Carpe Crustulum
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My Cabbage Patch Kids were cosplaying before you were born.
Secret Identities: Clement Woody and Jason Duane.
Outfits by my mother nearly thirty (holy shit) years ago.
That’s right. AND these were most likely made with no pattern. Tessatechaitea’s mother is some kind of sewing wizard.
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In Which I Reveal How Goddamn Fucking Romantic I Can Be
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I sculpted a round head of a male. And then I tried colorizing it. Very tentatively. Done with no ref, he looks like more than one ethnicity to me, which is neat.
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90 minutes in on this, half of which at least was spent trying to get the wolf to look more like a dog-creature than an elephant-creature. It’s not very defined and clearly a WIP but it’s been fun so far!
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Definitely regretting having turned off the symmetry option here - I’m out of my league doing ONE ear, to say nothing of two. Unfinished sculpt, freehand: No refs.
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Unfinished man-head done in Sculptris. The beard is making people think he’s Abraham Lincoln. I think he looks like a cross between Peter Cushing (from Star Wars) and Colonel Pickering (from My Fair Lady) somehow.
I thought maybe I should use a ref (this one is from imagination) for the next sculpt, and of course it is MUCH HARDER. I turn off the symmetry thing because it confuses me but maybe that’s wrong-headed. :)
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24 Hour comics: ADMIT ONE - Adventures in thumbnails
Yesterday I took leave of my senses and tried to do 24 pages worth of thumbnail sketches for a 24-hour comic challenge issued by my cousin and some nice people over at Doomkopf.com . Now, I do not read many comics. I do not fancy myself a comic-maker at all. Heck, I can’t even finish one picture right now. Still, it was too interesting not to try. My boyfriend produced a finished pencil comic as well but hasn’t inked all of it. I meant to scan my pencil images; if one thinks of those as finished* thumbnails, then I got in under the wire. However! My scanner will NOT read pencil. I kind of forgot that. So I had to use some Micron pens, resulting in hours of extra work, which is fine because all practice is good, right? In the process, I made the thing more readable, but also started erasing some things and re-drawing them. Hmm. And I’m not done, but I want to post what I have for posterity. I slept 5 hours, but I know some intrepid comickers went with no actual sleep last night. I look forward to seeing their work.
Because the lettering is so tiny, with the “pages” being thumbnails of about 2.5” square, a lot of the dialogue will be illegible. I will try to go type it in if anybody actually sees the comic. It’s called ADMIT ONE right now.
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Dialogue transcriptions:
Man says to girl-lady, “Choose your words carefully.”
She calls after him, “What’s that mean?
Confused by what she finds in his theater seat, she says, “Huh?”
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Dialogue transcription:
Main character’s friend says, “He just said that and left?”
Main character says, “He left this.”
Friend says, “It’s a ticket.”
Friend says, “All it says is ADMIT ONE.”
Friend says, “Call me later, okay?”
Friend says, “I’m sure it’s nothing.”
Main character, walking and talking on the phone to unnamed parties, says, “…ton of laundry to do.”
Boyfriend, upon seeing the ton of laundry, says, “What the…?”
(missing dialogue bubbles, so faint they didn’t even scan, about where the heck all the laundry came from)
Boyfriend cheerfully says that it’s more like “a mountain of laundry”. Main character is getting wise to the strange behavior of words and doesn’t appreciate his glibness.
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Dialogue transcription:
Main character smacks boyfriend upside head for joking about the mysterious ton or mountain of laundry, saying, “This isn’t funny.”
Main character wonders, “What do we do with this?”
Boyfriend sits on couch and says, “Get it out of here.”
Main character, with laundry bags in hand, says, “Is Your Highness happy?”
Highness-boyfriend says, “We are pleased.”
Main character says, “Oh no.”
