HOME | DD
hattonslayden — trying to find common ground refine
Published: 2014-04-09 00:39:18 +0000 UTC; Views: 12545; Favourites: 212; Downloads: 115
Redirect to original
Description
by placing a temp black background i can pull out the parts that need fixingand as for that 'thing' they have in common. it's food. they both love food that is sweet and or spicy. from jams to peppers, and from cakes to sauces, sweet and spicy is what they found in common and how Nell was finally able to reach Gerrard as a person to a person and not a monster.
once he could see her as a person, Gerrard found that he could see her as a woman not unlike the women he had pursued earlier in his life. the fact that she looked different was no longer a vile thing like human society demanded he think and he could see that she is in fact quite beautiful.
i do see a bit of irony though in the use of food, at least in my experience with the portrayal of Naga
Related content
Comments: 73
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
holy hell this gets the concept of a naga to a whole new level!
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
one of the big themes behind khedira and antheus in ravine is exactly that
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
:nods: that is what makes me eager to read it
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Very good sense of the intent, friendly, alien. And an utterly bewildered human.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Awesome!^-^
I love the bit of story you put in this! It really touches home.
I laughed when I read that their common ground was food... They almost look like snake and mouse kind of deal there. He looks so uncomfortable it's hilarious! Keep up the good work!
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
thanks a bunch that is pretty much my intent
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
I love to read little mini-stories... They always are good for when I feel bored but too lazy to read a whole story.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Never! they are all MINE! nomnomnom
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
-Lets make a Deal, if you solve this Cube, I'll not squeeze you... But if you dont... I'll be glad to hear each bone of you body crashes as I squeeze you slowly.
-Deal? ^.^
-D d d d d d d d de de deal!
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
after spending 3 months just to nurse him back to health?.... no i don't think so
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
..is though good home cookin
one of these days i need to create the foods that exist in these worlds
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Their relationship is off to a slow start, but at least it has started well.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
well wait until i draw their fist meeting
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
I think that the relationship started with a random comment about an ingredient one of them was looking for. I can get that they first connected over food, but how did they start to connect over food?
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
how they met is Gerrard fell out of a low flying airship and nearly died. Nell found him and nursed him back to health. she spent the next several months trying to make friends with him but no success until they found their love of food
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Okay, how did he fall out of an airship, how did she find him, and what was his first reaction to her?
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
in this time period humans live in flying cities so they don't have to interact with the non-human peoples of the world.
Gerrard was a deck hand on one of the air ships and fell off due to being clumsy.
Nell happened upon him by chance and nursed him back to health because it is in her nature to and she was fascinated to see a human for the first time.
Gerrard was terrified of her because i grew up with stories of Naga eating their victims alive and all sorts of horrible things (which are all lies in this world)
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
They have flying cities? Must be either steampunk or magic. And if they live there to avoid non-humans, they must be mislead by their leaders into thinking they are only safe in the air, and that all humans are in the air.
I have been on ships before, and there are a lot of things that are in place to keep somebody from falling off. The same was true for airships of old. The very fact he WAS able to fall off in a way that could be "innocently" explained as clumsiness seems strange. Even going so far as to suspect foul play.
"Happened upon him by chance." I can only imagine him falling out of the branches of a tree he landed in right onto her head. I'm guessing that Naga's usually only wear shirts, and she tore it up to help bandage his wounds and whatever bones that were broken in the fall. Which would explain why she is seen shirtless even when she isn't being sexy with Gerrard.
And the idea that Naga eat victims alive probably started as a rumor seeing how snakes eat their prey alive. I wouldn't be surprised if they were able to eat large amounts of food Whole, but I feel that a Naga eating somebody alive would be comparable to psychopath serial killers in the real world. They are extremely rare, and are usually pitiful.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Its getting worse with this designercouches every time, this one s even living xD
nice pic
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
:3 what do you think of these?
dragon-blood-runs.deviantart.c…
dragon-blood-runs.deviantart.c…
Also interspecies relationships
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
i really liked "trouble with dragons"
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
x3 im bad with chibi's and it was more of a doodle but lots of people found it amusing. What do you think happens next XDDDD
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
DEATH BY SNUUSNUU
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
HAHAAAAAAH! YES! wouldnt be so bad with her. she seems like she would be a gentle lover. then again, im only guessing.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
The cube is food? I thought it was the apocarubics cube or somesuch.
I think it'd be a bit difficult to find things needing fixing with Gerards hair in a black backgrouund, but for everything else I agree. I think I see one thing though - her belly scales seem to take a very drastic turn upwards from this angle of view.
I notice (thanks to the original being in the 'more from hattonslayden window' to the right I must admit) that you've mirrored it horizintally. Why?
I may simply not have noticed it, but did she always have such slender spider-leg-fingers? I like them, they look weird, but are they intentional or not finished?
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
no no i have not done the illustration that shows them daring a meal yet, i was just telling the story.
i have several illustrations planned that show the progression of their relationship.
i see what you mean, on the scales thanks on that.
i flip the image a lot because it is a trick to show if the image is 'skewed'
and yes her hands are intentionally that way but still unfinished
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
It'll be interesting to get to know them.
That's a neat trick if it works. My images are always skewed, though to be fair I am using my hands and paper, so I can't change them.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
| Next =>