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Well, so I'm finding myself in need of some basic character shapes to build 3d models around (front, back, side, and top view) so I decided to start messing around with vector graphics again. After composing some sort of general character framework for a front view, I asked Xepher for some critique info and after a few revisions got something a bit more acceptable than the original (11 revisions so far). However, I'm no artist and it'd be greatly appreciated if some of y'all could give some critique information on anything that needs to be changed.

Now rather than just posting the latest revision, I decided to just post the images location, which contains all of them from revision 1 to revision 11:

http://images.databits.cc/templates/female/

Currently, the female front is the only thing that is near completion, so there's a long ways to go, and there will certainly be more of these postings in the future. 

Thanks!

I would assume you could try some link exchanges with other web comics?

The game never reached completion, it died out in the scripting engine phases.

Xeph: I posted that before we started to diagnose things later in the day after the first time.

Griev: I already have a gmail account. 

Just outta stupid curiosity, how many of you use hotmail?

I used to be working on a small game of my own. I did everything for the entire project, from the game engine programming to the graphical creation to the music and sound effects. Needless to say, I bit off more than I could chew and probably only really excelled in the area of software programming more than anything.

However, while going through some really old files I found some of my music creations. Since I don't plan on using any of these within my projects now, I decided to upload them and share them here. May as well eh?

Most of these are fitted for perfect looping in any player far as I remember. Town 3 and 4 were never taken very far and all of them never really left draft stages. Town 4 was the last attempt at music creation that I took before I dropped the project completely.

• Adventure 01
  
• Untitled Music 01
  
• Title 01
  
• Town 01
  
• Town 02
  
• Town 03
  
• Town 04

Well, something that those like Xepher know but many of the rest of you do not is that I (used to) work from home as a professional web developer. Recently I have decided to rent an office and begin trying to expand horizons in terms of clients and whatnot. Up until this point I have pretty much worked more or less for a single person for their clients, not as an employee but as an outsourced programmer. But now that I'm going to be venturing out and trying to find some of my own clients, I'll be needing resources that I do not have.

One of those resources, is artists.

Now, things are going to start off pretty slow, but in the meantime it doesn't mean I can't at least look for people who may be interested. So at the moment I'm looking for those who are good at web art (don't need to worry much about the specifics of the html/css, I've got that handled) and/or flash. Chances are, if I begin to get contracts I'll need artists on a per-contract basis. Since I've been here at the Xepher community for a long time, and considering that these will most definitely be paid contracts, I figured I'd give people here a chance first.

To begin, an example of your work would be nice. Once again, I'm not looking for W3C compliance or anything like that, but I'd like to see what those who are interested can do. Be it a personal site for your comic here, some example quick flash thing, or even other people or company sites you've done. Some sort of idea of rate information would also be helpful, but not necessary at this time.

Thank You,

Databits

My specialty lately has been online payment and store systems, but I don't have any sort of online software package for it. Usually custom jobs in my case for gateway interfaces.

OScommerce, while I don't care for it, works.

Yes and no...

Except this guy pretty much did a pixel by pixel drawing...

Sadly I think the day of the webring has since left. They aren't really that popular anymore.

Remember "web rings"?

Even on a Mac you could run a VM. The only reason I can test it under IE6 and IE7 is because I have Win98 running in a VM on my system and IE6 in it.

Xeph can disable that, btw, it's just enabled by default.

Looks good and clean, however...

I'd make it so that the actual menu category changes color as well as the menu opening to make it completely obvious what one they're under.

Don't remove the recent updates box unless you have something else to replace it on other pages. Granted there are sites out there that use a completely separate front page, but they also do just that... use a COMPLETELY separate front page which usually differs a lot more than having one or two things changed.

The menus break under IE6 in higher resolutions. For some reason the last menu is wrapped to the next line instead of being next to the rest, regardless that there's enough room for it. This issue also happens under IE7.

Also under IE6 and IE7 the menu that's wrapped does funky move around stuff when you open other menus. In addition, the menu close timeout acts kinda funky as well, and due to the menu doing the funky moving thing, you are unable to really navigate it in IE6/7