I Am D.E.A.D.
I am dead-tired today. I've had one too many days of shaving off a half-hour or hour of sleep and thinking that it won't matter. By the afternoon, my motor control was beginning to decline. I crashed my hip--not the bad one, fortunately--into the doorframe trying to walk into Johnny's office. Luckily, we both found it amusing
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No, I tend to clunk into things too when well awake. But this time, I miss the door by a good three inches! Ai!
I figured out that it's because the angle of the picture and the way the hair is parted looks exactly like a picture of my friend...who is a girl. :P
Eep, yes, that would do it! :^P See, for me, the picture works because the eyes and facial structure are pretty much exactly right. It's hard for me to find Elves that fit what I see in my head. I don't like my Elves overly masculine, like the Fabio-types that some prefer. They need to be slender and of a more delicate bone structure...yet they can't look like women either. Male Elves that look like girls probably irk me more than the Fabio-types. The best Elves I'd found until Rhapsody made these icons tended to be cartoonish, like the Nelyo in Aramal's "Magnificent Seven" icon.
It's easier for me to envision longer hair differently styled so long as the facial features are correct!
Oh! And I took a picture of "something cheerful" but I can't upload it because my camera and my computer had a fight and now they won't speak to each other. :(
That's cool, whenever they decide to speak again. :) I'm a patient person, and I still owe two of my own photo memes besides....
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Ohhh...Well, I get nice bruises from running into tables.
The best Elves I'd found until Rhapsody made these icons tended to be cartoonish, like the Nelyo in Aramal's "Magnificent Seven" icon.
Ah yes, that one is admittedly my favorite one. I haven't found many pictures of real looking people, except my Tyelko and Carnistir.
I'm with you on the not-girly-but-not-Fabio type Elves. (My friend has a version of TTT with Legolas on the front cover where he looks like Fabio, hehe!) Though I did see a picture of Maeglin that was more manly than I usually like, but it worked very well.
Since I am also somewhat lazy, I've resigned myself to the fact that I probably won't find real people who look like my Elves. Thus, my biggest peeve is when I find Elves in this one style - I don't know what it is exactly - that makes them appear downright ugly, no matter the skill of the execution! I guess I'll have to learn to draw realistic looking people/Elves, so that I can just draw my own!
That's cool, whenever they decide to speak again. :) I'm a patient person, and I still owe two of my own photo memes besides....
I hope it's soon. If not, it won't be til Thanksgiving or Christmas, since I don't have the software with me here.
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