:D

I would have a real comment, but I told you over AIM already. XD

I'm glad I have apparently converted you to the ways of fanboying over Adrimas.

COME TO OUR SIDE. WE HAVE THE GREAT SKY DRAGON.

XD IT'S NOT REALLY THAT HARD TO DO.

...I still squee a bit more over Andrenona, though. xP

...I just realized, I kinda miss Kaiv.

IT'S NOT. AT ALL.

>:C (Probably because you've read stuff about them. XD That helps. I wouldn't be squeeing over Adrimas so much if I hadn't read all that stuff about them.)

WELL, HE'S ONE OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN THE SEQUEL. IT JUST NEEDS TO BE WRITTEN. :D;

it looks cute. kinda looks like they were up on the roof, and someone came up with a flashlight :P

Oh, that would be incredibly awkward, since neither of them are people person...s. (Yes, I know how to English!)

I blame the light on the moon, myself. XD It's very bright~

well then technically the light would be behind them, but who cares, it looks good!

Well, I don't think the moon does as much directionally as the sun does, in terms of light sources. On nights with a full moon, it sort of ~PERMEATES EVERYWHERE~.

...That said, any kind of light source does cast shadows and have a direction and stuff, so yeah. It would be mostly behind them. XD

Thanks, yo. :D

IF YOU EVER STOP DRAWING THEM, AS I SAID ON THE BOOK OF FACES, I WOULD WORRY ABOUT YOU.

Seeing Dimas smile is... odd. I know he has done it before, but I'm so used to him having the :| face all the time.

THEY ARE APPARENTLY NOW CRUCIAL TO MY IDENTITY. Weird considering I didn't even make them up in the first place HI KATHERINE.

He is made of :|. Except not internally. But yes, external smiles are...DIFFERENT.

...Although that last line is making me question how you could smile internally.

Uhh. Question mark?

Ask Thafator, He knows allllll about smiles.

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IF YOU ARE HAVING THAT REACTION, THAT IS GOOD. He is always :|. Even here he's only smiling because ADRIAN'S NOT LOOKING.

I KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG.

I KNEW IT.

Then Adrian looks and it is automatic :| again.

Adrian's mouth TERRIFIES me. I mean, I know that mouths do look sort of like that but holy crap I do not want to have THAT looking at me.

It does have a really nice atmosphere, though, and I love what you did with the clouds.

Dimas's face looks sort of... well his jaw goes upwards all sharply like that, and it doesn't seem like there's really enough, well, room for his mouth?

But the hair is just really nice. And the lighting on it, even if maybe not correct (I don't actually know; I'm not an expert) is really nice looking all soft and shiny but not too shiny and just nice.

I have said nice here so many times wow I am bad with words what does "nice" even mean

I dunno, I like it. :B And it's not just I DREW THIS SO I LIKE IT, I actually am drawing mouths that way now because I already sort of like styles like that. ...Did that make sense?

Thank you. :B

I guess you're probably right, if we're analyzing with...~realistic anatomy~. XD Though I'm not completely sold that there wouldn't be enough room -- it's just not exactly how realistic jaw lines look either. BUT HEY, STYLIZATION MAKES THE WORLD GO 'ROUND. It's just kind of up in the air which styles work and which don't, and a lot of that can also be individual preference and what looks "right" (in quotes because, if it's stylized, it's not gonna be actually right in any case) to individual people and whatnot.

HAIR IS THE BEST EVER, even though I was really kind of lazy with the shading here. (I wasn't trying to put too many hours into this, though, so that's one reason why, haha.)

Also thanks on the lighting. ;~; I'm not quite sure if it's technically correct either (like, I know what I mean with the whole MOONLIGHT PERMEATES EVERYTHING thing, but there are, like, no photos of moonlit scenes anywhere on the Internet, gah)...and I also know what you mean about the shiny but not too shiny and YEAH.

NICE MEANS GOOD WHICH MEANS YOU APPROVE WHICH IS ALSO GOOD. I MEAN NICE. :D

Dear gods, apparently you make me type paragraphs BUT THAT IS ACTUALLY OKAY WITH ME SO COOL.

Addendum: I have looked at it again, and while the proportions aren't literally what you find in reality, I do think it could work, in its own way.

I MEAN ABOUT DIMAS, NOT ADRIAN'S MOUTH.

Just realized that could be quite confusing. XD

holy crap that was a lot of reply.

uh I don't actually thing I've got that much to respond to... About the moonlight things... I think that's probably got a lot to do with the limitations of photo cameras. I mean, they have a lens, but that lens is infinitely more simple than the ones we have in our own eyes: they just can't so easily adapt to different forms of light. For example if there's a brightly lit place, with a bit in the shade, then either the brightly lit part will have to compensate for being able to see the shadowed bit the way our eyes see, or the shaded place will have to compensate for the bright bit, whereas our eyes can see both just fine with mere microseconds of adjustment. And it's probably the same with moonlit scenes, except worse, because camera lenses are ALREADY quite shoddy in the dark compared to in the light.

and as for proportions and styles and shit, I guess I can't really say much about that. I mean it's probably quite important to have a good grip on the realistic first and then work your way to how you interpret it, rather than skipping straight to the interpreting part, but... I dunno, I don't know what you do. Maybe you do that, and it would be rather hypocritical of me to go saying that you HAVE to do that right here and now, especially since you seem to only be drawing as a hobby, at least right now.

and sheesh why do I type so much when I don't even have much to say?

Yeah, but you can't edit comments here, so...LONG COMMENT TRAIN.

I know there are some cameras that are really good at capturing things (even in moonlight), though. If you do a slow capture photo, I think that helps with getting night scenes. But yeah, nothing was online, so I just sort of went off memory because WHATEVER THIS WAS BASICALLY A GLORIFIED DOODLE.

Drawing is literally all I have (well, aside from writing), so it is far more than just a hobby. Yes, I was only doing it for fun when we used to talk a couple of years ago. In the past couple of years or so, though, it's become so much more.

...Well. It is mostly for my fun, yes. But that doesn't mean I don't take it seriously. And I would like to be a professional someday, because I can't think of anything else I would be happy doing.

And, uh, I'd definitely say I understand faces and realistic proportions...? I mean, you're not there when you watch me draw or in my head when I'm drawing, so I don't know if there's a way to CLEARLY convince you of that, especially since I am messing with proportions on purpose. But, uh, anyway: I was in a figure drawing class (and while I failed it, that had nothing to do with my art; it had to do with me dropping out of school overall that semester), and my teacher never gave me a harsh critique on my art. He'd go around telling other people "oh, that leg looks too long" or "oh, you need to twist their torso more like this", and then he'd get to me and basically just tell me good job, with a few very minor suggestions that never had to do with actual anatomy. It wasn't that he particularly liked me so he let me get off easy, I apparently did have a firm grasp on these sorts of things. When we were looking at a model, I drew the proportions you find in reality, and he liked my art. When I'm drawing for myself, I change a few minor things (especially to stylize faces) to satisfy the character variations I want to express, and I like my art. The point is, I can draw realistically by now -- or at least, more reaslitically. But why would I do that aside from when I have to in class? That's just boring.

I don't know, I do it too. XD

Rereading this, I realize that one teacher liking my art doesn't really prove anything.

But I haven't had problems in any of the art classes I've taken yet, despite being entirely self-taught. (And yes, they require you to draw realistically all the time.) THAT was more my point. XD

I don't really have anything to say to that so here is a comment saying that I've read your stuff and that I understand, I guess?

Oh no, that's cool. XD Knowing you read it is the most important part, after all.

GO HAVE FUN AT YOUR CON NOW.