Yubi's Hootenanny (Art Thread)

[ASR]

I'm really picky with girls in general so I dunno.

[Chron]

I'll take what I can get.


Ivory white skin is generally pretty weird. Not so great for those who have it (if you live in a place with a lot of sun, like here).

Works nice with redheads though.
For some reason.

[Mikero]

I know some really good looking alabaster beauties. So I always find it weird when people say pale is not good.

If it works with the girls eyes and hair, then it works. That's just how it is for me. It's really not about preference for certain stuff, than it is about everything working together.

Of course none of that matters as much as their personality.

[preventerWIND]

Works nice with redheads though.
For some reason.

Not for me, thats the only one thats a no-no for me.

[Mikero]

That's because you like lobsters.

[Yubi Shines]

Actually, I was making fun of overly-elaborate character descriptions. You know, "glowing ivory skin," "eyes like shimmering orbs of liquid emerald," that sort of thing. Also how many roleplay characters I run across with ivory skin never mention sunburns.

It's gotten so that I want to stop describing hair or eye colours when I write, because argh.

I have to concur that red hair + pale skin is gorgeous, though.

[Mikero]

Depends.

[Chron]

No, no.
She's absolutely right.

Involved character descriptions are only good where appropriate, which doesn't happen very often. Well, like that sort of gooshy mushy pretty princess stuff.

But when you get down to descriptions that read like... I dunno,
"When Hellboy smiled, his face was like a dry, roasted peanut,"
it can be pretty decent.

[Mikero]

I meant the last part depends. There are bad mixes of pale skin and red hair as often as there are good ones.

I too hate descriptions like all that. But the one Yubi posted about the emerald eyes is kind of funny.

[ASR]

"My balls are like shimmering orbs of liquid emerald" is like the most overused pick-up line ever.

[Mikero]

Maybe in your house.

[Chron]

Is ASR a leprechaun?

[Mikero]

Height-wise, at least.

[ASR]

[Johncarllos]

I would DWARF you.

[ASR]

Don't mess with me! I've got friends at the Keebler Factory!

[Mikero]

More like relatives and clones of you at the Keebler factory.

[ASR]

Hey, I get free cookies! Not a bad deal!

[Mikero]

At this rate you'll end up like the fat Tetley tea elf, you know.

[Yubi Shines]

Here, have more weird writing things. One day I might link them into actual stories. One day,

---
[spoiler]"You're being too harsh on her."

"I think," said Maris, "that she's a little brat shooting her mouth off about things she doesn't understand. I've no obligation to be nice, neither."

"But you're a loudmouthed brat yourself. Begging your pardon."

She grinned at that, bright shark's-tooth grin in a dark face wreathed with cigar smoke. "That's because I'm older. I earned the right to be a hypocrite. She hasn't."[/spoiler]
---
[spoiler]This is the magus at the age of five. The tribe's shaman is explaining to her parents she has the talent, not just for magic, but for medicine too. Healing hands that have to be trained now, and the shaman -- literally, their witch doctor -- needs an assistant.

Look at her carefully, standing at attention as the adults argue. No soft doll is cradled in her arms, or thumb in her mouth. Her hands just hang stiffly, and her wary eyes are always watching.

She will be striking when she grows up, but never beautiful. Her lips are too thin, her features too angular and defined.[/spoiler]
---
[spoiler]He finds delight in small things: The pattern of seeds on a grass-stalk, the fine weave of cloth, the pulsing lights that flicker in the redness behind his eyelids. Distantly, he knows that it's a crazy-person thing, to spend hours inspecting cracks in the floor or picking bark off a tree, but he can't help it. The repetition soothes him and settles his mind. In those hours, the trembling stops and the worry is forgotten. For a time.[/spoiler]

[Fatso]

You're a fairly good writer. Particularly, I'm impressed with your descriptive talent, an area in which I lack severely.

[Chron]

You should write some short stories.
That's generally a good way to break in to the longer stuff.

[Yubi Shines]

Meet the goddesses of Ivory's Restaurant.

...well, not all of them are deities, and this isn't all of them, but still.


tegaki - devart

[Chron]

Nice poses for all.
(Who's who?)

[Yubi Shines]

Clockwise, starting from the left:

Echidna (A kind of Greek Lilith. A beautiful winged woman with a snake body who mothered several of the significant monsters in the mythology, like the chimera and the sphinx. She probably needs a modern name, but there aren't any good ones that start with the syllable "ek-". Considering Elaine.)

Xiaoqing "Ivy" (When I first came across her story, she was a carp demon, but Wiki says she's a green snake demon? She was Bai's maid and companion.)

Bai Suzhen "Ivory" (White snake demon, transformed into a human to marry her beloved. Then her husband betrayed her, and she was imprisoned by a monk for several years until her son freed her. Whole bunch of variations of her story actually.)

Nie Xiaoqian (Ghost girl forced by a demonic tree to kill travellers for their blood. A scholar defeats the tree, frees her from servitude, and marries her.)

Medusa (Interestingly, Echidna may be her mother.)

Coatlicue (Attacked by her hundreds of children when she was pregnant, she was beheaded by her daughter Coyolxauhqui, I think? The two snakes that sprout from her neck represent the gouting blood. Then her son Huitzilopochtli is born, fully-grown and armed, and avenges his mother. Except she didn't die. Or something. Aztec mythology is crazy.)

[Mikero]

Hmm. If you have Medusa, are the other Gorgones going to show up? Or this your own universe kind of thing?

[Yubi Shines]

Stheno and Euryale? Maybe. I haven't really thought far into this idea yet. Medusa and Echidna are both supposed to be dead, anyway.

[Mikero]

Yes, but Medusa was the only mortal of the three so they could just as easily still be alive. Food for thought.

[Yubi Shines]

There actually are programs other than Tegaki I can use to draw with? Say it isn't so!

[Chron]

Colors in that are nice.
Sort of has an industrial revolution feel to it.

[Mikero]

I agree, but I wish there was a more defined nose.

[Yubi Shines]

Must... do... semiserious painting for once...

wip: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/yubishines/art/dinahlulz.jpg

edit: Yeah, I dunno if I can salvage this.



Time for a second go...

[Chron]

Hey, that's pretty cool.
I like the style and color choices there.

[Mikero]

I quite like it as is, although I think the head starts to round at the top a bit too soon/much.

[Captain Sanoguchi]

Meet the goddesses of Ivory's Restaurant.

...well, not all of them are deities, and this isn't all of them, but still.


tegaki - devart

Continuous line drawing?
Crosshatching?
Right?

[Chron]

I don't think that actually fits either description.

[Captain Sanoguchi]

There's a reason why I'm going to just barely pass my college level art class.

[Yubi Shines]

Sano: Uh, no, and a little bit.

Below is an abortive attempt at another painting. Noses are still my nemesis, and so our Random Girly-Boy looks like a cross between some Korean pop star and Michael Jackson.

[ASR]

I didn't think "Korean boy" or "Michael Jackson" until I read it. It looks great, and I'd say "Don't be so hard on yourself" but I know from experience that being hard on yourself is the best way to get better.

[Captain Sanoguchi]

Maybe I meant Scribble Gesture...

Random Girly-Boy looks like a cross between some Korean pop star and Michael Jackson.

Mr.Children?

[Mikero]

The red clothes don't help to get rid of that Thriller stuff.

Maybe if/when you finish them in another colour.

[Yubi Shines]

My strange quest to inject realism and less bulkiness into Megaman designs continues.

[Johncarllos]

Megaman design win.

[Yubi Shines]

Note swearing like septic sailors below.

Interests list

Maris
Maris 2

[Johncarllos]

Page load errors.

[Yubi Shines]

Because tegaki has stupid amounts of lag, because retarded thirteen year olds need to make posts like WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE COLOUR and ARE YOU MALE OR FEMALE and DRAW MY CHARACTER IN YOUR STYLE. Little #####sticks.

[Mikero]

The word geeks looks just like in Freaks and Geeks. I like that. Anyway

DRAW MY CHARCTUR IN YUOR STIJL!

[Johncarllos]

Bottom right of the first image ftw.

I like the last one as well, mainly for the expression.

[Yubi Shines]

Any of you folks know John Ringo? No? Okay, the only way I know him is through a series of books that were apparently written in a "no one's ever going to want to read this, so I'll just go all-out with the id and be horrible and extreme" frenzy. Then he posted it someplace saying, ha ha, look at this awful stuff I wrote. And it's pretty bloody terrible (the hero is a rapist that collects hookers like cats and slaughters whole secret bases of terrorists singlehandedly). And to his horror, people read it and liked it, and his agent made him publish it.

And so with this. I am not writing about rape and slaughter, because argh, but this is as likely to get taken seriously as a vampire elven thief that smirks a lot and has "impossibly blue eyes." It's got badly researched amnesia, which is the most overused thing in fiction ever. But I started writing this this morning and it's pouring out like crazy and AARGH DAMMIT it's nothing at all like what I thought I wanted to write.

http://starspiritgate.livejournal.com/294341.html

I'll keep updating that entry with chunks of text as I go. No title yet.

Posted on:  7 August 2008, 18:00:04

Furthermore, behold Prince Peach and Dread Pirate Lady Capricious.

[Captain Sanoguchi]

Yeah, it's not working for you like it worked for that Ringo guy.