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[Kittyears]

RedPanda: I currently have smoothdraw 3, since I can't pay for any softwares. It's the best I got. It also does the pen pressure thingy so it's good for me, since my pen has the pressure thing. The tablet I got is Wacom Intuo5 touch, if you're wondering about it.

and also for Everyone- Do you guys have any good softwares that you can tell me about? (for drawing of course.)

[Kittyears]

Lumi is done!

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[IMG]http://i47.tinypic.com/az6mvm.png[/IMG]

the word 'Lumi' got cut off on the screen, but still :3
If you want me to resize it, I can do it :]

Kind of scribbled it;;

[redpanda.]

Not sure about Smoothdraw since I never used it.... But I can recommend some. I use Paint Tool Sai, but that you have to pay for. I know a lot of people like GIMP 'cause its like Photoshop but free. Then there's also Paint.NET which is also pretty good, and its what I used to use.

[lumi]

Gimp is great! I use it for my Mouse pad drawing!

Oh wow, he looks lovely! Thank You so Much! *Huggles*

Trying a Realism Reff. Oh.. Ouch.

[Kittyears]

Oh, I googled Paint tool sai, it's really good, at least I think. Not TOO professional, but it's for hobbyist~Professions, I think! :] Of course not for beginners that's for sure. xP
I already have Photoshop... and there's this programs they recommend,; (you have to pay for all of them.)
Anime Studio Pro 8
Manga Studio EX4
Poser 9
Also these ones, I really want, but you have to pay for.
SketchBook Pro
Corel Painter 12

So yep.
Anyways what do you usually do to make background transparent?

[Kittyears]

Gimp is great! I use it for my Mouse pad drawing!

Oh wow, he looks lovely! Thank You so Much! *Huggles*

Trying a Realism Reff. Oh.. Ouch.

Thanks so much! This is my first try on my tablet, actually! Since I got it yesterday.. I hope I get better at it :3

[redpanda.]

I usually use Paint.NET for that since I can't figure it out on Sai.

[Kittyears]

^^ Here's a description o.o It's kinda long.
@London: Thanks for liking test tube! I'll be sure to check the prices c:

│┼│ the basics. │┼│

FULL NAME;

November Sanctum Octavius Silverclature AKA: Schiritz Joel McCarson

NICKNAME(S);

Nov, October, Vember, Novy, "Doc. Oct", Clay, Shy, Glitch, Porcupine

AGE;

16

BODY MODIFICATIONS;
Lip piercing, left ear piercing -stud on left cartilige, ring on right- left eyebrow piercing, nose piercing/stud, he has a tattoo of a toxic-radiation symbol on his left shoulder blade, he has an industrial bar in his right ear, a spiral in his left going all the way down the cartilige and another industrial bar. Under his chin, he has a cigarrete burn spelling out a name onto his throat.

APPEARANCE

At a towering 6'0, this lanky bird kid looks every bit of eighteen and with neon green eyes, though they are pretty peculiar because underneath the bubbling neon green -in another layer, it seems-, there is an almost hazel disposition in them.In the sunlight and from under his hair, these 'aurora borealis' like eyes shine like two different jewels. One eye is more green than the other and one is more simply brown, his eyes glisten with a deadly malice towards the world that he doesn't bother to hide as he walks down the eyes of the public's dwellings. In reality, his eyes are hazel but carry more sheen from his bottled up rage at the world for his past experiences,though deep down, he knows that he isn't anyone's fault but his own. If you stare into his eyes for more than five minutes -should he think to stay still because you've managed to captivate his attention for that amount of time- you will see pain first, then malice, then the keen interest of a scholar towards the world paired with the curiosity of a small boy, before slamming into trained expertise of a killer. His hazel eyes are commonly compared to the forest that hardly any come out from, varying in dark hues to the point they almost look like they're eerily clear. He has a habit of glaring down at anyone who tries to indentify any emotion within his optics, but if pried enough, he will allow you to see his emotions towards any subject you ask; he looks like an experiment just from a horror movie with "glow in the dark" veins on his right hand and wrist, stopping at his fingers. Along his left wrist, he has small injection spots along his left wrist that are still red as if they are fresh from the school, but they stay that way no matter what he does and they don't tan nearly at all. His hair is black and has a side-swept look but is slightly spiked at the back to go away from his head to keep his hair up and make his ears slightly visible. His ears look like a mixture of a fox's and a humans, being somewhat detached from his head and pointed at the ends but still maintaing a human earlobe and basic shape of it. He always wears a neon blue glow stick that seems to never go out - "It's filled with blood from a biolumminescent creature", he says when the flock members ask about it. He always has another couple necklaces around his neck, one slightly tighter necklace is one of a sterling silver toxic symbol while the tightest looks like a studded belt choker-collar but he most always keeps it loose. He normally wears black jeans with spraypainted neon toxic symbols all over it and a black hoodie that has the same neon/gray/purple toxic spraypaintings all over it and some look like they dripped down, like the jacket was worn right after he finished spray-painting it. Toxic is a big thing for November, the concept of something being toxic just enthralls him to no end. His jeans have close to 7 belts on them, some slanted, some through the loops and a few even around one leg in general; though those are usually smaller. He has a steampunk styled watch on and seems to radiate knowlege for technology because of the watch being in his posession -though that is never the case, he can't even begin to tell you the beginning of anything dealing with technology except "Don't spill drinks on it, children." but he doesn't follow that rule at all. He exudes this aura of "perfectness must be obtained" and "if it works and I don't want it to ... spill water on it". He has canine teeth, almost as if he was mixed with Eraser, but that has never happened, they're ... "natural" he likes to call it and his bottom incisors resemble canines too, but smaller -not like under-bite large but "regular teeth sized". He looks insane. He literally looks like he'd be the one flock member to snap and go on a killing spree - the reason he looks so insane is because he has something similar to child-onset schizophrenia, and is allergic to the pills that they commonly give out, so he never takes them - he takes no medication because as far as he knows, the "mental virus" is something that cannot be defeated with a pill or medication seeing as it is simulated from within his own immune system. Some people suspect he has a touch of paranoid schizophrenia because he refuses to leave the house but he usually threatens to shoot them into oblivion if he hears them say that but ... it happens that he's trying to keep flock members, instead of slowly take his flock apart one by one. He weighs about 103.7 but most of that is pure muscle and bone. His life was rather ... different in the school, being the son of the head scientist in the Itex branch in Chihuahua, New Mexico, he was experimented on first, being one of the first avian experiments and the only one of his knowlege that survived. He has a scar under his chin, a cigarrete burn and burn marks that spell "Halle" across his throat but that is commonly covered up with his expansive collection of necklaces draped around his neck. On his right wrist, under his glove that hides the glowing blue veins, he wears a black beaded bracelet with one silver bead and one feather that was once white but died neon-toxic-sludge-green with chemicals he spilled when he escaped from the school. He honestly has tons more scars to show to the world but since he hardly ever walks around shirtless or without his jacket on, he doesn't even mention them. He actually wears broken handcuffs around his left wrist going up to his lower forearm in a makeshift gauntlet of sorts, the reason why he wears them on his left hand, is because he broke his left arm and needed a brace, so he made a makeshift one and ended up growing attached to it. He gets severe dizzy spells - an original "bug" in the DNA he was fused with that was later ironed out- and sometimes may even fall out of the sky when he's flying but sometimes, he can fly through the dizzy spells and continue his conversation after a few minutes and frantic wingbeats. He has a tattoo of the saynig "Don't rain on my parade, it 's gonna glow in the dark" on his left wrist like a bracelet and further up his forearm he has "Sometimes love dies like a dog" tattooed towards his elbow. His body is riddled with tattoos and sayings but he finds meaning in everyone of them. He escaped from the school a few times but was always caught and beaten damn near ragged. He has a scar on his eyebrow that almost runs to his eyelid but he has nothing different to say about it. just "an accident". He tends to say nothing about other people's scars and doesn't ask a lot of questions -or talk much for that rather, being that his voice box is actually a robotic voice transmuter, forever stuck at a monotonous rhythm rather than a smooth, undulating voice.

His pajamas are actually very unbecoming for a tough leader - co-leader to wear. His pajamas are actually footie pajamas that are actually pretty well taken care of, with only a tear on the left arm of the fabric. He absolutely adores his footie pajamas and will gladly punch out a flock member if they dare say something about his footie pajamas in a snarky way. He mostly has a fetish for classical music so he is mostly reading a book on music theory and glaring at anything that doesn't play that or techno music. He likes the fact that it rains outside and is mostly outside in a well lit area with a flashlight and a weapon with him (normally his guns) with a few flock members with him and other than that, he makes sure that the little ones of the flock are with co-leader when he goes outside, just because he is so paranoid of going outside himself -not because of an attack possibility but because of the fact that he is paranoid of what will happen to himself. Being a rather lanky male, he sees little to no leverage in his height standing at 6'2 and walks with a little to no slouch though he regards himself as short. He stares up at the sky and sees himself identifying with more the birds than the humans that meddle on the ground and most always sums that up for his height, hating the idea that he isn't one for horses or anything to raise his height. When he walks, he sometimes tends to follow the typical heel, toe, heel, toe pattern but when he runs, it is most always on the balls of his feet as he slumps closer to the ground, moving much like a canine than a human at that time. Most every morning, he stretches his arms up to the sky and stretches his back as if that will help him grow.

He also gets really strange in weather that is over 80 degrees, being that his body temperature and homeostasis seems to override itself and he gets really irritable and violent; some say he prefers the cold because the two cold natures of the weather and his soul counteract eachother giving him no choice but to be sweet for once. He commonly hates having people say anything about his cold attitude but understands that people will talk about it because it makes him come off as pompus and arrogant sometimes. His guns are two unknown calibur pistols and they are a sleek sterling silver that seem to shine like headlights themselves, untarnished and unmistakable. The guns are his prized possessions and he cleans and polishes them everyday; he seemingly never runs out of ammunition and if he does, he knows "exactly where to get more" so doesn't really fret about it. He takes the guns every where he goes and has been dubbed an excellent marksman by many people who have seen him shoot. He has a really bad stutter along with his robotic voice box so he doesn't talk much -however, the oddest thing occurs when his guns are drawn, he no longer stutters and his voice almost gains a human quality, emotion. He gains this ferocious "touch anyone near me and I'll shoot" and "I don't give a rats ass if you have a family... take a step and I'll kill you." persona as well as a brooding presence and a calculating personality of that comparative to a CIA agent though lacking in many areas.


GENDER;
Male

│┼│ the inside. │┼│


PERSONALITY;

Ten words to describe him? Calculating&Studious: He knows exactly what some people want to hear, what they don't want to hear and how to get inside of their head. Some say he is able to do that because he's so "twisted" himself, though that is hardly the case, he simply just studies body language and makes sure that he can identify what hand some people write with, what foot someone leads naturally with first, if they have wings -by the way they hold their shoulders, but it takes a few minutes to figure it out yet- or not, even if they have a gun or something. He has become quite adept at knowing what to look for if someone is lying to him or is keeping a secret but often will not say anything due to the fact that he sometimes doesn't want people to understand that he knows what is happening.

Stealthy&Tactical: sometimes he is good at psychology and other times he's not. He is able to move and lurk around corners or on very rare occasions, on ceiling beams virtually pretty quietly and snipe you from a distance with a pistol or a roundhouse kick to the face. If he has observed you long enough -1 to 2 months at least- he can pick out your thought patterns and get an idea of your movements and how you eventually are in certain moods, even to the extent that he can see if you are tired just because of the slump in your back when you're trudging about the house.

Coy&Cynical: He is actually the sarcastic one of the flock, the cut throat one and the one that is most always cool under pressure. He is the one to go to for a great heart-stopping bluff or to live up to a no-longer-dead bluff. "Sometimes love dies like a dog" is his favorite saying and it applies to everything he says when he's in rare form -giving, kind and considerate above all else and when he isn't too big on being kind, he is the "lead by example" and "if it doesn't work, break it's face" kind of guy though he knows that the flock needs nurturing ... Hence why he needs another leader to help with that.

Worried&Stressing: Commonly seen pacing about the house, popping down pills for depression or sedatives, or screaming at a flock member because they didn't tuck their wings in while they were infront of an open window, November is undoubtedly stressing over his role as a flock leader. He always tries to keep everyone safe no matter what but isn't one to be obviously ready to give his life for another flock member, unless he cares about them at all though he commonly won't show it if you do manage to strike a chord with him.

Gentle&Vunerable: All he really wants is for someone to sit him down and make him tell them what really is wrong in his life. Because, let's be honest here, it doesn't appear that much is right in his life. He is actually a really genuine guy underneath all of the pain of the flock member because of the fact that he feels that a flock leader doesn't need to keep track of anything besides the whereabouts of flock members, places to get food, places to stay, locations of possible threats, etcetera. And though he knows a lot more is involved, that is all he can afford to think about, wanting the co-leader to be the nurturing personality in the flock as far as leaders go.

Kind&When he falls, he falls hard: That's something that seems to shock the flock members the most, the fact that he is calm around someone he likes and will actually be more direct to them more than the flock as a whole, but the catch is, he does that to a bunch of members around his age, so it's not a dead giveaway if he likes you. Commonly, if he does like you, he will show you secret places that he stumbled upon or will trust you to keep watch over him outside or watch the flock when they're sleeping and in a highly volitile area. You won't know if he has a crush or not, but instead, he will be the one to stay casual around you and actually be hesitant to have a heart to heart to you of all people. He doesn't believe in love and he isn't too big on "liking someone" so he commonly rolls his eyes at any type of romance and hides in his closet on Valentine's day (not like the flock gets a chance to celebrate it). He is remotely kind to his age-mates but seems to have a "soft gooey center" for the small children of the group but doesn't really show it. Though there have been reports of him giving his meals to the flock members that just joined without food or those who wanted more and going without until he got seriously ill and a few of the flock members scolded him and forced him to eat... But those could be just rumors.

HISTORY;
ALWAYS A WIP

FLAWS;
Too many to name. Ask him for a list, really, try it sometime.

│┼│ Miscellaneous. │┼│

MEDICAL INFORMATION;
Not much is known about his medical information, just that he has a pair of arctic fox ears atop his head. The ears start as sterling white and progress to a startling neon blue at the tips. He has a fluffy white tail that has a larger toxic symbol -like that of a yellow toxic dog- that is neon blue and may even glow in darkness towards the tip of his hair with a blue glowstick tied around his tail, an inverted crucifix and a necklace with the toxic symbol inside of a circle around his tail as well. This collection produces a clanging sound when he moves. Sometimes he is seen with the legs of an arctic fox (thus making him an anthro) but that is only when he's ready to fight.

BLOOD TYPE;
O

ALLERGIES;
People, annoying people, idiots, drunks... people.

QUIRKS;
"Hey, it's Nov here. My flaws? Well, I have a whole lot of them; I tend to think too much about certain things -thus messing them up when the time comes to do them- or too little on them; yeilding the same result. I tend to get frustrated over the petty stuff, like someone looking at me for more than five seconds or someone imitating a goldfish. That just ... Irks me to no end. Urgh! Anyhow, I tend to be a bit too defensive of my beliefs and acquaintances to the point that I would gladly hit someone for not being the same as me; but I really hate being imitated in anyway possible. I try to be different from everyone else around me. I try too hard to be remembered for the stupid things because I want people to have fun when they remember me, atleast to have a laugh; Let's face it, I'm not the most memorable person. If someone picks on me, I can't even laugh it off, because it hurts more than most people think. I am very sensitive in those ways and don't have many friends because of it. I am a huge insomniac and I often have to get someone to shove pills that we steal down my throat. I need balance when I walk on two legs. I mean, I've gotten better but I'm not the best. I have a habit of reverting to where I walk back on four legs, like a dog. I've always done that, I don't know why but I just always have. My "mother" didn't really like when I walked on all fours, so I actually slept in the doghouse--well, in the squadrant with Erasers, when I lived and the "dog" was able to sleep inside. I guess that's why I have that collar on all the time ..."

OTHER;
Other ... Yeah, nothing really is other about November just that he gets upset if people don't let him shoot someone when he wants too and that he is considered a "musical genius" because he has been training since he was little but his training got sidetracked due to the fact he wanted to prove he could hold his own and began rebelling. He has become highly skilled at shooting over time and commonly has a habit of "not missing"; mainly because what ever he hits, he claims it to be the target.

Wohaowhashwohowhohahwahowhoahwa, wait. So what is this? A boy, or a wolf, or a bird, or a lizard? What? (BTW, I can't draw guys.)

[vetiverandclove]

He's a Fox hybrid that lives with a flock of doves and protects them. Really long unmanly story behind it xD
If you can't draw guys, you can draw him as a female if that's easier for you xD I don't mind. Nov doesn't either.

[Larkspur1678]

Hello, I am __Larkspur__ and I admit to being an Art Addict!

Since everyone seems to be talking about drawing programs i'll just throw out that I use Photoshop CS6 and a Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet x3 Though I usually end up using the Oekaki XD