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[telophase]

As I stepped out from my front door on a May morning so bright, who should I chance to spy but a pensive young man a-walking down the lane. So I asked this young man, this pensive young man, of whom he should be thinking so that his expression should be writ large upon his countenance. This young man, he answered me, he spoke of the one who crossed his mind, who flirted with his fancy, who touched his thoughts...

He's thinking of you, dear reader. Yes, you. He's thinking of you.

Naked.


(sha gojyo from saiyuki, of course. mechanical pencil on printer paper, trying to practice a smooth line, getting driven crazy by that stupid hand which is still not right)

Comments

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Oh God. That's gorgeous.

(Actually, I think he's probably thinking of Hakkai naked, but I like your version better.)

[wyrdness.livejournal.com]

Hands are evil, which certain films have shown. I say that humanity discards hands and evolves tentacle like appendages! *figures out how to hold a pencil with a tentacle* On second thoughts, considering tentacle hentai, maybe hands are ok...

[telophase.livejournal.com]

:D Thanks!

I'm really trying to get the smooth line with subtle variation in line weight that I envy so much when other people have it, and I think I *finally* get near it - Gojyo's face and neck nailed it, although the rest of him ... didn't. Of course, I really need to get it with *pen* and not *pencil* ... but I'm thinking I might be able to fake it well enough with pencil and the proper application of Photoshop.

That weird paragraph is also the result of having a Boiled in Lead song stuck in my head, a modern arrangement of some sort of English folksong that starts off "As I rode out on a May mornin', on a May mornin'..." and then I can't remember any more of the words, so the paragraph really wants to be sung to that tune except that it utterly fails to match its rhyme or meter or to even be anywhere in the same vicinity. But going by the responses on DA and saiyuki_reload, it at least succeeded in lulling people into something-or-other before being hit with "Naked."

And I still have that line stuck in my head. The CD's in my car; I'll have to listen to it on the way home to exorcise it.

(this rambling digression brought to you by EXTREME AVOIDANCE OF WORK)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I've seen a print by Hokusai showing a woman getting molested by an octopus, which leads one to wonder just exactly *how* deep in the Japanese psyche tentacle monsters are.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Yeah, what do you think I'm doing? The m-f-ing book is due on Labor Day (appropriately) and I would like to work on ANYTHING ELSE. Or not work at all.

I had "Streets of Laredo" going in my head when I read your paragraph, which cracked me up.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

*sigh* I got hit by an attack doujinshi - not that I have time to draw it, mind you - for Death Note this morning, after discussing characterization and BDSM pr0n with keraha. Er, it makes sense in context. And the idea itself isn't porn - it deals with psychological bondage (er, it again makes sense in context) and I've got a few nice images in my head, and idea of how it starts and how it ends, and a piece of paper with illegible notes like "interg -> R im ron" and "guts sune inclin. A bettr way??" which may perhaps make sense when I sit down and reread it. And I still don't have the time to do it. Well, maybe at the end of October. At any rate, it's still far more interesting than what I'm supposed to be doing.

[mundeemo.livejournal.com]

Your figure drawing lessons are well worth it, that is a fantastic picture!
Good job!

:D

[rurisue.livejournal.com]

I saw this on devART about thirty seconds ago (I don't like posting comment there because the site's always too slow, and I'm impatient)...

Anyway. I was expecting something serious until I got to the punchline, and well... Yeah. I nearly fell off my chair laughing. And then the picture loaded, and of course it's gorgeous like all of your other work.

Hm, I don't really have anything to say. Just, wow. I wish I had a smidgen of your talent.

[sub-divided.livejournal.com]

I'm really trying to get the smooth line with subtle variation in line weight that I envy so much when other people have it... Of course, I really need to get it with *pen* and not *pencil*...

Dude, totally. Good penmanship rocks. But, wouldn't it be easier with pen? Since you can wary the line thickness just by pressing harder. How you manage to get anything like the beautiful subtle gradations here with a mechanical pencil is beyond me.

Absolutely gorgeous drawing. Gojyo's my favorite of the main Saiyuki characters- I like his PWETTY wind-blown hair here.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Because I am an idiot with a pen? I get line variation in pencil the same way I do in pen -- go back and darken the bits that need to be dark. I don't have good pen control yet, and with the pencil I can erase when I screw up.

Mind you, it doesn't help that I'm using only so-so tools when I use pen. I really need to force myself to sit down and work exclusively with crowquill pens or some such.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

thank you! :D

Re: :D

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Good! Then that really awkward paragraph was well worth it, if the punchline worked. :D Thanks!