Jake drew yoai for me, I think he deserves it.
You've been pretty fortunate with info finds in bars of late so you're gonna leave this candy ass shit and head over to the part of town where little kids get mugged and old ladies get shiv'd. You're pretty confident you've found just the place when you see a guy stumble out while pissing himself. Looks like he had something of a night. You walk in and scan the room as you cross it. You take your place at the only open seat at the bar after taking a moment to wipe it down. Looks like Dribbles was sitting here before. Pleasant. You order something weak this time, because you can't afford to get too drunk if last time proved any indication. You sit back and pick out sounds from the din of drunken shouting and poor attempts at pickups. Everywhere is the same, even in smaller backwaters like this one. That's when it occurs to you. He's not here. He's never going to be here and no one here will remember seeing this guy. He's a serious hermit when he's off work and he's probably not in a place like this for work. Who needs a bodyguard or a hired gun out here. Drug rings have their own guys and wouldn't bother with someone as expensive as him. So what are you going to do now? He's known for avoiding crowds and hooker ridden places. You've seen like three hookers already. Hmmm. Maybe you should... No. Now is hardly the time. You need to keep out of sight of the Americans and find a secluded place where he might be. You know only that he flew into this town and has made no other declared transportation for about a week. You can't do anything right now, so you find a place to stay and collect your thoughts a bit. What do you plan on doing tomorrow?
I understand. Shit, I read Maken-ki for the story.
Even the canon material contains no less than 20% flashbacks. They act like reminiscing is a free action.
I thought that this would be about the power of self respect.
0/10 would not be onii-chan of.
This is why neg rep should still exist.
The blonde girl steps away from you and tells her partner to clean off his shoes. Damn, they didn't tell you anything. The guy offers you a handkerchief and smiles. You ask him what happened. He said you fell. And vomited. On... a lot of things. He asks you if you'll be okay. You nod and he walks off. Did you just... did he just... Nailed it. After sobering up and buying a new suit you get moving. Finding this guy won't be easy. He's apparently a recluse and capable of hosing an entire squad of revolutionaries solo. Who writes this shit? No matter. You're on the job. Nothing to it, but to do it. You do the standard information collection strategy of waiting around for people to talk about new visitors. No word on anything but your little stunt and the terminal. Something you hope no one ever recognizes you for. You've also decided to put away the pantsu for now since the Americans have now seen you with them on. It's been hours and still nothing has come up. How do you proceed?
You're not hung over at least. Wait. Given how much you drank... divide by pantsu... carry the two... reverse the squiggle before the river brings it all tumblin' down... you're still drunk. You're not in any state to be getting past them. They're definitely up to something. Come on. No one would be in two of the same places as you for any reason but to do bad things to you. Maybe they're with Eff Bee... nononono. Impossible. The flight attendant is urging you to move. You look at her and tell her that she's a very pretty lady and that you'd like her to forgive you for what you're about to do. You grab her around the waist and lift her up, good thing she's light. You then carry her to the bathroom and as politely as possible demand that she exchange clothes with you. She looks like she's not sure if she wants to scream or not. You ask her not to scream or hit you. She hits you. You ask her not to scream at least. She starts fumbling with the lock. No. That won't do. Trade now. About ten minutes later she's wearing you're shirt and jacket and you're wearing hers. She's looking a little flushed and breathless. You're feeling a little silly. You know better than to even try the bottoms. You thank her for her cooperation and say she's very good with her tongue. She kind of nods and walks off as quickly as possible. You look outside again. The Americans are still there. The main thing you want to do is make sure they don't recognize you. The best way to do that is to make sure they don't see your face. You have an idea. Now, you're hardly what you'd call athletic but you think you can pull off a series of cartwheels. Specifically from the time you get into the terminal to the time you're out of sight from those two. Paradoxical as it is, don't something completely asinine will probably throw them off your trail. So you get a good strong running start and... [] Tumble over yourself and land at their feet. [] Tumble over yourself and land at their feet and then puke. [] Tumble over yourself and land at their feet and then projectile vomit.
I know it's a little late in the day to notice this, but Blood of the Cascade last updated in 2011 and since it's considered by the author separate from Cascadia it shouldn't be on this poll.
Your dream of a musical featuring only cows as actors. It's really fucked. Like you have no idea what in the bloody horrible fresh and clean hell is happening to Moolina and Moobert half the time, but for some reason you can't bring yourself to get up and leave. So it continues. After their mash up of Sympathy for the Devil and I'm Sexy and I Know It you're crying. Tears of sorrow streaming down your face. That's when you get up. You're awake and the airline attendant, some woman, is telling you to get off the plane. Oh. Well, looks like you're in Nam. You start to get up when you see something you don't particularly like seeing. You've noticed that the Americans from the bar are outside your window. Shit. What do you do?
You decide that you won't be buying pantsu in Vietnam probably and you have no idea where else you might be going, so you're gonna stock up here. You make sure to buy one for Aria. You assume it's the right size based on what you saw and managed to feel. As for yourself you prefer something simple and a little less elegant. After an hour of searching you have picked out: 2 striped pantsu (pink and periwinkle) 2 polka dot pantsu (red and yellow) 3 solid color pantsu (white, black, and teal) 1 bear mascot pantsu 1 bird mascot pantsu 1 cat mascot pantsu 1 panda mascot pantsu The woman at the cash register looks at you with a look that only someone who is judging you with all their might may even attempt to. She rings you up quickly and fastidiously, as though she wants to get it done right the first time so she doesn't have to look at you any longer than necessary. It's really unfortunate that she can't accept good headgear for what it is. When she'd done and hands you your bag you reach inside and pull out the panda mascot pantsu and smile at her with a grin so shit eatingly absurd that she almost looks like she's going to cringe. Oh, baby. You pull that pair of pantsu down over your head and tell her to have a nice day. With that you walk out briskly and make your way to the airport. On the way you get even more dirty looks than before. Whatever, man. When you finally arrive it's just in time for you to make boarding. The people on the plane try to avoid eye contact with you. Hehe. How very weak. People can't stand things out of the ordinary. How predictable. When you finally get settled the liquor is really getting to you and you start to doze during the preflight checks. When the plane is finally in the air you're sleeping soundly as a panda. [] Wake up. [] Dream on.
Oh yes, it's still very funny to make fun of Amaury being so 'obsessed' with the site. It's not like the novelty could ever possibly wear off or anything.
People will be calling you an alcoholic if you keep drinking on the job like this. It's not like it's ever stopped you before, though. You nip into a liquor store and buy a bottle of rum and a bottle of whiskey start chugging. When you've finished the rum you sip on the whiskey as you walk out to find the nearest shop that sells female undergarments. You're feeling pretty buzzed right now, but you know you'll be completely pissed by the time you really get into your shopping. You find a shop a mile or so down and you're starting to have more trouble walking in a straight line. You drift and weave and people are giving you dirty looks. Whatever, man. Inside the cute little shop you start your search for headgear. It's not long before you find a lacy number that you think would look nice on Aria. Hmm. How do you proceed?
You should get revenge like a man and fight in single construction vehicle based combat.
You decide that it's best to make the drop for Eff Bee far from where you picked up Thorsen's drop. It's just good practice to keep separate ventures separate. It's also good practice to make sure you're not being followed. So you dip into a general store and pick up some post cards and a map of the area. They like calling a paper trail anything that leads back to you, but paper is a lot harder to track than digital. You like working with cash and analog whenever possible. You decide a good place to hang for a bit will be a park. You're not going to drop there, you're going to lose whoever might be tailing you. Thorsen built his empire on tech and uses tech resources over human ones whenever possible. You're well aware of that, so you use a public locker to stash the phone you use for his correspondences. You've got about fifteen minutes before a person would suspect anything from a geolocator, so you decide to head somewhere you can return from without raising suspicion. Place you're looking for is the newly built stadium. There's a game going on so it'd be reasonable that you'd leave your phone away from it given how many thieves show up to public events. It's also close, so if you're lucky you won't need the excuse. The game is pretty rowdy so you manage to slip in with some fast talk and some greased palms. Easy so far. Finding a decent seat is also pretty manageable. You realize a bit too late you haven't composed your full message to Eff Bee so you fill in the blanks as you halfheartedly cheer for one side even though you have nothing to do with either. When you're finished, you geotag it behind the guys selling beer. No one will find it there unless they're explicitly told to look, you're pretty sure. Then you sit for the rest of the game to establish your excuse since you're already over time. Then you leave the game and pick up your phone. Easy so far. There's nothing else to do here. You've got maybe two hours to kill before you need to be at the airport. What do you do?
Too bad it doesn't apply to lava.
You are messed up in some serious mental way. I say this in the kindest and most sympathetic way I know how.
'How do you proceed' means details, you lot. There is no specified location for Eff Bee's drop so you must decide it. Remember, looking at a map is something you can do.
It took me a while to sort out my feelings, but here it is. I've elected to not use just the samples provided when making this choice. I've seen these people all post things on not only khv but deviantArt and tumblr and pixiv and whatever else they use. I follow most of them because I respect them as artists and I feel that giving my opinion based on so little when I know so much more would be a crime. Moving along, each review will consist of technical features on the top end and my opinions on the bottom. Spoiler: Llave You have a good sense of dimensions and lighting. You can actually see it in the samples the way you are able to work at multiple angles and create a consistent light source. You've got a handle on basic proportions most of the time and can foreshorten fairly well. I agree with Styx that you should have changed the lines of the neck on the second sample, but this belies a larger problem overall. The problem is that you aren't seeing the image through to completion. I've noticed that on some of your other pieces, you just seem to gas out at the very end before you do the final refining steps that are necessary to make your style look finished and good. I don't like your fashion sense, especially the piercings. I never have and never will. That doesn't stop me from liking your other visual aesthetics like the lines and shapes you use when constructing characters. It's hard to say what I like about it, but you seem to have something nice going. One thing I did notice though, is sometimes you look straight like you're secretly the third Kishimoto brother with some of your work. Can't tell if it's the design, poses, style or all three combined that does it, but since it's not consistent I can't say much more. Overall, I'd rate you 2nd best on the poll. Spoiler: Dinny Grayson I'm not sure how much of your style is stylization and how much of it is error. I know that sounds bad, but hear me out. The way you draw human bodies frequently comes out somewhat... deformed. It's within the tolerance for it being a conscious and understandable decision, but since I've seen it become less and less a part of your style the longer you've been around I figure it might be just something you've corrected to this point. So that's ambiguous and I can't say any more on it. But the real problem I see with your work is that it's usually very flat. Very colorful and detailed but flat. This is because your grasp of lighting and dimensions isn't fully developed I'd venture to guess. This is a huge turn off for me because the flatness of the images is always in stark contrast to the detail and color vibrancy making I look pretty amateurish at times. That said, it's not always a problem and when it isn't you look like a pro. Being more conscious of the volume the characters have would be the best thing for you to work on. In the opinions section, I personally find your style a bit obtrusive. It's very, very loud. You have good color sense and I feel that putting in all that detailing and ruffles shows that you put effort and love into your work, but I don't necessarily like it. It's a purely aesthetic thing, but it's an interesting take on stylization to say the least. Not as many people do more as do less so I do appreciate it in that sense. Overall, I'd rate you 3rd on the poll. Spoiler: Chie Satonaka You've got a fairly good grasp on imitation. In fact, I'd say you're very good at adaptation. That's a good skill for an artist. You also have grown better and better at stuff like lighting, perspective and volume. You're not as good as some people, but you're more that adequate considering how quickly you've got it. One thing I'd look out for though, is your posing. Your character poses are limited and it shows in the sample and several other of your pieces I've seen. You can do all the standard poses and you can imitate poses you've seen but when you're working on your own they end up slightly more... tweaked. It's a practice matter more than a knowledge or technique matter so I won't count it against you heavily. My opinion is where you lose the most points with me. I respect fanart for what it is. But I feel that it stifles creativity to not work on something of your own and you more that anyone on the poll favor fanart. You don't trace or anything, but you take other people's characters and draw them. It removes the whole facet of design and really, someone as good as you are should be designing more. I imagine you'd probably be fine at it. Overall, I'd rate you 5th on the poll. Spoiler: TAFFY Technically, you still look like a student. You're not incredibly refined, but all of the principles are there. You go fast and loose with a lot of your anatomy and perspective, but you have volume and lighting. Not much to say else. This is pretty open and shut, you're good, deal with it. Now, here's where I get into why I love your art. You are good at traditional media. You have tons of ideas. You try various things. Above all else, you have flair and zazz, a style of your own. The patterns you use aren't something I see very day or month or year, they're interesting visually and well incorporated into your pieces as a whole. Another point to make for other artists, this is how you make flat, detailed and colorful look good not busy and amateurish. Bravo. Despite my high praises, I still rate you 4th on this poll. Spoiler: Ienzo Alright, you're probably new to art as a serious hobby or aren't actually all that invested in it. I say this because you don't have any technique built up. Everything you do is at least slightly off and usually moreso. You don't have anatomy, you don't have volume, you don't have posing and you don't have lighting. I've seen that you can actually pull outs something relatively nice looking in spite of this, but that's not the norm and I'm pretty sure that it's an imitation act where you are copying a reference. That's fine, it's excellent practice and shows that you're going the right direction. My opinion is pretty much irrelevant here since you don't have a style of your own yet, it seems. So I'll post some advice instead. You're not good. You can be very good. The difference between the two lies more in you learning and figuring out things than it does in straight up repetition or practice. The one thing I've seen here that you have over most of the other artists here is you finish. It might not be pretty, but you finish and polish to the best extent of your abilities and that shows that somewhere in you there is adequate dedication to be a good artist one day. You are the newest artist on the poll. Congratulations, I'm glad to see some new faces. I'd rate you 6th on the poll. Spoiler: jojoj13 Not much to say here really. I don't think the sample does justice to your skill at all. I mean, it shows that you can do perspective, coloring, lighting and that you never finish anything. All very true things, but the larger body of your work accentuates how technically adept you are. Not much more I can say, far from perfect, but closer than anyone else on the poll. Now here's something I've never mentioned before. Expressions. Characters show emotions through their faces and poses. I don't want to gush, but you've shown the full gamut over the past year and you nail it right on the head each time. The face is never vacant or artificial, the poses are dynamic and lively. I'm just completely sold on your style and execution. Needless to say, I'd rate you 1st on this poll. Spoiler: After note to all artists. I love you guys. You are part of what makes this site worthwhile for me, I wish I could see more of your work and compete against you more often in the monthly contest. Regardless of how I rated you on the poll or even if you didn't show up on the poll, I appreciate everything you've done and only ask that you keep doing it. Keep creating and keep working. I know it's a presumptuous request but there it is. Congratulations, all of you.. Spoiler: Final note to all people. WHY THE **** DID NO ONE ****ING NOMINATE CHERRY BERRY?! SHE'S PUT A LOT INTO THAT SECTION AND PROVEN HERSELF EASILY AT A LEVEL TO AT LEAST DESERVE A NOMINATION, WHAT THE BLOODY ****?!
