Hm, Well Ice released finally this month I have to first yell " Where the hell is HRG, DARK, MOONRISE, ACiD!" Heh with only two packs to talk about so far its going to be a slow month.
Well this month the ice vga crew was limited to about 10 artist or so. Shade didn't do anything for me with his pics. And mostly the rest were hum drum. However the usual three artist that always come through came again. Funbaby, Necro, and The Knave deliver the goods. The Knave's abstractionist pics, Necro's ghouls, and Funbaby's pic rocked. The only other pic that is probably worth of mentioning was Eqoteq's vga but it wasn't all that spetacular.
By mongi (dialup163-4-33.swipnet.se - 130.244.163.225) on Saturday, March 6, 1999 - 07:41 am:
Yeah, where are all the packs? We have nothing to review! ;) And I don't expect moonrise to release again..
I have to agree that iCE have done better.. but all of us have high and lows. I really liked Vesalius' pic, they're so cool =)
By BD (dyn4-t1.twistercom.com - 207.235.39.54) on Saturday, March 6, 1999 - 11:00 am:
Yeah I guess so Doodle boys musta been too heart broken to doodle in feb
eh :)
By napalm (pc60dn07.fcc.net - 207.198.222.96) on Saturday, March 6, 1999 - 11:51 am:
Is there going to be another ICE pack?.. no, not iCE, ICE, remember? I sure can't wait!
By NOeffeks (ppp112.83.mque.videotron.net - 207.253.83.112) on Sunday, March 7, 1999 - 12:56 am:
Hmm...
Am I wrong or the Hallucigenia's Febuary pack wasn't reviewed?
By mongi (dialup61-1-7.swipnet.se - 130.244.61.7) on Sunday, March 7, 1999 - 01:02 am:
It wasn't reviewed. I'm sorry. It was released so close to our posting of the reviews, so we never had time to review it. SOMEONE was going to review it, but I haven't received anything..
By Leonardo.iCE (gatekeeper2.monsanto.com - 199.89.234.124) on Thursday, March 11, 1999 - 10:01 am:
I thought iCE was pretty good this month. Funbaby had an absolutly amazing pic -- The swamp man pic, although there was one thing that bothered me about it... his right hand just didn't look right, it was too long like there was an extra joint. however, the shading and proportions of the rest of it was next to perfect. Necro's serpant was outstanding, nice attention to detail. Knave's iCE logo was beautiful. Awesome color, detail, background, layout. Egoteq's v2 promo was nicely drawn, although it didn't look like a lot of time was spent on it. Shade's butterfly pic was good. The rest of his were well proportioned and shaded.. but they just looked too "airbrushy". they would have look a lot better with more texture. Davinci's phrozen crew logo was really nice. and you just gotta like his remake of Russell Brown.
btw, I promise to have a new drawing for march! :)
Leo
By necro (proxy.planetinternet.be - 194.119.238.166) on Thursday, March 11, 1999 - 11:46 am:
Hey leo,
what do you mean with the term:'they just look too airbrushy'?:)...I only use the airbrush tool,
you guys are always talking about 'adding textures', how do you do that?(I never tried it before.
btw:nice to hear you loved my 'waterdragon':)
make sure you don't miss the next pack:)
By Leonardo.iCE (gatekeeper2.monsanto.com - 199.89.234.124) on Thursday, March 11, 1999 - 12:16 pm:
necro, well what I mean is that they're too smooth. for instance.. the hair, clothes, and the hat, or the hood on his pics (in my opinion) would look better with more texture or gain.
There are many ways to add texture, I'm no photoshop expert. some of the ways I add texture to a drawing is I create a custom brush with a lot of spacing... you can achieve a lot of effects for making things rougher and more texture. Also you can use the add noise filter to create a 'grainy' effect. also, you can create a layer-mask to add texture.
Painter handles textures a lot better than photoshop, also with corel photopaint you can set the texture in the brush you are using.
Leo