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Published: 2010-05-12 02:44:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 282; Favourites: 8; Downloads: 2
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(I never know where to categorise things... they don't have a category for science-fantasy-steampunk.)I might add colour eventually, but for now I like the way it is too much to change it. I love it when you spend very little time on something and end up pleased with the results anyway. c:
[two hours, SAI]
Featuring the gorgeous, elegant Curly Bracket! <3
...and that dork is Doc Rรคtsel.
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Ah! Dynamic action poses! Sooo coolios, and the texture's interesting~ o:
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I made the texture from this . They're fun to play with... I like making my own. C: (Sai has so many cool filter options to play with! The different techniques and filters and layer options are some of my favourite things about digital.)
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That is a really cool look for this drawing. Your character is cool, too.
And such a true statement. XD
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Thanks!
Hahaha, I have first-hand experience. 8D
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Its really beautiful. The sketchiness adds to the harshness, and the way you colored it (grunge? lol) also adds to it. IMO, Insta-FAVE~
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Aww, thanks!
I refined the lines a little because I tend to scribble a lot, but I didn't want to make it too 'clean'. It can be difficult to preserve the motion and character of the original sketch in a cleaner lineart.
It is rather grungy. I only started digital a few months ago so I'm still experimenting a lot with different styles. For this one, grungy texture overload and minimal colour seemed to work best so I went with it.
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wha-
oh, hahaha.
I was confused at first because he's not a woman. then... lightning. Actually that didn't cross my mind when I was drawing it, but now that you mention it... xD
I'm going to do Steampunk with Jaqua at some point and I want to make pretty much his entire costume. Probably not the labcoat, but... everything else. The labcoat covers too much of the detail. (but when I start drawing the comic in which this guy appears which is different from the other three or four I've mentioned it will make the art a lot quicker.) I totally didn't draw a reference sheet for his costume.
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He's even doing the finger thing!
oooh, steampunk. I'm planning to put together a steampunky newsboy costume at some point. If times and places coincide, we should do something awesome in our awesome outfits.
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even if they don't we should make them coincide.
heehee jaqua will be a lovely fancy lady and we'll both be little boys. that will be amusing.
yes. yes he is. SUBCONSCIOUS POWER.
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At least we'll be different kinds of little boys? XD
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Yeah... I don't know what type of little boy I'd qualify as.
an unintentionally-Azula-impersonating inventor? xD;
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You're Sparky!
That is a joke from a comic you have probably never read.
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Which comic? It sounds vaguely familiar, like I should know what you're referencing but can't quite remember.
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Girl Genius by Phil and Kaja Foglio.
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I have heard of that comic, but I'm not incredibly familiar with it... There's a good chance I'd heard the character's name before.
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[link]
That's the comic.
Spark isn't a character name, it's a way of being. XD
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...this was buried in my inbox and I forgot to reply. xD;
Heehee, Rรคtsel really is Sparky. Literally and figuratively. (It amuses me that it fits so perfectly and I hadn't even read the comic when I started writing him.)
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Whoops. XD
Foglios are awesome that way.
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Yesss... all that awesome is making me want to make steampunk costumes. Really badly. xD;
(I might just have to this year... Masquerade, perhaps? If not, it can be my Hallowe'en costume because I need a really epic one. Hallowe'ens here are amazing - there's a parade and everything.)
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If I didn't have so much stuff between now and then, I'd totally start work on my steampunky newsboy. @@
You're doing a gentleman with a pockcoat, yes?
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The pockcoat is its own entity. Attempting both at once would probably kill me. :c
(not to mention it would hide all my fun steampunky costume pieces... and probably be too warm to walk around the con in. I'm not sure I'll wear the pockoat to a con at all; it's more for my personal use than anything else.)
I'm doing a Sparkyboy. IT WILL BE FUNNN.
-MADLAUGHTER-
hmmm.... what colours should I use?
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You're a Madboy!
It's the proper derogatory term. : )
There weren't an everwhelming amount of colors and patterns widely available in that era. Nonetheless, I'd avoid the basic browns that everyone goes for. You're gonna be too swank for that boringness. I'd say look for an appropriately period-looking pattern for your waistcoat. For whatever kind of coat/jacket you're doing, I'd go for dark blue because I remember Pride and Prejudice nattering about how that was the fashion. For breeches... I dunno. Whatever colors work with the first two.
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I am aware.
The lovely thing about steampunk is that it's still fictional, so if you deviate slightly from historical fashions... As long as the concept as a whole is solid and you're sufficiently epic, no one's going to call you on it. (I wouldn't, at least...)
...Scrap time! 8D (They have scrap metal there as well.)
Just browns would be rather dull.
But hey, it's totally cool if no one else has theirs done. I'll want to keep adding to it anyway.
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But if you're accurate and epic, that's so unassailably badass. But I believe that whatever you put together will end up being amazing. <3
That's exciting! We're planning to take a trip to Hippo at some point. They apparently have a lot of of busted crafty stuff.
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The place on burnside with the yellow hippos painted on the sides? BUT YES YES YES. C8
(I need to work on this while I'm still fired up because if I lose momentum I'll just slack off all summer... so it's great that I'll be back in just a couple of days! heeeeeee!)
I certainly hope so... if it isn't I'll refuse to wear it until it is. Because I'm a die-hard costumetard.
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Yes! I can never remember the full name.
<3 Because you're awesome.
I'm excited for the upcoming costumes 'cause they'll teach me to suck less abominably at actually making things.
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A chance to lessen the level of Suck is never a bad thing. C8
I'm excited for crafty experience.
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You're gonna be the best tiny gentleman.
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Twelve-year-old gent! Yessss.
(hopefully an ass-kicking twelve-year-old gent. I want to make some epic steampunk weapons.)
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Lots of gentleman packed into a small package! XD
Wanna make from scratch or mod existing weapons?
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depends on whether or not I can find something to mod that catches my eye. I might be able to use a cheap toy weapon... it'd be cool if I could get a light in there. A plastic weapon would work well for that, maybe a water-gun.
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I'm a fan of finding cheap weapons at dollar stores, if that helps.
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It'd probably be easier to start with something as a base anyway.
WE CAN GO CHEAP-TOY-WEAPON-HUNTING TOGETHER! 8D
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I know where most of the dollar stores in the city are. >>
The Halloween Warehouse usually has more expensive but still relatively cheap mod-able weapons. It'd be worth it to check Spirit, whenever that opens.
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COOLCOOL.
we'll have to go on a weapon-hunting adventure! 8D
(someday I'll learn how to make props from scratch. When they're things that would be very difficult to find a mod-able base for. which is not now.)
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-brofist-
(srsly. I need to learn to use Wonderflex like, now.)
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I WANT TO LEARN BLACKSMITHING.
...I also want to not be a wimp. D8
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Blacksmithing seems like a seriously muscle-intensive activity. >>
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I saw this one thing where they had a mechanical pounder. It was a documentary thing about swords.
BUT I WANT TO BE STRONG.
being a wimp sucks.
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YOU ARE MENTALLY STRONG. You can bend the muscles of others to your will!
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I just imagined you with a body builder's musculature. HILARITY.
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ew. D8
(but I'm sure it was funny.)
I want to be stronger but too much muscle is just gross.
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FELIX SMASH -cackle-
Yeah, I really need to get back on the pushups and crunches program. ._.
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MUTUAL SUPPORT.
I'm reluctant to start now though, since the chance of me remembering to do my pushups in Italy is pretty much nothing. D8
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You might be able to build the habit. Then you could find floorspace to do it on anyway!
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