Fri's (somewhat) Witty and (not) Alliteratively Titled Doodle Thread

[Prime32]

It's really cool and fits my criterias perfectly. But you draw really fast I'm beyond envious ;_;

Pfft, you? That would take me about a week.

[Tengu_temp]

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Sorry for quick sketch (><)

This reminds me of Final Fantasy Tactics. And it's a really nice sketch.

[Fri]

Elizabeth always looks really really cute in kasanip's drawings.

[Prime32]

Speed sketch go!*

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IT BURNS

*Speed = approximately 1 hour

[Tengu_temp]

Well, they're Kasanip's drawings. Everything is cute.

[Salbazier]

Here, I hope this look magipunk/steampunk enough

This is Cool. I think it to be bigger though. The soldier seems like he won't fit inside the torso.

And while we are that how its weponry looks like

BTW, Fri. what game is Elizabeth in? If it's somewhere online I want to take a peek.

[Fri]

This is Cool. I think it to be bigger though. The soldier seems like he won't fit inside the torso.

And while we are that how its weponry looks like

BTW, Fri. what game is Elizabeth in? If it's somewhere online I want to take a peek.

It's from this steampunk campaign that's actually the longest running game I've ever been involved in so far

http://plothook.net/RPG/forumdisplay.php?f=1729

[IncoherentEssay]

It could use some bulk on the kneejoints, some sort of support structure. A pair of gears is a bit flimsy-looking given the overall size. Adding back the V-shaped plates on to the greaves might be a good idea as well.
But otherwise it's solid .

How come you haven't posted the mkII cyclops here* ? It's quite neat, i like the line patterns.

(*Though i do have a knack for missing the obvious, so it might be just another case of that.)

[Salbazier]

It's from this steampunk campaign that's actually the longest running game I've ever been involved in so far

http://plothook.net/RPG/forumdisplay.php?f=1729

Wow, that's indeed quite a long lived game. You take quite a bit from there for our current game, aren't you?

...waidaminute

Didn't realized it before but this and that Elizabeth is the same person aren't they?

[Fri]

Wow, that's indeed quite a long lived game. You take quite a bit from there for our current game, aren't you?

...waidaminute

Didn't realized it before but this and that Elizabeth is the same person aren't they?

[Fri]

A Flumph Paladin

[BisectedBrioche]

A Flumph Paladin

Ingenious. Although not as awesome as a halfling paladin with a flumph mount....

[Fri]

Damn, I honestly didn't think of that.

edit: by the way do you prefer that version or this one?

[Tengu_temp]

The new version.

[Fri]

So... Kasanip's recent progress on her comic and my recent success on my last college class made me want to try to draw my own series of comic. You know, one of those 'update whenever I want' style of comic?

Then. I was chatting with my friends yesterday, about something. Can we make a mecha serieswithout fighting? Well, Basquatch had done that, but still.

Anyway, I had an idea about a setting back then. It's about a peaceful post apocalypse world. Basically, there was a big chaotic war, and most of the worlds are destroyed, but it was years ago. Nowadays, life had been peaceful again. The raiders, cannibals, and sort, are things of the past. I'm suddenly thinking about it again. Not helping that I've been playing fallout NV more often than healthy these days. So I do some quick preliminary sketches.



The gist of the setting is that it's a peaceful post apocalyptic world with mecha. There's an ancient system of satellite that shoot down anything that goes past the stratosphere, so people can't leave the world, or send new sattelite. And one of the side effect of the war is that there's a lot of uhm phlebotinum particle in the air now, so radio communication is jammed. People are left to communicate with letters, visual signals, or cables. This obviously limit wars and battles as well.

I have two ideas on the main character. One of them would work as a 'prospector.' That is people who dives into ruins with mecha/powered armor to salvage ancient artifacts. Another is a postman that travel from town to town. Basically it would be about the daily post apocalyptic life, and not about battles or wars.





Will this go anywhere beside idea? Dunno. But I know there's one big problem before I can do anything about this.

I draw slow. Really slowly. For example, to turn that sketch on the lower right corner to the line arted version above, took me one hour! Not counting coloring or formatting. If I ever want to make a series, whether this one or not, I really need to work on my speed.

Anyway, I tried to learn speed sketching, as Kasanip suggested. It's surprisingly fun and satisfying



I played too much Fallout New Vegas. Suika and Cass would make good friend with each others.

[kamikasei]

The comic idea sounds like a good solution to the problem - maybe the mechs are relics of a past war, and useful enough that people keep them around even though they wouldn't need to build such things themselves. You might want to give them some sort of unlimited power source unless you want fueling and maintaining them to be a big drain on the characters' time and resources (and such a thing would make them even more attractive to keep around).

[IncoherentEssay]

... too much Fallout New Vegas....

Heresy ! No such thing as too much NV.

The comic sounds like a good idea.
I think you should make a few one-shot (short, self-contained) comics of it first. It's easier and faster to draw something you've drawn before, right? Pin down character's personalities and design before a longer plotline gets rolling?

[Fri]

Hm, thanks for the idea. I'll mull over it for a bit.

Anyway, I color the suika pic.



Even if I manages to draw quicker, coloring it is still such a chore... hmm...

[Elder Tsofu]

Maybe time to try speed-colouring?

[Kasanip]

I think you have good color for all your pictures.
What tools do you use for drawing? What is strong and not strong situations for drawing?

[Fri]

I'd really like to answer that kasa, but I sadly don't understand what you meant by your last sentence... m(_ _)m.

Anyway, despite all things I've been doing lately (starting an lp, recruiting for another game, joining kasanip's game) I'm actually still thinking about the comic premise.

After some thought, I think that the protagonist might be a little bit too plain. Can he/she hold the whole series?

I'm thinking... maybe to make the protagonist a bit more unusual. Maybe a deadpan cloudcuckoolander...

Someone that can make day to day stuffs like delivering mail a bit more interesting...

[BisectedBrioche]

Remember any quirks you give your protagonist are going to affect the setting of your series; if you want believable you need realistic characters in unrealistic settings, not the other way around. Rather than make the main character weird while delivering post, make weird things happen while your protagonist delivers post.

Well that's just my £0.02 anyway...

[Prime32]

Maybe make them a postman and a prospector? (there's jobs and there's hobbies) Or make the mail somehow unusual, like crystals containing peoples' memories. Or make the method of travel unusual.

EDIT: Have you considered To Be A Master?

[Fri]

I had a strange dream.

It's actually about Kasanip's comic. In my dream, it's translated into english already.

It turned out to be gorgeously painted series of humourous 4 koma.

That gave me an idea to turn my comic into 4 koma. Make some of them 4 koma at least, and maybe have some full comic adventures, like azumanga daioh.

My idea is something like this.

The protagonist, or at least the viewpoint character is a female. She left her hometown for 10 years following her parents as a kid.

10 years later, for some reason or another, she came back to her hometown. Maybe she's a doctor, or a mechanic, and want to work in her hometown.

She found out that her hometown is different than what she remember. She found that it's full of strange and quirky characters.

She will mostly be the innocent/naive straight man in the comedy.

The other main character might be her childhood friend, the prospector/mailman, and he'll be the eccentric one.

I can even put a romantic-comedy feel to this series. Make that she promised marriage to a childhood friend but she forgot who he was. Now there's a bunch of quirky young male in that town, and she must find out who he was . It will just be the background story and not the main one.

What do you think? I was actually just joking around with the romantic-comedy, but after a while it just seems natural. The only problem is that I can't write romance stories

[Fri]

PMMM is so friggin cool that I have to draw something about it.

I believe most of it is because Kajiura Yuki's soundtrack though. I'd happily watch dragon ball again if it's soundtracked by kaijura yuki.

On the comic, I already got some ideas about the character, but now I figured that I need to learn to draw backgrounds more.

I want it to have beautiful post apocalyptic environments like sunken cities and villages as backgrounds, but I realized that I rarely practiced drawing backgrounds.

[Kasanip]

I had a strange dream.

It's actually about Kasanip's comic. In my dream, it's translated into english already.

It turned out to be gorgeously painted series of humourous 4 koma.

That gave me an idea to turn my comic into 4 koma. Make some of them 4 koma at least, and maybe have some full comic adventures, like azumanga daioh.

My favorite comic is 4koma comic. But I am not humorous person, so I cannot make such a thing except bonus picture maybe.

On the comic, I already got some ideas about the character, but now I figured that I need to learn to draw backgrounds more.

I want it to have beautiful post apocalyptic environments like sunken cities and villages as backgrounds, but I realized that I rarely practiced drawing backgrounds.

Yes I also like background very much but am very unskilled at such a thing. Recently to work very much on this.
Of course in 4koma comic a background is not necessary I think.

[Fri]

You're right, usually 4koma don't really have that many backgrounds. But I feel like to draw something like from my dream. That is, 4koma, but with beautiful backgrounds. It'll be hard though.

edit: maybe not in all of the panels though. Maybe in establishing shots in between the 4koma. But I still want the series to have good backgrounds

[Kasanip]

I think it is a good dream.

[Prime32]

Artists with good backgrounds tend to use photo references and models (CG or physical). Just a tip.

[Fri]

Colored the Mami pic. Tried to do quick colouring, to complement my quick drawing attempt, but still took too long. Much too long.