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telophase — It Began with a Dancing Bear
Published: 2004-07-26 06:01:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 1671; Favourites: 27; Downloads: 256
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There was a sort of horrid inevitability about the whole affair once Alexei spotted the dancing bear. From that point onwards the whole sorry mess ... the bear, the crumpets, the piano stool, the Sumatran javelin specialist, the beehive, not to mention the policeman's helmet ... could have been mapped out with pinpoint accuracy if it weren't for Alexei's vile green liqueur fogging the minds of the best of them. In the aftermath, bits of Percival's carriage were found all over the heath, Wilberforce was sent down from university and had to spend the rest of term in the country with his sister's family, Robert was disinherited (which he'd been trying to provoke for the longest time, so it wasn't all bad), and Aloysius was never quite the same again. Alexei escaped scot-free, as usual.Whew! I think I found a perfect way to fake marker work in Painter, better than my previous discovery! This is using the Tinting tool, with its regular brush to lay down color and the blender to, well, blend. The Salty bit of the Tinting tool produced the pattern in his waistcoat. The background is ... well, Fake Background No Jutsu! That's my ninja way! As usual!
Anyone who gets the dancing bear reference or the policeman's helmet reference gets a cookie! Anyone who gets both gets *two* cookies!
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I can't decide which I like more; the crazed grin on that guy's face or the description for the picture. They both crack me up to no end 
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Alas, I don't get the references. But the description sends me into gigglefits. Though Alexei's expression is just a wee bit scary. o.o
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I realize now that I am wrong, but I was going to say, in reference to the constable's hemlet, a book by P.G. Wodehouse. It almost sounds like something he would have written....but alas, that wasn't it. Too bad.
~Dolyn
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Oh, crud, really? Sweet!! *treasures the cookie* Yay for me! I thought perhaps it was. Isn't the Jeeves series Brill?
~Dolyn
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Um, no, you are correct. Have a cookie:
The policeman's helmet is from P.G. Wodehouse. The dancing bear is from Georgette Heyer.
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Wow! he's hot 
oh, and the only thing about a dancing bear i can think of that sounds like this is in a georgette heyer book, though i can't remember which one... am i close at all? i have no idea about the policeman's helmet
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Dingdingdingding! You get a cookie!
It's in Cotillion, IIRC, where it's Freddie, I think, who's sent down from Oxford due to a never-fully-explained series of events that start with a dancing bear. I'll just direct you to this entry in my Livejournal for the other reference, in case anyone else wants to still guess.
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Erm ... yes and yes? I made up the paragraph as I was typing the description, but the character *is* part of a story that's starting to bang around in my head. Well, actually, the setting and a few characters are starting to bang around in my head; there haven't been any stories as such showing up yet. So, y'know, I'd love to know more about him, too.
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i didn't know the reference either until you gave that LJ link. i like the coloring for this one. it really does look like marker.
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Looks wayyyyy better than the BW one...but of course each has its own speciality....
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a dancing bear interesting the kind of stuff that would haunt my nightmares well cool job ne ways tootles
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WAAAIII and I'm stil having trouble getting past the begining of figuring out how to color with the computer, let alone making it look like something other than watercolors.. (Actually pretty good with the watercolor look.. but I want to do markers, or oils!)
He reminds me of someone... can't think of who for the life of me, maybe because I'm still trapped contplating some 'fun' things I could do to him..
Once I figured out how to get around the obsticles of course... LOL
So what story is he from and will we see more of him? *wants to run off with him* bishie bishie bishie! HEHEHEEHEE!!!
heehee and the drinks looks like something you might find at Quarks Bar..
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As far as what story and will you see more of him ...? I can give that a big, fat "maybe." There's a world sort of building in my mind right now, accreting things here and there, but it hasn't yet reached the level of "story".
The real clue to the marker work is that Kazuya Minekura, who I'm trying to replicate, uses the white of the page as the highlights for her lighter and a few of her darker colors, and she uses three levels of shading (sometimes four). So you'd throw down the lightest color and blend the edges, then you'd throw down the medium color within in the lightest color, and blend the edges, and then you'd throw down the darkest and blend its edges. The trick comes in figuring out the blocks of color to throw down in - how the shadows and highlights go.
Got your email. Will be answering shortly - I just killed my wrist with the trackball when doing the comic I posted over on ~murphycon and I need to rest it for a bit instead of typing. I shouldn't even *be* on DA, or I'll keep typing... arg.
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LOL I feel for you, but thank you alot for the tips of coloring, I will have to try that *prints instructions so won't forget*
Look forward to the e-mail answer.
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Hahaha great pose and great expressions...I want to jump him~
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He says "Don't let me stop you!"
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wouah ahaha he looks so EVIL! ya! super pose^o^
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ahhh so THAT"S what he had in the other hand ^_^ the coloring added so much to this
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Yeah. Once I sat and thught about it, it was sort of obvious that he was holding a bottle of something potent and vile.
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Now that....THAT'S awesome. He looks so crazy with his bottle of absinthe! Maybe it's less the bottle, more the eyes...also...I want to touch the vest....because it looks like it would feel neat.
Is it weird that I think that he's a bishonen?
Also.....dancing bear? What?
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And someone else who's IDed the bottle as absinthe!
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Also...love the paragraph...hilarious....but.....bear?.. ..what? XD
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I shall direct you to my Livejournal entry replying to someone about the dancing bear and the policeman's helmet.
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ahh. ^^ yay for answering all questions!
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Groovy work! I like the energy of this muchly. Fun colors and perspective!
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hahah this is awesome!
I quite like the background though... looks like a dark corner of a bar, and he's just come out of it standing in the light...
or something...
mmm, anyways I love this
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I dont get either of the references, but the dude looks seriously evil in a sexy kind of way.
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I really love the coloring in that bottle, his pose and crazed expression are perfect X3
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Thanks! The bottle I did on a layer on top of the rest of the coloring, in dark greys and blacks, then turned the opacity down to make it transparent.
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It all started with that grin. I wanted to do someone with an evil Father-Anderson-from-the-Hellsing-manga grin, and the rest sort of just showed up.
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XD
well it is awesome
the face is priceless
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no cookies for me. *is sadded* oh well.... he looks even more evil now that he's colored. XD
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Yeah, he's fairly evil. Actually I'm thinking of Alexei as more of a force of nature than anything else.
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