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Howard Tayler - More fun with Copic Markers
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11:34 pm September 29th, 2004
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More fun with Copic Markers
I took an old picture of a F'Sherl-Ganni (the Gatekeeper aliens with the bifurcated limbs) and decided to color it. Why? Two reasons:

1) It's on Copic paper already. It's BEGGING to be colored, because I'm out of that paper and wanted to see how the markers do on their home turf.
2) It'll fetch more at the Linucon Art Auction if it's in color.

Well, here it is, hopefully fetching more:



The date at the bottom is misleading. It was drawn in 2002, but colored more than two years later. Something about that seems weird to me. Oh well. It's purty, and I'm a gonna sell it to pay for milk for the baby.

--Howard
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Comment by Jarlath Drake
haesslich From: haesslich Date: September 29th, 2004 11:21 pm (UTC) (Link)
Verra, verra nice. Now it's time to find some well-heeled fans at Linucon to sell that to. :D

Y'know, there's a store in town which carries Keenspot comics already. Hmm... there's an idea. LEt me see how that'll go over.
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Comment by quasi random
kaolinfire From: kaolinfire Date: September 29th, 2004 11:55 pm (UTC) (Link)
Hmm. Definitely fetching, especially with all those arms.
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Thread started by Dave the Inverted
davetheinverted From: davetheinverted Date: September 30th, 2004 02:25 am (UTC) (Link)
How well did the paper and the markers get along? (I'd bet that someone with an artistic eye could at least partially answer that question just by looking at the final result, but that person ain't me.)

Dav2.718
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howardtayler From: howardtayler Date: September 30th, 2004 06:43 am (UTC) (Link)
They got along just fine.
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Comment by Hikaru Katayamma
katayamma From: katayamma Date: September 30th, 2004 07:32 am (UTC) (Link)
Damn! Very nice work on the color, shading and highlights. Wish I had the cash to bid on it. :)
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Comment by The Swede
theswede From: theswede Date: September 30th, 2004 08:49 am (UTC) (Link)
That's a very nice drawing. Should put milk on the table. And the doggypoop look on Schlock is growing on me, quickly at that.
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Thread started by Jay Maynard
jmaynard From: jmaynard Date: September 30th, 2004 09:08 am (UTC) (Link)
Good thing you said "fetching more" instead of "more fetching"...that image could only be fetching to another F'Sherl-Ganni.
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howardtayler From: howardtayler Date: September 30th, 2004 09:12 am (UTC) (Link)
But the sheen on those bulging, bifurcated biceps... mmm... I should have furryfems BEGGING me to draw something yiffy for money. ;-)

(and the answer will always be "no.")
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frithweaver From: frithweaver Date: September 30th, 2004 09:41 am (UTC) (Link)
>>(and the answer will always be "no.")

Thank God!
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jmaynard From: jmaynard Date: September 30th, 2004 10:05 am (UTC) (Link)
Howard, you're the LAST person I'd ever expect to find drawing yiffy furry art.

...although, given characters such as Bunni and Elf, I have no doubt at all you'd be good at it.
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athelstan From: athelstan Date: September 30th, 2004 12:37 pm (UTC) (Link)
I know the answer will always be no, but you should be ready for male furrys asking for yiffy art.... Just preparing you for what will probably happen in the future.
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From: mrsitouh Date: September 30th, 2004 04:59 pm (UTC) (Link)
To be honest, yiffy fury people scare me.
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Comment by Reiver
reaverta From: reaverta Date: October 2nd, 2004 05:08 am (UTC) (Link)
Oooooh. Shiny.

Howard, have I been blind, or have you mentioned anything about commissions yet?
And yes, I'm asking for a point. ;)
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