Weilyn’s Characters

[Snail-Male]

I would venture as to guess that you have a working knowledge of actual artistic perspective. All very good work.

[Weilyn]

@Snail-Male said:

I would venture as to guess that you have a working knowledge of actual artistic perspective. All very good work.

I don’t know what most of that sentence means, but thank you

[Weilyn]

I have internet again! Oh, bliss and heaven!

Anyway… December… Wow, a year passes quickly doesn’t it. I think I’ll go to the library today and find one of my favourite books from one of my favourite authors, with one of my favourite characters of all time:

And yes, I’m making the ghosts right now

[JR19759]

Hey Hey, excellent. I love that book as well, I think as an author he isn’t celebrated as much as he should be. In Britain he’s often overlooked in favour of the eternal fountain of tedium, Shakespeare.

[Trekkie]

That’s a brilliant Scrooge- he looks a lot like how I imagine him to look. You’ve captured the mood of a tired, grumpy old man really well. Can’t wait to see the ghosts.

JR19759- Shakespeare’s not that bad- it’s just that anything interesting you may find in his plays gets analysed to boredom at school. There are reasons why I don’t plan on taking English any further than GCSE.

[JR19759]

@Trekkie said:

JR19759- Shakespeare’s not that bad- it’s just that anything interesting you may find in his plays gets analysed to boredom at school. There are reasons why I don’t plan on taking English any further than GCSE.

Shakespeare is alright before GCSE, when you get to do his interesting stuff like The Tempest and Hamlet, but then you get to GCSE and you have to sit through Romeo and Juliet [shivers]. Shakespeare in my opinion only wrote a handful of interesting works (the aforementioned pre-GCSE pair and Macbeth are the only ones that spring to mind and I’d only ever sit down and watch/read one of them), where as everything Dickens wrote was masterful. Yet the only book of his that I could study when I did my GCSE’s was Great Expectations (which is one of my faves) and we didn’t study any of his prior to that. What is that about!?
Now, not only was the man a brilliant author but was also the social conciseness of an era, exposing the inequalities of society and the terrible living conditions of the working class, in a way that still works to this day, whereas Shakespeare, and lets be fair to him, didn’t. And at least everyone in the world agrees that Dickens wrote his own books.
The case for the defence rests.
(Sorry for turning your thread into an argument Weilyn. Can’t wait to see more of your work.)

[TheSoupster]

@JR19759 said:

(Sorry for turning your thread into an argument Weilyn. Can’t wait to see more of your work.)

I love this place. That’s what constitutes an argument?! Man. You’re all very civilised.

As for the Scrooge, picture, weilyn, it looks amazing. Like other people have said, you’ve really nailed the expression on his face. He looks haunted…

[Weilyn]

@JR19759 said:
Sorry for turning your thread into an argument Weilyn.

How dare you have an intellectual discussion of literature in my thread!? Shame on you, you naughty British people!

Seriously though, I hold Dickens and Shakespeare in pretty much as high regard, but on different merits. Dickens created great stories with amazingly well constructed characters, but his prose is, in my opinion, fairly basic. Shakespeare, on the other hand, was a brilliant artist when it came to slapping the words together, but his stories aren’t really anything special.

Now, the reason I love Scrooge so much is because his personality doesn’t really change from the beginning to the end of the novel. (Yes, I know his change is the whole point of the book, just go with me on this one.) All to often in stories when a character changes from “evil” to “good” their entire personality changes. The despicable monster learns the value of friendship, or some shit, and suddenly wants to hug everybody while puking rainbows and strawberry icecream.
Scrooge, on the other hand, start out as a sardonic dickish cynic, and at the end he still is a sardonic dickish cynic – just look at how he tries to trick Cratchit into believing he is going to fire him. Scrooge himself doesn’t change a bit, but the way he views the world changes immensely, and that’s really all that matters.
He’s still a prick, but he’s a sympathetic prick.

Huh… I hope that made any kind of sense, I’m not sure it did…
Anyway, glad you like the picture, thank you for your comments

@TheSoupster said:
As for the Scrooge, picture, weilyn, it looks amazing. Like other people have said, you’ve really nailed the expression on his face. He looks haunted…

Thank you! I often struggle with faces, but this one I think turned out pretty good.

[DC-Lover]

I really like these creations Keep up the good work

[livewyre1014]

beat me to it…I was already working on my own versions of the ghosts haha…great work

[Herr D]

Did you get pulled to Christmas by the Ghost Of Christmas Yet To Come? We’ve missed you.

[Weilyn]

Wow, this December has been even crazier than usual. I had so uch to do I didn’t even have time to finish the book, much less playing around on the Machine

I never finished all the ghosts, but I’m not going to bother, to be honest. No reason to dwell in the past, maybe I’ll give it a shot next year. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come is closest to finished, though, so I’ll post that at least.

A couple of weeks ago I finished this as well. It is an illustration of an originally Swedish tradition (now also spread to Denmark and to some extent Norway and Iceland), the celebration of Saint Lucy’s Day (or Lucia, as well call her). Every December 13 young girls gather in coirs, dress in white, and bring light and warmth to the denizens of the dark and frozen North. It is one of my favourite days of the year, and I never miss the event on TV as well as the local church.

Probably should have missed it this year though… Swedish Television decided to spice up the boring old songs with some rap, for that urban gangsta flava.

…

There is no middle finger big enough…

Anyway:

And, finally, here’s my take on Madame Malevolent, for Dblade’s character contest.

As always, thanks for watching

[Trekkie]

The ‘Lucia’ picture is beautiful. I really love how you’ve made the crown of candles.

[Vampyrist]

I agree, the Lucia picture is wonderful.

[Weilyn]

Thank you both!

Today I let my younger brother go wild on the Machine. He chose the items and the colours. I clicked. What started out as a fun little experiment soon turned into a fascinating peek into the mind of a four year old boy, as well as some surprisingly creative characters.

Here are the results:

Eldis (loose translation: Firey… or something)

Eldis shoots two different kinds of fire: ordinary fire and “coal fire”. His favourite tactic (beyond just purging his enemis with flames) is kicking them into the air and then letting them fall on his spiked shoulder pad. The other shoulder pad doubles as a pizza slicer. I briefly consider asking my brother why a super villain would bring a pizza slicer around, but suddenly realize I can’t find any reason as to why he wouldn’t.

Bombis (=Bombey)

My brother notices the Body – Mech section and gets euphoric. Bombis the robot is quickly constructed. I am informed that he and Eldis belong to the same team, hence the matching colour scheme and capes, and that red and black are the best colours ever. I can’t really argue with that.

Pilbågis Pilbågsriddare (=Archey Archerknight)

I’m guessing that the lobe in my brother’s brain that loves robots smashed into the lobe that loves knights in all the excitement over Bombis. That is the only explanation I have for this unholy abomination. This is my favourite out of the bunch. Pure unadultered juvenile insanity. I could probably pitch this guy to Hasbro and make a fortune.

Buzz (= Just Buzz. In his hour of unimaginative-ness the boy turned to the cover of his Toy Story 3 DVD for salvation.)

Robotic centaur supervillain sporting two kinds of flamethrowers.
Robotic centaur supervillain sporting two kinds of flamethrowers.
ROBOTIC CENTAUR SUPERVILLAIN SPORTING TWO KINDS OF FLAMETHROWERS

Also the grass is blue now. This is important for some reason.

Skjutis (=Shootey)

The boy seems to be running out of ideas at this point, rehashing old concepts from his earlier creations. He does tell me, however, that one of Skjutis’ guns shoots darkness-bullets and the other fires fire-bullets, which admittedly is pretty kick-ass.

He then proceeded to smash the keyboard with his fist, somehow causing a reboot of the system. (I’m serious. I didn’t even know that was possible.)

It was probably for the best at that point, though.

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