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Nice corrections Dragon.  The fupa is optional.  You might also want to consider relaxing the arms as well.

I don't know about Legends...but Stratego is my favorite board game of all time!!!! 

Does everyone know about Muse now?Ã,  They used to be pretty underground...at least in the US...but that was several years ago.Ã,  I'm over my angst ridden years...

Faith and the Muse are for more mature and open ears -- not really a band but a very talented musical group!

Speaking of bands with Faith in the name, Faith No More will always rock my world!Ã,  Smaller and smaller!!

Goldmund, how about "modern folk"?

I'd really like to see this tutorial  

The perspective on the teleport thingy doesn't match the rest of the room.  I can't tell if it's supposed to be indented or outdented, because the lines indiacte that it is outdented, but the lighting indicates that it is indented.

why are the walls painted in 4 different colors?

DGMcaphee,

"Faith and the Muse" and "Muse" are not the same.

That folder there called gothic is under electronica, and does not refer to all gothic music, but to the "new age electronic music with gothic influences"

While DCD and cocteau twins both have a similar medieval feel to them, the twins are rock based, whereas DCD has zero rock influence.

While DCD is primarily singing with electronic beats, with a lot of studio work, I get lost in the music and do not hear any of the electronic aspects...it sounds very medieval and not like trance or techno at all.Ã,  This is very similar to Faith and the Muse...and I think it is a definite subdivision of electronic music, which is significantly different from ethnic fusion.Ã, 

Perhaps they stray so far from electronic that maybe I should just give them their own main top-level category?  This is at the level of rock, classical, jazz, etc..

chicken: yeah thats a mistake, I move it into alternative

back to DCD...

they have submitted their primary genre as Goth on realRhapsody, with secondary genres of ethnic fusion, new age, medieval, and dream pop.  well they definitely aren't dream pop, medieval is basically the same as goth, they are LIKE ethnic fusion because they do the same thing, only they are doing it to medieval music instead of ethnic music...they are new age but that's a larger category.  They are also described in a few places as gothic music on Amazon.

Goldmund,
A lot of their songs sound very similar to Faith and the Muse...and while a lot of their songs are different, this is enough for me to mentally place them in the same category.

lgm: isn't it spelled Bjork?

Drawing looks pretty good, but am I supposed to have the urge to punch him in the face?Ã,  I don't think I could play with this character, for fear of actually trying to punch him...and I have a decent monitor so that wouldn't be a good thing.

EDIT: perhaps you wanted me to criticize your drawing skills rather than your character? 

more buildup, evolution and progression

the first half sounds more techno and the second half suddenly switches over to sounding trance and the change is pretty abrupt

the pace is too fast for me

the reverberation is too long and is a bit painful, it sounds low-bitrate even though it's not

not bad for amateur practice though

i thought about putting in folders for the albums...the CD's I burn myself would then have nice pictures of their album on each folder which would be very appealing and I like to play them in the order they were composed on the CD...but that brings up a whole host of problems with the majority of the music that I did not burn from my own CD or that I have too few of to justify subdivigin it into folders.  when there is not uniformity it just kills me.  and I didn't want to go looking up the album name for everything...especially for the bands i don't really listen to anymore, but I know I would end up doing that if I did it for any of them just to make it uniform.  but yes lgm I made that manually..

well the gothic isn't under rock because that is electronic gothic which is not the same as regular gothic...it has a lot of techno/trance/newage ties

punk rock and grunge i thought were the same thing...?  but I don't really listen to that stuff anymore

I mostly listen to dream pop and electronic music now

Yes...it's anal retentive...but worth it...and yes I have better things to do, but I did this instead.

BTW if you think I made a real mistake with one of the categories feel free to call me on it heh

I thought that was rope that was used for a top of the screen GUI.  Those are clouds???

Here's a qiuck color job I did...

1) You have already used a threshold on the inking, so it's really easy to just use color select (white) 150% then invert selection copy and paste just the black outlines as a new top layer without any outlines (threshold removes the outlines well).

2) starting from the most covered up areas, just select the area and fill it in with polygonal lasso, or draw it in by hand...doesn't really matter which you prefer. Ã, Just work your way up through the layers. Ã, So sea should be on the bottom, then sand, then ropes, then trunks, then leaves.

Then I just did a few little touchups to the brightness of areas and coloring in the rocks n shells...and tried some funky brush patterns on the water. Ã, 



btw removing the watermark here is really as simple as adjust color saturation (reds) ->0%, lightness->100% and it's gone without a trace.

This is where we talk about background art...it's not an AGS program question and its not off topic either, where would you put it?

Really excellent!!!

The only problem I see with it is the door, which looks as though it is in the back wall...and on closer inspection has a number of other problems...there is no corner at the meeting of the walls, the perspective is off, there is an extra edge in the door stones, I tried to fix it all with this edit.

one of those things I've just never figured out how to do is to color single pixels in photoshop.  even when the brush size is set to 1 pixel, it's actually coloring about 3 pixels.  I can adjust the dithering(? i think thats what its called) down until its only affecting 1 pixel, but then it's only got like 1% opacity.  so...is this a capability of paint that is unmatched by photoshop?