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Be My Valentine Art Exchange!Valentine's Day ExchangeSend Your ValentineIt's time to get out the glitter and glue, candy hearts and flowers, because Valentine's Day is here!The Valentine Exchange is here! We asked you to create valentines and submit them to the Be My Valentine category. Now, it's time to send your love-filled deviations to your deviantART friends, family, and secret admirers! Starting today through February 16th, the "Send a Valentine" button has been activated on deviations in theBe My Valentine category, so you can send your custom creations and valentines made by others. Love is in the air!HOW IT WORKS
Character Design: An introductionArvalis-2012 by `arvalisWhat does 'Character Design' mean?The character design is the process which comes after the characterisation and consists in defining the character through his/her physical appearance. We need to consider a character as a little fictional creature, human or not, that aims to please its creator and the public as well.While the basic characterization of this fictional creature (his tastes, his fears, his behaviors) may take a little mental effort, as it is a sort of list of emotions, facts and feelings that come and go in the life of a character, the process of visual realization of this creature may not be as simple. That's why many writers and characters creators prefer to rely on experienced hands.Also many of the mental aspects of the character are not possible to gain by using 'static' visual medium. For 'static' I mean all the illustrations and drawings unable to tell a
MyPaint 1.1.0 released!Here we go again with lots of improvements and new features! Grab it while it's hot geometry tools: sequence of lines, curved lines, ellipsesnew brush and layer blending modes; different layer mergingnew color dialog: palette and gamut mappingimproved document frame, can be resized on canvassymmetric drawing modeold color changer ("washed") from 0.6 is available againtoolbar improvements, e.g. move layer mode, pan/zoomrevised cursor and on-canvas color pickerbetter separation of mypaint's brush library; json brush file formattranslations, performance improvements, bugfixes, and moreHere's an illustrated explanation of new and reworked features: Mypaint 1.1 - A guide through the new features.Sidenote: there's no (properly) working Windows build as of yet. Please don't be too harsh with the developers - there's not a single active developer actually working on Windows,
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