A Bit of Fan-Art...

[jjpor]

So, I downloaded GIMP the other day (basically a free Photoshop equivalent), thinking that continuing to persevere with MS Paint as I have been, while certainly noble and character-building, was also  a little silly.

This turned out to be a big mistake on my part, as the time over the past two days I should have been using writing has instead been taken up with drawing on the computer...

Anyway, see one of the fruits of my labours:



Yes, it's Eleven, in his fez. The background is supposed to be kind of swirly and Vortex-y...

So, that's why I haven't posted updates on any of my competing writing projects! ;D

Comments

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've decided I'm going to spread the blame about a bit - you bad, bad person! XD

It's my best effort after about two days of practicing with GIMP - I didn't save my first couple of embarrassing attempts. Somebody did once show me how to use Photoshop, although I've never actually used it by myself (have you seen how expensive it is??) I think years of fiddling obsessively with MS Paint was probably good training as well. I like the fact that it's a bit more like actual drawing/painting than Paint is, except computer-drawing is much more forgiving of mistakes than the real thing (undo! undo! :D). I suppose if you got one of those graphics tablets where you can draw normally and it comes up on the screen it would be The Business, but I dread to think how much they cost, considering I'd only be using it for doodling once in a while...

Aw. That's nice of you to say so. I'm going to finish the Sherlock and the Eleven, although it might take me a while, and I'm going to do a Xmas fic for Xmas, but other than that, I'm going to swear some sort of oath on holy relics to steer clear of starting any new fanfic until I've made real progress again with the Bore. Certainly no multi-chapter epics!

[clocketpatch]

Oh noes! Blame flinging! *ducks and covers*

The price of Photoshop and tablets is just simply ridiculous. I'm kind of slightly concerned (read jealous, very very jealous) when I see people buying them just to doodle with. But much as I want one, I don't think I'd ever quite be able to justify it unless it were job related in some way (and what's the odds of that right?) But I do enjoy GIMP rather more than I should, especially the smudge tool... It's just sort of relaxing, smudging random actors faces into existence... er...

Anyway, I should say that reading all of these statements of resolve and what not have encouraged me to spend the last several hours plugging away at my own original fic. So thank you very muchy! I think this bunny finally got a direction and isn't sprinting into walls any more. :D

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Yeah! Gaaahh! *throws blame*

Yeah, I think I'd have to somehow embark upon a second career as a comic book artist or something to justify buying one of those (and I know I'm not that good - LOOK AT ELEVEN'S HANDS, FFS! XD) The smudge tool, on the other hand, is a thing of beauty...

Yeah, we could swear some proper medieval-type oath to finish our respective fics together or die trying or something like that...or possibly not, cause that wouldn be scary... XD

[clocketpatch]

Aw, but you managed to get individual fingers and everything while using mouse. That's harder than I think anyone who hasn't tried it would give credit for. And his clothes are all nicely shadowed and the like. I think he's adorable (and square enough that you could shrink him down to icon size).

...wait, while I was complimenting I wasn't ducking. *looks up* *gets smacked in the face with blame*

Ooowww!!

I think it is severe oaths and encouragement time though. The time of the great pestering, or something. Until there is a pretty hard cover on my shelf anyways.

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

It is really hard with the mouse... On Paint I used to draw a lot of spaceships and things, because you can do them with straight lines, circles etc not as much fiddly freehand...

I was reading something about Viking beserkers (it was research!) getting iron rings riveted around their necks and vowing not to remove them until they'd killed x number of enemies... Not that we want to go that far, actuallY...

Actually, all of this talk of slightly scary medievalism and you getting hit in the face with blame reminds me of a funny story (funny if you find medieval religion+ultraviolence funny) from the Crusades that I have GOT to steal for my story...