Blackhawk!
Glad to see you here (And thanks!). Would love to see some new renders from you, but of course if you're busy with RL, that's entirely understandable. Would be wonderful to get more artistic activity here, though, since the gallery in particular has lately felt less lively than a Bronze Age barrow covered with permasnow.
I'm Murrin wrote:Just responding to the first thing in the drawings there: Krakens have a beak.
Hahaha, that appears as if some ancient Lovecraftian monstrosity hid inside a pudding.
SRD confuses me here. See, he talks about 'kraken jaws' and yet, at least in my vision, doesn't deliver a very beakish impression.
Its massive jaws gaped, blazing with rows of fangs --- Then the tremendous kraken jaws ponced for her head. --- With all of her might, she cut into and through the heavy muscles at one hinge of the creature's jaws.
I'm attempting to figure out a slight improvement to the previous animeish serpent, but he does not precisely aid his readers here. Either he indicates at the mythological sea-beast that in the older folklore can crop up as something like this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafgufa or merely got a wordgasm out of an intriguing dictionary discovery and decided to cram in the expression no matter what.
Hmm, any other inputs on this?
(Thanks, everyone else!
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Effaeldm wrote:As for cartoons, the styles are not limited to this one and that one) That's a topic for a separate long discussion, if you're interested, I could suggest a few dozens to orient on - perhaps you could find some middle ground suitable for you.
Thanks; could be interesting. I'm rather more a fan of the Western animation/cartoon style than anime (save for a few examples like Hellsing), however. Commonly the more realistic and detailed, the more time-ravenous the sketching becomes.
It's still somewhat strange for me to hear about the sour/rotten taste you mention. -- please say, maybe I'll be able to reassure you.
And you started to worry about these sketches on the second day.
well, people here are quiet -- just feel like there's nothing really to say)
Albeit frustrating and certainly not aiding the situation at all, it's not the lack of reaction, but something almost inseparably tied to this that got ugly. Don't really want to talk about it and thought I had gotten mostly over it, but apparently the reposting was a very poor idea from my behalf, as it just smashed open a can of mental worms. Thanks anyway for the offer, but I'm not sure how it might make my brain shut up.
Actually meant a different thread altogether, but nevermind. Scarcely worrying over days; but when it becomes an issue of weeks and months and involves oodles of repeated monologuing, then something is wrong, and just feels like deliberate ignoring, even if the matter doesn't stand thus. :/
And there's a huge problem right there... When people frequenting places akin to this more and more often start overlooking posts that obviously have hours and hours of deep thought or work behind them, the contributors will take offense, either inaudible or more straightforward, and at length, lose inspiration and drift away (which, I suspect, has already happened in an alarming scale considering the size of this forum). I've seen a handful of cases elsewhere where this occurred and only later the "audience" began fretting over it. Well, the truth is, that they kinda chased away the more creative members. :/
It's always easy for a non-writer/artist/whoever to say, "Why do you care?", or twiddle their thumbs and look the other way, or start calling people names, but it's hardly that straightforward. Should be noted here that I'm not only addressing personal observations, but opinions from about a dozen other individuals, some from here, others from elsewhere, and extending it to areas like dissections, essays, etc. Wherefore would someone type an elaborate post, if they by default did not want to discuss the subjects within? Besides, how hard responding with a line or two can it be, if a person has taken it upon themselves to actually read through the whole text or whatever, and then they manage to spend minor ages with status updates like the flavor of the morning's cereal.
Of course, nobody's obliged to do anything and have their right to ignore whomever and whatever they like, but just saying that a little bit more engagement, or even just common courtesy, might help keep boards like this from fraying apart. Besides, as I've stated before (and delivering the same message from other artists or fan-material contributors I know), we're not after mindless praise but discussion, cooperation, getting other fans inspired enough to create their own contributions, sharing, crits, even compiling character wikis, and so forth. Group effort. Other fandoms, even smaller than this, for instance have fic-a-thons and sketch exchanges as regular events; here even the recent suggestion of GAP dissections was hailed mainly with a feeble "meh" (My problem: don't own the series in printed form. It's a tad difficult to scribble margin notes into audio files.).
people are neck deep in their own concerns,
Same here; stress and stress and stress and my recent back injury hardly aiding matters further. I'm terribly tired right now and trying to boomerang to the Foul draft and other suggestions later.
Now, didn't really intend this thread to turn into ranting and whining, so apologies for that and hopefully no hard feelings with anyone. :/
Morning wrote: Frontal assault does it better. Drop me a msg if you need to vent, I need to practice my Finnish anyway.
How DOES one pump more adrenaline into the arteries of this place? Pull an Effoul and post "WE NEED MORE INVOLVEMENT!!!" in every forum in huge red capslock?
I'd say this succinctly summarizes my feelings about a galore of matters right now in Finnish.
(From Humon's
SATW.)