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Published: 2008-06-10 19:22:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 8064; Favourites: 145; Downloads: 42
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Right…so after reading ~KaliPhantom ’s Spirit Quintology and watching “Fright Before Christmas,” I was bitten by the Ghost Writer bug, and had to start drawing him. I thought he deserved an actual background, so here he is in his library with his books and his lovely shimmery Quantum Keyboard, looking suave and showing off those wonderful sharp teeth of his. *shivers* Oooohh. That guy can write me into his book anytime. *laughs* Come on—scruffy hair, pointed ears, pointed teeth… Plus, he glows. Seriously. I want a guy who glows. XD (The pose? I don't know why, but I always found the gesture of pushing one's glasses up attractive. I'm weird like that.)Speaking of glows, the good news is, I learned how to do outer edge glowy effects for this one. Getting Writer’s face down was, oddly enough, both difficult and easy. It’s pretty variable in the show, and I really like the way I did him, but I wonder if I made his proportions more realistic than they ought to be. Still happy with it though. More realism never hurt anyone.
I know, I know, I should be working on my other projects...But once I find something new to obsess over it sort of starts taking over everything else...e-heh...
Tools Used: MS Paint, Photoshop 5, way too much time. No tablet for this one, just a mouse.
Musical Inspiration: "Paperback Writer” by the Beatles.
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He's so devious and also so cute. I'm so peeved he only got featured in one episode, a holiday special at that. Those are NEVER remembered as well as the non-holiday themed special episodes of a show.
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o///o :iconmatespritshiplz: i love this! the ghostwriter is so cute :>
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Now you see, most people when they see a guy like this would go 'What a creeper.' Now me, i go '*sigh* isint he dreamy?'
Yeah xD im one of those girls, oddly enough, my friends say i should date him if he was real because i look like him, odd ruffled hair, awsome long coat, scarf, glass, the whole jig, the only thing missing is being a ghost, sideburns, and whatever you wanna call his beard thingie xD
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Hm, goatee? Maybe?
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i think it might be too long for a goatee, but it seems the closest
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I've always loved the Ghost Writer and you're talented if you can draw this with a mouse!!
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He's my favorite ghost ^^
I draw with pencil, but then I scan it and use the curve and fill tools in MS Paint to do the rest. So I guess it's technically not drawing with the mouse, but linearting that way is harder than doing it with a tablet, that's for sure.
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lol yea you're still talented! Seeing as though I'm a writer myself it sorta strikes hard. Yes all us writers are psychos lol
My fav is probably Danny, Dan, Ghost Writer, and Vlad
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Dan and Vlad are my next-favorites ^u^
And I write (or used to write) too, though I haven't posted too much here. We're not psycho!
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Really?! Oh, then I guess that murder wasn't because he dissed my writing...
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*drools a little* Ghost Writer looks really sexy! <.< >.> *pins him down on ground* Take off those clothes,you sexy thang!
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-drools-.....
*brain implodes* OH SHI-
and.. YOU DREW THIS WITH A MOUSE? -wipes drool out of corners of mouth- one word. SEXINESS.
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AH THE WONDERS OF MS PAINT'S CURVE TOOL
8D Thaaaaaanks. ^_^
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Ah. I can never use the curve tool. the curvy lines dissapear after i draw them. glarp.
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not my most fav villains of DP. I think he's annoying.
BUT there is a possible side to him I like, his abilities to warped up your life as a story he writes and It'll come true. ^^
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I think he was meant to be annoying. 
Thanks for the fav and the watch, btw, and I know how you feel about faving and vanishing. I shall make every effort to remember to comment on your series!
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This is an AMAZING piece of work! You have pretty much made go into Fangirl!Isca mode.
Ghostwriter is one of my favorite DP characters (I dont say "villian" on the grounds he only wanted to teach a lesson and all the other ghosts are jealous of his smarts/hotness)
You did this with a MOUSE! *faints* I only have a mouse myself and I could never get something like this.
Now im going to go stare at this picture for a while
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^_^ Glad you like it! Nothing wrong with Fangirl!mode...
I agree, he's not a villain, despite his being 'really quite wicked' and killing a bunch of deer. (I don't know how that works.)
The curve tool on MS Paint makes this kind of stuff much easier to do with a mouse than it seems--all clicking, no clicking and dragging required! You should try it out if you get the chance.
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I'll keep that in mind. Thank you!
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DEVAAAAAAN... *cough cough*
Sorry... Damn he'S hot and DAMN! He looks like he knows that bloody well!!!
You did a great job! I find myself unable to raw him in original DP style...
Grrrr.... argh... come on boy! Get onto that keybpard and out of those clothes, you knwo you love the camera... dang he's hot...
Sorry... I'm just not able to write a serious comment to this picture... his sexapeal just made my mind cave in...*slobbers*
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XD Wow...yes, I can see that. I don't mind if the comment isn't "serious" as long as I get the impression that you liked it. Looks like you did... O.O
'Damn he'S hot and DAMN! He looks like he knows that bloody well!!!' <-- exactly what I was going for ^_^
So you call him Devan? So far I've seen that, as well as Gregory, Geoffrey, and John. As for myself, I call him Clive, like C.S. Lewis, so that he can hate his first name and go by his last name, Ryder.
*laughs* I may draw him on the keyboard at some point, in a productive sense (?), but not without clothes! *protective* Well, maybe without pants at some point. But only because ghosts' pants tend to vanish when they turn their legs into tails.
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ahhaah Yes... we ( , and me) tend to call him Devan O'Byrne due to our RPG ... he's irish there... (and hey his name therefore then means Poet (Devan) of the Raven (O'Byrne)... we thought that would fit ^^
And don'T worry you don't need to draw him naked I do that often enough... what brings me to notice I don't upload half of the pics I do of him on DA O.O...
Ghost Ryder... Ghostwriter... quite cool... XD
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*laughs* That does fit pretty well! Irish, eh? I do see him coming from the Isles, but he always struck me as Welsh, because of the dark hair.
Lol. Neither do I. *works on getting better*
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I just don't know why we put him Irish again... I guess because both Ashee and me like Irish people... and because his voice (darn VA is so smexy) sounds so scruffy like he'd bee drinking whiskey all the time ^^... I know he has no irish accent in DP but he'd sound great with one... (and so many famous writers are irish too)
Oh and now there's the other reason... Keats!... riiight now I remember... I always thought Keats reminds me to GW so when we started the rpg we thought let's make him Irish...
Keats from Folklore [link] an irish author/reporter with a purple leather coat, glasses, stubbles, a sexy voice and a pretty deep connection ot ghosts and the netherworld... his part of Intro starts at 1:40 [link]
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Huh, I could've sworn I replied to this. Oh well...
Hey, that stuff looks pretty cool. Now if I ever play that game, I'm going to think of Writer
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Oh! I remember this episode! I'm such a big DP fan! Do you know if it's still on air because I haven't seen it in such a long time... 
You drew this with a MOUSE? That is just unbelieveable! Now I know that you're mouse AND tablet skillz are infinite! Especially the background! It totally looks like an artist from the TV series drew it!
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I know it was cancelled, but they might still run it. I've never seen it on TV, myself. They have a bunch of the episodes up on livevideo.com, though, if you want to see them again.
Yus, it is the wonders of the curve tool in MSPaint! Enabling one to create DP-style art with only a mouse since...uh...whenever Paint was invented. The background is courtesy of the polygons of Photoshop 5, though.
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Oh! Thanks for the heads up! I've always wanted to watch those sacred episodes again!
I think Paint was invented... uh... er... when Bill Gates was born? 
Photoshop is always useful in SOMETHING... Even as little as a DOT. O_O Dots are very important you know.
BTW I love your sig. Instead of the word "the" I spell "like" wrong almost every time.
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Ah yes, the Ghost Writer bug.. Unfortunately, it's teeth are just as sharp as the writer's so you may find yourself drawing him more.
Which isn't bad at all! We could always use more art in the fanbase.
Nice true-to-the-show style.
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Very true. There isn't nearly enough! Thanks
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Thanks, and thanks for the fav.
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You've updated! This has made my day a lot better (considering exams are tomorrow*shudders*) As I can see, you've gotten better. Love the glow effect and how he blends in with the background. And the pose is the smex (glasses are indeed a turn on...)
I believe you've resparked my DP interest. I've never heard of this character (I stopped my DP watching awhile ago *shame fest*). But now I'll think I'll look him up.....
But overall, good job! Can't wait to see what you cook up next.
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Aw, thanks. Good luck on your exams!
I'd never heard of the character before, either. Weirdly enough, I only got into DP after the entire show was over, which is...strange, to say the least. This guy's only in one episode, which, fortunately, I found on livevideo.com. Here are the links:
Part One
Part Two
Enjoy. But don't hold your breath for more work of mine. I tend to be a slow cooker -.- LOL.
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Eeheehee… I do like that pose. Writer looks a bit off model, but I can't place where or how, really, except possibly around the shoulders/upper arms somewhere… 
You've done an amazing, fantastic job of the background, too. I was expecting you to say in your notes that you'd modified a screencap, but no, no, you drew that. 
I don't know about glowing men. I think I could live without that. Pointed ears, however…
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Trust me, it's annoying me, probably a whole lot more than you. XD I've been continuing to study his design and making a list of little details that might help, since I really like to try to draw characters accurately rather than in "my" style. It's hard to compromise, though, sometimes; take for instance the pupils. They ought to be smaller, technically--but--on the other hand, larger pupils make things (?) look 'cuter.'
You know, I think I might have made up that part of his coat. I have no idea where I got that idea...but I like it. XD Dunno why.
My goodness, that makes us sound so shallow. XD But you're right. It's nice that he's one of the more human ghosts; even his color is almost correct. (I imagine he was a pale human, too). Makes the little quirks stand out more. Despite that, though, I think I may be one of the few fans who would say that she wouldn't molest him if he suddenly appeared in front of me. I'd probably just ask him to talk. A lot. Because he also has a very smexy voice. And I'd sit there and stare at him while I listened, and try to string some intelligent sentences together.
Meh, the background was just a bunch of polygons. Tedious but not really all that difficult. His Quantum Keyboard was much harder though, smply because they change its color design every five minutes!!! So I simply picked the one I liked best.
Glad you liked!
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Heh, true enough. I know the feeling. 
Heh, I guess so, but for me at least, it's always personality first, looks second. 
Okay. Fine. Disabuse me of my belief that having lots of things in a background makes it difficult. 
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I do try to usually go for the show's style, mainly because I don't really consider myself to have my own style. As I said, to me, it's the most "accurate" style I can get, and it reminds me the most of the character. The problem then is making it perfect. But sometimes there are people whose renditions in other styles are believable. Because I can't do that, I consider it even harder, if only on a personal level. Kalei-chan's work comes to mind. 👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Agreed; personality must come first. That makes me wonder again about women liking villain-type characters. You can't really like them for their personality...so...potential personality? XD
I always laugh when I see teenage girls proclaiming over the Internet, "Don't touch ___
I admire your consistency--I desperately, desperately wish I were that consistent. It'd make my gallery make a lot more sense, that's for sure. I'll grudgingly admit that according to the strange rules of the fangirl world, it also makes your "claim" to him much more legit.
How about being intimidated by the fact that you're in an impossible situation? I think that's what would get to me, and is the main reason I wouldn't be able to hold my own, with the result that everyone would get bored and leave. XD Either that, or I'd get into a debate over a point we disagreed on. Even so, I doubt he'd be willing to talk for long before returning to his work anyway.
Happy to do so! And yeah, the backgrounds can be weird. It's amusing how often they have people just standing there holding the same expressions and poses with the hope that the viewer will always be looking at the speaking character in the foreground.
That's fair. After all, my style seems to have stagnated when I was eleven or so. 
Yeah, potential personality. 
I laugh and groan, then decide that they're really not harming anyone, will grow out of it, and look back and be absolutely mortified that they ever acted that way. 
Oh, don't get me wrong. I'm a fan of plenty of other characters (Vlad and Lancer, and from other fandoms, Hiro Nakamora, Dean Winchester, Kaylee Frye, Wash, the Doctor, Sam Vimes, Crowley, Merry, Pippin…
That I could see, but I think if I was ever in the situation, the rules of the universe would be such that I'd feel fairly normal, so…
Viewers like me, you mean?
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I think my style stagnated around that time too…For a long time after I began to draw again, I was terrible at anatomy. You can see examples of that even in the older stuff in my gallery, drawn just a year ago or less! Even now, it’s still sort of hit or miss with me. I draw very geometrically, memorizing patterns and rules of distance that help. I think it makes drawing much more cut-and-dried than writing, actually. Geometry helps you know what ought to be in a place, in a way that can’t really exist for writers—at least in terms of body proportion.
Some women see very far in some cases. XD
True enough. Maybe an idea of Heaven factors in there? The Great Unknowable? And now I’m going to try thinking of characters with rabid fangirl followings who are not armed or skilled in physical combat. Frodo comes to mind…
I love Disneyland. ^_^ Or to be more specific, Disney World and the parks associated with Orlando, Florida. I’ve been there quite a few times, and it was always so much fun. I found I did enjoy Epcot much more as I grew older, though.
I think you might be assuming too much about the type of fangirls Writer attracts…though you’re right in that I haven’t seen any such fics. *points to comments* Is being satisfied with a clothed Writer a prereq for those labels?
Yes, Hiro! The Doctor! Merry! Pippin! I…don’t know who the others are, save Dean, but I have to agree with those choices. If I were to make a list, it’d be a lot less mature—I started to like certain characters at a very young age—and it would have Sam in it, and Snape, Jack Skellington,
Naah. I just got lucky with this one; it’s all straight lines and most of those are rectangles. It’s when you add the circles and diagonals that it gets harder. And that bit about the watermelon is cool; I can see that. Now I’ve been mouthing it all night.
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I am good with geometry, but horrendous at lengths and straight lines. I really don't want to take the time to map out everything about a sketch with a ruler, compass, and probably a protractor, since that strikes me as being somehow too analytical to truly be "art" and I'm not patient enough. I've tried the memorization thing, for basic proportions and that doesn't seem to have helped much either. Thankfully, I don't care that much about how my drawings look, so none of that bothers me.
But Frodo has a sword for most of LOTR. He may not be particularly good with it, but it's there. He's armed.
I enjoy Disneyland. Haven't been there in ages though, and would really like to go back. I haven't been to the "new" park there. And Disneyworld is also on my list of places to visit someday. I don't care how cheesy Epcot would be for a twenty-something, I want to see it! I'd imagine having greater world knowledge would be good there, to a point, and then you'd start seeing how dumbed down much of it is for the kiddies.
I'm only assuming things about one type of fangirl. Not all of them, and I know there are rabid Writer fans out there. But … I've never seen a rabid Writer fic. In the writing community, it's pretty much standard that people who write Writer see him in a similar way to how I (we) do.
Mkay, yeah. Kaylee and Wash are both from Firefly, Sam Vimes is from the Discworld novels, and Crowley is from Good Omens. All completely awesome characters who I could watch/read again and again. I think Xander and Spike from Buffy would also be in there, though I haven't seen much of the show. Oh yes, and Jack Sparrow. 
I didn't turn fangirl until about four or five years ago, about the time I started college. I missed out on the immature fan phase, luckily. I liked characters before then, but never approached them fannishly.
My "perfect guy concept" is the product of sitting down and thinking about who I've crushed on irl and who I like in shows. I go for smart, witty, kind personalities, and thin, nerdy bodies.
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