Asking for your eyes.

[pooryorick]

Dark side of fairy tales, righto. I'm still spazzing out about this*, but I'm trying to get myself together and gather some samples.

Spicy Horse announcement, excerpt: "We prefer subtle, disturbing imagery to blood soaked gore. You must be excellent at designing using simple, stylized shapes, and have an excellent sense of color and texture

Comments

[metaleaf]

Ah, hello, more or less a stranger here. I'd seen your comments around various other livejournals and you seemed interesting, so I thought I'd drop by. Er. Hello! You are in no danger of being told to draw fluffy bunnies

[pooryorick]

Hello, hello. Thanks for coming by.

Thank you for the input. I've always been told to put in life drawing too, but I'm not entirely sure that would fit here? Still, that's something to think about.

And yay for Hector Plasm! I'm glad someone else knows who he is.

[dr_vandervogel]

Is that new piece of Thousand Furs? Cause, that story totally uses the devil to distract from the creepy incestuous father

[pooryorick]

The new piece is The Girl With No Hands. Talk about an unimaginative title. Thousand Furs is pretty messed up, though.

Hah, poor Ambrose; I give him a hard time because I love him so. That could be worth putting in, hmm.

Yeah, I was wondering about the Tarot stuff. Though with those (and also the Ambrose and Miranda you cite), I thought maybe the lack of color would be a negative?

Righto, perhaps I will think on life drawing things.

Ninja-eyes? That sounds pretty darn rad. I suppose clothing-optional could be... distracting?

p.s. I made an eight! page! comic! for Easter. Didja seeeeeeee?

[dr_vandervogel]

I did and it was ROCKSOME, though I didn't knw hot cross buns were specifically an Easter Confection. Once I finish (fingers crossed) my short I swear I will get good about cadex again. I swear on my mothers bones.

Youprobably should have color in there too, but you shouldn't feel like everything needs to be in color, especially when alot of you strong pieces are in blacka and white. I am a nut about your woodcut-esque bits.

[pooryorick]

Hooray! Heh, no need to take such dire measures for Cadex, though. I know you're crazybusy, so fret not.

You like the woodcutty stuff? That's so cool. Thanks for the input, by the way.

[kangrado]

No-holds-barred commentary

[pooryorick]

Awesome, thanks so much. I appreciate the explanations - very helpful.

Good advice on improving. It's tricksy, though, because I can envision stuff that really gets to me, but when I try to draw it out, it never comes out the way it should. Another case of execution failing the concept... but I suppose one can only keep trying and doing more.
Heh, reading The Engine is certainly an experience, indeed.

[rosynose]

Wow, good luck with this!
Hrm, okies. This looks like a very good selection - but in terms of changes... I would suggest leaving the Snow Wolf out, as it looks like a quickie and probably wouldn't help your submission very much. And I think you might play with the colours a bit on Sneewittchen to make them less primary/cheerful (they don't, to my eye, fit in so well with the rest). Maybe experiment with colour overlays in PS? Nothing fancy.
(and hey, that thing you drew recently is cool :D Very appropriate, too! And Raven Dreams = awesome, really). Very best of luck, anyway - I shall catch up with you tomorrow when I'm not so shattered.

[pooryorick]

Thanks - I'll need it!

Gotcha, thanks a lot. Always appreciate your feedback. Hrm, messing with colors - might give that a shot.

Glad you're back. Hope you had a good holiday!

[arythusa]

Off the top of my head I'd say the first series of drawings are the best visually but conceptually the second grouping is best. D: I DON'T HELP WELL.

From what I gather from the description, they're looking for more fresh IDEAS than perfect drawing skills (like, have you ever seen some of the concept sketches for Corpse Bride? They're crap!! XD And I swear one of the storyboard artists of Monster House had never taken a figure drawing class in their life.... man, that stuff makes me angry!!) Like, I actually really like the hot cross bun comic thing.... I dunno, I NEVER would have thought of that idea.... D: I totally suggest you produce a full-on drawing of it (heheh, and supposedly add something scary of it, it's not that hard--sweet things are scary) and submit it--or I WILL.

[pooryorick]

Righto, makes sense. And heh, yeah - a lot of preliminary work is pretty terrible.

Haha, that's cool. Full-on drawing? Like a pin-up, or something? I could do that...

WOULD YOU?

[arythusa]

IT IS ON MY LIST, BIOTCH.

[pooryorick]

AWSUM.