Upd Dec 17- Alphabet of Animals (pg 4) :)

Stplmstr

As for the bolding, until the last page he is not showing any real emotion in that panel. All he has is the spock eyebrow raise. On the last page where he is showing exasperation i think it would fit but there he is supposed to be a juxtaposition of Z's excitement.

I did a small draw over as well. But as for the eye movement the tail helps but it is generally known that people look at faces first. I have heard it referred to as the "Do I know them" effect. Peoples eyes seem to look for facial recognition even when there is no earthly reason they would recognize the person. Then the eye would go to the text. Especially with how the next panel is I think it would be very easy for peoples eyes to move to Z's face or his next word bubble (or picto bubble as the case may be) than running all the way down the panel to the next bubble. Like in a newspaper if you have words that cross that gutter between columns people, even though they know how columns work, would naturally follow it out into the next collum rather than jumping to the beginning of the next line.

vs

And an e-mail will be on the way shortly

ManonvonSuperock

I see what you mean with the eye movement. Since I had cut a sliver out of the comic to work on, I didn't realize it was so close to the face and picto-balloon.

As for emotion, the dude maintains anime smiling, squinty eyes the whole time, which is mainly what I was reading as far as personality.

Stplmstr

Well here is another update with more darkstalkerness. Of course not the one that got in the ones that were unsuded

First the cappy one that is a hella boring composition and not really intresting otherwise either but you know full disclosure on what works and doesn't



Then the (i would imagine most done stalker) Morrigan


and finally Lord Raptor

Stplmstr

TMNT!

earthwormadam

Lord Raptor looks great! He always did have the best super move.

The other two Darkstalker pieces are nice too but the last one has a more striking style.

Stplmstr

Earth- Yeah I liked the lord raptor one too. Surprisingly it isn't the one that they took...not that I am complaining

Cheeks-74-Sean Galloway- Is running a contest over at his blog/DA page ect. So I didcided to whip up an entry for it
check out the contest here ---> http://gotcheeks.blogspot.com/

Metalbourne

Morrigan is "most done"


Hehehehe


She's a slut.

Stplmstr

I know shes a slut but I love her anywayyyyyyy :mrgreen: hahaha

Stplmstr

Alrighty first image is what I wanted to do for the last forum contest funky hats deal. Unfortunatly I back burnered it then didn't get back around to it until the voting was already done :S


Why?.....I dunno

And a sketch I thought was kinda cute so I decided to take it to a more finished spot

sgt scruffian

love the Kuta drawing, as i'm sure cheeks did as well. your colors are amazing.

earthwormadam

Whoa that hat is super, and would've pulled in a lot of votes.

RubberAC

I WOULD HAVE VOTED FOR THAT

Paradox Control

Stplmstr wrote: »

oh and this is the tender rondo song that came out of the podcast where the M.O.C was discussed....I think it is funny http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_NbkMnE4ew

You just won my heart. <3

Stplmstr

Sgt- Thanks I hope he did, but eitherway I am glad it caught your eye

Earth- Thanks I am glad ya liked it

Rubber- Thanks I will have to try and make sure not to be lame and late next time

Para- Sounds like I may have the love story of an age on my hands hahahaha Thanks I am glad ya liked it
A blog me and a couple of friends from the school days did a myth type thang so here are a couple of images from that.

Futakuchi-onna: Though there are several stories linking the appearance of a futakuni-onna's second mouth to different causes, it is most often linked to how little a woman eats. The soon-to-be futakuchi-onna is usually a wife of a miser and rarely eats. To counteract this, a second mouth mysteriously appears on the back of the woman's head. The second mouth often mumbles spiteful and threatening things to the woman and demands food. If it is not fed, it can screech obscenely and cause the woman tremendous pain. Eventually the woman's hair begins to move like a pair of serpents, allowing the mouth to help itself to the woman's meals.


Kawa-Uso :A folkloric otter with supernatural powers


Now I am not posting any links just the promo image (you can find any links in the appropriate place in my sig) I am doing for my entry into Zuda for August

I am doing this particularly because in this very thread I had some very cool and thoughtful comments on bubble placement and texting from ManonvonSuperock. So I ran Physikon past him and it resulted in some very helpful suggestions so I wanted to give him a shout out and thanks for the crits

And finally I am gonna be in chicago this weekend at the wizard world con so if your gonna be there me and Evan Damph will be sharing the table 3708 so swing by if you get a chance

Leggraphics

I really like the otter. I think some of your shapes are a little hard to define because there isnt allot of contrast between colours.

ManonvonSuperock

the lettering on that entry came out pretty rad. It's good to see it finished.

Stplmstr

Legg: Yeah I have the tonal values all in the same range so it does lose the eye a bit. Good catch.

Manon: Thanks but part of the credit for that definitely goes to you

Wo-ho I was at wizard world in chicago and it was hella fun! I got to share a table with Evan Dahm, who couldn't have been a better table mate. If you don't know who that is then check out http://www.rice-boy.com/ and see what you have been missing

I also had a great time with my curvaceous lady set. A group of prints I did exclusively for the con. This is the wrap around cover

I was quite pleased when lots of men and women of all sorts were interested in the sets. I always had the theory that curvy ladys were popular with a lot of people and it was nice to have that hypothesis vindicated when all of the sets sold out

bombardier

:^: I fully endorse the print set. Do you have any of the others from it online?

Stplmstr

Thanks I am glad to have as many endorsements as possible. I don't have any of them online it was something I did to have to sell packages of at cons and stuff like that. But I did upload 1 to give an idea of what they are like

Radar6590

I am truly a fan. Your art style's sick, man.

Mustang

CANKLES!

I agree, I'm very fond of pretty well much everything in this thread.

Delzhand

Stplmstr wrote: »

I always had the theory that curvy ladys were popular with a lot of people and it was nice to have that hypothesis vindicated when all of the sets sold out

I think people like curvy but dislike fat, the difference being that curvy is (to me) a healthy and smooth largeness, while fat is not.

bombardier

Delzhand wrote: »

Stplmstr wrote: »

I always had the theory that curvy ladys were popular with a lot of people and it was nice to have that hypothesis vindicated when all of the sets sold out

I think people like curvy but dislike fat, the difference being that curvy is (to me) a healthy and smooth largeness, while fat is not.

I'm going to quash this direction of conversation in this thread right here or else this will turn into an 80 page D&D thread.

Metalbourne

bombardier wrote: »

Delzhand wrote: »

Stplmstr wrote: »

I always had the theory that curvy ladys were popular with a lot of people and it was nice to have that hypothesis vindicated when all of the sets sold out

I think people like curvy but dislike fat, the difference being that curvy is (to me) a healthy and smooth largeness, while fat is not.

I'm going to quash this direction of conversation in this thread right here or else this will turn into an 80 page D&D thread.

I like girls with great big titties.

bombardier

They are like bags of sand.

Metalbourne

And then I was all bangin her and she was like, 'Oh your totally nailing me, I like that"

CheerfulBear

Way to fuck up your contractions, Metaldumb.

Metalbourne

Bombs changed my post

D-Robe

I heard 'boobs', so I came as soon as I could.

Spoiler:

Yes. You read that correctly.

Stplmstr

Radar- Thanks I am really glad you have liked it so far

Must- I think of them more as shit kicking man stompers...but perhaps my life has been a sad one

Delz- You may be right But I do think there is genrally still an obsessions with what people convince themselves or are convinced by others is difficult to achieve ie. rare. Way back when a large man or woman was obviously someone of wealth because they could afford it and was thus desirable. On the farm a woman with hips and child bearing potential was desirable ect. These days it is the high fashion heroine chic sickly (to me) look that is harder to maintain and thus givin the status of desirable. It is the same way with rocks, long time ago onyx was as valuable as gold but when they found large deposits of onyx it lost it's value because it's rarity was changed. But I do think because of this societal drive for rarity people convince themselves that they like something they don't or don't what they do because they are told that they should. We are all subject to this type of thinking but hopefully we can break free of it enough to get what we like, rather than what is rare or we are told we should like

Bomb- Alrighty consider it qwashed

Metal-...<<....>>.....me too

Bomb- Bags of sand warmed in the sun

Metal-....where is that from... it reminds me of something Weaton was saying on the D&D podcast but I don't remeber for sure...

D-robe- Well good, cause if you heard "dong" then you landed in the wrong thread

Metalbourne

Stplmstr wrote: »

Metal-....where is that from... it reminds me of something Weaton was saying on the D&D podcast but I don't remeber for sure...

It's a very rough paraphrasing of "40 year old virgin" where steve carell's character is talking about "this chick he banged" and they ask him what her boobs felt like and he replied with "a bag of sand"

So, technically, bombs started it.

Stplmstr

Metal: haha no worries, I thoughroughly promote people "starting it" in hmya

Angie, a character from over on the entervoid site by http://angieness.deviantart.com/ . I was trina stay a bit looser on this so this is what happened

Stplmstr

Did an image as a trade for some textpattern training



for a blog I am sketching around with, gonna do some chara design and stuff for a book so I picked one of my favs



Very quick line up of some characters for some comic pages I am drawing for fun



And a couple of characters just for giggles
Ol country boy

Parking attendant

Shiekahn_boy

Was your comic Character sheet an inspiration from the wind waker series? It has that sort of... presence yet more grown and mature.

You're aart it awesome. Keep up the good work. *bookmarks*

Stplmstr

not directly but can I say the wicked style of that game didn't influence me after it blew my eyes out of the back of my head (best looking Ganon EVER!) I doubt I could. So perhaps subconsciously but not on purpose

Shiekahn_boy

Ah, I see.

Still pretty awesome though.

Stplmstr

Well I am glad to hear ya liked it

Stplmstr

I am a fan of the Phoenix Wright games in a big way so it was inevitable that it would make it's way into my drawings at some point



and a image of the process on the image

.Tripwire.

Man, you're cool. You're cool at pictures.

Heartlash

I'm a big fan of that color palette, you're making me want to try something similar.