Tiny bit more work on the genasi.
I should not have gone to Whimsyshire without a good night’s sleep behind me. Oh god.
I need to chloroform Myn and take her there forthwith.
Yes, more words, sorry about that. Though this is more relevant I think, as it is about art.
Advice given often more or less involves “keep drawing, draw every day, practice”. Like grinding out skill points in a game. This is true, practice helps both mind and body (counting these as separate…
You know the saying, “insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results”? That applies to art, a lot.
One of the problems with people like this squirrel lady is that they’re not really doing anything on the observational or intake side of art—they’re just going through the motions of a memorized… thing. They don’t improve visibly because when they draw hands, they don’t actually stop and look at hands and how they work; they fall back on their mind’s idea of This Is A Hand. And if you haven’t spent a fair bit of time studying the structure of real hands (or squirrel faces, or whatever), your mind has only a very crude concept to give you when you ping it for information. Most brains need to be trained a lot if you want them to cough up anything more than symbols like checkmark noses and squiggly lines representing curly hair.
And honestly—I think “practice every day” can be bad advice, sometimes (sometimes!). Sometimes you just need rest, or to go on a week-long gaming binge, or to learn a totally different skill set that may or may not obviously relate to drawing. Sometimes I’ve hit a plateau, stopped painting for a month, and been better at it when I started again just because I’m refreshed.
email: “Hey, I took one of your pictures from deviantArt and photoshopped it and ran it through a bunch of filters for you! I hope you like it!”
uh
I got this with an old DevID (?!) once. “Oh, I see you found the adjust hue/saturation slider. Um, grats?”
(Psst, everyone go look at Ms. Dillon’s art; it’s dreamy.)
basically commander shepard is a guy who’d rather spend all his credits on fish and model ships than get weapons for his crew who are sometimes alien and all have boners for him srsly
So Altair is this wanker who royally fucks up and ends up having to redeem himself by running around and assassinating a bunch of other fuckers that no one likes after becoming best mates with the guy who’s brother he gets killed. Also for some reason his wee clique is really invested in eagles.
You move to a new town and meet some people with emotional issues. Actually this whole town is full of emotional issues. Then someone dies and then other people die on television. So you have to stop people dying on tv using your conquered bipolar monster, and you basically go through a year of high school without getting any grades and the end is depressing.
Refugees Ruining Shit For Everyone Plus Every Type Of Social Warfare Then A Church Blows Up Simulator 2000
(okay so that’s not a description so much as a more accurate title, but)
You’re supposed to be a gang leader but you do a lot of quests/everything for them rather than delegating, forced to play dress-up to get respect, and everyone drives everywhere too fast/poorly. Oh and people will tell you that it’s a rip-off of GTA all the time. (the Saints Row series)
An amnesiac zombie talks a lot and wanders all over the place in search of his memories, only to find out that he was a total asshole.
Quick time-out from getting pancaked in Inferno mode* with B for… a water genasi.
Flowing hair that turns into water seemed a bit too easy, so she gets a bubble-fro instead.
*Seriously, whoever thought that putting Vortex, Jailer, Invincible Minions, and Frozen on the same elite pack was a good idea is a goddamned sadist.
In his quest for magey backup, B made me get Diablo 3.
For the record… the male wizard sounds, talks, and acts pretty much exactly like Mikala on one of his cockier days. I approve.
(Also almost entirely certain that it’s the same VA that did Gannayev, oddly enough.)
The start of more retooling. The original sketch was from early 2006 and I loved it dearly, but no finish I tried could do my original idea justice. Let’s see if we can fix that. I’m going to change her face again; I just really hated that ingenue-ish expression on the original and wanted to be rid of it.
I might give her a friend while I’m at it. Maybe goat legs, too.
Anaquiel Aubade and Koszephyrus. I hesitate to call them BFFs, but they were by and large inseparable during the Icecrown campaign. There was a bit of a rumour that they were a couple, and asking them about it would likely prompt expressions just like the ones they’re wearing here.
Kos may be a little cracked—what mage isn’t?—but Ana is one of those people that genuinely sees red when she’s angry. She’s jovial amongst her allies and fearless in war, but takes an ugly pleasure in the torture and killing of anyone else that ends up on the wrong side of the battlefield… particularly humans.
Observations and ponderings on fan art (and fiction) versus original work, brought on after having discussed it with various people.
This is a subject that fascinates me but doesn’t personally move me, because A) most of my fan art is setting-based rather than depictions of famous characters (e.g. I draw blood elves, but I’ve never painted Kael’thas) and B) I do not feel that my fan art gets a disproportionately large amount of love compared to my original stuff. I honestly don’t notice a difference in popularity at all.
