Last Artist Standing

>You drew everyday for a long time, longer than anyone else. Congratulations. You are the best.
Come on Lava, it's still "every day."

Also, good work guys, we've kept it up for a week.

>>2352593

Not me, I just got here

So it's week 2 now, but my submission page still says update instead of submit

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From last thread:

A new week of drawing is upon us, comrades. It's maybe a bit early for that, but who do you think put the most work into drawing this week? Who shows potential as of now? Any favourites?

>>2352600
nevermind, I'm an impatient idiot

CAN'T LOGIN
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Hey Lava, I can't seem to login. Anyone else having issues?

>>2352612
-> >>2352610

yeah sorry had to take the site down, nobody complained but there were some issues with the elimination script again. i'm double checking the data to make sure

>>2352612
Same

>>2352616

Ironically, you're a cool guy, Lava

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>>2352601
>get shit on for not making new thread when bump limit is hit
>get shit on for making new thread when bump limit is hit
>mfw im /ic/

>>2352604
Quit fishing for complements.

>>2352604
I have my favorites but I'm not gonna tell
Those fags better work even harder if they want to keep me being a fan though

>>2352628

But muh ego anon

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>>2352629
>liking jmgn
Mmmm ya nasty.

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I'm drunk so..... only 30 min today.

Lava I just wanted to say that I really appreciate the work you put into the site.
Sacrificing so much of your time to get our asses to draw every single day.
Thank you dude.

>>2352634
Make them count, anon

>>2352634
You have more than 23 hours from now
Drunk or not, there's no excuse for not drawing more.

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>>2352534
my nigga

>>2352628
This.

Congrats on week 1 homies. And Lava man, thanks so much for this. I'm not the competitive type, but this has made me more competitive with myself I guess. Draw up to 5 of these 30min sketches a day now and post the least embarrassing one, and then in down time I either start work on tomorrow's or grind fundamentals. My wrist is sore but my heart is swelling.

op here,

something did break but i can't quite figure out why. the script worked yesterday but when i run it today it eliminates too many people. the only difference is that there are now two challenges running but the script doesn't care about challenges, only if the person has submitted.

tldr it's going to take a couple more minutes. on the upside the script didn't run too early \o/

>>2352644
Take your time.

>>2352613
I like the idea of a challenge/theme but not as something separate to the main competition that I have to split my drawing time with and as long as it isn't mandatory.

Just like the first few days were jokingly sonic themed, a few people worked it into their normal submission and that was pretty fun.

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>>2352642
>but this has made me more competitive with myself
jesus crist

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>>2352639
I posted, I drowing 4-7h a day for 6 months and I still suck, but I know how to draw to impress normis. But...but...I will nnever know how inpress /ic/?

My goll is to be ok porn artist.

O yeah, sorry for my english, but I'm rely drunk.

>>2352644
fixed it. it happened because there was this narrow 1-2 second window where someone could miss a day, post and not be eliminated. i fixed that but it accidentally broke the "don't eliminate them if they posted" part.

this should be the last of the elimination shenanigans

I can still join in, yes? I might miss a day in record time but I think I can do it

Can we get achievements?
I need it to show my mom I not a neet.

>>2352648
the goal is to implement topics in a way that you never have to post more than one drawing a day. the way i was thinking to do this have challenges that require you to draw the topic and if you don't then youre eliminated from the challenge (but not the last artist standings).

that should give us some challenges that have a higher turnover rate so there can be more winners cause odds are people arent going to want to draw the suggested topic everyday for years.

on the site side you'll just have to check a box saying "my submission is of today's topic" or whatever and people can police it with the tribunal/report system.

that's why topics are so delayed. there's no way to police/enforce it without either turning this into a full-time job or having a group of superusers/moderators and I want to avoid both things

>>2352661
yep you can still join. you missed the deadline for the original challenge (not even an hour ago) so your submissions will enter you into challenge #2 where you'll compete with all the guys from #1, people who were eliminated from #1 and other new people

>>2352656
Rover is that you?

>>2352657
Nice!
Is it possible to submit without putting in a URL to your image? Since you can choose file I thought you could just upload directly, but it won't let me get away without putting in a URL

>>2352663
What were you thinking?

Weekly topic would be cool, so you only need to dedicate one out of 7 submissions to it. Any more frequently than that would be too much control over what I draw, but not participating would trigger my ocd hard and make me feel left out for not doing it.

>>2352663
Wow, better late than never, eh?

>>2352665
Is that DED meme?

>>2352666
unfortunately no, the site is using the cheapest hosting option available ($1/month for the first year) so it really can't handle being an image host. It's struggling to keep up with the ~4k hits per day and that's using roughly 3% of the data it would be using if it were an image host.

if the site keeps growing to the point where it needs funding then i'll throw up a support button and switch to a dedicated server and i'll make it an image host so you can upload directly to it

>>2352663
>you missed the deadline for the original challenge (not even an hour ago) so your submissions will enter you into challenge #2
>got my shit submission in just before the deadline after procrastinating all week
>now I'm locked into drawing every day
>there is no escape

T-thanks Lava.

>>2352678
put adds

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>>2352678
Well, if it comes to that I'd gladly donate some cash to keep the site going (and expanding). I use most of my money on unnecessary stuff anyways, so it wouldn't hurt to lose a couple of $ and support a good cause.

>>2352663
Make it so that once you check the subscription box, you have to do that challenge for the rest of the week

>>2352584
I'm really enjoying this, thanks for developing and running this OP

>>2352688
This
Just make sure they aren't too annoying

>site is down. Everyone has to start over.

it's telling me again to update even tho I have not submitted yet today
anyone else?

>>2352695
>big dick pills
>Do yo wanna big dick?
>Were do you want it:)

>>2352692
yeah once you say "i want to participate in a topic challenge" then that's it, you're in. if you miss a day or if you don't do the topic them youre eliminated from that challenge.

there won't be a token system for the topic challenges so theyre more hardcore but they are optional so if you sign up for one then ditch out it wont affect your last artist standing.. standing

>>2352700
what's your username?

>>2352702
Aestro

>>2352672
No, It is just shitposting.

>>2352702
I just looked into the submissions and my day 7 is today's submission for some reason if that helps

>>2352665
Yes, that is me and I had time draw and drink.
I beginner but I here to stay.

Dogy out!

>>2352704
>>2352709
yeah it looks like you tried to submit today's submission before it rolled over so it updated your old one then you reposted it today so it was in there twice. I deleted your submission from today if you want to resubmit it and if you can give me the one from day 7 I'll put that back too.

i'm going to have to create a maintenance mode for the site when it rolls over. the main issue is that the server will say it's 30 seconds from midnight but if your computer is 30 seconds ahead then that's tomorrow for it.

i'll just lock the site from 00:00 to 00:01 and let the scripts run then unlock it

>>2352678
No worries, it's just some extra steps to upload to imgur anyway
I'm okay with donating a small amount at some point and with ads, do what you gotta do
Thanks for putting in your time and effort, if you ever have any specific code queries I know a lot of us code.

>>2352685
same.
I think I'll fail by Sunday because I'm a lazy shit on weekends, but let's work at this together.

>>2352688
This. Just simple banner adds like 4chan has. I'd be ok with that

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fyi if your pc's clock says it's the next day but the is still saying "update your submission" then refresh until it says that it's a new day. nothing i can do about the time difference between the server and people's pcs

ps the challenges page has been updated with stats:
>http://www.lavaflake.com/dev/dashboard/challenges.php

i think it'll look cool when we're 10 weeks in and as you scroll the progress bars get smaller and smaller as more people are eliminated

>>2352717
the one from 7 is still there last I checked, thank you
I actually submitted day 7 like 20 minutes before deadline and nothing yet today
thank god I noticed that now and not in like 22 hours when it would be almost too late

So the submission generates a thumbnail now, but the thumbnail is just a white square.

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>tfw you see someone post an amazing submission
>tfw you get self-conscious because your submissions are shit

On the user's page maybe add a "date" column after the # column for the "Submissions" table so we know when entries was submitted and what days were missed

>>2352726
no it's ok you would've been fine. the issue isn't that you couldn't submit, it's that you had already submitted for today except it was yesterday's image. 22h from now all youd have to do is update the old submission with the new one and you'd be good to go

>>2352688
>>2352695
>>2352723
i'll look into adsense although i dont want to make the site look like shit

>>2352728
all the images in the gallery currently have thumbnails except one (which is a black square) and I think that's because of how that image host formats their URLs. I may be able to find a work around for that but if not I'll have to blacklist them from the autogeneration

>>2352733
yeah I can do that

>>2352732
Work harder, make yours better.

>>2352732
It's a drawing a day, they might post a shit one another day.
Please don't quit because you have low confidence or else everyone else will start to and then I'll do it too.

>>2352732
>>2352739
dont sacrifice progress to impress others. not everything you make will be beautiful and if you try to make everything beautiful you'll waste a lot of time. learn and improve

>>2352732
post your work

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>>2352732
>all these great submissions
>even the submissions from artists weaker or less experienced than you show better grasp (or attempts) at perspective, construction, line confidence, etc.
I'm glad every entry is just a reminder of what I need to work on.

>>2352738
Oh, all I'm seeing is blank white squares for the thumbnails, what do I do?

>>2352744
post your work faggot. man up this is the safest space you will find in /ic/ c'mon.

>>2352745
that's strange, maybe try clearing your cache or press CTRL+F5 to do a cache refresh of the site

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>that thumbnail
My sides.

>>2352744
Everyone starts somewhere dude. Could be worse, you could be me.

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>>2352744
you will improve so fast you wont believe it

>>2352744
i like see so many studies it's like i'm shopping for fundamentals

>want those rib cage constructions
>love those achilles tendons
>ok fine i'll check out hamptons book

>>2352753
Fuck. I love that art style.

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How to win vs 150 this is like Naruto and I'm pic.rel.

>>2352751
Okay, cleared the cache and it's working now. Thanks lava!

>>2352763
It's not like that all. You're not like him at all.

>>2352733
date column's been added to the users page so you can tell which days youve missed

>>2352769
neat!

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>>2352763
shiki is the lazy smart guy, you wont "win" by lazily submitting shit, you will only feel the crushing feel of regret.

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>>2352761
Thank you, anon!

>>2352769
I like it, much clearer. But I'd like a counter somewhere on the profile so you can also see how long the person's been going, when the days get too numerous to bother counting. No pressure though, it's not important and it'll be a while before it takes more than a minute to count.

>>2352765
But I'm meh and everything is a drag.

Who is the king?

>>2352773
Well I just wanna draw fan porn for $$$$
I don't wanna be an artist.
And I wanna win this thing.

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>>2352753
>>2352775
that thumbnail is so fucking good

>>2352775
>a counter somewhere on the profile so you can also see how long the person's been going
Yeah, some way to quickly tell how long a user's current and longest streaks are

>>2352776
you're doing a mistake, even the pervs on the porn thread study shit outside of pussy and ass.

>>2352775
Your scenery reminds me of Miyazaki's films. Teach me your ways

>>2352779
and their current and peak rankings on the leaderboards (when leaderboard is implemented)

>>2352775
yeah that'll be part of the leaderboard. i'm not currently tracking the "streak" but it's easy enough to find. i should probably start recording that before it gets out of hand

>>2352781
Yeah, I doing tits study now.
Do you know good books or tuts for that?

>>2352584
Welp, maybe this will shame me into drawing less waifus and doing more Loomis.

Hopefully this speeds up art gains.

>>2352787
i'm talking about composition, story telling, characters..

>>2352790
>composition
don't know wat it is?
> story telling
They fuck
>characters
girls, man, traps, furry, cars, demons,pony and robots

>>2352782
I don't have much to teach, sorry. With that image I was thinking of how the hue and value change with the distance. So I used a lighter value and bluer hue in the more distant areas to help them recede, and tried to make the foreground "pop" more with warmer hues and darker values, and higher contrast in general. I think the low horizon and big sky and clouds contributes a vast feeling, but in reality I was just too lazy to do something more detailed.

>>2352792
>don't know what composition is
You have a lot to learn, dude. Are you sure you want to make a living off of art? You don't seem to care for it at all, I'm sure there's easier methods if you just want money.

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>>2352792
i mean studies beyond PORN you butt pirate!

>>2352795
>tfw I don't know what composition means either in respect to art
Pls no bully

>OG #1's
>150 still standing
>37 eliminated

Fuckkkk

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>>2352795
>>2352796
Well guys,I'm 28. I finished uni and I have my own company so....this is like second job for me. I'm drawing for 5-6 months but I wanna be porn artist. I don't care about $. It was my dream to draw.

Btw I dont know wat is composition, didn't come that far

>>2352584
Want new challenges T-T

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tfw your drawing looks much better in person than in the photo

>>2352814
today i'm going to work on making sure that the elimination process doesn't blow up tomorrow like it has the last 2 days.
tomorrow i'm going to add the ability to follow artists
after that it's a 1-3 days on the report system and then finally topics.
If I can get topics in and tested before last artist standing #2 ends then the next week will be a topic challenge. if not it'll have to wait another week

>>2352813
>I'm drawing for 5-6 months but I wanna be porn artist.
come back in 2 years.

so if im already in LAS #1 i dont have to submit to the 2nd one? do i need to submit two now if i do? i dont get it

>>2352819
I dont have 2 years I wanna be ok porn artist in year and half.

>>2352817

>submission looks better in thumbnail

sigh

>>2352817
I have this problem with my scanner. However, taking a pic of it with my cell phone comes out a lot more clear. It even looks better.

>>2352813
no offense to what youve done so far but with the amount of time youve put in you should be much better than you are at this point. it's possible you bought into the "draw every day" mantra and you were hoping that would be enough. if you want to start making them porn dollars any time soon youre going to need to start studying the fundamentals.

luckily for you a lot of the studying involve drawing tonnes of naked people so being a good artist fits well with your being a porn artist goal. go check out the beginners sticky to find the resources that will help get you started

>>2352822
you're doomed kid. find a teacher i guess.

>>2352828
I dont need sticki.
I doing pers. with Olson
Keys
1. and 2. week peter han
After that I will move up to loomies or/and villpu and digital (ctrl paint)

keapdesu, stop
You're not Jung Gi

>>2352813
Better find out what you wanna do with your life. I know people in my art classes who were in their late 20s and early 30s that couldn't draw for shit but at the end of the year, they were better than most of us and they had a full time job and kids. Thing is, they'd share their "secrets" and it was basically a lot of drama among the family and job cause all they'd do is draw all day and night.

As for "composition", that will come in time. Just keep drawing. But know you'll need to sacrifice a lot if you intend to git gud.

>>2352845
I know that.

>>2352854
just realized that you may not be the artist i thought you were. there's someone posting terrible porn and i thought i saw their name mentioned in this thread.

my bad if youre actually getting good

>>2352854
DO YOU KNOW THAT, ANON?! I DON'T BELIEVE YOU... but I want to believe.

>>2352865
Yes I do.
But I still don't know wat is composition, fags

>>2352869
you're rover right

>>2352869
It's funny how you're literally in my situation, and even the age. I had the exact same issue in trying to grasp "composition" as well. Too bad we don't have a discord we can chat over, but then again, I'm sure it'd be filled with shitposting.

>>2352873
Yup

Thumbs are not loading for me.
I'm on android —> chrome.

>>2352903
the way thumbnails were loaded has changed so it's possible your still has the old files cached, if you clear your cache you should be good to go (has happened to a couple people)

>so many ideas for original stuff or fanart lately
>also want to do studies to improve and so it doesn't look like I'm just goofing off to you guys
How do you balance it, anons?

>>2352948
1 drawing a week / 4 drawings a month.
I have noted somewhere the deadline for each drawing.

Example for January : Sunday 10 17 24 31.

Study art everyday otherwise, often related to what I want to achieve. "I want to draw some feet doing this with a ball" -> study feet during the week.

That's how I do things and intend to keep it for this whole year, I found it rather well balanced. Hopefully I manage to keep at it.

>>2352948
Studies come first then you try to take what you learned from those studies and apply it to the fun stuff, better yet if those studies were in preperation for the fun stuff you wanted to draw. You wont get nearly as much mileage vice versa.

>>2352951
>I want to draw some feet doing this with a ball
Kinky.

>>2352956
T-that was a random example, I don't plan to do this.

At least I didn't, now perhaps...

>>2352957
>inb4 tomorrow's submissions include a few feet playing with balls

>>2352960
i bet that would be a nightmare to draw and not have it look terrible

>>2352961
Cool, let's do it.

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>feeling sick
>my first thought is draw every day challenge

>>2352961
Which balls are we talking about here?

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>>2352968
Good, that's exactly what Lava wants.

>>2352969
I was talking about these, I don't know what you're thinking about.

>>2352969
I originally had a beach ball in mind.

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I'm smoking you niggaz.

>>2352807
Just fucking look it up. If you want to improve you need to take some initiative.

>>2352986
?

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>>2352993
he thinks hes gonna win

>>2352995
Oh. Well we'll just see about that.

>>2352986
I disn't know Alba was asian

>>2352995
>doesn't think I can shit all over a canvas for 5+ years straight
You're in for a rude awakening, son.

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>>2352999
>implying some of us won't still be posting centuries later

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>>2353005
>implying some of us are bound by time and space

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>>2352999
Im gonna shit on you fools like RoboGabo shitted on everybody at CA.org.

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>>2353005
>implying I'm not some immortal bane on humanity with nothing better to do than to post artwork to some inane challenge for millennia on end
See you in 9016, faggot. Oh wait, I wont, because you'll be dead.

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>all this posturing
This is gonna be interesting.

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>mfw i accidentally delete the entire thumbnail archive
>mfw it was 10 minutes after a backup and i only lost 4 thumbnails
>mfw i'm still stupid

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>>2353021
It's gonna be okay.

>>2353021
ps I'll put them back. I'm updating the file storage system so we don't end up with 10k thumbnails in one directory and get in trouble with my host

>>2353014
Fuck off, Gene, you're already d-
>check wiki
Dayum.

>>2353021
God damn it Lava, this is election season.

>>2353021
>Only 1 week in
>Lava already trying to sabotage the competition

This is getting interesting.

>>2353021
mine got deleted.

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>>2353032
if you want to hit update submissions and reupload it for me and save me a minute that'd be swell

What's this, guys? Is there a site for this?

>>2353039
Read the OP.

>>2353039
>the fucking OP

alright so the gallery might show up with no thumbnails for a couple mins in the near future as I migrate the changes on to the live server. if they stay white for you then press CTRL+F5 to refresh the cache or clear your cache manually. It'll be in 5-10 mins and should only last for a couple seconds

>>2353046
>Anon 2016 "Im'ma make a change"

This isn't looking good for your campaign, hoss.

>>2353047
>mrw i make sweeping changes involving 3 core fuctions, 2 main pages, the submissions database and the thumbnail archive and it all works

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7aT-sgx8go

I have to admit I almost gave up today.

>>2353062
give up weakling

>>2353062
still in it?

>>2353062
>>2353063
dont listen to him you can probably do it

>>2353062
It's for the best, just go ahead and let your betters win. I mean, that's what was going to happen anyway, right?

Never Give Up

Always
Be
Giving up

>>2353076
the ABGs of last artist standing

>mfw my drawing looks okay-ish in person but like complete shit when I take a picture
>mfw I draw light construction lines that aren't too noticeable in person but the camera does some csi shit to them and makes them 10x as visible
I'm sorry for making you guys look at my art...

yo is there something wrong with the website? When I go to quick submit it says I'll be entered into the last artist #2 but I haven't missed a day since I started. Plz don't do this to me lava.

>>2353090
Last Artist Standing #1 is closed.

187 artists joined and made 818 submissions in the first week.

37 have been eliminated.

150 remain, fighting to be the Last Artist Standing.

>>2353096
i should update that and say that entry has closed. i'll do that now

>>2353090
you're still in it, your updates will keep you in #1 and enter you into #2. if you get eliminated then you'll be out of both and can rejoin when #3 starts

>>2353096
I was a part of the first one. Does everyone move on to #2 or is it only the people who got eliminated?

>>2353099
Alright cool. Is there anyway to check and see what challenges I'm still a part of? And thanks for making the site, it's a really nice thing you're doing.

I'm gonna kill lava.

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The rest of us may as well drop out, we're completely outclassed here.

>>2353105
If you do that everyone that submitted before you wins. That what you want, loser?

>>2353106
Well I did submit, but my shit keeps getting deleted.

yo vma are you drawing on 1 ply toilet paper

>>2353109
nah it looks like mcdonald's napkins

>>2353109
Clearly he's in a situation that doesn't let him draw, so he snuck into the toilet of where he is, drew on toilet paper, snapped a pic and submitted to stay in.

Dedicated

>>2353104
i updated the users page to now show your active challenges

>>2353105
pls no

>>2353107
what's been deleted?

>>2353115
Wow that was quick. Thanks again lava.

>>2353115
I bet my balls that he's probably been submitting nothing but thumbnails rather than urls to the image this whole time.

To be honest it is kind of confusing if you don't read it, the file upload button kind of implies that you upload an image.

As an aside I don't like how we're forced to upload a thumbnail when php is capable of constraining images as far as I know automatically; try and look into that if you could brobocop!

>>2353118
it already does if you link to an image file directly but it's far from automatic. you have to get the file, determine the type, resize, save it, delete the original. and that's for submissions that are direct links to image files.

if you want it to work with tumblr/DA/imgur then you need to use regex (to my knowledge) to parse the ID from the URL and then feed it through each of their APIs to get a link to the image file. even that wouldn't be so bad if there werent a dozen possible URLs that you need to match so it becomes a nightmare to write the regex unless youre like a wizard.

if i'm lucky then somebody has already written that regex and i can probably get each site working with a couple hours per site. if not i'll have to do it myself which will take a lot longer.

best thing i can do for now is make it more obvious that the thumbnail is optional if your submission directly links to an image file

>>2353115
Lol my sub. Do you hate me?

>>2353118
Nah I link the image and uploaded.

>>2353125
what's your username and when did you submit it? i'll check it out

>>2353128
urs:Frog. Well I submitted twice before they both got deleted dont remember the times. I just added it again it seems to be fine now. thanks.

im gonna be the last autist standing

>>2353118
I updated the main page to make the submission form a little more clear about the thumbnail and when it's required

>>2353131
yea yea yea

Damn it, I don't feel like going to sleep but I don't know what to work on. I have commissions I could work on or other pictures I could try finishing or I could sketch something new. I can't decide.

>>2353142
Just sleep anon. The challenge isn't going anywhere :^)

>>2353143
I already drew and uploaded my picture for today, so I'm not really worried about that. I'm just restless I guess.

>>2353146
try animating something

>>2353147
Well that's just crazy.

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That's a pretty sweet lawnmower there, Bean.

20% eliminated
/ic/ are you even trying?

>>2353167
>put off joining for almost a week
>just submitted a shitty scribble minutes before the deadline
>getting shitfaced and shitposting rather than working on more shitty scribbles
>/ic/ are you even trying?

Nope. :^)

>>2352817
Unless you fucked up taking the picture, that usually means your drawing actually sucks. Not trying to be cruel, that's just been my experience.

>>2353167
If humans actually had respectable willpower people would be learning languages, playing instruments, creating art, etc left and right.

>>2353178
the self help industry would go out of business

>>2353178
aren't we?

.....

>>2353192
??

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why am i in the second group?? i have posted 8 times in a row without missing the deadline...im thinking about not doing this any more (stil drawing everyday but not posting to a glitchy comp board)

>>2353195
also, i was in the 1st group for my first 3 posts. im confused.

>>2353195
How about you read the thread instead of whining like you're entitled to something. >>2353099

>>2353195

anon it's week two now :) so if you submitted 8 times, then you have submitted for the first day of the second challenge

>>2353195
>>2353196
Read the thread/

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>>2353195
>>2353196

>>2353202
>>2353201
>>2353199
>>2353198
fine i give up.
if i can't be in 1st group i will have no group.

>>2353204
You're still in the first group you stupid fuck. You're just in the second one as well because you've been here both weeks.

Nobody gives a shit if you leave, though.

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>>2353204

>>2353206
whats the point in a 2nd group then?
should the start date not just be a "week"

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>>2353204
>jumping at the first excuse to drop out
Perfect. It's for the best, really, we both know you never would have lasted anyway.

>>2353206
no-one cares if tripfag leaves, but no-one cares if you stay lmao.

>>2353211
i still draw everyday regardless...

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>>2353213
Great, then go ahead and drop out, everyone wins.

how to browse without registration?

>>2353216
Just punch in a random letter or number, you don't even need a damn password.

>>2353209
The point is so that people who didn't join week 1 can still join in a later challenge.. What did you think, the site was gonna be dead for everyone else while a set of a few people chug along in the #1 challenge?

>>2353216
http://lavaflake.com/draw/submissions.php

>>2353209

"group two" is anyone who has just started participating in week 2 (now) + people who were eliminated on week 1 (last week) and are re-entering this week. "group one" is people who haven't been eliminated yet who started prior to today. you're still in "group one" anon, if you posted any time in that initial 7 days, and continue to post from there on

>>2353204
Youuuuuuu stuuupiddd faggggootttt

>>2352584
Thumbnail submission hint:
>"The thumbnail must be smaller than 4mb. This field is optional if you're submission is a direct link to an image file (a thumbnail will be generated for you automatically.) "
change to "your submission" instead of "you're submission"

>>2352584
you better dont die lava

>>2353233
wow, calm down mate.
>>2353220
ok that makes sense, but im sure i started participating during week 1 and im sure i was not eliminated...

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>>2353270
God, how can you still not understand this?
Imagine you're in a racecar race, like Mariokart or Nascar. You go around the track one time, that's lap 1. You go around the track two times, that's lap 2. You're still in the same race, it's just counting how many times you went around the circle without crashing and burning. Do you get it?

>>2353270
yknow what just look up your username, click on active challenges, and tell us what it says

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>>2353270

>falling for tripfag bait

day 3 for me, but wouldn't it be cool if you get "extra points" if you write like a little commentary with your submission, like what were you concentrating on, what was giving you troubles, something about the piece itself.
I would really digg that.

>>2353299
I dunno about extra points, but a way to write a small description along with the submission would be nice

I'd like to see some minor notes added to the submission. Something limited so no one puts up a life story of what they are drawing.

I'm trying to draw some furry shit right now, and I'm having trouble in certain parts. Still a beginner, so it overall looks like shit, but there's some major weak points I'd like to get over before tackling every other weak point.

>>2353303
Extra points was a joke, but I think it would be a nice optional feature, and it would make going through submissions a lot more interesting that's for sure.

>>2353204
Lol.

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>>2353287
im in both.....
>>2353288
:)
>>2353276
yea i get it, but all im saying is that i should be on the second lap not the 1st.

>>2353320

challenge #1 is done, the list is just there to show what challenges you have completed/are participating in. everyone active is now on #2. so you're not behind or anything

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>>2353320

example of someone who has not completed any challenges, was eliminated. did not finish week 1, and is not active in week 2

>>2353320
are you at least aware that this is how it is for everyone that's been going for day 1? that everyone's in the same boat as you? you ARE on the second lap. are you trolling or something?

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>>2352584
Entering the race, should I strive for more complete work or more of
>as much shit as you can draw

>>2353360
whatever you want to do man. There are lots of people doing either.

>>2353363
Okay
hope this will motivate me to actually draw every day instead of sketching sometimes every day and drawing every other week

When you're on user.php the dropdown (settings and logout buttons) in top right menu doesn't work for some reason.

Works fine everywhere except when viewing users.

Just a minor bug but y'know, something to add to the evergrowing list of things.

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>>2353360
I would like an advice because I fuck this up in everything
Whenever I start adding highlights and then start evening out the colors so that it blends in, everything start to turn into a huge fucking mess
What do

>>2353376
also I am getting
>Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 22696 bytes) in /home/lavaflake/public_html/draw/dashboard/index.php on line 85
When I try to update my picture

>>2353376
Save highlights until everything else is done. Try not to blend them at all except where absolutely necessary, and keep them on their own layer so that you can easily erase or modify them without affecting your underlying work.

You could also try separating the highlights into two layers: a bright, colored, soft edged mark (play with layer opacity and layer mode), and a brighter (closer to white), smaller, crisp core to the highlight that's painted opaquely on a normal layer.

Really what you want to do is a ton of still lifes of objects with different reflectivity, and practice painting highlights that way.

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>>2353330
>>2353335
>>2353349
i feel so fucking retarded now.
so . very retarded.

thanks guys, for showing me how retarded i am.

>>2352584
So today is the first day of the second challenge/week?

>>2353330
#1 isn't done until there's only 1 person left in it.. It'll keep going and overlap with the other challenges for as long as there is more than 1 person left.

>bellybutton nipples
Goddamnit, /d/. It's kind of hot, though.

Also, your submission for today is really cute, 00000000. I like your colors.

This challenge made me hate art

>>2353514
why?

>>2353519
I don't know. Seeing the amount of shit being drawn y so many people, every single day makes pretty much everything seem so bland.
My shit included all I can see is uninteresting pictures with no value whatsoever but everyone of us secretly wants to be that special snowflake which nobody will end up being.

>>2353524

Sounds like a mental problem, seek help

>>2353406
Seconding, are we still on day 1 of challenge 2?I'm in the uk and i have no idea whether I'm meant to submit for day 2 or not.

>>2353524
you're projecting way too hard

it really ruins the fun knowing that there's people thinking that way, I thought I could just relax and draw shit here while slowly progressing

>>2353390
At least you didn't link directly to your folder in /c like Loomis did. You can take solace in that

>>2353533

we're still on day one of week two for another ~6hours

>>2353535
I actually love reading stuff like that, it shows me why most people usually fail, they approach stuff like this defeated from the very beginning.

>>2353535>>2353540
I actually thought it was an anon trying to demoralize others so she can be The Last Artist Standing haha

>>2353529
>seek help
For not liking drawn pictures anymore?


>>2353535
I mean sure I might be very wrong about everyone wanting to become better than most but you'd at least want to become as good as you can or else you wouldn't be practicing.
If you could see into the future though
and see that even after reaching your absolute limit, you're barely mediocre, would you still pursue this hobby?
Force yourself to get better at something you will never be good at?
Why not just draw for the enjoyment of it only when you feel like drawing?

>>2353549
if you buy into it, but underneath the passive aggressive bs its a scared weakling, who doesn't know how to deal with people who draw much, much better than him.

>>2353551
you seem to leave out the fact that the minimum requirement is 30 minutes spent on your drawing, anon
the goal here is not to be perfect from the get go but to start drawing every single day

>>2353537
That was pretty embarrassing, wasn't it?
Jesus Christ what a loser.

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>>2353558
how do you do, fellow not loomis :^)

>>2353558
>>2353562
Kek

>>2353562
Pretty good knowing that I'm not that guy.
We should bully him out of the challenge for such a silly mistake

>>2353568
hopefully this doesnt end up in a bunch of people insulting eachother to make them stop posting

>>2353574
Nah it's just Loomis
I mean, have you seen what he's done?

>>2353574

No, it'll end up being a bunch of people doxing each other and eventually killing each other to win.

Good thing I delete all my EXIF data.

>>2353562
hahaha

>>2353064
hell yeah I'm still in it.

Anyone else feel bad about how little they're drawing even though you're now drawing every day - more frequent than ever before?

>>2353621
>how little they're drawing
u wot

>>2353624
you're?

>>2353621
Well I was drawing 0 before. So this is a step in the right direction

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>>2353252
fixed, thanks

>>2353370
hmm i know what's causing this but i cant figure out how to make it stop. i'll take a closer look at it tonight

>>2353195
>>2353196
>>2353204
>>2353209
you guys seem to have figured this out but it looks like there's still some confusion over how the multiple challenges work so here we go (i'll add a better explanation to the site too):

entry for challenge #1 was open up until friday night. anyone who entered during that first week and who hasn't already been eliminated is still fighting to win challenge #1. the only thing that's changed between this week and last concerning that challenge is that no new people can join. it'll take a long time but there will eventually be a winner

the reason this new challenge exists is because we needed a way for new artists and the previously eliminated to join in and give them something to fight for. those people can start submitting to the new challenge.

so if you're from week #1 this means your daily submissions will keep you in the original challenge and also enter you into #2. if you some day win #1 then you'll get a badge on your profile and you'll be the sole survivor to drop down to #2 and compete for that against the people who are signing up this week.

i think the best way to clear this up is to add a better explanation in the FAQ and to update the quick submit form to better show what your submission will do (keep you in the first challenge, enter you into a new one, etc)

>>2353377
what's the file size? i ran into that error a couple times and i never did figure out if it was because the file was too large or if because the upload failed. the error stopped happening so I couldn't test it

>>2353639
So i was eliminated from week 1(only posted once,shame on me)
And im about to enter week 2 but there is still another box for my "make up" ?

>>2353668
yeah it's the token system we've been using to eliminate people. if you join the competition and miss a day you can make up for it with a double post. if you miss another day within a month then you're eliminated. because of there be multiple challenges at once the whole elimination system is based on your account, not the individual challenge.

ie if you're eliminated from one main challenge then you're eliminated from them all. so if you don't "redeem" yourself with a double post to stay in the challenge then you will need to double post to join a new one.

i guess we can vote on it. it's easy enough to change it either way so I'll let the group decide:
>http://strawpoll.me/6557397

ps I'll add a little notification or something so indicate if youve used the token, if youve redeemed your account with a double post and when you'll get a new one

>>2353639
You're saying participants who entered in the first week are still fighting in challenge 1, but my submit prompt read "Submissions will enter you into Last Artist Standing #2." when i submitted my pic today. What gives?

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>>2353668
dont bother, you will never work as hard as me.

>>2353687
Read the thread faggot.

>>2353687
...please, stop.

This competition has illuminated just how many retards post on this board

>>2353686
Wait, does that option appears if, lets say, you posted on day4 of week1, and then forgot to post on day5, day6 and day7? Because then it would let you post day7 and day8, and you would be in week1 again... right? Idk, I'm confused.

>>2352611
did you mean

P A N I C
A N I C P
N I C P A
I C P A N
C P A N I

>>2353686
Oh alright, i thought it would reset each week.
So the make up is now to redeem for being eliminated from week 1 rather than to make up for a missed day.
So do i still have the token then? Like if i miss a day in this week, will i be able to make up for it or i will just be directly eliminated till week 3m

>>2353695

I mean artistic ability and common sense are two different things.
I've known plenty of really good artists who were absolutely fucking bonkers.

>>2353695
And how many fuckers come into here and don't bother reading the thread, or even the FAQ on the main site

>>2353705
>wanting to art without being completely mental
a-anon...

did OP ever made the site support multiple logins? i would like to use the site on my phone since i'm always moving around and its easier to submit on days life take over.

>>2353700
if you post on day 4 but dont post on day 5/6/7 then you're eliminated from the original last artist standing. no matter what you do at this point will get you back into it so pretend it doesn't exist.

since today is now day 8 your submissions will enter you into last artist standing #2. the same rules apply as before.

what people are currently voting on is whether your mistakes of the past (getting eliminated from #1) should affect you in the future (needed to double post to enter challenge #2)

>>2353695
More like, it illuminated that the way OP designed the system is fair but horribly unintuitive. I'm still thankful for it though!

>>2353736
>horribly unintuitive
I think it's pretty straightforward, but I've also been in the threads since the website's conception.

>>2353718
sorry I completely forgot about that, I'll add it to the list. i don't want to add it without a lot of testing because the secure login is closely tied into the "login without a password" system and a mistake could cause those people a lot of trouble.

Unrelated: I've added a little notification on the submit form if you've used your token and when you'll get a new one if you have

>>2353736
pretty much yeah. the system itself is fairly simple (can be explained in a paragraph) but it can't really be intuited since i'm using familiar words in unfamiliar ways

weekly challenge implies there will be a new challenge every week that lasts a week, being told your submissions will enter you into a new challenge implies you've been eliminated from the old one, etc

the best thing I can do is make an infographic-style main page that explains the system and at the bottom have the signup form. the page was born on /ic/ but I still feel so bad using everyone here as alpha testers. i'm hoping that within the month it'll be feature complete and something that an outsider can understand without needing to read thousands of posts on an image board

how can i update an image, it wont let me. Also if i do does it double post or does it replace the previous submission

>>2353756

Maybe you could add a "consecutive days / current day" counter to the dashboard to put peoples' minds at ease or something.
I think a lot of people saw "week #2" and thought "oh no i was eliminated all my progress is gone".

>>2353760
if you update your submission it won't double post, it updates your already submitted image for the day.

what's the error message you get when you try to update? the only issue i'm aware of with the update system right now is that if you link directly to your blog or whatever and you want to update that submission you'll need to provide a thumbnail again (even if you had already submitted one and don't want to update it.) I'll fix that

>>2353765
i dont get any message i just cant enter into the url or click anything to update it

>taking a picture of a ms paint drawing on your screen
Is this some ~aesthetic~ thing?

>>2353769
ooh yeah ok so I set it to disable the form if your computer thinks it's 00:00 GMT. is the time on your computer right?

>>2353777
oh shit its wasnt lol, thanks bud

>>2353777
oh baby a triple

>>2353786
not as good as the last one >>2342777 but i'll take it

Post 300

>>2353819
Are you new?

Who's your favorite artist so far?
Mine is Loomis because he tries to link pictures on his computer

so ive been told to make a new thread when we hit the bump limit but ive also been told that this topic has too many posts

what do?

>>2353831
I reckon we can go a while longer, /ic/ is somewhat slow and we're still only on page two.

>>2353831
There are currently 4 LAS threads still lingering. It's silly to make one each time we hit bump limit.

>>2353835
yeah, we can stick in this thread till it drops further down the catalog

Someone make a new thread with the best piece of today, i dont like this one anymore

>>2353835

I think we should make a general rule of making the new thread only when this hits page 8-9.

For some reason, under "Active Challenges" on my page, "Last Artist Standing #1" is duplicated three times.

I think at that time my updates were misinterpreted as entries? At any rate, it's not a website-breaking bug, but just wanted to let you know.

>>2353853
That shouldn't be too bad I guess?

I think it takes about 2-3 days for a thread to reach page 8-9, like >>2350895 hit page 8 a while ago and the last post was about 32 hours ago

Hey FmMood, I'd like to see you do something finished and with more direction

>>2353854
oh yeah i remember that, i'll clear up the duplicates tonight

Quick question, just to clarify.
If I don't post today, but double post tomorrow that means I'm still in the week 1 competition, correct?

>>2353877
If you still have a token left, yes, at least I think so.

>>2353877
yeah you will be as long as you haven't already missed a day

You will never ever be able to skip another day afterwards, you will be living on the edge

>>2353879
>>2353881
Yeah, this is my first day

>>2353888
Today is the first day of Week 2. If you didn't post yesterday or some of the previous days you are not in Week 1.
It's the same competition tho, it doesn't really matters.

Im seeing some nice new people already

So another thing, the make up submission for last week elimination doesn't appear on the submission page or on the user profile so what's up with that

>>2353930
yeah OP the fuck is this about, shit's confusing as hell

Do butts count as nsfw?

10 minutes left lads

>>2353947
use your common sense 2bh

>submissions going up in the last few minutes
You guys like to live on the edge

>draw and erase for 2 hours
>realize at 15 mins left you have nothing to post
>fuckkkkk

Man I hope I see the same few people submitting at the last minute for the next 50 weeks.

the 23:30 club is real

>>2353957

It's getting me in the habit of just not erasing anything anymore

>>2353959
Sorry but I submitted way earlier today
My heart can't deal with the stress every day

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Damn, today was literally a race against time... Came back from work 40 minutes ago. No scanner or tablet, so I had to take a crappy photo.

>>2353957

You shouldn't have to erase most of the time. Start light and get darker the more confident you are in the structure of your drawing and the deeper you go into details.

>>2353960
seriously, there wouldnt be a mad dash at the end if i didn't erase most of what i made some days

ps 4 eliminated

8 more down boys

>>2353962

This is sort of a "believe in yourself, you can do it" kind of thing for me, so do you mind telling me:

> age
> occupation
> time spent drawing (in months/years)
> average time spent drawing per day

>>2353955
Damn I think mine was the last one uploaded. It was too short, like 1-2min. Gotta work on the 9th one right now to avoid that.

>>2353966
What do we say to the god of Death?
"Not today"

uhh something happened to the submission archive wtf

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This is my favorite error so far.

whoa what i can't log in anymore

>>2353974
same.
Lava heeellllpppp.

>>2353973

that's a lot of poon

>>2353971
>>2353973
holy shit give me a heart attack. i thought my submission somehow saved over the entire database but it's just a display bug. i'll fix it in a sec i don't even know wtf happened. this is new

Once again Lava broke the site.
I'm tired of your shit

>>2353979
TOKENS FOR EVERYONE

>>2353971
>>2353974
>>2353976
>yfw someone couldn't make the deadline so they broke the website instead

>>2353979
nono i didn't even do anything this time i promise

>>2353983
i beat the clock by two minutes B)

>>2353981
it wasn't the elimination this time! something weird happened to the submission gallery

>>2353983

Actually that's one of my concerns.
I'd be pretty upset if some rusemaster cunt decides a good use of his time to be wiping the database somehow or hacking and destroying the website.

>>2353978
>>2353985
it was like that yesterday, probably should have said something but I liked seeing 100 loli's

>>2353986
i do twice daily backups and ive had 3 people test it for exploits and so far it's locked up tight

also i cant figure out wtf is wrong. it should work fine, nothing has changed where it's not working. this might take a min.

oops i had changed something. it's fixed now.

>183 artists joined and made 818 submissions in the first week.
>41 have been eliminated.
>142 remain, fighting to be the Last Artist Standing.
4 more anons dead?