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I know that most of you have better things to do on a Friday night than read LJ, but hey. At any rate, I dunno how many of you already know, but ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rachelmanija and I are working on a next thing - a 20-40 page short story to submit to an anthology, and because I didn't want to draw trenchcoats again for a while, among other things, we're doing a sort of fantasy thing that we like to refer to as Gay Tibetan Martial Artists.*
If you're interested in How It All Happened, you can read her blog entry about it here.
At any rate, I'm starting to collect images for reference and inspiration, and if any of you feel like wielding a little Google-fu, here's the sort of thing I'm looking for.
Mountains. But not general pretty scenery mountains. I've got plenty of images of dramatic snow blowing off Everest and the like. What I need is photos that are a little more intimate - trekking in the mountains, mountain paths, and so on. And not really forested Apalachian-type mountians. I need dramatic, unforgiving, tough Himalayan or Andean type mountain terrain shots. Crevasses and gorges = Good. Snow = Good. Rocky terrain = Good. The sort of place where almost the only living creature ismad dogs and Englishmen mountain goats and idiotic mountaineers. I don't need dramatic long-distance scenery shots. I need to know how to draw people actually walkign on trails, so I need photos of trails and climbers on walls and stuff that are close enough to allow me to draw them. I can't do all the pages with teh images all at a distance of half a mile. If you're not sure what I mean, ask.
Tibetan, Nepali, and Bhutanese moasteries, temples, and other buildings. As well as people and clothing. If you can find some shots of the beautiful old buildings - I think it may be a temple complex - in Kathmandu, so much the better.
Images and video of someone wielding a chain whip. (It's a weapon of a rope or chain with a weight on one end - in Shanghai Knights, Jackie Chan improvises one with a length of rope and a horseshoe.) Images and video of interesting Central Asian weapons, especally ones that aren't that well-known. If anyone can find proof that the Tibetan dorje and the axe known as the Ego Chopper and other symbolic weapons were actually used as real weapons, I LOVE YOU LONG TIME FIVE DOLLAS. (Caveat: not from the lionsroar.com site. I'm trying to corroborate their info.)
I'll post as I think of other things.
* Again with the gay, because it's a yaoi/boys'love-themed market we're going to be submitting to.
rachelmanija and I are working on a next thing - a 20-40 page short story to submit to an anthology, and because I didn't want to draw trenchcoats again for a while, among other things, we're doing a sort of fantasy thing that we like to refer to as Gay Tibetan Martial Artists.*If you're interested in How It All Happened, you can read her blog entry about it here.
At any rate, I'm starting to collect images for reference and inspiration, and if any of you feel like wielding a little Google-fu, here's the sort of thing I'm looking for.
Mountains. But not general pretty scenery mountains. I've got plenty of images of dramatic snow blowing off Everest and the like. What I need is photos that are a little more intimate - trekking in the mountains, mountain paths, and so on. And not really forested Apalachian-type mountians. I need dramatic, unforgiving, tough Himalayan or Andean type mountain terrain shots. Crevasses and gorges = Good. Snow = Good. Rocky terrain = Good. The sort of place where almost the only living creature is
Tibetan, Nepali, and Bhutanese moasteries, temples, and other buildings. As well as people and clothing. If you can find some shots of the beautiful old buildings - I think it may be a temple complex - in Kathmandu, so much the better.
Images and video of someone wielding a chain whip. (It's a weapon of a rope or chain with a weight on one end - in Shanghai Knights, Jackie Chan improvises one with a length of rope and a horseshoe.) Images and video of interesting Central Asian weapons, especally ones that aren't that well-known. If anyone can find proof that the Tibetan dorje and the axe known as the Ego Chopper and other symbolic weapons were actually used as real weapons, I LOVE YOU LONG TIME FIVE DOLLAS. (Caveat: not from the lionsroar.com site. I'm trying to corroborate their info.)
I'll post as I think of other things.
* Again with the gay, because it's a yaoi/boys'love-themed market we're going to be submitting to.
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mansexBL-themed fanwork. xDIt's going to be a bit before the pics are ready, though. I have to scan them in since they were taken during the Ye Olde Ancient Days when I didn't have a digital camera.
[EDIT: Wow, I messed up the code on my original comment. All strikethrough, w00t!]
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reading books about the Himalayas and avoidingworking on character designs at the moment. :Dno subject
Some of them might be what you would consider to be more "scenery" shots, but I tried to find photos that included craggy peaks, tundra, tarns, etc. I couldn't find any pics that included trails or people actually hiking (I guess I didn't consider it photo-worthy at the time. I regret it now too), but trails sort of disappear as you get closer to the peak of mountain anyway. Then you get to have fun on crumbling rock and tundra. ;D
And please try to ignore the teenage girls in some of the pictures. These were taken on summer-camp hiking/backpacking trips. They're all good people, really. (Sanzo Points to whoever can figure out which one I am in the group shots. xD)
I hope these are of help to you, even if it's only in a very miniscule way. I apologize for any inexplicable smudges in the pics; my scanner's probably due for retirement, or perhaps just a very thorough cleaning.