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May. 8th, 2004 01:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
egypturnashJust to prove I can still draw something else, I warmed up with some direct pen doodles of Twin. But I didn't scan them. Or a few other doodles I did tonight. Mostly, I continued the theme of this week's doodles...
My worry was, of course, unjustified. In fact, this one was kinda labored due to the complex pose... I like the idea of big punky boots for them, though. Stylin'!
That, incidentally, is the danger of sketching direct in pen. Once you get into the groove, there's a wild freedom no other sketch medium has for me. You can't erase. You have to deal with whatever happens. Work around it, or abandon it; there's no erasing. And it's freeing, sometimes.
I also like the idea of big gloves for the lower hands that match the aforementioned boots. Realistically, they wouldn't be able to run on the delicate, sinuous hands I draw. But hell; they also probably wouldn't be able to breathe enough for the whole body, or eat enough to power it. These are the things I'm consciously deciding to ignore for visual appeal; I'm suspending my disbelief on those bits of biomechanics. I am, however, suspecting that their cities are not full of hard surfaces to walk on, since it is generally preferable to have your manipulating appendages naked.
How many of you saw this one coming? I bet everyone who's come up with an "alien species" does this at some point. The more human they are, the easier it is.
When you have four points of support, how much crap can you carry with you? Gotta look up pack mule stuff— (or so I wrote at the top of this page)
Really, it does. Purrr!
By the way, I've kinda associated spirals with myself long before coming up with Twin. Hence the use of them as body markings on myself as one of these things. When I need to put something on a t-shirt a drawing of me is wearing, it's probably a spiral. So in addition to the particular glasses I have at the moment and hair that matches what I'm affecting, there's usually spirals. And a little casual jawbone shaving in this one.
As a tangent... I was having a discussion on that "Van Helsing" movie via AIM during part of writing this, and noted that I coincidentally re-read "The Dracula Tapes" a little before the previews really started rolling for that. "DT" is a book by Fred Saberhagen; it purports to be a transcript of a tape of Dracula telling his side of the story. I inherited it from my father, who was into Dracula. Not to the point of being goth, but definitely a monster-sympathizer, maybe even a monster-fancier (in potential; I don't recall much in the way of cute monsters back then); I think that perhaps some of his occasional bad Transylvania accent bits were him encoding flirting with my mother over my little head.
So maybe me finding monsters attractive, and rendering myself as one, is something I inherited from him, along with being a skinny bitch. A little pondering of my history hidden amongst the chaotic scrawls.
Frame 'em above the waist and they look nearly human! I'm debating if that'd be a fun trick to pull if I end up doing a minicomic with these - start with shots that don't show the full shape, then you turn a page, and bam, there's a full-page view of one, showing her shape.
My worry was, of course, unjustified. In fact, this one was kinda labored due to the complex pose... I like the idea of big punky boots for them, though. Stylin'!
That, incidentally, is the danger of sketching direct in pen. Once you get into the groove, there's a wild freedom no other sketch medium has for me. You can't erase. You have to deal with whatever happens. Work around it, or abandon it; there's no erasing. And it's freeing, sometimes.
I also like the idea of big gloves for the lower hands that match the aforementioned boots. Realistically, they wouldn't be able to run on the delicate, sinuous hands I draw. But hell; they also probably wouldn't be able to breathe enough for the whole body, or eat enough to power it. These are the things I'm consciously deciding to ignore for visual appeal; I'm suspending my disbelief on those bits of biomechanics. I am, however, suspecting that their cities are not full of hard surfaces to walk on, since it is generally preferable to have your manipulating appendages naked.
How many of you saw this one coming? I bet everyone who's come up with an "alien species" does this at some point. The more human they are, the easier it is.
When you have four points of support, how much crap can you carry with you? Gotta look up pack mule stuff— (or so I wrote at the top of this page)
Really, it does. Purrr!
By the way, I've kinda associated spirals with myself long before coming up with Twin. Hence the use of them as body markings on myself as one of these things. When I need to put something on a t-shirt a drawing of me is wearing, it's probably a spiral. So in addition to the particular glasses I have at the moment and hair that matches what I'm affecting, there's usually spirals. And a little casual jawbone shaving in this one.
As a tangent... I was having a discussion on that "Van Helsing" movie via AIM during part of writing this, and noted that I coincidentally re-read "The Dracula Tapes" a little before the previews really started rolling for that. "DT" is a book by Fred Saberhagen; it purports to be a transcript of a tape of Dracula telling his side of the story. I inherited it from my father, who was into Dracula. Not to the point of being goth, but definitely a monster-sympathizer, maybe even a monster-fancier (in potential; I don't recall much in the way of cute monsters back then); I think that perhaps some of his occasional bad Transylvania accent bits were him encoding flirting with my mother over my little head.
So maybe me finding monsters attractive, and rendering myself as one, is something I inherited from him, along with being a skinny bitch. A little pondering of my history hidden amongst the chaotic scrawls.
Frame 'em above the waist and they look nearly human! I'm debating if that'd be a fun trick to pull if I end up doing a minicomic with these - start with shots that don't show the full shape, then you turn a page, and bam, there's a full-page view of one, showing her shape.
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Date: 2004-05-08 01:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-08 02:57 am (UTC)All of 'em!
In various different ways. :}
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Date: 2004-05-08 09:11 am (UTC)Geez, Peggy, you're drawing an awul lot of these taurgirl things. What's the deal? :"D
*duck*
-T'
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Date: 2004-05-08 09:18 am (UTC)I think I *am* going to do a 24h comic with these, if I can work out an end to aim for. I may not end up there due to inspiration mid-stream, but it's my theory that improv works best when you have something to point towards, the way jazz musicians can start with a well-known riff, go off into Cloud-Cuckoo Land, and come back to that riff when it's time to wrap it up. I may also cheat a bit and drop in some of the existing larger drawings if they fit...
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Date: 2004-05-08 09:58 am (UTC)They were six-limbed - legs, arms, and an intermediate limb usable as either. Though Burroughs never really explored that, it was an interesting concept.
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Date: 2004-05-08 10:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-08 02:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-08 07:43 pm (UTC)Awesome!
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Date: 2004-06-16 09:09 am (UTC)Re- how to walk on the hands: I suggest shoes that are a combination of those push up handles and boots. Will draw if you want to know what I'm talking about.
On standing up, I've seen my cat balance on her hind legs. I've always wondered if taurs would, especially if surrounded by bipeds. I figure with practice it wouldn't be much worse for them than a biped hopping around all the time. Even if it was in the difficulty range of walking on one's hands, very acrobatic taurs could manage.
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Date: 2004-06-16 10:44 am (UTC)I imagine these as running only a foot or so shorter than a human of the same torso scale. When they stood on the hinds they'd be giant...