Topic: The Gonzo has art.

[Blackhook]

So..why is Kalinka dressed like Cypha Belnades?

[The Great Gonzo]

So..why is Kalinka dressed like Cypha Belnades?

'Twas trying to reference some EXE concept art of Kalinka.

[Protoman Blues]

Did I ever mention that I love that you draw RS-Blues with Red Hair? 

[The Great Gonzo]

Maybe.

Poor Rock; he doesn't cry over not being home that often, but when he does...At least Sora's here to try and cheer him up!

Inspired by some art of ~rasenth's (hers is better, of course). Manually recoloured the lineart, apart from the black bits on their clothes.


...man, imagine Sora trying something like this on Blues. "Sorry kid, I'm 98% darkness. Might as well just hand me over to Cosmos."

Proto would rather have his other shades.

[Krystal]

Me★Ga★Ne<3

[The Great Gonzo]

Sorry, RS-Zero, but you are not RS-Proto. And Rock's actually older than you, assuming Ruby-Spears didn't anticipate the "Zero's a Wily-bot!" plot thing.

Posted on: June 01, 2011, 03:43:08 PM

["Cold Snow".] Man, that title's cheeOH CHRIST HIS FACE

Explanation: Another dream-based thing. After escaping a sideways tornado (and before the scene/story switched entirely to Serah being made a priestess or something, and the FFXIII gang sneaking in to watch), Snow was attacked by some demon-thing. Normally he'd just squish it, but unfortunately, this was a Corrupted (offshoot of the Heartless?). Result: Snow becomes an [dark hold] to everyone but Serah. Also, body horror.

Sora, Sazh, and Lightning face him down one night, after learning what they have to do to un-Corrupt him. It's not going to be easy.


KH!Snow's outfit didn't change much. >.>

Thought I'd take a stab at humanizing the King.

I sorry you turned into a shota, Mickey. ;_;

Posted on: June 02, 2011, 06:01:35 PM

Oh Proto.

However this conversation was started, Rock would like Proto to know that he is not, in fact, a snuffly bunny. He's more of a skunk.


Sorta-inspired by a comment *crazylegz42 made a while ago; I probably borked the fox anatomy. >.> Also, why did I get an image of a fox off of Google so I could get the colour right when he's about to eat/molest a BLUE rabbit?



also, if Proto's tan keeps persisting like that, he'll be a full-fledged Dark-Skinned Redhead before long.

[Krystal]

Bunny! lolrocksmackedtheglassesrightoffhim
For some reason shota Mickey works fine =X His hair is a little...hm, though

[The Great Gonzo]

For some reason shota Mickey works fine =X His hair is a little...hm, though

'Twas trying to retain some semblance of his original facial shape (since I can only draw six faces...); maybe it'd work better from a different angle?

Some title. >.>

This photo was taken a while ago (during the blackout, I think) in front of our downstairs couch; today I cropped it and used it for photo retouching practice. Turned out alright, I guess.

Laugh at that stick all you want. You probably won't be laughing after she's used it to bonk you into oblivion.

[We Three Kings Of] [ray splasher] Envy Are~

Much more recent photograph; 'tis Cloud, Squall, and Vaan hanging out in Dad's downstairs man cave office, strategically taken in front of a giant blue cube-chair thing as not to compromise security.

Squall's supposed to be looking at Cloud in annoyance, but...

[VixyNyan]

Squall's supposed to be looking at Cloud in annoyance, but...

Nothing a text or thought bubble can't fix.

[Align]

done

[Krystal]

Hmm, for Mickey... Suggestion: Make his face itself a bit wider? Then it'll be +1 face \o/

[The Great Gonzo]

Alright.


Ran this by the mods (via Acid), and it's alright: I'm doing commissions right now. Copy-pasted from dA:

Gonna try something for a short while, and hope the IRS doesn't stomp my face into the ground for it. Unsurprisingly, it's Play Arts-related; working around the house is no longer an option, so now I'll be working around dA. Yay?

The plan: There's some figures I want but can't realistically get (I think all of my paycheck that wasn't lost to taxes will go towards college); the original plan was to do what Eric did many years ago and have the client buy it/ship it directly to me, but Dad said it didn't work like that (mostly due to address issues). Mom's solution: have them pay her the amount the figure costs (since she has a PayPal account and I'm still on the fence about opening one), then she'll get it for me.

So, these figures--there's five of 'em, though I've only really got hopes for the last two. (Mostly going off of Amazon prices plus shipping)

Rinoa: $62.89
Yuna (FFX): $106 on Amazon; there's one on eBay going for $61.03, lasting for roughly 26 days
Ashe: $52.06
Zidane: $28, though that whole "free shipping" thing probably won't last long
Hope: $31.48

Given the prices, I'm willing to do multiple pictures, and accept separate buyers for one figure. I doubt I'll be able to finish multi-parters in a single day, but I WILL work on them whenever I have the chance (which should be fairly often, as I'm still unemployed...). I'm thinking the minimum amount should be $10--hope that's not unfair.


Now...even as the words "beggars can't be choosers" resonate throughout my head, there's still a few things I don't want to draw:

* Porn, or pseudo-porn. Maybe that should include fringe-fetish stuff?

* Super-fanservicey things; just not comfortable with drawing that much fanservice, to be honest.


Think it'll work?


EDIT: Well, Mom checked the copyright laws, and commissioned fanart would require paying a fee that is doubtless larger than I'll ever make out of this. So, until someone points out that it isn't the case, no fanart of any kind.

That noise you heard was my brilliant plan completely falling to pieces.

*lizsama pointed out that there's really nothing they can do to me as long as I'm only asking money for the effort and not the character content. So that restriction's lifted, at least.

ANOTHER EDIT: About prices: Maybe $5 or $10 per pic is alright? Maybe I was too vague before (though this edit is probably equally as vague).


Decided now: $5 for a sketch, $10 for any other pic. [...]

...so doing this just for some figures is probably incredibly [tornado fang]ing stupid, but I think it'd be best to just be up front about it. No one likes a liar.

[Protoman Blues]

Best of luck, Gonzie!

[The Great Gonzo]

So far, I haven't had much.

Also, I'll be updating that last post I made in a second.

edit: and updated it again.

Posted on: June 05, 2011, 01:34:57 AMMore photos! My computer seems to not want to recognize the SD slot after a while...

["Anyone home?"] To answer your question, Yuffie: no.





[unrelated] Did some calculations; going solely by tens, and assuming Yuna's listing doesn't time out, it'll take 27 people asking for non-sketches in order to get all those figures, and roughly 54 people asking for sketches. So far, I've only gotten ONE offer (and we haven't confirmed anything yet).

And I think you have to pay dA to advertise.

man. ._.[/unrelated]

Do not challenge or question Selphie.


Didn't crop this one, in an effort to make Selphie's territory look a bit more impressive (or at least larger), but forgot to sharpen it. D'oh.

[Protoman Blues]

She's on your pants!

[The Great Gonzo]

Heh. (Though, I can't remember if those are my pants or not)

It's all very pink. x_x

Roll and Kairi find something weird in an old book (or maybe a textbook, but I never had one with shiny pages); they don't realize that this was mostly a comparison between their uniforms. A comparison that is badly shaded.

That symbol is a real one; it can be seen in the background of the official KH3D site. It bears a strong resemblance to the Unversed emblem--in fact, it may BE the Unversed emblem and I've simply misinterpreted it (and maybe why no one else has brought it up. Or maybe I'm not looking in the right places). Either way, the girls haven't seen it before, and it could possibly be Bad Things.

And of course, it seems my computer has stopped recognizing the SD slot already. >.>

Posted on: June 07, 2011, 02:36:12 AM

Funtastic fact: the creators of TMNT said that female ninja turtles were "creatively bankrupt". So the challenge lies in using Sofonisba here in an interesting way, to blunt the creative bankruptness.

Sofonisba (named after a female Renaissance painter, unlike Venus; I hope I spelled her name right) is the result of an experiment--someone tried to replicate the TMNT, using near-exact circumstances. Unlike most other sentient experiments of this kind, Sofonisba didn't go coo-coo for cocoa puffs at any point--unfortunately, she had no formal combat training, and after learning of the Venus debacle, decided not to go and meet the original TMNT like she'd planned.

On the plus side, Rock and Proto had no problems with her, and offered to help her out. One naginata ("isn't it just a pike?") later, and Sofonisba was ready to start training.

...still sounds bankrupt. >.>


Like a lot of things I draw, Sofonisba originated from a dream--apparently, I was wandering around a Toys 'R Us in 1997, and saw some Rangers in Space VS. TMNT stuff on the shelves. The suit and bandanna colours all matched (at first), and since one of the Rangers was pink--yeah. (In practice, she's sorta the anti-Venus)

Garnet sits on the first step of our basement stairs, wondering why it's so hard to stand up. (Seriously, she tends to pitch over a lot, especially with her weapon)

I've got another photo of Garnet actually staring into the "void", but at the same time, it looks like she's reached critical mass.

Ugh, look at all that dust. And that corner needs some work, too.

--uh, Paine meets Cloud and Tifa, and I finally get around to utilizing the Hardy-Daytona. Sorta.

"No, seriously, Aerith. Why--"

"Shaddap and try to act, Leon."

"SQUALL, DAMMMIT."



The real question is, why are they standing in front of my pillow? :/

You're in my room, Rikku. Now run away from the dust bunnies! D:


This one didn't come out as great since I stupidly held the camera instead of putting it back on the tripod. >.>

[Krystal]

You seem to like taking photos. Here's a suggestion for taking good, un-busy figure photos~ Try taking a large piece of cardboard and paper and using it as a background. That way you can work with just the figure and things like composition and lighting would be easier to focus on. Later you can work on incorporating more complex angles/posing/background

[The Great Gonzo]

OK. (I think we've still got a huge cardboard box left in the basement...)

Might colour this one later (or just wait for someone else to try).

So what is Rita Repulsa planning? Pitting Kimberly and Rock against a powerful monster? Brainwashing them? Subjecting them to all of the porn in Germany at once?

Whatever it is, she should've taken Kimberly's morpher first. D'oh.

[Protoman Blues]

IT'S MORPHIN TIME!

[Blackhook]

Rita somehow reminds me of Mr. Burns

[borockman]

Mr Burns with weirder hair!

[The Great Gonzo]

Heh.

My half of an art trade with =lilmarisa; she settled on mer-Rock and Ariel hanging out. Maybe Ariel found another sunken ship?

Background is taken from another Google Image search. And I should've made the tails less opaque. >.>

[Krystal]

I like the colours

But why does a merman need...stuffs covering his upper half?

[The Great Gonzo]

Thanks.

But why does a merman need...stuffs covering his upper half?

Spoiler-y reasons (thought not "because he's really a girl"; since I paired him with Riku, that'd just be a massive cop-out). This version of him's fairly shy, so maybe his world form sorta reflected that?

[The Great Gonzo]

This was about as close to a cardboard/paper background that I could get last night:

[Lightning and her crystal.] Or rather, "Lightning and my crystal that I got at a gift shop during an elementary school field trip".

Tried messing around with Exclusion; does that count as photo-manipulation?