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[kokiri85]

I sketched this out a few months ago, and when I was flipping through Lucy I found it again and decided I liked it enough to clean it up and color it. The sketch was pretty small and the coloring is mostly just planning for a bigger version I think I want to do.

Comments

[tripperfunster]

I love it! You need to get back to that whole null in void thing. I think it's a fantastic premise!

[kokiri85]

Really? I wasn't sure the not-fanart was all that interesting to people. Thanks!

[harbek]

Omg. It's gorgeous. I particularly adore the backdrop, with the buildings and the fishies and the clouds and awww, and the waves are awesome. Waves have always been a mystery me to me. (One day I should try drawing some to exercise.) Null's face and hair and general design is still awesome - and I love the curls on the knees. And the toeses. But you drawing excellent feet is no surprise.

Interstingly, this time Null seems to lean more towards male for me, because of the chest. I think they're always gonna lean a bit one way or the other depending on the drawing.

And YES, you should definitely do more Null stuff. It is interesting!

[kokiri85]

♥

I actually had a lot of fun with the background, for once. Not worrying about how architecture works and the logic of stuff, but draw draw what felt right. And the waves came out so good, it really surprised me! They are horribly hard usually intimidate me so I don't try, but because this was "just a plan" I didn't worry about making it perfect, and I actually had a bit of a breakthrough. I should "plan" more often.

And yeah, wrt the angrogeny. Null is sitting, so you can't see the hips or lack of "bulge," and the chest becomes the feature you look at to check. I feel like the only way to be really, explicitly clear about it would be to make it--well--explicit.

Well, alright then, I see what I can do :)

[harbek]

Waves are really strange. I'm pretty sure I couldn't draw decent waves without some good references.

But then, the point isn't really to be explicitly clear, is it? I mean, if you want to do a comic, it CAN veer a little back and forth, as long as there's about an equal amount of reading as either gender? It doesn't have to be just right in every single panel, because the context would make it explicit.

[kokiri85]

It's such a hard subject; I have failed at drawing it many times. I usually try to use reference, and then can never find reference that's exactly what I want. Photos are always too complex to translate directly into my style, and other people's illustrations/art is either too photo-realistic or else too simplified, and. It's just so hard.

Yeah, that's what I figure--it isn't supposed to be explicit. As long as it goes back and forth and no one reading dominates, then that's good enough. That said, I'm not sure if this really wants to be a comic, or just a series of pictures... I have way more ideas for individual pictures than I do for comic. And yet there's a plot? A sort-of-plot, anyway, an over-arching thing, but one that hasn't yet translated itself into specific events. But maybe the pictures will lead to a comic, eventually.

[kokiri85]

Thanks!

There is a story and there isn't... it's this weird impressionistic thing right now.

[tucker620]

Null's knees make me happy^^ Also the flying turtles and fish--but, if *they* are in the air, who lives beneath the (really neat!) waves? I'd love to know more about this universe, too!

[kokiri85]

Thanks, I like the knees too ^^

I keep trying to talk about the universe, but it's hard. It's built mostly out of layers of symbolism and synesthesia, trying to express feelings I have about mind and reality that are hard to put into words. So I guess the only way to expand on it is to draw more!