Once I saw the package that had Painter IX ... no. I AM A WEAK WOMAN!!
I think I'll be ready to leave here between 11-11:15, which should get me to you about noon. I'm going to a magic show tonight at the Bass Hall at 7:30, so I'll need to get back here in time to go, but other than that ... the day is open. :)
Oh, guess what we didn't notice (or atleast I didn't). The monster book I bought is a Llewellyn. Heh, no wonder it reads like it does. The guy who wrote it is serious.
Oh yeah - http://www.deviantart.com/view/13657162/ More character design. Yeah he's not wearing sunglasses. You still can't see his eyes from that angle. ;) I wanna work out how he looks without them first. This was actuallys traight pen sketching - mind you, I edited out all the really hideous half-drawn faces over the rest of the page. I think I ought to try to scribble the pencils similar to this, then ink as close to this style as I can get - it seems rather shoujo.
I was really really going to sit down and do NOTHING but art today, but surprised myself by being more worried than I expected over the cat's spaying that I did nothing but domestic stuff: I put curtains up, cleaned and watched Animal Planet obsessively, because my brain wasn't up for anything else. Ah well. She's fine and bad-tempered like she ought to be after major surgery, so I should be free and clear to sit on my ass and ART!! tomorrow.
(I think it's slightly funny that they're wearing suits and ties and yet both have totally non-governmental haircuts, but a) I like their hair, b) it's a shoujo convention, c) I expect not having to totally conform to, say, CIA hairstyling rules is a benefit of being in black ops.
...you know, after I finished writing that whole thing, I wondered if I had completely tortured you by writing a lead character whose eyes you never see except in one page of the entire thing, since the eyes are so expressive and I assume it's hard to convey expressions without them. But then I thought, Chichiri is the coolest character in Fushigi Yuugi and he wears a mask almost the entire time, so it could be worse.
It's really remarkable how many manga/anime characters have something wrong or strange about one or both of their eyes.
Bur govenrmental haircuts are so boring! And require you to be able to draw the shape of the head! XD They're probably classified as doing undercover work, and so have nonregulation 'dos. And maybe the pencil-pushers in Accounting who have to deal with the operatives' receipts and expenses from all these nifty and interesting places while they're stuck in windowless offices really resent having to wear crew cuts or something.
It was originally a tortuous thing about the sunglasses, but then I realized that so much of the emotional undercurrents in shoujo is expressed in the patterend tones filling the background, and through little signs or notes with arrows in the margins, that if I wasn't getting it across with his expression, I had those to fall back on. I think, though, that there ought to be one part (if there isn't already - I haven't read the script over in a few days) where Jordan tries to take Rivas' glasses off and Rivas won't let him. Or even a "Don't you ever take them off?" "No." (panel: Jordan almost chibi, looking astonished, with a thought bubble with a picture of Rivas in the shower wearing sunglasses) Which, come to think of it, would provide a place to work in J thinking of R's butt or something, just to work more of that in before the, er, Payoff Scene.
Well, Mary Sues always have gorgeous, impossibly colored eyes. Maybe it's the same impulse - the eye being the mirror of the soul and all that. :)
Jordan tries to take them off when they're doing it in the motel, and Rivas stops him. I had Rivas just put up his hand, but if it's not clear he could say something like "No," or "Leave them on."
I think the shower idea is hilarious, and it would be good to work in more gayness before the Big Gay Pay-Off. I don't know where you'd have room to fit it in, though...
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I want it too. I'm hoping to get a copy before the end of the school year, but who knows.
Oh, I'm holding out on lunch until you get here.
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I think I'll be ready to leave here between 11-11:15, which should get me to you about noon. I'm going to a magic show tonight at the Bass Hall at 7:30, so I'll need to get back here in time to go, but other than that ... the day is open. :)
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Aye, Happy Birthday
Hippo Bird-ie
or something....
hope you are having fun!
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Oh yeah - http://www.deviantart.com/view/13657162/ More character design. Yeah he's not wearing sunglasses. You still can't see his eyes from that angle. ;) I wanna work out how he looks without them first. This was actuallys traight pen sketching - mind you, I edited out all the really hideous half-drawn faces over the rest of the page. I think I ought to try to scribble the pencils similar to this, then ink as close to this style as I can get - it seems rather shoujo.
I was really really going to sit down and do NOTHING but art today, but surprised myself by being more worried than I expected over the cat's spaying that I did nothing but domestic stuff: I put curtains up, cleaned and watched Animal Planet obsessively, because my brain wasn't up for anything else. Ah well. She's fine and bad-tempered like she ought to be after major surgery, so I should be free and clear to sit on my ass and ART!! tomorrow.
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(I think it's slightly funny that they're wearing suits and ties and yet both have totally non-governmental haircuts, but a) I like their hair, b) it's a shoujo convention, c) I expect not having to totally conform to, say, CIA hairstyling rules is a benefit of being in black ops.
...you know, after I finished writing that whole thing, I wondered if I had completely tortured you by writing a lead character whose eyes you never see except in one page of the entire thing, since the eyes are so expressive and I assume it's hard to convey expressions without them. But then I thought, Chichiri is the coolest character in Fushigi Yuugi and he wears a mask almost the entire time, so it could be worse.
It's really remarkable how many manga/anime characters have something wrong or strange about one or both of their eyes.
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It was originally a tortuous thing about the sunglasses, but then I realized that so much of the emotional undercurrents in shoujo is expressed in the patterend tones filling the background, and through little signs or notes with arrows in the margins, that if I wasn't getting it across with his expression, I had those to fall back on. I think, though, that there ought to be one part (if there isn't already - I haven't read the script over in a few days) where Jordan tries to take Rivas' glasses off and Rivas won't let him. Or even a "Don't you ever take them off?" "No." (panel: Jordan almost chibi, looking astonished, with a thought bubble with a picture of Rivas in the shower wearing sunglasses) Which, come to think of it, would provide a place to work in J thinking of R's butt or something, just to work more of that in before the, er, Payoff Scene.
Well, Mary Sues always have gorgeous, impossibly colored eyes. Maybe it's the same impulse - the eye being the mirror of the soul and all that. :)
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I think the shower idea is hilarious, and it would be good to work in more gayness before the Big Gay Pay-Off. I don't know where you'd have room to fit it in, though...
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Inset: Rivas’s hand covers Jordan’s to turn off the radio. This could look a bit intimate. ;)
Sfx: click
Page 6, panel 2
On Jordan.
Jordan: OK, but now you have to entertain me.
Caption with arrow to Jordan: thinking.
Jordan: What's your favorite ice cream flavor?
Jordan: Do you ever take your glasses off?
Page 6, panel 3
On Rivas; Jordan is offpage but reflected in his mirrorshades.
Rivas: No.
Page 6, panel 4
Chibi Jordan imagines Rivas in shower with sunglasses.
Page 6, panel 5
Rivas pulls over abruptly, throwing Jordan forward. (etc)