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He might refer to the fact that you have a 4 color style, that does not include some inward angling surfaces, namely on the front of ships, eg superstructure, turret face etc.

The original style, with no fancy highlighting and silly shading, as passed down to us from Mt Olympus by MConrads himself.

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I should not be one to comment, I was not around for the good ol' days.

Colo, you're simply amazing when it comes to detail, and accuracy, and I love your camo schemes, but...if you compare the USN section of SB, to the RN one, there is a real difference, and most of that, I think can simply be attributed to the shading. The old style is just rather flat in comparison.

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If it's close enough to cast a shadow, I think the flying house wins initiative.

Bronies are like the Forsworn. Everyone agrees that they are a problem but nobody wants to expend the energy rooting them out.

"That is a very graphic analogy which aids understanding wonderfully while being, strictly speaking, wrong in every possible way."

No offense taken, but this isn't really the place for this discussion anyway.

Anyway, I've always said that I consider myself a draftsman first and an artist second... so to me creating an accurate technical drawing is more important than attempting to shade (and being limited to only a few colors for shading round surfaces leaves the result looking rather hexagonal and I've never liked the effect). To each his own.

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Speaking of the shading, what is the 2 highlights on the bow of this drawing? it suggests the bow has tumblehome under the waterline from about the anchor winch until the extreme bow at the waterline, something which I doubt is true. it might be true in the bulb, but not to the extend suggested here and not from the waterline until 1m above the keel, I think.

in addition, I still don't get how that same highlight can go only until the waterline and dissapear afterwards. shades don't just end at the waterline, unless the shape changes there too!

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The drawbacks of a pixel-based style with no gradients are only too obvious in these cases.

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I can't comment on the shading, but those are masterpieces!

Fantastic work, bezo!