Yes, go for it.
The worst that can happen, judging from the starting image there, is people ignoring you.

>>1580
I should mention that you'll at least get a few posters.
Be patient with them, though.

Anonymous 2009/08/27(Thu)21:09 No. 1582 ID: fdc826
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>>1578

How do I shot trip?!H508X.HbJ6 2009/08/27(Thu)22:27 No. 1583 ID: 6faa8c
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Choose whether to art or not and stick with it.

I'm of the opinion that bad art is better than no art for a quest.

>>1586

This, no one should feel put off because they think they aren't good enough, art or story-wise. (Yes I know that's hypocritical coming from me)

Heck it's good practice anyway, go for it.

GREEN 2009/08/28(Fri)07:18 No. 1591 ID: 2cbe3e
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>>1582

Steve disagrees! You need AWESOME FANTASTIC art to have a quest! Look at the artwork for his quest! It's stunning! Every line drawn with a smooth grace and elegance that is both moving and quietly contemplative!

FUCKING STUNNING!

But you should seriously just do a quest just for the fun of doing a quest if you've got a good story. As long as you try to make your pictures look distinguishable enough people will appreciate your effort. JimQuest and KaraQuest are two great examples of quests that don't have great art, but have/had a quality to the story that keeps people coming back. I've gotta agree that art at all is better than no art.

Rekaens!zCiuXQBmHU 2009/08/28(Fri)07:19 No. 1592 ID: cd08c0
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>>1578
> I have absolutely no artistic talent.
Hey, you know what I say to that?

Fuck it.

>>1592
You do have some artistic talent.

Anonymous 2009/08/28(Fri)18:59 No. 1608 ID: fdc826
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>>1591
>OhYeahJimYouCockyBastard.jpg

Jim might just have to shoot a bitch.

GREEN!ifOCf11HXk 2009/08/28(Fri)20:32 No. 1610 ID: 9e9b47
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>>1608

Pssh! Steve has SIX pokemon and he's ready for a fight! He doesn't even think that tube knows any attacks!

>>1610
Watch out, that's TWO tubes.

>>1578
Take a chance.

On a more basic question, what's a good art program for beginners? And by "beginners" I mean "people who have been banned from ever playing Pictionary in decent countries."

>>1612
Depends on the platform.

MSPaint is something almost every Windows user has, GIMP works on both the Mac and PC and has layers, which is nice.

Or you could just pirate photoshop.

Photoshop is super easy to use. I've never used GIMP before. Just be sure to put all your characters on different layers so its easy to fuck around with stuff. (if you're going to kinda cut and paste the same guys like I do).

Lots of people use http://sai.detstwo.com/sai/
I'd advise against Photoshop, it's overly complicated for simple Quest stuff and also not really designed for drawing.

Trust me, I learned the hard way that the only reason you don't have artistic talent is that you're not willing to draw anything better than stick figure. Just try, for god's sake, no one cares whether the art is good or not.

>>1655
The worst judge of art is the artist, yes.

>>1621
so... you have to own some japanese drawing program, then download the patch to translate it?

That sounds like a pain.

So when are you thinking of starting?

>>1658
And what?

>>1659

????

>>1664
What kind of quest?

Anonymous 2009/08/29(Sat)22:05 No. 1666 ID: fdc826
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>>1610
Tube, use Shoot a Bitch!

It's super-effective!

...Anyway, I agree with everyone else here (especially myself); just do the quest, use whatever art you want, etc. Hell, I'd go so far as to say that there's no such thing as bad art in /quest/; as long as we can tell what it is you're trying to portray, it's fine.

And, if it isn't obvious enough already, I just use Paint for JimQuest.

GREEN!ifOCf11HXk 2009/08/29(Sat)22:39 No. 1667 ID: 9e9b47
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>>1666

Fair enough, you win this round. Alcohol is the best thing for gaping puncture wounds, right?

On another note, this is the first thing I've drawn since Elementary School. I know it's not the best art, but people seem to like it. Just gotta try to do your best, be consistent and try your hardest. That last part sounded needlessly... feel-good.

>>1667
In before 'cartoonish liquid leaving by way of bullet wounds' gag.

>>1657
Dunno what part of "PaintTool SAI English Pack 1.1.0 Full" is hard to understand?
And no one has to have anything, just giving recommendation.

Ah, thanks for all the encouragement guys. Err, not Op, but thankful all the same. Ahah, big problem I'm running into now is that I'm drawing my monsters better than my heroes. Drawing people well isn't as easy as I'd hoped.

Might just fall back and make a new story from scratch and make the monsters the main characters, heh. Again, thanks for all the encouragement, and good luck to all the other aspiring questers out there.

You know, having a really plain hero and complex monsters isn't bad. You're going to have to draw the hero a million times.

Of course, there's nothing wrong with a quest wiht no humans in it (Journey, for example, which is awesome).

Part of the reason I decided to go with all 'monsters' is because people are hard to draw. :p

>>1657
Took me about ten minutes to get it all sorted out. Now I use Sai for everything. (Except text. No text tool.)

Something else I recommend is to do five or so practice updates. Just dream up some suggestions and try drawing/writing the results. It'll tell you a lot about what you can and can't do, and how fast. And if it's annoying and boring, then you'll know beforehand.