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drag0nfeathers wrote:
See, I want the peacock one with WITH the green and blue in it, haha. Figures.
Oh, and for the cigarette smoke, if you have a safe place to let it air out outdoors for about 12 -18 hours, that works best.
I’m with you, drag0n. I loved the one, I think it was pip? had up here that someone else beat me to. Lots of blues and greens and purples to match my oriental sun and oriental baby
skigod377 wrote:Heck yeah! Its cheap!! (I use Purina One)
Lucky duck. My dog has to eat the $50 a bag Royal Canin german shepherd food or she has these horrid bouts of IBD. She used to eat IAMs and/or Science Diet maintenance.
In the long run it’s cheaper to buy the food every two months than pay $200 for fluids, an NSAID to break her fever and antibiotics every six.
Well, if your pooch can’t have potatoes, good luck. Most Rx veterinary diets for food allergies all include potatoes.
I could have sworn there was a Duck and Peas version, but that may just be for cats. (confirmed after a quick search, green pea and duck is just for kitties).
You may have to resort to the weekly allergen shots. Do you have a vet school close to you? They may stock some rare, unknown brand of food I’m not aware of that they can hook you up with.
And while you’re all nattering on about how bad grains are, remember that when dogs used to kill their prey, they ate the stomach contents too, which consisted of *gasp!* grains and plant material.
The great pet food debate will probably always endure, and while I don’t feed pedigree, I think it’s great that they donate, since I’m betting tons of people do buy it.
Mislisted peacock wizard, if anyone was looking.
I don’t really see anybody talking about *them* specifically, just that the paint job…needs work. Some more direct than others. And no comments yet bashing their artistic skills as a whole.
If they lurk, they’re getting their feedback, directly or indirectly.
lamortefille wrote:SPark wrote:Okay, here is another little pet peeve of mine.
The “if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything” rule shouldn’t apply to art critique! If you’ve drawn or painted or otherwise created something and it’s hideous, people should TELL you. If everyone just goes “Oh, it’s lovely” you’re going to someday embarrass yourself hugely, because you think your work is wonderful, when it’s NOT. Trying to be nice to somebody when they’ve painted a monstrosity is not doing them any favors.
That thing is ugly. It has a few redeeming features, and if I was giving the artist a critique, I would make a point of pointing out the good stuff, because it is nice to do so. But somebody needs to mention the bad stuff to, so you can LEARN how to improve! If nobody tells you what you’re doing wrong, how are you going to fix it?
I took an art course once, and I had a teacher that actually TOLD us what we were doing wrong, and I can tell you even though all my classmates HATED him, that was the best course I’ve ever taken, I learned more than I ever had from all the courses where the teacher tried to be nice to us.
(So you guys know – if I say I love your work, that means I really do love it! I don’t believe in sugar coating my opinions at all.)
And if you’re so very tender hearted that you can’t bear to hear about the faults in your work, then maybe you should just keep your work to yourself, and not show it in public. And certainly not sell it!
I agree, but so far only Water has given any constructive criticism.
I guess then, next time one of my design instructors simply says: That’s hideous, redo it! I should whine about him not saying anything nice/giving me something constructive to go on?
It’s happened to me, but I’m smart, I figured it out, and I got an A. Most of the time it was pretty darn obvious to me what was wrong, I was just too lazy to fix it/thought it would do until my teacher ripped it off the wall and threw it in the floor to move on to the next one.
The art world outside of the ‘net (and design, especially!!) ain’t sugarcoated. I don’t ask for candy coating, and I don’t give it in return. A lot of pieces I was so proud of, I walked away from for a few days, came back to look and them and thought “well hell…that’s ugly!”
Any good artist needs to be able to get enough distance from their work to make that kind of observation, especially if they’re going to publicly display/sell. Otherwise, people are going to tell them whether they like it or not.
Don’t feel too bad, guys, my first thought when I opened the auction was “Dang, that’s ugly!”
You’re not alone!
Because I’m rather fond of this sketch. Done more or less in honor of Singles Awareness Day of two characters from an RPG. There’s probably a bit much to explain, but the wolf isn’t really so, he’s a shape-shifting truck (who also has a human form, think Transformers, just squishy and less giant) and the girl his wife-to-be. Have fun looking, I did drawing it.
Linked since it is perhaps classified as PG-13 to an adult who might understand things.
I could get into an end run of white Orientals, so long as I could afford it! Like Drag0n said, club piece!
Looks like BT Wedding put up another one, ‘cept this one appears to be lacking a tag, and is $10 more than the one I snapped up.
Here he is in case anyone was still looking.
Taking a break, since my hand is cramping. I’ve got school work that needs attention, but screw design, it’s time for a little artwork.
The brown paint is giving me conniption fits, but he seems to be antiquing himself as it goes along.
Anyway, it’s where I’m at!
