Miscellaneous doodles (now with Tasteful Dwarven Erotica)

Thanks, Tsunami!


Bard, this ones for you. This fellow has no story, but it's a style of illustration I think could only be used for something comical. Or satirical, perhaps, if that's as light as your mood can go.

Satire, I can do.

Sialia said:

Nailed it again, Bard! Much more of that sort of thing and I'll leave writing the prose entirely up to you. Many thanks, and apologies for working on such a dark series at a time when it sounds like you could use a lift instead.

I will work on something cheery just for you if I get a moment in the days ahead.

Hoping the New Year will bring you much goodness,

Sialia

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Apologies? That is completely unnecessary, I assure you. I wouldn't want an musician to apologies for writing or playing a very moving piece of music. Why would I want you to apologize for your art?

It was sick all weekend. This left me feeling worn out and not terribly excited about work the next day. As it turns out, yesterday sucked at work. (I was there until after 10:00 PM) Anyway, I do appreciate your happy wishes, but I was quite pleased to be able to look at your pieces and try to provide some audience response. Especially if it was at all useful to you.

Ach. I'm late for work and I still need to take a shower! I'll take a look at everything else later.

Thanks for sharing your artwork Sialia!

Sialia,
The wizard made me smile. It is a little more light-hearted than the others. Oddly enough, that is the type of picture I can imagine the NPC Artists in my campaign world using to portray local authority figures. Though, I had never thought of it in terms such as that before. (One of the great things about EN World is the exposure you have to new ideas and perspectives.) I am trying to put together a campaign with heavy political elements, so it is good to think of these things. Anyway, the wizard is fun.

Commencement - This is heavy. When I glance at it, it is bright and colorful. When I stop and look at it, I am overwhelmed by my brain's attempts to make sense of it. This is because my initial reaction is to flinch at the seeming anger and violence and then my brain starts to look for a different impression, but I can't find it. I think I can pinpoint what it is that strikes me as violent, but I will hold off on mentioning it for now. Perhaps this is the impression you are shooting for and I don't need to explain it? But, if you want to know, I can certainly point it out.

Your untitled "doodle" - My game geek side comes out with this one. I feel like I should be statting out an NPC of some sort. There is so much that is hinted at in this one that it just starts up idea seeds. Is "he" walking down a mountain or is it a starcase in a glaciar? What are his clothes made of? What is looking at "him" through the "planar rift"? I can think of plenty of questions and the answers that I would be adding. It is the type of art that creates questions without providing any ideas. So, of course, your imagination starts filling in the answers, and asking mroe questions.

As to what it is, I have no firm idea yet. My mind is still racing at possibilities.

Sialia said:

Nailed it again, Bard! Much more of that sort of thing and I'll leave writing the prose entirely up to you.

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OK, don't you dare do that! I love reading your stories. I think I do a pretty good catching the character of my Bard (Stephen Fox), but I am not up to the quality of your voice and characterization. (Yes, I suppose you could call me a Sialia fanboy.)

BardStephenFox said:

Sialia,

Commencement - This is heavy. When I glance at it, it is bright and colorful. When I stop and look at it, I am overwhelmed by my brain's attempts to make sense of it. This is because my initial reaction is to flinch at the seeming anger and violence and then my brain starts to look for a different impression, but I can't find it. I think I can pinpoint what it is that strikes me as violent, but I will hold off on mentioning it for now. Perhaps this is the impression you are shooting for and I don't need to explain it? But, if you want to know, I can certainly point it out.

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Some endings are beginnings, and some beginnings are endings.
That is what I was working on when I started this piece--a good place to begin and end a story. But I'm afraid it's for the scrap heap--too out of style with the rest of the series. But there will need to be something similar to replace it--just something more in the watercolor and brush mode, and less in the airbrush mode. I'm going through an experimental period here, so some experiments work better than others, and some perfectly good things will neither stand alone nor play well with others.

It's a learning curve. But at least it was a place to begin.

Oh my! I was just looking at my posts from the past few days. Spelling errors, grammar errors, missing words and plain old word misuse. I am going to plead sleep deprivation on these folks!

I'm sorry if some of it comes across as jumbled. I may go back and try to edit for clarity.

Sialia - I was a bit curious on Commencement since it did seem different from the other pieces you posted. Experimentation is good! I will take your word for it that "some perfectly good things will neither stand alone nor play well with others." Nonetheless, I like what you have posted here. I hope my response of my emotional impressions has been helpful.

This picture needs a story.

Another from the same story as above, if I knew what story it was . . .

If I get enough of these, maybe a story will happen . . .?

I'm all out of words. No names, no places left in me. Only colors now, and light.

Things could be worse.

Must be a good night for this sort of thing . .

Pathetic Cry for Attention

I set up a new album:
http://www.enworld.org/modules.php?set_albumName=albuo99&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_album.php

I'd love to have some feedback on the new things in it. Please do open them and view the pictures at full size--a lot of detail is lost in the thumbnails.

I note that when I just put things in this thread, usually get comments in a day or so. The gallery seems to get no traffic at all. Perhaps it is only that no one knows of its existence.

Would those of you who enjoy seeing what I'm working on prefer that I put stuff here, or there?

And is it silly to put things in both places? Perhaps debut the things here for discussion and revision, and stick final versions in the gallery for display?
Don't wnat to be a server hog--picture files of decent resolution sometimes add up to large amounts of storage.

Thanks for your input.