First, by ECMajor again. I’m just coloring. I got such a huge response from the last one though, how could I not? Of course, I know all the response was ECM’s And with halloween coming up, this was just a natural. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
ECM calls it Nude Jersey Welcomes You.
I call it conflicted. I’m convinced it was ECMajor’s way of testing just how gross can an image be and still be sexy. Oddly enough, the answer is obviously, “Pretty Damn Gross!”. You’re gonna have to go even grosser apparently.
What is that? WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?
Well, I call it a Zombie-Dragon-Camel-Demon. Pretty common actually. 🙂
Now, I’ll tell you right now if you don’t zoom in on this thing, you’re missing a lot. And, of course, Tumblr doesn’t Iet you zoom in. If you know the 1280 filename trick, go for it. But I tend to ramble on, showing layers and stuff, but with all the new people watching, I won’t do that to you. Here’s my final colored version. You needn’t go any farther. Also I’ll put the full res version on FA shortly.
Okay, so here’s my layers. I’ll zoom in on the important bits so Tumblr’s shitty resolution won’t totally ruin it.
For base colors, I went with a rather tame fawnish color for the majority. Three levels of green for the scales. A sickly red for the topmost horns and that weird stuff going on at her back. Yellow eyes to pop out. I tried various colors for the wings, but the dark grey with a very slight blue looed best I thought. Mostly I am trying not to oversaturate colors. I tend to do that. Okay, on to shading.
ECMajor shades awfully well just in the drawing. There’s really little I have to do but follow his lead. And that determines the light source. I did bring the light source down somewhat from where most of his shade indicates though. Don’t know that it’s very noticeable. Highlighting is next, and that tends to be a problem for me. I definitely have a tendency to overdo it and make my characters look like they’re made of latex. (Um… I’m not saying that’s a bad thing. But my tastes aren’t necessarily everyone’s. Nor realistic. 🙂
Now for come closeups. Hey, you didn’t HAVE to read this far you know. Check out this beautiful face!
See why I suggest higher rez? There’s a lot going on there! Im particularly proud of the little muscles under the ripped off skin. Check this…
EWWW! That looks better (worse) than I ever expected!
Finally I settled on that rather plain background. I tried a variety of things, but really there’s so much going on her body, the background cries out to be simple. So I kept it that way in the end, just giving it a bit more than a simple gradient, and highlighting ECM’s sig that I’d almost obscured. Put my own in too this time. I used to think it was conceit to put a sig on for just coloring, but another artist pointed out that it’s preferred, so everyone knows if you screw it up badly, it’s not their fault. 🙂
Oh, and to leave you with another great part. Those outrageous hooves. Yikes.
Not TOO too porny so I think it can go on my normal blog too.
It’s an unremittingly dark story with absolutely no redeeming features whatsoever. I read it in 83 and liked it. Saw the first movie in in 1989 and realized it was a well done movie, followed the real story pretty accurately, and I wished I’d never seen it.
The story is just “How bad can a family get fucked?”. Goes from happy, downhill until the end, when it drops off the cliff. I can’t imagine why anyone would want to see it.
The one highlight of the ‘88 movie was Fred Gwynne was in it. His 2nd to last movie. (Last was My Cousin Vinny, which he was again excellent in.) Not a bad way to end a career for Herman Munster.
But I can imagine no audience who would want to see this. This is a case where a story really doesn’t need to be made into a movie. This is not “IT”.
The one blessed thing that ‘89 movie didn’t do was to depict the scene where the protagonist hears the truth from hell. That scene in the book forever changed my belief in the maxim that knowing the truth is always better. If you’ve read it, you know what I mean. If you haven’t, I do hope this movie doesn’t throw that in.
Stephen King is one fucked up individual. Great author and deserves his fame, but… dude. You got a problem.
I just finished the climax of my story named “You Only Live 18 Times”. As usual, I think it’s my best. It’s probably not, but I always think that when I write something new. It’s in the “Spyjirra” universe and is a Elder Scrolls/Prequel Adventure/James Bond-ish crossover.
But now I have a dilemma. Big spoiler here, but I felt like discussing it anyway. In the climax, one of the main characters is caught underwater nearby a huge underwater explosion. I’d hoped to have her survive, (she’s an argonian and hence can breath underwater) but I just read some interesting and scientific work on underwater explosions and frankly, given the strength of the explosion and her proximity, she really can’t survive.
I’d considered bringing in magic, perhaps a literal Deus-Ex-Machina, or just ignoring actual science and physics, but I talked it over with a friend and now I’m of the opinion that she has to die. It’s a weird thing, thinking that killing a character I’d only just created a few weeks before makes me feel bad. But it does. The scenario was such that she knew she wouldn’t survive, it was a heroic sacrifice, so it would cheapen it to let her live when everything says she can’t.
I suppose it’s just a thing writers have to get through from time to time. It probably is a better story because of it. But… damn.
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