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Who said, "I need Cog with a ponytail"? I do as well :_:
Inktober starts when it wants to. For me it started a week ago in a street. Stowaway Ravi was drawn literally while i was walking from one shop towards anither one. I know my drawing skills too well and thus doubt them too much, so "now or never" was the only way to get it done. This time it was the same but at home with no cars passing me by. So i'll live for a while more!
When you have a pet from a street
...you should thank fortune if it doesn’t sleep on your table or tear your new tights. When you hire a total stranger and give him a reason to hate you... things may occur.
Cog ‘I’m an adult!’ Kleinschmidt: “I’m mercian trash, and this killer of yours seems to have a daywork!” (Alexander prolly answering: “I still don’t see which way drinking in a port pub till midnight is a good idea, especially coCIDREing your condition as a result.”)
I strongly doubt that one human life is enough to to overcome my procrastination. So you may look at the only piece of my sketch I’m not ashamed of.
"That’s a treason!” (Not recommended to be taken seriously.)
That girl to the right resembles disappointed Boris way too much.
You may bleach the left one’s hair if you want to :) idk when I get along with the editor, and when it happens I’m sure I’ll be busy with molesting something else -b
Just Alex and Ravi
Did you know that in Russian we call stowaways “hares”? I mean it. You may ask google translate.
Bogey: a radar of visual air contact whose identity is unknown.
And if you think it’s a reference to “9 Chickweed Lane” by Brooke McEldowney, you’re quite right :3
Actually I did it hoping to cheer up Chikuto and people in the community. (I’ve posted sth a round 1/20 of what I was intended to by now? Of even 1/50th. So what? Look, I can do at least this! And the day will come when I finish something else!) And of course to cheer up myself after reading RTFM to GIMP 2.6. Before I did it I felt like I had a nail to batter down and a swiss multitool to do it %-/ Why wouldn’t even an eraser simply work the way it did in PainBrush?? Why was it such a quest of sorts to find RGB curves? And it was next to impossible to find the layers tab once I shut it down occasionally.. Not ACD, not Paint.NET… I expected some tiny editor just to do something, and I met this monster unarmed. Okay, at least its performance is next to perfect on a laptop with a 4 Gb flash card instead of a hard drive and archaic bare Linux Mint on it. (The OS is mostly looping in RAM during the session; it was initially designed for slow curves as for to avoid dumps. And while Google Chrome did terrible things to speed of work, GIMP never lagged a second. I praise it already, really. It couldn’t be more simply with that amount of tools, but it looks and works the way it should. I’d have tried it on Windows already if I had some.)
My joke isn't mine. Again. Fandoms are cruel.
Alexander: *sneezes and coughs*
Cog:Are you sick?
Alexander: Yea, sick of your attitude
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(Guess what? I've made drafts of nearly the same dialogue a few days ago. "The Snow Queen caught cold, is it even possible?" - "I'm allergic on stupidity." - "Such a good reason to act less stupid." - "And why wouldn't you say less stupid things? *sniff*" - "Your motivation isn't mine. Bless you!" - "If your father treated his patients like this..." - - "Sane people don't get acquainted with a doctor the way you do!" - "...I'd say he lived _long_." - "And ill-tempered fools like you die young! And it's not because of diseases!" - "A person who shouted at the royal councilor in his office is teaching me sanity. You know, if you want to become an expert in absurd ways of death you may opt for theory." - "Speaking of death, that's _you_ who is in vital need for me. So I feel safe enough by now."
My joke isn't mine. Again. Fandoms are cruel.
Alexander: *sneezes and coughs*
Cog:Are you sick?
Alexander: Yea, sick of your attitude
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(Guess what? I've made drafts of nearly the same dialogue a few days ago. "The Snow Queen caught cold, is it even possible?" - "I'm allergic on stupidity." - "Such a good reason to act less stupid." - "And why wouldn't you say less stupid things? *sniff*" - "Your motivation isn't mine. Bless you!" - "If your father treated his patients like this..." - - "Sane people don't get acquainted with a doctor the way you do!" - "...I'd say he lived _long_." - "And ill-tempered fools like you die young! And it's not because of diseases!" - "A person who shouted at the royal councilor in his office is teaching me sanity. You know, if you want to become an expert in absurd ways of death you may opt for theory." - "Speaking of death, that's _you_ who is in vital need for me. So I feel safe enough by now."
Clockwork is love, Clockwork is life These two guys belong to @chikuto, from @clockwork-comic
If you don't mind a similar question... What do you think your 'process', I guess, is when you come up with characters? I mean, it sounds like most of the depth and detail to Clockwork's cast comes from having thought about and tweaked and kicked them around over time, but where did the first concepts come from? Were you trying to think of characters, or ones to fill specific roles, or did you have ideas you wanted to use in a character or...? I'm curious since I always blank on character ideas.
I create them and they sort of take their own form after a while. Gaz is a good example, and I mention him a lot.
The story originally started with Cog and Alexander, and it was just about Cog learning magic to try and cure Alex of his curse. Then Cog needed a best friend, and Boris came in. Then Boris become the Mercian Emperor’s nephew, and then the Emperor’s son. Then Cog needed a “guardian” in his life, and Christian was created. Then he became Alexander’s cousin, and in turn an ex-Arcadian aristocrat.
But Gaz was supposed to be a sort of background character that you only ever saw once or twice. He was supposed to feature in a chapter where Cog learns about the rich/poor divide in Arcadia, and that was it. He was literally the spokesperson for poor people for those few pages, and you’d never hear from him again.
Then I thought about - Christian would go to Arcadia constantly and eventually start sleuthing to find out what is happening with all the murders. But it seemed sort of boring to have him do it alone. Alexander and Cog make up their own team, so neither of them were an option. He has issues with Leonardo, and Ruby has her own thing going on. Then I thought - what about that Gaz guy? What if he had his own reasons? What if he wasn’t just a spokesperson, but actually trying to get poor people out of the gutter? What if he was working with aristocrats, but now they’re all dying he’s losing money and getting pissed? I wonder if people will ship them they probably won’t. And then eventually they became sort of necessary to each other as characters. You can’t have one without the other - it’s just Christian & Gaz. Their story is so tightly knit I actually can’t remember what I was going to do with Christian before.
So basically Gaz went from a one-shot background character to one of my most interesting main characters. They all start out as “this is a thing” and then they all sort of come to life with eachother and make their own stories along the way.
Chikuto of character development and characer interaction.
