Hmm ... Conbooks...
Aug. 25th, 2004 09:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_gneechI love doing art for conbooks, for reasons both artistic and mercenary. Artistic, because it's fun to stretch my artistic muscles that I don't usually get to with the strip. The Tiff Skibunny pic, for instance, is some of my best work yet. Mercenary, because it's like getting free advertising. ;)
Having said that, I'm pretty stumped for ideas for conbook images for Midwest Furfest and Further Confusion both.
The theme for MFF is "Around the World in 80 Days" ... which offers a lot of leeway, granted. I mean I've only got the whole world to choose from. I had the vague idea of doing something with Drezzer and Leona in Paris, but I'm not sure the idea is worth carving out the time in the next three weeks to do the pic.
The theme for FC, on the other hand, is "Furries of the Nile." Which means the conbook is going to be pictures of Anubis, Anubis, Anubis, Anubis, Anubis, and Anubis, with a few more pictures of Anubis just for variety. What is it with furries and Anubis?
Gah. I'd better cut that rant short, or I'll be at it all day.
I imagine a few folks will probably draw cheesecake images of Bast, and maybe the more outré types will draw Sobek, Set, or Hathor just to be different. But the thing of it is, it's all been done before. Doing furries on the Nile is like doing a video game dungeon set in a pyramid ... what the heck can you do that hasn't been done a hundred times at least?
*ding!*
Hold on ... suddenly I have a thought! Heeheehee! Okay, that might work. It's obscure at best, but it would certainly be something never done in furry art before. :) But it's going to take research.
Gah. I hate research. :P Particularly for a project that's likely to make most of the people who see it go "Uuuuuh ... okay. I don't get it." Oy, the things I do for my own amusement.
I'm seriously wondering, now, who (if anybody) would get it. Is it worth the sheer amount of work it would be, just for me to chuckle quietly to myself? I'll have to ponder it.
Meanwhile, if anybody has suggestions for SJ characters on the "Around the World in 80 Days" or "Furries of the Nile" themes, I'd love to hear 'em!
-The Gneech
I will not rant about furries and Anubis. I will not rant about furries and Anubis. I will not rant about @#&%! furries and @#&%!!! Anubis!!!
Having said that, I'm pretty stumped for ideas for conbook images for Midwest Furfest and Further Confusion both.
The theme for MFF is "Around the World in 80 Days" ... which offers a lot of leeway, granted. I mean I've only got the whole world to choose from. I had the vague idea of doing something with Drezzer and Leona in Paris, but I'm not sure the idea is worth carving out the time in the next three weeks to do the pic.
The theme for FC, on the other hand, is "Furries of the Nile." Which means the conbook is going to be pictures of Anubis, Anubis, Anubis, Anubis, Anubis, and Anubis, with a few more pictures of Anubis just for variety. What is it with furries and Anubis?
Gah. I'd better cut that rant short, or I'll be at it all day.
I imagine a few folks will probably draw cheesecake images of Bast, and maybe the more outré types will draw Sobek, Set, or Hathor just to be different. But the thing of it is, it's all been done before. Doing furries on the Nile is like doing a video game dungeon set in a pyramid ... what the heck can you do that hasn't been done a hundred times at least?
*ding!*
Hold on ... suddenly I have a thought! Heeheehee! Okay, that might work. It's obscure at best, but it would certainly be something never done in furry art before. :) But it's going to take research.
Gah. I hate research. :P Particularly for a project that's likely to make most of the people who see it go "Uuuuuh ... okay. I don't get it." Oy, the things I do for my own amusement.
I'm seriously wondering, now, who (if anybody) would get it. Is it worth the sheer amount of work it would be, just for me to chuckle quietly to myself? I'll have to ponder it.
Meanwhile, if anybody has suggestions for SJ characters on the "Around the World in 80 Days" or "Furries of the Nile" themes, I'd love to hear 'em!
-The Gneech
I will not rant about furries and Anubis. I will not rant about furries and Anubis. I will not rant about @#&%! furries and @#&%!!! Anubis!!!
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Date: 2004-08-25 06:29 am (UTC)As for the Nile, I'm just seeing a furry version of Death on the Nile here. Or you could draw furries in denial :)
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Date: 2004-08-25 06:33 am (UTC)Whoa! Way to hit it right out of the gate! Maybe it's not as obscure as I thought!
Or maybe literary minds think the same way. ;)
-TG
Badabing!
Date: 2004-08-25 06:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-25 06:37 am (UTC)Comfort and Tiffany's mom in Russia (of course).
I enthusiastically endorse the Drezzer and Leona in Paris idea (but then again I would).
Yin and the Great Wall of China.
Wally and That Big Rock In Australia (to lazy to look it up but I think you know the one that I mean).
Drezzer and Big Ben/Buckingham Palace.
Yin and Stonehenge.
Eddie and the Empire State Building (snrk!)
Byron and Alcatraz (heheh)
I'm sure other folks can come up with some interesting riffs.
Loxley
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Date: 2004-08-25 06:37 am (UTC)Furries on the Nile? I'd follow up on that archeologist pic that
*Hums Raiders under his breath*
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Date: 2004-08-25 06:41 am (UTC)I suppose there's always the lion-headed goddess Sekhmet...
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Date: 2004-08-25 06:43 am (UTC)-TG
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Date: 2004-08-25 06:44 am (UTC)Other Nile creatures that probably won't be too popular but might let you hone your drawing chops some are hippos and crocs. Toss a SJ cameo into such a picture, and you've got your free advertising (if you don't think your art alone is enough).
For "Around the World in 80 Days" I'm afraid I don't have a better idea than TSJ characters in period costume, in a scene from the book. But who would be Passepartout?
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Date: 2004-08-25 06:51 am (UTC)As for the "80 Days" theme, how about Leonard as Phileas Fogg, Drezzer as Passepartout and Tiffany as Princess Aouda, with the Tower of London in the background and Big Ben set to ten minutes before nine, wondering to each other why the bells are ringing?
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Date: 2004-08-25 06:52 am (UTC)That Really Sphinx!
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Date: 2004-08-25 06:55 am (UTC)To pick up on something someone else said, how about doing "Furries of Denial"? I think it's a vein rich with comic gold.
"I don't care what anyone says, the zipper on this fursuit is NOT obvious."
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Date: 2004-08-25 06:56 am (UTC)-TG
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Date: 2004-08-25 06:57 am (UTC)-TG
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Date: 2004-08-25 06:58 am (UTC)-The Gneech
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Date: 2004-08-25 06:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-25 06:59 am (UTC)-TG
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Date: 2004-08-25 06:59 am (UTC)*chuckle* .. have Dover star as 'The Croc Hunter' .. combining both styles of talking. ^^ (Yes, I'm evil)
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Date: 2004-08-25 07:00 am (UTC)Not to say that's an original idea, but it's a little more flexibility.
V.
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Date: 2004-08-25 07:01 am (UTC)Which Ramses would he portray, though?
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Date: 2004-08-25 07:01 am (UTC)"Shhh, please, I have a hangover..." :)
I'd rather not do any of the dieties; otherwise Sekhmet would probably be right up on the top of the list.
-TG
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Date: 2004-08-25 07:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-25 07:03 am (UTC)-TG
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Date: 2004-08-25 07:04 am (UTC)THAT.CROC = BEAUT
-TG
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Date: 2004-08-25 07:04 am (UTC)-TG