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That's slightly creepy...
And also anatomically incorrect as the skull of an equine is very different to that of a human. But then again, Ponies from My Little Pony aren't exactly "Of this Earth".
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Day 467: The Screamer
BUNNIEZH
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Time: 1 hour
Music: SO MANY F*ING WONDERS
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Originally Posted by
Thanqol
Day 467:
The Screamer
BUNNIEZH
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I take it you've sent a copy/link to Yaplap? If not, do so - I command thee!
:smallwink:
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Dexam
I take it you've sent a copy/link to Yaplap? If not, do so -
I command thee!
:smallwink:
I have, and his is the first comment on the devart page
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Day 468: how hold cup
Half assed but 15 minutes
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Time: 15 minutes
Music: Everybody Loves Me
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Day 469: Aranatan
Gonna have to do today's ATG tomorrow morning 'cause I'm bushed.
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Day 470: Metaluchador
You figure it out.
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Time: 1 hour 15 mins
Music: Ultimate Sweetie Belle
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Day 471: Road to Heroism
Charger.
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Time: 1 hour
Music: Great to be Different
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Originally Posted by
Thanqol
Day 471:
Road to Heroism
Charger.
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Time: 1 hour
Music: Great to be Different
Oh, she's running towards something. I get it now. :smallbiggrin:
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Originally Posted by
Thanqol
Day 470:
Metaluchador
You figure it out.
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Time: 1 hour 15 mins
Music: Ultimate Sweetie Belle
I'm just going to...leave this here.
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Originally Posted by
Tiki Snakes
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Originally Posted by
Tiki Snakes
I'm just going to...leave this here.
oh celestia why did i create this character
day 472: party time
party party party
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time: 20 minutes
music: new york new york
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Partying is clearly serious business...
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Thanqol
oh celestia why did i create this character
Because apparently mask is at least a little bit terrible at choosing things when put on the spot. :smallbiggrin:
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Originally Posted by
Elemental
Partying is clearly serious business...
Absolutely. You think those balloon animals tie themselves?
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Originally Posted by
Tiki Snakes
Because apparently mask is at least a little bit terrible at choosing things when put on the spot. :smallbiggrin:
No, she's actually terrific at it. She holds the keys to almost all my adaptive thinking.
She intended to do this.
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Ah, but her choice appalled your other two fragments, perhaps?
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Tiki Snakes
Ah, but her choice appalled your other two fragments, perhaps?
Yeah. Jayden mourns the loss of the ideal and Charger is irked at the change of aesthetics, which is exactly why the concept is amusing for Mask. Jayden's ascendant right now, though, and is concerned at being saddled with the complexity of this heel-face turn.
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Originally Posted by
Thanqol
Yeah. Jayden mourns the loss of the ideal and Charger is irked at the change of aesthetics, which is exactly why the concept is amusing for Mask. Jayden's ascendant right now, though, and is concerned at being saddled with the complexity of this heel-face turn.
Mask makes an unconvincing Heel.
(Though the Luchador twist on it provides an interesting comparison, given that both Rudos and Technicos are quite honorable in comparison to the American lot, respecting the rules of wager matches and the whole mask ettiquette thing. Almost more like Paragon vs Renegade than Good Vs Evil, I guess?)
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Day 473: Charger's Terrible Day
FINALLY done with the ATG, and with drawing ponies for the immediate future.
2 minutes per sketch, timed it out.
Safety Ball Mask is now a thing.
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Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
Music: In Your Prime
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Day 474: Aboleth
A new challenge begins.
I've got my old 3.0 edition of the Monster Manual, and I'm going to go through it cover-to-cover and draw every critter in there at least once. This challenge is designed to get me familiar with drawing strange and inhuman creatures, broaden my range, and get me used to new tricks and techniques I wouldn't learn through my usual spheres.
This is not going to be a one monster a day challenge. I reserve the right to spend as long on each critter as I need.
So, day one: The Aboleth! I've had an idea for a campaign involving an Aboleth in my head for a million years.
The monster, old and blind, was washed up on a rocky reef outside a small fishing village. Half-suffocated by the unnatural air, the Aboleth began to go insane, calling out in psychic dreams and mournful whale-song to the village.
Over time, the village began to be shaped by the old monster's will. The Aboleth had never encountered humanity before, and began possessing townsfolk from it's rocky prison, exploring the society of it's lessers out of agonising boredom. In a curious case of stockholm syndrome, the Aboleth actually started to like the humans - and even fell in love with one boy in particular. Unfortunately it doesn't know how to, or understand the idea of, possessing a specific person. So it just grabs whatever mind it can and then begins stalking, reading poetry to, singing alien whale-music at and generally trying to flirt with the boy it loves.
The Aboleth is now almost so insane that it's barely aware of it's desiccated body on the rocks any more, trying haphazardly and earnestly to fit in to the town despite having to possess random townsfolk and being an alien monster. The townsfolk think it's some kind of ghost or spirit. The Aboleth stares with blind eyes into a brass mirror it desperately clutches and imagines it is a pretty human, with long hair to comb and lungs that can breathe air.
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Time: 45 minutes
Music: Horizontal Rain
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That poor hideous aberration from the abyssal reaches of the Earth...
I'm sad now.
Oh, the philosophical questions such an event would bring to the minds of those adventurers who encounter it.
Should they slay the creature and end its suffering? Or grant it human form so that it can spend its final days amongst those it has come to love?
I think this song is appropriate...
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Originally Posted by
Elemental
That poor hideous aberration from the abyssal reaches of the Earth...
I'm sad now.
Oh, the philosophical questions such an event would bring to the minds of those adventurers who encounter it.
Should they slay the creature and end its suffering? Or grant it human form so that it can spend its final days amongst those it has come to love?
I think this song is appropriate...
Very appropriate, thank you for linking that.
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Originally Posted by
Thanqol
Very appropriate, thank you for linking that.
Glad I could help.
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Originally Posted by
Thanqol
I was feeling braindead so I just sketched what I saw.
I've been looking closely at a lot of anime styles recently, and from a lot of angles. A huge part of it is the movement; motion lets you get away with a lot of things that don't particularly work in a still shot.
I don't particularly like the anime facial style, truth be told. The faces of the characters manage to consistently be the least interesting parts of their designs. I feel like that's a bit of a waste.
Hmm, there's a challenge for myself... Draw a bunch of anime characters with distinctive and significantly different facial structures
Good luck. You'll note anime has certain stock faces and stick to them; identifiable, repeatable and abstractable. Try to nail those benchmarks and you're golden.
You'll find there is a reason most anime characters are impossible to differentiate when you take off the hair, though.
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Thanqol
Day 426:
How The World Works
Stephanie's views on how the world works.
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Time: 30 minutes
Music: Cish Cash
Damn wizrobes be whack, yo!
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Originally Posted by
Elemental
Not the most common argument, but one that I know pops up occasionally.
Did you win by reminding said ancient undying monster that it's more practical to possess an army tank or attack helicopter?
No, but we should have!
Damn it hindsight!
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Originally Posted by
Thanqol
Hm. I might have an idea.
Day 432:
Inking Month
Okay, this sketching has gone on way too long and I'm gonna forcefully wean myself off it. New rule is no sketches for a month (excepting pen and paper days); pictures have to be inked, painted or coloured in some way. Let's see if I can get some new techniques and efficiency.
Today's was a partial experiment in line width. Some interesting things learned but nothing to write home about yet. There were some other layers and an attempt at greyscale colouring to this but they didn't work out so I'm just showing the inkline.
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Time: 35 minutes
Music: Blue (Da Be Dee)
Huh. So we are letting structure issues go so you can practice stuff now?
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Originally Posted by
Thanqol
A dagger! A rainbow dagger in my blackened internet heart!
There ya go.
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Originally Posted by
Thanqol
Day 461:
Bork bork
Bork bork bork bork. Oooh bork bork bjork bork bork
Bork
Bork: Bork bork
Bork: Bork bork bork
ALL OF THE HIGH FIVES
/) /) /) /) /) !!!
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Thanqol
Day 474:
Aboleth
A new challenge begins.
I've got my old 3.0 edition of the Monster Manual, and I'm going to go through it cover-to-cover and draw every critter in there at least once. This challenge is designed to get me familiar with drawing strange and inhuman creatures, broaden my range, and get me used to new tricks and techniques I wouldn't learn through my usual spheres.
This is not going to be a one monster a day challenge. I reserve the right to spend as long on each critter as I need.
So, day one: The Aboleth! I've had an idea for a campaign involving an Aboleth in my head for a million years.
The monster, old and blind, was washed up on a rocky reef outside a small fishing village. Half-suffocated by the unnatural air, the Aboleth began to go insane, calling out in psychic dreams and mournful whale-song to the village.
Over time, the village began to be shaped by the old monster's will. The Aboleth had never encountered humanity before, and began possessing townsfolk from it's rocky prison, exploring the society of it's lessers out of agonising boredom. In a curious case of stockholm syndrome, the Aboleth actually started to like the humans - and even fell in love with one boy in particular. Unfortunately it doesn't know how to, or understand the idea of, possessing a specific person. So it just grabs whatever mind it can and then begins stalking, reading poetry to, singing alien whale-music at and generally trying to flirt with the boy it loves.
The Aboleth is now almost so insane that it's barely aware of it's desiccated body on the rocks any more, trying haphazardly and earnestly to fit in to the town despite having to possess random townsfolk and being an alien monster. The townsfolk think it's some kind of ghost or spirit. The Aboleth stares with blind eyes into a brass mirror it desperately clutches and imagines it is a pretty human, with long hair to comb and lungs that can breathe air.
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Time: 45 minutes
Music: Horizontal Rain
****, man. That's dark. :smalleek:
The picture is well done, but it looks like the kind of thing I'd expect from
A video game, where instead I accounting or structure the whole grit end just bends sideways. Or like a bad CGI movie.
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Originally Posted by
SiuiS
****, man. That's dark. :smalleek:
The picture is well done, but it looks like the kind of thing I'd expect from
A video game, where instead I accounting or structure the whole grit end just bends sideways. Or like a bad CGI movie.
Uh, thanks? I don't quite see what your complaint is or how to fix it.
Day 475: Achaierai
Wow, here's an obscure one.
An Achaieri is a weird-ass fat chicken devil who wanders around in Hell farting up awful smelling black clouds. They're stupid and ugly and get eaten all the time by the real devils. I don't know if anyone ever used them or if they even made it into 3.5.
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Time: 30 minutes
Music: Unstoppable Trixie
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Thanqol
Uh, thanks? I don't quite see what your complaint is or how to fix it.
You bent a skull where there at no joints and it looks like a rubber toy.
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Day 475:
Achaierai
Wow, here's an obscure one.
An Achaieri is a weird-ass fat chicken devil who wanders around in Hell farting up awful smelling black clouds. They're stupid and ugly and get eaten all the time by the real devils. I don't know if anyone ever used them or if they even made it into 3.5.
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Time: 30 minutes
Music: Unstoppable Trixie
They did make it in. They are some sort of obscure joke from the plan escape days. Yours is much more bitchin' than I've bet seen them. Kudos.
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Originally Posted by
SiuiS
You bent a skull where there at no joints and it looks like a rubber toy.
I thought of it not having a skull, being more like an eel.
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They did make it in. They are some sort of obscure joke from the plan escape days. Yours is much more bitchin' than I've bet seen them. Kudos.
Thanks!
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Yo, Thanqol, er... might I request a pirate avatar for Talk-like-a-pirate-day? ^^'''
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Originally Posted by
Tectonic Robot
Yo, Thanqol, er... might I request a pirate avatar for Talk-like-a-pirate-day? ^^'''
Tell you what, if I do one for myself I'll do one for you too.
Day 476: Thanqol Sells Out
Momma's birthday dinner, sketched this outside the restaurant.
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Day 477: Allip
Sorry for the slight blur.
An Allip is a headless ghost of someone who goes crazy and offs themselves, and is essentially a free-floating ball of crazy that makes others go crazy. Notable for having, in that very 3.0 way, 1d4 points of permanent wisdom drain per hit, meaning that getting touched three times by one can turn your cleric or druid into a very expensive Warrior chassis.
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Day 478: Animated Object
Next on our Monster Manual Expedition, the Animated Object.
The most memorable animated object I used... that'd have to be the communication artifact wielded by a senior Silver Ladder mage named Riechstag in my Perfect Arrow tabletop. Whenever he wanted to speak to someone he'd put on a magical gauntlet in his study and start writing on a piece of paper. Elsewhere, all the pens, rulers, staplers and other bits of office equipment on the target's desk would arrange themselves into the form of an arm, which would then start writing out Riechstag's message.
It was intended to be a creepy, high-magic form of communication from a paranoid old Master. It worked; Riechstag was one of my favourite NPCs in that game.
Picturewise, this was a bit of a rough experiment. At least one thing paid off so that's good to know.
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Time: 35 mins
Music: Letters