Some art y'all should know about:

[camwyn]

Someone on dear_multiverse introduced a character who was Janine Melnitz and Egon Spengler's daughter. The voices in my head* decided that I had to draw her, so I started on it, and then I added the appropriate details, and then I spent an hour looking for my Rapidograph pens and finally found only one of them worked. I inked her up and scanned her and commissioned indigoskynet to do a re-inking and colour job, and hot damn did she ever do a good job so far as I'm concerned.

purpleprotonpac, if you're reading this, that's Janet Spengler for you.

Everyone else, indigoskynet is taking commissions. (I think two of my other friends are, too.)


*Those of you who are not familiar with the voices in my head need not worry. A, they are not in fact voices, but merely borderline compulsive urges. I call them 'the voices' because it conveys the degree of constant badgering I feel when one of these urges arises. B, said urges invariably take forms like this:

LEARN TO BAKE CINNAMON ROLLS.
TODAY WOULD BE A REALLY GOOD DAY TO LEARN TO KNIT.
YOU WANT TO MAKE SOAP, DON'T YOU.
NO, FROM SCRATCH, NOT GLYCERINE MELT-AND-POUR. GO ON, GET A BOOK, WE'LL BE WAITING.
HAVE YOU EVER CONSIDERED LEARNING TO MAKE FUDGE?
PERHAPS TODAY WOULD BE A GOOD DAY TO BUY PENS AND LEARN TO DRAW WITH INK? NO? WELL, DO IT ANYWAY.
HOW ABOUT SOME CROSSOVER WRITING, BEEYOTCH?

They're not the same as other people's voices... anyway. Back to our story, mm?

Comments

[cheezdanish.livejournal.com]

I get those "voices" too. I think they are due to the massive ammounts of caffeine I ingest.

And, oooh, pretty art. You + Indigo = Lurve.

And ooooh, so glad you're playing at D_M. Hee!

[feonixrift.livejournal.com]

Egon. Children. Brain-a-splode. :)

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

I kinda like her! Busty wench, though, isn't she? ^_^

You should read the Ray Stantz over in milliways_bar. SCARY excellent. :)

[camwyn]

*coughs faintly* I am the Ray in milliways_bar, hon. And as for the chest thing, I'm not always as good at proportions as I would like, so I revert to 'how to draw people the X way!' books, where X is either 'manga', 'Marvel comics', or 'action hero'.

I think you see the problem.

[batyatoon]

*giggling uncontrollably* "You should see..." Bwah.

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

[sticks out tongue]

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

[save] Well... you know perfectly well what I'm talking about, then! [/save]
(really, I can't keep track of peoples' pseudonyms! *flail*)

Hee, that was a XX way for sure. ;)

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

*points at camwyn*

This is why SCARY excellent.

[the-reda.livejournal.com]

I have no idea about the fandom, but I do like the art.


why can the voices never come up with something really usefull...
/go clean the apartment
go to the gym
grade those essays NOW/

mine just give commentary and make others wonder why I am giggling.
Or make me do insane icons.

[camwyn]

There was a "Deep Thoughts with Jack Handy" once on Saturday Night Live. The general idea of these sketches was a nature scene background and bland New Age music, and a voice that ought to be reading inspirational thoughts that instead read very incongruous things....

"If you ever go temporarily insane, don't shoot somebody, like a lot of people do. Instead, try to get some weeding done, because you'd really be surprised."

[chaos-wrangler.livejournal.com]

Lovely art, even without knowing the characters.

If you listen to the voices, are you later pleased with the results? My voices usually say things like "buy band-aids now" or "bring an extra pen", which I find mildly creepy 'cause there's no way I could know that someone would cut themselves later that evening or that I'd lose a pen by "lending" it to someone and then need to write down something important, but I've learned to ignore the creep factor and not ignore the voices.

[camwyn]

Oh yeah. I have yet to be really disappointed by anything that came out of listening to them- frustrated maybe, disappointed no. They got me to knit my Japanese Mountie jacket, after all (YOU WANT TO KNIT A SWEATER WITH THICK YARN. NO, THICKER THAN THAT. NO, EVEN- OH FOR THE LOVE OF FNORD, GO LOOK UP THE PATTERN BEFORE YOU EMBARRASS YOURSELF.)

[chaos-wrangler.livejournal.com]

Cool. I've yet to get anything really big from the voices, just lots of little hints.

[sundre.livejournal.com]

Those are some good voices. I think a lot of people have cousins of those. LEARN THREE SENTENCES IN ESPERANTO. BAKE CHEESECAKE. HOW ABOUT WRITING A SESTINA.

[batyatoon]

... Why is her name Janet?

*ascairt*

[camwyn]

Dunno. Didn't name her. You'd have to ask purpleprotonpack's mun.

[condotierre.livejournal.com]

Oh those insidious damned voices. They've been hawking Tibet again recently, especially after the newest Eliot Pattison.

I got the spindle, incidentally, and the voices are now babbling about yak, and I daren't use any of the musk ox yet because, well, musk ox. I have to blend it first and it's so hot I may die of heatstroke.

Zheng He in Asian Heritage, dammit! I'm EYEING it to make sure it doesn't go away before I get to the bookstore, so I can nail it down for you.

[ebonbird.livejournal.com]

That looks good!

Why not post it to nexus_tales?