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I am a newbie starting my "career" as an artist. So be warned if my art come out noobish.

For my first art piece, I am doing a theme called The Mystery of Satoshi Nakamoto. I only work on an art piece for about an hour each day, when I don't have classes.(That's normally 5 days a week)

Here is the current art:

http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/135 0.01 BTC


Previous revision for those who are interested in how the drawing evolve, listed from oldest to newest:

1. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/14 Price: 0.10 BTC.
2. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/16 Price: 0.10 BTC. This is a high resolution scan.
3. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/17 0.10 BTC
4. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/18 0.10 BTC
5. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/21 0.10 BTC
6. http://pastecoin.com/download.php?file=16 0.10 BTC
7. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/53 0.10 BTC
8. http://pastecoin.com/download.php?file=43 0.10 BTC
9. http://pastecoin.com/download.php?file=52 0.10 BTC
10. http://pastecoin.com/download.php?file=53 0.10 BTC
11. http://pastecoin.com/download.php?file=56 0.10 BTC
12. http://pastecoin.com/download.php?file=79 0.10 BTC
13. http://pastecoin.com/download.php?file=85 0.10 BTC
14. http://pastecoin.com/download.php?file=89 0.10 BTC
15. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/59 0.10 BTC
16. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/61 0.10 BTC
17. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/62 0.10 BTC
18. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/63 0.10 BTC
19. http://pastecoin.com/download.php?file=117 0.10 BTC
20. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/64 0.10 BTC
21. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/65 0.10 BTC
22. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/66 0.10 BTC
23. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/67 0.10 BTC
24. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/68 0.10 BTC
25. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/69 0.10 BTC
26. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/70 0.10 BTC
27. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/71 0.10 BTC
28. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/72 0.10 BTC
29. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/73 0.10 BTC
30. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/74 0.10 BTC
31. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/75 0.10 BTC
32. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/76 0.10 BTC
33. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/77 0.09 BTC
34. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/78 0.07 BTC
35. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/79 0.07 BTC
36. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/82 0.07 BTC
37. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/84 0.07 BTC
38. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/85 0.07 BTC
39. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/95 0.07 BTC
40. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/96 0.07 BTC
41. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/97 0.07 BTC
42. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/98 0.06 BTC
43. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/101 0.06 BTC
44. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/104 0.06 BTC
45. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/106 0.06 BTC
46. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/108 0.05 BTC
47. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/110 0.01 BTC
48. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/114 0.01 BTC
49. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/115 0.01 BTC
50. http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/134 0.01 BTC

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This is an experiment in micropatronage. I am also making my artwork "unlicensed". You can do whatever with the artwork, include selling it. Also, please do attribute stuff to me. It's just the right thing to do. There should be a line at top of the wall that say "Unlicensed by Kiba".


Miscellany:

(Nothing at the moment)

Please put NSFW on that next time ;)

Sorry about that. I wasn't intended to have a naked person at all. It's just that I didn't get around to selecting the clothing.

lol  ;D nudie on bitcoin!

If I upload a nudie picture of myself, would I get lot of bitcoins?   ??? lol

http://ubitio.us/file/download/28

A portrait of F. A. Hayek! If there is some interest in buying the real thing, I might be willing to auction the art piece.

http://ubitio.us/file/download/34 (NSFW?)

Revised sketch out for tonight.

Demand is low. People are getting tired of my artwork in progress?

someone upload to bayimg please lol

Ok, I bought it for the 2 bitcents.  Very distrubing artwork, to say the least!  Just ruined my day  :-\  Thanks a lot :P

btw, how did you setup the automatic instantaneous bitcoin payment to allow for downloads?  I myself run a podcast, and I want to be able to allow people to listen to low quality audio for each podcast for free, but require them to pay a few bitcents to download the high quality audio.  Is your system based on ip address?  How long does it remember your ip address, if so?

I just downloaded it and found it quite creative!

... Disturbing?

Anyway, I didn't set it up. Hippich is the guy who made the download site.

I am experimenting with a mailing list to to inform my fans about what I been up to, art-wise.

http://eepurl.com/bJVGb

This site built by me. It assume all payments are legitimate (that's why you got instant access to download), but to prevent abuse - it put all commission payments into queue and keep it there until 6 confirmations received and only then pays commission to file owner.

You can use it to host your podcasts too. If 1cent commission is too low - I plan to implement variable price for downloading and really like to hear ideas how to setup pricing.

Edit: to not hijack this thread, please post questions regarding ubitio.us to it's own thread - http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1811.0;all

So, nobody is interested in buying a portrait of F. A. Hayek?

Sorry folks, no update today. I have no access to the scanner. So tomorrow will be double update.

http://ubitio.us/file/download/36

Further progress. Now she's fully clothed.

Thank you for the drawings :) I like satoshi-chan. Hope you keep working on her, ink it and clean it up :)

hands definitely need more work =)

The most difficult to draw are:

1. Face
2. Hands
3. Feet

Tiny squish details that are a fricking nightmare to draw. The solution is however, to draw lot of hands and stick them into art pieces, no matter how much it detract from your artwork. If you alway hide hands, you never will draw good hands.

I quite liked the hands in version 34, because one of them looks quite masculine, which just adds to the ambiguity of the whole situation.

The hand on the hip? The right hand on the cloak?

Sorry, I already deleted your image (and I'm not going to pay again to download it again), but I think the left hand was across the woman's stomach. The finger shapes, and the smudge that could have been hair on the back of the hand, made it look masculine to me.

It will be cleaned up in the end.

I'd like to have your views on my post about the selling of information with bitcoins.  See there :  http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1344.0

In order to sell an image, one solution would be to sell a blured image.  You would display the blured image on your website, and you would improve it for each additionnal paiement.

To do so you could use for instance imagemagick :

convert original_image.jpg  -blur ${N}x${N} blured_image.jpg

Where ${N}  would be the size of the blur filter (the smaller it is, the better is the image).

Interesting solution. However, the incomplete work already functioned as "blurring".

I sell the latest revision of my art each day. If they want me to continue, they will continue to buy to see further rendition of my artwork.

Second update of the day:

http://ubitio.us/file/download/37

OK, I paid .02 more bitcoins...and I'm still very disturbed by what I see.  The left arm almost looks like a man's.  And it almost look like she (Satoshi?) is being groped by a man behind her, but there is obviously no man behind her.  Anyway, I obviously like your artwork, else I would have not paid for two versions of it already. 

I can't wait for it to be finished.

Gottach draw better hands somehow, but I am afraid the smudges will mess it up?

Anyway, thanks for your support. I feel like, I am gathering fans!

Isn't the left hand the wrong way around? If I fold my left hand over my chest, my thumb is at the top, but you seem to have drawn the thumb at the bottom of the hand.

That's the right hand.

I mean the hand that appears to be clutching her right breast. If that's her right hand, there is some very odd contortion going on. And if it's her left hand, the thumb needs to be at the top.

Unless it really is someone else's right hand.

Hmm, are you sure you're not confused?

Darn it, Kiba, you're doing very well out of me financially. Because I didn't save the image, I had to download it again. Each time I just close the browser window, thinking I won't need to see that version of the image again.

And no, I'm not confused. I'm talking about the hand that is higher up. It is over the girl's right breast, and the elbow is by her left side. So it's her left hand for sure. And yet the thumb is shown at the bottom.

You try to pose your own body in her position, and you will see that the thumb just can't go that way.

Don't forget, the girl's left shoulder is on the right of the drawing as we look at it, because the girl is facing us.

But although it's anatomically wrong, I kind of like it because it adds quite some ambiguity to the picture, i.e. "just what is going on here?".

Anyway, this time I'm saving the image for a couple of days, in case you manage to convince me that right is left and left is right.

Ah, thanks, I will redraw the left hand. Left and right are sooooo confusing.

I redrew the left hand. However, smudges that can't be removed means that if I keep further revising, than it will be further dark. I got an idea on how to fix it though. I'll simply digitally erase the hand area, print it out and redraw it, then scan it in. My only fear is that the quality of the lines may degrade. However, I think it will be best be done when the line art is complete, but by then, I'll simply move on to other art project. It'll be worth a revisit in the future.

Other than that, I am struggling dealing with perspective. I discovered that the height of cluster box must be smaller as it goes inward. I also discovered that lines must be pretty parallel.

Once drawing cluster box is complete, I will probably add further details like tubes and other decoration, and then it's off to the cleaning phrase.

http://ubitio.us/file/download/44

I will be trying out bencoder's download service in the next artwork revision that I sell. If I like it enough, I might switch to bencoder's site. Hippich, watch out!

That looks much better!  Now it's no longer disturbing, because now it's a picture of a hot chick feeling herself, instead of being groped by some mysterious invisible man.  Thanks!

Not my intention to portray it that way. She's touching her cloak. I'll try to remedy this error by trying my above method.

I missed something.. Where I can learn more about bencoder's site?

Sorry I only just made it last night, haven't advertised it at all yet except in the irc... but here it is: http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk

It still needs a lot of work and I think you've got a much better domain for yours but mine has an account based model rather than your instant anonymous uploads. Now that I have the accounting stuff I can add more features and services based around that than just file downloads. File downloads was a quick easy thing to implement and I wanted something that I could build quickly yesterday. Hope you don't feel too threatened by the competition :)

Ah. Nice! Will keep an eye on your project for sure =)) he-he.

No art today. Have classes.

Sorry for missed Tuesday.


Wednesday is classes day too....

You're a free person. You don't have to do this.

Therefore you don't have to apologise. That will just make it seem like a burden.

Um.... ???

http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/14

I am trying out bitcoinservice.co.uk out. This time, it cost .10 BTC.

It is settled.

Bencoder's download site will be used by Kiba from now on.

Bencoder's terms are VERY FAVORABLE compared to ubitious.

1. I don't have to pay a fee just to make money.

2. He only take 10% or .01, whichever is higher.

3. Files don't expire, period.

So I can back up my system to Bencoder's site any time I want, and all it costs me is 0.1 BTC if ever I need to restore my files. Bargain!

Good luck backing that up through the web upload service with a small upload limit. It's a good point though, I need to investigate and make file size and upload terms more explicit.

[teaser] More features will come on ubitio.us, including setting price and something else.. But core features like anonymous uploads/downloads, pay to upload and expiration will be there for sure. [/teaser]

http://techcrunch.com/2009/06/24/ouch-german-court-slams-rapidshare-with-34-million-fine/ (http://techcrunch.com/2009/06/24/ouch-german-court-slams-rapidshare-with-34-million-fine/)

Ill just leave this here.  :(

it will take some (long) time to get to rapidshare level for both ubitious and bitcoinservice =)

Than we need to grow the copyfree movement.

If we could get a coalition of artists and programmers, we could shut down or at least bring a showdown with malicious collection societies.

excellent :D <3 competition

Since I pretty much completed the lineart, I scanned it in at a high resolution.

The price is 0.10. I am sure you can handle that, no?

http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/16

:D lol, crazy drawing.

Satoshi Nakamoto might as well be John Smith. It's a common name. So I am going to give her a generic name.

Haruka Nakamoto.

Since I woke up, I been hard at work cleaning the image up and practically redrew some of the features such as the eyes. If you had been keeping my artwork through out the evolution, you would have notice the cleanness and sharpness of the face compared to the scan.

So here's my work for today, which had been resized from its ungodly large scan:

http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/17

Price is 0.10 BTC.

That artwork has come together nicely. I wish I could draw like that. I can do technical drawing but not artistic stuff.

I like the Bitcoin gyroscope (or whatever it is) above the whiteboard. Is that a pencil or cigarette in her mouth?

A....USB drive!

And the whiteboard is actually a monitor. Maybe I should put some stuff in there...

Just paid the .1 BTC.  GREAT JOB, KIBA!!!

I speeeeeend way too much time on this project.

Anyway, here's what I done.

1. I run everything through the ink pen, which make everything a bit more clear and sharp. Then, I turn up on the brightness and contrast to clean out the grey lines. Not everything is rendered painstakely, but that can easily be arranged when I get around to color and then further cleanup.

2. I finally figured out the multiply mode of the layer. Started coloring the hair with the base color.

3. I redrew the left eyes, digitally. These eyes are now 100% more awesome than the sketch version.


Here's the download...

http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/18 Price: 0.10 BTC.

her eyes are beautiful!

Thank you for the continued baconage. All that bacons are really nice.

I raised 1.4(0.10 which was by me....since I can't download my own artwork for free).

That mean, I get to take home 1.26 BTC, while bencoder have the rest. That mean, I made .20 USD this week at the current exchange value.

http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/21 Price: 0.10 BTC.

WE HAVE PREVIEW! Thanks bencoder for adding this feature.

So, what the latest revision so far?

Base coloring for hair is DONE. Cleaning the hair of remaining stray lines is DONE.

Next I believed is 3 layers of shading. I am using this tutorial (http://getty.deviantart.com/art/How-to-paint-anime-styled-hair-28964490) as a guide, even though I used GIMP.

hair looks very nice!

Thanks for downloading when nobody else did.

I've also added preview and a public API to compete with bencoder

http://pastecoin.com/

Just upload and the download link has it automatically.

I looked at one of the older ones, and will you be coloring it later so far its quite good.

They are getting colored.

http://pastecoin.com/download.php?file=16 Price: 0.102

I jumped again to another download host, looking for the best deal. This time, it's forum user genjix!

I have two things to complain though:

1. WHERE IS THE PREVIEW IMAGE THAT I ASK FOR?

2. 2%? You dare add them to my price? That's unexpected behavior.

As for what I am doing to the art in this iteration:

I am redrawing the lines to be crispy clear with a GIMP tool called Path. It is a very POWERFUL tool. Heck, I might as well draw digitally instead of scanning in artworks.

Now, at the same time, I am also shading. I finally figured out how to do that by manipulating the opacity. Combined with path, they're a piece of cake.

I didn't know all these thing before I started drawing for bitcoin.

For those who download...Thanks for the continued baconage!

I really recommend you learn how to use Illustrator, it is a wonderful program.  Much more powerful than the GIMP path tool.  Even so, if you want to continue using FOSS, try inkscape.

I am a linux user and I don't use expensive photo editing tool. Beside, GIMP is good enough for me.

Pastecoin should include a address that you can donate to after you have seen the image! (with a donation message)

Btw what up with the bitcoin logo and its messed up boxes on it. When you scan do you do digital touch ups or not really?

Coloring process = digital touchup then actual coloring.

If you download the latest artwork, you would already know that yes, of course, I do touchup.

http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/53 0.10 BTC

Decided to switch back to bitcoinservice.co.uk because they have preview displayed.

So what I did in this artwork? More shading and more redrawing the lines. It's rather slow work sometime.

hmm...not much change from last version...I WANT MY MONEY BACK!!! :P

The Bitcoin logo on top of the monitor now looks like the Ritcoin logo.

For my next art project, I will auction "character" space.

The image will depict Haruka Nakamoto, the genderbended version of the inventor who invent bitcoin, talking with 3 bitcoiners(Who still have no idea) in a New York cafe after a bitcoin conference. This will be a wallpaper.

It will  be my first entirely digital artwork, no drawing on paper.

1. The person sitting next to her. waterfox - 2 BTC.

2. The person sitting across to her. waterfox - 2 BTC.

3. The person sitting left of the person sitting across to her. davidonpda - 1 BTC.

4. Background spot. da2ce7 - 10 BTC

If you win, you will be asked to provide a photo, or at least a description of what you look like. You will also be provided daily FREE access to work-in-progress.

End date: Whenever I finished the current artwork.

???

Do you mean, I have to pay before downloading? Makes no sense.

Ok, my last statement make no sense, either.

I meant, you have to pay if you want to preview it?

Thanks for fixing the problem.

http://pastecoin.com/download.php?file=43 Price: 0.10 BTC.

More shading, and more redrawing of lines. Instead of those figging ugly hairlines, I have replace most of the hair strand lines with niccccce lines. I hope you guys will be able to perceive the difference because I put about an hour of work into this.

I also watched a few tutorial on drawing and coloring anime figures. In that time, I learned that I did my shading wrong. So, shading fixing here I come!

http://pastecoin.com/download.php?file=52 0.10 BTC

In today's update, I redrew the eyes, nose, and mouth as well generally cleaning up shoulder/neck area. Then I begins applying a skin primary layer.

With the exception of the skin coloring, these changes are subtle, but I think it will produce a much cleaner artwork.

(What's going on, guys? No download yesterday!)

http://pastecoin.com/download.php?file=53 0.10 BTC

Update today: The shading in general are much more pronounced now. The left portion(she's facing us) redrawing is pretty much done. Skin shading is just starting. I also started cleaning the cloak.

If you want large changes in one revision, you won't get it in this update. Remember though, this is about an hour of work.

Also, thanks for the anonymous patron donated 50 BTC to me! Make my work all the more worthwhile.

http://pastecoin.com/download.php?file=56 0.10 BTC

Blah, you can only do so much in one hour of coloring.

Anyway, I shrinked her pony tail and gave her a ribbon, which is not easily identifiable now. I put in some shading for skins and hair.

The next time I work on this, I'll redraw the right portion of her hair(Remember, she's facing us). By that point, I am pretty much done with the line art on her face.

Now, this may sound silly, but why I am able to download the picture without paying? Are you no longer charging people?

I'm tempted to buy it but I kind of feel like I will regret it.

Not because I will lose 0.10 BTC, but because it may hurt my eyes irreversibly.

That's just the preview, Mahkul. A small, TIIIIINY picture.

1500 x 2500 pixels is large enough for me. :)

If this is tiny, what resolution is the proper one?

Jesus, I made a mistake.

A small, TIIINY mistake. ;)

No worries man, I have just sent you your 0.10BTC. :)

Fixed.

I also have an auction ongoing for those who buy a spot with Haruka Nakamoto at a New York Cafe after an important bitcoin conference. That will be my next art project.

No spot had been bid on yet.

See http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1929.msg28537#msg28537 for more details.

davidonpda lead each spot by 1 BTC.

2 BTC?

For which spot?

Let's say 1 and 2.

That will be 4 BTC in total. Anyway, noted.

Waterfox lead at spot 1 and 2 with 2 BTC. davidonpda lead at spot 3 with 1 BTC.


Auction info: http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1929.msg28537#msg28537

http://pastecoin.com/download.php?file=79 0.10 BTC

I redrew the right portion of the hair and made the ponytail more apparent. Other than that, some more shading is done.

There's some inconsistency on the left portion of hair. I'll fix that. Than I'll move on to her poorly drawn hands.

The face is looking pretty good now.

One problem with pastecoin.com is that the site makes you wait for a confirmation before it becomes possible to download. The other download sites are better, because they allow you to download as soon as you have paid.

Wee! Thanks for another 50 BTC anonymous donation yesterday! Half of my saving now come from my art career earning. :D

Your continued baconage is continuously welcomed.

10 BTC :P  ;D

da2ce7 said on IRC wants to be in the background, so he will. So, I am making one exception....there is a background spot available.

http://pastecoin.com/download.php?file=85 0.10 BTC

I got the hair the way I wanted. All that is left is more shading, more shading, higher level shading, and more shading.


I started work on the cloak. One of the major feature is the hand grabbing it. I will be working to perfect that.

http://pastecoin.com/download.php?file=89 0.10 BTC

I continue to shade and make modification to the hair in the hope that I will have awesome badass hair.

Otherwise, I am working that right hand, gripping the cloak on the left.

http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/59 0.10 BTC

Shading attempt on hair is still in flux.

Otherwise, I completed drawing the outline of the hand. Redrawing the cloak is now making signifigant progress.

I started coloring and shading the cloak. We'll see how this turn out.

The hair and face are looking good. Here are some things you might want to consider.

The USB stick still looks like a cigarette to me. Maybe if she had the plug end showing, instead of being in her mouth?

The upper arm still looks a little like it's coming from someone behind her. I think it might look better if the lower edge of the arm ends in a curve that marks the start of her elbow, instead of going on in a long straight line as if the elbow is far away under the cloak? But I'm lousy at drawing, so I don't know.

By the way, I love the way the socks/tights reach different heights up her legs. All the best nerds are disorganized in some way about their appearance.

The plug is sticking out. I guess it wasn't obvious enough.


Ok, I'll make the curve more obvious.


Not true. The knee cap is on a different level.

http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/61 0.10 BTC

More coloring of the right side cloak. I readjusted the left arm's curve to be more obvious and made the width smaller.

As for shading, I learned that I did it wrong, by examining how real clothes fold. So I am in the processing of examining how they fold and how is it shaded and apply that to the girl's cloak.

http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/62 0.10 BTC

Today is generally right side cloak coloring and cleaning day.

Why the sudden switch to bitcoinservice i thought they take 10% compared to the 2% at pastecoin.com.

0/confirmation allow people to instantly download it.

http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/63 0.10 BTC

More coloring and cleaning of cloak! I also continued to refine the hair and the left arm.

Folds are hard for me to understand/draw but I think I am getting the hang of how they work.

Hair looks great! The purple side of the cloak looks great (especially the folds), except for the way that the bottom of the cloak ends in a straight line exactly lining up with the bottom of the chair. The thumb on her upper hand looks just a little too thin at the tip. Compare it to the thumb on the lower hand, which looks very good.

I don't download every version, just once every three or four versions, but it's fascinating to see this evolving.

Thanks for the feedback on how things look. It really help.

Sometime I don't get downloads at all, but it just mean that I need more fans and more exposure and more artworks.

http://pastecoin.com/download.php?file=117 0.10 BTC

MOAR coloring and adding folds to the cloak.

It's too bad that I don't have much time to do other details, such as fixing the thumb and adding more shading to the hair. Thumb a total failure but I did get some shading for the hair.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LQHCZZ2J

kiba, this is for you.

Oh, I know some anatomy, but it doesn't mean that I am going draw them well. For the record, I used my own hand as a guide.

Yes, I know that the eyes are way too big, and the shoulder too narrow..but that's just anime style.

http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/64 0.10 BTC

I finally started work on highlighting the air but this isn't exactly going well, as I don't know how to make good looking highlight.

I am still adding more folds for the cloak. I fixed the thumb and work on the right thigh.

http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/65 0.10 BTC

Sorry for the absence of yesterday!

http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/66 0.10 BTC

I am not dead!

http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/67 0.10

Continuing my experiment with clothes folding and shading. I don't think the blue cloak look good. (especially the right side cloak)

Also, pink stocking coloring is in progress!

http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/68 0.10 BTC

Coloring of the pink stocking, nothing else much.


Also, I am still auctioning the chance to be in the next art piece where you get to choose one of the three slot...

http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/69 0.10 BTC

Completed coloring of stocking.

Experimenting with cloak drawing.

http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/70 0.10 BTC

I forgot to post yesterday's artwork.

Expect price for future artwork to drop to 0.09 BTC when we reach .33 USD exchange rate for bitcoin.

I seem to have lost discipline.  :-[

http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/71 0.10

Wallpainting and cleaning of lot of stuff. I am also getting finished with the right side of cloak.

http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/72 0.10

More and more cleaning up! Also, I should finish this art piece soon so I can move on to other projects.

Have the fans left me? 3 days in a row without downloads is quite unusual.

http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/73 0.10

More coloring.

I think it's quite clear that I lack the artistic skills to produce a high quality work in no time at all.

http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/74 0.10

Cleaning and coloring of the wall!

http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/75 0.10

Right now, I am suspending the character auction for the next art piece.

I will do a one-shot comic called titled The British ODF. ODF stand for Orbital Drop Force.

(Why such a comic so early? Because it's challenging!)

http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/76 0.10

The texture of the wall and the ceiling are rather bland, I admit.

http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/77 0.09 BTC

I realized that the leg is messed up. So, I will be redrawing the leg for the next couple of days.

Next price reduction will be 0.08 BTC at .36 USD to BTC on MtGox exchange.

Looking good!

http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/78 0.07 BTC

Next price reduction: 0.06 BTC at 0.42 USD on the MtGox exchange market.

Redrawing of legs in progress.

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I think it's going to be more anatomical correct. Let me know if you spot weird anatomical errors.

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I redrew both hands and put in some work on stocking.

I also added the text "Unlicensed by Kiba" and the identification number for the artwork.

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I did a lot of cleaning, random coloring jobs, and so on.

Looking good. The hands are greatly improved.

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Stocking on the right side, colored.

The memory stick still looks like a cigarette to me. Take a look at this drawing of a memory stick, and see how the USB connector is much longer than in your drawing:
http://www.openclipart.org/detail/28798

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Coloring of stocking is finished. I am also finishing up the cleaning process for the middle of the picture.


Thanks for reminding me.

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I am cleaning up the GPU boxes and as well designing it. If you look at the bottom left, you should see something resembling a fan.

I also begin the process of coloring the bitcoin logo.

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More GPU boxes cleaning.

No art today. I lost one hour of work due to GIMP crashing. :'( Need to set autosave...

Sounds like they really could use that donation. ;)

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Yes, you heard that right! The price of my art is now 0.06 BTC. Expect reduction 0.05 BTC by 0.45 USD to bitcoin on MtGox.

Today's artwork is out despite GIMP crashing all the time. However, the delay caused by GIMP is considerable.

No art today, because of school.

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Blah! I want to finish this so badly so I can get on with my life.

On Thursday(Because Wednesday is school day), I will work my tails off to finish this god damn project.

No art today, because of school.

Tomorrow is PROJECT SMASHING DAY!

I am going to go ALL out to complete the project.

So PROJECT SMASHING DAY a success? No.

But, I clean the shit out of it. So I did got a lot of thing done today. External force beyond my control reduced my capacity to SMASH this project into completion. Let it shall be a tradition. Every Thursday is a project smashing day where I go apeshit completing a project.


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http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/106 0.06 BTC

Nobody paying me anything for the last 4 uploads. I know you guys are getting tired of this(I am getting sick of this project too!), but I am getting closer and closer to completing this project.

It would really help if you drip in some bitcoins to keep me motiviated during the dry time.

I'll send you 10 BTC if you finish this artwork within 10 days AND you explicitly release it to Public Domain AND the USB stick is fixed.

It is under the public domain. It's unlicensed. Zoomed in at the top of the wall. It should say it is licensed.

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Price is dropping to new critical low.

Anyway, I am in the midst of coloring and drawing more details. As you can see, it's fricking hard to make nice looking circles.

Perhaps, that should be my next project, just a badass GPU box picture.

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Forgot to post it yesterday.

Now, the download price is a mere 0.01 BTC.

So download, download, and download!

It's looking quite dark, with the dark walls, dark computers, and dark cloak.

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I am still alive!

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I WILL finish this project no matter how how ugly the art piece turn out to be.

She looks very nice.

(FYI, for you next art project, maybe don't have too many intermediate stages, it causes your followers to loose interest.  Remember, "Less is More".)

mmmmmmmmm satoshi

There was a long period of inactivity. The more I wait to complete this project, the less speed I have in growing my artistic skills.

http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/134

I am a stubborn mule when it come to spending time and effort at an art project whom I know already crossed diminishing return in both skill learned and monetary reward.

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 ::)

Probably because you just revived a 3+ year old thread.

so it means the "career" is over?