Just wondering what you guys plan, hope, or expect to do, be it on this site, over the next month, or for your life.

Make it past 60.

Fenrick said:
Just wondering what you guys plan, hope, or expect to do, be it on this site, over the next month, or for your life.

Answer strangers' questions in the forums of eSix.

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So far so good.

Get a job in my field so I don't have to rely on furry commissions anymore. I make fuck all from commissions.

To live long and prosper.

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I'm already done

check the front page mascots

Nothing changed

To destroy

Zenti said:
Nothing changed

Oops, forgot about that one. Oh well, we have some new members now, so I regret nothing

Knotty_Curls said:
I'm already done

check the front page mascots

omg

To make it to 25, then it will finally be over.

Knotty_Curls said:
I'm already done

check the front page mascots

Dude, congrats!

In truth, a career that pays decentish money, enough to support me and my 1 or 2 hobbies, while staying independent.

Not looking for a super rich career or a big house, I don't want to get married (that may change thou), definitely will never want kids or a family. I'll take the rural small house and average car, long as I have time for my hobbies, that's all I want.

Make it into the NBA, get better at art and animation, and become Grill Master Supreme

If I end up with at least a roof above my head, a car on my driveway, a (simple) job and enough money to live off of, I am happy.

Well i hope i will be able to become a biologyst than ill' see whats next.
And im pretty sure that im not gonna leave this site, i still have 6200*20 pictures to tag.

- Better job
- Better paycheck

I don't plan more then 4 weeks ahead besides of that

i have 4 goals:

-to learn to be a functional human being who eats at least once per day and showers at least every second day and cleans up at least once per month
-to finish school
-to get hrt
-to get job from some nice game company

Having everything I have right now but actually being happy about it would be pretty nice.

Sell drugs, run guns, fuck sluts, get money

To finally get a job and a girlfriend and make at least roughly $900/month to support us.

Though if I am afforded the privilege of making way more money, I'd like to collect one of every Bad-Dragon toy, preferably in a large or x-Large in a toy exclusive color just to have as a collection.

That would be pretty sweet, and it would hopefully make Varka proud.

I'm saving up for a two-year religious mission right now, which I should leave on early next year.

After that I want to go into either botanical science, bionics, or some other form of bioengineering. If botany, I would like to go to Africa and help select and develop crops for the changing climate and growing population, and educate farmers. If bionics, my dream is to create a hand sophisticated and sensitive enough to play the piano, for a virtuoso. If it could do that it could do anything!

Along with that I want to get married and have a large family if I can, because I know it will make me happiest in the long run. Heterosexual reactivation in progress...

EDIT: By the way, I'm leaving the site, in like two or three days, so if anyone has any interest at all in keeping in touch then message me and I might give you my email.

Might :D

Victory or death

Learn to code

Make a video game or twenty

Write a fantasy book or twenty

Die at the age of 80, with a belly full of wine and a girl's mouth around my cock

Fix my tagging mistakes and become a respectable artist.

TheHuskyK9 said:
Make it into the NBA, get better at art and animation, and become Grill Master Supreme

I've seen your vids, and it looks to me like you're not getting into the NBA anytime soon.

(JK. I know you are probably really good, but that one vid, -Meanwhile at the park- where it starts out with a huge musical build up and then you missed makes this statement seem funny to me in retrospect.

Anyway, best of luck to you, Dog!)

Aeruginis said:
I'm saving up for a two-year religious mission right now, which I should leave on early next year...

...Along with that I want to get married and have a large family if I can, because I know it will make me happiest in the long run. Heterosexual reactivation in progress...

Congrats. On all of that. And good luck, bro!

Kristal_Candeo said:

Congrats. On all of that. And good luck, bro!

Thanks! I'm going to need it haha

Knotty_Curls said:
I'm already done

check the front page mascots

That's dandy, but Mutisija's dog mascot hasn't made it there yet?

I really liked that one.

because excellent character development

Clawdragons said:
That's dandy, but Mutisija's dog mascot hasn't made it there yet?

I really liked that one.

Qmannn said:
I'm glad I live in an age where tools exist to help non programmers do this. While I'd prefer to code my own game, I can at least use one of them in the event of utterly failing to develop my skill.

I'd like to make at least one complex game before I die, but never (primarily) for profit. I prefer Shigeru Miyamoto's philosophy: Make something I'd want to play. Criticism and suggestions are fine, but I hate the idea of being bound by them.

That all said, I wonder if cheaply made android games can still be used to make a quick buck...
I think Ratte being the artist may have had something to do with it.

You got a link? I don't remember a mascot Mutisija made.

Site goal: I dunno. Maybe become privileged? I don't really have an established goal here besides be a member of the community and occasionally upload Undertale art. Hell, I don't even know how to become privileged.

Real life: Graduate, get a job, room with a friend. That's all I have so far.

Qmannn said:
What are yours?

Late, but I'd like to contribute something to space travel. Less farsightedly, I want to get a private private's license and have the means to afford flying. There are lots of interesting things I might be able to do then, like those anti-poaching airborne patrols they've set up.

I intend to do NROTC but I'll probably be medically disqualified. Also going to write a novel at some point.

Nuclear_Assault said:
Site goal: I dunno. Maybe become privileged? I don't really have an established goal here besides be a member of the community and occasionally upload Undertale art. Hell, I don't even know how to become privileged.

Real life: Graduate, get a job, room with a friend. That's all I have so far.

Find ways to contribute to e621. A good way to start would be to look at the tagging project forum and see the tagging suggestions that others have made.

Graduate from college.
Get a job.
Move into my own house.
Get married.
Have kids.

Also, don't really have site goals. I just come here to entertain myself.

i hope to find my vocation, there are so many possibilities...
until then, it will be a struggle for me :/

Garrett said:
Graduate from college.
Get a job.
Move into my own house.
Get married.
Have kids.

Good luck.

Fenrick said:
Late, but I'd like to contribute something to space travel. Less farsightedly, I want to get a private private's license and have the means to afford flying. There are lots of interesting things I might be able to do then, like those anti-poaching airborne patrols they've set up.

I intend to do NROTC but I'll probably be medically disqualified. Also going to write a novel at some point.

Get a helicopter license and a helicopter, I'll be your door gunner. We can make a business hunting poachers from the skies.

1. To get enough confidence in who I am to not feel like I have to change my online names all the time - making progress but still not quite there yet.

2. To get over the shit my parents did to me - making progress but, yeah, not there yet.

3. To get to where I can feel negative emotions without internally beating myself up for it - yet again making progress but (say it with me!) not there yet.

4. To become a working artist (by working, I mean steadily making money at it) - not even close to there yet, but I get a commission once in a blue moon, so there's some progress.

I don't really have any goals on this site. I just look over the forum every now and then to see if there's anything interesting. Most of the time it's just a bunch of tl;dr.

Real life goals are just to keep programming this one website I've been working on for the past few years. Maybe by 2017 I'll have it open to the public.

Qmannn said:
http://i.imgur.com/1MlhcEU.png

would probably have to submit a full image, alpha channel and all

Qmannn said:
I think Ratte being the artist may have had something to do with it.

No, it still has to go through the same hoops as any other submission and it took about a month to get it pushed through after completion. I was also not the one to present it, only make it.

Clawdragons said:
That's dandy, but Mutisija's dog mascot hasn't made it there yet?

I really liked that one.

its not done yet. my commission work is my first priority now. if i dont get any more orders after finishing current commissions, i focus on the mascot.

Qmannn said:
I'm glad I live in an age where tools exist to help non programmers do this.

Nananananana learn to code, seriously.

Mutisija said:
its not done yet. my commission work is my first priority now. if i dont get any more orders after finishing current commissions, i focus on the mascot.

What if somebody commisioned you to finish your mascot?

My real short-term goal: To get a grip on my life.

I've still got a lot to figure out. Anyone else?

Furrin_Gok said:
What if somebody commisioned you to finish your mascot?

it would still be last in my current commission queue. but i have nothing against someone paying 200€ for a digital painting im going to do anyways :y

Hmm. Just a simple life would do. Graduate from college. Move out find my own place. Decent job. Stay single but meet a nice guy or girl. No kids. I don't need a fancy place just some place I can call home :)

Mutisija said:
it would still be last in my current commission queue. but i have nothing against someone paying 200€ for a digital painting im going to do anyways :y

"Digital painting"?

Forgive me, please, but I have an immese distain for peopr who make "digital" paintings and call it art. I'm sorry.

The reason: I actually paint on a canvas using traditial tools of paint and brushes, and yet when I take months at a time and do a really good job people tend to think that just put a filter on top of a photo or some bullshit like that and so they don't ever appreciate my paintings as a real piece of beautifully dedicated time.

It just pisses me off immensly that such a thing as "digital paintings" even exists as common place art form bevause it causes my work to be considered worthless in terms of time and dedication when such could never be farther from the truth.

*sigh* Sorry.

I just want to say I don't dislike you. I truly don't. I just dislike "digital paimting" as an art form because in my experience it nullifies the value of my own favorite art form. And that hurts.

Kristal_Candeo said:
"Digital painting"?

Forgive me, please, but I have an immese distain for peopr who make "digital" paintings and call it art. I'm sorry.

The reason: I actually paint on a canvas using traditial tools of paint and brushes, and yet when I take months at a time and do a really good job people tend to think that just put a filter on top of a photo or some bullshit like that and so they don't ever appreciate my paintings as a real piece of beautifully dedicated time.

It just pisses me off immensly that such a thing as "digital paintings" even exists as common place art form bevause it causes my work to be considered worthless in terms of time and dedication when such could never be farther from the truth.

*sigh* Sorry.

I just want to say I don't dislike you. I truly don't. I just dislike "digital paimting" as an art form because in my experience it nullifies the value of my own favorite art form. And that hurts.

It's a different style of art. And a popular one at that because you can correct mistakes with a mere click and you don't have to spend money on art supplies when they run out.

Kristal_Candeo said:
"Digital painting"?

Forgive me, please, but I have an immese distain for peopr who make "digital" paintings and call it art. I'm sorry.

The reason: I actually paint on a canvas using traditial tools of paint and brushes, and yet when I take months at a time and do a really good job people tend to think that just put a filter on top of a photo or some bullshit like that and so they don't ever appreciate my paintings as a real piece of beautifully dedicated time.

It just pisses me off immensly that such a thing as "digital paintings" even exists as common place art form bevause it causes my work to be considered worthless in terms of time and dedication when such could never be farther from the truth.

*sigh* Sorry.

I just want to say I don't dislike you. I truly don't. I just dislike "digital paimting" as an art form because in my experience it nullifies the value of my own favorite art form. And that hurts.

its painting and digital. thats why its called digital painting. i do about same stuff as traditional painters do with their paintings but digitally. at first i put rough colors there and slowly with mixing colors and brushing i start to work them into desired shape.

there is not just magical "make pretty art" button in digital painting. its as time consuming as traditional painting is except i dont have to wait for paint to dry. what you see in this screenshot has taken me around 2-4 hours of working to do and im not even done with her head.

the only advantage i have is that in the sketching part i can easily move incorrectly placed parts around to the correct places, i can scale too big or small things into more correct, i can more easily fix color mistakes and i have undo button (also in sai you do not have very many undos to use)

Kristal_Candeo said:
"Digital painting"?

Forgive me, please, but I have an immese distain for peopr who make "digital" paintings and call it art. I'm sorry.

Are you fucking kidding me?

Mutisija said:
there is not just magical "make pretty art" button in digital painting.

Exactly. A lot of people think that the tools and the program regarding digital art will do the work for you, but that is clearly not the case. Time, practice, and skill are still plainly required for drawing. And a knowledge of keyboard shortcuts, be they default or custom, will go a long way into making one's art as streamlined and as beautiful as possible.

"Cash Money"

But in all seriousness, try to figure out how to draw a fucking Space Marine. Them pauldrons are fucking gnarly, man.

I'm hoping to eventually leave this fucking site.
I'm taking it a day at a time though.

Ratte said:
Are you fucking kidding me?

Maybe.

Or maybe I'm just Trollin'. Who knows?

Finish this playthrough of FNV finally, so I can take a break and focus more on my massive backlog of cRPGs.

Also install this light fixture in my room which I have been putting off for almost a year now

Learn to model.
(Re-)Learn to animate.
Learn to draw textures.
Learn to code in Uscript.
Learn to map in Unreal ED.
Learn to make music.
Learn to make sound effects from scratch.

So that I can become an all-rounder content creator for the UT2004 server I play on.

Mutisija said:

Art Stuff

its painting and digital. thats why its called digital painting. i do about same stuff as traditional painters do with their paintings but digitally. at first i put rough colors there and slowly with mixing colors and brushing i start to work them into desired shape.

there is not just magical "make pretty art" button in digital painting. its as time consuming as traditional painting is except i dont have to wait for paint to dry. what you see in this screenshot has taken me around 2-4 hours of working to do and im not even done with her head.

the only advantage i have is that in the sketching part i can easily move incorrectly placed parts around to the correct places, i can scale too big or small things into more correct, i can more easily fix color mistakes and i have undo button (also in sai you do not have very many undos to use)

I know, I know.

But enough about this. Time to get back on topic, I guess.

Get at least a part-time job.
Get home wi-fi.
Get a PS4 of my own.
Get GTA V and CoD: Advanced Warfare so I can continue my profiles on them.
Get MKX because I want it.
Figure out how to make my lineart less pixely.
Convince Nintendo to listen to their fans way more often.
Buy a breakfast taco, eat half of it, and sell the other half on eBay for more than $12.

That last one is more of a personal achievement than anything.

I have one simple goal on this site and that's to pound off.
My goal for this month I saw a .357 air rifle that I think looks like super fun to shoot and hopefully I'll have enough saved by the end of the month.
As for a life goal I can't think of one which is funny considering my dull empty life but I'm moderately content.

Chame34 said:
Get at least a part-time job.
Get home wi-fi.
Get a PS4 of my own.
Get GTA V and CoD: Advanced Warfare so I can continue my profiles on them.
Get MKX because I want it.
Figure out how to make my lineart less pixely.
Convince Nintendo to listen to their fans way more often.
Buy a breakfast taco, eat half of it, and sell the other half on eBay for more than $12.

That last one is more of a personal achievement than anything.

Doomguy666 said:
I have one simple goal on this site and that's to pound off.
My goal for this month I saw a .357 air rifle that I think looks like super fun to shoot and hopefully I'll have enough saved by the end of the month.
As for a life goal I can't think of one which is funny considering my dull empty life but I'm moderately content.

All of these seem like really, really simple goals for life in general. I wish my life was as simple as this. Simple goals with simple prerequisites for meeting them.

Oh well. I guess I must have accidentally clicked Hard Mode when I started Life.
Silly me.

Let's see... Over my life I hope to...
Finish Black Star
Become Immortalized
Cease to be humane
Start a religion based around the truth of the human race.
"To live as I please... and die a senseless death."
And finally... High five a Kuratas quadrupedal utility suit. [Unlikely]
Over this month...
Finalize a few of Black Star's concepts.
On the site...
Provide as much needed and undeserved knowledge and insanity as possible.

finish college
become a teacher
deal with all of my responsibilities
disappear and die

GameManiac said:
Exactly. A lot of people think that the tools and the program regarding digital art will do the work for you, but that is clearly not the case. Time, practice, and skill are still plainly required for drawing. And a knowledge of keyboard shortcuts, be they default or custom, will go a long way into making one's art as streamlined and as beautiful as possible.

Personally, I'd suggest that digital art gives you a pretty huge advantage in terms of trying out variations. Different colors, different proportions, different texturing, heck, just redoing the same stroke until you get it really nice, or the ability to do as much doodling as you need without running out of space -- It isn't a 'solution to art', but they are fantastic study tools for narrowing down your vision of what the finished thing should look like.

In a traditional drawing or painting, you must redraw/repaint them to see that variation. Which is a good practice for consistency, but not really that relevant to the painting, and doesn't provide the same quick feedback.

I'm not sure that I would assess digital as 'better' (assigning simple values to media in this way is pretentious and simpleminded IMO), but it does remove a lot of the rote work. Fitting a texture/design into a given quadrilateral area is a great example of something that is trivial in digital and arbitrarily time-consuming in traditional.

@Kristal:
IME, you cannot expect -technical- insight into art from non-artists. People who haven't trained don't have the mental framework or vocabulary to even really begin to grasp what you want. Commenting on art with 'what filter?' simply reflects their rudimentary understanding of a very complex subject.

savageorange said:
Personally, I'd suggest that digital art gives you a pretty huge advantage in terms of trying out variations. Different colors, different proportions, different texturing, heck, just redoing the same stroke until you get it really nice, or the ability to do as much doodling as you need without running out of space -- It isn't a 'solution to art', but they are fantastic study tools for narrowing down your vision of what the finished thing should look like.

In a traditional drawing or painting, you must redraw/repaint them to see that variation. Which is a good practice for consistency, but not really that relevant to the painting, and doesn't provide the same quick feedback.

I'm not sure that I would assess digital as 'better' (assigning simple values to media in this way is pretentious and simpleminded IMO), but it does remove a lot of the rote work. Fitting a texture/design into a given quadrilateral area is a great example of something that is trivial in digital and arbitrarily time-consuming in traditional.

Not entirely true. Due to how digital art programs do things such as texture mapping for both canvases (such as with SAI) and brushes (PS and others) it is actually quite restrictive with things like canvas texture, not to mention that different canvas modes will display color differently, as will different monitors. The programs can be useful, but it's still only a tool, and tools have problems and flaws no matter what. I tend to get more freedom and variation from traditional work despite there being no undo button for it, because the paper texture will always be different and I can physically, personally modify my tips or brushes to do certain things that I cannot make them do in any program instead of them simply working like a stamp that can just be resized according to pressure (PS is especially bad about this).

Fitting a texture/design looks like halfassed garbage no matter the media if you are not actually putting any care into it. No matter what, you still need to put effort into what you're making, and fill-in textures looks seriously godawful, as do many other "cheats" digital artists use, like grass brushes.

Ratte said:
Fitting a texture/design looks like halfassed garbage no matter the media if you are not actually putting any care into it. No matter what, you still need to put effort into what you're making, and fill-in textures looks seriously godawful, as do many other "cheats" digital artists use, like grass brushes.

Yes, but those cheats are functional and informative, is what I'm saying. They get you information that is very hard to get from traditional art in a reasonable time. It doesn't matter if the texture is cheesy and doesn't quite map to the right planes, as long as it's close enough to give you an idea. It doesn't matter if the distortion has artefacts, as long as they're small. Doesn't matter if the brush isn't quite right, as long as it's mostly right.

It's a design advantage, not necessarily a finish advantage. The reason why it's important is that finish is just time and technique (and of course, doesn't need to be done in the same medium you designed with), while design is pretty much the "soul" of a picture.

savageorange said:
Yes, but those cheats are functional and informative, is what I'm saying. They get you information that is very hard to get from traditional art in a reasonable time. It doesn't matter if the texture is cheesy and doesn't quite map to the right planes, as long as it's close enough to give you an idea. It doesn't matter if the distortion has artefacts, as long as they're small. Doesn't matter if the brush isn't quite right, as long as it's mostly right.

It's a design advantage, not necessarily a finish advantage. The reason why it's important is that finish is just time and technique (and of course, doesn't need to be done in the same medium you designed with), while design is pretty much the "soul" of a picture.

There are quite a few texture cheats I learned in basic high school art classes for traditional work, especially for things like lace.

It may not matter to other people, but if I can see where corners are getting cut I will point them out. That's poor technique and you deserve to know.

Ratte said:
There are quite a few texture cheats I learned in basic high school art classes for traditional work, especially for things like lace.

Sure, there's a bunch of techniques for traditional texturing. Not sure I'd call them cheats (and I would be astonished if it wasn't possible to do most of them digitally)

It may not matter to other people, but if I can see where corners are getting cut I will point them out. That's poor technique and you deserve to know.

I appreciate that, but I'm not sure that you are getting the idea that none of these corner cuttings are supposed to be in the final thing. They are expressly throwaways that aid your thought process (which is what determines the real quality of the finished work, of course).

That said, if you can cheat and the result is exactly what you want, then it's not cheating, just technique.

I would really just like to live out peacefully, away from a lot of the noise and people all by myself. Living in apartments sucks. ;n;