Pick's Art Thread 6 - Animal Sketches (pg9)

Instant Sunrise · Post by **Instant Sunrise** » 2006-06-16 10:59pm

Well played Pick, well played...

Pick · Post by **Pick** » 2006-06-18 10:40pm

Ack! I fangirl XD.

Post by **Kuja** » 2006-06-18 10:43pm

Woot woot woooooooot!

Darth Raptor · Post by **Darth Raptor** » 2006-06-18 10:56pm

"Councilor Umber is sporting the luxuriant-yet-casual bathrobe by Mervil Textiles. Mervil: Sexual ambiguity never looked so good!"

Pick · Post by **Pick** » 2006-06-18 11:02pm

God. You would not believe how many kids at school were lifting up his robe to try and guess his gender 9_9.

Darth Raptor · Post by **Darth Raptor** » 2006-06-18 11:08pm

Didn't you tell everyone that he was a flat-chested woman in order to avoid confusion? ^_^

Pick · Post by **Pick** » 2006-06-18 11:11pm

Nope, I said it had no gender.

Nobody listened. Debate raged ;_;.

Alan Bolte · Post by **Alan Bolte** » 2006-06-18 11:16pm

Is Umber the Black King by any chance inspired by the Goblin King played by David Bowie?

Duckie · Post by **Duckie** » 2006-06-18 11:16pm

Pick wrote:Nope, I said it had no gender.

Nobody listened. Debate raged ;_;.

You should have drawn Chibi Hyral instead. Then there would be no debate.

I have no way of even comprehending the effort and talent required to make a sculpture, so I can't say anything more than "Wha? Holy- good job." when I see that.

Umber needs a tan.

Darth Raptor · Post by **Darth Raptor** » 2006-06-18 11:22pm

MRDOD wrote:Umber needs a tan.

He'd need some opacity first! XD

Pick · Post by **Pick** » 2006-06-18 11:22pm

Alan Bolte wrote:Is Umber the Black King by any chance inspired by the Goblin King played by David Bowie?

Nope, but I made a joke about that when I was first inserting his hair...

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MRDOD wrote:Umber needs a tan.

Umber can't tan

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Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2006-06-19 12:34am

Thats freaking awesome. And Umbar needs a tan, fast.

Pick · Post by **Pick** » 2006-06-19 12:45am

You know, I actually had a very strange dream a few weeks ago. I was travelling through an ancient Indian (not Native American) ruin, all laced throughout the trees (some of which were made of brick!) It was fascenating, but dark and beautiful --almost reminiscent of the ruins in Disney's Jungle Book. I was with two other people, but I can't recall who they were. Somehow, I ended up going through my school as part of this ancient, broken set of stone and liana... .

And I was in the hall, oh, near where the library used to be, and an unfinished sculpture of Edge was eating students rather messily. I was scared as hell, just because I said, "But I chose not to make you... ." You could still see all the unpainted Super Sculpey and his hair wasn't all in, kind of like if he had the mange. He was laughing about it, because apparently he could speak.

... yeah, so, maybe that was my mind's message to me: good on you, making Umber instead, you crazy fangirl retard!

Actually, it was going to be Shader, but I knew I couldn't make his hair long enough so I opted out

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Ford Prefect · Post by **Ford Prefect** » 2006-06-19 03:27am

Pah, whoever was trying to guess Umber's gender are fools. Can they not see how GAR he is?

Noble Ire · Post by **Noble Ire** » 2006-06-19 05:27pm

I find the fact that Umber actually looks real in those pics both most awesome and somewhat disturbing.

By the way, I forgot to ask; how long did it take to make him?

Post by **Kuja** » 2006-06-19 06:54pm

Pick wrote:... yeah, so, maybe that was my mind's message to me: good on you, making Umber instead, you crazy fangirl retard!

Bah. Edge is just an attention whore.

Pick · Post by **Pick** » 2006-06-19 07:25pm

Ford Prefect wrote:Pah, whoever was trying to guess Umber's gender are fools. Can they not see how GAR he is?

We're all gar for Umber

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Noble Ire wrote:By the way, I forgot to ask; how long did it take to make him?

Thanks, and it took me about four months off and on (or something?) I didn't talk about it much (or work on it much) when starting because the future was uncertain and I didn't want to get my hopes up too high... .

Kuja wrote:Bah. Edge is just an attention whore.

Yup. It's one of the staples of his character

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Duckie · Post by **Duckie** » 2006-06-19 07:29pm

Pick wrote:
Kuja wrote:Bah. Edge is just an attention whore.
Yup. It's one of the staples of his character .

Really I've been thinking about it and I don't know if you conciously did it or not but your characters seem to be just deep enough to seem real but also incorporate a bunch of two-dimensional aspects (like Shader's curiousity, Hyral's financing obsession*) that are subtle enough that people can still see them reflected in themselves.

It essentially means that I basically can relate to every single once except Alder because he's just a little bitch.

Okay that was a bit off topic of the scuplture but it just suddenly occured to me so I have to ramble about it.
*We know the origins of this one, so I wonder exactly why Edge feels the need to control, be charismatic, and liked. Perhaps the cannon-fodder regiment time taught him that he wants to call the shots. Maybe the other canon fodders resented him because he survived where they didn't, and he also feels the need to be liked because of memories of that?

Pick · Post by **Pick** » 2006-06-19 08:05pm

MRDOD wrote:Really I've been thinking about it and I don't know if you conciously did it or not but your characters seem to be just deep enough to seem real but also incorporate a bunch of two-dimensional aspects (like Shader's curiousity, Hyral's financing obsession*) that are subtle enough that people can still see them reflected in themselves.

Well, I don't have enough time to give them complete tales, so I need to have at least one exaggerated feature for all of them

. That way they remain distinctive.

It essentially means that I basically can relate to every single once except Alder because he's just a little bitch.

Bah! I think Alder is one of the most admirable characters. He may, indeed, be a whiney little bitch --but he's stuck to his principles, chosen the hard path, and doesn't give in. I don't know why people tend to dislike him so much

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*We know the origins of this one, so I wonder exactly why Edge feels the need to control, be charismatic, and liked. Perhaps the cannon-fodder regiment time taught him that he wants to call the shots. Maybe the other canon fodders resented him because he survived where they didn't, and he also feels the need to be liked because of memories of that?

Edge's urges are very typically Syvorian. He wants money (got it), power (got it), ass (gets it), and popularity. The latter is just a more recognizable greed because that's the only one he actually needs to work for

. Honestly, though, Edge likes people, and wants to be liked back. It's just part of who he is.

Duckie · Post by **Duckie** » 2006-06-19 09:07pm

Pick wrote: Edge's urges are very typically Syvorian. He wants money (got it), power (got it), ass (gets it), and popularity. The latter is just a more recognizable greed because that's the only one he actually needs to work for . Honestly, though, Edge likes people, and wants to be liked back. It's just part of who he is.

So in this case the Cigar is just a Cigar?

How... mundane.

Imperial Overlord · Post by **Imperial Overlord** » 2006-06-19 09:10pm

Very cool Pick.

Pick · Post by **Pick** » 2006-06-19 09:24pm

Imperial Overlord wrote:Very cool Pick.

Thanks!

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MRDOD-
Well, Edge does have a bit of an entitlement complex. It's understandable, though.

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This is from the testing-out-the-most-infuriating-program-on-Earth animation, but I think it's a good standalone for showing what Dark Councilors would look like as an actual anime (as if!)

Pick · Post by **Pick** » 2006-06-20 03:11am

OH MY GOD!

Something neither Dark Councilors related, OR anime related! Or Final Fantasy related! AAH!!

... take ten shots!

Opencanvas4Plus

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2006-06-20 05:27am

Surreal, I like.

Darth Raptor · Post by **Darth Raptor** » 2006-06-20 10:59am

You just did the impossible and made lighthouses even more creepy.