Art: Jing Li, Nao, and Abigail

[rowyn]

koogrr and I were talking on the phone, and he made a remark about scanning artwork that reminded me I hadn't posted the picture I did while I was in Florida.

I started this on Wednesday night during the art jam, and finished it during the game Saturday. I may color it on the computer, if I get ambitious, but I'm not sure.

I played with John's Trias some more while I was there, but on other small pieces. I'm gonna have to buy a set for myself some day 'cause I have so much fun using his. On the one hand, I keep thinking 'I'm sure to use them, look how much I use John's when I'm in Florida.' And on the other I think 'Maybe I only feel a drive to use them on because the occassions when I can feel rare and special, and if I had my own set I'd take it for granted and not use them.'

Anyway,


These are NPCs from the Superior City game. Nao is the cat-girl kneeling in the foreground, Abigail is the human leaning on the boulder, and Jing Li -- whom I play when I'm there -- is the fox-girl standing on the right. At the session on the 15th, one of the PCs, Voltage went shopping for a new dress for a date that she had, and I decided Jing Li would get a new kimono as long as people were getting new clothes. Various adventures since she last got new clothing had rather battered her last kimono. The PCs have access to a clothing replicator, so I said Jing Li would make one with a pattern of white tigers on it. jordangreywolf said that Nao, the white tiger NPC, would get one of gold foxes, and Abigail, the very troubled NPC whom we'd just sort-of rescued, got one with mechanical cats on it, in tribute to the mechanical cat PC. I thought the whole thing was so cute that I wanted to draw a picture of it. And even though Jordan did a cooler illustration than I could of it on Tuesday night, I decided to do it anyway. :)

Comments

[sheepdog.livejournal.com]

You did a great job on it! Thanks for sharing! :-)

[level-head.livejournal.com]

This is one of the finest pieces you've produced, in my opinion. Excellent detail on the kimono -- they are almost furisode in their styling. Poses are good, proportions good, lines clean and evocative, facial expressions compelling. The layering effects work nicely indeed.

Bravo!

===|==============/ Level Head

[rowyn]

This is one of the finest pieces you've produced.

So I'm looking at this picture, and I'm thinking over the entire body of my work. "Yeah, I guess that's a fair statement," I reflect. "And I know he meant it as a compliment ... but somehow it's awfully depressing just the same."

In my head, I'm just SURE I can do better than this. And I'm so sure that I CAN that part of me thinks I must HAVE ... at some point ... somewhere ... just can't remember when ... or what.

[jordangreywolf.livejournal.com]

I love the kimono designs! And something about the whole picture makes me think of oriental illustrations. (I know I'm being terribly vague when I say "oriental illustration", but I can't put my finger on any specific piece it reminds me of, or even whether it's Japanese or Chinese that I'm thinking of. That's what I get for posting a comment while I'm still frazzled from the convention. ;) )

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Nice work! One of your best pictures yet.

[koogrr.livejournal.com]

Very cool, and great detail, especially on the dresses.

Heh, yeah, I should use my Trias more than you do.

[rowyn]

I still covet your Trias. :) I'm considering offering to do icon comissions to raise money for my own set of Trias. I want one of those gawdawful expensive 150-marker sets. :) I can't imagine making enough on icons to pay for them, but I like doing icons anyway so it might be fun just for that.

[tkurogrym.livejournal.com]

Ooooo! Gorgeous. My art-opinion doesn't really count for much, but this is truly beautiful. So elegant and stylish. I love the detail on the kimono (kimonos? kimonii? :D). Wish I understood how to do clothing half as well!

[rowyn]

I've been working on this digitally coloring this piece lately, and I think it's the kimono designs that make the piece. I'm not that good at doing clothing, and the drape of the kimonos here isn't especially well done -- but the picture-within-a-picture effect has something very attractive to it. Maybe when I finish coloring this one, I'll do another clothes-with-pictures piece.