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 Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:21 pm
Is it from THE STABLE OF THE DAMNED?
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Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:23 pm
No idea but it's awesome! o_o
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Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:34 pm
=^_^= Thanks! It's actually a Welsh fable, celebrated on the Winter Equinox with a huge festival. We're not sure when it started, exactly, or what it even used to originally mean, but what usually happens is a person mounts a horse skull on a pole, attaches a white sheet beneath the skull to shroud themselves, decorates the skull with ribbons and beads and bells, and there's a parade through town. They sometimes even have the jaw of the skull spring-loaded so they can snap it at the crowd. The parade stops at houses and inns and pubs - they sing traditional witty songs and have a riddle or witty banter contest until someone loses and they're either allowed inside or turned away.
The book I originally got the idea from, though, a character had seen it when he was very young and had gotten snapped at, so he was terrified of the thing, and they used it as a sort of fiendish monster keeping him from completing his task.
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Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:37 pm
Cool. o:
I kinda figured it was Welsh, since no one else uses "w" as a vowel. lol
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Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:40 pm
XD It's kinda true.
There's the big white space down sorta under the front hooves, and I wasn't sure what to do with it. I finally settled on putting a person down there with their back toward the viewer, cowering away from the Mari Lwyd, with an arm flung up. But do you have ANY idea how hard it is to find a good reference shot for that? D:
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Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:43 pm
Well I think it's awesome how it is. :3
But yeah, references can be difficult sometimes. I've been known to take my own on occasion. XD;
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Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:44 pm
Szen Cool. o: I kinda figured it was Welsh, since no one else uses "w" as a vowel. lol
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Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 6:45 pm
I was going to do something separate for this, but now that I think about it, 'pale' suits something I recently did anyway.
Just some half-assed fanart of Ghost from the book Lost Souls. And.. he's really, really pale, like a ghost. :P
(I wouldn't mind critique, if anything looks really out of place. Like, if the shoulder looks dislocated, or if the torso's too long, or stuff like that.
And goddamn, I really need to learn a different way to draw eyes. That's the only part of this drawing that really irritates me.)
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Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 7:00 pm
It looks really good! Totally believable as him. :3
The only thing that seems slightly odd to me is the chest area, the triangle inside the bent arm. I'm not sure why though. D: And that's only after intentionally looking for something to critique. XD;
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Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 7:03 pm
It's totally rad. Better than anything I could manage.
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Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 7:03 pm
Hee... Thanks, Szen, I appreciate the praise. ^____^ heart I was kinda thinking about maybe getting someone to help me take a few references for it... Maybe I will.
Kilehye - Ooo! Neat! I actually really like the close eyes. He looks sleepy. The only thing that bothers me is the hand. It's vague enough that I had a bit of trouble figuring out how it fit in with his neck and face. But that may be because I'm a dork. d:
I've not heard of that book - who's it by and what's it about?
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Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 7:09 pm
I've been beeeeezy. D:
And I can't find any tape . . .
I did something a few weeks ago that would be perfect for this, but it has to have light behind it for the full effect. I want to tape it to a window and take a picture of it.
I'll have it soon. :'D
ALSO. You guys are fantastic. D:
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Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 7:28 pm
Szen It looks really good! Totally believable as him. :3 The only thing that seems slightly odd to me is the chest area, the triangle inside the bent arm. I'm not sure why though. D: And that's only after intentionally looking for something to critique. XD; Ifailedmywillsave Kilehye - Ooo! Neat! I actually really like the close eyes. He looks sleepy. The only thing that bothers me is the hand. It's vague enough that I had a bit of trouble figuring out how it fit in with his neck and face. But that may be because I'm a dork. d:
I've not heard of that book - who's it by and what's it about?
The book's by Poppy Z. Brite. It's fantasy/horror/erotica pretty much, you can read a bit from it here.
And thanks everyone. x3
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Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 12:06 pm
Would anyone care if I changed this from Sunday to Friday? :B
Edit: Nevermind. I'm just going to do it. You can still enter this one though if you like. :3
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Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:19 pm
Ifailedmywillsave =^_^= Thanks! It's actually a Welsh fable, celebrated on the Winter Equinox with a huge festival. We're not sure when it started, exactly, or what it even used to originally mean, but what usually happens is a person mounts a horse skull on a pole, attaches a white sheet beneath the skull to shroud themselves, decorates the skull with ribbons and beads and bells, and there's a parade through town. They sometimes even have the jaw of the skull spring-loaded so they can snap it at the crowd. The parade stops at houses and inns and pubs - they sing traditional witty songs and have a riddle or witty banter contest until someone loses and they're either allowed inside or turned away.
The book I originally got the idea from, though, a character had seen it when he was very young and had gotten snapped at, so he was terrified of the thing, and they used it as a sort of fiendish monster keeping him from completing his task.
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