Ooops my queue ran out. I have erm … about 50 in drafts so I’ll sort that out tomorrow *whistles*
Author Archives: Sam
A Mix of Styles
This is a comic I posted yesterday. It’s for Fitzsimmons, the prompt was ‘Coming home to you‘, and it’s a slight AU of their Academy years to post-show when they are happy in a cottage in Perthshire.
I was a bit short on time when I did this and it shows because once I realized where I was going wrong I didn’t have chance to go back and fix it.
You see I decided to try and go for a simple “comic book” style hence the black lines because I thought that would be faster. I got discouraged when it started looking like my old art and that’s when the mess with the hair happened.
I think it would have looked more coherent and better if I had stuck with the black lines over trying to ‘merge’ the methods. The same with the cheating I did with the posters in the dorm-room, they are just photos from google.
The other real issue is the faces and the fact that they don’t look anything like either Fitz or Simmons. Faces have long been my bugbear and I’m not sure how to resolve this, I think a deep-dive on YouTube is in my future.
Coming up next is a Valentines themed Rumbelle picture. Bearing in mind what I learned here about how not to mix methods I’m hoping it’ll be better.
Hi!! It’s your secret Valentine here and I am so so so close to getting the fic finished, but I don’t think I can get it up. I’ve had a whole bunch of work come up suddenly with uni and haven’t had as much time to edit as I wanted and don’t want to gift you something that I don’t think is good enough yet. I will aim to have it up by saturday if that is okay? Do you also have an a03 i can gift it too? I am so sorry again and have a great day :)
Heya *waves*
That’s absolutely fine by me! Please don’t stress!! <— see, note the overuse of exclamation marks hehe 🙂 Honestly in all seriousness it’s absolutely fine.
I went back to uni myself last September and so I’m very familiar with the “this is going ok” and then a couple of days later “how could I let it get this bad??” as somehow the difference of a couple of days changes perception and panic results – or at least it does for me.
To be honest I wish I’d begged for some extra time for my gift. I did the detailing in a mad rush yesterday and I’m not at all happy with it. I did my best with the time I had but it still doesn’t feel good enough. This past month just disappeared.
TLDR – please don’t worry! I’m very happy to wait and I’d rather you took your time and are happy, then be stressed and miserable.
Oh and I do have an AO3 🙂 – http://archiveofourown.org/users/stillsearching47
From slightly AU Academy years to their cottage in Perthshire.
‘Coming home to you’ prompted by @fourforyouodo for the Fitzsimmons 2018 Secret Valentine exchange.
#i did my best and i hope you like it#i know the hair is a mess and the faces are rubbish i’m still learning
I haven’t used twitter in years but I see the appeal sometimes when I’m working on something like a drawing. It’s quite a frustrating thing to do and even though it probably wouldn’t help in the slightest, I kinda want to share that frustration by doing live-blogs. Like…
– Drawing in 3D is hard
– Who decided this was a good idea again? Oh right me.
– I’m never going to be done in time argh *pulls hair out*
– Ok this is looking slightly more promising
*a minute later*
– Scratch that it’s still rubbish
You get the picture *glares at drawing*
(This also goes for writing, or probably any creative endeavour)
I’m trying to do something for fluffapalooza but I don’t really have enough time so it sucks 🙁
Ideas are always much better as ideas, the execution is so much harder and really kinda disappointing.
So thanks to traffic I just had the day from hell. A 3 hour traffic jam this morning. Then when I went to go home the obstruction was still there and I couldn’t face it again. Tried to go country backroads and went in a big circle for 20 mins thanks to the satnav not doing anything helpful – “take a U-turn” – seriously?
I think I’ve burned out the clutch of my car and possibly damaged the frontend. I kicked this bit back in place from where it was popped out but who knows about underneath?
Eventually made it home an hour and a half later – this journey takes maybe 20 minutes, more obviously during rush hour but the max it’s been thus far was 50 minutes.
BUT everything is fine because an email just popped up and one lovely, wonderful, amazing human has gone through and given kudos on a dozen of my fics.
Day improved 100%
Instant streaming video is the best invention ever.
Agents of Shield (Season 4) is on Amazon Prime – so I can rewatch it for free! It’s not Season 5 but it’s something, especially as there’s no news regarding a UK DVD release date for Season 4.
Even better Killjoys (Season 3) is also available! Not for free but the DVD isn’t out anywhere until April, and I’m not expecting it on Netflix for another 6 months at least. I can finally catch up to the US!
These are my two favorite currently airing shows right now *pats Stargate gently, you’ll always be my forever favorite* so good news everyone heh 🙂
Plus I barely have time to watch TV these days so I’ll be able to savour each episode and make it last. Which reminds me I still have Dark Matter (Season 3) that I got for christmas to watch. It’s a pretty ok time to be a sci-fi fan!
You’re FS Valentine here! I’m having so much fun with your prompt,and I’m so excited for you to see it! I hope you’re having a great day
Wheeee
I’m so, so very happy to hear that you are having fun!!!!
You just made my day to hear that 🙂 I look forward to seeing what you’re working on in … oh my only about a week to go eeeeek.
Do you have 11 protons? ‘Cause you’re Sodium fine! Your gift is well underway! I really hope you enjoy it!
Awesome science joke I love it! 🙂 This gif is my attempt to find a science-related gif to say thank you. I actually read a science book recently. It was called The Universe Next Door and some parts of it made me think of Fitzsimmons. I haven’t watched season 5 but I remember when Fitz explained how they couldn’t change the future, if what Daisy had seen was the future, in season 3. It said what Fitz said 🙂
I really look forward to seeing what you’ve done and I know I’ll love it!