Lines - Sherlock Holmes is Tired of your Bullshit

[oxfordtweed]

Fandom: Sherlock
Characters: Holmes
Rating: G
Notes/Warnings: I was going to wait until this was finished to upload it, but then my computer surprise!restarted on me, and left me with a .PNG file in place of a .SAI file. I might manage to finish it, but if not, here's something, at least. Feel free to colour it if you want. Just make sure to show me the end result. :D

Comments

[anonymiss731.livejournal.com]

*suggestive violin is suggestive*

Ha ha ha ha ha. WIN!

[oxfordtweed]

Gah, it's meant to be resting against his thigh. D:

[anonymiss731.livejournal.com]

Don't worry I can see it. Especially with the two lines on the pants leg of the leg on the sofa. I've just had a class today where all the symbolism we discussed was Freudian and it's still getting to me. Ha ha. I really like this. I should also applaud you for the accuracy in the clothing folds and violin especially. *claps*

[oxfordtweed]

I think I just know a few too many furries or something; they can make ANYTHING dirty, it seems like, which does get really old really fast.

And ohgod, that violin. I finally gave up on it. The neck is still really twisted and funny, but it got to the point where all I was doing was just making things worse. D:


Clothing folds are so much fun, though, and I'm always thrilled when people notice them. So, yay, thanks! :D

[anonymiss731.livejournal.com]

I think it's just a natural talent for some ppl. *stalks your icons and believes you will get this quotation* "Gramma's Chicken"
I desperately want to steal your Bacchus icon.

Eh, fuck it. I own a violin and thought it was right until you mentioned it. It's not really that bad. Say Picasso inhabited your body and made you show two angles. It's all his fault then. I was focusing more on the body. You put in a chin rest...seeing that is a rarity for me. Also the details in fine tunners, f-holes and bridge. Also the proportion.

Your Welcome

Is that toast? How did I just see that...I noticed the magazine before. ^_____^ Toast.

[oxfordtweed]

Oh, Joey. ♥

And steal away!


Do people really leave off the chin rest? I've never even come into close contact with a violin, but that seems like a rather important bit. Otherwise, it seems like it would be very difficult to get it to stay in one place. O_o


And yes! It is toast! And in a screen cap I took to show someone, before my computer ate my colour, the magazine was shaping up to be a copy of Sky and Telescope. XD

[anonymiss731.livejournal.com]

YES! You have made this theatre nerd extremely happy.

I image ppl think it just magically stays still. Or violinists have chins of steel.

OMFG! COLOR! *suddenly notices his fingers on the bow* Oh that's brilliant. And the shading. The knuckles. The jams. The perfect fucking shades of color. I officially want to roll around in this awesomeness like a dog.

[oxfordtweed]

Actually, here's a better version that isn't all jpeg burned to hell.

But, yeah. I like to use colour to cement what the lines just imply. So, I'm really trying to actually make this work without layers. It's just... not easy. And I can't go back and change anything that I did before today. I am one very sad puppy.

[anonymiss731.livejournal.com]

This is begging to be a wallpaper.

Did you start out in a paint media rather then a pen/pencil/line one? Or did you just develop your style like that based on preference?

That's really fucked. Not an artist but I have felt the pain of computer fuckery messing up you're whole process. *thinks about lost drafts and shudders*

[oxfordtweed]

Well, if I ever get this fucker finished, I'll definitely be posting it!

My style, quite honestly, came of not having clue one about what I was doing. I found art classes boring and the only one I ever signed up for, I stopped going to after about a week. Basically, I've spent about 20 years learning how to cheat my way into looking like I know what I'm doing. The result is learning everything the old-fashioned way, through observation and trial and error. I've got a human skeleton in my front room (which I use as a coat rack <.<) that has helped me in anatomical studies, and got into photography as a means of learning composition and colour balance. Everything else, I learned from hours on Google Image search. Like that violin. I didn't want to just draw what I thought a violin looked like, but actually draw a violin. Which is good, because in staring at images of violins for several hours, I learned that I actually had no idea what one looked like. XD

[killerweasel.livejournal.com]

Your computer ate all the colors? D:

It still looks very nice like this though.

[oxfordtweed]

YES. I fucking hate my desktop so much, because it's always doing crap like this. But my laptop doesn't have near enough RAM to do art efficiently. D:

I've got a .PNG that I'd saved to show someone that has the background flats and a fair bit of shading, but it's a pain in the arse to do the shading without the layers. Just. Gah. I has a sad.

[doxxed-up.livejournal.com]

I SO want a dressing gown like that, to artistically drop myself on random furniture.

Also, very much love for the hands and that little dip his foot makes on the cushion :)

[oxfordtweed]

The hands are always one of my favourite bits to do, and he has wonderful hands for drawing.

And I've always preferred the thickish, feels like an expensive bath towel dressing gowns. Ya know, the sort Arthur Dent would wear. XD

[random-nexus.livejournal.com]

I do so love how you've done the hands in this.
*envies*

[oxfordtweed]

His hands and dressing gown were easily my favourite parts to draw. And Cumberbatch does have really nice hands, I must say.

<3