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GingerOpal In reply to Compass-Wave [2011-02-09 07:16:17 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much!

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GingerOpal In reply to SunniDanni [2008-05-09 16:10:01 +0000 UTC]

No, don't. Those earlier pictures were actually me LEARNING to draw Asians. The reason was that I had an editor see my self potrait of me as a pirate, and she asked, "Can you make her Chinese? If you do, then you've got a job." And I only had a vague idea of how to draw Asians, as in once in a while I could accidently make one look right. But I wasn't going to tell her that. One of the first rules of illustration is that you say you can draw anything, even if you can't. So I told the editor, "Yeah, I'll make her Chinese! Chinese are easy!" And then I rushed home and studied all the differect kind of East Asian faces for a few days and drawing them until I got them right. Now I can draw them out of my head. So no, don't rethink your previous comment. They're pretty old drawings, anyway, almost a year old.

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SunniDanni In reply to GingerOpal [2008-05-10 16:22:23 +0000 UTC]

Eh! A year old!

Man, this one is real good though. Likey!

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GingerOpal In reply to CapnFlynn [2008-05-09 03:38:37 +0000 UTC]

Yay, someone noticed!

Thank yous.

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GingerOpal In reply to WisdomsPearl [2008-05-09 03:38:17 +0000 UTC]

Actually it's not fanart. I drew this to get a job with Peachtree publishing company. The editor there wanted to see my version of Madame Cheng because she's writing a short story about her for an anthology she's putting together. I got the job, yay! I get to start it later this summer. I was surprised they made Madame Cheng so old and ugly in PotC, however, because in real life she was young and beautiful when she first came to power in 1804, very close to when PotC takes place. Her looks are actually what got her command of the fleet anyway. The pirate captain who kidnapped her from wherever she was a slave at wanted her to marry him so much, but she'd only consent if he agreed to give her equal share of everything he had, and he was all "yeah sure whatever you say, just marry me." A few years later he died in a storm and Mrs. Cheng took over his entire fleet and through her organizational skills she managed to be such a pain in the neck to China that even China's Navy couldn't defeat her huge fleet, and the Emperor granted her a peaceable pardon if she'd just leave his navy alone. She retired early and comfortably in style, running a gambling house. It's a really neat piece of history, she was the most successful pirate ever. She even made a list of rules for all 80,000 of her men to follow, which included, "You cannot capture any woman without her consent." Ha, she's so awesome.

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WisdomsPearl In reply to GingerOpal [2008-05-09 03:47:23 +0000 UTC]

Wow, that's amazing. I just learned something. I had no idea Madame Cheng was a real person. Thanks for that

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