2005-04-10 [Paul Doyle]: [Sunrose] I got a weird string that messed up the link and broke it up. I got a lot of "%" characters between the spaces, because of the apostophe (') marks.

2005-04-10 [Sunrose]: Ah, makes sense then :)

2005-04-10 [the anonymus]: hey... nice frames you have on the colored pics...

2005-04-10 [Paul Doyle]: Thanks :) They're actually cheap document frames from Wal-Mart *is not a starving artist, but is bargain-basement* US $2 per frame, everyday low prices at Wal-Mart :3

2005-04-12 [Paul Doyle]: R. Williams is the man!

2005-04-12 [Savien]: Good luck Pauly. If you want illustrators, maybe you should host a contest, and see who can render characters closest to your vision of them. If the images are quality enough, a publisher might go for an unknown.  Just a suggestion if you didn't wish to do it yourself. (I happen to like your dragons, and anthros) What do you color with by the way?

2005-04-12 [Savien]: *suddenly remembers to watch this page*

2005-04-12 [Paul Doyle]: Prismacolors only, at the moment. I would like to branch out into markers and paints, yet I don't want to get too far ahead of myself. Jak'edrac is 99% what I imagine him to be. (Non-goofy, genetically flawed anthro-dragons come in much later in the novel series, during a very dark time of desperation). The Yourubi (the alien hermaphroditic creatures, whose name I am thinking of trademarking) are slightly dragonlike looking and are mostly accurate. I have a very good idea of what the humans look like, but it's just getting the facial details correct that's the tricky part (and currently hands and faces are my major stumbling point).

2005-04-12 [Paul Doyle]: Regarding the contests: I ran one contest on Elftown, and it was a total fiasco. *shudders* I believe I have the basic innate talent to become a decent illustrator, if only I'd take classes and brand the human form on my subconscious. I am doing illustrations because (1) It satisfies the unrepentant inner narcissist; (2) If the novel was a success and they needed storyboard art for a movie, I would have references at the ready. It would KILL ME to have Jak'edrac look totally different than he really looks. After what the CGI people did to the "Dungeons and Dragons" movie, making the red and gold dragons look exactly the same (and making them bestial instead of sentient)

2005-04-12 [Paul Doyle]: I sure as hell don't want to have CGI people ruining the dragons from my novel sequence. (Jul'eweisa, the dragoness, is supposed to be plainer looking than her mate. Yet she is actually much more powerful than Jak'edrac, despite smaller size and build). (3.) I like to draw, started drawing actively as a way of coping with my mother's passing in June 2003, and I've continued ever since.

2005-04-12 [Paul Doyle]: Sorry about that pseudo-rant @__@

2005-04-12 [Savien]: No problem. I have prismacolors, and just can't seem to get the bright colors everyone else does with them. Maybe I'm not pressing hard enough. :P  As a general piece of advise, choose art instructors carefully. As someone who has had a few art classes, and learned absolutely nothing useful in 90% of them, I believe a carefully chosen book could teach someone more about drawing anatomy than most classes could. Most teachers only choose to teach their favorite method, instead of encouraging a student to explore options and find something they can use. (plus I found the D&D movie to be a huge let down. The beholders looked cool though)

2005-04-12 [Paul Doyle]: [liiga] has given me a link to http://www.saveloomis.org/ , but for some reason I can't download the books even though I have a very seldom used BitTorrent, and the Adobe 7.0 PDF reader. I get a script error when I try to download the stuff via BitTorrent via Adobe PDF 7.0, to my hard drive. Maybe it's just the firewall, the antivirus program and the two anti-spyware programs sparring against each other in disharmonious cacophony, but one way or another, the texts aren't saving to the hard drive o__O  I have saved a number of ET figure references ;-) But I have yet to use them. Essentially I just need to get off my butt and start free-sketching to my heart's content.

2005-04-12 [Savien]: Hands are hard to learn. I did it by endlessly sketching my own, in various poses. For faces, I use a simple graph I learned from the one talented art teacher I ever met. Oh, and about 29 years of practice.....you'd think I'd be better. :P

2005-04-12 [liiga]: *chimes in* Use the forc- er, jpg.'s! Use the jpg.'s!!

2005-04-13 [Paul Doyle]: The Force, The Furrrce, the .jpegs and .gifs and the rest . . . I shall use them all. I will not get into a .TIFF over finding my away across the bitmap :-B

2005-04-13 [Paul Doyle]: (am I not a dork?)

2005-04-13 [liiga]: *shows up all TIFFy* Paul, I am your... *bursts into laughter*

2005-04-16 [Paul Doyle]: You are my Digital Art Muse-Goddess? More than likely ;-)

2005-04-16 [Paul Doyle]: *currently releasing lots of tax-related stress by taking a hot bath and brainstorming ideas for Novel Two. Will make a wiki for that, and post a link on the next wiki-change :)

2005-04-16 [Paul Doyle]: This is the link: PaulyNovelTwoInDevelopment