BananaKing

Well glad we could help. Be sure to check out the Quantum Guyver Reborn! fanfic when it comes out. You may be able to get some ideas from the story

Indeed thanks, its like my art professor always told me, "Great art is influenced by other artists."

Why thank you! I will try and post more work sometime this week

Well the way I see it... As for Kuma, my belief was that as a testament to Dragon, he saved Luffy from death at the hands of Kizaru. I think by separating the crew, he intended on thinking Luffy would try and regroup the crew and miss the war. Even though Kuma "died", he still had a duty to Dragon to keep his son alive; much like Ivankov did. I still wish Ivankov didn't have to leave Luffy...I miss their chemistry

It would help establish that she is related to archy, without being blatant and obvious with it. Unless you want to make it blatant and obvious which IMO is a horrible idea. Is there going to be Rhia related combat? Perhaps you should consider her obtaining a new guyver armor and having a real ethical dilema wwith it. I'll explain: She grows to like Archy, she feels like she can relate to him since he's the first person she's ever met that's like her. She understands his dying situation and doesn't want a good thing to die, so she goes on her own to find a G-unit and accidentally activates on herself. Now with the guyver armor she sees and finds out the cruelty behind Chronos. Now she has a real conflict because she adores the only person she's ever met that she can relate to, however this same man condones and is the leader of a soulless organization that kills people and destroys lives. You can have it that she finds out what Chronos did to Fumio Fukamachi all in an attempt to claim Sho's guyver. She becomes scared for her own life that Archy will do anything and everything to obtain what he needs to survive. She fears that the man she idolizes will kill her for his own desires. See this creates a powerful and very interesting dilema that you can abuse to create a new change in Rhia's character. This change in her mentality will create a wonderful contrast that brings out so much reality and humanity in this character...boy that sounded fancy!

She should share his "lonely child" syndrome and be detatched from her surroundings and the people around her. This story seems like it has potential, however I'd need to read more to give you a proper critique and analysis. Keep me updated on the story

If you're interested in a guyver fanfic, talk to Toku Warrior, he and I are in a I are making a big guyver fanfic and if you had some ideas see what he thinks and he might be able to help you out. As for your fanfic idea, its shows a bit of promise but I get the feeling like its a drama in an action based world. The story seems like it would revolve around Rhia adjusting to her new life with archenphel however this seems conflicting since Chronos is always on attack from enemies creating an action environment. Also, would you be trying to make archenphel a big player in this fanfic idea? I say if you want to make this fanfic interesting, you'd need to keep guyver's continuity. You'd have to take into account Archenphels hibernation schedule and that would make making him an active member of Rhia's life a very big challenge. I'd say maybe making her Imakarum's or Archenphel's illegitimate daughter might be a step in the right direction...

Looks pretty cool to me dude Definitely one of if not my favorite desktops: (Pay no attention to the "Torso" icons, I was doing a character model at the time)

Well my wallpaper is set to change every minute, but I can still take pics of some of them This is one of my favorites

Figure I'd toss a few in here One Piece Big-O And the best one of them all

So here's a few more things for you guys "Summer Refreshment" Maya 2011 Mental Ray Made in Shading and Lighting So this was an experiment with the various maya based materials. For those who don't already know, when making anything in Maya, one must later texture the 3-D objects. This is done by manipulating then applying various types of textures already inputted into the program. The basic idea was to make the watermelon interior look glossy like it had water in it, which I think I succeeded. However the exterior is a bit too reflective "Into the Darkness" Maya 2011 Mental Ray Made in Shading and Lighting This piece I took a plain interior of a house and tried to make a unique atmosphere. While I've never watched any myself, I do like the lighting style of the old 1930's and 40's Film Noir detective movies. I just like the great contrast the intense and hard shadows create on the white lights, so I went for that. I sort of left main idea of the piece up to the viewer. On the one hand, someone could have just come home to an empty house, on the other...the mysterious light could be hiding a murder victim...you decide! "Quite a Catch!" Maya 2011 Mental Ray Made in Shading and Lighting This was an experiment in both photo-manipulated textures and the motion blur feature in Maya. This was also my first time doing any form of compositing. Yeah that picture in the background actually attached to maya geometry. So basically to do something like this I had to make a small animation of the weird pudgy guy pulling a fish out of the water. I wanted to give the piece a comical approach so I made it look like he was struggling with the small fish. All of the textures on everything were pictures from CG Textures that I played around with in photoshop. Not a single texture there looked like when I took it from the internet I can tell you that. "Perfume Triad" Maya 2011 Mental Ray Made in Shading and Lighting Finally for today we have an experiment in both a product style camera shot and the Mental Ray materials. Mental Ray is just some weird rendering program maya can use and from what I've been told its a lot better than the default rendering software. Whatever...anyway, the Mental Ray Mia material X is a new material that is now used to make glass and metal textures; so you can guess what material I used. The tricky part is getting the hang of how many reflections and refractions occur in when glass is behind or on top of each other and light passes through them. If not done right, you get what we call "Black Abnormalities" which is bizarre black areas of nothingness when you render...weird. The lighting was far trickier than the material, I actually looked up types of lighting used in real product shots. I picked "3 Point-Lighting" which may not sound difficult, but getting those lights to hit the right spot is a lot harder than you'd expect. So that's it for today, my character design class might keep me busy for a little while longer so I may not make another installment too quickly. Rest assured though, I have plenty of artwork I'd love to show off. Its just...some of it is rather big so I may have to resort to small pictures from my laptop. Sometimes I wish I had a camera of my own..but alas money is always an issue. Oh well, enjoy!

So everybody, I've decided to have my own little gallery here on JL. I figure I need to get my art out there somehow and every little bit helps. So, I'll be updating periodically, you know when I can and feel up to it. By all means feel free to critique my work and if you have a negative comment or two, I'd love to hear it. Be as mean or nice as you like, any and all critiques and comments are well appreciated. I will provide small summaries to help everyone understand what the assignment was or what I was going for. Without further adieu, lets begin! "And Omen of Our Future" Acrylic Paint, Spray Paint, and Charcoal Made in Expressive Drawing 2009 1st we have one of my favorites, this was a personal graffiti where I was told to express my emotions and what I like to see in art in a graffiti style. Out of the 12 people that showed off their personal graffitis, mine was the only one that looked like graffiti. I love how the red eyes are a focal point and draw the eyes to the white writing behind it. "The Corrdior" Colored Pen and Ink Made in Expressive Drawing 2009 Al Held is an artist that made a career out of taking thick black ink lines and creating abstract compositions with them. He accented these lines with small applications of flat opaque color. Our assignment was to take the interior of a building and create an interesting composition with the Al Held style line. I like this piece because of the "endless void" feeling it gives off. When you look down the corridor to the blue window, you get a feeling of endless space, like the door is unreachable, yet its right there. Plus the walls create an excellent foreground establishing a sense of 3-D. "20 Faces of a Enigmatic Mind" Colored Pen and Ink Made in Expressive Drawing 2009 Now we have my family's favorite. This is an expressive self portrait where we had to make our own expression of ourselves through 20 different self portrait compositions. Really this is where we are allowed to show all our creativity and have fun. My personal favorite portrait is 3rd from the left, top row. I like how even though the white has no color or ink, it is still more interesting than the blue and red since its such a contrast. "Early Morning" Maya 2011- Only Polygons Made in Shading and Lighting This was 1 of 4 different compositions where we had to take the interior of a house, light a composition, and finally use 1 of 4 different camera types. This is a fisheye lens and I like how the light hits the lamp to the far left. It really makes it pop out. I also like the rim light on the curtains, it gives the piece a feeling like the sun is still rising while also establishing a sense of early morning. So I hope you all like what you're seeing, I will try and update this thread often and hopefully I can provide you guys with some cool and interesting art.

I use leet speak when I text people, I don't do it as bad as that, but I do it because I only get 150 characters per message. If theres one thing I hate about the. english language, its the whole concept of "grammatically correct." The rules of english grammer do not make sense sometimes and when you change a sentence to being grammatically correct it just sounds bizarre and weird. EX: The whole "Good & Well" change. There are times when using good sounds correct however it is more grammatically correct to use the word well. (coincidentally, I don't think that last sentence was grammatically correct)

I have a friend who is not a native english speaker and he told me that english is the hardest language he ever learned. He learned 2 languages before english and english was by far the hardest

Well being the art student that I am, I have to use art terminology when I can or else my tuition is for nothing Well from what I'm seeing, the face on Mizuki is the same for both pics however her face doesn't look nearly as true to Takaya-san's style than sho's. Whoever draw these pictures wanted to make mizuki look different and she does.

Did you do these yourself? They're really cool, they look very similar to the manga images. One thing I did notice is that Mizuki's face seems very stylized. I don't know but its just something I noticed

I assume this is some sort of rough sketch correct? There's a lack of any real contrast to make anything pop, so I'd recommend making the darker areas much darker to add a dimension of realsim. (That is to say, if you're not planning on coloring it in) Other than that, its still quite beautiful. I'm not much for Kamen Rider, but it looks very similarly to an advertisement poster for the show, so you've achieved that. Nice piece dude

Perhaps, but they're more just obstacles to in the way of the main characters that are killed off to tie up loose ends. They're minor characters that are not intended to have much focus placed on them. Although I will agree, I would've liked to see some character development for a zoalord as strong as Caerleon was

Good to see that you'll get a break. If it makes you feel better, I've been SUPER busy with work in my Maya Model Creation class. I'm glad to see you're trying to bring one of your stories to life. Good luck dude

Hey everybody has feet! Don't be judging my BananaSelf people; we're hear to talk about the zoalords, not the BananaLord

Well I do, what of it?

You think I'm scared of a zoalord? I've got more power in my little toe than 3 archenphels combined Kenji.