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keaaluThis is not directed at anyone I know. And no, I have nothing against people who draw in a Lion King style - it's popular for a reason, right?
It's mostly just... well, you know people are getting towards the bottom of the geek heirarchy (you know the one - at the bottom is the furry who writes Star Trek porn with all the characters turned into furry characters of some sort) when you find yourself having to defend the position that "lionising" a character is a fairly UNimaginitive exercise.
HEY ALL, here's a novel idea! How about, I don't know, get out of your rut and draw Snape AS Snape? (I hasten to add I have ZERO interest in Hairy Plopper, aside from a vague interest in the films - read: I'll watch them if they're there - but I've seen a whole shiteload of "Snape Lions" recently. Or "Cloud lions". Or "Sephiroth lions". Or Yugioh lions. Or OH GOD HELP ME BEFORE I GO KILL SOMEONE.)
As in, how about NOT draw some bastard mutant hellish lovechild between Snape and Simba, and how about instead GET OUT OF YOUR RUT and draw something that's NOT A LION KING LION? It's NOT EXACTLY IMAGINITIVE - it's like all those other million billion Sonic recolours, just slapping straight hair/mane and a moody face onto a pale coloured lion and going "OMFG SNAPE AS A LION YAY I'M SO IMAGINITIVE NO STEALING MY COPRYRITED IDEA OMFG".
And here's another idea - how about try growing your own style, rather than ape something Disney designed? Disney is formulaic FOR A REASON, because it's fairly EASY FOR DIFFERENT PEOPLE TO REPLICATE. Drawing your favourite character "as a lion" is NOT imaginitive, people.
There, rant over!
Now I'm'a gonna draw all my characters as Disney lions. *skips* I'll call Ivy "Parsley*" instead, whee. *skip*
(I jest, I jest! Heaven forbid. I tried drawing "Disney foxes" once, to see what reaction it got, and egads it was a painful experience.
* - that was a vague exercise in humour, but before anyone complains about not getting it, here.)
It's mostly just... well, you know people are getting towards the bottom of the geek heirarchy (you know the one - at the bottom is the furry who writes Star Trek porn with all the characters turned into furry characters of some sort) when you find yourself having to defend the position that "lionising" a character is a fairly UNimaginitive exercise.
HEY ALL, here's a novel idea! How about, I don't know, get out of your rut and draw Snape AS Snape? (I hasten to add I have ZERO interest in Hairy Plopper, aside from a vague interest in the films - read: I'll watch them if they're there - but I've seen a whole shiteload of "Snape Lions" recently. Or "Cloud lions". Or "Sephiroth lions". Or Yugioh lions. Or OH GOD HELP ME BEFORE I GO KILL SOMEONE.)
As in, how about NOT draw some bastard mutant hellish lovechild between Snape and Simba, and how about instead GET OUT OF YOUR RUT and draw something that's NOT A LION KING LION? It's NOT EXACTLY IMAGINITIVE - it's like all those other million billion Sonic recolours, just slapping straight hair/mane and a moody face onto a pale coloured lion and going "OMFG SNAPE AS A LION YAY I'M SO IMAGINITIVE NO STEALING MY COPRYRITED IDEA OMFG".
And here's another idea - how about try growing your own style, rather than ape something Disney designed? Disney is formulaic FOR A REASON, because it's fairly EASY FOR DIFFERENT PEOPLE TO REPLICATE. Drawing your favourite character "as a lion" is NOT imaginitive, people.
There, rant over!
Now I'm'a gonna draw all my characters as Disney lions. *skips* I'll call Ivy "Parsley*" instead, whee. *skip*
(I jest, I jest! Heaven forbid. I tried drawing "Disney foxes" once, to see what reaction it got, and egads it was a painful experience.
* - that was a vague exercise in humour, but before anyone complains about not getting it, here.)
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Date: 13 Jul 2007 09:41 pm (UTC)I have heard it said that there is nothing more destructive nor smelly than a fox. It can be done, with a whole lot of patience (and patience with the way the animals chew everything to bits), but most people who want a fox as a pet don't bother about that. It's like owning a tiger, it's 99% for how fashionable it is to have an "exotic pet". :P
I heard that about Pixar, too - that it was tied to Disney for the first x films (I think it was 10, or something?) because they sponsored them at the start, when no-one knew if they'd be a success - and now they ARE a success, they STILL have to have the Disney logo on their stuff, bleeding all their profits away, because they're tied in by contract. But eh, that's all hearsay, so maybe take it with a pinch of salt. ;)
And agh, don't be sorry, it's not ruined, it's wonderful. :D Thank you! :D *love* The expression is great - very "him" - and you noticed his natural habitat as well (somewhere people can stand around and admire...). ;) May I put it here? (http://dauntless.windchaser.co.uk/art/guest.html) *bats eyelashes* (Plus, I don't think anyone else has drawn him except me, so hurrah! :D )
(As a sidenote, if it's any consolation, *I* have to draw most of my Kiravai about 4 or 5 times over before I can get them to look right. They're bastards to draw from any angle except profile, and I STILL haven't mastered face-on yet. *geh*)
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Date: 14 Jul 2007 03:26 am (UTC)Sorry, I'm an animation geek, so although I stopped keeping track of a lot of it (it's just waaaaaaaay too depressing these days, most animated movies these days are horrible- no attention paid to story at all, just all "edgy" humour and shiny 3D) I still know a lot.
And yay! Thank you! I was planning on finishing it...sometime but then I realized you've never really pinned down his colour yet so I wouldn't have known what to colour 'em. I didn't really do any hard thinking on the "natural habitat" of an Iios- I just wanted to make sure he had that slouchy "why yes, I AM made of awesome, thanks for noticing!" look.
And of course you can put it on your site. :D