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@Pyraxis- Holy shit, you are good at lighting and anatomy and fabric. How much reference do you use for stuff like that? This is making me want to go off and try drawing something more realistic, it's been a while.
Also, dang, speritu are creepy-looking. And now I'm all curious about what's going on in the story.
Also, dang, speritu are creepy-looking. And now I'm all curious about what's going on in the story.
Whoa, I'm agreeing that the speritu are creepy. If I saw something like that, I would not be sleeping for like a month.
Fiona? Why are your hands on fire? So now you and me and Pyraxis have all been on fire? This seems like it's getting to be a problem around here.
Fiona? Why are your hands on fire? So now you and me and Pyraxis have all been on fire? This seems like it's getting to be a problem around here.
If you do, I want to see it. I had a bunch of reference photos for this. Two for the background - one with the tree trunks, and one photo of rocks and sky, looking up a hill, that just happened to be sideways in my image viewer. So I left it that way. They were both daytime shots, so the lighting is my own invention, but inspired by Boris Vallejo backgrounds. Working as a CG lighting artist for a few months really helped because now I automatically break down scenes in my head into their respective light sources, so I can mentally add or subtract them as if I were plunking lights into a Maya scene and have at least some sense of how they'll look.
For Fiona I used my own body, since our body types are really similar. I just googled a bunch of photos of red-haired women to get the skin and freckles right. Her pants are very similar to a pair I own, but I didn't have reference for her shirt (and I think you can tell, it's not quite as realistic). For Sha I googled pics of little boys but I had to do the pose myself and just used the pics for sizing up proportions.
For Fiona I used my own body, since our body types are really similar. I just googled a bunch of photos of red-haired women to get the skin and freckles right. Her pants are very similar to a pair I own, but I didn't have reference for her shirt (and I think you can tell, it's not quite as realistic). For Sha I googled pics of little boys but I had to do the pose myself and just used the pics for sizing up proportions.
Ah, cool.
Thanks for the Photoshop brushes, btw. Helped me finally feel like I could draw in Photoshop more naturally. Currently trying to draw Sh-San, I've never managed to do a decent pic of him. I'll post it when I'm done.
Thanks for the Photoshop brushes, btw. Helped me finally feel like I could draw in Photoshop more naturally. Currently trying to draw Sh-San, I've never managed to do a decent pic of him. I'll post it when I'm done.
Hey, uh - *steps back in, looks suddenly shy, blushes*
Yeah, the fire. That's what I do. I didn't get to learn much magic when I was at Eilieah but I knew how to do that before I even went there. I guess that's how they figured out to send me, they saw it in my brain.
That's the only thing that'll make speritu stay away.
*smiles slightly, makes a tree trunk, and plops down on it*
Hope you don't mind if I hang out here for a bit. I'm supposed to be here, Pyraxis says so, 'cause this is my post. She says she has to be creative. And she's already pissed off at the way I'm talking 'cause she wanted something else, but whatever. Wait, that didn't make sense. What I mean to say is my talking is supposed to help her be creative.
Yeah.
I almost feel sorry for her cause she has this story she wants so badly to tell but she messed up her brain and now she can't.
Yeah, the fire. That's what I do. I didn't get to learn much magic when I was at Eilieah but I knew how to do that before I even went there. I guess that's how they figured out to send me, they saw it in my brain.
That's the only thing that'll make speritu stay away.
*smiles slightly, makes a tree trunk, and plops down on it*
Hope you don't mind if I hang out here for a bit. I'm supposed to be here, Pyraxis says so, 'cause this is my post. She says she has to be creative. And she's already pissed off at the way I'm talking 'cause she wanted something else, but whatever. Wait, that didn't make sense. What I mean to say is my talking is supposed to help her be creative.
Yeah.
I almost feel sorry for her cause she has this story she wants so badly to tell but she messed up her brain and now she can't.
Oh my god! XD That, too. And Avery!
Yonjuunana better look out. I bet she spontaneously combusts next!
Hey Daria, have you ever gotten on fire?
Yonjuunana better look out. I bet she spontaneously combusts next!
Hey Daria, have you ever gotten on fire?
Hey, of course I don't mind. *summons a tree stump for himself to sit down on* Actually it would be really cool to get a chance to talk to you more, I still don't feel like I know you that well or what sort of things you do. I mean, I know you've got that kid Sha, and I know you're a squirrel-monkey- Oh shit! Sorry, sorry... *grimaces, looks away and covers his mouth with his hands for a moment* I don't know if you want to talk about that. Changing the subject now.
Um. Anyway. I actually do have some questions, if you don't mind answering. As always, feel free to tell me to shut the hell up.
I guess I'm mostly wondering about that place Ua I keep hearing people talking about. What's it like? Sha's from there, right? Did you live there for a while or something? How did you meet Sha and adopt him in the first place?
Um. Anyway. I actually do have some questions, if you don't mind answering. As always, feel free to tell me to shut the hell up.
I guess I'm mostly wondering about that place Ua I keep hearing people talking about. What's it like? Sha's from there, right? Did you live there for a while or something? How did you meet Sha and adopt him in the first place?
XD Okay. This is really getting out of hand.
Come on, Yonjuunana! All the cool kids are doing it!
Come on, Yonjuunana! All the cool kids are doing it!
How do they kill you? Are they just ghosty things? I mean, I heard what they are from you and Daria. :( But if they're stuck in the between, what can they do to people?
Hey, I burned my arm pretty bad when I fell off that ladder onto the fireplace. I've got the scar to prove it. I think I can join this club.
Flames or it didn't count!! :D
They touch you and you freeze to death. But it's more than that. They.... They're coming around me, and I'm thinking I can't let them get to Sha, and I look behind me, and it's not Sha, it's this kid Keari that I used to know, and then I'm not in the woods, I'm back in the tunnel under Eilieah. But if I do things like I was in the tunnel, then it'll turn out I was really still in the woods and I just blasted a tree, or - or something worse. So I'm trying to hang on to what reality is, but at the same time I don't want to, cause my wards are already messed up and it's hard keeping wards and if I let myself get drained then I really won't have any uza left to make fire with. So I think, well let them mess with my eyes however they want, I'll just open my eyes and look straight at them and see whatever they want me to, but I'm scared out of my fucking mind and they keep disappearing anyway, them and their illusions and everything, and then there's nothing but forest, but I know any second they're gonna come back....
Shut up, Pyraxis. Go away.
Shut up, Pyraxis. Go away.
Fire can be an exceptional self-defense tool, says Deborah. But don't use it when you're angry!
Erk. Um. What if I can only do it when I'm angry? Or that's when it works best anyway. And what if when I'm mad is when I reeeeally really want to do it?
Besides. Mad is good. Mad blasts the fuck out of speritu. I would be dead twenty times over if I couldn't get mad.
Besides. Mad is good. Mad blasts the fuck out of speritu. I would be dead twenty times over if I couldn't get mad.
Hahahahahahaha! Um. I don't think I want to join the club THAT badly. I'm not fireproof.
I need to learn how to make this stuff so I can join the club... with science! :D
I need to learn how to make this stuff so I can join the club... with science! :D
Oh, speaking of shooting fire and stuff... Have you guys ever seen Avatar: The Last Airbender? I watched it recently and it was pretty fun. It does some interesting stuff with elemental powers.
So some people on Karn get magic aside from shapeshifting every now and then? How does that work?
So some people on Karn get magic aside from shapeshifting every now and then? How does that work?
Oh, also- Do you know how to front? And what happened to Pyraxis' brain?
Holy crap, that's scary! D: I'm glad there's no ghosts where I'm from. At least I don't think there are. Although I wonder if they could kill me? I don't know if I can freeze to death.
I'm glad you guys are okay. Did you set them on fire?
I'm glad you guys are okay. Did you set them on fire?
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