I would have gone with, “Hey so I have some classified information in regards to that beam, it relates to Selkie so I think you should know… wanna sit down?”.
This is making me think you are an adult, just spit it out for gods sake. 😀
But DRAMA! And I don’t mean ‘comic plot’ drama, I mean, “I have a deep secret that could change the face of the Earth, I must be DRAMATIC about the reveal!” sort of drama.
Usually I do not comment on this stuff art wise but… this shading style is… well it makes them look dirty. like I was wondering who got soot on everything. Sorry, love the story and your work!
I see it now
If anyone’s wondering for their own work I think a good way to avoid that result, especially if you still wanna use that brush style, is instead of shading everything with grey, you use darker versions of each individual color. It’s more work but the end result looks more vibrant. However I’d also suggest using a watercolor brush if you wanted to have low opacity non sharp shading, though if you wanted a stipple effect anyway that airbrush being used is the way to go 🙂
I actually heard it the opposite: Shades should be in the contrasting color (possibly with some blue as well). So, like, to shade a purple, use yellow.
I played around with it a bit in one of my art projects, but didn’t get any conclusive info on how best to do it. Might try again. When I think about that advice right now, it sounds like it might make it muddy or brown, but I don’t think that’s what happened when I tried it….
My body doesn’t 3:00am. At all. About 1:30–2:00ish am it just decides that it is going to sleep, regardless, no matter what I am doing. No all-night Risk, no all-night D ‘n D, yeah, just No. But raring’ to go at 6am, no matter what was (cough) interrupted (cough) by sleep. So I’ve never made a bad, or good, decision at 3am– it’s like it doesn’t exist for me.
URSINE-ing checks that your butt can’t cash. And while your appeal is a bit GRIZZLY, I find we aren’t the POLAR opposites I first thought. You AXED, so i will answer. WOLF you be my valentine too?
Pot calling the kettle black… remember Bugs Bunny/ Daffy Duck? Foghorn Leghorn? Tom ‘n Jerry? Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote?? can’t say they are any more or less violent than today’s since i don’t watch today’s Saturday morning cartoons anymore, but still, you get my point…
Remeber the political cartoons on the op-Ed page during the ’50s? The sculls, the bombs, the ‘Gallows’ humour involving death culling humanity from the world. Violence in cartoons has always been part of what cartoons DO for is, allow us to laugh at what scares us. This is what allows me to laugh when Miss Green-glowy Eyes makes Dr. Terror-Hammer jokes, when she could annihilate any one of us.
Interesting approach, although he seems to be making it more ominous than he should be, I get that’s how he “feels” but in cases like this, you have to put aside your feelings and talk about FACTS
straight out facts
All facts, after the initial reaction, qualm fears with facts and share your personal feelings AFTER everything has being digested and both people have a more even playing field for understanding, he’s basically predisposing her to think bad about this “secret” it’s bad enough that he started the whole conversation with “what if I told you”
(to understand where I come from, I’m a divorced father of 3, I’ve always had to be the one holding the emotional reactions of my ex, because she tends to exaggerate issues, if I give her little wiggle room to exaggerate by only stating facts, she can build whatever wild ideas on her own from the basis of facts, which tend to make her wild ideas less wild because they are now grounded on reality, tangible things, actual things that we both know and understand)
She already knows that she’s pretty much a fish wizard. The only reason she isn’t rubbing it in is that her dad told her not to. But I’m sure that she’d love as many people to know as possible. 🙂
It’s not Selkie’s secret, it’s her people’s secret. To reveal or not reveal their existence and nature, that’s a decision that really belongs to the sarnothi people. Unfortunately, they’re not of one mind. Some of them seem to be all done now with keeping themselves secret. Things could get a bit dicey.
I’d argue it shouldn’t have been a secret to begin with and that people have a right to know that sarnothi exist – more so since some of them actually live among them now.
For one thing, if people knew then the incident that triggered this whole mess likely would have gone a completely different way.
… Not a good start, Todd.
Beat me to it, he’s already made it weird.
Yeah but it’s not exactly like he’s been taught to share classified info or talk about this type of thing so I can kinds understand.
I would have gone with, “Hey so I have some classified information in regards to that beam, it relates to Selkie so I think you should know… wanna sit down?”.
This is making me think you are an adult, just spit it out for gods sake. 😀
I KNOW RIGHT
But DRAMA! And I don’t mean ‘comic plot’ drama, I mean, “I have a deep secret that could change the face of the Earth, I must be DRAMATIC about the reveal!” sort of drama.
Michael, Dude, you nailed it -solid. Well done. That captures-in words- just how I see it happening, in my mind, between Andi and Todd.
Usually I do not comment on this stuff art wise but… this shading style is… well it makes them look dirty. like I was wondering who got soot on everything. Sorry, love the story and your work!
…and now I can’t unsee it.
I see it now
If anyone’s wondering for their own work I think a good way to avoid that result, especially if you still wanna use that brush style, is instead of shading everything with grey, you use darker versions of each individual color. It’s more work but the end result looks more vibrant. However I’d also suggest using a watercolor brush if you wanted to have low opacity non sharp shading, though if you wanted a stipple effect anyway that airbrush being used is the way to go 🙂
I actually heard it the opposite: Shades should be in the contrasting color (possibly with some blue as well). So, like, to shade a purple, use yellow.
I played around with it a bit in one of my art projects, but didn’t get any conclusive info on how best to do it. Might try again. When I think about that advice right now, it sounds like it might make it muddy or brown, but I don’t think that’s what happened when I tried it….
Naw that’s valid. Impulsive 3am shading decision to be honest. Might revert it, haven’t decided yet.
Impulsive 3AM decisions rarely end well. Voice of experience.
My body doesn’t 3:00am. At all. About 1:30–2:00ish am it just decides that it is going to sleep, regardless, no matter what I am doing. No all-night Risk, no all-night D ‘n D, yeah, just No. But raring’ to go at 6am, no matter what was (cough) interrupted (cough) by sleep. So I’ve never made a bad, or good, decision at 3am– it’s like it doesn’t exist for me.
dude, you might want to have this conversation when the girls are out of earshot
URSINE-ing checks that your butt can’t cash. And while your appeal is a bit GRIZZLY, I find we aren’t the POLAR opposites I first thought. You AXED, so i will answer. WOLF you be my valentine too?
These kids today and their violent cartoons…
Pot calling the kettle black… remember Bugs Bunny/ Daffy Duck? Foghorn Leghorn? Tom ‘n Jerry? Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote?? can’t say they are any more or less violent than today’s since i don’t watch today’s Saturday morning cartoons anymore, but still, you get my point…
Remeber the political cartoons on the op-Ed page during the ’50s? The sculls, the bombs, the ‘Gallows’ humour involving death culling humanity from the world. Violence in cartoons has always been part of what cartoons DO for is, allow us to laugh at what scares us. This is what allows me to laugh when Miss Green-glowy Eyes makes Dr. Terror-Hammer jokes, when she could annihilate any one of us.
Interesting approach, although he seems to be making it more ominous than he should be, I get that’s how he “feels” but in cases like this, you have to put aside your feelings and talk about FACTS
straight out facts
All facts, after the initial reaction, qualm fears with facts and share your personal feelings AFTER everything has being digested and both people have a more even playing field for understanding, he’s basically predisposing her to think bad about this “secret” it’s bad enough that he started the whole conversation with “what if I told you”
(to understand where I come from, I’m a divorced father of 3, I’ve always had to be the one holding the emotional reactions of my ex, because she tends to exaggerate issues, if I give her little wiggle room to exaggerate by only stating facts, she can build whatever wild ideas on her own from the basis of facts, which tend to make her wild ideas less wild because they are now grounded on reality, tangible things, actual things that we both know and understand)
He needs to talk to Selkie. It’s HER secret, after all.
She might not care if anyone and everyone knows she’s “not human” – a different species. But then again, she might.
You don’t tell other people someone else’s secret, without at least getting the secret owner’s permission. “Outing” someone is nyekulturny.
This is way too big to be about Selkie.
Though I doubt she cares, probably only keeps it secret to begin with because she’s been told to. 😀
She already knows that she’s pretty much a fish wizard. The only reason she isn’t rubbing it in is that her dad told her not to. But I’m sure that she’d love as many people to know as possible. 🙂
It’s not Selkie’s secret, it’s her people’s secret. To reveal or not reveal their existence and nature, that’s a decision that really belongs to the sarnothi people. Unfortunately, they’re not of one mind. Some of them seem to be all done now with keeping themselves secret. Things could get a bit dicey.
That’s why Andi needs to be clued in.
I’d argue it shouldn’t have been a secret to begin with and that people have a right to know that sarnothi exist – more so since some of them actually live among them now.
For one thing, if people knew then the incident that triggered this whole mess likely would have gone a completely different way.
This sounds like it’s going to turn into a classic sitcom misunderstanding.
“You mean like Selkie being an alien fish person, or something less blatantly obvious?”
COME ON YOU WOLVES!
Bears: we’re coming at you!
Wolves: Bring it on, Bears. Gonna take you down! Wolves rule, and bears just, well,… drool.
And you wouldn’t BELIEVE what they do in the woods! It’s positively uncouth.
roflmao your text and valentine LOL