Sumea Paint chat night

sounds good, dunno about a constant time every week because after a while it wouldnt really mean anything to anyone i dont reckon. Just like make a post every once in a while for a time and see how many people do the whole "im there!" thing

I only have dial up connection, and a very slow one at that. Thats why I havn't been active in paint chat. Maybe you could run a joint on line / off line topic so others could still 'participate' and post their work.

Pantmonger

Thats a possible idea Moony, though I dont understand when you say that it wouldnt really mean anything to anyone after awhile. Do you mean poeple might lose interest?
Pants I have dialup as well but it has ran well for me. However the amount of users was only like 3 or 4.
An offline topic is another good idea, like the sumea speedpaint activities. This will allow people to work with their fav programs which is a bonus.
Another suggestion is that we could have like a certian theme/challange each time. One night it could be design a character or environemnt, the next it could be a mini battle (ala T-Dome). Just to spice things up so we dont lose interest.

Sounds like a great idea! I should make a news item or something so people know about it.

heh, that great idea was yours though ;)

Anyone else interested in this? what about the offline one?

Ok, you nutters. Sumea Paint Chat is on THIS SUNDAY night, 7pm till 10:30pm... I'm expecting *you all there*, or else I will begin to break things. Seriously, if I don't get more than 10 artists turning up, I'm going to close this site and turn it into some gaming website where people say "TEH SUCKS" and "OMGBBQ!1!!!" a lot.. And all the news items will be about the Half Life 2 preloading status.. because people get excited hearing about another HL2 preload.. [:o)]

And dialup modemer's should be fine - the initial download is what takes the longest (thats when you have to wait and download all the stuff that others have drawn before you join) but it updates things quite well when you're in.

We'll come up with a topic to draw and thread to post the results of Sumea Paint Chat night!!

Gah! Bad news. I fubered up Java.
Whenever I go to connect to paint chat (and some other websites) it asks me if I want to install Java Virtual Machine. I normally click ok and it starts to install.
However, one day I wasnt paying attention adn accidently clicked/ticked a "Dont install this agian" box (well, it wasnt those words). And now it wont install Java and thus I cant connect to Paintchat!! :(
HELP!!!
Ive tried resetting to the defualt settings under Tools/ Internet Options/ Advanced, but that hasnt done anything

If anyone is having trouble, come in to the sumea IRC channel on friday/saturday night and we'll try and help you out.

You may need to use an alternate IRC client if you used the java one on sumea (try mIRC: http://www.mirc.com)

Ok, everyone come to Sumea Paint Chat right now! I'm here with Ashen, and the topic tonight is draw Solid Snake!! Post your efforts in this thread [:)]

I sorta copped out and did a manga style colouring, but here is my bit of fun...

[img]http://www.sumea.com.au/forum/attached/souri/2004101064830_solidsnake.j…]

here's my lazy mouse painted attempt. huzzah!

[img]http://www.sumea.com.au/forum/attached/MoonUnit/2004101065051_pcsnake.j…]

GO GO SUPER HIPPY CLOWN KARAOKE SNAKE! Ahem...

[img]http://www.sumea.com.au/forum/attached/Wizenedoldman/200410107574_My-SS…]

Here?s my half arsed mouse painted effort. Me want?s a watcom.
[img]http://www.thoughtvalve.com/dl/mark/sumea/snake.jpg[/img]

hmmm... poo.

[img]http://ashen.ekumi.net/scrap/SnakePaintChat.jpg[/img]

no, I didn't run a filter over it in fotoshop to make it look less crap before posting it... haha... whatever gave you that idea? heh... heh... *jumps out the window*

Cheers.
Ash.

I have a suggestion... how bout running a daily sketch group... that is, have a bot with some million and something topics in it (which people can add too) and then each day you get a new topic.

Then when its called for, you can run these paint things online with the days topic?... or maybe the topic with the least/most participation in a week... or something. I dunno, I just want sumea to start a daily sketch group :D

Yeah, paint chat is pretty fun. I?d like to see it become a more regular thing. Who knows, maybe it will improve the skills?

Good idea about the topic bot, Ashen.

Since I cant join Paintchat anymore :( I used Painter for this.
[img]http://members.optusnet.com.au/~rowanfamily/MGS.jpg[/img]
The pose was referenced from a MGS3 screenshot.

So when's the next planned paint chat night going to be? This Sunday?

Whats the topic for this week?!?!?

I should be able to make it again this week, see if I can't top last weeks attempt. Who decides the topic? Should we make suggestions here? It's gonna sound nerdy but how about your favourite superhero?

heh heh i second the superhero thing :D