E. Liddell wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 18:27:26 -0500, milo@
winternet.com wrote:
>
>> E. Liddell wrote:
>>> On Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:04:10 -0700, spam wrote:
>>>
>>>> *pokes afu in the forehead while saying "boing!" in a high pitched
>>>> voice*
>>>
>> Sure, it needs something to protect its brain. Existence of a brain is
>> likely in doubt.
>
> Well, it can always borrow Mikage's, ne? ;)
>
I'm not convinced that would be a wise thing to do. Do you want this
newsgroup thinking like him?
>>>> A picture? A quick sketch
>>>> on a napkin.... *makes note to go find relatively clean napkin*
>>> Yes, please do at least find a clean napkin. ;P
>> I want to see it too!
>>
>> Not exactly a napkin, and just a bit of trepidation posting a work in
>> progress. But, since I really have done a lot of work on this even
>> since the latest shown, I'll show it here. This is a thread at the
>> artists' forum I frequent. There's exposition about the story, as I'm
>> probably the only person there who's seen Utena.
>>
>>
http://www.thirdraildesignlab.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5559>
> Very nice--although Utena and Saionji look a touch more than friendly! ;)
*whistles*
>
> The last sketch (Anthy/Akio/Touga) . . . There's something just a shade
> off about Akio, but I'm not sure what. Anthy looks a great deal more
> mature and determined than she does in the series--I think it's mostly
> her expression. Touga merely looks like his nose is out of joint, poor
> bastard--to be expected under the circumstances, though.
I agree about Akio. Been thinking about this. I think that he's not
tall and broad-shouldered enough, as compared to Anthy and Touga. As
for Anthy and Touga, good! I've successfully portrayed the impressions
I was aiming for.
>
> *Much* nicer than a mere napkin, anyway. Thanks for showing us these.
>
The coloring is coming along. I've felt rusty, working on this one.
But I think with the colors, it will all turn out reasonably well.
>>>> In yet other news, I had an enormously strange dream that Laurie
>>>> mailed me a box full of large porcelain dolls dressed as the Utena
>>>> characters, but she had actually meant to mail them to Katherine, and
>>>> thus ensued a really interesting series of phone calls and emails.
>>>> (This dream wasn't as weird as the one the night before last where I
>>>> was in a secret underground dance club where everyone completely
>>>> doused themselves in brightly colored body paint... with their clothes
>>>> on.)
>>>
>> Now I want these dolls.
>>
>> Better than my dream two nights ago in which I was very carefully
>> slitting my wrists, and thinking "this sure doesn't hurt as much as I
>> was expecting it to". Because, of course, one supposedly never feels
>> pain in dreams.
>
> Supposedly, one can't read in dreams, either . . . and yet I seem to be
> able to. This leads me to conclude that anyone who says you can't [foo]
> in dreams doesn't know what he, she, or it is talking about.
I can offer up a bit more Utena dream! The bad part is that it was
tangled up with one of my recurring college frustration themes--in which
I have consistently *forgotten* to go to one of the classes I registered
for, and also somehow never get to the registrar's office to drop the
class. In the middle of this racing around, I stopped by to see
Saionji, who was working on calligraphy. It was a large piece, maybe a
yard square, so he had to work on the floor. It was in his room, which
was lined with nice tatami. I sat on the far side of the paper,
watching. I clearly remember seeing him lay down brush strokes of ink.
But since it was upside-down from me, and in kanji, I couldn't read it
^_^.
>
>>>> In still other news.... aw, heck, I can't remember. There was
>>>> something else! Utena related! But I have forgotten, as if I had just
>>>> struck the end of the Black Rose Arc.
>>> Heh. Mikage, what have you been up to lately?
>> Protecting his secrets, which is why DQ couldn't remember.
>
> That would explain it . . .
Which is why we don't want the newsgroup borrowing his brain!
>> Is this for a game?
>
> Yes. Hey, it had an evil white-haired bishounen in it--d'you really think
> I could pass up the chance to rehabilitate him? (I just wish the original
> translators hadn't rendered his speech in bad Elizabeathan, 'cause I got
> stuck with him for a narrator, and I've got so accustomed to him thou'ing
> everyone that I have to be careful to avoid having the other characters do
> it too. ;P )
>
>> And the above-mentioned picture is much further
>> along than the fanfic it's for.
>
> Well, maybe progress on one will lead to progress on the other. We can
> hope, right?
We can hope. Some new or developed bits and pieces have filtered into
the writing.
>
> E. Liddell, idly wondering if turning in manga-style artwork for her
> final assignment in Illustration class would cause the instructor to
> burst a blood vessel or not. I'll probably just end up doing a
> cat . . .
>
Cats are good! Cats are great subjects. What media are you using for
this one?
Laurie
