Okay, partner. Draw!

I would just like to 1000% agree. It is forbidden to not love the magic that is is happening here.

The likes will be... incalculable.

What the fuck did I just see? xD Urk, how fast did you make those?

Holy shit, is that a beard of cats?

Have you not heard of Thoro Catbeardson?

Urk, you're a genius for the use of Elyscape 's eye and past avatars. You get all my likes.

I can't stop staring at the Great Avian-Sandvich-Eyelyscape. I just. I can't.

You don't remember?

... okay, I'm slow.

That's because you're higher resolution.

Oh my glob those comics were beautiful.

And on the subject of digital versus traditional art: I am of the opinion that neither one is inherently superior, or inferior, to the other. They are separate, but equally valid, media, tools, through which to express the beauty of art. It's like a debate of oil-based paints versus water-based ones. Both have their advantages, and both have their drawbacks. At the end of the day, it's a matter of personal experience and preference.

I'm not a particularly dedicated artist myself, and I have zero ability with image software more complex that Windows Paint, and usually I just do doodles or simple sketches, but art is art. It is the expression of one's thoughts and feelings and beliefs and experiences, the spiritual release, the creation of beauty and emotion and veritable life. To call one artistic medium inferior to another is an insult to the heart and soul of the artist, to the blood, sweat, and tears that go into every lovingly crafted work.

In the end, whether your tool is a chisel, or a paintbrush, or a pencil, or a mouse, it still art. And art is art. It is simple and profound, primitive and sophisticated, fantastic and mundane, sadness and joy. It is contrast, and likeness, and the sublime contradiction of base human nature and lofty human ideals. Art is art. And art is passion.

...or at least that's my opinion.

*scurries back into LP subforum*

Urk ing ain't easy.

I just wanted to thank Urk, because before his comic I always thought Lum's avatar was going, "No No No."

Heading off to work, so I'll get a chance to respond after. Just wanted to leave this here when I woke up:

I knew there was a reason I try to avoid posting comics at 3 AM.

1. Long, overwrought Boromir parodies are a lot funnier then. Much less so when I wake up and facepalm.
2. The laser is just over the cornea so it looks like Elyscape Sauron is having a LASIK procedure done rather than shooting eye lasers.

One should always be one's worst critic, Urk!

Sjofn and Rapunzel. yonlyonelike.

Damn, Urk, your work is fucking amazing! I'm with the rest of the thread here... make more, please!

One ring to mod them all, one ring - that's the deal
One ring to Like them all, and with it ALL THE FEEEEEEEEEEEEELS...

I have avatars turned off and don't really understand the comics, but they're still awesome.

The like button.

Also, Urk, I agree with everyone's suggestions for making a thread. I then suggest you make enough comics to get them published in book form so I can buy ten copies.

Uh ... should I remember? I mean, it's awesome, but I don't remember a thread about Hirsute Felinus, Greek God of Cats and Beards.

It was Thoro's avatar for a while last year.

I'm touched and baffled. :)

Those were amazing comics.

Yeah, didn't quite expect this response... looks like this has derailed quite a bit. I need to move this elsewhere since it's going off-topic. There was a discussion going before I just kind of vomited this out and had it gum up the thread. I've set up a new thread here.

And if possible, Lum/Ely/Pythia, sorry about making more work for you all, but can you look into moving posts over so that this stays clean? Much appreciated!

Thoro might have moved slow. But only because Thoro didn't have to move for nobody.

To be clear, I meant that it deserved its own thread because it was good, not because it needed to be threadcopped. Thanks for doing it though, and I doubt any threadcleaning is necessary, fwiw.

Oh God, so many ideas (for someone who can art).


And unto this, Lizard_King, was destined to wear the jeweled crown of AquiLumnia upon a troubled brow.
And it is I, his chronicler, who alone can tell thee of his saga. Let me tell you of the days of high adventure!

Yeah, ain't no need to move anything.

The Eye of Sauron and Sauron are not one and the same! /nerdrage

Sauron was a hobbit until he put on the ring and became an evil angel and then Gandalf blew up his tower, right? It's all in the appendices.

Visualizing Sauron as an actual large, physical eye on top of a tower was Jackson & Boyens' biggest failure in the adaptations.

You misspelled "awesome and improved on the original".

I don't see a problem with it. The movie never states that this is Sauron and, as far as I recall, it's still referred to as "The Eye of Sauron" or variations thereof. For a visual medium it makes sense to have something for the audience to focus on.

It's okay to see an actual manifestation of an eye in a dream sequence or something, like the scene in The Prancing Pony in Fellowship. To see it physically on top of a tower, shining a beam like a flashlight, was ridiculous.

I understand why they did it, but I disagree with the idea that you have to see a villain to understand him. It's harder, sure, but I would have preferred it far more if Sauron had been some sort of unseen force.

Alligator, I don't know how I missed your tag (it may have been lost in a sea of retroactive likes, someone found a LP I had posted in :P), but since I thanked Rapunzel for tagging me in the OTHER thread, I am thanking you, too!

alsoimayhavecomeherespecificallytolikeUrk'scomicsasecondtimeshhhhdon'ttell

SO UHHHHHHHH.
Someone linked me to a site that just has this one thing on loop with a song also on loop and I can't seem to stop listening to it and it's making me draw some incredibly strange things.

Warning: the song is incredibly catchy. not anything amazing, not long at all, but extremely catchy.
http://thebest404pageever.com/swf/thosestairs.swf

I will be posting the strange things eventually, I promise.

I also own a tablet, but I tend to draw more the traditional way because it makes me feel more in control. But since I spent all that money on it I've decided to get a little more familiar with it. Besides this link provided by SuperJay gave me a couple of ideas. So I tried to draw a horse.

And failed. Sort of. I kind of like it but I really need to practice with the tablet because the anatomy is all weird. And I wasn't using a very favorable program since drawing isn't the purpose of that site. And the weaving came out so that there's just too much going on.

It's really fun to experiment with this sort of stuff though. Yay technology!

Who cares about anatomy when you're using flames.

The anatomy is weird but because it looks sort of like a crazy pinata made of fire, it's nifty looking anyway!

That site is really neat and I reccomend everybody to check it out and give SuperJay a like in this thread.