Congrats. I find Inkscape tutorial videos on YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=inkscape>helpful, and cars seem to be a popular subject to render in SVG, especially to teach shading. -Arlo James Barnes <http://arlojamesbarnes.com>

On Sun, 1 Sep 2013 08:10:28 +0300 Shlomi Fish <shlomif@...3008...> wrote: Thanks Shlomi, What would you say are the top three factors that make it look unprofessional? I'm pretty unprofessional with visual images, but that doesn't mean I can't learn :-) Thanks, SteveT

Pedantic moan: On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 08:10 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: The quality of said performance is not indicated by the use of 'unprofessional'[1], there is a use for unprofessional to mean 'not conducting one's behavior with respect needed in business' but that's the administration of the skill, not the skill. Uploading jpegs is unprofessional, get the proportions wrong is unskillful or unrefined. ;-) Martin, [1] Professional - Earns money from performing skill Amateur - Performs skill for the respect / love / fun, without being paid.

Hi Martin, On Sun, 01 Sep 2013 11:34:38 -0400 Martin Owens <doctormo@...155...> wrote: While I have been aware of that meaning of "amateur" (see http://paulgraham.com/opensource.html ), that's not the meaning I used there. The meaning I used there was: « 1. Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession. 3. (by extension) Expert. » (taken from: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/professional#Adjective ). Naturally, I didn't mean to imply that works done without getting paid are necessarily inferior to works which were done in exchange for payment. By all means, the two meanings of "professional" vs. "amateurs" are not fully correlated. What I meant was that the quality of the work done and shared by Steve (or is "Mr. Litt" preferred?) was not as high as I came to expect from similar work I've experienced done by (possibly more) skilled and/or talented people.[1] Hope that helps. Regards, Shlomi Fish [1] - I hope I don't sound too harsh, and if I do - I apologise. I don't expect people to immediately be able to produce high-quality artworks, and Steve's car artwork shows a lot of potential, and like I said, is well above what I have been able to do so far. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Stop Using MSIE - http://www.shlomifish.org/no-ie/ The more I think about it, the more I think I should think about it some more. — Clarissa Explains it All Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .

Hi Steve, On Mon, 2 Sep 2013 21:55:06 -0400 Steve Litt <slitt@...2357...> wrote: OK, fair enough. This is the second time someone told me that after I called him "Mr. $LastName". Maybe it's a cultural thing. There's an English friend of mine who calls me “Mr. Fish” when talking to me in instant messaging, and I don't mind that (and my father is still alive and kicking - touch wood.), but I am Israeli. See: http://www.shlomifish.org/meta/FAQ/#refer_or_address Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ First stop for Perl beginners - http://perl-begin.org/ I hope that you agree with me that 99.9218485921% of the users wouldn’t bother themselves with recompilation (or any other manual step for that matter) to make their games run 1.27127529900685765% faster ;-) — Nadav Har’El Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .