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Seme or Uke ~01-[x] You like to be content in everything.
02-[x] When a person confesses his/her love to you and you don't like him/her, you start feeling very tense and/or you don't know what to say.
03-[x] You enjoy listening to smooth and relaxing music.
04-[] You are quite hyperactive.
05-[] If you don't like something, you start crying and you don't care if you start talking too loud.
06-[x] You love candies or any type of caramel.
07-[] You like making others blush.
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08-[] You sleep with a doll/teddy bear/pillow in your hand.
09-[x] You're usually shy with the opposite sex.
10-[x] You like romantic-funny anime.
11-[] Between L or Light cosplay, you prefer L.
12-[] You have listened "an café".
13-[] You like listening to it.
14-[] You have 1 or 2 song on your computer of "an café".
15-[] You are innocent and a little clumsy.
16-[x] You smile at kitties.
17-[] You usually say –kawaii-.
18-[x] You like plushies.
19-[] Between light blue and blue, you prefer light blue.
20-[] You hate Pari

How To Deal With ART BLOCKSOk, if you guys are still wondering, this post may help you. Its just a way I go on about it.
First of all, what is an art block? Just like writer's block, an artist gets an art block. Its a state where you either; can't think of anything to draw, your drawings turn out crap, you're just not getting your drawings right, or just uninspired.
So how do I deal with it?
The very first thing you MUST do is to actually STOP DRAWING. This is your brain telling you to take a break.
If you force yourself out of an art block, it ALWAYS shows. It will look rushed or unthought of.
Second, is try and do something else NOT related to art/creativity... Go for a run, watch TV, read a book, play games, see friends etc.
Third; try and listen to music. Calm your brain and get rid of your thought process. Music is a way of simulation, sometimes you will get inspiration from it.
If you have an idea of what sort of thing you're after but just cant get it right in the end, this is where I think music helps. E

Manga Studio 4 TutorialsManga Studio Debut
An excellent set of Manga Studio 4 tutorials, ranging from the Debut to the EX version. Brought to you by Doug Hills in conjunction with Smith Micro. Bookmark on YouTube.
This series is good because the speaker is articulate, and the actions on the screen follow commands. It is difficult to find quality tutorials that are not merely process pieces or showcasing artwork, but this set goes above and beyond -- it actually focuses on the tools of the program and illustrates how they can be applied! Enjoy, and make sure to thank him on his video pages!

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Manga Studio 4 Debut
Doug Hills/Smith Micro
1. Beginner's Assistant
2. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXgNqhpbyfc

Canvas sizes - inches and dpi and pixelsThis is a sort of guide on canvas sizes, inches, dpi and pixel x pixels.
when it came to canvas sizes, I always kind of assumed that inches belonged with dpi and pixels were just pixels and that everyone knew that; but i read a whole bunch of comments on a tumblr blog where someone asked about canvas sizes, and SO MANY people were replying with things such as, "4000x4000 px at 300 dpi" or "2000x2000 px at 200dpi".
and I guess not everyone quite understands what dpi's really used for xD.
DPI = Dots per Inch. It means how many dots will be printed per inch.
DPI is actually used for printing purposes. It shows the printer how much pixels to print per inch, literally. A common printer (at home or even at a lot of printing stores) at best prints at 150dpi most of the time actually; there are some super duper great printers that can print REALLY fine that can go up to ...apparently a lot more xD; #dpi, so that's why everyone usually suggests saving your project at 300dpi; most printers are f

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UV Unwrapping Video Tutorial for Maya

Journal Entry: Fri Nov 9, 2012, 7:57 PM

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Made this today. First time making a video tutorial, so be gentle - hah. I honestly hadn't realized, before today, that I could full-screen capture with my imac just built in with the OS. It's all awesome and easy and stuff. Voice Over added with iMovie. Sorry if its a bit rushed - I didn't exactly plan it out all that well. heh. ^_^;;

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~tsunderenekonyan Jan 19, 2013

I've been 3 years using maya and still sucks with UVmap stuffs but you make my day awesome.

Thanks for the tutorial and GBU.

~PieroStuff Nov 11, 2012

Great tutorial! Good explanations and pleasant voice. I hope you'll do more

*MystiqueX Nov 10, 2012 Student Digital Artist

Good tutorial! Thanks!

~Aserosiris Nov 10, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

how do you feel about UVmaster in zbrush?

*Athey Nov 10, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

I feel that it's buggy and unreliable at the best of times, and often gets inconsistent results and doesn't allow for as much control over things as I would like. But its a reasonable option under certain circumstances.

~Aserosiris Nov 11, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

Have you tried UVLayout? so far its what i find to be fastest way to do uv's

`technographer Nov 10, 2012

One thing that could be useful to mention (that I definitey get use out of) is using a checkered utility texture while UVing, so that we can see the amount of distortion involved and to make it easy to maintain a consistency with which side of a mirrored/shared set of pieces is the correctly flipped one. For simple low poly clothes it's probably not a big deal, but for complex shapes that don't unfold so nicely and may need to be split can spare us from tweak time/headaches later.

It's interesting to see the little differences in workflows; makes me want to make a video, myself!

~taku321 Nov 9, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

How do you upload videos here

*Athey Nov 10, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

I didn't. I uploaded it to Vimeo and embedded the vid in a journal using the embed tag - it's this but without the spaces:
< da:embed profile="vimeo" id="53195083" >< /da:embed >

If you're using youtube instead of vimeo, you just replace profile="vimeo" with profile="youtube", and use the ID of your vid off of youtube.

~taku321 Nov 10, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

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