Well, Miyou, Tsuchi, and Maeve are -done-, and Ken and Keiu are almost there - I still need to do their shoes, which are just such a pain in the ass... Anyway, I'll probably be ready to call it outright 'done' either later this evening or sometime tomorrow morning.
And, I've got a muse poking me to start on more. ^_^;
Probably if I did, I'd want to try working on a series, revamping those promo posters I suggested a while back - and, in the process, giving us a look at another outfit for each of our main charas.
Ken and Miyou are obvious enough - the greatcoat and her 'formal ninja' gear - but I'm not quite sure how to dress Maeve and Keiu, and, while I've got a -concept-, I'm also wondering about the details for Tsuchi's.
Brainstorm - Everything we know about the Gosai suggests that, while they've been willing to adapt and take advantage of advancements on the professional level, the don't much go in for -personal- changes... In other words, I think that the way they handle and think of themselves at home, when the masks are off, as it were, is rather startlingly old-fashioned. Since Miyou's both out in the world and one of the more progressive voices, this won't usually matter much - but she'd want a Shinto wedding ceremony. ^_^
Anyway, going back, the image I'm planning for Miyou is basically her in some fairly active pose, sword out and all (and, thinking more, I'd be surprised if she -didn't- have a shorter backup blade or two, because a sword that size gets kind of awkward in close quarters... which is the whole point of having a wakizashi, ne?) wearing your classical Kabuki stagehand gear.
'But, Nathan,' you object, '-real- ninja don't dress up all flashy like that!'
Well, no. Unless they want to be recognized as ninja. Which, since they're more equivalent to Spec Ops than spies per se, they sometimes will.
And if you walk up to J. Random Citizen on the street and ask him what a ninja looks like, you'll get...?
As for Tsuchi, well, I figure to give us a victim's eye view of one of her named moves. ^_^ A 'Burn Down Kick' I'm picturing as a sort of a cross between a flying side kick and a spinning roundhouse - only oriented vertically, so that she's sort of tipped to the side and spinning and... the Naruto Rendan ends with something about like I'm thinking, only minus the ki flare. And I'm going to do a -lot- of pose sketches before I even start that... but it'll give a great sense of motion and energy and the centripetal force will've pulled her hair out where we can see it... and her face, too, which'll make sense once you've seen what I came up with. ^_^
'Shinkansen Slam'? Well, that's a sort of a lunging palm strike, a push if you like - it's so named because someone who takes it goes flying like he'd been hit by an express train. ^_^ I'm seeing little dust trails from the victim's feet and afterimages of their flight looking a bit like a train on its tracks, actually.
Kennan's poster I'm seeing having him in this dramatic, threatening pose, hands thrown out wide and a shit-eating grin on his face, with these really -big- eyes glowing behind him and something that looks vaugely like a crocodile's tail lying across the foreground. (Ken: I can call spirits from the vasty deep! Miyou: Why, so can I, or so can any man. But do they come when you call for them? Tsuchi: Ahou.)
But... I need ideas for Keiu and Maeve. Help?
Ja, -n
(at the mercy of the muse)
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."
And, I've got a muse poking me to start on more. ^_^;
Probably if I did, I'd want to try working on a series, revamping those promo posters I suggested a while back - and, in the process, giving us a look at another outfit for each of our main charas.
Ken and Miyou are obvious enough - the greatcoat and her 'formal ninja' gear - but I'm not quite sure how to dress Maeve and Keiu, and, while I've got a -concept-, I'm also wondering about the details for Tsuchi's.
Quote:The one I ended up drawing is just about exactly four inches shorter than she is. ^_^ The way she's carrying it in the picture is sort of slung across her back, with the strap going from one shoulder and down and around the other side of her body, but I picture her usual posture with it (well, when she's actually physically -carrying- it, which she really only does on formal occaisions) as being more like the way rifles or muskets are/were done - vertically over one shoulder and from a long strap, rather.
Weapons: Huh, so that's what Sephiroth's sword is classed as? Anyway, I have no problem with her using on of those, not even the second example, that would be longer overall than she is tall.
Brainstorm - Everything we know about the Gosai suggests that, while they've been willing to adapt and take advantage of advancements on the professional level, the don't much go in for -personal- changes... In other words, I think that the way they handle and think of themselves at home, when the masks are off, as it were, is rather startlingly old-fashioned. Since Miyou's both out in the world and one of the more progressive voices, this won't usually matter much - but she'd want a Shinto wedding ceremony. ^_^
Anyway, going back, the image I'm planning for Miyou is basically her in some fairly active pose, sword out and all (and, thinking more, I'd be surprised if she -didn't- have a shorter backup blade or two, because a sword that size gets kind of awkward in close quarters... which is the whole point of having a wakizashi, ne?) wearing your classical Kabuki stagehand gear.
'But, Nathan,' you object, '-real- ninja don't dress up all flashy like that!'
Well, no. Unless they want to be recognized as ninja. Which, since they're more equivalent to Spec Ops than spies per se, they sometimes will.
And if you walk up to J. Random Citizen on the street and ask him what a ninja looks like, you'll get...?
As for Tsuchi, well, I figure to give us a victim's eye view of one of her named moves. ^_^ A 'Burn Down Kick' I'm picturing as a sort of a cross between a flying side kick and a spinning roundhouse - only oriented vertically, so that she's sort of tipped to the side and spinning and... the Naruto Rendan ends with something about like I'm thinking, only minus the ki flare. And I'm going to do a -lot- of pose sketches before I even start that... but it'll give a great sense of motion and energy and the centripetal force will've pulled her hair out where we can see it... and her face, too, which'll make sense once you've seen what I came up with. ^_^
'Shinkansen Slam'? Well, that's a sort of a lunging palm strike, a push if you like - it's so named because someone who takes it goes flying like he'd been hit by an express train. ^_^ I'm seeing little dust trails from the victim's feet and afterimages of their flight looking a bit like a train on its tracks, actually.
Kennan's poster I'm seeing having him in this dramatic, threatening pose, hands thrown out wide and a shit-eating grin on his face, with these really -big- eyes glowing behind him and something that looks vaugely like a crocodile's tail lying across the foreground. (Ken: I can call spirits from the vasty deep! Miyou: Why, so can I, or so can any man. But do they come when you call for them? Tsuchi: Ahou.)
But... I need ideas for Keiu and Maeve. Help?
Ja, -n
(at the mercy of the muse)
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."