bus doodles: xenotaurgirl again

[egypturnash]

I can't stop drawing her today! I'm fixated!

Oh well. Part and parcel of being a smart, creative thirteen-year-old is creating your own alien race in obsessive detail; I avoided this the first time around, but now that I'm going through puberty, I have another chance. Or something. No, I'm not sure I can really blame the hormones here.


...and whose blood, or what's?

Also, I like the way she's rearing up on hind legs here. Curious; I find this kind of taur much easier to pose than the usual sort... maybe because I'm keeping the anatomy fluid, because I'm making it up myself.


They don't work well on two legs, at all. That side view is too short. I do like the reclining pose, though. And the impressionistic grass about her.


She's far from the only one of her species, it seems.


But they're all pretty feminine looking. I still don't know if there are males, if they all look feminine to us, or if I'm just focusing on the girls of the species. (Ignore the sketchier lower hands.)


There is no hope for one who is working out the anatomy of her created alien species. I am doomed. Also, note that I am theorizing as to what kind of chairs they favor.

I wonder what makes a created alien species become 'famous'. What do chakats have that makes other people want to be one? What do D'iszu have? Cuteness? Sexiness? Personable creators? Catchy names? Do I want other people to draw/play/spread these things, if I ever come up with a name for them? Their name for themselves probably translates to "human", conceptually - but I doubt they speak English, so one could probably just use their word for themselves, whatever it may be...

Comments

[unciaa.livejournal.com]

> Cuteness? Sexiness? Personable creators? Catchy names?

All true for the Focco (http://www.arclight.net/chipmunk/galleries/focco.htm). *g*
Also, where's the oversexed chameleon? Shocking, to forget the main character! ;3

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Oh, I forgot about them!

(hnf hnf hnf hnf hnf hnf hnf hnf hnf hnf hnf hnf hnf hnf hnf hnf)

[unciaa.livejournal.com]

This just makes the utter lack of chameleon porn on f.a.e that much more obvious... what a waste!

[minimalismo.livejournal.com]

SOOOOFT! [pokes teh belly]

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

*takes several quick stebs back, giggling and reflexively covering her tummy*

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

Mmm, aaah, ohhh!

Popp'n Fresh Taur!

[minimalismo.livejournal.com]

[reaches! poke!]

[neogeen.livejournal.com]

Well, I can say I really like your variation of Taur.
Actually, as I was perusing down and reading your comments I was wondering what I would come up with attempting to create a character from your Taur people.
Then I read you last line.

Well, *I* think they are interesting enough to expand on. I'm hooked on your sketches of them!

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Well, whatever it is well-known created species have, maybe these have it. Before they even have a name, let alone a catchy one. ("Xenotaur girls" does not qualify as a species name.)

And if you want to play with them, feel free! I think I've put up every related sketch I've done so far, so you know about as much of their anatomy/culture/look as I do - they're still very much a blank slate. I suspect I'll be spewing out more of them today, too.

Funny: I've only drawn them direct in pen so far. I've been in that sort of mood. Maybe that's part of their appeal - the chaotic confidence that gives them? What if it turns out they only come out right when scrawled in pen? Perhaps I'm swinging into a Sorel phase...

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

Sometimes, interesting ideas appear and take form before you realize that they've been screaming at you for a while to get out. Looks like this is one of those times.

[kamenkyote.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I say, looking on interestedly. And hmmm I say again. Gee, seems to be a lot to this whole taurgirl thing of yours. Hmmm....:"D I swear this is leading somewhere, Peggy. She's talking to you. I say keep going. There might even be more than one world in her. She is an explorer after all. She might be your language. Let's see what you can make her say.

-T'

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

*stares back*

<snarl>I hate you.</snarl>

*giggle* I am having fun. And to think I came close to not bothering to post the first one - she lingered in my sketchbook for a couple of days.

I guess I need a SF project to play with that I can actually relate to; 'Ensign K' was always more of a design exercise than a story I really felt a need to tell. And most of my other recent concepts (as in, from the past decade) have been fantasy/horror.

[kamenkyote.livejournal.com]

Me? Moi? Mich? *blinkblink*innocentstare* Whatever for? :"D Now if I were a REAL meanie, I'd say something like, "if you really wanted to develop her and her background/surroundings/mythos, what better time to take up Scott McLeod's 24-hour comic challenge?"

But that's only if I were REALLY mean. :"D

-T'

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHH AAAAGH DAMN SHIT AAAARRRRRGH HATE HATE HATE AAAAAAAGGGHHHHH AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGG AAAAH

meanie.

(It's McCloud, by the way. And I've wanted to do a 24h comic ever since running across the idea on his site.)

[kamenkyote.livejournal.com]

She hates me, she really really hates me! :"D

Actually, actually, it is in fact McLeod, but he spells it that way so that folks don't misprounce it. Scott was a friend of mine (well, still is though he's far away) when he lived in the Boston area. He was well ahead of his time then and we thought he was nuts. We were wrong. If you have a copy of "Understanding Comics," I'm in the acknowledgements, right before Dave McKean. :"D *namedropnamedrop*

But hey, see that image you used for your icon? That's the kind of composition I think would work really well with taurgirl...would make a great promo for that 24 hour comic. :"D

My bastard status is retained! Huzzah!

-T'

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

And here I thought that was just a weird persistent typo. I stand corrected... I'll have to pull out my copy of "Understanding" and look now. If I make a 24h comic about this xenotaur I'll have to mention you browbeat me into doing it when I sent the pointer to Scott. *grin*

You mean the 'hate' icon I used? That's actually the background from that picture of Sosael, a little altered (This is why I just love AI, it's so easy to reuse things that way!). I'm pretty sure any comic I do nowadays is going to have a mix of abstract BGs and representational ones, that's for sure. Probably even panels where the whole style slips around to emphasize a mood.

[masstreble.livejournal.com]

Wow, blinking, huge, and red text. It's hard to be much more angry in HTML...

...without using the "scroll" tag. And then put a link in it and watch people try to click it! Ha-ha ha ha ha!