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I had gotten one earlier too, it'd be great if I was really a crack addict!

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Awesome picture!

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Just tried out the demo, and it's just like the classic Tomb Raider.  It's a beautiful game, and Lara is simply gorgeous! 😮

You can actually get her wet, and her clothes will become soaked along with her skin.  Once she gets out of a pool her skin shimmers with wet moisture.  The puzzle are classic temple solving in the demo meaning it's not CITY Raider, but rather TOMB RAIDER.

The demo is really good, but I don't think I would recommend it for PC because the controls are a bit more difficult to get used to.  Also if you don't have a high end PC you can forget seeing the "next generation" graphics which probably include showing off Lara's additional muscle tone that they put on her body.

But the game is pretty damn cool, I'd recommend you try the demo if you're considering buying.

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Because artists need their ego's stroked.  Debates and discussion should be happening in the board and there should be a constant influx of news as to where to find muscle babes.

If you lurk, there are no updates, no comments, and no website alerts.

Which in turn defeats the purpose of the boards.

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I disagree with you Flash, and here's why.

Do you something better by listening to people lecture to you?

Or…

Do you learn better by actually doing the action?

Do you learn to ride a bike by your parents telling you how to do it, or by getting on the bike and doing it yourself?

Tracing is the equivalent of riding a bike on training wheels.  By studying how the picture was drawn, tracing over how it was drawn, shaded, colored, you learn all those depth techniques and perspectives.

Sure I didn't become the greatest artist in the world, but by having first traced and then drawn pictures on my own without the help of tracing.  I learned how to draw at least decent enough for animation purposes.  I would never be able to learn how to make portraits because I don't know what styles they use to make the shades of grey with what pencils.  However, I can at least learn enough basics and advanced concepts from tracing to go off on my own.

I'm not going to say "Here's my art" to prove it, because even if I did what people consider "beautiful" in art is entirely based on their own opinion.  I know the basics of shading, lighting, muscularture.  I'm nowhere near professional but I can hold my own.

I think it's wrong that the guy isn't giving Kulli credit, but at the same time tracing the works of great artists is in my opinion a great step in learning how to draw.

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Great find man!

As for the Brawny one, Morphinman used to have it on his website but that's long since been gone.

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Heh, stay away from my girlfriend then!  She fits that category!

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I know Rudi once did a Smackdown Vs. Raw video which was awesome!

Well if any screencaps or mobile phone video can be taken, please share as we haven't been able to see how these bodies are achieved!

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Update on Rumble Roses.

I don't believe you can change their mass, but I was watching some gameplay footage and could see that you could change the muscle tone for sure.  From what I saw the characters DO visibily get more ripped if you start turning up the slider.

Go here:

http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/rumblerosesxx/review.html?sid=6146750

Then click on

Rumble Roses XX gameplay Movie 1, with the guy's head as the thumbnail.  During character creator you will see "Dixie's" costume being changed and as its changed you will see some ripped muscles on her body.

He's a screenie of the muscle slider on medium I believe.

http://screenshots.teamxbox.com/screen/45717/Rumble-Roses-XX/

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When I had to teach myself how to draw, I didn't take an art class or anything like that to learn techniques.

I went to various websites, printed out the images and traced them in pencil.  Those are projects I never shared in public.

When I started doing GIF animations, instead of tracing I tried to closely mimic styles I've seen before and then modified them to fit my animation.  So for instance Dave drew a great bicep for me to learn how to draw biceps, I used the bicep and then changed the body and head to fit my needs.

I usually if not always give credit to the artist if it looks like an exact duplicate, like one time I used an actual artists picture in my animation and I left his signature in it so people knew who drew it.

But I wouldn't be too hard on the guy, he's just trying to learn how to draw and is forgetting to give credit where it's due.  Then again, the drawings are so crude that it's hard to tell even if it IS your art style.  Eventually he's going to end up developing either his own style or stop drawing completely, so at best I'd recommend to give him a little heads up instead of flying off the handle being ticked off at him.

We all have to start learning somewhere.

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