The return of the bride of bad sketch

[shadesofmauve]

Okay! After having a wide-variety of things pointed out to me, and spending an hour last night with my tired-but-mostly-biddable sweetheart, I've some different options for how to have the guy sit.


notice: because of changes in the guy, lady's torso/arm is no longer quite right. I'll fix that *after* I have him down, since he's being way more problematic. Ditto for his left arm. I did work on her foot/leg and move the arm she's leaning on backwards (after E and I both tried it as it was and pronounced it awkward).

Also, the unfortunate tighty-whitey look is just an artifact of me trying to figure out exact hip angles.



Preferences? Which one looks more natural, comfortable, cute... ?


Working this out with Erik last night was a wonderfull lesson in how Different Bodies are Different.

I know, I know, you'd think I'd have figured that out already -- after all, it didn't take me that long to figure out that most people have legs of roughly the same length and ten toes -- but it's worth a reminder, especially when it comes to odd things we don't normally notice, like hip rotation. If E sits with his legs out in front of him, his toes want to turn out. Mine are happy pointing up (I tried to ask about this with regard to knees, but he was exhausted and not really understanding and started to seriously over-splain something about guys and scrotal pressure, which was, er, not what I was asking about at all).

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[shadesofmauve]

You made me interested, so I just counted. I have 5 male pics in my icons to 4 female ones (or 6 and 5, if we count Monkey and Calliope). Two of the female images are in the same icon, so there are really only 3 female icons...

That settles it. I'm bob-the-builder. :P

(and yes, you and I've discussed that before, but I like to make it abundantly clear for anyone else in or interested in the comments).

[westrider.livejournal.com]

I'm at 20 Male to 16 Female Icons (some of those have both, I filed them under whichever seemed the "protagonist" of the image), not counting those without a human in them.

But I've been using the Female ones a whole lot more lately, so the raw numbers don't really convey the whole story.

And yes, overcommunication is usually better than undercommunication. Though I have an Icon that I haven't uploaded yet of Willow saying "I'm over-helping again aren't I?" ;)

[shadesofmauve]

LOL -- that one seems like it'd be really handy for a lot of us nerd types. We've all been guilty of over-splaining at one point or another. :)

[stasia]

Hmmmm. I have 45 icons. I just counted: 11 are certainly with girls (I'm including Boo, Ariel, and my own eye - I figure it's my eye and I'm a girl, so it's a 'female' icon.) I have 3 with females in (they share space with a male), there are 2 with non-human females, 7 with non-human males, 1 male-only (I do love a good Kronk icon), 20 which are text/non-human image/text+non-human image

... which means one's missing. Hmmm.

Ah. And one that's non-human male with a non-human female.

My icons are confused!

Clearly I need more icons!

Stasia

[westrider.livejournal.com]

Clearly I need more icons!

That's precisely the conclusion I came to as well!

[stasia]

Iconz!!!

I want to learn how to make moving icons.

Stasia

[westrider.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure I know how, but none of the programs I have on my Computer can make animated .gifs. At some point, I need to rectify this, as there are some animated Icons I really want to make.

[stasia]

I think Illustrator can do it, but I don't know how.

Clearly my life is incomplete.

Stasia

[westrider.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think I remember how to do it in Photoshop, but all I have are a couple of Freeware Image Editors that came bundled with my Computer and can't do it.

Incomplete indeed.

[shadesofmauve]

I know how to make basic ones in photoshop. E-mail me and I can splainz for you!

I don't know how to make the video-capture type, though. :(

[stasia]

I will be with the Emailinz! *gleeeeee*

Stasia