--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, "Take a wild, friggin guess"
<a_change_of_plans_at_...> wrote:
>
> Hey all-
> Just a quick message here. I'll be online later tonight (right
> now, someone else needs to use the computer). The picture I just
> uploaded is the first thing I've inked and colored in a LONG time.
> The majority of you probably do not know that I draw mainstream
> material (under an alias, for obvious reasons). This picture served
> two purposes: 1) Getting familiar with the pens and colors again,
> and 2) Drawing a group of humans not based on an actual photo.
> There's a gallery around here where I can put my mainstream work,
> and I thought it'd be a good challenge for me to draw some of my
> characters as they wqould appear if they were human. Can you guess
> who is who? This sample should be pretty easy to figure out.
> I also wanted to flex my (long-since atrphied) artistic muscle
> with free-form figures (meaning, I do not use photos for
> reference). I don't use photos for reference in my furry art, but I
> _have_ used photos as reference in my mainstream stuff. I'd like to
> get away from using photos altogether. The only downside to drawing
> this particular picture is that, due to the small size of the page,
> it's impossible for me to put any real detail into the character's
> faces, thus making them appear kinda comic-book-ish.
> Anyway, see if you can figure out who is who. It should be pretty
> obvious. I've got another picture to post later on, as well as some
> art e-mails to take care of tomight.
> Okay, gotta go! Someone else is bugging me for the keyboard...
>
> --JMH
>
> PS- Sorry for any typos. I'm typing this pretty fast and not proof-
> reading it afterwards...
>
Oh wow, this is pretty neat! I'm still working on the who-is-who
part, but for what's there it's really nice to see that your skills as
an artist are still top-notch. Keep up the great work, Jim :)
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Received on Thu Aug 03 2006 - 19:28:19 CDT