The Right to Arm Bears
Dec. 16th, 2004 09:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Tomorrow's SJ features a certain bear, and as such has taken quite a lot of effort to draw. I've received flak in the past for SJ's noticeable preference for big cats and dearth of most other species, particularly bears. Well the simple truth is that I have a lot of trouble drawing decent bears, and so I tend to avoid it.
So last night, after a lot of frustrated erasing, I suddenly thought, "Duh! Who knows bears better than Herbie? He only helped animate the premiere bear movie of the past decade."
So I called up my "Herbie: All You Can Eat" CD-ROM and studied the "bears" section for several minutes, then went back and tried again, with better (if still not perfect) results. Hopefully tonight I can clean it up enough to make a halfway decent final inking. With the holiday crunch coming, I think I'm definitely going to have to do "Character Q&A" sketches for the next two weeks, if only because I'm not going to be home often enough to sit down at the drawing table for more than a few minutes at a time.
Alas! But I can always use the practice.
-The Gneech
So last night, after a lot of frustrated erasing, I suddenly thought, "Duh! Who knows bears better than Herbie? He only helped animate the premiere bear movie of the past decade."
So I called up my "Herbie: All You Can Eat" CD-ROM and studied the "bears" section for several minutes, then went back and tried again, with better (if still not perfect) results. Hopefully tonight I can clean it up enough to make a halfway decent final inking. With the holiday crunch coming, I think I'm definitely going to have to do "Character Q&A" sketches for the next two weeks, if only because I'm not going to be home often enough to sit down at the drawing table for more than a few minutes at a time.
Alas! But I can always use the practice.
-The Gneech
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Date: 2004-12-16 03:03 pm (UTC)Not that I'm hinting, or anything...
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Date: 2004-12-16 03:05 pm (UTC)yeahyeahyeah. I know. Everyone always pushes for their own thing.
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Date: 2004-12-16 03:44 pm (UTC)I feel your pain, tho, Gneech. Most of my initial bears looked like very odd dogs. Chow chows, I guess ;-)
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Date: 2004-12-16 03:21 pm (UTC)Can't wait to see da bears, Gneech!
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Date: 2004-12-16 08:28 pm (UTC)And its sokay TG. Not many folks draw ferrets either. So its cool. Folks like to draw their own stuff and you should be happy. Happy! Weeee!
By the way, I can't draw bears either. ^_^;
--Salen
I Understand...
Date: 2004-12-16 11:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-17 12:20 am (UTC)Elephants, Gneech. More elephants!
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Date: 2004-12-17 03:49 am (UTC)Hmmmmmmm I wonder who that bear could be ?
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Date: 2004-12-17 04:22 am (UTC)Thanks for the compliment. But I am honored an artist of your caliber would refer to my art. Your art rocks!
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Date: 2004-12-17 09:19 am (UTC)*wing fuzzles yuz*
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Date: 2004-12-17 02:29 pm (UTC)*tries to refrain from going all fanboy*
As for writing, I'd be happy to help! ^.^
-TG