Dark_Demesne

Tif name: Dark_Demesne Runescape Name: Dark Demesne Picture: Url: http://tinypic.com/r/fkmkbd/5 Thanks for doing this!

It appears Eek does indeed have a special chat with the new NPCs! Awesome huh? Thanks! Although I don't really need to win (already got a prize from the RuneFest competition)--I just really love contests. :) What's funny is I drew the comic before I even knew about the "metal" theme of this year's Halloween, but it actually seems to fit! At absolute minimum (for, say the Eek drawing), 8 hours or so. For the more-detailed drawings, anywhere between 4 full days and 2 weeks of full days. I am a REALLY slow drawer--it's a labor of love, not something I could ever do fast enough to monetize! Aww thanks. :)

Added Halloween Comic Strip Entry:

Added an entry for the 2010 Halloween gallery:

Yay!!!!! Now I don't even have to pay in order to waste my time on games instead of school! (Or maybe it'll be the reverse--I won't feel the need to play as much since I'm not spending money on it and don't need to make sure I play my $5 worth every month? Only time will tell...) Aww thanks, I'm so happy! :D I was actually really surprised to see that I'd won, because I wasn't sure that a) I was good enough, or b) Jagex even got anything I'd sent. I remember sending off the two farming pics to the gallery in 2008 and never got a reply, so it was hard to know if it was rejection or email problems. (Now I know--it was rejection! Burn!) Sorry if I'm incoherent, I'm just in the process of having a happy heart attack. Thank you! I'm about to die of happy. :)

Thanks, even if I don't have time I'll try to make some! Even if it means opening up a wormhole and destroying the time-space continuum. Aww thanks. I had fun with Evil Bob, as his evil grin reminds me of my own cat (although her nefarious activities are limited to eating my plants and stealing my place on the couch every time I get up). Thanks, will do! I don't really know, lol. I've never actually taken an art class--all my knowledge is based on trial and error and Google searches if I can't figure something out. The crispness is probably due to the fact that 1) I do the outlines of objects with hard brushes, 2) I keep objects on different layers, so I can lock transparency and do fine work on the edges without the color straying off the object (unless I want it to), and 3) I use 1-pixel brushes on huge canvases (the RuneFest entry was done on a 4300x3200 pixel canvas). Hope that helps!

Thanks, I'm glad you like it! I appreciate the work you and other admins do to give me a place to put this stuff. :) Thanks! I like detail, although I tend to go a little overboard, to the point where it can take me two weeks to get a single drawing done. I like the whiteberry one too. I remember it fondly as the picture where I almost went insane trying to draw 300 leaves by hand until I figured out how to make custom brushes in Photoshop.

Hi everyone, I'm a long-time Tip.It forum denizen and occasional poster. I like to draw Runescape pictures every once in a (great) while, and while I used to post each image separately in the Gallery, I thought it might be more useful to have everything together in one spot under Runescape Media. I study Biology and English but I like to do art as a hobby, and I try to improve with every drawing. I've done five major Runescape drawings over the past three years, all in Photoshop. I particularly like translating game figures into an airbrush/photographic style, and I hope to do more of it in the future! In chronological order, my drawings are: 1. Dark Mage - February 2007 This was my first-ever piece of Runescape art, done after I'd just gotten Photoshop but before I'd figured out how to use it properly! This was my character Dark Demesne as a mage with black robes, a power ammy, and an air staff. I was still F2P at the time and this was my best mage outfit. I planned on doing melee and ranged variants as well, but never got around to them. Both this picture and my next one ("Dragon Slayer") got into the Runescape "Best of" Gallery 2. (Woot!) 2. Dragon Slayer - December 2007 This was my second piece of Runescape art, drawn after I'd finally started to get the hang of Photoshop. I'd gotten membership in July and by this point was happily slaying steel dragons with an antifire shield, whip, glory ammy, warrior helm, and proselyte armor. Back then the abyssal whip really did look like a string of sausages with open air between the pieces! 3. Picking Whiteberries - April 2008 Although I spent my first few months of membership slaying everything in sight, I soon discovered my true calling: farming. In April 2008, I got my first 99 in farming and drew this picture to celebrate. My character is supposed to be picking whiteberries from the bush patch in Miscellania. 4. Formal Portrait - June 2008 After getting 99 farming, I moved on to leveling construction, as one of the reasons I'd gotten membership in the first place was so I could build my very own player-owned house. I finally got everything just as I wanted it and drew this to commemorate my newly-installed formal garden. Back then black elegant was my favorite outfit ever, and I wore it for about a year straight! 5. RuneFest Gallery Competition Entry - August 2010 After my last bit of Runescape art ("Formal Portrait" in 2008), I didn't produce any new artwork (of any sort) for a long while. I focused on my studies and let my art hobby rust in disuse, pretty much. But in July 2010 I noticed a front-page post about the Runefest Gallery Competition, and I figured I could really use the practice. So I took the directions literally (evil Bob, a flagstaff of festivities, and a golden gnome) and set about trying to remember how do anything in my trusty old copy of Photoshop CS3. The result isn't leaps and bounds better than my earlier pics (which I wouldn't expect, seeing as I hadn't been practicing in the interum), but it was good to draw again. I was very happy to learn that this drawing was one of fourteen winners in the Runefest Gallery Competition, netting me a lifetime membership and a copy of my artwork on canvas! See the news announcement here, and my entry here. 6. Eek the Spider - October 2010 After producing my RuneFest entry, I still wanted to keep drawing Runescape art (for practice, mostly, because nothing motivates me like a good contest!). The problem is that it can take days or weeks to produce a single artwork, and after the school year started I was having real trouble getting any art done at all. I was able to scrape together half a day of free time to draw an entry for the Halloween theme gallery, but I didn't have time for my usual style. So instead I made a cartoon-y version of Eek and colored her with relatively blocky, flat layers, without a background or much of a foreground for that matter. Still, I got something done, and surprisingly fast! (Though still not as fast as I would like.) 7. Halloween Comic Strip Competition - October 2010 After making the Eek drawing, I figured I might as well do something for the Halloween Comic Strip Competition too. I came up with a total goofball entry that makes no sense, but I had fun doing it and best of all, the small size made it impossible for me to linger too long on minute details. May have to try more in this format in the future!

I'm pretty sure you can buy jugs of water from Shanty in the Shanty Pass, but I don't know if there's a limit on them (haven't been there lately).

ROL couldn't hurt, especially if you're still getting used to the caverns. I usually equip Slayer Ring for Pollivneach tele (my house is there), but ring is pretty much whatever is most useful to you.

I usually equip Varrock armor 3 (it can give extra ore even in the Caverns), my best pickaxe, and my best defensive gear in every other slot. You'll want a lava titan summoned at all times for the mining boost. There's a small obelisk near the entrance to the Cavern, so you can bring multiple pouches without worrying about summon pots. Try mining on world 84, which is the official Living Rock Caverns world. If you mine on world 84, you won't need food or additional healing of any sort--there are enough people mining at any time that the monsters will usually be occupied and you can mine free and clear. Join a chat such as "Mining Golds" if you want to get updates on which rocks are up and which are down. (SWU means that the southwest gold deposit is up, for instance). If you don't want to join a chat, just run along with the streams of other miners. If you are worried about taking damage, you can equip an Enhanced Excalibur and do the special if you get low on LP. Miners in world 84 always bless graves, so you don't have to worry too much about dying. Stick with concentrated gold and don't bother with coal or living rock remains.

There's one real close, just go back up the rope and half a screen east.

My most annoying would be gearing up for Jade Vine with Karils, Dragon Hatchet, and Zammy book, clicking to attack the Vine, and then switching to another window to read an article while the fight went on. Switching back and realizing that I'd forgotten to put Pro Melee on and had died in an instanced fight before you could get gravestones for them, and losing full Karils and a Dragon Hatchet plus a bunch of random stuff, like full Black Ele that I for some reason had in my inventory. Then repeating that two more times, on different occasions, until I finally learned my lesson and starting banking expensive stuff beforehand and wearing black d'hide instead of Karils.

Thanks! Now I feel like I should start working on something new, instead of putting up 2-year-old drawings because I've been too lazy to do anything recently. My "novel" really is pretty bad. It started off as a generic fantasy in ~1900s England; then I deleted the main character, switched the magic to scaled-up quantum entanglement controlled by prions, and changed the location to 1980s Guatemala; then I got bored and just started writing in funny anecdotes about my adventures with airports. Also, I had a lot of homework, so my word count includes a 6500-word essay on the historical trajectory of philosophers' conceptions of the ideal purview of rhetoric. Obviously I should have taken five minutes to think through the plot/characters/location a bit better. But now I know! :) And yeah, it helps that I know and love Runescape. I need to somehow obtain that level of familiarity and comfort with whatever fictional world I decide to write in. GPA limits depend on which school you attend, actually. Two of my siblings go to schools where GPA stops at 4.0; my other brother and I go to a school where GPA goes up to 4.3. So I can just load up on French and Spanish and whatnot to balance out the evil classes, like physics. (Urgh.... classical mechanics. Bane of my existence.) Thanks, and likewise, best of luck in 2010!

Thanks. Having 99 Construction is great--I can build anything I want now. Getting 99 Construction... not quite as much fun, but at least it's all over with now! Thank you muchly! Thanks guys. Having dredged up that drawing, I know realize that I produced a grand total of 0 artworks for the year 2009. Ugh. Maybe I should have spent less time leveling and more time drawing, lol. More RS art will have to go on the to-do list for 2010.