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In response to the above, I think there's actually a great comment from the TV show White Collar that fits well. When Neal is explaining how to forge a signature he says that he does it upside down. Because when you look at a signature normally, you see letters and a signature. So your own style creeps in since you know you're writing letters. But when it's upside down it's just random shapes. So instead you're not writing a signature, you're drawing shapes, and that makes for a more accurate signature. Anyway some of the same ideas can apply to art. If you think, "Okay I'm going to draw a wolf!" you'll end up drawing what you think a wolf looks like, and unless you're an expert on anatomy, etc., there will end up being flaws. As for me, I have PhotoShop CS5 and a Wacom Intuos 4 tablet. When drawing something I've never drawn before, I have PhotoShop open on one monitor and browse Google and/or deviantART on the other for references. With things like architecture and machinery, there's often a lot of raging, erasing, and refining involved. I can never seem to get the hang of those :P Sometimes it can be frustrating because practice does make perfect. But in order to get good, you have to spend weeks looking at your crappy results, which is oftentimes very discouraging!

Pfft he's the one trying to flatter us. Obviously.

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I just get hotter and hotter.

Oh my.

I shall have a monopoly on BlogScape.

Explain yourself!

Thank you for your many helpful reports :)

OHMYGOD WIN :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

You calling me fat?? :(

You guyz be trollin.

I like knowing when people reply to me so I can reply back :)

We're going to work on starting to condense those into one or two central threads :)

How kind :P

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At least I replied to your first PM! :P I'll reply to the second after my class XD

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Bots, bots, bots, and why they make me rage! We'll give this a try :)

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I very rarely get stressed. I often have plenty of stuff that I could be stressed about but it just doesn't happen. I guess I always know that it'll work out just fine so there's no reason to get worried about it. If I do ever get stressed, I play a game and that's usually the end of it. :P