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Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
23:39 / 09.12.05
NOT MY PRIZE WINNING UBER PEACHES!
 
 
Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
23:40 / 09.12.05


Let's dance!
 
 
iamus
23:43 / 09.12.05
Ooft!


I was in the middle of colouring this when I started shifting. Now it's all gone to pot.
 
 
Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
23:44 / 09.12.05
Hee! Your style reminds me 16-bit gaming goodness.
 
 
iamus
23:47 / 09.12.05
It's not intentionally done that way, but it has been noted.

I do other types of stuff too. This cartoony stuff is the only stuff I've put on Barbelith so far. I'm working on something bigger and beautifuler but I need a big scanner that's not coming on ten years old.

Loss of detail on the computer infuriates me.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
23:49 / 09.12.05
Unfortunately I was reminded that alcohol can now be bought at the spa for 24 hours

There's a place about fifteen yards from my front door that sells booze 24 hours... for someone attempting to sort out a booze habit I really don't pick the best places to live... it rocks, though. In summer I don't even have to put on shoes!
 
 
Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
23:50 / 09.12.05
Ooooh, bigger! Beautifuler! Can't wait.

I hate scanning stuff, lately. I really need a whole new setup, with a lovely A3 scanner. I hate stitching the damn pictures together. It feels dirty.

Let's start our own studio, Mel, and then take over!

THE WORLD.
 
 
iamus
23:51 / 09.12.05
It's not intentionally done that way, but it has been noted.

That is to say, I'm well aware of and love where my influences come from. I just don't specifically set out to echo it.
 
 
Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
23:52 / 09.12.05
Oh, it's definitely yr own thing. I love how it reminds me of those things, though. GOOD TO SEE.
 
 
Bed Head
23:55 / 09.12.05
So then guys, how to you draw?

I always draw with a pen *first*, just because it doesn’t need as much constant sharpening as a pencil, and because I don’t have the option of rubbing anything out, ie I don't have any excuse to stop. Then I lay that onto a sheet of glass that I rest on my knees- I use the door from an old bathroom cabinet, fact fans - and clutch a desklamp between my ankles and draw it out on a clean sheet of paper with le brush. Then I throw that all in the bin and start again. Repeat until I die of old age, probably.

Alternatively: I’ll get my act together and then maybe one day I’ll be rich and I’ll have proper equipment. Or else I’ll just keep a studio full of ‘assistants’, and I’ll make them all balance glass doors on their knees and clutch desklamps between their ankles instead, bwah-ha-etc

Hellooooo lateshift. Damn, you two are so productive. I’m furiously envious right now. Oh wow, ‘dreen, you do so rock! And, oh, your lovely lovely line, suedey!
 
 
Withiel: DALI'S ROTTWEILER
23:58 / 09.12.05
See? I just drop into lateshift and theres' all this beautiful artwork just lying around, much like jewelled fruit. Suedey - your brushwork is, as ever, wonderfully fluid and effortless. Meludreen - why must your blacks be so perfectly spotted an your shapes so brilliantly chunky? All I have to bring to the 'shift is
terrible music. I love it in my way, though. Much like I'd love a terribly ugly kitten...er...I'll shut up now.
Evening, all.
 
 
iamus
23:59 / 09.12.05
Yay! It's BedHead! He who draws fantastic!

Gift us! Gift us!


Let's start our own studio, Mel, and then take over!

You know that's a verbal contract. Where I am, that's legally binding.

Your ass is mine, "partner".
 
 
iamus
00:01 / 10.12.05
And Withiel takes a break from fighting crime to kick out the jams!

How's the Jenny in the Underworld stuff coming on?
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
00:02 / 10.12.05
'lo all.

Gosh, so much shiny art talent. I have no such talents. But I can crit with the best of them....
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
00:04 / 10.12.05
Yeah, I can't draw for shit either! How's you, GGM?
 
 
Withiel: DALI'S ROTTWEILER
00:05 / 10.12.05
Ullo, o talented one - It's going fairly well, in that I've got some idea of how to finish the bastarding thing off, and I've got a couple of pages pencilled - I'll probably finish it before Februrary, as I've got Impulsivelad's superhero story to finish off, and need to sleep some time. How goes the Mushroom-Jenny story? I always find that colouring slows me down...
 
 
Bed Head
00:07 / 10.12.05
I love lateshifts sometimes.

Damn, and now I want to add to the thread, but all I have that is postable is old stuff. I’m drawing on A2 right now, and *wails* I just can’t go through the tricksy manoeuver of getting any of that onto my teensy-weensy little scanner and then stitching it all back together in Corel and then uploading it and then finding you’ve all gone to bed or that I don’t actually like the look of it after all. I’m too drunk to handle all that palaver right now.

Let me see if I’ve got some old things that I can still bear to look at...
 
 
iamus
00:08 / 10.12.05
 
 
Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
00:10 / 10.12.05
Oh oh! I'm away for a second and eeeee!

I feel like breaking out some wine...
 
 
iamus
00:11 / 10.12.05
My best lateshifts have always been accompanied by whiskey and beer.

Thus shall it be.
 
 
Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
00:12 / 10.12.05
Bed Head! My hero!

Fuck it. I need the wine now. I'm shifting like it counts. I'm shifting like it matters. I'm shifting, baby.
 
 
Withiel: DALI'S ROTTWEILER
00:12 / 10.12.05
AGH!

I see your...thing with a vagina and a magnet for a chest and raise you...a...a...FIN DE SIECLE GANESHA!

ha!
 
 
Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
00:15 / 10.12.05
Whoa there!

I love the descriptions of how you drew, BH. It always seems really arty and fancy, somehow. Me, I'm just stuck in my pokey little room with my rubbish drawing board constantly fumbling around and banging in to things.

And you're going crazy on the walls! What exactly are you working on now, anywho... ?

Can we all get a studio together? Can we can we can we? We just need to find some sort of financial backer. I'll be an artwhore for anyone.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
00:16 / 10.12.05
Hiya stoats. I'm good. Unsleepy, which is unfortunate, but relatively chilled as I'll have a chance to catch up later.

How you?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
00:17 / 10.12.05
It's clearly "talented people night". I can't really compete!

Have a good night, kids... I'm gonna play games until I pass out.
 
 
Smoothly
00:18 / 10.12.05
Konichiwa, bitches.

The number of supertalented pencil-botherers here is truly intimidating. And you're all so damn modest about it. I honestly can't believe you're all not rich already.
If *I* were rich, I'd buy stuff off you all for the bare walls in my flat. I thought about putting up Bed Head's picture of Smoothly Weaving somewhere at one point, but I've always thought having portraits of yourself on your wall is a bit Elton John, and I couldn't decide if that counted.

Nice to see you all anyway. I haven't been to a Lateshift in aaaages.
 
 
Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
00:19 / 10.12.05
GGM!

G'night Stoats! Fare thee well.

I find it interesting and also CRAZY that you draw in pen *first*, BH. You wacky funster, you. But pencils needing sharpening, you say? I say nay! I draw with the bluntest thing. I sharpened it when I was finishing my last page up, and it felt so wrong. It needs to be lovely and round. Sharp is WRONG.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
00:20 / 10.12.05
Ooh, just before I start on my gaming extravaganze... yeah, I'm pretty good... a strange (though enjoyable) night at the pub with my favourite ex... well, not that strange, really, other than the "favourite ex" thing...

Nah, it was all cool. May be back in a couple of hours. Bought games this afternoon... must play them!!!
 
 
Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
00:21 / 10.12.05
I wish I had a favourite ex.
 
 
iamus
00:22 / 10.12.05
Damn. All the malts are sealed until Christmas, so I had to pour myself a generous Bells instead. It's generous because it's goint to get me drunk. Which I thought was a pretty decent thing for it to do.

Withiel, I love you detailing on Ganesh's underskirt thing. I'd like to see you run with that kind of thing and show us more.



How about an online studio? I have webspace and a desperate need to swamp myself in so many projects that I asphyxiate.
 
 
Bed Head
00:23 / 10.12.05
Arty and fancy? God, I wish. Squalid and chaotic is more my natural environment, suedey.

This is now the barbelith art studio. Rock.

And pens *are* blunt! They're totally blunt. But they still draw.
 
 
Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
00:26 / 10.12.05
Oh, you've only gone and reminded me I need to sort out my website, haven't you!

Damn thing. I just can't get my head around it, for some reason. But I really need something that allows me to get my work out there so people can point their peepers at it. And then BOW DOWN BEFORE ME. Was thinking I might send another mass email to comic publishers/magazines and the like but I just hate sending out a long list of links...

Ha. Whoever said modest upthread... I WILL BE CROWNED THEE KING OF COMICS! Wine, my lifelong compadre, give me the confidence I need!
 
 
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00:26 / 10.12.05
I wish I had a favourite ex.

Hell, I'm free for a break up or two. Fancy some acrimony?
 
 
Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
00:26 / 10.12.05
Hold me.
 
 
Withiel: DALI'S ROTTWEILER
00:28 / 10.12.05


"Withiel, I love you detailing on Ganesh's underskirt thing. I'd like to see you run with that kind of thing and show us more."

Heh. I have a large painting of which the surface is almost entirely covered with those designs: the hills are tattooed with sort of Art-Nouveau/Celtic Knot designs...I'll dig it up, actaully



"How about an online studio? I have webspace and a desperate need to swamp myself in so many projects that I asphyxiate."

Yes! Yes! Pick me! Pick me, miss! (unless it's a talent-only zone)
 
  

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