AMKitsune: @Pyrakra: With a quarter of a mug's worth of Hist sap in them, you probably couldn't handle the Argonain version. (Not without completely loosing your mind afterwards)
AMKitsune: Huh I could have sworn that I'd previously commented on this... Apparently not.
Anyway, it's a pity that this couldn't have been scanned instead of photographed. The low resolution graininess doesn't do this amazing scene anywhere near the amount of justice that it deserves. There's no point listing of all the good points about this picture. I'd just end up listing everything.
Absolutely fantastic work!
AMKitsune: Now I wish I had "FUCKIN' MAGIC" to.
I suppose I'll just have to make do with packs of cheap lighters and suspending my fruit from the ceiling with string like everyone else...
AMKitsune: @theworstninja: Katia's dreaming about a bunch of anonymous users from the 4chan comics board standing before her giant head while heavenly rays of light shine from behind her. Come on now... It's pretty straight forward stuff when you think about it XD.
AMKitsune: @Armored-Struggle-Wagon: It's a really good colouration, but Kaz is getting concerned that we're starting to get more and more 'simple edits' here on the booru. As great as edits like these are, the booru isn't really the best place for them. Kazerad's been hesitant to have them outright removed, but has agreed that people should be dissuaded from posting them here as more and more of these edits are appearing.
AMKitsune: Mmm... I can almost smell the culturally ingrained servitude.
Top job on keeping them in theme with the actual ones in the comic.
They look so sad... How fitting!
AMKitsune: Just to make things extra clear, I added Kazerad as an artist tag and put a link to the indiegogo project as the source for the original image. Edits like this (which are essentially 'cleaning up' Kazerad's other images) are often questionably eligible for posting here. Most people have absolutely no issue with them, we just need to be careful that we don't end up getting overwhelmed by them over new original content. If you do feel the need to upload an edit, be sure to tag the original artist (with the tag "Artist:ARTISTNAMEGOESHERE") and 'edit' (as you've already done here).
This is a good clear edit that's really well done. You wouldn't know it's a fan edit by simply looking at it. But it's also extremely similar to the original, which somewhat limits it's eligibility to be here as a piece of 'fanart'. I won't remove it (as that's not a call I feel I have the right to make alone for pieces like this) but just be aware that edits like this aren't always able to be considered 'new works' in their own rights.
AMKitsune: This is a tale of high expectations and the soul crushing failure that so often follows... How very 'Prequel'!
I'd have uploaded a higher res version, but file size limits... You know how it is. And I refuse to give up my alpha transparency for jpg compression. PNG master race for life! (or until I find a better format)
AMKitsune: The proportions on this look spot on. Also, the details all feel like they have a uniform level of 'cartoonishness' which really ties the whole thing together. I don't know what the general rule amongst the admins here is regarding pre-stating the intent to feature an image, but if you were to ever take a sort of 'finalised group shot' of all your prequel models together, I'd feature it. These models must take quite a while to make and you've made so many of them. They're all so good to! (I certainly couldn't make them that well XD)
AMKitsune: @Armored-Struggle-Wagon: Or he could just fly over it, switch the start and end points, go to the left and wrap around the screen... He's a witch-hunter, the possibilities are literally endless!
AMKitsune: Despite the few anatomical errors (which I'm aware have been pointed out numerous times on the 4chan thread that this was posted on), I absolutely adore the pose, scene and lighting in this. It all looks so magical (and not in the arcane sense).
AMKitsune: By dreaming, maybe she's actually watching the real of existence where the voices in her head come from? Perhaps when she (occasionally) dreams of being popular and loved by all, she's seeing all of us in some way?
I still hold the headcanon that our reality is (in the context of the comic) a Daedric realm that Katia has some mental connection to. Think about it, seeing as none of us come from Mundas, that technically makes us all Daedra. It would also explain why the ideas that she 'gets' can be quite erratic in nature, given that they would literally be coming from a collection of different beings in another dimension.
A strange thought. Probably wrong, but a thought none the less :D
AMKitsune: A young, half blinded Khajiit sits atop a large, out of place boulder, partitioned from the nearby road by a small, yet ornate stone wall, thoughtfully gazing across the forested hills and plains of the surrounding land and out to the waters beyond as the setting sun casts a soft, soothing light across all it touches. What better time and place to enjoy a snack and ponder the nature of beings existing in realms beyond your very comprehension?
As the trees and hills grow ever more distant, the haze of the evening air envelopes the land with a misty shroud, fading the distant landscape into a pale imitation of what would have once been, while the fading light of the sun paints the sky a vibrant pallet of pinks and lavenders as the waning star slowly sinks beyond the horizon.
AMKitsune: @MetalC0Mmander: In this case, I mean shading in the 'getting different parts of the picture to have different shades of grey' using only a line based tool' sense of the word (probably a pencil here).
AMKitsune: There we go. Looks much better the right way around XD.
I also have to agree with Salamanakis, the shading's amazingly even and accurate for being hand drawn. Top notch stuff :D
AMKitsune: That's really sweet. At least the 'cat warrior fairy' isn't also a princess XD.
I'm a little confused by the tags though. Your caption implies that this is your sisters drawing, yet you've included yourself in the tags? I see that this is you're first upload, so it's understandable that there could be tagging mistakes. If the tags are correct as they are though (if this is your drawing), just say so and I'll fix the artist name tag for you to be an actual 'artist tag'. Otherwise, we might want to remove your name from the tags if you're not the artist.
AMKitsune: @Man_Of_Mer: That might explain his unfortunate lack of recent fanart. This is a relatively old picture that's only just been uploaded here.
AMKitsune: @Kazerad: I also find a good, quick way to determine whether an image containing nudity should be considered 'artistically safe' or 'sexually suggestive' is to look at the characters pose and expression and imagine if they would still work as well if the character were fully clothed. From what I've seen, most of the (in my opinion) better nudes out there don't really have the subject acknowledging the fact that they're naked at all (the scene, pose and expressions would work just as well if they were wearing a full outfit).
I'll give you a couple of examples. If you were to imagine Katia wearing, say, a set of leather armour in this picture, it wouldn't look particularly out of place. Perhaps she heard something behind her while taking a small lean against a pillar? Nothing too out of the ordinary there.
On the other hand, if you imagine the same armour applied to the Pseudonimous 'I'm sorry' picture, you'd be left thinking something along the lines of "Why's she posing like that? What's with the sultry expression?". Without the nudity, it just doesn't make as much sense.
AMKitsune: @Kazerad: Are butts allowed here? I don't know... We'll just have to ask whoever's in charge here XD.
Seriously though, judging whether an image would be suitable for workplace viewing or for younger viewers can be a relatively complicated process. On the one hand, you could simply go by what's visible in the picture and determine that the presence of certain things like 'butts & boobs' are enough to make a picture unsuitable. In that case, the threshold of what is considered acceptable is generally up to the community as a whole and what they're comfortable with (although, as with all sites, the owner (yourself in this case) ultimately has the final call on what they do and don't want on their site).
The other, less clear cut aspect of this discussion is how the 'artists intent' and 'viewer interpretation' factor into things.
It's clear that some people see some picture more sexually than others. This is by no means a bad thing as everyone's entitled to their own views and opinions, it just makes it tricky to try to moderate the content of a site in a way that everyone can be happy with. At pretty much any given 'level' of moderation, there will be some people who think that content is too 'porny' and should be removed while other users may be disappointed because other art that they thought to be perfectly reasonable (usually containing 'artistic nudity' in the case of this site)was taken down.
Who do you try to accommodate for? Do you use your own sensibilities as a cornerstone off which to judge all other images and hope the community agrees with you? Or do you try to put your own personal feelings aside and try to judge an image based off of what you think the 'average viewer' would approve of?
A good example of this issue in effect would be if you were to present Michelangelo's David to a group of school kids. Chances are, they wouldn't be able to appreciate the amazing quality of the sculpture and would instead see it as little more than 'a big naked man'.
Now, the whole 'having artistic merit' argument usually seems to rely on the image (or work) in question having a relatively high level of quality (which is often (wrongly) linked to the artists presumed age and consequentially, their presumed level of maturity). This is probably linked to the 'artists intent' aspect of the discussion.
If an artist makes an image with the intent that it's to be appreciated for it's form and 'accuracy of it's subject matter', is that how everyone should strive to interpret it? Should people have to try to put their own sensibilities aside to see the work how it was intended to be seen? Or should they be expected to stick to what they know and experience the artwork as it is?
This is something of a moral conundrum which I don't know if there's necessarily a right answer to.
If someone creates something that's pretty much intended to be seen as porn (or in some way sexually provocative), can't someone see beyond that and enjoy it as a simply well done piece of art? In this case, some people can, but would it them be right to host that material knowing full well that others would still see it as just porn? Probably not.
By the way, when I say 'porn' in this context, I mean any kind of artwork that could generally be viewed as being sexually provocative, not just the outright explicit stuff.
Going back to the topic of 'butts', I can see how they'd be considered somewhat suggestive as, while not sexually explicit, it's generally considered indecent to show ones butt of in public. But then we're drawn back to our David example. While there are barely any picture of the sculpture from the rear (for some reason...), I'm pretty sure it has a butt. I don't see anyone complaining about it though.
It's almost as though people feel 'allowed' to artistically appreciate what would otherwise be considered questionable when the work was made as a piece of 'beret wearing, deeper meaning, ART' as opposed to something a 10 year old drew and shared with their friends.
I've probably gone and overcomplicated this far more than anyone needed to, but to summarise, there's no clear right or wrong answer as to whether butts should be allowed here or not. As the owner of the site, I think that's going to have to be a call you make yourself (or try to find the general consensus)
AMKitsune: Headcanon: Mehrunes Dagon has a secret soft spot for khajiit (especially the poorer downtrodden ones) and occasionally plucks one from Nirn to keep as a beloved house pet. He even makes beds for them out of his old 'boot boxes' and cut up blankets. Lovely chap, if he's not trying to kill you and subjugate your world...
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AMKitsune: Wow, much like most of this recent flood of images, I though this would have already been here. Apparently not!
I'm also a little embarrassed at seeing this again as it was edited during my 'make everything like like a pseudo-painting to hide the rendering inconsistencies' phase. Dark times...
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Anyway, it's a pity that this couldn't have been scanned instead of photographed. The low resolution graininess doesn't do this amazing scene anywhere near the amount of justice that it deserves. There's no point listing of all the good points about this picture. I'd just end up listing everything.
Absolutely fantastic work!
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I suppose I'll just have to make do with packs of cheap lighters and suspending my fruit from the ceiling with string like everyone else...
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I can't tell if this is cheating, or so ingenious that it should win!
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Top job on keeping them in theme with the actual ones in the comic.
They look so sad... How fitting!
Best of luck with the contest :)
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This is a good clear edit that's really well done. You wouldn't know it's a fan edit by simply looking at it. But it's also extremely similar to the original, which somewhat limits it's eligibility to be here as a piece of 'fanart'. I won't remove it (as that's not a call I feel I have the right to make alone for pieces like this) but just be aware that edits like this aren't always able to be considered 'new works' in their own rights.
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I'd have uploaded a higher res version, but file size limits... You know how it is. And I refuse to give up my alpha transparency for jpg compression. PNG master race for life! (or until I find a better format)
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I still hold the headcanon that our reality is (in the context of the comic) a Daedric realm that Katia has some mental connection to. Think about it, seeing as none of us come from Mundas, that technically makes us all Daedra. It would also explain why the ideas that she 'gets' can be quite erratic in nature, given that they would literally be coming from a collection of different beings in another dimension.
A strange thought. Probably wrong, but a thought none the less :D
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As the trees and hills grow ever more distant, the haze of the evening air envelopes the land with a misty shroud, fading the distant landscape into a pale imitation of what would have once been, while the fading light of the sun paints the sky a vibrant pallet of pinks and lavenders as the waning star slowly sinks beyond the horizon.
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I also have to agree with Salamanakis, the shading's amazingly even and accurate for being hand drawn. Top notch stuff :D
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I'm a little confused by the tags though. Your caption implies that this is your sisters drawing, yet you've included yourself in the tags? I see that this is you're first upload, so it's understandable that there could be tagging mistakes. If the tags are correct as they are though (if this is your drawing), just say so and I'll fix the artist name tag for you to be an actual 'artist tag'. Otherwise, we might want to remove your name from the tags if you're not the artist.
And again, this is really adorable :3
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It's the visor, isn't it? Gives her a sort of 'I'm so done with this' look.
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I'll give you a couple of examples. If you were to imagine Katia wearing, say, a set of leather armour in this picture, it wouldn't look particularly out of place. Perhaps she heard something behind her while taking a small lean against a pillar? Nothing too out of the ordinary there.
On the other hand, if you imagine the same armour applied to the Pseudonimous 'I'm sorry' picture, you'd be left thinking something along the lines of "Why's she posing like that? What's with the sultry expression?". Without the nudity, it just doesn't make as much sense.
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Seriously though, judging whether an image would be suitable for workplace viewing or for younger viewers can be a relatively complicated process. On the one hand, you could simply go by what's visible in the picture and determine that the presence of certain things like 'butts & boobs' are enough to make a picture unsuitable. In that case, the threshold of what is considered acceptable is generally up to the community as a whole and what they're comfortable with (although, as with all sites, the owner (yourself in this case) ultimately has the final call on what they do and don't want on their site).
The other, less clear cut aspect of this discussion is how the 'artists intent' and 'viewer interpretation' factor into things.
It's clear that some people see some picture more sexually than others. This is by no means a bad thing as everyone's entitled to their own views and opinions, it just makes it tricky to try to moderate the content of a site in a way that everyone can be happy with. At pretty much any given 'level' of moderation, there will be some people who think that content is too 'porny' and should be removed while other users may be disappointed because other art that they thought to be perfectly reasonable (usually containing 'artistic nudity' in the case of this site)was taken down.
Who do you try to accommodate for? Do you use your own sensibilities as a cornerstone off which to judge all other images and hope the community agrees with you? Or do you try to put your own personal feelings aside and try to judge an image based off of what you think the 'average viewer' would approve of?
A good example of this issue in effect would be if you were to present Michelangelo's David to a group of school kids. Chances are, they wouldn't be able to appreciate the amazing quality of the sculpture and would instead see it as little more than 'a big naked man'.
Now, the whole 'having artistic merit' argument usually seems to rely on the image (or work) in question having a relatively high level of quality (which is often (wrongly) linked to the artists presumed age and consequentially, their presumed level of maturity). This is probably linked to the 'artists intent' aspect of the discussion.
If an artist makes an image with the intent that it's to be appreciated for it's form and 'accuracy of it's subject matter', is that how everyone should strive to interpret it? Should people have to try to put their own sensibilities aside to see the work how it was intended to be seen? Or should they be expected to stick to what they know and experience the artwork as it is?
This is something of a moral conundrum which I don't know if there's necessarily a right answer to.
If someone creates something that's pretty much intended to be seen as porn (or in some way sexually provocative), can't someone see beyond that and enjoy it as a simply well done piece of art? In this case, some people can, but would it them be right to host that material knowing full well that others would still see it as just porn? Probably not.
By the way, when I say 'porn' in this context, I mean any kind of artwork that could generally be viewed as being sexually provocative, not just the outright explicit stuff.
Going back to the topic of 'butts', I can see how they'd be considered somewhat suggestive as, while not sexually explicit, it's generally considered indecent to show ones butt of in public. But then we're drawn back to our David example. While there are barely any picture of the sculpture from the rear (for some reason...), I'm pretty sure it has a butt. I don't see anyone complaining about it though.
It's almost as though people feel 'allowed' to artistically appreciate what would otherwise be considered questionable when the work was made as a piece of 'beret wearing, deeper meaning, ART' as opposed to something a 10 year old drew and shared with their friends.
I've probably gone and overcomplicated this far more than anyone needed to, but to summarise, there's no clear right or wrong answer as to whether butts should be allowed here or not. As the owner of the site, I think that's going to have to be a call you make yourself (or try to find the general consensus)
Those are my thoughts, opinions and observations.
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I'm also a little embarrassed at seeing this again as it was edited during my 'make everything like like a pseudo-painting to hide the rendering inconsistencies' phase. Dark times...