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I really like the flare effect on his magic eye; it's nicely done.

I think the cloak would probably cast shadows on his skin? It looks like you might have a bit on the collar, but adult!Captain's left-hand side (over his sword) could probably do with some darker shading, to capture just how shadowed it is.

I like the fact that you've managed to keep his hair the same at the front, while still differentiating it at the back.

Oh... but I'm adding this to the list of Drawcember Men Don't Have Nipples images. ^^ (I, obviously, have neatly avoided this issue by only drawing women - and women with their tops on, at that! That means I get to poke at it each time it comes up. ^^)

hS

... if Pasty Greens (or anyone else) chooses to use this banned user as a beta-reader for a Permission request or other PPC story, I would look extremely askance at it.

hS

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I did what you invited me to do. Getting back to the point where you were actually treating me like a human being is why I did this.

I'll ask you bluntly: did you intend for me to suffer to the point of me wanting to kill myself?

As an aside, I am very insulted that you keep calling my point of view delusional. Not because of the way you say it, but you're just dismissing everything I have to say.

I don't do what you ask me to because you won't even listen to me.

This is my deal... I drop getting permission for a year, even with a plan to rewrite my stories so they're not PPC.

You get to know me and stop discriminating against me because of my disability. A lot of the problems have come from YOU breaking the constitution.

Have one of my own shed feathers and a complimentary kit of Spikes!

Something like this with not quite so many dials everywhere, with the upper diagram-thingy being cupboards and the left-hand panel being the disguise generator (except I always imagine it on the right):

This is fun. ^_^

~Neshomeh

She's gotten all smudged, I think. She'd probably work better in colour.

I can see what you mean about the window seat, and the bay window as a whole. Do you have any advice on drawing non-right-angled objects in a single-point perspective drawing? I had absolutely no idea how to line up the angles on the bay.

I put a lot of work into this one, so I'm pleased you like it. ^_^ It is mostly just geometry, though, and I actually learnt to draw by way of the 'break it up into shapes' method, so that's right up my alley. Shading, posed people, and - the Valar forbid - colouring are still a nightmare for me, though, so I think you still have the edge.

But don't skip it! At some point I'm going to redraw and colour the Connie Sims 'coffee, stat!' image; if I can bring myself to show people that, you can do a room full of Interesting Stuff to ogle.

(Though by all means do Henry first. T'ain't nowt to say you have to do them strictly in numerical order.)

hS

Makkara, I regret to inform you that you are reminding me and hS alarmingly of a person who was banned not once, but twice from the PPC, because they evaded the first ban by sneaking back in under a new name. That being the precedent, I have to ask: Are you zdimensia/Bramandin/TooPurple under yet another new name?

~Neshomeh

Firethorn is a native of Summerhithe who emigrated to the neighbouring (and moderately hostile) nation of Wintertide. All this is detailed in my gloriously-titled NaNo The Kraken-Knights of Wintertide from a few years back.

I looked on this prompt not only as a chance to play around with shading a bit more, but as an opportunity to explore the differences in faces between ages. All three are based on photos (the first two of Kaitlyn, the third of her mother), with clothes/hair modified to fit the story.

'Wilderness' sadly got a bit over-blended - it was late, I was tired - and the other two could probably do with a bit more. Other than that... what do you think?

hS

I didn't do the magic hat thing; that's straight from Frosty the Snowman. You can't blame me for classic christmas songs.

Now, if there was a song that went:

Then one foggy Christmas Eve
Santa came to say:
"Rudolph with your nose so bright
Won't you design me a solar-powered pykrete bomber with dedicated heat redistribution systems to prevent it melting while in flight?"

... you might have a point!

[Picks up a snowball and tosses it casually from one hand to the other]

hS

Alaska is melting. We still have snow on the ground, mind you, but I have no idea why. It should have long melted away, what with it being, like, over 40 degrees Fahrenheit for the past three days. And extreme wind gusts blowing through Anchorage. Look at you guys, having freak snowfalls. Please give us our snow back. We miss it. :(

Anyway, what I'm saying is, I'll have to scrape together some snow before I can join the fight below. It may or may not have some ice chunks. Probably wont. Maybe.

Combine high-efficiency solar panels, pykrete construction for the bodywork, and silver wiring along the wing and tail vanes for heat dissipation, and you can definitely have a low-heat flight solution similar to that Project Helios thing that was wandering around recently. Indeed, it'd be able to transfer a lot of heat away from everything - one feels that the array of propellors would also be useful in this regard, as heat from the motors could be transferred out through the whole mass structure and radiated out through dedicated points that aided its profile.

If this seems elaborate, well, you're the one who made magic hats into heavily armed snowbeings. You started it. =]

I sort of copped out on the senior part by using an immortal character, but 90 percent of the characters I am working on are immortal anyways so yeah. (I'm just making excuses here)



Awwwww! Captain, you were so cuuuuuute!
-Yin, upon seeing a photo of him as a child

Omigosh! I can't believe we got selected for his squad, I can totally see why they call him *insert cool epithet here that I have not thought of yet*. He's so cool, I still can't believe he beat all five of us during training.
-Azusa, being super excited

I got "one partner gives up something important for the other" or something like that.

I'm thinking that Tocly gives up her "Ring of the Tortoise" by passing it off as a Suevian important jewelery.

I'm having trouble figuring out what Maddie would want from the general store that would be that valuable... she can get media from the library, Tocly has enough weapons to loan her a good one, it would take a lot of junk food to be worth trying to trade a heavy ring for...

I guess it doesn't fufill the prompt because it's not important to Tocly. She was just holding onto it because she wasn't sure about the armor/ defense tradeoff.

What I'm getting from the prompt is a chance for Tocly to describe the quest where she go the ring.

I mean, except for Zing, they're all ground-bound... also, on a more practical note, I feel snow may be unsuited for constructing engines. Though perhaps giant snow-formed paper aeroplanes...? [Sets a handful of SGs to work on a prototype]

The blue ice, however, would be rather /too/ cruel. Best stick to snowballs.

hS

Perhaps we should engineer some bombers for them - how does a payload of blue ice sound to you? >=]

In my head, they were always like this:



Except with a single big screen.

Pykrete is the best fact I ever learnt from a Horrible Histories book.

[Stares up at the Warship Habakkuk in something close to awe]

Hey, Scape... there's only one of you, and I've got 18 Snow-Givers left. But if we joined forces, we could absolutely destroy the rest of the Board (with snowballs, obvs).

Whaddayasay?

hS

Instead of encountering a human and why he chose to look that way...

What if it was a Krubera (a type of troll) and questioning why he ignored the sign on the cafeteria that says "don't feed the trolls" ?

Her name's Habakkuk.

Methinks th'art slightly outmassed. =]