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Family can mean a lot of things. Maybe it looks like the Cleavers. Maybe it's a Yakuza family. Maybe it's all your sisters and you. Maybe your family is actually genetically related, or maybe you all met on LiveJournal. With most of us seeing our families quite a bit over the next month or so, 'tis the season for considering the joy and the tension found in every family. Functional, dysfunctional, nuclear, radioactive, biological, cybernetic - any kind of family is fair game this week.

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No video-game references.

Is it bad if my family tree doesn't fork?

SailorButterfly wrote:Is it bad if my family tree doesn't fork?

I dunno, does it make a good shirt?

I got balls from woot.

OprahGivlingWinfrey wrote:I got balls from woot.

Congrats! How many are they sending you?

Okay, I thought I'd throw out my ideas here too.

Was thinking of doing the earth elements--air, water, wind, fire. Thinking of doing them as humans, portrait-style. Skek also suggested having Fire at the grill, Air flying a kite, Water at the swimming pool, Earth possibly gardening.

What do you guys think? Would the elements by themselves be on theme, or should I have them doing family-oriented tasks in order to stay within the rules?

Woot ate my post.

Thought I'd throw this out here as well. I'm thinking of doing the earth elements--air, wind, fire and water. Want to depict them as humans, portrait-style. Skek suggested having them do things like Fire at the grill, Air flying a kite, Water at the pool, and Earth doing something like gardening.

Would I be able to stay in theme doing them at all, as portraits? Or do I need to have them doing some kind of family-oriented tasks in order to stay on-theme?

Test ... Woot is eating my posts.

EclecticMuse wrote:Okay, I thought I'd throw out my ideas here too.

Was thinking of doing the earth elements--air, water, wind, fire. Thinking of doing them as humans, portrait-style. Skek also suggested having Fire at the grill, Air flying a kite, Water at the swimming pool, Earth possibly gardening.

What do you guys think? Would the elements by themselves be on theme, or should I have them doing family-oriented tasks in order to stay within the rules?

EclecticMuse wrote:Woot ate my post.

Okay, that's just embarrassing.

EclecticMuse wrote:Okay, that's just embarrassing.

you should see how many times pooflady says "i got to processing" in ebw.

It happens every woot-off.

no1 wrote:you should see how many times pooflady says "i got to processing" in ebw.

I counted at least twice as I was skimming. :D

KtCallista wrote:It happens every woot-off.

Just like life. You're in the middle of it all, wooting off, and BANG. You get caught with your server-side down.

SkekTek wrote:Just like life. You're in the middle of it all, wooting off, and BANG. You get caught with your server-side down.

LMAO! A+

Okay. Raise your hand if you, or someone you know, has dyed their hair with:



Me! Shocking blue, thank you very much.

I need a bigger lightboard.

SkekTek wrote:Okay. Raise your hand if you, or someone you know, has dyed their hair with:



Me! Shocking blue, thank you very much.

ME ME ME

Purple Haze, still have half a jar.

SkekTek wrote:Okay. Raise your hand if you, or someone you know, has dyed their hair with:



Me! Shocking blue, thank you very much.

I've had colors close to Hot Hot Pink and Shocking Blue, though I used the walgreen's brand instead of manic panic. do I still count?

EclecticMuse wrote:I need a bigger lightboard.

what's a lightboard? do you mean this?

no1 wrote:what's a lightboard? do you mean this?

Nah, more like this. I use it to do light traces of my pose references if I'm in a hurry since I'm rubbish at body proportions. Once I've got that I start adding facial features, hair, clothing, etc on my own.

I wonder if I would be looked down on for that here.

EclecticMuse wrote:Nah, more like this. I use it to do light traces of my pose references if I'm in a hurry since I'm rubbish at body proportions. Once I've got that I start adding facial features, hair, clothing, etc on my own.

I wonder if I would be looked down on for that here.

Not by me, when my dad taught me to draw and do enlarging (the old fashioned way with a ruler and a grid) To trace the final we used a glass table with a desk lamp squeezed between my knees.

KtCallista wrote:Not by me, when my dad taught me to draw and do enlarging (the old fashioned way with a ruler and a grid) To trace the final we used a glass table with a desk lamp squeezed between my knees.

Hey, before I got that thing I was known to tape a reference and a blank sheet of paper to a window on a sunny day.

I still do grid drawings every once in awhile!

EclecticMuse wrote:Hey, before I got that thing I was known to tape a reference and a blank sheet of paper to a window on a sunny day.

I still do grid drawings every once in awhile!

ah, but i don't do graphics for a living, heck I rarely even do a shirt anymore.

I opened photoshop to make party invites and it took me forever to remember what I was doing!

EclecticMuse wrote:Hey, before I got that thing I was known to tape a reference and a blank sheet of paper to a window on a sunny day.

I still do grid drawings every once in awhile!

Heh. I sometimes have been known to photocopy a Multiple choice key onto transparency and hold it up to the window to grade exams.

Lightboards are multifunctional- checking slides, tracing, making shadow puppets...

SkekTek wrote:Heh. I sometimes have been known to photocopy a Multiple choice key onto transparency and hold it up to the window to grade exams.

Lightboards are multifunctional- checking slides, tracing, making shadow puppets...

I'm going to have to keep an eye out for one on a garage sale, I was wondering how to replace the ol' glass table. I forgot about those.

xazothia wrote:I've had colors close to Hot Hot Pink and Shocking Blue, though I used the walgreen's brand instead of manic panic. do I still count?

Yup. Just wanted to see how many folks have done the crazy dye thing. Last time I dyed my hair was about 5 years ago, which wouldn't be a big deal except I was kinda OLD to have blue hair. Was a summer thing.

no1 wrote:what's a lightboard? do you mean this?

I've used those! A/V geek in high school. Theater Set designer, lighting designer. The sliders were my friends.

SkekTek wrote:Yup. Just wanted to see how many folks have done the crazy dye thing. Last time I dyed my hair was about 5 years ago, which wouldn't be a big deal except I was kinda OLD to have blue hair. Was a summer thing.

Not here you aren't. I was going to do the purple again this last spring, but my sister's wedding got in the way. I'm going to put purple in both of the girls' hair too! Maybe this spring.

I know this is the CyberPub.
I know I should be chatting about designs
I know I should be designing.

Maybe tomorrow. I just can't muster the energy to do it.


But I got some silly ideas.

SkekTek wrote:I know this is the CyberPub.
I know I should be chatting about designs
I know I should be designing.

Maybe tomorrow. I just can't muster the energy to do it.


But I got some silly ideas.

silly is good, I got nothin'

I thought I might sit this one out, but here's what I did so far... Picking A flower to you... family tragedy to them.

Any thoughts?

jasneko wrote:I thought I might sit this one out, but here's what I did so far... Picking A flower to you... family tragedy to them.

Any thoughts?

Nice!

KtCallista wrote:Nice!

Thanks KtCallista!

Is it better with a ground, like this, or without (as I first posted)?

jasneko wrote:Thanks KtCallista!

Is it better with a ground, like this, or without (as I first posted)?

I like without.

KtCallista wrote:I like without.

I agree without. The hand looks a little funky. Maybe just a tad too small... I don't know. Can't quite figure it out. I really like the coloring on the flower petals though. Looks really good.

Here's my take on yin yang. Brothers- fire and water. Guess who's the big bully? Comments welcome.

fifey157 wrote:I agree without. The hand looks a little funky. Maybe just a tad too small... I don't know. Can't quite figure it out. I really like the coloring on the flower petals though. Looks really good.

I agree with fifey- hand is a bit too small. Also, maybe experiment with the wrist. Add a break with the hand wearing a watch (with shirt gap between hand and watch). That'd make a neater and more interesting end to the hand.

Maybe also have the plucked flower missing a petal that is falling down? Dunno, but it has potential! Off to bed! G'luck!

Big gap in checking the forums... it's raining really hard where I am and my internet stopped working for a few hours. Still having trouble posting this message as well.

Thanks fifey and skek. The hand is my least favorite part of the design too, wish I could just eliminate it, but it's necessary.

I'll experiment with it. I like the petal falling down idea, will try that too. Thanks!

And skek - nice ying-yang design, looks good!

Well in the time it took for that post to post (it wouldn't post for a looong time) I made some changes.. I think from the comments, people were viewing the hand from the reverse direction than I intended.... so I just decided to change it and go with that. Hopefully it looks better! Any thoughts?