Alright I see your point, But for the "shooting in any ole' direction" thing it maybe telling "something" I mean she may be provideing covering fire for her away team while running to cover, its just a guess and my opion but i understand . But the main reason why I like the Vulcan is that she almost looks EXACTLY(uniform needed) like my main character on STO. Hair color, eyes, facial features, ect. I mean its like shes become famous, a shame shes being hated but again understandable.

This is gonna go off topic for a moment, and for that, I apologize. I'll bring it back on track at the end, I promise. I'm just really enjoying the conversation.

Just for the sake of discussion, providing cover fire -while- in motion? That's very Hollywood. In all my prior military exercises, cover fire was provided from...you guessed it...cover! Members of the Fire Team would provide cover fire from position while others moved. Then those individuals would provide cover fire while the ones who were covering move to the new position. At no time while you're firing is your attention on anything other than where you're firing. Even in the rare situation where you -must- move and fire at the same time, you set your travel path mentally ahead of time, and -still- watch your firing line while you move.

Watch this gunfight scene. (It's from the Season 3 finale of Leverage)

With the exception of one shot during the main fight, and the end where it goes completely Hollywood Cowboy, you'll see that Eliot has plotted his movement to where he can focus on aiming while moving, not moving while shooting. It's a decent example of what I'm talking about. His eyes are tracking his targets, not his movement. And they are -never- looking directly at the camera, which T'Boob is most definitely doing.

Don't get me wrong...I like the Vulcan. I just don't like the execution of the piece, because professional art should provide professional result, and in my assessment as an art professional, it doesn't measure up...too many glaring errors.

I'm sure if I had a large enough copy of the original, and some time in Photoshop, I could edit her to remove some of those errors. But I'm already a starving artist...I certainly can't afford to work for free. *grin*

Lol ok, I can see that, so sorry for takeing the topic...off topic...anyways I PERSONALY like the Vulcan because she looks EXACTLY like my main character...with out that uniform though...

Hey, I have no trouble with it...like I said, I'm enjoying the discussion.

But, let's get this train back on the rails, shall we?

I spent exactly six minutes and 47 seconds in Photoshop...a VERY quick and dirty edit, using the largest size wallpaper as a base.

Here's a cropped and downsized clip of the original, with the 'thousand-yard stare' looking right at the camera:


Now here's the quick and dirty edit, making her look where she's firing. That is the ONLY change I made:


See the difference? Just that minor change makes her look infinitely more proficient. Sure, she still looks like she's going to cry, and she's still falling on her face...but by the gods, she IS going to hit what she's aiming at, because she's ACTUALLY AIMING!

So, what have we learned, cats and kittens? One of the primary rules of art: Unless you're doing a portrait, your subject should NEVER LOOK DIRECTLY AT THE 'CAMERA'.

Seriously...that's basic art class.

Well, your ceratinly right about that! nice work btw, sorry if I caused any trouble not my intent at all, just a matter of opion, though for the crying bit theres ways to give her less "twinkle" i dont know how but theres ways.

I agree. Merely changing the position of her eyes makes her look 120% less dim-witted while firing that phaser.

It's worse than we thought.







She's taking over Handsome Phaser Guy's ads now as well.

It's a good thing gamers and Trekkers don't have a rep for being socially retarded and emotionally stunted man boys who can't deal with women like humans because that ad would just be embarrassing in that case.

What, you mean like this?
"I like the white-haired Cora with the sword and lack of substantial clothing."

We want to treat women like humans, Cryptic isn't making it easy, by displaying that thing on the front page.
Also shes a Romulan/Vulcan not human