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 Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2013 4:33 am
Okaaaay, that was a slightly unexpected piece of information.
C'tis opened his bag to fetch out a sheet of paper and a board to lean it on. There wasn't much of a wind today but he clamped it down anyway, last thing he needed was to lose what he was working on to a sudden gust. "Alright, rest your hand like that for me. We start off with the body of the hand, like this." C'tis drew a softened rectangle sort of a shape on one side of the page. "Then add a little oval on each side..." he did so; "...and, get your other hand and fold your fingers down, the ovals are the bit of your palm you can still see, right?"
Dozing sounded like an excellent plan; Malcarreth joined in.
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Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 6:58 am
She rested her hand as instructed, obedient as you pleased though her fingers wriggled for a second. Her other hand squired between C'tis' body and arm where it'd been tucked, fingers curled and eyebrows arched to peer at it.
"So we're a bunch of soft shapes glued together?" She asked slowly. Her head slanted up to peer at him again. "Because that already looks vaguely handlike."
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Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 5:22 am
"Yes, glued shapes, that's about right," C'tis nodded, starting to relax into the activity at hand both physically and mentally. "After that we make a sort of an arc or a hoop that you use as a guide for the placement of the fingers," the line appeared on the page, "this makes it easier to get the proportion and placement right if you're not used to drawing hands. Of course, if you're drawing a hand in different poses you have to change the perspectives of these guidelines, but once you have the hang of them that's not so hard." It wasn't for him at any rate.
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Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 8:35 am
"Not too hard says the man who said hands are shaffing unexciting when it comes to learning them," Rochelle grinned. She shifted away from the draping more to give him some room and herself some more space in which to watch. One hand still outstreteched, she pulled her knees up, chin resting on top, and stared at the swift brush of his charcoal against paper as it brought life to the flat surface. "Why don't you find a Harper here and apprentice under them? You don't need to be at the Hall always to be a Journeyman eventually, right?"
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Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 3:43 am
"...I suppose I could do that," C'tis replied after a brief silence in which his pencil stilled and his expression turned thoughtful. "I mean... nothing to stop me right?" He was good enough with a bit more theory, a bit of brushing up on things. Maybe he really could do it, they hadn't actually stripped him of his knots after all they'd just ejected him from the Hall. "That's actually a good idea," he concluded eventually with a nod to Rochelle, his expression brightening somewhat.
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Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 8:55 am
"I have those occasionally. There's brains to this beauty," she fluffed at her hair with an exagerated bat of the lashes before yawning and stretching. Rochelles attention went back to C'tis, his happier expression, his voice. She smiled slowly, studying the blue rider, and leaned in to nudge his shoulder with her own. "You could totally do that. There's Harpers from all over, y'know. It's not like they're scarce and a few are bound to see the magic of your hands and tongue." The glasscrafter poked him in the forehead, amused. "And when you get your Journeyman knots, we can celebrate."
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Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 10:46 am
C'tis' grin turned into a smirk and he raised an eyebrow. "Well I'm all for celebrating my new knots, but I think getting them by using the magic of my tongue on more senior Harpers would be frowned upon."
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Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 10:48 am
"Ffffff," is all she could say for a moment before Rochelle started to laugh. She shoved at C'tis' shoulder, snickering still, and shook her head. "And that is why you are my favorite. Shut up. --besides, I'm sure they wouldn't mind. Practice for the ocarina is important after all."
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Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 10:51 am
"Very true, very true," C'tis agreed with his best serious expression, which may or may not have been mimicked from a certain masterhealer of their mutual acquaintance. "How do you expect to get anywhere without due diligence, boy?" he added for effect, pulling his scarred face into an extra-special scowl.
"Anyway," the grin returned, "look, I'll bring our shapes together a bit to make a hand now." So saying C'tis looked back down at his sheet of paper and started work again.
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Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 4:20 pm
"It is true and," She choked at the too familiar imitation. Rochelle pushed at his shoulder again and coughed into her hand to try and hide the laughter. "I highly doubt Bereck would consider giving fellatio to be due diligence, sweet shells."
Rochelle laughed again and settled back down, her head tilting up to peer up at him. "Right, right, looking at the hands now." Fingernails wriggled at him and then at the paper, peering down at it. "You really are good at this. I hope you decide to hunt a Harper down. You deserve your knots. Oh, hey! A wrist. I like that."
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Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2013 1:54 pm
"Hey, I'm not asking what he does in his free time, or implying anything either," C'tis replied with a smirk, which said that he might be implying just a little bit but only in joke. Anyway the healer had to be fifty or something, so the whole topic was one he really didn't want to consider anyway. Ew.
"I should be good at it, I spent a while training," C'tis continued as he smoothed in some more lines. "Had a bit of talent I suppose," he shrugged, "but there's a lot I learned - forehortening, that was a big one - and I spent a lot of time practising at hall as well of course." He wouldn't usually share all of thise so freely - art wasn't exactly manly - but Rochelle had come to be an exception to a great deal of things.
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Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 10:43 am
"Of course you weren't. I never knew you were into older men, C'tis. That makes all the snark between you into unresolved sexual tension. His girlfriend wouldn't be pleased, I think," She snickered , rubbing her nose to try and muffle her grin. It didn't work, really. "Ugh, gross. Sorry."
She distracted herself with the drawing at hand, eyes training onto the page. Her cheek went right back to his arm, otherwise it'd be some sharding uncomfortable. "What's foreshortening?"
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Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 1:04 pm
"Ew!" C'tis grinned and elbowed Rochelle in the ribs, or at least where he assumed her ribs were under the muscles and cuddlyness. "I'll have you know I go for people who range from my own age to only nearly only enough to be my parents, late thirties tops," he added with a snort, turning his attention back onto the page.
Ack, a question. Explaining.
"Err, well it's shortening. In the fore, which is to say the front." That wasn't much use. "Oh, well look up there," C'tis pointed up at a large green shape winging towards them, seemed Berath was on her way. "If you look up at her and raise your hand you can pinch her between your fingers, right? Because she's a long way off she looks smaller. And... well if I draw somebody with a hand reaching towards the 'onlooker' I have to foreshorten that arm so that it doesn't look like it's a million times longer than the other arm." That hadn't sounded like it made sense either. "It's... kind of easier to show," he shrugged lamely, "I could do a demonstration with adorable tunnelsnakes if you want. Spirals, they help."
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