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Strop
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Right, so I pulled out of the previous GFX round due to not being able to finish on time. Since then I've been working on the image on-and-off and now it's finished only about a week late.

The picture shown below is half the size, the fullsize one can be found by clicking on the picture.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a268/dongstyle_ltd/Not%20photos/technologyfinal.jpg

The full resolution pic (1280xs1024) is low quality...the high quality version is 1.1Mb and doesn't fit on photobucket xD Lame. Except I feel justified with the size...this was hand-drawn from start to finish.

I should have tidied up the sketchlines more, but wasn't actually intending to spend this much effort on it. Meh.

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Strop
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roflrofl what, manta, there's no 5000 feet watery stage in a fighting game.

Also the entire exercise is like, an audition, you know? Your performance in the WoM will determine how (and if) I fit everybody's character into the scheme.

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And so it is that I have gone from being Strop...to Strip.

http://i438.photobucket.com/albums/qq105/strawpony/Way%20Of%20Moderation/4-6.png

The change you all feared yet anticipated! Will it ever be reversed!? What will happen to the tournament!? All this and more, on THE WAY OF MODERATION.

/shameless plug

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I can't believe what you did to my hair!

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roflrofl what, manta, there's no 5000 feet watery stage in a fighting game.


rofl, I meant overall, throughout the course of the game.

And nuuuuuuu to being an upside down mermaid!
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It took a lot of thought for me to come up with a way to feminise Cen the way everybody in the WoM... except Cen... has been.

We figured Cen was the perfect psychotic serial killer: quiet and downtrodden, perfectionist and methodical to a fault, neatly groomed, timid and socially awkward, carries a lot of disapproving and anger and stress but bottles it up...

...to be released in the form of Jan.

http://i438.photobucket.com/albums/qq105/strawpony/jan.jpg

The hair (most important bit) was done by Cen. Cen also picked the Walther P99, otherwise I would have given Jan something like a minigun.

I decided to name Cen's female version "Jan" because Cen is short for Cenere, or, as I've have dubbed him, "Cenere the Sincere". Jan, however, is short for "Janus", the Roman two-faced deity who has since become symbolic of liars. It works on so many levels!

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Next up: The coloured version when I get my butt home (since I am procrastinating as much as I do at home)

And it does work in a wonder of ways.

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Janus was the Greek god of doors and passageways, Stropsicle . . . .

Cenere
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Still and awesome, awesome god. Beginnings, endings, time itself?
Though I too recall Strop's explanation used.

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Janus was the Greek god of doors and passageways, Stropsicle . . . .


What? Janus isn't a Greek name... I'm afraid you mixed it up a little.

To quote the relevant bits:

He is most often depicted as having two faces or heads, facing in opposite directions. Janus is one of the few major deities in Roman mythology that does not have a Greek counterpart.


I will admit to stretching the "two-faced" part a bit. You're entirely correct about the doors and passageways.
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Post it Strop! Our wonderful, world changing idea.

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Well fine, if you say so, although I will tell everybody now these are extremely rough sketches and I *will* be cleaning it up and colouring later.

...anyway.

So Queen Regina or whatever-her-name-was knit a woolen bikini for Strip...

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Wow. A whole two months since I posted here?

Shocking.

Well, uh, I guess I should explain why I still haven't finished the next scene of WoM yet >_>

http://i438.photobucket.com/albums/qq105/strawpony/enforcer.jpg

Concept for possible use in my novel. For more information click here because I'm sure not typing all that again.

Also it was over 40 degrees centigrade today, so I didn't get much done in general. Yeah.

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Concept for possible use in my novel. For more information click here because I'm sure not typing all that again.


... how long is your novel?

Word informed me it had a Kincaid level of over 15, which basically means there are far too many big words.


You also have really long sentences. 16 sentences for over 400 words. The readability is terrible.

And predatorial isn't a word, only the effect of high-level long words.

I should probably get a dA account.
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Is this the same graphic novel we spoke about a long while back, or something else you've been working on since then? Either way, I like it. Curious as to the naming of the character though. If I'm not mistaken (and with the hours I spent watching The Wire seasons 1-5, I should hope not!) Jane Doe is a term used for an unidentified homicide victim. Got a nice ring to it, but what's the link to the character?

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... how long is your novel?


It is long. But not as long as the time I'm spending on it. I'm revising it for the third time, and discarded everything I wrote for NaNo '09. Only this time I finally convinced myself I know exactly what I'm doing with it (we'll see how long this lasts.)

The readability is terrible.


This is what my prose looks like before my inner-editor gets to it. Readability is inversely proportional to level of fatigue.

And predatorial isn't a word, only the effect of high-level long words.


Nice spot- word told me that. I ignored it because I- oh crap, I just remembered. Predatory was the word I was looking for. Yay for neologisms!

Is this the same graphic novel we spoke about a long while back


I assume you're referring to Strugglers. Since I wrote the skeleton plot and loosely scripted the first part, I haven't worked on it. This is from a novel (prose) I started in 2007, except I've been reworking it multiple times. I've finally got a grasp of just about everything I want to cover in it, so I just have to rewrite the plot framework one more time and I should be good to go again!

The naming of 'Jenny' comes from a terrible pun. Doe may be a deer (a female deer) but doe is also a female rabbit! In this novel, I'm using 'hybrids' (any genetically engineered being with defining traits of more than one organism) and the human/hybrid dynamic to comment on the historical effects of colonialism... sounds like a hell of a stretch now but should hopefully be clearer when I actually finish!
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