Yes, in an effort to make them more real, my next project idea is stuck between trying to make a dog-sized paper mache of one or making them into a virtual desktop pet of some sort.
I'm not sure whether sculpting or animating will be more challenging for me, i don't really do either.
Why is that? For the snazzy glasses? Whenever it comes to character creation in a video game I almost always make a ponytail dude - I like to see how the game handles the physics of it.
Which one wins in a fight?
Ah, Thanks for letting me know. I made it into a proper markdown link so I expect that will work better across platforms.
The thing is here: Dialogues in Aye-Dunno
It is about an octopus and a dragonfly taking a pleasant walk together, any creeping dread or sense of hidden secrets as you read is totally in your imagination.
Should take less than an hour to read. You can also just skim the pics if you like.
This was an exercise in learning some digital drawing basics so the illustrations are a bit amateurish. Also experimentally copying some writing styles of authors I like, hopefully it lands right.
Though I did became a bit smitten with the underlying physics and history of the world in the story. I'd like to make something proper of it in the future.
True, I should make like a pokedex thing with all the little quirks one can find between the different species of gegecker. Would probably ensure I'll never get bored of drawing them too!
It is all hard G's for me. Do you think it's more fun to say with soft ones? I like the idea of carrying the gif/jif controversy into the gegecker world twofold with constant arguments about it.
These are all great questions, and in trying to answer them I think I've found I only want to do that via drawings. All the categorisation in biology I think is why I get bored of reading about it so quick, and being visual-only allows for me to hide my ineptitude and be more suggestive. I'll use these questions as prompts when I next get the itch to draw more gegeckers!
I was imagining they'd have a frog-ish feel, but would react to pets with octopus-like papillae that makes it less slimy and more scritchy.
And, Of course, use the gegeckers! The more chances I get to see them the better!
And yeah, humans for intended scale (though I would love to see one big enough to level a city):
I don't do much creature design. Still trying to iron out various tweaks in their design that I keep changing. Are you immediately wanting to pet any, or what would need to change for that to happen? My main goal is mushroom-cuttlefish vibes in a friendshape.
I also want to define their biology a bit more, but I don't have much technical knowledge about that stuff. Generally, I imagine their heads are mostly lungs and they tweet like a bird and parrot some sounds. They can hold a note for a painfully long time. They can fit their head and arms into really small spaces as there is little bone in there. And they can temporarily make their heads textured/coloured to look like other things to a degree. They have 5 face tendrils, the centre is the strongest for grappling/holding, the off-centre two are a bit weaker and thinner, used for manipulating, and there are two sensitive ones almost always tucked back and away, used for feeling/sensing details of things they pick up. They often sit/stand on their hind legs like meerkats and prairie dogs because their arms are super weak and their centre of mass is weirdly distributed.
Nail clippers is a good one! And I often say the thought of sorting socks instantly puts me in a state of dread, whenever people comment on my wearing odd ones.
Explaining my stuff is probably less interesting than finding out what has you interested in the batteries, what's going on there?
If you'd settle for some rando thoughts instead of explanation: My parents had a junk drawer for all the dead ones. I'm not so careful, mine are strewn about bags and drawers. I like to have distance between them, not sure why, I doubt it makes it less likely for accidental mishaps. I keep thinking I should take them for recycling when I see one, but then I should find all the others too, but I don't keep track of what is where. I work in electronics and embedded systems, batteries can make my job harder, I avoid using them when I can. But I also did a unit on battery management systems and cell design in university, pretty cool things. I remember opening up some childhood devices, with those old alkalines that weren't designed well for undervoltage conditions maybe, or perhaps the battery cells themselves weren't insulated well enough? The casing was eventually partially eaten by the internal reaction that is always going on in there. The leak was kind of unnerving, it looked like a lichen but for some metal contraption. Parasitic things that grow off other things freak me out in biology, this reaction was pretty simple chemistry in comparison to the horrors of biological things, why is my stupid primate brain unnerved by it?
These objects can make me feel a sense of dread when I think of them, for various reasons. Do you have anything you feel haunts you, that would you put in the picture?
Thanks, I'm glad I got them to something recognisable!
Words! Are you coming up with a story as you go along or have you meticulously planned something?
Not a reaction I expected lmao
Any recommendations?
I'm not very familiar with manga, what would be the main differentiator between this and one of those? Less words more drawings?
The full thing is here: https://inivekin.github.io/abosa/
About 1.5-2 hours of reading if you like that kind of thing - or just skim the pics if you like.
I read Beowulf and thought I could do better. I guess I probably didn't but I gave it a shot and I'm pretty proud of a few things in there. I'd like to record it in a sing-songy way someday...
You can pick one skill from each row, and they can't be from the same column.
which style do you prefer?
I like to call them gegeckers but i also feel i should give them a proper latin scientific name i haven't figured out yet. I made another post with them in this community earlier here and hoping to post a little animation of one soon!