I wish I remembered the illustrator, or even which PSDTuts article this mad wonderful bunny-eater came from. :(
Composition is more or less done. Next comes the colour study - or studies, then the rendering.
Need to be done by 15th August, let's hope I can move my lazy nuggetbum! =)
I'll be attempting to finish this piece in time to enter Erotic Signature's contest again this year.
This year's nugget attempt is Inanna, the Sumerian goddess of sex, war and fertility. One of the more well-known surviving poems about her tells the story of Inanna's Descent into the Underworld, ostensibly to attend a funeral - but really, to conquer it. ;) Things don't quite go as planned though... It's a riveting story, with dollops of horror, gore and vengeance! And meat hooks. Yes. Meat hooks!
Since this is only one of the preliminary parts, (I tend to assemble pieces in bits and bobs), I still need to do stuff like the lions... and... anything else I think should go in!
Oh. And if you're curious and haven't seen it, the other piccy is what I entered last year. Didn't get into the book but hey... At least it means I *finished* a piece last year. XD
My beloved surgeon doggy... here's to hoping you found the poodle of your dreams.
~_o to those of you who have no idea what I'm babbling about... Move along, nothing to see here. XD
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Zoot! The things you keep, (or well, I keep) without realising you kept them!
I still have Broekn's desc after so many years. O.o
"A large, shaggy mongrel dog stares up at you with limpid amber eyes. He wears a rather silly grin, and his tail thumps the ground in delight at seeing you. He's shedding long brown fur all over the place, and looks like he'd love to have his floppy ears scratched."
This week's random head started out as Eurydiche from Tanith Lee's Faces Under Water, and ended up as... well, what you see here.
I find that for every piece that turns out the way I initially envisioned it, there's another 20 (or more!) that turn out nothing like what I had in mind in the first place. This, of course, is one of those 'nothing likes'. For one thing, Lee does mention that Eurydiche, when she wears a mask, wears a huuuuuuuuge butterfly. But I just couldn't get the butterfly to work. Alas!
It's rather interesting really. If you had, as a random example, a Western-based game with a guy who looked like Final Fantasy's Seifer Almasy, or, God forbid, Sephiroth, it would be a general joke that they just had to be gay. (Not that there's anything wrong with that. ~_o Being gay, that is.)
Just take WoW's Blood Elf guys, for example. It's pretty much a given that they look 'gay'. It just seems that when it comes to Western-made games, there's this impression that, 'If a guy is beautiful (yes! I used that horrible word to refer to a male specimen, ohnoes!) then he must be gay. And if you play such a fellow, you're either a gay guy, or a chick.'
Yet when it comes to Asian games, that issue rarely comes up, if at all.
And you know what? As a girly, I so, so much prefer the male eye candy provided by Asian games. It just seems to me that in Asian games, there's an understanding that when it comes to looks, while you can certainly pack a guy with so full of muscley macho cues that his whole look just screams, 'GWARRRR ME SMUSH!' (Street Fighter's Zangief, for instance,) there's still the understanding that speed, grace and elegance can also be masculine. (See other examples above, or Balrog/Vega, if you prefer more Street Fighter stuffs. XD)
For me at least, the argument that, 'If I have to stare at an avatar for hours, I want it to be cute!' rings totally true. Unfortunately, this means that in MMOs, I tend to play girl avatars. Not because I'm a girl, but because the boys look horrible or strange or unappealing.
But in Jade Dynasty, for example, that I play on and off (mostly off), I have 3 male toons and counting. Why? Because they're hawt!
WTB, moar hawt boys in games please!
Fine, fine, nuggeet, but what does this have to do with today's sketch, you rambling chunk of batter-covered chicken goodness?
Well... after all that raving about the wonder of Bishonen, I must confess...
I don't really like Manga style art. I think it's mostly because it gets Mang(a)led way too much. It seems some take 'Manga' as 'I can throw all knowledge of anatomy, proportion, and everything else right out the window, because after all, it's "my Manga style"'. That being said, I do like some very specific Manga artists - those like Yoshitaka Amano, whose abstraction of anatomy obviously comes from a sound knowledge of it.
So! Nuggeet likes the whole Bishonen thing, but she doesn't like manga, oh noes! Wut to do!?
...make my own I guess. XD
And that, my nuggets, is this rant's rather convoluted link to this week's sketch.
(Oh yeah, and so far it's only heads cause heads come really easily to me, and I'm a really lazy nugget.)
Having been rejected, poor little Pixelloid hung his head with sadness and decided to evolve from Pixelloid-chu to Ironball-Mon! -_-
We'll probably be using this style...
I haven't done pixel art since I stopped doing graphics for mobile games, quite a few years ago.
My current workplace is revamping its website, and pixel art was considered as one of the accents. Sadly, after poor Pixelloid here was made, we realised that pixel art wouldn't quite fit the style.
So alas, here is my wonewee widdle wobot. Snurfle!
