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Post by Thorn on Feb 24, 2018 18:50:29 GMT -5
I was at work when I first saw these, so couldn't say anything, but the character lineup in particular brought me so much joy. Poor Sylvester, haha! xD
Seeing your design process for Bek was very cool and enlightening. She's such a cute and inspired character, and it's great to see how you arrived at her.
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Post by Lizica on Feb 26, 2018 1:19:51 GMT -5
I was at work when I first saw these, so couldn't say anything, but the character lineup in particular brought me so much joy. Poor Sylvester, haha! xD Seeing your design process for Bek was very cool and enlightening. She's such a cute and inspired character, and it's great to see how you arrived at her. Aww, thanks so much, Thorn! That makes me smile knowing you liked them and that the lineup actually brought you joy. ='DD
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Post by Lizica on May 26, 2018 0:16:06 GMT -5
I thought I didn't have enough things to warrant an art dump, but then I counted them up, and it turns out I have quite a few things. xD Lots of very random things. (And a surprising amount of Pokemon. xD) But in terms of spoilers, I thiiiiink the only spoilers might be for Wrighton and Madge fic (and maybe Mafia III and Town, if you squint hard enough). First a few things I meant to post in my last art dump, but completely forgot! I did a partial Pokecember again last year, but didn't post them here because I'd already posted them on Tumblr and DA. But this one is relevant to the NTWF, so. =D This Pokecember drawing is not relevant to the NTWF, but I was pretty pleased with how it came out, so I'll repost that, too (along with the caption, because it's really not complete without the overdramatic caption). XP Pokecember Day 7: Fighting-type Pokemon The dame walked straight into my office that day with a sketchbook and an expression so keen and sharp it would have put a Razor Leaf to shame. “I need your help,” she said. “Team Magma, Aqua, and Rocket could have teamed up for all I care. I’m a private eye,” I said, unfazed. I tapped the nameplate on my desk. “Private because I don’t take walk-in clients. This isn’t a Pokemon Center, and I don’t give free handouts.” “Please,” the dame insisted, grasping her sketchbook tighter. “You’re my only hope. Last year, I tried to draw a cool Breloom for Pokecember, but–” Here, the dame looked dramatically out my window, the shadows of the Venetian blinds cascading across her face like an Elekid egg. “–I chose the wrong medium.” She turned back to me, her eyes steely, and slapped her sketchbook onto my desk. “But the word around town here is that you’re the coolest Breloom this side of Viridian City. And I know for a fact that you have to take my case.” (Inspiration from Tracer Bullet from Calvin and Hobbes and from Shipwrecked Comedy's The Case of the Gilded Lily!) Here's more silly Babewyn figurine paparazzi (it never ends), because it snowed in February. xD I feel bad about complaining in Mini-Comments about that commission I got awhile back, because it was a pretty cool opportunity, and it really wasn't nearly as painful as the first time I did them. xD So I thought I'd share one. It was a series of six bonsai show awards, each different. I feel like Japanese sumi-e painting can be kind of exasperating sometimes if you haven't been practicing it for years like the masters; it likes having perfection through minimalism, so there's not much room for error. This isn't anywhere near perfect, but you should see my giant stack of failed attempts. xD I kept them in case I want to make an art piece out of previous failure.Hopefully they liked them anyway! ^^ (I blotted the show's name out for privacy.) Trivia rambles tangentially related to the above: Last summer was when I did the original batch. I kind of had dragonflies on the brain, so I just sort of carelessly, randomly threw in a mention of a "dragonfly in a hat" into this Wrighton post. And then I kept staring and staring at that silly little detail until I realized that dangit, that makes too much sense, this fits perfectly--...and that's effectively how Bek came to be based on a dragonfly. xP Drawing inspired by Hero City, GLQ's Spirit Weeks costume, and also by Dave Kellett's "Anatomy of a [creature]" cartoons. A wild (and very grouchy) Espineon appeared! =O On Tumblr, Birdy joked about putting fedoras on all the birds in House Ascension. xP Also from Tumblr: a drawing prompt to draw a crab-human hybrid. I interpreted it pretty loosely. (It also contains traces of Travis. Beware of Travisness.) But how did Webster get that recording? Travis why are you like thisI had a very clear mental image for this one. (It required foreshortening *scarechord*, but hopefully I did okay. x'D) It also required some super suspicious-looking reference photos I took of myself holding a wad of dollar bills in order to get the hands right. XD Artists, when you cannot find the reference photo, YOU MUST MAKE THE REFERENCE PHOTO! *strikes pose enthusiastically with her wad of cash* *gets brick'd and mugged*I was originally planning to color it, either digitally or with watercolor, but then my motivation dwindled down after I finished the lineart. xD Just let me have my self-indulgent NTWF Pokemon drawings, shush This is legit the most genuinely happy I've ever seen Tricia, guys, she's gonna have to get a dog in canon. xD So here on this thread, we've had a lot of back and forth between Madge and Hannah, but this right here I think is probably the main difference between them. XD ((Sketchy doodle comics are incredibly liberating.)) In the last art dump post, I said "I love imagining my not-exactly-canonical universe-barging Joan just defying all logic and somehow arriving at a bunch of the RETON's destinations before them to offer tourism brochures.”But the first universe-barging Joan drawings weren't her traveling; they were different AUs where the only difference was that she just happened to be there. So, if that route was used instead, then that would mean there are actually a whole lot of Joans, and-- It's not Where's Waldo standards, but if you have keen eyes and too much time on your hands, you should be able to identify every different version of Joan I've ever drawn, plus some random new ones. xD Yikes. Why did I do this, how did I get to this point in my life where I have so many different Joans XDDD
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Post by Twillie on May 26, 2018 20:23:17 GMT -5
Already said this elsewhere, but omg I still cannot get over that last Wrighton pic xDD I don't know Joan too well as a character, but this is making me want to find out x3 (while also being a little apprehensive xD)
Also, Espineon is best pun xDD And such a great picture to match it! xD \o/ "This is STUPID"
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Post by Lizica on Feb 6, 2019 19:41:28 GMT -5
*pokes in* Uhhhh, hi there, art thread. 8D; It's been a while. I'm sorry I've been super out of things lately. ^^; In my defense for this particular art dump, I kept putting off posting it over and over because I kept being all, "But I really want to draw all these other things, too, and then I can post them all together when I'm done!! =D" But, well, it turns out that if we wait for me to finish drawing all the things on my To Do List, we'll be here all day. ...Or, you know, *checks watch* ...eight months? X'DDD Haha...ha. Welp, I better post what I've got before I forget all the rambles I had wanted to make about them, whoops. So have a bunch of stuff, but mostly Naelus this time. Watch out for spoilers for that, as usual. xP I hope you enjoy something in here! Verso and Recto in pencil and in color (+ rambles) Long-winded ramble about roles: If I'd gotten a Sower role, the whole truth/lies setup would probably have been a front. I don't know if anyone thought about it this hard, but in my first V&R post, the setup of Verso being the truthful one and Recto the lying one is hinged on the shrew's assumption that the truth/lies setup is actually true. If the setup was a lie, it doesn't mean that Verso would have been the lying head and Recto the truthful; it would simply mean that the setup was a lie, and then all bets are off about how truthful anything either head says is. And if everyone on the island thinks one head always tells the truth, they're more likely to believe him, even if he's actually a liar. ...Of course, I got a townie role and was playing it straight, and I probably should have been more vague in my post summary. V&R were confusing already, and I guess I had wanted to be clear about the setup for skim-readers. xP Ah well. </ramble> From behind: Need moar sleeeeep (RL and Naelus were kind of stressful for me at the time, and I'm really sorry if any of my flailing/exhaustion bled into anything I wrote or said then. I love youuu <3) Sleeeeep (+ dodo) Sketchy Triptych triptych (+ rambles) (I started this with the express intention of drawing Triptych and getting the heights down on paper for all three/six of them, but I still messed it up. xD Please ignore the size inconsistencies.) So, I had wanted to ramble about how Triptych came to be as characters. xD (Feel free to skip all my rambles.) V&R's size was in part inspired by the fire lizards in the Dragonriders of Pern books, but so many people were surprised by how small they were (and you can also thank this Svar post that noted their unexpected size and their having only two heads)--that it made me start thinking, "Hey, you know what, maybe they are tiny for their species. =O" And so, mild brainstorming over several rounds happened that eventually took root as Triptych. I'd been planning that they'd only make an appearance after V&R died or were corrupted (and I thought V&R would die so much earlier xD). The "they" in “They always told us that it wasn’t a proper riddle if it didn’t have an answer, though” in this post was always supposed to allude to Triptych. And then many tribulations later, they belated got to be introduced and meet Seishin, wooo! \ o / Major shoutout to Twillie! ^^ Also additional thank you to Twillie for drawing Triptych in this post, because I hadn't even shown her the above sketch at that point, but she absolutely nailed their design. =D (And then I used her design for their horns going forward, because I didn't like any of the ones I came up with for this sketch and erased, and hers were awesome. =D) Verso and Recto were upset that I gave Triptych a triptych, when they hadn't gotten a namesake treatment, so-- Ghost!V&R! (Verso and recto are the words used for the left-hand and right-hand pages in a book (or the back and front of a sheet of paper), if you're not familiar with the words and I never explained that.) (I only name-dropped it a couple times in the RP, but Verso and Recto's collective name is Recto-verso, in the same way that Triptych is the collective name for Trip, Puck, and Tich. (I like to think that all multi-headed dragons have both collective and individual names.) Referring to Verso and Recto individually using the "and" usually works for them for the most part, though, because the two argue so much and they're so uncoordinated that they do often seem more like two creatures joined at the hip rather than a whole with individual halves.) Reunion! Swim for your life Did anyone notice that over these last three drawings, Ghost!V&R became less nebulous and more whole? =o That's because in that gap after meeting up with Seishin and Triptych and before getting revived, one thing V&R probably would have done was to slowly gather the missing pieces of their ghostly essence from around the island. Flight training I suuuper botched the size difference again here, especially because I also imagine that V&R would have grown a tiny bit in the interval before the epilogue. (Neither V&R nor Triptych are fully grown yet, I don't think. But V&R really could use an extra inch or two just in general. xD) And about an hour or two after the round closed, I realized that I should have clarified Verso's line to "OH MY GOSH STOP ENCOURAGING THEM." xD But oh well, that's what I get when frantically trying to draw stuff only a few hours before the game closes. At Overlook Bluff </3 <3 Hilda is a gorgeous, sweet, cozy, warm show, and I absolutely fell in love with it. <3 ...Also it has a Deerfox creature, so obviously I had to draw Twig the Deerfox with Kasai the Kitsune. =D ...More Ghost!V&R (+ bonus) Plus small sketch-doodle of a ghost-interim scene that I only got to write down in my notes. -- And some non-Naelus things! It's a ~*~Forbidden Romance~*~ "Can I buy you a drink?" "You can photosynthesize my bishounen sparkles any day." "If you're planning a wedding, I could be your flower girl." "You've taken root in my heart, valentine." "Are you a perennial, baby? 'Cause you just keep growing on me all year long."I don't know if this is a daydream or a possible future epilogue, but it's an actual expert adventurer Hannah! =o Don't worry, she probably still has the backpack, but I wanted to draw something lighter. xD Finger guns~ I headcanon that the recalled Eyescream Man action figures were originally only supposed to shine a little red laser pointer (which is already a bad idea for a children's toy), but somewhere along in Schlich's production process, the laser accidentally got overcalibrated somehow, and they didn't catch the mistake until they'd already been made and released. XD Whoever oversaw that probably got fired. (...probably not literally)
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Post by Lizica on Sept 2, 2019 22:10:13 GMT -5
Someone really needs to convince my procrastination that "Hm, I probably don't have enough art things to post yet" is not a good excuse for hoarding things for months and months. XD Anyway, lots of random things! They're not even in chronological order. Spoilers for Mafia III, Town, and Naelus (with a smidge of Medieval, but that one's not really spoilery). I hope you enjoy! xD Longer, silly comic! (This was the mysterious "=DDDDD" on my Spring Cleaning list. xP) 8D I mean, let's be honest, there was no way I'd be able to do my silly Joan crossover with Naelus in only one panel. Full Ramble: This place is amazing! What a truly staggering number of residents all with tremendously diverse talents, and what a gemstone of geography this is, too! And quite literally, even--my raft washed up on an actual coastline of crystals, and let me tell you, it was simply breathtaking, not only was it just glittering with color, but there was such a fantastic variety of crystals, some even twice as tall as me, it’s truly astonishing, enough to make a grown mineralogist cry tears of joy, and speaking of tears of joy, I’ve heard there’s even a uniquely powerful stone shaped like a tear here, what a treasure trove of sights! I highly recommend paying the shoreline a visit if you haven’t done so in recent months, has everyone here already seen it, everyone really should see it, is transportation easily accessible for smaller creatures, gosh, what an amazing beach, and the place where the meadow gave way to the forest! Just absolutely stunning in the light of the setting sun, would be an absolutely perfect place for a picnic if you wanted to have an event there, I heard that the local coelophyses offer an excellent marketing deal in exchange for fresh fish, does this place have a tourism agency already? If not, I would highly recommend that this island have a tourism agency, especially with your lovely benevolent island host being so mobile, it would do absolute wonders for the local appreciation for major landmarks, I heard there’s something called a Whispering Cave somewhere on the island with ingenious lighting that’s a real treasure trove for your area’s history and lore, it’s wonderful that these things have been properly catalogued and publicized, and moreover I’m glad that the cave’s unique natural architecture is appreciated as it should be! Are there any other similar landmarks that might be easier to reach, did you know you can wind together natural plant fibers to form a giant ball--
Oh, I’ve got one, I’ve got one! “What runs all around the city (or island, in your case), but never moves?” I read about this one in one of the banned books, they were just absolutely fascinating and wonderfully clever, who knew there were so many great riddles? I have some excellent waterlogged coupons for 15% off your total purchase at my town’s local bookstore if you ever want to come visit the mainland, there are so many incredible places to see, why, did you know that we have our very own mini-golf course? Joan's riddle answer: "I run around the city, but I never move." Wall (I really wanted to draw attention to the neat parallel of both Melville and Naelus taking place behind a protective wall. If the fact that the mist wall does sort of technically move bothers you (and even the Melville Wall, a bit), just remember that Joan is not really much of a riddler and is being conversational. xP) A sequel was necessary. I hope that the Spirit will someday get to use that coupon she got for a good manipedi at Joan's recommended business Flipper Flop.Sponsored by the Melville Boating Society™ Drawn beforehand so maybe I could finally get the sizes right. I know "twice Sei's height" sounds really intimidating, but also...Triptych's really not super huge, either. (And maybe my earlier drawings of them all together weren't as off size-wise as I'd thought. Because V&R really are tiny. xD) Magical Girl Ene! Wow, that feels like ages ago. xD Sorry.(Sometimes it was really unnerving to draw this just because Ene, stop staring at me. xD; ) How 'bout some concept sketches? (Disclaimer: I'm so sorry for the faces. I have no idea why Ene's face was so impossible to draw *sob*) I knew right away that I wanted to draw Ene after the exchange assignments, but I also did a couple Kathleens because why not. I tried to give you your sketchy frills, Kathleen. Cardcaptor Sakura and Tsubasa Chronicle were my primary outfit inspirations, and I wanted to try drawing Ene in Yuuko's dress. xD She would rock it. I also tried looking up belladonna flowers for inspiration, on account of 1.) flower theme, 2.) "beautiful lady" name, and 3.) deadly. Luckily, flower petal shapes translate well into flame shapes, too. (It was too big to do, but I'm still fond of the sketch idea of Magical Girl Ene sitting on the burning clock tower and cheerily lighting a cigarette with it.) At one point, people were talking about maybe getting transparent backgrounds of all the magical girls and then putting them together for a group picture. Dunno if that'd ever be a thing now, but here, have a nice transparent Ene, too. Also minus the purple shading, since it would look weird in a group photo. (Random bonus: While working on it, I briefly had a period before finishing all the shading where I got carried away with the shoujo sparkles. This isn't the original WIP--just me fiddling with the visible layers after the fact so that I can share aura sparkles. xD (Originally she was also leaning against the gallows, but it wasn't obvious enough, so I eventually took that out, too.)) I asked Joan what she thought of Magical Girl Ene. She had flashbacks of round seven. If you aren't familiar with Town or don't remember round seven, just know that this is the face of an architecture lover having a breakdown and about to snap and kill someone. Or maybe Magical Girl Ene would always be followed semi-secretly by a masked figure with a fire extinguisher, or something.Speaking of Town's round seven, I got the idea for this drawing back when I reread parts of the game to make the poster (which was...two years ago now, yes, I am timely). Specifically inspired by this post. Maybe a possible rebel origin story? I dunno. It didn't come out as dramatic as I'd imagined two years ago, but oh well. xD I wrote a mini-fic prompt for Aldrich, and while I was in a slightly-younger!Aldrich mode, I finally got around to drawing this. (It's one of those things that's been on my To Do List for years. xD) I think the original general idea was just something like, "I wonder if Aldrich ever observed real phoenixes when he sculpted Riffler? Would they get along?" Hopefully I did the phoenix canon justice. xD I struggled trying to make them not look like Chocobos, and I'm not sure I succeeded. Another silly crossover. xP " Why, right over here, my friends~ =>" I have mixed feelings about the Lego Movie 2, but this song is such a jam. This might qualify as drawing the If-V&R-were-Sowers AU? Because it'd be interesting, but also, I'm pretty sure Verso would 100% bribe someone if it meant not getting eaten or something. (And canon V&R wouldn't be able to sing the whole song very easily, anyway.) Also, (Lego Movie 2 spoilers below) that would mean AU!V&R appropriated this song to make it an actual villain song, which sounds fun. x3 But it's all in good fun. xP Maybe if I ever feel like drawing the sower AU again, I'll keep the sunglasses. ((On the random topic, though, check out this bizarrely perfect riddle I found months after the game finished: “We hurt without moving. We poison without touching. We bear the truth and the lies. We are not to be judged by our size. What are we?” ANYWAY, I liked the idea of being your own backup singer so much that I had to draw this. XP They don't get invited to the riddle reunions very often.And lastly, here are a couple non-NTWF things. ^^ I took a short, intensive animation class this summer, so I can share a couple things from that. Swoosh \ o / Done with watercolor on index cards. This one is 20 seconds long and took me a solid week, but I'm pretty pleased with it. xD Link to a very, very short film: HereDone with that draw-and-erase charcoal method on 22x30 paper. Perfect for monsters!
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Post by Huntress on Sept 3, 2019 2:43:39 GMT -5
(Sometimes it was really unnerving to draw this just because Ene, stop staring at me. xD; ) How 'bout some concept sketches? (Disclaimer: I'm so sorry for the faces. I have no idea why Ene's face was so impossible to draw *sob*) Fun fact heretofore unmentioned: one of my primary original inspirations for Ene's face and overall expressions was good ol' Bellatrix Lestrange (specifically the designs by makani, which I always held superior to both the book and movie concept art). Only y'know, younger, hotter, less bonkers and nicer-sorta-depending-on-which-side-you-were-on. She took on a life of her own later, and the of course the story went in directions that forced her to bring out her motherly side above others, but that original streak never quite went away, so if she's kinda unnerving you when you're drawing her, you know you're doing it right xD (My other-other primary inspiration for her expressions and overall demeanor was Sailor Uranus. Character design is a dangerous game >>) I approve of coffee fairy Kathleen like you wouldn't believe =D As well as the idea of magical girl Ene lighting a cigarette atop the clocktower which is precisely the kind of ambitious idea I should draw someday, aaaalso, that green woosh animation is strangely mesmerizing and gives an incredibly strong impression of a bigger story.
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Post by Lizica on Sept 3, 2019 23:04:02 GMT -5
Fun fact heretofore unmentioned: one of my primary original inspirations for Ene's face and overall expressions was good ol' Bellatrix Lestrange (specifically the designs by makani, which I always held superior to both the book and movie concept art). Only y'know, younger, hotter, less bonkers and nicer-sorta-depending-on-which-side-you-were-on. She took on a life of her own later, and the of course the story went in directions that forced her to bring out her motherly side above others, but that original streak never quite went away, so if she's kinda unnerving you when you're drawing her, you know you're doing it right xD (My other-other primary inspiration for her expressions and overall demeanor was Sailor Uranus. Character design is a dangerous game >>) I approve of coffee fairy Kathleen like you wouldn't believe =D As well as the idea of magical girl Ene lighting a cigarette atop the clocktower which is precisely the kind of ambitious idea I should draw someday, aaaalso, that green woosh animation is strangely mesmerizing and gives an incredibly strong impression of a bigger story. Oh, fun!! XDD These Harry Potter designs are amazing, they are definitely spot-on. (It's fun trying to guess who's who in the link without context.) And yeah, I guess now that you mention it, I can see a bit of Bellatrix in Ene's design (though yeah, very glad the latter was generally a much nicer character xD). And yay! Thanks, I'm glad you approve of Coffee Fairy Kathleen. xD If I'd ended up drawing her instead, I'd probably have tried to refine the design to be less messy and more cohesive, but it was fun just flinging sketchy frills and coffee. XD And I am, alas, not qualified to dissuade you from drawing an overly ambitious clocktower drawing.Thank you for the comments on the UFO swoosh, too! ^^ I like to think that the operators had a near-miss with the field before swerving and pulling up. ...For multiple loops? Maybe they're just bad drivers.
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Post by Thorn on Sept 4, 2019 1:03:16 GMT -5
I love them all, Lizica! Trip, Verso/Recto and your four-headed dragon are all so nice and friend-shaped. <3 That last animation is excellent! So fluid and melty, I love it.
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Post by Lizica on Sept 4, 2019 21:32:36 GMT -5
I love them all, Lizica! Trip, Verso/Recto and your four-headed dragon are all so nice and friend-shaped. <3 That last animation is excellent! So fluid and melty, I love it. Aww, thank you so much, Thorn! X3 I'm really glad that you like them. "Friend-shaped dragons" is such an excellent compliment, thank you. ^^ (As is "melty," yesss, mission accomplished.)
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Post by Gelquie on Sept 7, 2019 23:37:19 GMT -5
I am late with this, but eee, another collection! =D I've commented on several of them on the side, but I wanted to make a few more comments here. Even though I never really read Naelus, it was super fun to follow the (mis)adventures of Verso and Recto and their cross-universal travels! They seem to get along... relatively well. (Well, except Piper, but I guess that's to be expected. xD ) Magical girl Ene is eeee! =D You really captured her well! ^^ I love the concept sketches as well; it's fun to look at the process! (And of course, the Joan afterwards. xDD ) (Speaking of Joan, aww at that comic with her; it really comes across that that really stung for her.) And those two animations! You really did a great job on them! The lighting on the possibly-not-aliens-one and on index cards... that's really well done! =D And that last animation was super cool! Very fluidy and melty indeed. And also sounds like that method is perfect for monsters indeed. ^^ (That moment when you're doing a magic act and you accidentally summon a demon and your assistant has to help prevent disaster. It happens!)
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Post by Lizica on Sept 8, 2019 23:17:36 GMT -5
I am late with this, but eee, another collection! =D I've commented on several of them on the side, but I wanted to make a few more comments here. Even though I never really read Naelus, it was super fun to follow the (mis)adventures of Verso and Recto and their cross-universal travels! They seem to get along... relatively well. (Well, except Piper, but I guess that's to be expected. xD ) Magical girl Ene is eeee! =D You really captured her well! ^^ I love the concept sketches as well; it's fun to look at the process! (And of course, the Joan afterwards. xDD ) (Speaking of Joan, aww at that comic with her; it really comes across that that really stung for her.) And those two animations! You really did a great job on them! The lighting on the possibly-not-aliens-one and on index cards... that's really well done! =D And that last animation was super cool! Very fluidy and melty indeed. And also sounds like that method is perfect for monsters indeed. ^^ (That moment when you're doing a magic act and you accidentally summon a demon and your assistant has to help prevent disaster. It happens!) Aaah, thank you for so many nice comments, GLQ! ;A; I'm really happy that you enjoyed my art dump! It's really nice to know that you had fun reading the Verso and Recto comics even without much context, too. ^^ (And yeah, to be fair, very, very, very few people ever get along with Piper. xD Joan is at least entertaining in her rambliness, I'd imagine, but Piper? Nnnnope.) And aww, thanks so much for your comments on the animations, too! I'm glad you liked them. =D (And yeah, that's just how magic acts are, right? These things happen. *shrug*)
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Post by Lizica on Aug 25, 2020 16:03:17 GMT -5
...Oh hey. Uh. Wow. It's been...literally almost a full year since I last posted in this thread, whoops. XD; A sane person would probably update it in chunks, instead of dumping all the NTWF art I've got all at once. ... ..... *heaves a giant sack filled with art things over shoulder and onto the counter* ... I finally finished putting all this togetherrrrr, woooo |D *flop* Sorry for the length of this, aaaaIt's actually not as bad as one would think for not posting for a year--the latter half of 2019 had a lot of Inktober and busy-ness and stuff, so most of this is just from this year. ...This long, long year. Anyway, posted in vaguely chronological order here, but with all the April Showers art bunched together at the bottom, and a lot of random stuff bunched in the middle. In addition to April Showers, also beware of potential spoilers for...let's see... Medieval, Town, and Wrighton, plus some non-spoiler character stuff from Mafia III and Hero City? First up, some slightly older art featuring three characters... I can't quite make them out, they're just--they're just so well-disguised! =O Next, the logical follow-up. xP (Select your favorite montage music~) Probably not super canon all the way through. (I’ve been meaning to make this for years.) Let's break that down now~ *montage dance move* Just getting started and admiring Elin’s new cloak, probably! Some of the clothes from the dump are...less than ideal, shall we say Everyone getting in on the disguise action, trying on random things, including a Robin Hood hat. (Babewyn’s wearing the hat/beads from her Mrs. Bennet costume from the Lizzie Bennet Diaries drawing near the bottom of this post. xP) Classic deerstalker hat plus Elin’s masquerade mask (originally designed by Elcie). (It's been awhile since I drew this, but I think that might also be a dress from the Kidde family? Because Arthur specified in the post that “Some of it belongs to other Shadows.”) Babewyn wasn’t even in the studio when the whole marble lady incident happened, so her direction here is probably largely for the history or aesthetic™ or something, I dunno. xD This is based on a Team Rocket disguise. xP AW YEAH. \ o / ...It’s tricky to see, but Arthur’s leather jacket has the Shadows’ crest on its shoulder. (They also have a bunch of glowsticks from that one mental image.) Dressed as their RPers’ respective Hero City characters! (I don’t think anyone’s drawn Chlorolad’s hero outfit? At least, I couldn’t find any refs. I drafted a bunch of possibilities after drawing the above. If I had to draw one design, I’d probably choose something close to the one where he’s leaning on the tree at the bottom right.) \ o / I wanted to sketch with colored pencils one day and somehow wound up with Magical Girl Ene having a nice fancy drink out on the town. out over the town on the clock tower, that isSometimes you hear a good song and you just gotta drop what you're doing to draw the character it fits. Hi Piper! Made for Celestial for the Whoopee Cushions event! ^^ (Here's your obligatory link to " Gandalf Sax Guy 10 Hours"~ |P) (Fionn Sax Seal, Plain version: ) Genre-swap Scaletta for Pixie! \ o / (+ the bonus doodlecomic) (This is a slightly updated version from the one in the swap thread because the first panel shadows were driving me crazy. xD) Anyway, some rambles! =D I'm not really that versed in noir films, to be honest. So my major inspirations for this were Tracer Bullet ( Calvin and Hobbes); The Case of the Gilded Lily (which I definitely rewatched just for this comic, yes. And also yes, the club's singer is largely based on Vivian Nightingale); and a couple specific episodes of Remember WENN. (And I think I may have seen The Maltese Falcon once, but if I did, I remember so little about it that I may as well have only seen clips of it. xD) The piano here is also based on one of the pianos in Casablanca, which isn't really a noir, but I knew that doing an image search for it would yield period-appropriate upright pianos. And of course, shout-out once again to my mom for striking a chord on the piano and ironing board so I could take a bunch of reference photos of her hands. ^^ Bonus: I dunno about anyone else, but I love seeing progress gifs of other people's art, so here, have a progress gif of Noir!Scaletta~ 8D Noir!Scaletta! *jazz hands* My thick black marker pen may have survived last year's Inktober, but I could feel it starting to drag a bit this time. </3I know June's Spy!Madge design wasn't necessarily specific to a certain time period, but I couldn't resist doodling her with Noir!Scaletta. xP (With tiny 1940's Tricia in the background.) It's kind of a lot of levels of references, so-- What Madge has got is the Rindfell Falcon, a play on the Maltese Falcon as a major MacGuffin, but with a Medieval twist because Medieval has both a Falcon character and a likely history of valuable artifacts. So what's the situation here? Did Madge steal the MacGuffin for profit? To get it away from shadier antagonists? Is it a swapped-out fake? Is there a big crazy spy conspiracy going on? Comedic villains pratfalling farther down the street? All of the above? Who knows? Your guess is as good as mine. An actual superhero detective like Scaletta would likely deal with the spy stuff better, but whatever's up, it's probably Madge's mess to figure out this time. xPAnd a bonus to the above, because I HAVE THE POWER I also wanted to draw June's Fantasy!Madge design, too, because they're both just so much fun!! “Talk about offensive potion ideas.”(Also have some tiny Jeremys as I tried to figure out a vague fantasy outfit for him.) I should draw more of the Magical Girl/Genre Swap characters, they are just a B L A S T. =DD -- And now a bunch of non-RP random stuff next. xP Marker sketch of a random thing, but I liked it enough to share anyway. xP Discord. NTWF server chat. #General. Circa May 27, 2020. You do not get further context. =o I already posted this in its appropriate Times Lobby thread, but I kinda wanted it here, too. ...And dang, that whole humans-in-NT Incident only happened about three months ago?? Man. X'D Man, I'm so massively glad it turned out okay in the end, aaaaa. ;w; You all are champions!!! (I was aware that it was maybe more of a Resistance than a Rebellion, but the rhyming of "How can we be of assistance to the resistance" kind of bothered me. xD Maybe it shouldn't have, but.) (Also, I'm allowed to say this now--the scribbly papers with squares in the middle that Lizica is working on in the first panel are drafts of the April Showers maze. xP) I filled out the Area 51 meme with my NTWF characters. xB Special Cases: - Verso and Recto are in the Naruto Run row because one of them could maybe imagine that if they were able to pull off this weird legendary feat of coordination, it might do something fancy; and the other one thinks this is probably a great idea, sure. - Madge would definitely be indifferent and "have fun lol," but also she's gonna go over there and sell springy antennae headbands and alien t-shirts at the outskirts of the event. - Hannah is only in the "actually goes" row because there wasn't a row for "......Do we have to? *gets dragged along by crew*" Psssst, where are your characters? =DD-- Onto April Showers! Let’s start with our Spot-the-Difference house, because then you get two versions in one! (If you seek more versions of this for Reasons, they’ll be in the RP and OOC thread as before. xP But for here, this is my art thread, so I’ll try not to clutter it up too much with multiples.) ((*COUGH COUGH noonehassolvedthebonuspuzzleyetjusta reminderlettingyouallknowkthxloveyouallbyyyye COUGH COUGH*)) Anyway-- Anyway, woooo, glamour illusion! \ o / ...Architecture is so finicky, and this took too long. xD; But I'm overall pretty pleased with the results, at least! Bye, Ray and the Teleporting Lizards. See you in a few rounds when you introduce more stakes with the weather~ (Featuring Evi, Rachel, Sherrie, and Era! (Latter two aren’t quite the “official” designs, but hopefully that’s forgivable in doodlecomics.) The Gate Guardians (+ Rambles) (I had originally wanted to do a nice foreshortened angle to best show off both the flamingo and Holiday from above and to the side, but I kinda bungled it up. xD Oh well, at least Holiday came out well, anyway!) Anyway, fun fact-- The character concept of the flamingo actually first hails from a story starter I wrote back in January 2014. He even makes a crack there about gargoyles being passé, so you could potentially make the case that he helped inspire my Medieval characters, and not the other way around. His role in the story starter was pretty similar, though--silently standing guard in front of a house and startling the hapless trick-or-treater who accidentally made the magic secret knock at the door. I also wanted to talk a little about Pixie’s GM character Holiday as well! Specifically, a little bit about her reveal and some of the hints leading up to that, since I know it might have seemed to come out of left field if you weren’t paying as close attention to her as to some of our puzzles. Holiday’s relationship with Airin has some neat rereading value if you know where to look. There’s their very pointed rivalry (which makes more sense overall in hindsight when you know they’re both spirits), and you also have a few exchanges like this: Also, I'm not sure if anyone picked up on this, but the very fact that Holiday has a proper name at all is interesting. Out of our entire massive squadron of non-human NPCs in this game, literally only Holiday, Airin, and Mr. Snuggles have names. (Well, and Herbert the lizard, when you count the epilogue.) June, I don’t know if you astutely picked up on our semi-subtleor if Jess was just being polite, or both, but you have no idea how excited you made Pixie and me when Jess asked if the flamingo and the hotlips plant had names. 8D I admit I did briefly consider giving the flamingo a name after Jess asked, but it didn’t feel right, especially since he’d never had a name in the early story starter, either. And anyway, we realized his lack of name emphasized Holiday’s name reveal better: The flamingo is pretty much exactly what he appears to be, but there’s something more to Holiday, if one just inspects a little deeper. Alright, now come on inside and meet Mr. Snuggles. =3 For a long time I wanted to do this illustration with ink, to really get that proper void cat presence, but when we got here, there wasn’t really enough time, and anyway, all the April Showers narrator drawings up to that point were done in with pencil, so suddenly having one in ink would probably have been kind of artistically jarring. So, inky void cat another day! We had a few various ideas for Mr. Snuggles until we settled on how our fluffy guy would present himself. At one point, we considered he could talk, or talk in cipher, or maybe would cough up the ciphers like hairballs. xD Extra charming for Purr-eh, I’m sure. Into the maze! It’s not quite distinguishable, but I did try to get the waterfowl with parasols pattern on the possibly-magically dark parasol. xP The Blue Team took a bunch of sunhats and sunglasses and such into the desert biome, and I couldn’t not doodle this mental image when I had it. xD Shutter shades, so classy, much wow Here’s a Jumble puzzle Jumble d puzzle, a totally original setup. I tried to vaguely allude to as many members of the Green Team as I could in this-- There’s Rachel, with tea, while an airplane flies overhead, pictured in a newspaper that Rose might deliver. Oh hey, we’ve been in this maze for a while, we should probably figure out what this mythical Lady of the House actually looks like, yeah? Messaged Pixie after this and was like, XD Also, it took us a while to settle on Iris’s name, and only decided around this point, while the players were in the maze. We chose the name for both its floral and weather connotations (the name “Iris” means “rainbow”). But also as a bonus that still pleases me greatly, it means that every plant in this passage from the gate guardians’ intro post could be considered important. (We chose the climbing rose because we wanted something nice over the trellis, so it wasn't really any relation with the character Rose. But looking at this list and thinking each plant is important for different reasons makes me SO happy. xD) Guard plants!! One of the upsides to the game going on much longer than planned was that I had more time to do the art. In the earlier planning stages, I’d thought I’d only be able to do a small vignette for this part, like maybe a little signpost or a doorknob or something. Buuuut instead I got to do this thing, and I’m very happy with it. xB I used some inspiration and photos from a greenhouse my sister and I visited last year, and I looked up so many plant references online that I literally forgot I was supposed to have more weird magical plants in here. xD (Let’s say that all the unidentifiable plants are here, but not distinctly pictured because they're crowded by other plants.) But for the RL plants that I did try to squeeze in here, there are: the kudzu golem, bamboo and shoots, snake plant (obviously); and also hydrangeas, irises, wintergreen wildflowers, pitcher plants (2 kinds), maple, live oak, Spanish moss, an unidentified fern, tulip poplar, banyan tree, generic vines, mushrooms, cactus, and some big-leafed looming monstrosity in the back center (it’s from the greenhouse we visited, but I didn’t get a shot of the identification label). xD (I did, however, sneak in the purple poisonous spine flower from Jumanji (1995) on the right side, though it’s pretty obscured. xD) Alright, whew, time to resolve the weather and get in some denouement and cat skritches. And some doodlecomics! xB The sideways waterspout one. Takes place sometime before the game's events. *am still flailing around trying to figure out how to draw the flamingo with the right mixture of plastic flamingo / real flamingo / cartoon flamingo* The chia pets’ language was always just a hair’s breadth away from grawlix. xDThe boss fight, from Iris's perspective (Featuring tiny cameos of a lot of characters.) You can technically still get in over the fence when the flamingo doesn't let you in--it's just very rude if you don't have permission, you know? (Featuring Rose, Jess, and Taffy! (Rose design not official~) Also a horrible goose.) Untitled Goose VS Unnamed Flamingo (colorized) Plus a signature size~ (I also wanted to draw Piper and Webster in the Untitled Goose Game style, but if we wait for me to finish drawing all the things I’d ideally want to draw, I’ll never get this art dump finished. X’D That said, though, this was a ton of fun! Give me a poke if you might want me to try drawing your character with the goose--or else draw them for yourself, and it would be amaziiiinnngg <33) Annnnnd that is an art dump! You're free! Thank you for making it through that! Go read something else now! <3
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Post by Gelquie on Aug 25, 2020 21:29:52 GMT -5
Weeeeee, art dump! \ o / And now, comments! (Might skim over some I've commentated on before, but some may get a re-visit!) For the first one, Lizica, I don’t get it, who are those characters? I-I can’t tell! =O ...But for real, the disguise pictures are just a whole lot of fun, and I love seeing those three interact, and how they’re having fun with this while finding a way to deal with the stress in their lives. x3 (Plus, part of Elin’s arc is highlighting how she was forced to grow up fast, so I always love those moments where she could (and allowed herself to) just… goof around and be.) (Man, Elin and Espin though… they would not get along at all. xD ) But for real, I’m sure I’ve said it before, but this is a really great montage and scene. <3
Also, that’s a good point on the details of Chlorolad’s costume! Of course, it’s ultimately up to Birdy, but those are fun character sketches. x3
Love the colors on that fiery Ene. x3 Live it up, Ene. Live it up.
Hi Piper! =D Love the details on those sketches. I’m curious about the song now, but of course it’s up to you if you want to share or not. I’ll appreciate the art either way. ^^
Fionn sax seal is fun. 83
Eee, the noir series looks like a lot of fun! And I love the lighting of it and how it really works here, as well as the comics expanding on the concept. All the things noir!Scaletta has to deal with, or decide whether she wants to deal with it. XD
I love that image of Fantasy!Madge and Jeremy! The concept crosses over well, and they are still well in the spirit of things. x3 (Also, I really like Fantasy!Jeremy’s outfit and kinda want it myself. xD Also love the concept sketches.)
Nice jacket. x3 And yesss to seeing the roflcopter brought to life, to the dismay of all around it. And yesss to the resistance!!!! (I’m glad that was sorted out, though.) I see you added another character to that meme. x3 (Hmm, I don’t remember if I did something for mine? Will have to check. xD )
It was fun to go through all the April Showers stuff again and read the commentary! =D That is a great looking house. And I’m loving the hindsight. (Re: finding a better role model, for one. And also, the free spirit thing, oh my gosh.) Eee, Iris in full! =D Good to see her like that. ^^ (And you’re right, she does seem like a Miss Frizzle!) I still love the detail you put in the pictures, especially in the ones that show all the foliage; dang! It’s really nice. ^^
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Post by Lizica on Aug 26, 2020 17:45:53 GMT -5
Weeeeee, art dump! \ o / And now, comments! (Might skim over some I've commentated on before, but some may get a re-visit!) For the first one, Lizica, I don’t get it, who are those characters? I-I can’t tell! =O ...But for real, the disguise pictures are just a whole lot of fun, and I love seeing those three interact, and how they’re having fun with this while finding a way to deal with the stress in their lives. x3 (Plus, part of Elin’s arc is highlighting how she was forced to grow up fast, so I always love those moments where she could (and allowed herself to) just… goof around and be.) (Man, Elin and Espin though… they would not get along at all. xD ) But for real, I’m sure I’ve said it before, but this is a really great montage and scene. <3
Also, that’s a good point on the details of Chlorolad’s costume! Of course, it’s ultimately up to Birdy, but those are fun character sketches. x3
Love the colors on that fiery Ene. x3 Live it up, Ene. Live it up.
Hi Piper! =D Love the details on those sketches. I’m curious about the song now, but of course it’s up to you if you want to share or not. I’ll appreciate the art either way. ^^
Fionn sax seal is fun. 83
Eee, the noir series looks like a lot of fun! And I love the lighting of it and how it really works here, as well as the comics expanding on the concept. All the things noir!Scaletta has to deal with, or decide whether she wants to deal with it. XD
I love that image of Fantasy!Madge and Jeremy! The concept crosses over well, and they are still well in the spirit of things. x3 (Also, I really like Fantasy!Jeremy’s outfit and kinda want it myself. xD Also love the concept sketches.)
Nice jacket. x3 And yesss to seeing the roflcopter brought to life, to the dismay of all around it. And yesss to the resistance!!!! (I’m glad that was sorted out, though.) I see you added another character to that meme. x3 (Hmm, I don’t remember if I did something for mine? Will have to check. xD )
It was fun to go through all the April Showers stuff again and read the commentary! =D That is a great looking house. And I’m loving the hindsight. (Re: finding a better role model, for one. And also, the free spirit thing, oh my gosh.) Eee, Iris in full! =D Good to see her like that. ^^ (And you’re right, she does seem like a Miss Frizzle!) I still love the detail you put in the pictures, especially in the ones that show all the foliage; dang! It’s really nice. ^^ Aw, thanks for so many little comments, GLQ!! <3 I'm glad you had fun with it. ^^ A few replies! Aha, I'm glad you found the disguise montage stuff as fun as I did!! This is indeed a great little trio. x3 And yeah...poor Elin deserves more chances to just relax and be with friends. Hopefully she got some time for that with Arthur and Babewyn, even if not all these images are canon. ^^
And yes, re: Chlorolad, that'll all be up to Birdy! ^^ Fun fanart/idea tossing is only fun idea tossing.
With regard to the song that inspired the Piper art--I think I did actually share the song with you a while back, though I might not've alluded to what I was drawing, I don't remember. xD It's NSFNTWF, but it's got a great angry fiddle/banjo twang vibe that I like for Piper. I'll sidechat it to you if you want! ^^
*whispers* More Area 51 meeeemes 8D
And mwahaha, I'm glad you enjoyed the April Showers commentary! xP (Slightly curious as to what hindsight you've gotten from the "role model" comic, though-- I don't think we'd completely figured out how we were going to resolve Ray at that point. Do you mean that Era found better role models over the course of the roleplay? Which they did. Or that Ray felt a sense of responsibility returning, or similar?)
But overall, just <333 thanks again for all the nice words!! It felt really good to read your thoughts, and I'm so glad you enjoyed. ^^ <3
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