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Post by Lizica on Dec 12, 2023 1:49:41 GMT -5
Ye gads, an art thread post only a couple months after the last one, with only one thing in it?? What's next, Lizica finally drawing that Headless series fanart she's been procrastinating on for over a year??One part of me thinks that it'd be super cool to be in that big upcoming Issue 1000, just because of how major a milestone it is, and how big a thing the NT and all my old Neo comics were/are to me. =o The other part of me, though, is very uhhhhhh about that idea, because I am extremely out of it on the Neopets site, and also I kinda don't want to poke my head into whatever potential drama is currently going on, straight outta the gate--and besides, it's just getting closer to the submission deadline without any super clear idea of what I'd do anyway to try to condense all MY FEELINGS (which honestly have probably been summed up in older NT comics I did). X'D Anyway, TL;DR, please have a silly sketchy comic that's just for my pets and for you all~ XP COME, MY FRIENDS!! FEEL OLD WITH MEI usually don't make alcohol-tangential jokes, but this mental image WOULD NOT leave me alone after I realized how old my pets are. XD (And also, I doubt that drink is alcoholic anyway. It's more like, 21 is just the age you order the FANCY Neo things, yeah?) (I've only drawn Kanepleke with the monocle and moustache once before, I think, in a super old Sway/Seekers drawing. It makes him look so kewl and mature for his paint job, right??) (Also realized I've somehow never drawn my pets in Maraqua before. Is the magic breathing kelp necklace from the plot still a thing? XD) But yeah...the NT and my characters still mean a lot to me. ^^ My muscle memory is still so good from drawing them so much in the past that even now if I sometimes need to doodle something but don't know what, I'll still oftentimes find myself drawing one of my four Neopets characters doing something. ^^ So, even if I don't do anything for Issue 1000, and even if I never prod them into the NT again, I feel like they'll always be with me, and I'm glad for it--and rest assured they're always busy doing something. xP And I'm also glad that they led me to you all! <3 Here's to a great Issue 1000 for everybody, and many years of good Neo goodness to come! =D
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Post by Lizica on Jul 20, 2024 14:42:23 GMT -5
Ahoy! There are some other small things I could share or crosspost, but for now, Imma ignore chronological order and just fling my drawing for Medieval's 10th anniversary at you, since I finally finished it!! \ o / Since we're well past the anniversary of the beginning of the story, I wanted to see what was going on in the RP on July 20th. And on this day ten years ago in Medieval... The Shadows' meeting with Ambrose was wrapping up. Laurie and Arthur were in Jade's jail. Sieg and Aines chatted. There was a funeral for a snake. Oh, and then the Courdonians arrived in Medieville, and one of them got clobbered in the face. You know, standard fare, overall pretty quiet times in the RP. xP Happy Tenth Anniversary, Medieval!!! (Easier link to open it in a new tab here. Can't tell if my laptop or Imgur is doing something funky, though, since the Imgur image shows up larger at 100% than my desktop viewing. Oh well!)Oh--was Steve Magerage dabbing NOT on your 2024 bingo card? I'm sorry, that's a real shame. Anyway, I hope you all like it! <333 It was really cool to revisit and draw all these characters, and also figure out where and how they should be interacting. =DD We made so many awesome characters, you aaaallll. ;o; My general idea concept was sorta inspired by illuminated manuscripts decorating the first letter of a page. So, think of this as the O in "Once upon a time..." at the start of the RP. Or you could imagine a 1 in front and make it a 10 for tenth anniversary-- "Or just call it what it is: a big, fat zero!" "DOHOHOHOHOHOHO!" .....Yeah, we can ignore that interpretation. XD More rambling + an identification key + other bonuses + more rambling~ This was one of those drawings where more than once I regretted not doing it digitally, where I'd be able to tweak sizing, move characters around to fill the space better, and make the O more symmetrical. But then, I love drawing with pencil. ^^ And also, at one point, when I thought I was done with characters and scanned in the WIP, I saw the empty spaces and realized "Hey. Hey. Why not. Fill that space. Add more sculptures. And more birds. And more cats. Just randomly poking their heads around the drawing like more obscure Where's Waldo characters. Do it. 8D" And so I did. XD (Rasp and Riffler are finally getting along here!! It only took them ten years. <3) (Also, I think I secretly hate drawing chins and distinct facial shapes. It was just SO FREEING to give myself permission to give everybody L-shaped faces. XD) Bonuses: Jeniver has the honor of being the only character who I sketched an expression for during the layout doodle phase, because she's stuck behind Garrick and Joffery. XD Also, an earlier selfie before Emery went to join Aldrich, Babewyn, and Lucinda. The far right of the image got cut off by the scanner as I knew it would, but I did draw that little farm in the countryside! (Thank you, Icon's map!) Part of me feels like I should have embellished the Medieville part even more, because I'm sure it actually has way, way more buildings crammed together, especially by the main gate. But also, that's not supposed to be the main focus of this drawing. XD Also, I want you to know that when I was exporting the main anniversary image, Standorf and Waller came up in the preview window because they were almost exactly in the center of the newly cropped image. XDDD Immediately, they were going off in my head like, "Lowering the image quality? Too bad you can't get any lower quality than this! DOHOHOHOHOHOHO!" ...They wanted to snark a lot about the existence of this drawing, and about being added to the drawing, actually, but since they've already shown up twice in this post, I'm calling it there. XDDD Thanks for so many great times, you all, both in RPs and out. <333 Medieval was wild. XDD
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