interesting
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clearly I’ve missed a lot in my absence
AND HE LIVES
man I’m been waiting for you to show back up. The story’s been finished and you’ve got so much to catch up on - but totally sign up for the next one first!
So is this Axelford?
No that’s Vile Cephalopod I think
but….
This guy is Axelford
The description of the character you cited perfectly matches the character who appears in chapter five.
It’s funny how whenever I want to practice character design, I always seem to come back to the Book of ____ series.
This time, a somewhat book-accurate Ghid. Instead of fully abandoning it, I decided to try to make Ghid’s disastrous character description from the book actually work.
It’s impossible to tell if the lad here actually has extra eyes, but I like the solution to the description of wire-like fingers by stuffing his hands full of fingers. Also somewhat concerning is how his shoulders and waist are the same diameter when his arms and legs are so spindly, which may have been a conscience choice on your part or perhaps not.
Also his right foot seems to go too far forward to the point where the heel wouldn’t actually connect.
Overall, unique take on the-
oh.
It’d be interesting to see one of the hardcore theorists comb through all descriptions of books to decipher his true appearance, since that’ll be changing in the fourth book.
uh I mean what noooooo it’s very consistent
Ooh spoilers
Yeah, they’re there, although really small because of how I structured the face.
That’s intentional. By distorting the proportions I wanted to emphasise how decidedly inhuman the character is.
I think that his limbs (at least arms) have been described as incredibly long and spindly, right?
Our right or his right? They’re both so terrible that I can’t tell which one is drawn more incorrectly.
That’s one thing that, while I don’t mean to bring offense to your tremendous artwork thus far, I haven’t been able to understand in terms of a design choice.
Ghid was originally created with the G2 Akaku, despite me having been a Bionicle fan since 2003 and prior self-mocs that utilized the original Akaku design. Ever since his initial conceptualization, however, I’ve gone back and forth from portraying him as having an extremely Akaku-like face and a more organic, noseless, alien-esqe head which has influenced a lot of other Ghid artwork. Still grounded in human anatomy, but always bizarre enough that any alteration could theoretically still be possible.
Then I ran into a significant problem: Ghid has two giant extra eyeballs on the side of his head. Temporarily there was a design for Ghid that simply had them floating on the right side of his head, and they could even act as drones to search about and let Ghid see things from a great distance, but this design was a bit silly and didn’t stay around for very long.
Ever since that point I’ve tried to, in theory, with anatomical concepts that can’t physically exist, somewhat rationalize the anatomical makeup of Ghid’s skull to attempt to comprehend the fusion of extra looky orbs enough so it doesn’t keep me up at night, but - and circling back now, I promise - your design choice for this iteration and the mads mikkelsen Ghid is to just draw a normal skull, overlay it with Ghid-ish features, and then tack two extra eyes on over the cheekbone and orbital socket of the right eye. It’s not a bad design by any means, but I’ve never understood it.
Ja. I was just uncertain if it was intentional or not.
His. The left one is posed correct and good, but the right one is too far forwards in terms of how it lines up with the bone of the leg.
yknow for someone who can’t draw good anatomy at all I sure do seem overly knowledgeable on the subject; is this making me look hypocritical?
so I’m going to skim through this topic for anything else related to me because my attention span is limited
I love this phrase
if you think he’s edgy know, you should have seen him in 2014
I haven’t expanded on his G1 story in years because I’m not sure how to fix the mistakes I made then
(also I will take “breathing filter of sorts”, but if you wanted to know, he took a fire punch to the jaw that dislocated something and now he can’t wear Kanohi anymore. The conduit mask mitigates the fatigue that Toa feel without a Kanohi.)
you got the Hawkflight seal of approval on that MOC just by virtue of making a black and silver self-MOC remotely cool
this is actually quite in character and I might start using it and figure out why
I continue to stress how much I love this description
you’re going to have to explain that one
he’s always been an Inika build or taller
which, by definition, does not make it a bare metru head, and that’s not withstanding the hood
when six Turaga combine, it’s a Turaga Nui
if the next Jethryn is revealed to be a Cat Nui it’s all your fault
I don’t know if I can take any more all of these backstories sound more interesting than the one I wrote for the character in high school
this narrator must have been Amish in a past life
I actually go by my middle name (“Steven”), by virtue of people (mostly older folks) consistently forgetting my first name and coming out with sounds-likes. This is gold.
well, it was Jetera in my G2 story
have you ever read my critiques? Those are very far down the list also he doesn’t know what Hero Factory is because I haven’t worked my version of RaptorTalon into the story
this doesn’t fit Jethryn’s character but maybe it should
stop inspiring me
to be fair, he didn’t know
fun fact - there was a version of Jethryn that never progressed past the legs
I posted a teaser picture of him (from the pre-TTV days), but I did attach a top half… of another MOC who used a custom mask built around a Metru head
I guess when they separated, his legs were jealous of his torso for not getting as many comments over the years about how bad they were.
I thought he was already in half
and thus this character inherited Jethryn’s edgy backstory
why did I have to write this character when I was sixteen
could be one’s Jethryn and one’s Jetera. Could be one’s the Jethryn V4 that I posted and one’s the Jethryn V4 that never progressed past the legs. Could be one’s the secret identity I thought Jethryn might have at one point.
there’s something about this sentence I don’t like
there’s something about this sentence I also don’t like
but there’s nothing about this sentence I don’t like.
do you have Discord?
at least the most modern version of Jethryn isn’t as bulky as he was in 2014
anyway
wild ride
on the lack of any other good characterization for Jethryn out there aside from a few D&D oneshots where I’ve adapted the character and also considering Jetera a separate character this is the best and I might actually want to make a new version of him now
also you can use Jetera in the next one if you want Jethryn to stay dead
I used to be a trashbag figure like you
The why is because there was a little man underneath you
You really need to reread things man Jethryn’s character design is vaguely interesting in this
that was referring to Tott, the main character of the book. There were theories going around that he was actually a cat as he was one of two people not initially identified as boards members (the other one being Fifty).
look man how else was I supposed to very blatantly point out the silver figure’s identity when I don’t know how to write properly ugh smh
I can see you’ve been touched by the butt wings
ooc that, you cretins, I dare you
uhhhhh fourth
so he could get ripped in half twice and converted into soup in current year
Man you really need to reread things
I’m glad you’re picking up on all my sources of inspiration but you really gotta dedicate more time to tormenting yourself with my literary scares
he never responded to my friend request
ohohhhoohohhohohohhooahahaahahaaahaah we’ll see
I might, but I doubt his friends will
don’t tempt me
Also I’m a knife in this book
I made this design choice because I’m not very comfortable with drawing decidedly inhuman faces.
This is… exactly what my thought process was when I was drawing Mads Ghidkelsen and Anime Ghid.
I was quite dissatisfied with both designs, so I decided to fix the eye problem in this new one.
I considered a few options:
- To add the extra eyes to the side of the head like you usually do
- To stuff all three eyes in one eyesocket
- To turn the right side of Ghid’s face into a horrendous lovecraftian mess with no reliance on anatomy
Option one was too silly for the vibe I was going for and options two and three were legitimately too creepy and disturbing, so I went with a kinda boring, but actually appropriate design.
Although the three eyes in one eyesocket idea is slowly growing on me. Maybe I’ll try to make it work when I start drawing the other book covers (covers for books two, three and maybe four confirmed!)
That’s rough buddy!
I thought that my SelfMOC whose special ability literally tears him apart from the inside every time he tries to use it was edgy… clearly, I knew nothing about real edginess
You don’t wanna know…
You mean “it’s all your achievement”?
Heeeeey that’s such a fun coincidence!
Ghid tell him it was intentional
Unfortunately for everyone including myself, yes.
It’s because you tried to convince me to support your spicy FNAF fanfics
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Well consider Ghid a challenge. Try to imagine how an alien skull comprised of mostly large teeth and separated orbital bones for the side eyes would function given our human understanding of anatomy. Extra muscle mass on the side of the head, different formation of the temple to allow the cavity to rest properly, and much like real Ghid, he would need to have small brain.
well uh
called it?
Maybe this will come off as rude, but I really can’t see the difference. I’m working on something of a Ghid sketch to reflect my idea of how he appears; maybe if I actually finish that it might help.
Although I can’t draw hands so I kinda screwed the sketch up; maybe I should remake it digitally and send it that way
Oh gosh please no
There have been many Ghid head sculpt concepts over the years but I doubt that will be one that functions properly by the nature of stuffing three eyeballs into one socket (and also I don’t know how you could do that and not have it automatically combine with option 3)
although you give me some ideas… stay tuned.
I think what you meant to say was “crawl into ghid”
cough HACK Yes you see um despite my confes- I mean alleged statement earlier about possessing small brain I actually do have the greatest brain capacity of anything living or dead is purely coincidental care or dentalcare is the maintenance of healthy teeth and may refer to:
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Yeah, I came up with the “Tott is a cat” theory on the spot due to the mention of cat latches and a whole bunch of other stuff lining up with it. It was silly, but then it caught on and spiraled out of control.
Mata Nui I just noticed this, I was so close to the Truth
also I’m gonna try and critique book four like I did the first chapters of book three I Tottaly intended to review the rest of the chapters but then life happened and I blinked and you had like twenty chapters.
that is no excuse
get out there and dunk on it before I uh
do something
that you don’t like