No Style No. 46: It’s not porn if it’s art, dammit.
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…stop looking at me like that. Seriously. I just saved a bunch of pictures from Undergear.com, not a single one of them naked, and I’ve been using them as references to draw various made-up characters based on the poses and body types. Not porn. I don’t look at porn.
…yeah, if you ever believe a man that tells you that, I’ve got some nice waterfront property in Arkansas for you to look at.
I’m working on getting used to drawing directly on screen like I’m drawing on paper again. So far I like the results, but after being so used to staring at the screen while drawing on the tablet separately, my standard hand-eye coordination is shot…and it shows in Red’s face. But I still think this came out better, smoother, than the old tablet drawings. It looks almost like pencil and ink, even though it was done in Photoshop (not even Manga Studio; there are issues with getting MS to recognize Wacom tablet drivers, and I’m tweaking it until it behaves properly). I really like being able to draw digitally but maintain some level of control; now I just need to work on retaining hand-eye coordination when doing comic art as opposed to realism. I trained myself and now I have to retrain myself. For the record, though, I was drawing this:
~grumbles~ Not porn. Character art from a story. Bah. My friends are assholes.
Moving on:
Caption Contest Winner
Wow, that caption contest kinda bombed, didn’t it? Not much participation. There were enough, though, to pick a winner; there were a few pretty funny ones in there (and man, Hikaru, you really wanted to win, didn’t you? Don’t I spend enough money on you already? Oh well, you’ve got a birthday coming up…), a few rather lame ones, and a few middle-grounders.
…okay, none of them were great, but out of the funny ones, the winner is Lala with “Hot legs, making your mark - Hot legs, keep my pencil sharp”. I’m sorry, but goofy Rod Stewart quotes are made of win (otherwise it wouldn’t be that funny - but c’mon, Rod Stewart?).
So Lala, shoot me an e-mail at adrien-luc.sanders@451press.net and tell me which e-mail address to send your Amazon gift card to.
I dunno if we’ll be doing a caption contest again. That was a last-ditch “oh crap, busy, need to update” thing. If we do, next time I’ll pick a better picture.
For now, though, I’m out. See you tomorrow with a regular post. I may even try reading the news, gasp.
Ciao,
-Adri
…for the record, the answer is “no”.
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April 14th, 2008 at 1:15 am
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April 14th, 2008 at 1:57 am
If shirtless guys are porn, I’ve got some major refiling to do in my pic collection. >_<
April 14th, 2008 at 10:43 am
I swear to god, if you go over the spending cap we set on birthday gifts, I’ll…okay, I’ll probably get a stupid little grin on my face and be terribly flattered. But I’ll still be mad! At least I honored the lim…okay, shut up, I give.
And I feel like this is one of my tactless, backhanded compliments, but…I always enjoy your hand-drawn comics over the Photoshop generated ones. Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t read them if I didn’t like them, but…sappy as it seems, I think your creativity shows through a lot better in the drawn ones. Plus, your art style is pretty damn good. Okay, I’ll stop complimenting you before I look like a hopeless puppy fanboy…shut up, Adri, I swear to god…
April 14th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Honored the limit, huh? ~flat look~ I think that external drive alone barely fell a few dollars short of the limit, and then you threw the books in on top–! Gah! Bad man!
…so…since this is both hand-drawn and Photoshop-generated…does that mean you like it more, or less, Rover?
April 14th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Best of all? I know the backgrounds are usually Photoshop, but I do always enjoy your character art.
Don’t make me call you “Pretty Kitty,” mister. *grumbles*Rover, my ass…*grumbles*
April 14th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Hey, I don’t look at porn.
Technically.
All the stuff I have totally has artistic merit. And, best of all, no real people involved. ^-^
Ahem. Anyway, that picture’s shiny. Who’s the guy, and can I borrow him? (Ya know, just for a night or two. Maybe a long weekend. I’ll give him back in…fairly…good condition. Promise. :P) ^-^;
April 14th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Jesus Christ-shaped dildos. Can you two just have sex already and get it over with?
Yes, Hikaru and Adri, I am talking to YOU.
Also, nice drawing.
April 14th, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Hikaru: You can call Pretty Kitty all you want as long as you keep in mind that you’re setting little Hikaru and the twins up as first option for a scratching post.
Kaine: His name’s Vincent Manion, and he’s a character from a game I used to run. I…um…don’t know if you’d really want to deal with him. He’s…uh…er…well, let’s just say his condition isn’t the one I’d be worried about after a few nights with you. He’s not exactly stable. Then again, right now the storyline is working with the teenaged version of him; that drawing is a future projection of him as an adult. Maybe in a century or so he’ll have calmed down.
Cole: That stopped being clever several months and several people ago.
April 14th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Dude. Not exactly stable is exactly the kind of guy I go for.
He sounds perfect. ^-^
…Er, yeah, I have a thing for the broken characters. They all follow me home, and then I can’t just leave them out in the rain…*pets them* ;~;
April 15th, 2008 at 12:39 am
I wonder if the “Pretty Kitty” type comments between you two are scaring readers away, or attracting them?
I miss having that type of a relationship with a person. The last time, it was fun until he found out I had a boyfriend, and I found out he was a lot more serious in his banter than I was. Oh, nostalgia…
On a more LGBT issue, do any of you know where I can get my hands on the Not in Our Town documentary without dishing over my pretty pennies for it? Our school is doing a week-long event around it and on YouTube I could only find the episodes >.<
April 15th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Adri,
I read your blog because I like seeing the world through a different perspective. Sure, gay-related-angry blogs are not exactly a rarity on “teh internetz”, but somehow yours usually captures my interest.Perhaps it’s just more intelligent than most. Most of the internet in general.
Now, about the lovesick, off-topic, flirting? I can find that ANYWHERE. It isn’t what sets you apart, it isn’t what I come here for.
I don’t for a second imagine you give two shits whether I read your blog or not. But the truth remains: If you don’t want the comments, don’t flirt in public.
Otherwise, we both just have to deal, don’t we?
April 15th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
No, sweetie, I really don’t “have to deal”. That would be your problem. It’s the whole “my sandbox, my rules” principle hijacked straight from kindergarten, and if I wanted to, I could ban you just for being obnoxious; I don’t because I don’t work that way, or a few other people would have gotten the banhammer long ago. You can have all the problems you want with what takes place in the blog or in the comments, but if you think complaining about a little joking around between friends in this fashion has any impact other than to make you look like a whiny, self-absorbed ass, well…you’re SOL. Sorry, kiddo. My corner of the internet. My personal space that no one’s forcing you to read. When I come to your blog and start flirting it up around your online space and disrespecting your niche in the sandbox, then you can be as righteous about your reasons for bitching as you want.
April 17th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Adri, I owe you an apology.
1) I didn’t realize it was so sensitive an issue.
2) I should have remembered that a straight guy making any sort of comment about gay guys flirting is likely to be interpreted as an attack. That was not my intent at all. Nonetheless, it was an obvious implication that I should not have overlooked. So I apologize.
April 17th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
No, not a sensitive issue, and it really has nothing to do with perceived attacks on two gay guys at all. I would have been irritated if you’d been complaining about something as simple as the fact that I go by Adri most times even though my tagline on the blog says Adrien-Luc. It’s not what you were complaining about at all. It’s the fact that you took a high-handed attitude towards your idea of what should and shouldn’t take place in the content, comments, or interactions of my blog, then told me - on my space - that I have to just deal with it. It’s a matter of disrespecting my territory, and even disrespecting my right to express myself freely in my blog, something that isn’t going to stop for you or anyone else. Any time I censor my behavior, it’s by my choice, for my reasons, and if I don’t meet someone’s expectations…that’s fine, because no one’s expectations matter but my own.
You take the good with the bad, kiddo, and joking around with my friends is as much a part of who I am as the long sociopolitical rambles. If you can’t put up with that and find it such an annoying part of the tangential discussion, then no one’s forcing you to type in the URL and swing by for a visit. When your exposure is strictly voluntary, there’s no point in complaining if you continue to expose yourself.
However, thank you for having the courtesy to apologize, even if you missed the mark as to why I was annoyed. The initial “just have sex already” joke didn’t annoy me, by the way; my response was intended to be read as weary amusement because Anji’s been picking on us about our flirting for ages. It was the response that followed and nothing more.
April 21st, 2008 at 12:14 am
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April 28th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
You know I was driving through Portland, Oregon around Halloween and there were several people living in this downtown apartment building and for the holiday they all got together and strung up a scarecrow out the 4th-story window to make it look as though one of them had hung themselves. Everytime I see something hanging out of a window, I go back to that image. I think i’s haunting me now. LOL.