[Weilyn]

Awesome! I’ve been pining for something just like that!

[Weilyn]

When I was but a small girl my father thought me the “massverkans lag”. Basically this means that coherency, either through a common colour scheme or geometry, creates a very appealing overall look. Your Zodiac characters are one of the greatest examples of this concept, both through their mythological connection and the awesome colours. They work perfectly both individually and as a unit.

Great, geat work!

(As a side note; “massverkans lag” translates to “mass effect”. So many years later I realized that my father was talking out of his ass, as fathers are wont to do, regarding the actual term. I believe his point still stands, though.)

(Sorry for rambling. I’m drunk on the internet again.)

[Weilyn]

I’m slightly late (in this time zone any way) but I wish you a very happy birthday!

[Weilyn]

Well deserved, sir! Dark Swarm is awesome, in every sense of the word.

[Weilyn]

Thank you! It’s a great effect.

[Weilyn]

I love the perspective on his face! May I ask how you achieved that?

[Weilyn]

I think this is a marvelous idea, and I will join as soon as I’ve given my own wishlist a bit of thought.

[Weilyn]

Yes, you have certainly managed to create the illusion of three dimensions through a two dimensional medium.
Great work!

[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.

[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

[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 absolutely love your mythological stuff! It really shows that you put a lot of thought and actual research (is that how you spell it? Research? It looks weird to me…) into the characters

[Weilyn]

I love every single face in your thread: the shading, the emotion, the beauty, the ugliness. You are the freaking master of faces!

[Weilyn]

I love how you use the same colour theme for the different zodiac characters. Great stuff!

[Weilyn]

Mihira is amazing! Definitely one of my favourite designs of yours!

Swan song is great too, excellent shading on the face.

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