Nobody's much commented on these (even the guy who drew them) but I'm really happy with the colour job I've done on them, and I think they could be a useful set of characters for complex face-to-fice dialogue strips. I have them saved as multi-layered photoshop files, so I can easily give them multiple facial expressions and moods. I was thinking about four moods each, these being neutral/bored, happy/excited, angry, and sad. I'll draw the expressions manually for each character, so they won't look the same.

As this will be a fairly complex job, I've started this thread for posting images and getting feedback.

Here are the four characters as they stand:

Remy's baseball bat looks a little odd without the frame to cut it off, I know, but he's just too wide if I draw in its whole length. I tried - he needed to look about four and a half feet high to fit in frame.

There's still time to change the colouring, too, if anyone gives me a good reason to.

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Four? Uh, that's five.

Oh, and their names, in the order above, are Amy, Harrison, Jer, Kim, and Remy.

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I think they look great the way they are. Very sexily done.

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Poo perhaps?

One should be named Fellatio.

Or atleast Cunt Dracoola.

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Two done, but it's now 4am and I should go to bed.

Amy...

Harrison...

Feedback welcome and encouraged.

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Harrison?

Harrison is actually Cunt Dracoola.

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i think they're great characters

They don't look anything like me.

Back to the drawing board.

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To be honest I've been too busy drawing my own stuff to pay much attention to what you guys have been doing (the 5 days of R&R I took off work are now gone and I didn't get off this damn computer...).

I'm really not a fan of the anime style (although it should bring in more people to the site who are)- but that's in general; not these guys in particular. Otherwise they're awesome. The shading is superb, aesthetically they're all excellent, and the large range of facial expressions will be very useful.

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Dinosaurs had eggs bro, the chicken came way later.

I <3 DexX

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They don't look anything like me.

Back to the drawing board.

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probably from memory and with your chin in the picture

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I think things are yes it's huh?

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Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way.

Next week on Utterly Baffling Radio Theatre...

Incidenta;;y, sorry about the dead images above - I'm redoing and renaming the original poses, to make sure the colour schemes and outlines stay consistent, so I'm deleting the old ones off my webspace.

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All done.

Jer...

Kim...

Remy...

As before, feedback welcome and encouraged. I put an end on Remy's bat so he can turn around, but I had to make it rather stumpy to fit it in frame. It's more a tyre whacker now. Oh well, it looks okay.

If nobody gives me a good reason not to in the next day or two, I'll post these in the finished art thread and ask Brad to put them up and put a link to Idle Thoughts in the "uses art from..." links.

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Yeah. Brad has no fear of legal repercussions from me. I know full well the sort of things these characters will be used for and I wouldn't have submitted them if I had a problem with that.

Plus, when the legal fees are added in, I'd lose money by suing.

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It was such a waste of everyone’s time and money that even the Tokyo stadium’s rape robots apologized– something they were programmed specifically never to do.

And my art languishes without comments. Sadness... :(

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It was such a waste of everyone’s time and money that even the Tokyo stadium’s rape robots apologized– something they were programmed specifically never to do.

Well, I thin that means nobody hates it enough to swear at us, so it's ready to post.

Completed art thread, here we come.

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Is it really worthwhile to stick more ordinary-looking people up there? Don't we have enough of that already?

There's nothing wrong with your art... it's just that we don't need it. How about something new? (Check that: new AND reasonably versitile.)

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By all means, feel free to draw your own if you are not happy with our offerings.

I think that a set of five ordinary-looking and versatile characters with a consistent look and with a range of facial expressions will be very useful.

If you disagree, well, there will be nobody forcing you to use them.

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Someone seems a little sensitive that someone didn't like the boring characters.

*gives crabby a wedgie*

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I don't mind having some new boring characters in addition to the old boring characters that we've been using to death. In fact, I'm grateful to anyone who attempts to imbue a little life into the static boringness of the character selection we've been using day in and day out for years now. Personally, I get a little tired of having to resort to "Blue" or "Maura" every time I need a character who expresses two or more emotions.

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I'd had a really shitty day. Trust me, I deleted a LOT of stuff before sending what I did.

These guys aren't my babies. I coloured them in, but for me that is a relatively small part of the creative process (note that it took me days to draw mmyers the way I wanted him and only an hour or two to colour him). These are HCRoyall's characters, and although I am proud of doing what I think is a pretty good colouring job, I won't be terribly upset if Brad decides not to put them online.

That said, I think they'll be really useful. I have even kept the layered photoshop files so more emotions can be added later, if there is demand for them, without having to do any serious editing.

I thought not_Scyess's post was just plain unhelpful. He told SC.com's volunteer artists that a large portion of their new art is useless, but offered not one atom of useful feedback. He could at east have mentioned what he thought would be some useful characters. All he gave us was a criticism and a demand.

So yeah, I snapped at him. *shrug* I think he deserved it.

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