Lelling

Hello everyone!

We've got exciting stuff happening in the next few months of OpenCommunity, and with that, we are going to be closing our IndieGogo Campaign in the next few days!

The Champion & Legendary Supporter perks will no longer be available after this, and the jury is still out on Shiny Supporter (we just like that title so much :P). After the campaign closes we will also set up the Founder page listing all the supporters that donated to the campaign.

And if you're worried you'll miss out - there will be more shiny perks, and definitely other shinies going forward - more about that in the next few days!

~Lelling

This is another of my friends' characters that I drew for him ^^ Erinai the pirate queen :3 And I think that's the most recent drawing of mine that's online

I did some quick colouring in in Photoshop just for fun, and I liked the way it turned out.

Now it usually seems to be months between me drawing anything so I might add more older stuff like I did earlier ^^

It snowed ALL day yesterday, quite intensely, but literally not an inch of snow layer had actually formed. It was so weird  

http://i.imgur.com/GG2emVM.gif

This baby doesn't have a care in the world

^ not helping with the ol' mouse there

He also loves his new radiator bed

What better thing to be proud of than these:

(particularly the Mini ones ^^)

@Flu Omg  That resemblance is uncanny

@Susimusta I just really like elongated faces with sharp features  I think drawing rounder features is a bit more difficult because you have to get the shading right. That's one of the reasons I only draw tall humanoids, and never stuff like dwarves or asura. They SCARE me  But I really should practice those more

Also, here's some other drawings from my facebook - here is my wandslinger witch from Path of Exile

I didn't really succeed in any kind of resemblance to the in-game model, but y'know, maybe my witch has a bit more cheekbone. *shrug*

Also an unfinished WIP, I dunno if I'll ever finish it so I'm just posting it as-is  

@Daus WHOA that looks so cool  

@Wintersreach Ral Zarek is my bae. I'm still buying Dragon Maze booster displays to this day  Also your wallpapers remind me of Shadowrun

@Tawni Aaaaa dem games! How is Thea: The Awakening? I have it on my wishlist but I haven't bought it yet (waiting for the next sale pretty much ) 

Oh also, I found this the other day, which is my desktop cca 2009 I think

Took me WAAAAY back  

This used to be one of my favorite threads in my WoW community, so I decided to bring it back! I always loved seeing the different ways people style & organize their desktops!

A desktop screenshot says a lot about a person -  

Mine, unfortunately, says "I have Steam so I don't need shortcuts anymore"

I dump stuff like images or temporary text files on the desktop sometimes, but they were work related so I had to clean them up before posting!

I cropped out my second screen on the left, because it's literally just another massive picture of Ral Zarek  

Cool! I saw the post, that's spirit  I'll be posting around international forums a little bit as well, both US & EU, to see if there's any interest. If you think anything's missing that could make US players feel more welcome / more likely to look into playing with us let me know ^^

Oh, and if you happen to find a clan/guild you'd like to drag over here, we can create a TeamSpeak channel for it, with moderation rights for the leader / officers and all that fancy stuff!

I've seen quite a few US flags on our TS recently, too, and I'll be sure to poke them next time I see them.

If only @Sourunji was not a traitor to his OWN MOTHERLAND  

Hey folks ^^

I draw stuff sometimes, mainly isolated characters against a white background - either concepts or occasionally fanart or friends' characters ^^ I'll just be dumping them all here - feel free to give me art feedback ^^

I mainly draw in pencil & sometimes do photoshop edits because WHY not :3

I've got TONS to share and I always love a progression post - seeing how certain things improve over the years, but I thought first, I'll just share some recent stuff:

I say recent, I think I drew this in 2012 I think  

My friend Pippin's character Anedill Rilynn'thal (a Night Elf from World of Warcraft) - this was probably my favorite thing to edit, I really like how it turned out, as the photoshop edit doesn't take away from the authenticity of the central drawing, but instead emphasizes it.

Also gratuitous half-naked man - he's actually a character / archetype concept and I'm pretty sure I've been drawing him in different incarnations for like 9 years now (1 - oldest version I could find without having to scan stuff again, 2, 3, 4). He and his female counterpart are like a recurring theme

I'll post more soon ^^ I need to resize some of them so they're not massive  

EDIT: 

I could not resist - here's some of my older stuff:

On 2/28/2016 at 10:02 AM, Minithra said:

Meet Victoria!

She looks so gorgeous (& she also looks like she knows it)!  

Cats do indeed rule our lives. Such is our fate

Hello ^^ Welcome, you're probably one of our first Black Desert-based newcomers! So yaaaay!

If you're on US servers, I'd probably recommend making a post in our Black Desert forums like "Hey, US players!" ^^ I think most of our existing users from Guild Wars 2 are from EU, so it'll take a bit for more US players to notice us (we just need to poke them more  )

And don't be scared to drag any of your friends / friendly peeps you meet in-game onto the TeamSpeak at ts.theopencommunity.org  You can find the Black Desert channels under "LET'S GAME" (just minimize all the Guild Wars 2 channels and it should be right there under them)

OrderOfCalpheon has been made, everyone! YAY!  

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6 hours ago, Fatal said:

are people recreating their own guilds in BDO or are we going to create the 1st cross community one? im easy! 

There is no community ruling for this - If you want to recreate your guild there go ahead ^^ Personally I think it makes more sense that everyone from here sticks together  

Right now we seem to have two guilds forming - CatsPaw (Cat's Paw Trading Company) which is more of a casual, roleplaying type situation, and the other one, which is still forming (and still needs a name), and that'll be more focused on stuff that you could say is similar to what we're doing with GW2 - endgame stuff, focused events, etc.

If you wanna make your own guild that's cool too ^^

Hey everyone ^^

So a lot of people have been wondering how we're going to go about Black Desert, whether we've picked a server, etc. etc. - here's the rundown:

We are going into Black Desert with all options open - accepting & inviting everyone who wishes to do stuff in this community, so what will happen in the end we will most likely have people & guilds from different servers. However, those of us that are starting from here can all start on the same server (we've chosen Jordine).

Moving forward, depending on how popular Black Desert is in the community, and how popular the community is in Black Desert, we will create an interactive guild page, listing all the guilds that sign up with us (like we have for Guild Wars 2)

For now, we are creating two guilds for people to join on Jordine:

• Cat's Paw Trading Company <CatsPaw> - Intended for more casual players, who like to explore, trade, or just generally bumble around the game with a bit of emphasis on the roleplaying aspects of the game.
• <OrderOfCalpheon> - A guild that still has a social atmosphere, but still focuses on end-game content, both PvP and PvE.

Until we set up a page, this thread will also serve as a list of guilds, so if you have your own guild you'd like to list here, just make a post about it and it will be added to the list ^^

Server: JORDINE

<CatsPaw> - (Casual, RP, Trading)

<OrderOfCalpheon> - (PvX, End-Game Focus)

Welcome to our humble forums  

We need pictures of these cats immediately!

Hello ^^

Yes, people like to call me Cyan because that is the character I'm on 95% of the time  

Perhaps now they will learn not to do that  

On 2/23/2016 at 1:39 PM, Nag said:

While the other timers are very useful (and I use them often), the Sandstorm timer is kinda moot since Sandstorms always start at exactly 40 minutes past every hour and end exactly at the start of the next new hour (so from xx:40 to xx+1:00)  Good for a reminder, though.

Yeah, there's so many people at Dry Top who still say "I have a sandstorm on my map" and it's just like... the sandstorm.. is up... on all maps! And it's a 1 hour cycle so it's really easy to remember

Hey guys! Sorry there hasn't been an update for AGES! But I've been super busy & I need to resize & crop the images every time  

So it's been a long month and Mars Bar sure has grown  So this is an overview of February - Month 4! - this is going to be a lot of pictures so get ready for CAT!

Here he is helping me create a character in Black Desert:

He's just been growing longer & longer, but not putting on any weight

He also likes to sleep on my face sometimes!

OH we've also discovered another place he likes to sleep in

He also enjoys tunnels mate out of boxes (runs into them Maru-style, but unfortunately I didn't manage to get any footage of that ^^)

Here's him at the beginning of the month (unsuspecting of his impending doom)

And this is him 3 weeks after the picture above, as you can see he's starting to fill out  

He likes to sleep like this as well

I don't know what the heck that pose is meant to be but he seems to like it  

He also is starting to have more and more encounters with Micka, our older cat (they're not related)

She's not a fan . She's an outdoor cat so she doesn't understand his lazy lifestyle

BUT in truth - he's not lazy at all! Here he is helping me out with some project stuff (I had to blur one of the screens cause it contained secrets)

AND that's all folks! We'll have more updates up soon, we'll quite probably have our first trip to the vet soon, which is bound to be an adventure ^^

Oh, and here's an extra gif of Micka trying to catch a fake mouse

After the end of LARPs, The Guild, and Titansgrave, I needed more Geek&Sundry shows. I NEEDED them.

So on their twitch, I found Critical Role - and it's the best show I've ever watched.

Do you like fun? Do you like tabletop games? Do you like voice actors? THEN WHY are you not watching Critical Role?

So here's what CritRole is - it's a D&D game that a couple of voice actors have been playing for 2 years before the show started. They streamed it as an experiment on the Geek&Sundry twitch and it's become their most successful show!

If you're not that much into Pen & Paper games and you'd like to see how that all works out I would suggest watching Titansgrave (linked above) first, it comes with a more directed script, action edits & regular-length episodes  

Critical Role is hours upon hours of unedited fun (and sometimes confusion ). The voice actors should be familiar to most of us, if not by name, then by voice, as they include a lot of Guild Wars 2 voices, Blizzard game voices, various anime, as well as notably the voice of Ellie in The Last of Us.

I just learned today that Episode 1 has reached a million views. A note about the show - as it progresses, the G&S twitch network becomes substantially larger, their equipment improves, and the quality of the sound improves a TON. So I would suggest everyone to WATCH THIS SHOW right MEOW.

So where can I watch the show?

• http://www.twitch.tv/geekandsundry on the Geek&Sundry twitch on Thursdays at 7 PM PST (Fridays 4 AM CET)
• On the G&S Youtube channel (<- playlist of all episodes), onto which episodes get uploaded every Monday

Recently, the show has gotten so much attention they did a short one-off episode with Vin Diesel (who is also a D&D fan), called D&Diesel, which is absolutely delightful to watch .

If you would like to see a short 4-minute clip of the kind of stuff that happens in CritRole:

Or more recently

There is drama

There is combat

There's a triceratops battle at some point

And there's a Geralt costume for halloween because why not

WATCH THIS SHOW!

4 hours ago, promith said:

watched this because of this post very good show .Wish there was more though

YAY!

Yeah, back when we used to get 5 minutes every few weeks it seemed like there was a lot more of it

4 hours ago, Iasdora.Miau said:

my face.

!!

That winged eyeliner is onnnnnnnnn point!!!!