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Helbereth
Somewhere between the incandescent dreams cascading through my subconscious, and the derisive reality signifying eternal discontent, I ride a wavelength above conceptualization, but below the apex of understanding, awaiting an epiphany.

Paul Thibeault @Helbereth

Age 43, Male

Sutton, Massachusetts

Joined on 2/5/04

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Yeah, that's great news! :D
but I have one question? Ever given a mouse a tablet?

I don't understand the question...

BOOOOOOOOOOO

Jealous?

Damn, that's one hell of an improvement! Maybe you could try out more Frame-by-frame animation when you get the chance.

Already have.

I was able to make a perspective shot of someone's boots as they walk up, pivot and walk away.

And without shooting myself.

And it only took 3 hours.

BOOOOOOOOO

Hisssssssssss?

Your tablet has affected your shading negatively!

Oh trust me, it hasn't. I hadn't shaded the new BM yet.

http://img269.imageshack.us/img26 9/7227/blackmage.jpg

Been working on that today - it's incomplete, though. It's missing the 4th image of BM on the right side.

Luis is a mouse, cool tablet, but in the second draw, i like more in mouse

The charicature? Really?

You should see them close-up then. The old one is loaded with mistakes I just didn't have the patience to correct. That and it's barely a charicature... it's practically a traced drawing of a picture.

wait but how i know
luis is using mouse ?? or not??

Which is why I wait, wait for December 1st. Where the December Tablets make their debut once again.

I've watched tablets in use in Youtube tutorials. Most notably a mediocre one minute drawing of Mario's face in Flash. A drawing that I could also pull off in ten minutes using a mouse if I can shut off the perfectionist part of me that makes me redraw everything until it looks kind of realistic. A good looking Mario face from me would take hours. And I can only imagine the time reduced if I could just draw it like drawing on a piece of paper.

Now, I'm certainly not a big artist with a pencil, but if it was done in flash, I would have access to optimizing shapes and undoing mistakes in a second, instead of erasing it all and redoing it with a nasty gray spot where the mistake was made. In eigth grade, I had an art class. Just a fundamental art class impossible to fail. But among the many assignments to draw, we had Thursday homework. Draw whatever you feel like and try to make it look nice before you turn it in on Thursday. All the best ones get put on the wall, which I ever so enjoyed. I bragged about how every week I had a new picture of there. Most of my pictures are drawings of video game characters. But a few are NG themed pictures, like the NG tank, which I done almost perfectly. When the year was over, I got all my assignments back, and put my best drawings on my walls in my room. They've given me motivation to work on flash actually. Everytime I see Kirby's happy face, my crappy version of the Resident Evil 4 PS2 cover, and a drawing of Megaman. It keeps me going.

...oh my, I was talking about something wasn't I? Back to my point, I can draw characters, objects, and backgrounds much faster with a tablet, and I can only assume more efficiently. I use to be proud of using a mouse, because my heroes John&Richie used a mouse up until Newgrounds gave them a tablet when they won second in the Pico Day 08 contest. But ever since then, I didn't feel all high and mighty. Things change when your idols cross over to the "darkside".

And so, however or whenever I get a tablet, I hope to create flashes in a fraction of the time. It would be the perfect Christmas present. Way better than any crummy video game.