The Thing that You Do, Part 2

[rowyn]

The title on today's and yesterday's post is a reference to a something I picked up from an exercise guru years ago: 'The exercise that you do is better than the exercise that you don't do'. Meaning that it's better to walk a mile than to tell yourself "I'll use a rowing machine for twenty minutes instead" and then not use the rowing machine because you hate it.

After I finished a game of Blood Bowl this morning, I decided I should do something productive.

Me: What do I feel like doing?
Also Me: I want to draw a Blee.
Me: I drew a Blee yesterday. It wasn't a high priority before I did it. Maybe I could work on notes for the actual game?
Also me: But I want to draw a Blee.
Me: Game notes would be useful. And take less time.
Also me: I don't want to make game notes! I want to draaaaaaw.
Me: Maybe draw an icon for one of the Strayaway crew?
Also me: No. I want to draw a Blee.
Me: WHY DO YOU WANT TO DRAW A BLEE? Nobody cares about Blee! You don't even have any important Blee NPCs!
Also me: I could draw a Blee skeleton.
Me: ENOUGH WITH THE BLEE.
Also me: Skeletons are good practice. I really don't understand how those extra arms would attach to the body.
Me: Howabout writing Sign & Sacrifice before you run completely out of buffer?
Also me: Or I could play another game of Blood Bowl.
Me: FINE. DRAW THE STUPID BLEE SKELETON.
Also me: Yay! *spends forty five minutes asking Google for dog skeletons to get an idea what they look like, and another hour drawing a Blee skeleton*

This is not what I had in mind when I decided to let drawing count as "productive" in January.

On the other hand, it is more productive than playing another game of Blood Bowl. Slightly.

I need to get my scanner running again if I'm going to keep doing pictures, though.

Blee skeleton, originally uploaded by Lady Rowyn.

Comments

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Aiee, undead skeletal Blee! Run away! :O

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

At least undead blee would only kill you because of a hatred of all who live, and not because they wanted to become more powerful mages.

[rowyn]

They might want to kill you so that they can exterminate the hated living with more versatile magic, though.

[rowyn]

Awww, but skeletal Blee wants to play fetch with you!

[sebkha.livejournal.com]

The quality time with Google certainly shows. That's a very convincing skeleton.

[rowyn]

Thanks! *^_^* I linked to the main references off of the flickr page. Having a picture that looks mostly like what I want to draw is extremely helpful.

[whitefangedwolf.livejournal.com]

Your internal dialog made me giggle since I had a similar conversation going on in my head last night. I was really tired and wanted to fall asleep but some part of me insisted that I really needed to get up and work out what the life cycle of space turtles would be like, I have no idea why, and I was tired enough that I went along with the idea just so that I could go to sleep. The resulting typed up notes were comprehensible this morning so I may end up doing something with it at some point. The creative process is a bit strange at times, isn't it.

[rowyn]

Yes, it is. Whee, space turtles! :D

[octantis.livejournal.com]

That looks pretty plausible for such an implausible creature!

[rowyn]

The arms should probably be attached to something sturdier, the way the hind legs get the pelvic girdle and the forelegs get that, um ... flat bone thing. That is not the clavical.

[octantis.livejournal.com]

The scapula, I believe. :) Shoulder blade. Representing it might not be too hard, it's basically just a big wedge of bone that anchors the the first bone of the arm to.. something. Collarbone, or in a blee's case maybe some modified upper ribs.

[rowyn]

Right, scapula was the word I was trying to remember. :) The scapula doesn't look like it's anchored to anything but ribcage/spine on the dog skeletons. I kept looking for something like a clavicle but I'm not seeing it. Maybe one of the ribs substitutes for it, which makes attaching the arms to ribs make sense too.