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Published: 2007-11-09 23:40:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 786; Favourites: 1; Downloads: 8
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This is the first part of this -----> [link] in colour, obviously it's not finished yet, but I just liked how the colour had worked out so much that I just had to post it. That and I need help. I'm now stuck as to which direction to go in.1st thing that I'm stuck on is what base colour to put on the tail. Do I go dark or light? Green or blue?
2nd thing is what colour to do her hair. I don't want to do a 'natural' colour and I was thinking either blue or green or maybe even silver, but I can't decided and my head's about to explode so please help!
Thankies and please let me know what you think of it so far.
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[link] check it out with silver hair and let me know what you think. And any help on the tail colour whould be mucho appreciated! And yep she had just finished a dive
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Hmm, maybe make the tail greener at the base and then have it fade to blue as it turns into the water? I like the idea of the silver hair.
The perspective and pose of this are great, and your shading is fantastic - if I can just crit a few things, though, her eyes seem to be looking in different directions, her bottom lip seems abit large and out of line with the top one, and her hairline's just a little high. Feel free to ignore this, of course.
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Hmmm so silver hair seems to be the genral consensus
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Well, eyes are really hard - I always have to redraw them several times before I'm happy. And I know what you mean - I often /know/ something's not accurate but can't get it to look good otherwise. Her hairline's not really that bad, it just struck me personally as a little odd. Shouldn't make a difference.
Ah, yes, the flamers. >_> I haven't caught too many of them so far, but I agree; they are very irritating. 
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Oh they so are and trying to get them to match up is horrid! You get one looking how you want it but can you get the other too? No siree you can't gahhh! I have drawn alot of pics with people winking for that reason 
Flamers are idiots and that's all there is to it
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I used to do that a /lot/, but sometimes it's not really appropriate
Oh, I hate it when I can't find a good reference for a pic >< although what's /worse/ is giving up, drawing the pic as best you can, then when it's nearly finished finding the /perfect/ ref. Gah.
No arguments here.
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Wait it has to be appropriate?
3/4 view can be such a *itch sometimes that's why I try an avoid them or give em long floppy hair so I don't have to do both eyes.
Gah refrences are a pain all I can say is thank god for goggle! 
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XD
I guess...and I do like drawing long flowy hair 
You mean Google, right? 'Cos everyone knows the goggles, they do nothing.
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I just like doing long hair
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Yep.
Too right. I can actually draw eyes on their own OK, it's when I have to do them in context of a face that it becomes hard >_>
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So floaty ahhhhhhhhh ......... *blink* wait where am I? And what was I doing?
I can draw one eye on it's own it's pairing the little buggers up that's the problem
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Mwahaha! Beware the hypnotic powers of the long flowy hair!
Oh, tell me about it. >< I don't know why it's so hard.
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I blame disney for my love of floaty long hair, it's cause of the Little Mermaid *hides face in shame* why'd they have to make it so pretty
Cause life's a *itch
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Haha, I used to love The Little Mermaid 👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Oh I love Mulan! It was the first Disney were I wasn't thinking why the **** dosen't she just save her self!
Mushu: My baby's all grown up and saving China.
Best line by side kick ever!
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YES! I watched it /so/ many times, she kicks so much ass. I'm all for nontraditional heroine roles.
I love Lilo and Stitch and Finding Nemo, as well. They're just so damn cute.
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Did you watch Mulan 2? And if you did what did you think?
Stitch is so awesome! And also cute and fluffy! 
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We do not speak of that abomination and its butchery of everything that was good about the first movie. It went straight to Sequel Hell, like most of them.
Me too!
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Thank god you said that 
I have so many plushies of Stitch it's starting to become a problem
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...Because they like to milk their properties for all they're worth but have no idea exactly what makes them appealing, or any concept of restraint or balance? 👍: 0 ⏩: 1
For example: Mulan 2.
Mulan: "Hey, people seem to like the warrior chick idea, let's have her teach lots of ugly kids to fight but show lots of gooey romantic feelings to confirm she's a girl! We don't actually need some real enemies or for her to show any sign of intelligence or spine!"
Shang: "Hey, people seem to like the stong, commanding type who trusts in his men, let's ram a stick up his ass so far it comes out his nose! And while we're at it, have him forget all common sense and blindly trust three incompetent soldiers to the point he's escorting three princesses across the country with no baggage, armour or other guards!"
Mushu: "Haha, American-accented spunky dragon! Crank up the obnoxiousness factor a bit more! No, more than that. More. No, still more. Keep going! And make the respected Ancestors his slaves! No one will notice the change in portrayal!"
Shoehorn in Those Three Guys being obnoxious and retarded, along with Those Three Princesses (who are just as stupid in a giggly way) being for some reason smitten with them and all 'my duty compels me but yet I can't help being in LUUUUURVE' (I had such hopes the one in blue might be sensible, until she was revealed to be just as retarded as the rest of them), a song which does not rhyme sung by girls who can't sing, a country which was never mentioned before apparently populated by ugly inbred idiots, and a sappy, sugary, COMPLETELY IMPLAUSIBLE ending, and there you have it: Mulan 2.
I mean, I love you and all Disney, but GAWD. Stay away from the sequels. Unless you have someone who knows what they're doing on board, anyway. 
You said! Di you hear about the sequel they were planning for Snow White a couple of years back? Luckly the internet rose up in proteswt and it was scrapped
Pixar!
Nomura! :Worship: God!
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You got that right! That said...I saw Enchanted last night and it was full of corn and cheese, but also of win (despite my mild dislike of Patrick Dempsey and the cliche'd ending).
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Oh I haven't seen that yet! I kinda want to but then again it kinda scares me at the same time
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It's worth a look
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I seen it now and I loved it 
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There were so many good bits in the movie, despite the sappy ending. And yes, James Marsden does a fantastic job (and really suits the role, too). My favourite bit is still Pip's pantomiming Giselle and Nathaniel, though. I laughed out loud at that.
Have you seen the music video for the song at the end, 'Ever Ever After', by the way? They animated the girl who sang it (Carrie Underwood) in the 2D style from the start, and it's really pretty - and the song itself is nice, too.
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Pip was awesome it's true
*runs off to YouTube* 
........ tum ti tum why does YouTube always take so looooooooong
That is a very cool video, but I think that guy should of run a bit more
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I think Pip is my favourite character
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Plus it is Disney
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My sentiments exactly - though 'warped' is not precisely the word I would have used.
Whenever I find myself disliking Disney, though, I have to remind myself that they /did/ give us Kingdom Hearts.
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What word would you have used instead of warped? 
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'Shaped' has almost the same meaning, but it's ambiguous enough to leave us plausible deniability should our statements ever be used against us.
Yeah.....almost. <
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That really applies to /most/ Disney movies made after Finding Nemo and The Incredibles. >_>
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Very true. I wish they'd go back to the classics instead of churning out all these vomit worthy sequels and weird ass travistys that they just make cause they know people will go see it cause it's Disney
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Couldn't have put it better myself. They've gotten really lazy lately.
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It'll bite em on the ass one of these days, it just hasn't beeen the same since Walt died
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You've got that right.
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Oooooooh that is an image that will haunt me ..... for about five minutes
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My work here is done.
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I wonder if they're gonna do any more of the 'classic' animations they used to? I mean they haven't done every fairytale in the world so there's a few more just waiting for the disney touch
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Kids nowadays are kind of jaded with that though. They want witty, ironic twists on fairytales instead. Although they /are/ going back to 2-D, apparently, so who knows, maybe there's hope yet.
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I hope so, I'd liked to see em do more of the Greek legends or maybe a Roman one? Oh the founding of Rome would be good!
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Eeeeeeerrrr.....I'd say all the incest, rape, adultery, petty blood feuds and fratricide/patricide/matricide would rule that out, but hey, they /did/ manage to pull off Hercules (and pretty damn well, too!).
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There isn't all that much in the story of Romulus and Remus, in fact it's quite tame (by ancient legends standards anyway) but I figure if they can butcher the legend of Heracles to make it into a Disney movie they should have no problem with the rest of em
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True (apart from the fratricide aspect). And yes, Hercules was a complete and utter bastardization of every bit of the original myth, but I still liked it. I'm a sucker for gospel music, even if it makes no sense to be singing gospel in ANCIENT GREECE.
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It's disney no hwere does it ever say it'll make sense
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Well, okay, true. You'd think that with the amount of money they're spending on it they'd at least make an effort, though. I loved the Muses too, they were awesome, but all the characters were pretty cool (especially Meg, who was awesomely snarky). They all suffered a bit of character assassination in KH, though, but I think all the Disney characters who had their own world had that; I guess they needed to make them seem a bit less awesome so they didn't take the spotlight away from Sora.
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