.To foolakadugie, I'm not sure if lengthening the calves would work for me or not, but I'll give it a try with my next comic-book-style character. Perhaps that will give me more of the stylized look I'm going for.To AbyssalStalker, I'm into more unconventional heroes, these days. Ever read "The Invisibles" series by Grant Morrison? This guy, for instance, could be a banker that lost it all when a gang of bank-robbers destroyed his bank. So he learns the way of the gun and seeks his revenge on those robbers.Or he could be a high-dollar assassin with a heart of gold and a troubling past.They don't all wear bright spandex, anymore.

This is not a very good lioness. What I aim to discover is where I went wrong. I quit before finishing the paws or adding any sort of texture because the head struck me as blatantly wrong. Perhaps the head is too long?

You made me laugh out loud, Jeigh. Back to the topic at hand, I'm not sure that these n00b-haters are really malevolent. Perhaps they're just initiating the new blood into the fold with good-natured ribbing. It's this principle that you must pay your dues before being accepted as an equal. Yes, it does seem harsh, but the n00b begins to feel a sense of pride as he/she advances in the group. I imagine this creates a greater sense of community. I'm not saying this system of denigration is better, just that it has its own advantages. Personally, I'd rather not be called an idiot every time I ask a question.

I pasted your url into my address bar and my browser seems to think that your website does not exist (I even tried changing the uppercase letters to lowercase). Now what would give my browser that impression?

This is a great tutorial. I've watched enough cartoons to be completely familiar with what he's saying, but I don't think consciously about these principles when I'm drawing cartoons. It's as if this tutorial is helping you learn from your own subconscious memories.

I remember seeing video of people crowded around storefronts, waiting to be let in to buy Windows 95. I wonder if anyone is going to get that excited over Windows Vista (longhorn).

Shogi, I have to agree that the dresser looks great. I like the shuriken, also. The C4 has an awkward shadow line going diagonally across the front. Maybe it should be there, but it just doesn't seem right to my eyes.And gamerchick, I like your Gonrack. Very creative.

Is it just me or do we see headlines that exclaim "Tenth Planet found!" like every two years? How many tenth planets have we actually found? To add to the confusion, some of them are given names like 2003 UB313. C'mon astronomers, how about another Roman god? I think we're due for a Bacchus.

I use Stock Exchange for all my stock photo needs. I've never looked for the images you asked for, but I'm always able to find something usable when I go there. It requires a registration, but it's worth it. And the images are much larger than the images you'll tend to find with internet search engines, like Google.

Click on this picture for a larger version. As I stated in the title, this is my first real attempt at a comic-book-style hero. I don't think I got the highlighting just right, and I'm sure I fudged some of the clothing. Obviously, there's a lot of room for improvement. I've noticed some talented artists here, so I'm sure there is criticism to be had. You don't have to be nice, either. Just tell me what looks bad, and if you have suggestions for improvement, tell me those, too.

Are you sure your Android Jones link is valid? I can't seem to connect to his site. Perhaps he's having technical issues.

I really like it. foolakadugie is right that the nose looks a little awkward, but some people really do have broad, pug noses like that. Perhaps if the picture zoomed out, it might look less awkward. I'm not saying that's what you should have done, just that ours eyes can't always make sense of certain things when they are fragmented.If you had done this with real paint, I would say that it would look very good on a wall, somewhere.

I think you confuse curiosity for derision. I was fascinated by your admission of working in the adult industry in such a vanilla environment. This industry is fascinating to me, because it works in a very atypical fashion. I'm sorry if you misinterpreted my questions as anything but an attempt to satisfy my own curiosity, or mistook my facetiousness as making fun of you. The only thing of which I am guilty is being slightly off-topic (very off-topic here, but I do deserve a defense). In my experience, members of the adult industry are very open about what they do. So I was completely taken aghast by your negative reaction. Perhaps you'd like to discuss this privately to resolve what I see as a grudge?

Photoshop has been nearing terminal velocity, anyways. Photoshops 7, CS, and CS2 are the same for all practical concerns. Perhaps this merger will bring some new ideas and spice things up a bit on the Adobe side of things.And if Adobe's software becomes bloated and slow, then we still have the old near-perfect versions of Photoshop, Flash, et al, to fall back on.Good? Bad? I have no idea, yet, but I'm not really worried.

You can buy PCs at supermarkets? I mean, I know they carry "apples" in the produce section . I have XP on my desktop and laptop, but I advised my little brother to install Windows 98 SE on his early 90's desktop. Windows 98SE is the best Windows OS for slow/old computers, and XP for their faster/newer brothers. Of course, if there were a Photoshop for Linux, I'd probably be using that.

But shooter implies shooting. You can't shoot a sword, unless you're carrying some sort of launching device created to do just that. Besides, anyone who played Goldeneye with the "Slappers Only" rules can tell you how boring it gets. Perhaps they have found a way to make melee fighting more interesting with a first-person perspective? When I looked at their download page, I only saw high definition videos available for download, and one of them was 89 megabytes. That's huge, by my internet downloads standard, though it may be small by yours.

I hate that this is now a semantic argument, but what you are describing is a very narrow interpretation of the expression "free speech". By United States legal standards, you may very well be correct. I am merely referring to the freedom to speak. Of course they could have muzzled the initiator of this thread, but instead they allowed him to speak freely. I support free speech where it is legally-protected and even on privately-owned fora where it is not. Is that clear enough?

From the XnView website: I understand what you're saying and I think your solution might work, but XnView looks to me like an application for viewing images on your own computer, unless I'm missing something? Let me be a little more specific with my needs. My comic strips are different sizes, formats, colors, and shapes (using transparent pixels). What I wish to create is a php page which calls each image from the database (or the link in the database) and displays it in a given area which expands as necessary when the title of the comic is clicked. I've come to the conclusion that neither frames, nor iframes will be sufficient for giving me the kind of design control that I require. I've already accomplished my goals with javascript, but it is common for people to turn off javascript, so I am looking for a more universal solution. A database is just one possibility I'm exploring. Here's my comics page, if that would help you understand my intentions better. Keep in mind that these are my first comics.

Someone stated that it is impossible to target a single user on the bit torrent network, which is completely untrue. I was contacted regarding my downloading of episodes of a tv show which was unavailable by legal means. I was using Azureus.So a little tip for you television enthusiasts: don't go after the hour-long big-budget series. I suspect that the studios care about these copyrights more than others, due to the production costs. Some show creators, such as Trey Parker and Matt Stone of South Park glory, have expressed delight at the news that their show is spread on p2p networks. But the decision to trap file-sharers and prosecute them ultimately lies with the studios.Now I only use Kazaa Lite K++ for single files, and eMule for archives (albums).