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[taimatsu]

Have just read 'The Narrative of Sojourner Truth' which is moderately fantastic. Talked to mother on phone. She's buying me an Ikea lampshade and some paper shades for the downstairs front room and upstairs back room. Going to go and peer furtively at 'to-do' lists now.

Must sort out craft stuff, creative skills atrophying. Argh.

Does anyone want to commission a character drawing? I could do with something to focus on. (No promises, but I'll see what I can do). Free, too.

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[raggedhalo.livejournal.com]

When you say commission, wieviel kostet es?

[taimatsu]

Assuming you are asking how much it would cost, FREEEEEEEE, like I said. I not good enough am money to charge such services for.

[raggedhalo.livejournal.com]

I am a fool.

*hangs head in shame*

What's your feeling on hobgoblins? Hobgoblins with guns?

If you're interested, I can give you a somewhat better idea of what my Shadowrun character looks like; bless riksowden a thousand times for running the Best Roleplaying Game Ever™. Well, possibly.

[taimatsu]

Hobgoblins with guns I could make a stab at :) Do tell me more.

[raggedhalo.livejournal.com]

Right. He's a pirate, named Mullins. He has green-tinged skin, and is about 5'8" tall, slightly built but a lot of very wiry muscle, kinda thing (and he's a hobgoblin, who have a sort of Middle-Eastern thing going on, with pointy faces and noses and suchlike). He has a sunburst tattoo over his left eye. He tends to dress in regular clothes, with big boots and a bulky ex-Army-type jacket. You might be able to see the hilt of a knife sticking out of one boot and maybe the end of a gun out of the other, but there again you might not -- he keeps them well-hidden, just like his other weapons -- although a belt of throwing knives might work well.

He has dark, beady eyes, and shaves his head -- though may well wear a bandana, pirate-style. He has a large toolkit-type thing he carries most places he goes, and has a tendency to theft using a variety of electronic devices.

If you want an action pose, he tends to fight with a silenced pistol or with a pair of long knives.

Feel free to ignore/alter any/all of this info, it's just there to give you a better idea of what he's like (a vindictive little pirate scumbag prone to braggartry) and how he works in my mind. I'm not going to get all arsey if our visions of the character are different.

[emperor]

Is this character drawing as in "drawing of a character from a series/webcomic/anime/etc"? If so, then I'd like one of Megaera from Phoenix Feathers

If not, then please explain to a poor ignorant scientist ;)

[taimatsu]

No, more 'drawing of a character from a roleplaying game or story such as the Otaku Wars!'. I wasn't thinking of drawing characters who already have approved visual representations, like, for example, characters from anime, webcomics, etc. Possibly I could be talked into making an exception if someone wants an anime character I am already comfortably familiar with (for example, certain Sailor Moon or Utena characters). That would require people guessing my anime preferences, though.

Sorry to disappoint you, but drawing a character that's already been drawn lots, as opposed to a character usually described in words rather than images, is intimidating.

Oh yes, and owing to deficiencies in my current tech quotient, these will be drawn On Paper and scanned at a later point, so no promises on exactly when any drawing will emerge into the light of the Web.

[emperor]

Ah, OK then :) I shall have to do more thinking then ;)

[sesquipedality.livejournal.com]

I would quite like a drawing of Strolls in homid form. She basically looks uncannily like me without glasses (that's what Eastern European genetics will do for you) only smaller (she's about 5'2" - I have trouble physrepping this though), a bit more fragile looking, and with proportially wider hips. You've seen her (lack of) dress sense already I believe.

If it's too difficult, or not particularly interesting, that's OK.

[sesquipedality.livejournal.com]

Oh, and she's usually smiling.

[sesquipedality.livejournal.com]

Oh, and surrounded by little black wolf cubs would be especially cool. I'll shut up now.

[taimatsu]

I could do that. Tell me more about her dress sense, though. And what does she like doing? How old is she? What might she be doing in this picture other than just standing around smiling? I might have to go and find the odd photo of you to work from.

[sesquipedality.livejournal.com]

OK - she likes bright colours, and lots of them. Big designs, anything striking. Wolves colour vision is a lot less developed than a human's so she's fascinated by how bright things look under human eyes, and clothes are essentially decoration as far as she's concerned. She wouldn't wear anything that might restrict her movement in a fight, however. For some reason at the last Oxford game the Hatfield players christened her "Mildred Hubble" after "The Worst Witch", but I assume they actually meant Miss Cackle. Maybe not - I'm not sure what they were getting at.

Other than being with the cubs, she has a battered old dark blue Citroen 2CV, which she is extremely attached to, and drives extremely badly. She likes Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, and reads the dictionary in her spare time (really - she loves human language - that's why she's so fond of long words).

Does that help at all?

[taimatsu]

So, trousers, then?
Hair length?
Any bags or accessories that she habitually carries? Any jewellery or earrings?

My brain has developed a rainbow-coloured tie-dye hippie-style long-sleeved t-shirt. Is this a heinous mistake or along the right lines?

[sesquipedality.livejournal.com]

Not necessarily trousers, but a loose skirt or dress. The tie dyed shirt is likely to work, and be paired with something completely inappropriate like a Laura Ashley skirt. Her clothes often have a slightly retro feel - she has a boater that bears an uncanny resemblence to mine, for example.

Earrings tend to be small and practical, and not likely to get caught in anything. Jewelerywise, nothing that would jangle, but probably quite a few rings. She has a large baggy cotton handbag.

[taimatsu]

Coooool, I have ideas now :)

[taimatsu]

I have a preliminary messy sketch for position, and it's working quite well. Does 'sitting on a park bench obviously just having been reading the dictionary' work? :)

How does she wear her hair? Can you give me any links to pictures of wolf cubs? What shoes does she like? I am presuming she likes being outdoors.


Must buy tracing paper.

[nevecat.livejournal.com]

Wolves are difficult to draw, specially cubs because they are so intrinsically *active* (unless they're asleep in a pile ;)

[taimatsu]

Asleep in a pile in the sun works for this :)

[sesquipedality.livejournal.com]

That works fine, yes.

She wears her hair long, and usually tied back into a ponytail, but sometimes loose. Shoe-wise, Doc Martens are probably her favourites. And yes, she likes being outdoors, although she finds cities absolutely fascinating.

Lots of wolf cub pics at:

http://www.wolfphotography.com/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=wolf&Category_Code=pups

Thanks.

[cryx]

you know i'm quite envious of your domestic pootling. hmm...

I know this isn't what you asked, but i'd be really grateful for a live journal icon :)

[taimatsu]

what would you like on it? :)

[cryx]

something that represents me, or a some form of portrait :)

[taimatsu]

I'll see what I can do. This will probably mean paper-drawing, and it will take some time to make its way onto the computer. Is that okay?

[cryx]

just that you'd do it is lovely enough!! of course that would be fine, you are doing me a favour! :)

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

Oh! Oh! Oh! I want an anime me for a userpic, oooh, yes please :)

[taimatsu]

If you can point me to a nice smily picture of you to work from, that would help :)