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spudinacup · 7 years ago

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Tips on backgrounds?

This isn't the first ask I've gotten on this topic so I'm going to start off by saying simply, I am not a master on backgrounds. Hell, I am still learning.

However, I can tell you guys what has helped me along the way and what a turning point for me with environments was. The biggest ground shaking moment was realizing a simple phrase that most will have heard me say in my streams if you’ve hung around long enough.

'Treat your backgrounds as if they were a character'

Backgrounds are scary, there is no way around that fact. They’re complex, spiraling and often times its hard to find out where to start with it. The first question you got to ask yourself is ‘what do I want to show?’ There is no point investing all that time into it without a purpose, what is this scenes personality?

I don’t use the word personality without intention. Just as a character speaking can display a personality, so can an environment. Here are three examples:

Hellboy, Mike Mignola

Batman and Superman, Lee Bermeio

TMNT 1984 Issue

These images have ‘personality’ you wouldn’t see TMNT styled backgrounds in a Superman and Batman comic, nor would you find a Hellboy styled image in such a wild and crazed comic like TMNT.

These images have a life of their own, some might say that it is the style of the work itself, but the style is directly influenced by the characters. What you want to show is going to determine how it is drawn.

TMNT original issues had this grungy scratch appeal to it utilizing lots of texture and crosshatching, it gave it this dirty feel that was appealing and matched the sewer living ninjas.

Hellboy is very dark, a story of demons and dark arts. The style that it is best known for depicts this with clean lines, but constantly dramatic black placement. It exudes this clarity despite how much of it is left within question. I had the pleasure of seeing some original page roughs from Mike Mignola at my college, there were pages that were almost completely black except for very specific parts that he chose to illuminate. He was meticulous on what he showed and why.

Now by far the most complex example, the painterly twists of the Batman and Superman issues done by Lee Bermio. They utilized almost consistently contrast and strong composition to make the focal points pop off to the viewer. However it is still very easy to become lost in the images. This style hits an almost uncanny valley so close to reality in its rendering but a tad off, very much Marvel stylization.

Each of these environments are alive and match what they’re framing. They are their own character and you can learn just as much from them as you could the characters, if not more. This is why I love backgrounds. I hide so much within my pages, details that might go unnoticed but I’m aware of, because it breathes life to them.

If you’re not sure what to add to a background look at real life. What would be in a bar if you were in one? What would be on a desk? Here’s my advice, look at your own!Think of who this desk was being used by, are they an artist? A drunk? Do they have bills? Pile pieces of the person around them, frame them and create a story with only the items that are cascaded about. Its the same thing we do when we enter someones house the first time, we judge by what we see. Big TV and lots of video games? Gamer. Dirty kitchen with underwear on the fan? Possibly party boy or slob. Lots of plants on the porch, and tapestries hanging about? Maybe a bit more hippy or has an affection to nature. You can say so much that you can’t just put into words with a simple drawing of a person. Utilize this.

Make your background a character.

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chagosanchago · 5 years ago

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Refusal to submit to Biblical teaching

Good evening, Mandaport family! Before we begin, I want to show You who’s with me tonight – si Mama and Gold. We miss the church, we miss our worship, we miss everything that we do in our fellowship, but as always said, we are thankful to God that we have this digital, online platform that keeps us connected and in touch with each other during this unusual time in the history of our lives.

Shoutout po muna to all our brothers who, like me, are badly needing a haircut since the lockdown – kapit lang, guys, matatapos din ‘to. At sa may mga barbero sa neighborhood at sa kani-kanilang mga tahanan – count Your blessings po. Bukod po kayong pinagpala sa mga lalaking lahat.

Shoutout to our Mandaport family here and abroad, Pastor Art and Mommy Lyn and all the church workers, our BASIC Primary 24, BASIC Group 7-UPWARD, Mandaport Youth, Hyphen Group, Music Team, Mandaport Sunday School Department, especially our teachers and students at the Secondary Level – we hope and pray that you are diligently attending to your online lessons – and Bro. Ric Bermio from Laguna. Sa lahat po ng naaabot ng teknolohiyang ito, Magandang gabi po sa ating lahat.

Our topic tonight focuses on one of the hindrances to prayer, and that is Refusal to submit to Biblical teaching.

Allow me to read our Scriptural references:

Proverbs 1:24-28 24 But since you refuse to listen when I call and no one pays attention when I stretch out my hand, 25 since you disregard all my advice and do not accept my rebuke, 26 I in turn will laugh when disaster strikes you; I will mock when calamity overtakes you—27 when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble overwhelm you. 28 “Then they will call to me but I will not answer; they will look for me but will not find me,

Zechariah 7:11-14 11 “But they refused to pay attention; stubbornly they turned their backs and covered their ears. 12 They made their hearts as hard as flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the Lord Almighty had sent by his Spirit through the earlier prophets. So the Lord Almighty was very angry. 13 “‘When I called, they did not listen; so when they called, I would not listen,’ says the Lord Almighty. 14 ‘I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations, where they were strangers. The land they left behind them was so desolate that no one traveled through it. This is how they made the pleasant land desolate.’”

As an Observation: The scriptures tell us of the consequence of not taking heed or paying attention to God’s instructions or admonition – and that consequence is God will also not hear us even if we call out to Him for help in the face of a tragedy, and He will allow the stubborn to perish in the time of destruction.

In the interest of time, I have fused into one the Application and the Message, and I pray that God opens our hearts and understanding to the lesson that He has impressed on me for tonight’s devotion.

[Application/Message]: Let us always seek the Lord while He may be found, and call on Him while He is near. Let us be the salt and light of the earth to bring people to the truth and influence them to respond to God’s call and not ignore His instructions. We are living in the last days, with people’s hearts turning rebellious before God. According to 2 Tim. 4:3, “For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.” God’s Word is truth, and we should not twist God’s truth to justify our selfish intentions. Let us all be God’s ministers to turn people away from evil, and become all things to all men, so that – like Paul – by all possible means we might save some into God’s Kingdom.

Hardening of our hearts towards God’s instructions does not happen overnight. Backsliding is a gradual process, and it happens when people refuse to pay attention to God, when they refuse to submit to the man of God, and when we refuse to hear God’s Word. We should watch out when we tend to ignore our Pastor when he gives God’s instructions, when one becomes self-righteous, or when one claims to have full knowledge of everything about God. The Bible issued a warning – wherefore let Him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. If you think you are alive and well today because You claim to know the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, that you seem to be a better speaker than people standing in front of you, that you seem to deliver a more powerful exhortation than anyone else – you have to wake up from your delusion and pay attention to God’s Word! We have to realize – we are nothing without God! Isaiah 64:6! But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. We were nothing, we were shapen and conceived in iniquity, but thank God for He looked beyond our faults and saw our needs! Hallelujah!

People whose hearts are hardened refuse to pay attention to God’s word. It’s like going to the doctor for your annual check-up. He goes through your medical chart, takes a look at you further, then begins to ask questions, like “What do you usually eat?” You are aware why he asks that question. He sees that You are gaining weight from your last check-up, but you don’t tell him the whole truth. You tell him what he wants to hear, but you intentionally did not tell him that you have been feasting on cake, ice cream, French fries and potato chips as part of your basic food groups. He warns you take off the extra weight, prescribes a diet without ice cream and potato chips. You comply for a week, then you go back to eating junk. “The doctor does not need to know.” Of course – it’s not the doctor that you are hurting. You are hurting yourself and you are just not aware of it! You are not paying attention to the doctor’s instructions because you don’t want to change. When outwardly we go to the church, attend Sunday School, do praise and worship, hear the Pastor’s instructions, but we choose to live our lives the way we want to live it, we are not paying attention, and we are in danger!

People whose hearts are hardened refuse to submit to the man of God. The Bible tells us that all scripture is given by God’s inspiration, and delivered unto us by the man of God for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. But when we refuse to be corrected, we leave the church and look for other churches that will only make us feel good. Let me remind everyone here tonight – it’s not the man of God we are rejecting, it’s not the man of God we are walking away from – we are denying ourselves of God’s blessings when we choose what we want to hear! I pray that everyone of us that’s locked-in right now will decide in our hearts to follow Jesus and submit to our Pastor, regardless of the situation. If you do not want to be cursed, and you want to overflow with blessings, let us submit to the man of God. Hallelujah!

People whose hearts are hardened refuse to hear God’s Word. Verse 11 says they did not just turn their backs, they covered their ears. The Word of God acts like a mirror so we can see a reflection of how we stand before God. When God’s Word reveals the condition of our hearts, when God’s Word reveals how bad our spiritual standing is before Him, when God’s Word pierces and slices like a two-edged sword, cutting through our soul and spirit, and we hurt – our flesh rebels, and we do not want to hear from it anymore. We say, “Enough, God! I have enough of You!”, but what if God tells us, “Alright, then – I have enough of You also.”?

We then lose our way. We fall from grace. We go back to the lives that we used to have before we met the Lord. We have to understand – the Lord does not want us to suffer. God is love. He is full of mercy and grace. He came into this world not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. But if we continually refuse to obey Him, He will let us suffer the consequences of our sins to teach us a lesson. God forbid that this happens to us, but if it does, may we remember this lesson and remind us to go back to God when His Holy Spirit brings us to our senses. God wants everybody to come home, and not walk away. We have to lift up our eyes and see that our redemption is sooner than we expect. If we continue sinning and everything seems to be still OK, we have to be careful. Hebrews 12:8 says, If God doesn’t discipline you as he does all of his children, it means that you are illegitimate and are not really his children at all.

Let us put ourselves in God’s hands today and in the days to come, brothers and sisters. Let us be jars of clay, willing to be broken again and again, and be shaped and molded according to God’s design, as He is our Potter. We are living in the last days and these are perilous times, sometimes we get tired of hearing God’s instructions – but we have to hang on, be steadfast and unmoveable! Even if we hurt. Even if we stumble. Even if we break. Sometimes, the harder the stone, the harder the blow of the hammer to break it. But let us trust God. It’s His Word working in us. Even if we don’t see it, He is working. Even if we don’t feel it, He is working! He is still the God who makes a way when there seems to be no way, He is still the miracle-working God, and He is mighty to save us from this crisis! Let us obey His Word and keep the faith!

Before I give this back to base to our Pastor, I would like to share this prayer with us all:

Lord, You have given us a new heart and a new spirit. You have turned this stony heart into flesh. Guide us with Your Holy Spirit so that we will always desire to please You and do whatever it takes to follow Your instructions. Thank You for the power of Your Word, for breathing life into it so we will always be taught, rebuked, corrected and trained in righteousness – and walk with faith as we strive to become perfect and be equipped in Your Word. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

Once again, pasasalamat at papuri po sa ating Panginoon sa pagkakataong ito, at sa regalo Niyang buhay para sa ating lahat. Let us all keep each other in prayer, and we are very much looking forward to go back to our normal lives and have fellowship with everyone of you po sa ating simbahan, sa kalooban po ng ating Panginoon. Stay safe po, stay healthy, stay at home and let us all stay in God’s presence. God bless everyone and see you later tonight for the OPM!

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