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Stop you? Why ever would we want to do that? 😉

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Something about this image was striking to me. I did what I sometimes do to pencils that I like and intend to keep a copy of: I cleaned it up and tweaked some things. I hope you don't mind!

What I did was fiddle with the brightness curves and levels to remove all the background noise (to have a pure white background), as well as to make the lines a bit darker and sharper. Then I cropped off the excess (including much of the legs since I didn't like them much) I then went over the image with a paintbrush and erased all errant marks (smudges, dust on scanner/paper, other blemishes). Next, I fiddled with the lines in the left arm a bit to try to make it look the proper size.  Then I tweaked the lines in her legs to make them seem more appropriate to her upper body. And lastly, I moved her nose and mouth around to look more natural.

Here is the result (shrunk down to 50% size):

I'm not really happy with the legs, and the arm didn't turn out quite like I wanted, but the face came out great. I think that this is a good base for somebody to ink it or colour it. I'm not an artist (I can't even draw stick figures correctly), so the best colouring jobs I can do are flat-shaded, and I can only do uniform-thickness inking that I don't have the patience for 😉

It gave me a nice opportunity to try out my new mouse (which I bought this afternoon), a Logitech V200 cordless optical notebook mouse.

EDIT: It occures to me that I forgot to tweak her hand (the upper one). Oh well.

[g-man]

It is truely your best work yet!

One comment is that left arm (on the right side of the picture) is very odd. The muscle in the upper arm is too small compared to the other arm (even taking into account the flex), and the little bit above the elbow is just pencil-thin.

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😮

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WELCOME BACK! Your work is awesome, and I was quite dissapointed when you left. I've been following your Kulli and syberstyk deviantart pages, but I'm glad you're back here once more 🙂

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This is confusing. I found this under "Section I: General Terms" of the "Terms of Service Agreement:"

[tt]4. Copyright

deviantART is, unless otherwise stated, the owner of all copyright and data rights in the Service and its contents. You may not reproduce, distribute, publicly display or perform, or prepare derivative works based on any of the Content without the express, written consent of deviantART. However, deviantART does not claim ownership rights in your works or other materials posted by you to deviantART (Your Content).[/tt] (emphasis added)

All well and good, right? Until you come to Section 15, "Submitting Content":

[tt]deviantART does not claim ownership rights in Your Content. For the sole purpose of enabling us to make your Content available through the Service, you grant to deviantART a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce, distribute, re-format, store, prepare derivative works based on, and publicly display and perform Your Content. Please note that when you upload Content, you allow third parties to copy, distribute and display your Content.[/tt] (italic emphasis added; bold emphasis in original)

So although they claim no ownership in your art, they can pretty much do with it what they want as though they did own it, and don't have to pay you a dime for it.

And I was actually considering opening a deviantART account…  😮

That last bit, it actually sounds similar to a clause that I added to the terms of service of an imagehosting site (similar to imageshack) that I've been working on.

However, my intention was to try to build in permission for me to implement site features, and protect myself, rather than to steal somebody's work

Here is the section of my ToS paraphrased, with my comments in parentheses:

By uploading a file, you give permission to use the file for promotional purposes, without compensation. (this line was intended to allow the display of "featured" content. Say a really cool work of art was posted, I could display it on the front page as a featured work)

You retain the full copyright ownership of any file uploaded. However, you also grant permission to host and display your image as described in this document and our privacy policy indefinately. You cannot revoke this permission. (This was intended to try to protect me from somebody trying to sue me for hosting something. Essentially, as I intended it, it means you can't post something and then sue me for hosting it. Also it would let me implement a search feature, since even though it wasn't specified in the ToS, it would constitute displaying the work.)

Any comments on that? Suggestions on how to change it? The site isn't done yet. I'm trying to do three things with all the terms of services and privacy policies. The first is to protect myself, of course. I want to make sure that I prohibit people doing things with the service that are going to get me in trouble. The second is to protect the people using the site. I want to make sure that people can't claim that I'm stealing or doing something wrong. The third thing I'm trying to do is leave myself some leeway for new site features. As I mentioned, a "featured image" or search function would be something I'd want to allow myself room for in the future.

If you have any ideas, I'm open to suggestions.

[g-man]

This one here is my favourite so far, way better than the one that got deleted:

http://youtube.com/w/The-biggest-breasts?v=KM5hZpHmELo&search=breasts

[g-man]

It would seem that YouTube deleted the video. It wasn't really anything special anyhow. Let me put it this way: the greater the mass, the greater the effect of gravity.

[g-man]

Nice 🙂

[g-man]

I'm guessing this is the original video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=PdQ3yQZYiXM

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