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I've done maybe one chibi in my entire life and it never got scanned. It was quite cute but...for some reason I've never ever been compelled to do it.

I think just in the same way that I've never tried to actually emulate anime. I do take some stylistic references from it but I'm slowly moving away and slipping into a more toony look. But until then I can't imagine myself doing chibis.

The more fundamental reason for this is because I tend to shy away from overt expression of cultural niches. chibi is a niche (a dang cute one at that), as is manga. I'm really bad at being direct and exaggerated so I tend to mix it up, parody. If I want cute it has to be a lulz, creepy or strange or perverted kind of cute (see pikachu's surprise attack). If I want sad, I won't draw the hysteric blubbering unless it's for a really really good reason, etc. etc.

@thoad:
Oh yes, curse dem bodily functions!

@Strop:
I get your point. Personally I love adopting things from other people's styles, and I owe a great amount of my current skills to Pokemon - I think I'm somehow heading towards a blend of manga and realism, with toony stuff where it's needed. But I don't know!
And you didn't see my question about what it is that you like so much about that particular piece?

Strop didn't look at this thread when he was last on~ *hopes he'll notice question sometime later*

Some random practice~

Something I drew in a bus~ Yay for tablet and laptop!

Aw, fish!
I messed up the bbcode. D:
Sorry for the *counts* triple post... >.>

wow zophia...you cease to amaze me

that creature is freakishly awesome :P ... vivid coloring although i don't really like the blue very much...

And the claw/foot drawing has to be my favorite piece of art I've seen from you...the shading is amazing...except the thumb or whatever looks a little small...but awesome job anyways

@fst6:
You sound so bored. :P ^^

@jpx111:
Random blue is random. ^^ Just trying to get an acidic-in-your-eyes effect~
The thumb is viewed in a way that makes it look shorter than it is~ And thanks^^ Though it was only a quick sketch, I guess it turned out alright~

Hey zoph, you should do wallpapers for computers! seriously!!! ok, enough exclamation marks...

Anyways, those are both REALLY AWESOME!! they're so awesome I misspelled awesome 43 times

Anyways that paw is one of my favorites...

@Pazx:
Hee, I tend to draw too small for wallpapers (though several of my smaller pics don't lose much quality by being blown up to that size)~

Did you seriously misspell it that many times? Lol^^

That paw has gotten so much more attention than it deserves, really. XD

Let me post something old and nondigital:

So Zoph, will you like, draw me a Night hag riding a rust monster that is riding a carrion crawler? Preferably on fire?

@Apocalypse:
X) It's old, full of strange little mistakes in perspective and shading and stuff like that.

@Xzeno:
Well......... If you want to commission me, then sure. But I'm not gonna do that without getting paid. :P
*claims bonus points for knowing all those DnD monsters*

man, u pwn in hand draw and photoshop, i'm just good in hand drawn!
*keels over to have a seizure then go crazy on a wall just to have my fists bleeding over the palm of my hand. Making myself permanantly insane with blood coursing through my veins for death to the innocent*

^--that speech was freaky huh?

i thought the headless horseman was weird enough...but this: a bodiless horseman or a bodiless horse :P

in other words... pwnage

@thoad: hey...i was gonna do the exact same thing except the permanently insane part :P

@jpx111: Yay for hypocrisy?

@thoad: i don't get it...blonde moment for me...

@thoad:
Nope, that's completely normal for you.

First pic I did with a background after being equipped with my tablet: