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Oh my god.

Finally.

You do NOT want to know how long this took. It's embarrassing to think about. Started life out as a quick sketch done at breakfast one morning and then became a pen-tool trial and from there, turned into a month and a half's worth of anality.

But I've wanted to draw a Disney!Copernicus for quite a while now and I didn't want to do things 100% historically accurate. Hence the absurd clothing and completely random sword (which is also on the wrong side). But it was tonnes of fun and I learned loads and loads in the process. Not entirely happy with the lighting (surprise) and his shadow looks like one of those flood carriers from Halo but I'm not going to change it now. HAR.

Still trying to decide whether to like his shoes or find them really retarded. Maybe it's a bit of both. Love it too how there's next to no line value. *WIN*

For a REALLY good tutorial on using the bastard pen-tool, check out: [link]

And the title is taken from the Preface of Copernicus' De Revolutionibus when he is describing his reasons for undertaking the work that he did. If anyone... uh... really cares...

Music: "The Pollen Jocks" and "Barry Flies Out" from Bee Movie.
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Comments: 26

VampireHunterAmanda [2010-01-13 08:26:00 +0000 UTC]

I do believe I just dropped my teacup out of shock at the awesomeness! You've done a brilliant job! Keep up the fantastic work and the historical re-enactment costuming!

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ColonelLiamRoss In reply to VampireHunterAmanda [2010-02-03 21:42:15 +0000 UTC]

This is SO belated but thank you very much!! I'm so glad you like it seeing as it took a very long time and is particularly near and dear to me!

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InKibus [2008-05-14 00:49:27 +0000 UTC]

A d'oh, I just collected it into the wrong collection.

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InKibus [2008-05-14 00:47:26 +0000 UTC]

Fabulous ! You did get that 'Disney' clean and clear look, but it's definetly a you piece. I mean, you make him look charming and somewhat cheeky!

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ColonelLiamRoss In reply to InKibus [2008-05-19 20:34:03 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, Inki! Glad you like it! Funny too how everyone is saying my alleged 'style' still shows up. Glad to hear I got the 'charming' factor down... I didn't want him to look really suave or anything but he's still got to have a sort of... compelling air about him.

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HerOdyssey [2008-04-16 15:26:09 +0000 UTC]

Shoes look fine. That's an excellent work. I wish I could do a Disney.

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HauntedWords [2008-03-24 06:46:12 +0000 UTC]

I love it!!! The shading looks fantastic.

And nobody takes longer to complete far simpler and completely inferior work than I do! (So don't feel bad. )

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HauntedWords In reply to HauntedWords [2008-03-30 06:12:49 +0000 UTC]

"If I rush, I find it just looks completely terrible and feel as though I haven't really... I dunno.... worked at it..."

Some of my stuff ends up looking like that even when I HAVE put time and work into it. LOL! Oh well...

By the way, your sig totally cracks me up! Buttocky...best word ever.

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ColonelLiamRoss In reply to HauntedWords [2008-03-29 16:36:57 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! Glad to hear the shading works out well! I was a bit worried...

But at least we take time with our art, right? If I rush, I find it just looks completely terrible and feel as though I haven't really... I dunno.... worked at it...

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ThirdPotato [2008-03-24 02:42:22 +0000 UTC]

I think it turned out great!!! It's so Disney-esque with that lovely twist of your own style. (mostly in the sexy nose. XDD Disney would never draw such a sexy nose haha) I love the color scheme you got goin' on there too

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ColonelLiamRoss In reply to ThirdPotato [2008-03-29 16:39:12 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! That means a lot, coming from you! Glad to hear I got the 'Disney' down. XD Gawd, that nose makes me have conniptions and you're right - Disney would NEVER have anything as awesome.

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Drocan [2008-03-24 00:18:36 +0000 UTC]

That looks totally Disney. Great reproduction of the style.

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ColonelLiamRoss In reply to Drocan [2008-03-29 16:39:54 +0000 UTC]

Awesome! That's really good to hear. Thanks for the too.

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Daughter-Mestizo [2008-03-23 16:55:08 +0000 UTC]

Wow!! The work you put into this really shows! It's very clean, which I always find difficult to get, even with digital colouring.

D-M

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ColonelLiamRoss In reply to Daughter-Mestizo [2008-03-29 16:42:03 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! Yeah... I laboured on this for hours. Definitely agree on the cleanness thing with digital art. But the pen tool works wonders for lineart so that helped enormously!

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Feantauriel [2008-03-23 13:44:40 +0000 UTC]

Very nice sword! And its not necessarily on the wrong side... a really good swordsman could fight both right- and left-handed, so maybe it just doesn't matter to him which side he draws it from Because he's special like that haha.
Cool shoes too.

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ColonelLiamRoss In reply to Feantauriel [2008-03-23 17:00:24 +0000 UTC]

Ooo, YES. Excellent point about the sword. Yeah, I'll put it down to that for sure. XD Glad you like the shoes!

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sketchysquirrel [2008-03-23 07:52:04 +0000 UTC]

YEEEE the colors and the shading and everythingggg. Nic's never looked so fabulous! And his hands are totally rocking my world right now! I'm just going to keep staring at this haha
Awesome, awesomeee job, Missus! *so proud*

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ColonelLiamRoss In reply to sketchysquirrel [2008-03-23 16:59:24 +0000 UTC]

LOL Yeah, I find him pretty much amazingly hot here. It's terrible. Haha, I had to use my own hands for a reference again - originally had them as random, vaguely hand-shaped 'blocks' but decided to actually try and draw real ones. They look kind of fat to me - do you get that too? Thanks soooo much though!

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sketchysquirrel In reply to ColonelLiamRoss [2008-03-23 17:29:05 +0000 UTC]

haha I ALWAYS just draw scribbles for hands xD

I think they look pwnsome-- but I suppose if you would want him to have those long, thin hands that are like makani!creepy, then they would be kind of stubby here (like mine! lol). I still love 'em though!

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ColonelLiamRoss In reply to sketchysquirrel [2008-03-29 16:45:21 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, there's some people who can draw the BEST bloody hands just by putting down a few lines. Urgh.

Hmmm... you know I was actually obsessing about Nic's hands Thursday night driving home from the lecture - and I think they would be fairly long but not pointy or anything... if that makes sense... LOL

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sketchysquirrel In reply to ColonelLiamRoss [2008-03-30 23:53:00 +0000 UTC]

lol his handsss.

homygosh how did the lecture go? I'd forgotten about it!

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Tullmarc [2008-03-23 07:43:10 +0000 UTC]

awsome! I like the character face design!

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ColonelLiamRoss In reply to Tullmarc [2008-03-23 07:46:19 +0000 UTC]

Thanks so much! I think that's my favourite part.

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Meshkalina [2008-03-23 07:41:40 +0000 UTC]

Looks Great. Very well done.

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ColonelLiamRoss In reply to Meshkalina [2008-03-23 07:46:52 +0000 UTC]

Thank you kindly!

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