doodles: why I should avoid Photoshop.

[egypturnash]

Two weird scribbles with story behind them of sorts. Both quickly tarted up in Photoshop instead of the usual Illustrator treatment, though I might do AI on one or both. Contains boobs, you're warned.


Four Moving One Seen and her pet/toy/apprentice Pretty Fifth Gem Whom Wiles Have Conquered.

Four Moving One Seen is a Trickster, a vixen, a seductress, and far too cunning for her own good. Pretty Fifth Gem Whom Wiles Have Conquered is... maybe going to get to be a vixen someday too, if she plays her cards right and obeys the right orders and breaks the right ones.

Some of the tails are imaginary.


Meanwhile, Rikal gets a ride on the back of a friendly rocket-spider. This may be a sign of insanity on xir part, but it's fun. Even if they're going a couple hundred miles an hour just off the ground.

Comments

[jenkatb4u.livejournal.com]

Then, it is definitely time for me to go and refresh my fragmented memories. I've not picked up too many books. A lot of what I 'know' about sci-fi and such is just inference and flatly guessing.

Seeing what other people have been thinking could only be good for me, or at least worth snerking at. I can see the parallel between you--the You I Know(just a whispy, white shadow dancing around in the night.)-- and your art. It's you.

I remember picking up a book about AI, actual AI, and reading much of it. Then I bored my class half to death with my report on AI.. Hm.

....
*flee*

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Yeah. What you get from movies and TV shows and comics is a lot lighter on the ideas than a book is. And SF is about the ideas. What might cheap and reliable teleportation really do to a society? What happens when the net spreads everywhere? If you can convert all the mass of a solar system into a Ringworld, should you? What's it like to live in a society where matter compilers can make anything you like, for free? What does the availability of memory erasure do to your sense of self?

You get a little of it seeping into the better visual media, including adaptations of books... but you can throw a lot more ideas out a lot more easily in a book. A good book is a high density of New Ideas.