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    Try standing like that in real life. It's awkward and ungainly and feels horrible and wrong. It involves weird bending and warping of a natural stance, it throws off the balance of the picture, and it clutters the central area. I don't like it, no sir.
    I was picturing that as a leaping attack for some reason.

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    Day 518: Upgrade

    Today's a big day. Today I switched up my sketching technique, based on close examination of the Lackadaisy tutorials.

    It takes a lot longer than what I'm used to but I'll think you'll agree that the results are reams better. Other stuff is in hold while I become proficient at this.

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    Day 518: Upgrade

    Today's a big day. Today I switched up my sketching technique, based on close examination of the Lackadaisy tutorials.

    It takes a lot longer than what I'm used to but I'll think you'll agree that the results are reams better. Other stuff is in hold while I become proficient at this.

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    Masterchief and Fox?

    These do look very good. I don't know what you're doing, but keep doing it. (Preferably while sketching Vulcan. She is my favorite.)
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    Masterchief and Fox?

    These do look very good. I don't know what you're doing, but keep doing it. (Preferably while sketching Vulcan. She is my favorite.)
    As much as I appreciate the praise... why? What makes her so interesting to you? I'm curious.

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    As much as I appreciate the praise... why? What makes her so interesting to you? I'm curious.
    You know, I'm not actually sure. There's just something about her that caught my attention, out of everything else I've seen of yours.
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    You know, I'm not actually sure. There's just something about her that caught my attention, out of everything else I've seen of yours.
    I can respect that. I'll try to get more design work done.

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    Pffft.

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    Pffft.

    Palpatine/Vader 2012.
    I'm going to assume you just don't know who Emperor Norton is, otherwise you wouldn't be saying such rubbish.

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    I'm going to assume you just don't know who Emperor Norton is, otherwise you wouldn't be saying such rubbish.
    Yep, no idea who he is.
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    The best emperor.

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    Yep, no idea who he is.
    Learn your own history you philistine.


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    The best emperor.



    Learn your own history you philistine.
    Dunno what that word means either.
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    I don't know whether to scream, cry or go on a murderous, yet surprisingly educational, rampage.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Maxtronaut View Post
    Dunno what that word means either.
    That would be, in part, the definition of being a philistine.

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    Day 521: Carrion Crawler

    This thing looks and reads like an escapee from a H novel, seriously.

    Not a full application but tired in the brain right now.

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    Day 521: Carrion Crawler

    This thing looks and reads like an escapee from a H novel, seriously.

    Not a full application but tired in the brain right now.

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    Carrion Crawler be creepin'.

    I clicked on this thread to see what you'd posted, and it hit me why Vulcan appeals to me. She's human. (or not, but whatever, I think you know what I mean). She's not posing heroically, or fighting off scores of monsters. She looks like she's never done those things, may never do those things, may never want to do those things, but she'll be someone important someday.

    I dunno. I guess the chainsawgun-wielding super-muscled perfect heroes never appealed to me. I'd rather have someone with flaws, and the look on her face says she has flaws, but gets past them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by nersxe View Post
    Carrion Crawler be creepin'.

    I clicked on this thread to see what you'd posted, and it hit me why Vulcan appeals to me. She's human. (or not, but whatever, I think you know what I mean). She's not posing heroically, or fighting off scores of monsters. She looks like she's never done those things, may never do those things, may never want to do those things, but she'll be someone important someday.

    I dunno. I guess the chainsawgun-wielding super-muscled perfect heroes never appealed to me. I'd rather have someone with flaws, and the look on her face says she has flaws, but gets past them.
    That's a good sentiment. Thank you.

    I promise I'll get in more drawings of her soon; I've got a fairly easy weekend coming up and I'm going to try this new technique (three level sketching I'm calling it) for some pure design work.

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    Cool. Looking forward to it.
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    Day 522: Vulcan Design Work #1

    Nothing here is remotely indicative of anything other than a bunch of curiosity experiments on my part.

    When designing the collar I started to like the idea of a rather bulky power/processor section right on the back of the neck, hidden by the hair, and having the visible part slender and smooth.

    Thinking long straight hair but need more investigation.

    The symbols I'm working off are great if you're a vector designer but they're atrocious to do in a callgraphic style

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    Day 522: Vulcan Design Work #1

    Nothing here is remotely indicative of anything other than a bunch of curiosity experiments on my part.

    When designing the collar I started to like the idea of a rather bulky power/processor section right on the back of the neck, hidden by the hair, and having the visible part slender and smooth.

    Thinking long straight hair but need more investigation.

    The symbols I'm working off are great if you're a vector designer but they're atrocious to do in a callgraphic style

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    Hair: 2, 3, and 5 look good.
    Collar: I like the low-key one.
    Symbols: All look good.

    Do the symbols mean something in-universe?
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    Hmm, I'll cast my vote for hairs 2 and 4 (starting at left). Number 3 looks kinda Charger-esque.

    Collar-wise, I like #2 from the left, and my favorite symbol is the one on the far right.

    Also I keep wanting to pester you for more details on Vulcan. But I am trying not to be pester-y.

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    Day 523: Smiles From Chaos

    This was fun to do. A completely stupid technique if you value making something that looks good, but awesome fun for the pure logic challenge of it. I slapped down a whole lot of paint colours and had to manoeuvre it into a finished Pinkie Pie

    Thanqol's First GIF! Also the first time I've drawn Pinkie I'm pretty sure.



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    I could stare at that gif for hours...

    Question! Did you ever get around to doing a fully-fledged dragon-puppy/Kobold?
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    Quote Originally Posted by nersxe View Post
    Hair: 2, 3, and 5 look good.
    Collar: I like the low-key one.
    Symbols: All look good.

    Do the symbols mean something in-universe?
    They're variations on the Mage: The Awakening symbols; first two mean 'Matter', 3 is Matter-Making, 4 is Matter-Unmaking. See them all here

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    Hmm, I'll cast my vote for hairs 2 and 4 (starting at left). Number 3 looks kinda Charger-esque.

    Collar-wise, I like #2 from the left, and my favorite symbol is the one on the far right.

    Also I keep wanting to pester you for more details on Vulcan. But I am trying not to be pester-y.

    >.>
    Vulcan is still being developed mentally. In the intrem, think a really cynical Rarity.

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    WOO! Pinkie Pie! Also, was it a fun dream?
    It was more like an intellectual challenge, seeing pink emerge from chaos and imagining how I'd do it.

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    I could stare at that gif for hours...

    Question! Did you ever get around to doing a fully-fledged dragon-puppy/Kobold?
    Not yet and totally forgot! D: Here's my To Do list in no particular order:

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    They're variations on the Mage: The Awakening symbols; first two mean 'Matter', 3 is Matter-Making, 4 is Matter-Unmaking. See them all here
    Totally bookmarking that!

    Vulcan is still being developed mentally. In the intrem, think a really cynical Rarity.
    Color me intrigued. Is she a drama queen as well?

    Also, she's a Moros yes? Any dots in Death, or is she heavily pushing Matter? I know Thaumium was on the list.

    It was more like an intellectual challenge, seeing pink emerge from chaos and imagining how I'd do it.
    Now that I think about it, Pinkie emerging from chaos is kind of fitting, in its own way...
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    Quote Originally Posted by the_druid_droid View Post
    Color me intrigued. Is she a drama queen as well?
    Not as much. Far more methodical, calculating and restrained. More stuff as soon as Anarion gets an IC thread up.

    Also, she's a Moros yes? Any dots in Death, or is she heavily pushing Matter? I know Thaumium was on the list.
    Matter all the way. Matter 3 / Mind 2 / Death 1.

    Now that I think about it, Pinkie emerging from chaos is kind of fitting, in its own way...
    Chaos knows it's own.

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    Matter all the way. Matter 3 / Mind 2 / Death 1.
    I played Vampire 'til I knew everything forwards and back, but my group never really got into Mage. I'm assuming all that is self-explanatory? (as in, matter is stuff you manipulate in the real world, mind is stuff you manipulate in headspace, and death is... well. Killing stuff.).
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    Quote Originally Posted by nersxe View Post
    I played Vampire 'til I knew everything forwards and back, but my group never really got into Mage. I'm assuming all that is self-explanatory? (as in, matter is stuff you manipulate in the real world, mind is stuff you manipulate in headspace, and death is... well. Killing stuff.).
    In my opinion, Mage is by far and away the best RPG I've ever played and I can talk about it forever. However the Mage core book is atrociously written - the system it contains is fantastic but it's presented in a mouth-wateringly dry way. It has to be read in conjunction with several sourcebooks and an open mind in order to really get it. But when you do, it's worth it.

    Matter gives me control over any material which is not alive. At Matter 3, Vulcan can enchant a bank vault door so it shatters with a single kick, transform any solid into any other solid, and combine any set of items into a single thing - a car with concealed machine guns and remote control, for example.

    Matter is fantastic, and all the Arcanum have similarly broad applications and utilities. I'll post a link to Vulcan's sheet when it goes up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thanqol View Post
    In my opinion, Mage is by far and away the best RPG I've ever played and I can talk about it forever. However the Mage core book is atrociously written - the system it contains is fantastic but it's presented in a mouth-wateringly dry way. It has to be read in conjunction with several sourcebooks and an open mind in order to really get it. But when you do, it's worth it.

    Matter gives me control over any material which is not alive. At Matter 3, Vulcan can enchant a bank vault door so it shatters with a single kick, transform any solid into any other solid, and combine any set of items into a single thing - a car with concealed machine guns and remote control, for example.

    Matter is fantastic, and all the Arcanum have similarly broad applications and utilities. I'll post a link to Vulcan's sheet when it goes up.
    Crazy. I had a few friends try to get through the Mage corebook, and a good friend of mine swears by the system... but I dunno, I guess I'm too used to playing with powergamers to want to play that system. They'd seek-and-exploit loopholes while I was sleeping, or something.

    Powergamers don't sleep. They plot.
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