Free The Blarfs! (Aka design a Blarf)

[Kengplant]

Hunty might be the final judge, but I may as well start the thread. If hunty wants to take over that's fine by me. But seeing as I already have 4 incarnations which I will post all of later once I have time, I figured I may as well spearhead a place for everyone to post their doodled creations that we all know you've been drawing in the margins of your Math and History class notes.

So for now just post em when you're ready and we'll either have Hunty judge or put them to a poll. Cut off date to be announce.

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I'm afraid I won't be able to actually make actual t-shirts for you guys. Maybe a picture you can photo transfer though.

EDIT: In case other people wanted to take a go at this, I figured I'd post the original description. Depending on how many people decide to take this up in it's revived state will determine if I ever actually put it to poll.

She turned and looked at the mirror. Then at the pathway, then at the mirror again. Indeed, it was hard to find adjectives, especially in the dark. But there were eyes in there somewhere. And claws. And fangs. And possibly tentacles, and a lot of fur. And it was breathing. And it was big enough to fill the whole doorway.

[....]

Well, there wasn't much to see. It barely had a shape, most of it was thick black fur. If anything, it had the shape of a very soggy and lumpy cigar, with a sharp mole-like snout, long floppy ears and rather short crooked paws. There seemed to be at least six. And its back looked like an armed battalion. There were spikes, tentacles, occasional spots of thick scaly skin shining between the fur, and... wings? Two pairs of puny little bat-wings, smaller than the creature's ears.

"Looks like a failed experiment or something," said Justice, sidling away from the shattered mirror. "Or a hybrid. Or a nightmare."


[...]

"Fooooo-oooooood."

It wasn't a voice. It came from the depths of its body, some sort of an awkward echo, like conveniently arranged soundwaves. And the fact that it came through a triangular mouth that had three rows of fangs didn't make it any more comforting.

[Kengplant]

Ok, here's Blarf incarnation #4! 1 and 3 I've already posted in the RP. See the comic and the other one. I did this one in my sketch book. .. err, you may not get to see #2.

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By the way hunty, am I getting warmer? I know I forgot the wings on this one... err, they're probably just hidden by the tentacles anyways.

[Huntress]

xD Truth be told, I have very little idea about what it looks like. I've doodled a few things on the margins of my Peruvian Culture notes (to each their own margins xD) but I'm not really happy with it, looks too much like a cute fluffdog. *will attempt another doodle later today while cooking* But I like that particular version :3

As for the shirt, it'd work xD If you give the image. T-shirt stores offer a service where they put your own image on a shirt. (And yes, I'm just the kinda person who'd happily walk around the town with a FREE THE BLARFS shirt, so don't take it lightly xD)

[Kengplant]

Hehe, depending on the designs I might make a few different colour option in case you don't want a black t-shirt. If I were to put Blarf4 on there I would put it in negative so the line art would be white. Or if I were to put it on a white t-shirt I would clean up the grey then leave it as it.

[Huntress]

So I did a quick doodle while watching Sleepy Hollow. One'd think it wouldn't turn out so much like a cute fluffdog when drawn while watching Sleepy Hollow, but no >>

[Cyborg]

Hey Keng I think Blarf #4 is amazing he's intimidating, fluffy and cute at the same time.

[Kengplant]

LET IT LIVE! THE BLARFS MUST STILL BE FREED! JUST BECAUSE WE'VE NEGLECTED THIS THREAD FOR YEARS NOW DOESN'T MEAN WE SHOULD NEGLECT THE BLARFS! THEY MUST BE FREED FROM THEIR OPPRESSION!

TYPING IN ALL CAPS MAKES IT TRUE!

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Been working on this on and off over the past month. Haven't put a huge number of hours into it, just an hour here and there when I needed a break from other things. This is the second black creature I've uploaded onto the web in as many days and I can't help but notice that the web or maybe JPGs just don't have a wide enough range of blacks so a lot of the lines stand out more than they should. I'm still happy with it though. I had an epiphany on the bus one day about how to sleek up the design on the blarf so I made a sketch later that day when I couldn't look at my animation anymore. This is the final result. I imagine he could also very well have his head down, he just happens to have it raised in attention at this moment.

[Huntress]

Wow, it's been two years already?

...I still like the idea of a blarf T-shirt. Actually I have a shirt that has been waiting for redesigning *ponder*

And that is so an awesometastic blarf =D I always thought that they didn't have much of a neck to start with, but everyone sees him differently and it's pretty much impossible to call any given design more correct than the other. Probably can't poll on it now either, he's had two years to get fixed in the canon and our minds, we won't be able to change that now.

Hrm, I've done a number of blarfsketches over the time, all similar to the one I posted up there, but I should still make a colored and fully elaborated drawing one day, if only for the aforesaid T-shirt (...yeah, with all the things I've said I should draw one day, I really shouldn't be giving any more promises x'D)

And just because I have to dig through long old threads every time I want to refer back to the old images, figured I'd collect all the blarfart we have so far on this thread. ...blarfart, awesome word xDD

Oct 30, 2007 2:25:34 GMT -5 Kengplant said:

((well, originally I was just going to draw the beast all curled up in the hallway but...

So, the award for my laziest colouring job ever goes to:))

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((Yes... I did have to make the collar pink.))

Oct 31, 2007 12:09:18 GMT -5 Kengplant said:

((Oh gosh, I drew it in exactly that pose last night o.0. Like youre it came out weirdly cute.

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errr.. don't mind my rant about your description XD

))

Mar 25, 2008 18:20:12 GMT -5 Speck said:

Eh. Not the best.
I'm rather horrid at drawing his tentacles...

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What can I say, it was a Canadian culture class and the 'Talking Newfie' subtitle on the handout reminded me of blarfie xD

...yeah, there's something about him that just doesn't want to convey a consistent impression xD

[Cyborg]

May 3, 2009 23:26:05 GMT -5 Kengplant said:

LET IT LIVE! THE BLARFS MUST STILL BE FREED! JUST BECAUSE WE'VE NEGLECTED THIS THREAD FOR YEARS NOW DOESN'T MEAN WE SHOULD NEGLECT THE BLARFS! THEY MUST BE FREED FROM THEIR OPPRESSION!

TYPING IN ALL CAPS MAKES IT TRUE!

SPOILER: Click to show

Been working on this on and off over the past month. Haven't put a huge number of hours into it, just an hour here and there when I needed a break from other things. This is the second black creature I've uploaded onto the web in as many days and I can't help but notice that the web or maybe JPGs just don't have a wide enough range of blacks so a lot of the lines stand out more than they should. I'm still happy with it though. I had an epiphany on the bus one day about how to sleek up the design on the blarf so I made a sketch later that day when I couldn't look at my animation anymore. This is the final result. I imagine he could also very well have his head down, he just happens to have it raised in attention at this moment.

I love it! It looks soo cuddley!!! And Hunty said she didn't wanna keep him at first! How could you not love this? I call him Sir Fluffaluffagus.