im feeling more and more upset for pinkie... I hope that jerk of a sports car gets harmed

Aww heh, yeah I feel sorry for you peeps on FA, the people on DA had these pictures dulled out slowly.. you get totally mindraped by them all at once. Harmed eh? hmm...

what do you mean?

What don't you understand? o.o

oh when you ment da dulling the pictures and the mindrape? :P

Because I was drawing them in real-time when they appeared on DA, so there was time in-between where I was drawing the next picture. I'm putting this older stuff up on FA now afterwords in big chunks.

aaah right

oh my!

indeed!

say, do you have a main character...a main car character?

I have multiple.. from multiple stories. I don't have a carsona if that's what you mean though.

is Pinky yours?

Somewhat, I suppose? It's kind of a controversial thing I'd expect. She's technically fan-art of a character from the 1987 film "The Brave Little Toaster." If you haven't watched it by the way go ahead and watch it it's epically good. Anyway, she only appears on screen for like 15 seconds, sings her part in a song and then is immediately... killed. >> Her and the other 'Worthless cars' that I've also drawn pictures for. It is part of a series I'm doing of taking those cars from the movie and drawing my interpretation of what their lives may have been like before they were junked based on their lyrics in the song.

Her personality though and story is all mine, she got none in the movie. So I think it comes down to the individual. If you think the person who draws the character owns it, or the one that does something with it owns it. I also kinda subconsciously made her look a little different just by being drawn in my style. http://www.imgnook.com/2Lso.gif

Type in "Brave Little Toaster Worthless" and click on the top video that has Andy the Race-car in the thumbnail.

sweet! i actually wanted to RP with a car, especially a classic. i have a classic steamer from England named Bluebell. hes from 1936, 4-4-0 lanyard steam turbine engine, that talks.

Nice job with the expression on Pinky in panel one. I have sever depression and often I just stare at the world the same way...just staring...never seeing.

Also good work with the lighting, although it kinda makes it look like the house is out to get her too. :p

Thanks a lot, yeah that's the expression that I had in mind when I started this picture, just her staring oddly wide-eyed and empty almost haunting-like.

I'm very proud of the lighting in this one, I don't do a lot of night scenes so it was a nice chance to do so. Oh it does?

Yeah, I think it's because the Camaro is leering at her, and the angle of the light beams are the same. So it's like the house is glaring too.

The Camaro is actually looking at the doorway on his left, you might notice his door is open, I'm assuming Violet just ran in to get something and then be off again, he's just idling waiting for her to get back. Heh I love how people have kinda been personifying the house as alive too, I admit it does kinda unintentionally look like it has a face. XD

Heyy, the coloring came out good as for your first time. No stress :D The only thing I can suggest right now is - try to use more cold, dark blue/navy shades instead of simple /gray/black/dark :3

Oh you and your color theory. X3 I kinda have to account for the fact that I think I'm a little color-blind. o.o

You are? Oh, I had no idea :o

So did I do a good job considering that? : 3

Yep, totally c:

I have to disagree with this plane here. Night is black and dark, not blue. Night means lack of light, and that's definitely not blue.
Perhaps that came from older movies where they had to adjust daylight scenes to make them look dark because they didn't have the technology to actually shoot at night. The scenes then looked kinda blue.

Oh, I didn't realize that one could be using different colors to emphasize different moods. Reacted too quickly, sorry about that. I usually prefer realism over everything and try to achieve moods naturally.

I dunno man honestly, I mean there ARE blues in the picture, in the background.. the light coming up in the horizon from the city lights. I'm not sure how night time would look close up and in an outside environment. There might be some colorizing that happens from the ambient light reflected off the moon hitting things outside at night.. I'd be curious.

Don't get upset with Light though, I know her well, she didn't mean anything bad by that. :)

Well, moonlight looks like dim sunlight. It's a cold white. But no colorizing happening there as far as I know, sorry.

And I apologize, I unknowingly made myself sound harsh again. Sorry Light. :)

This is heartbreaking. Pinky looks like she's about given up on everything. Probably not even sleeping anymore. Covered by the tarpaulin, she already looks like junk :(

That's some pretty good work on the night scene. I once attempted to do that, and it didn't come out well. Good going.

Just curious, did you give the song a listen? I realize it probably isn't your style of music but it really sets the mood. : 0

Yeah it's almost haunting, her staring blankly like that isn't it? At least she GOT a "tarpaulin".. too bad it doesn't really protect against stray tree-branches. <: T

I was listening to it while looking at the first panel, and for a while I saw an animated scene with life around the house going in fast motion. Day replacing night, people a blur, the Camaro coming and going, seasons changing, while Pinky stays the same, only sometimes changing depressed expressions. </3

The thought that some cars get to feel like that... What have you done?

Totally saw it, good description there.. that's pretty accurate.. the world changing while she sits and stays the same. : /

Some? More like most I'd say.. that's just kind of the fate of a car, the curse of not dying in the sense that we do, cursed to live on in a broken husk of a body until it's reduced to nothing and they're set free. 6.6

Im wondering if you've ever had the 'pleasure' of being at an auto junkyard yet in your life. I was surprised how many people told me on DA that they'd never seen one in real life before.

There was a project I wanted to do back in KS, without my computer or my HDD I can't work on it here in. But it was going to be a video sort of inspired by those humane society commercials you see (maybe) where they show sad abused cats and dogs while playing "In the Arms of the Angels." Trying to get you sad enough to adopt one or pay a monthly subscription. I got the idea when I heard the perfect song on the radio for a video like that but for vehicles... a sort of fake commercial of sorts to make people wanna save neglected abused cars... even though it probably wont. I spent nights gathering up all sorts of sad photographs online of rusty broken down old cars and junkyard scenes for the video. It'll be set to the song "Smile" by Lonestar, I thought the title and use of it in the song was very fitting for the subject matter. The way a car has an expression frozen on it's face, possibly a smile, while deep inside the poor car is miserable. The song would be depicting an average cars life and feelings starting from being bought, feeling like it's owner loved it, and then steadily being forgotten and neglected as the years go by and finally thrown away. The emotional high point of the video would feature the heartbreaking footage and pictures from the holocaust Cash for Clunkers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GDK-8Wdx2A

I'll make it sometime, I just gotta wait till my computer gets here. >>

You present it like a fact, but is it really like that? That they're not able to leave until they're in small pieces? I find that hard to believe. There has to be more to it than that.

I've never been inside one (no reason), but I've seen a small one during my trips on a train. I imagine they get much larger. Admittedly, that was a little before I ran into you, so I didn't feel much different about it.

Ah yes, guilt trips. Never really seen any videos, but a picture or two always pops up somewhere. That's a pretty good idea though. Get back at them by showing something no one even thinks about. You chose a good song for it too, it's touching. I think you could make a strong message by it, if only to a handful of people. Whether it is enough for someone to change their minds or not, hard to say. I think you should try to finish it anyway.

I didn't know what "Cash for Clunkers" was, so I looked it up. Then I saw videos on YouTube. Were people really breaking their cars on purpose just to get a few bucks from the government? From the rational standpoint, it's an awful waste. From the emotional side, it's... it's...murder. :(

They put up videos of their cars dying, killed by their hand. I didn't even want to think about playing the videos. I think you could even hear the cars crying...

Fact? No... I mean I guess if you believe they can transcend their body whenever they want that's fine.. I have no idea. o.o I'm just equating it to us, which may indeed be stupid to do. That we're stuck in our body until we officially die. True, a car is considered dead if it's engine dies.. but just.. the fact that they can easily brought back to life by fixing the engine I just wonder.. are they just crippled and not working (ie: Pinky) or do they actually die and we're resurrecting them? Then if we decide they're dying the question of how extensively damaged does an engine have to be to make them 'dead.' Just goes into really confusing territory for me. True though, I've gone through junkyards before with cars that have their engines completely gone and felt like... there's nothing there.. so I don't know.

What I was referring to though, was that either a car can be left in a field for years and years and years till it finally disintegrates to dust, or it can be taken to a scrap yard and shredded into little chips.. that's kinda the only two routes a car has in death.

Yeah, if I can make a video that can at least make people think.. or make them actually feel sad and then wonder why they're feeling sad... then I call that a success.. Heck it wouldn't be the first time I've converted some followers. :) *looks at you*

Would you mind if I asked you what country you live in? I'm just curious because I'm surprised you didn't know about it. The US did it and the UK did a very similar program as well. Here's the shitty gist of it,the government is doing it for two reasons, first reason is I believe they thought it would help the economy get better... somehow.. I don't know economy stuff. The other is that with how expensive and in short supply gasoline is getting they're trying to weed out the old cars that have really bad gas mileage. The idea is that if you traded in ie: betrayed your old car and let it gets killed off... the government would give you a bunch of money towards buying a brand new car.. you know.. these new cars they have that get like 40 MPG or so on. That's why I call it a holocaust because it totally is, they're killing off a whole race of cars, any cars that get bad gas mileage.

The horrible thing about it though is that the rules of what defined a 'clunker' were shitty and people were somehow being able to trade in cars that were only like 5-7 years old to be killed. Fine young cars without any problems at all that could have gone to new needy homes that would have loved them. The law of the program was that any clunker had to have it's engine disabled so it couldn't be used in another car.. because apparently it's so horrible. 9.9 So this is where the execution style fluids came in. I don't know what they're called but I know what they do and that's horrible enough.

Those videos you were seeing, what these guys had the job of doing was that they'd drain the poor car of oil, then fill up their engine with this death fluid. It's a fluid that when it heats up it solidifies into a glass type material. So they'd fill up the cars with this stuff, then keep them reving and reving getting the engine hot until finally the poor tortured engine melts from the inside and it's oil passages clog and the engine ceases up. Effective, but damn cruel.. SO cruel, especially because sometimes if it was a really young and resilient car it's youthful engine would take torturous amounts of time to finally die... and that's what it looks like... torturous execution. <:' | I think the first video I really saw for C4C was of this poor Volvo who took 4 minutes to die, and all the while the sounds... oh god.. the pathetic squealing sounds it made almost brought me to tears. It sounded like the poor thing was crying in pain. >< https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waj2KrKYTZo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiORhKnwXF4

Well, you're talking about mechanical death. But what I think is important is whether their energy, or spirit, still remains. Because I think even "spiritually dead" cars can still run, if there is such a thing as spiritual death. You know, while the spirit has a reason to cling to the matter. Again, I base this off of what you said - that Lilly seems to be able to travel on her own.

I live in Czech Republic. We've had something like that here as well, though I think it was more like a longer term offer. I've never heard of anything like the massacre your country did. But I know little about it - I didn't care at the time, and I don't think it's offered anymore.

So I went I watched the Volvo. It sounded like rrrrrRRR-OWW, rrrRRRRR-OWWW! Horrifying. D: