(no subject)

Reposting 'cause LJ's busier on Monday than any other day: on Thursday evening, I finished and posted the Artist Alley Survival Guide over at projectbluerose.com. :D


Also, have new icon. And would like to note that I AM NOT PINK IN THE SWEET AND INNOCENT WAY I AM PINK IN THE HIP AND IRONIC WAY.

(no subject)

Sign that I am spending too much time on tags for livelongnmarry: I woke up from a dream this morning about writing a tutorial on tagging for the comm using an offer for Boccaccio/Chaucer slash* as an example.




* Inspired, most likely, by listening to the audiobook of Norman Cantor's In the Wake of the Plague while doing art this weekend.

(no subject)

Complaining here because I will get into wank over there if I reply ... I know that this young artist probably didn't intend to imply that "human" only applies to those with lighter skintones. Aargh.

(no subject)

Sometimes it's really hard to tell when a DeviantArt user is uploading stolen art.

( Read more... )

WAAAAH!

Well, the person who I am doing the SEEKRIT PICTURE FOR now knows and has seen the "pencils"*, so I can stop being coy and posting about it under filter and such. However, none of YOU are going to see it until it's done and chomiji's seen it, since it's hers. So there! :D

I just wanted to say two things: first, DAMN BUT I AM IMPRESSED WITH MYSELF and second, it's really damn hard trying to do anime and manga characters in a seriously Art Nouveau style, because Art Nouveau is full of happy fat ladies** and anime ... isn't. I don't expect those of you who don't know what characters are going into it to really be able to ID them easily. Well, except for one.

(ETA: And I FULLY EXPECT to be excoriated occasionally on DA for making the characters "fat" [especially one particular one], since many of them will be completely unfamiliar with Alphonse Mucha, and I expect people to be constantly asking me which characters they are, even when I put the characters' name sin the Comments field.)


* Inasmuch as you can have them in Photoshop.

** In comparison to your average anime character. But I mostly just like saying "happy fat ladies."