> 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?
You have a point . . .
>>>>> 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*
Heh. Well, I suppose it's about time that poor Saionji-kun had the chance
to Get The Girl.
>> 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.
That's quite possible--after all, Akio is the only genuinely adult major
character in the show.
>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.
Good luck, if you feel you need it.
>>>>> 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
> ^_^.
I can certainly see Saionji practicing classic brush calligraphy, though--
he has that kind of traditional streak to him.
>>>>> 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!
I surrender! ;P
>>> 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 )
From what I've heard of that place, it could easily end up being
more time consuming than a true game. (Mind you, I'm saying that as
someone whose book collection, at last estimate, runs to some 3000 volumes . . .)
>>> 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.
Ganbatte! You can do it!
>> 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.
Unless you're trying to get them to pose in some position other than
"asleep", or trying to find the necessary hard drive space to store all
the cat photos you're accumulating as a result of not being able to get
them to sit for their portraits . . . ;P
>What media are you using for
> this one?
Markers, as required by the instructor. They're not really my first
choic
--I prefer something a little more forgiving--but oh, well.
E. Liddell, and two kitties--alas, neither of them is the one I'm trying
to draw.
