Yeah, I saw the other thread and I was digging some of the stuff on it. I am going to be bookmarking the page and periodically borrowing some of the styles to incorporate into some of my more dystopian drawings.

..When I send you my hacker Violet. she would be a good candidate for some of the clothing pictures. Stay tuned.

..another *Bump*

...sliding down a bit in the rankings like a top five big confrerence team who just was beat by an unranked mid-major...

...oops is it that time of year again already...? sorry

Sorry, my computer is currently on the fritz and I am only able to post when I get access to other people's computers. I have been working on people's stuff though and I should get some of it online when I get my computer back up again. And thanks KK for keeping my thread up here near the top of the first page, it is much appreciated.

Can I request to have you draw my shammy-cybermom? XD Her name is Mulan.

I’d just like a head shot if possible.

I’ll add a physical description of her to help give you a better picture. She's a 2nd generation Chinese/Japanese elf. Long white hair and fairly buff body for an elf. She has two synthetic cyber arms, on the right wrist she has a data jack and a smartlink on the left just a single smartlink. On her left wrist she also wears a hot pink leopard print slap bracelet which is a sustaining spell foci for one of our mages ‘fun’ spells (she gets to play ‘tag’ with people heh). She has mirror-tinted cyber eyes. The shape of her eyes are almond. I’ve always seen her with an oval face. She has cyber ears as well but they’re a bit longer than the regular eleven shape, synthetic as well (not as long as Record of Lodoss Wars but add a few inches and that’s her). I’ve always envisioned her with very delicate features for some reason (big eyes and small pouty lips, haha).

She’s very… motherly. I didn’t start her out that way she just sort of evolved into that. Mulan believes in loyalty and is somehow able to inspire it with everyone she works with. She also doesnt like it when people mess with her 'family'. She’s incredibly kind and very patient. But when betrayed will kill you, blow up the block you’re on.

Recently she’s been carrying an Ultimax MMG and her magical katana (so far the only thing I can do is summon it from anywhere…). She also has a magical blue glowing tiger tattoo on back around her upper right shoulder. Normally she wears an armored jacket and plain bulky pants with lots of pockets to stash things in.

Okay that was long winded… sorry.

...*Bump*[again]

...on the bubble. Keeping things afloat untill your system issues are resolved.

...when I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the slide...

P. McCartney - Helter Skelter

a *Bump* of a different tune

shameless bump!

wonder if his computer got fixed....


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I saw the movie, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' and I was surprised because I didn't see any tigers or dragons. And then I realised why: they're crouching and hidden.
- Steve Martin

...yeah, I can't wait to see the full body drawing of Leela. But I know about hardware issues. Until just recently I had always picked up used notebook computers. They would work nice for a while but eventually something would go & it was usually more trouble and expense to repair than just go out and get another one. I finally decided to heck with it all and dug deep in the pocket to go SOTA.

...<blasted double post again>

...speed bump...

bump caus i don't know how far this thered has fallen

I'm a little reluctant to add to this thread as it's become a long string of bumps and I don't want to just join in. But on the off-chance Trigger is still willing to do some, I have a specific need for a character drawing. At least it would be very useful for my game. I have a character that I think really needs some visual representation to add to the impact.

I'll describe the character should Trigger be willing to take a stab at her, though of course I realise that I've had two characters off him already which is more than appreciated. Just as I say, that this would be useful.

The character is Siobhan Patrick, a music exec and banshee. She knows everyone who's everyone in the Seattle scene and has a string of SIMstars on her commlink's code link. She is very tall, very gaunt, obviously elven as a base type and retains her perfect symmetry and a certain, unhealthy beauty. Her white hair is styled in a tall wide shock and her make-up is very bold, very precise and sometimes in curling patterns over her face and body. 2070's goth, I suppose. Remarkably delicate hands, overly slim, overly long, nails like knife tips. In my game, she's about to release her fifth song file collection and has a horde of groupies who want her to feed on them and typically show up to her concerts in t-shirts reading "Haunt ME." It's that kind of world, I'm afraid.

-K.

...just sent a PM off to check on his status. About a month ago his system went down.

...bump on the log....

...though beginning to feel this mya be a lost cause....

And just when the world begins to give up all hope of ever seeing the beloved and mysterious Trigger again, he returns, albeit not in a blazing glory, but from a series of medical procedures, moving back in with family, and changing jobs.

Yes, I am back and I am so glad to all of you helped keep this little thread afloat. Many things have changed and I won't be on with as much frequency as I was before, but I will continue doing my drawings right after this weekend. So bring the requests on so that I can get my pencil back into gear and have inspiration to these things again.

Welcome back. Hope health, living arrangements and career all go great for you from now on.

You already have my banshee request which would still be useful to my game if you fancy taking a crack at her.

And great to see you here again.

-K.

Incidentally, Trigger, don't know if you noticed it, but I'd love to see you contribute to the Shadowrun Swimsuit Edition.

-K.

...great, thanks. Looking forward to seeing my little musical demolitionist.

I for one have enjoyed your contributions to the Swimsuit thread. The Ork is just too cool.

Kyoto Kid here is the finished sketch of the second version of Leela for you:

Leela 2

...yep, that's my little street urchin bomber all right . The unkempt hair and innocent child like face. This is the same girl who would hand over a grenade to a Serb soldier, pin intact, telling him she found it while she was playing. Little would he realise that she had disabled the mechanical trigger and rigged it with a micro radio detonator keyed to her micro transceiver/transducer implant. As she would skate away he would chuckle at her innocence only to be blown to bits moments later when she "thought" the trigger phrase after safely getting out of harm's way.

The phrase was her nickname "Starflake" which her late father referred to her by. Leela's family and ancestors were renowned throughout Europe for staging impressive pyrotechnic displays for major holidays and celebrations, hence her interest in all things explosive.

I have considered writing an actual story around her, but with all the licensing issues & such plus the latest news on the future of the Shadowrun property I figure I would have a better chance at winning my state's lotto than seeing the work published.

I have all your previous sketches of her downloaded on my system. I know you are just getting back into the swing of things, but after seeing your swimsuit Ork, I was wondering if you might not return to attempting the full body pose of Leela sometime down the road. No big rush. It would be interesting to see that pose done on a larger scale. In many ways, that little sketch has a decidedly graphic novel/animated feel to it as well.

If you are still open for business, Trigger, I would very much appreciate a sketch of my runner.

Alexei "Zeiner" Stalin - He is an elven male approx. 1.9 meters tall and 42 years old. "Zeiner" as he prefers to be called is a Russian elven mage, in control of his own initiatory group. He looks substantially older than most elves his age, though that might be due to the fact that his hair is a dirty gray color or the fact his eyes are nothing but acid pitted sockets. His face seems lined with pain at all times. Zeiner found out the hard way why people do not astrally travel outside the Gaiasphere. (what comes next is something cooked up between myself and my GM, and in no way is supposed to represent Shadowrun Canon in any way, no idea if it's at all accurate or possible) Zeiner, as the focus for his ritual group, tried to force his way out beyond the Gaiasphere as a way of tapping power from the manasphere of the sun. Their theory was that the Gaiasphere was interfering with their ability to connect with the mana of the universe as a whole. So, obviously an arrogant and impulsive man in search of power.

He always wears a hooded robe of the same color as his hair with a pure white headband wrapped around his eyes. Sometimes it is facing out with the symbol of the gang he belongs to, the Remnants. (bloody shards of class within a circle made of an Eastern Dragon). Whenever Zeiner is using magic, or even assensing a flesh devouring mist leaks from his eyes(also gray of course), hence never replacing them with cloned copies, he found out that just leads to intense amounts of pain unless he doesn't use magic and since he isn't willing to sacrifice his magic for cybereyes, he certainly won't take not using it at all. He has an incredible force of personality, and can be quite charming, but for an elf he is not at all pretty(Cha 8 with acid pitted holes in his face).

I think that is enough for you to be able to sketch him. Oh, if you want to do a full sketch with figures, Zeiner is always(well, as often as he can be anyway) accompanied by two ally spirits inhabiting plasteel homunculi in the form of imps. Clawed hands and feet, wings, the whole she-bang.


Anyway, if you feel up to it awesome, if not, that's ok too. If you need more detail/want more, let me know. Same goes for anyone else if his story is garbled a little, it's been a bad day so I'm basically stream of consciousness talking here.


Chris

Sounds like a fun drawing to do, I am on.

I have been meaning to open this back up anyways.

I would have opened it up, but Fisty has forbidden me from having you draw Toby.

Well Trigger, I'm interested to see your impression of Nix now that Aiden has ran with him a while...?

...good to see you back on the thread again.

Not sure if I asked this before ("old timer's disease" setting in) but I have a technical, question. I recently posted my swimsuit sketch of Leela to DA and am preparing to upload more of my work soon. All of it is pencil. I was wondering what settings you use to preserve that soft style that graphite gives (like in your first portrait sketch of Leela). I had to mess with contrast and brightness to get the image to show up, but am not terribly pleased with the output as it "grayed" the paper.

I do not have Photoshop, but I do have GIMP (which is very similar).

Looking forward to your next art posting of Alexi. May send another of my own.

I don't use any programs on my artwork to alter it at all, besides a slight change in brightness if needed during the scanning. I am almost clean my pages up a lot physically before scanning and I also make sure that my lines are of consistent darknesses. Those things usually make my scans come out a lot better.

...maybe it's the scanner then. What model (& DPI) do you usually use.

I have been using a basic HP all in one printer/scanner

Wow, this is promising, since it had been over a month since the thread was last used I was afraid it would slip past unnoticed. Seems that everyone is quite on the ball, however, which is awesome. I look forward to your impression of my arrogant, blind, Russian.

Just wanted to also say that I am no critic, but I envy everyone whose drawings I have seen here. I have beautiful images in my head, but I cannot seem to put them to paper. Inventions are more my thing.


Chris

@ the collective artists with their stuff on dA...

All of you have some great stuff, I'm really impressed. I have an account there as well (I write crap, no drawing skills to speak of), was going to look through your stuff there this morning when I found this thread, but it's in read-only right now so now faves or watches yet.

I will give it a try later today though!

Cheers, and see you around on dA probably

/edit heh, that's what I get for reading 2 different threads in 2 different windows, this was actually for the swimsuit thread with multiple artists posting there...

But your stuff is cool, Trigger

Thanks, and if I had a scanner that worked at the moment I would have a lot more up there and I have right now, as well as a lot more up on here (not all of which is on my DeviantArt either).

Thanks for the kudos though.

And so it came to pass that a certain runner would rise from the ashes and return to the shadows....

I figure this is a good a place as any to post of my return...

Well, I have been gone for almost a year now, trying to make it out in the vastness of the world on my own, and it seems that I now have a chance to return to a life that I have missed. I may not be able to reopen my work here (still don't have a scanner of my own) but I am going to try to return to posting on this site like I used to. I am sorry to any who were affected by my sudden disappearance, but some things just can't be helped.

Say, could you do a character render of my Egyptian technomancer with a profile of my Sirrush dracoform that would be amazing.

pm me


the always grinning Kuatous

Good to see you back dude!

Agreed! If you need a scanner I bet I can scrounge one up, a decent one too. Just let me know.
Glad to see you back, and would be glad to help you be able to upload your art.

Yeah, welcome back! It's always great to see folks come back after awhile. Hope everything is well with ya!