Time for group art-beta, I think.
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lymanalphaSo. The current Ship Wars prompt is porn. PORNZ. Which I cannot write to save my life (I tried, I did, and yeah that was weird and now I want Spock/Pike, but that's another story).
Then I started thinking about IDIC - Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations - which seems to me a) potentially porny, and b) a damn good philosophy.
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melithiel said I should do strange alien porn.
The upshot of all this is that I'm in the middle of making strange alien porn out of clay. Eventually, I'd like to get some nice photographs of these clay things with IDIC somewhere on them. There's no purpose to this, other than my own amusement, but. BUT. Here's where you come in, dear friends: I'm stuck. I need, for lack of a better word, art-betas. I've been putting some of this on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
team_crackship but figured I'd alternate here and there to avoid spamming.
These are works in progress. What I'm looking for, from you, is feedback both general & specific. General, as in, are they porny, do they work, is there anything off about them. Specific, as in, some of them have particular questions.
Blanket warning: this is PORN and therefore NSFW. It has clay people with BITS and also things that are STRANGE. But I hope it's, well, pretty, for porn.
Preview!
IDIC #1: Tentacle Guy
Medium: water-based red clay, oil-based white clay
Status: closest to being finished. The clay's still wet and can be played with.
The basic situation: a torso with some tentacles.
I've been playing with lighting and shadows:
And with the effect of having the clay really wet:
I like those pictures. Problems start arising when I try to get the IDIC in. I'd really REALLY like to have the whole phrase spelled out, so that it'd be comprehensible even to people who don't know Star Trek. But I'm having issues.
For instance, here's a shot with just the letters. I like the color & texture of the brown paper, but. I dunno.
Specific for tentacle guy:
1. Any good ideas for backgrounds, or for getting the IDIC in?
IDIC #2: Andorian/MaybeRomulan
Medium: red & white water-based clay
Status: Mid-modeling. Having some issues.
Here's the basic thing:
And from above:
The grey dude will get some antennae:
At the moment I'm a little pissed off with these guys, because - I dunno. Something's just off about it. I'm not entirely sure where I'm going.
Specific for Andorian:
1. I don't really know. Something's weird.
2. Brown dude. What should I do with his arms? They could just end, like they do. They could go out to the sides. There was a suggestion of putting one on Andorian's head, but I think there's something compositionally finicky about that.
3. Brown dude again. Leave him as generic humanoid, or try to specify a race? He could get tattoos and be a Sad-Romulan (the tattoos are for mourning, right?).
IDIC #3: Flowerpants
Medium: white water-based clay
Status: Chillin.
Okay, here's her story. There's an Alfred Bester book - I don't remember the title; the one with the soul shop and the guy and Glory the snake girl - and when Glory and the guy have their sex scene there's something about her "opening like a flower". Or something. I read this thing when I was maybe twelve, but that image stuck.
Later I read a fic where Gaila's green for reasons of photosynthesis. Flowerpants is clearly not green, but I suppose she could be Orion. Anyway.
She probably won't end up with tentacles, but I had some handy so I put them on her.
Specific for Flowerpants:
1. Is she too weird? Because I kind of like her.
2. Her, um, flower needs some work, because the clay is awfully sticky at that scale. If I were to make the flower out of whitish modeling clay, would it no longer look like a part of her?
3. Who or what should she be partnered with, if anybody? I'm not up for anything super elaborate. Maybe a tattooed Romulan hand somewhere?
IDIC #4: I don't even know.
I'd really like to have a fourth IDIC thing, because, you know, four words. It's a nice number. Images can be arranged in a little grid. BUT. Not sure what I could use.
I'd thought maybe Madeline-the-alien, but she ended up looking like some strange Keenser thing. Especially when wet:
Then I tried to make her kiss Kelvin-medic-alien:
But a) those look silly, and b) Madeline's on the Enterprise, not the Kelvin, so um. Dammit.
Then I gave up and everybody had an orgy on my desk:
And also Spock caught a terrible space disease and his own leg started growing out of his head:
Poor Spock.
Specific for unknown IDIC 4:
1. Any ideas? I like Kelvin-medic's head. Any ideas as to what I could do with her?
2. Or, without Kelvin-medic. Ideas for a fourth piece (grouping, numbers, types of people)?
So that's all I have. Any suggestions or ideas or comments are welcome.
Then I started thinking about IDIC - Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations - which seems to me a) potentially porny, and b) a damn good philosophy.
And
melithiel said I should do strange alien porn.The upshot of all this is that I'm in the middle of making strange alien porn out of clay. Eventually, I'd like to get some nice photographs of these clay things with IDIC somewhere on them. There's no purpose to this, other than my own amusement, but. BUT. Here's where you come in, dear friends: I'm stuck. I need, for lack of a better word, art-betas. I've been putting some of this on
team_crackship but figured I'd alternate here and there to avoid spamming.These are works in progress. What I'm looking for, from you, is feedback both general & specific. General, as in, are they porny, do they work, is there anything off about them. Specific, as in, some of them have particular questions.
Blanket warning: this is PORN and therefore NSFW. It has clay people with BITS and also things that are STRANGE. But I hope it's, well, pretty, for porn.
Preview!
IDIC #1: Tentacle Guy
Medium: water-based red clay, oil-based white clay
Status: closest to being finished. The clay's still wet and can be played with.
The basic situation: a torso with some tentacles.
I've been playing with lighting and shadows:
And with the effect of having the clay really wet:
I like those pictures. Problems start arising when I try to get the IDIC in. I'd really REALLY like to have the whole phrase spelled out, so that it'd be comprehensible even to people who don't know Star Trek. But I'm having issues.
For instance, here's a shot with just the letters. I like the color & texture of the brown paper, but. I dunno.
Specific for tentacle guy:
1. Any good ideas for backgrounds, or for getting the IDIC in?
IDIC #2: Andorian/MaybeRomulan
Medium: red & white water-based clay
Status: Mid-modeling. Having some issues.
Here's the basic thing:
And from above:
The grey dude will get some antennae:
At the moment I'm a little pissed off with these guys, because - I dunno. Something's just off about it. I'm not entirely sure where I'm going.
Specific for Andorian:
1. I don't really know. Something's weird.
2. Brown dude. What should I do with his arms? They could just end, like they do. They could go out to the sides. There was a suggestion of putting one on Andorian's head, but I think there's something compositionally finicky about that.
3. Brown dude again. Leave him as generic humanoid, or try to specify a race? He could get tattoos and be a Sad-Romulan (the tattoos are for mourning, right?).
IDIC #3: Flowerpants
Medium: white water-based clay
Status: Chillin.
Okay, here's her story. There's an Alfred Bester book - I don't remember the title; the one with the soul shop and the guy and Glory the snake girl - and when Glory and the guy have their sex scene there's something about her "opening like a flower". Or something. I read this thing when I was maybe twelve, but that image stuck.
Later I read a fic where Gaila's green for reasons of photosynthesis. Flowerpants is clearly not green, but I suppose she could be Orion. Anyway.
She probably won't end up with tentacles, but I had some handy so I put them on her.
Specific for Flowerpants:
1. Is she too weird? Because I kind of like her.
2. Her, um, flower needs some work, because the clay is awfully sticky at that scale. If I were to make the flower out of whitish modeling clay, would it no longer look like a part of her?
3. Who or what should she be partnered with, if anybody? I'm not up for anything super elaborate. Maybe a tattooed Romulan hand somewhere?
IDIC #4: I don't even know.
I'd really like to have a fourth IDIC thing, because, you know, four words. It's a nice number. Images can be arranged in a little grid. BUT. Not sure what I could use.
I'd thought maybe Madeline-the-alien, but she ended up looking like some strange Keenser thing. Especially when wet:
Then I tried to make her kiss Kelvin-medic-alien:
But a) those look silly, and b) Madeline's on the Enterprise, not the Kelvin, so um. Dammit.
Then I gave up and everybody had an orgy on my desk:
And also Spock caught a terrible space disease and his own leg started growing out of his head:
Poor Spock.
Specific for unknown IDIC 4:
1. Any ideas? I like Kelvin-medic's head. Any ideas as to what I could do with her?
2. Or, without Kelvin-medic. Ideas for a fourth piece (grouping, numbers, types of people)?
So that's all I have. Any suggestions or ideas or comments are welcome.
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Date: 2010-02-03 11:24 pm (UTC)I worked on Andorian some, yeah. I think
They're on hold until the weekend so I can get schoolwork done. :P
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Date: 2010-02-04 08:03 pm (UTC)Do you have an oven?!
Or are you going to bring them somewhere to bake them?
Because I want you to take a picture of the dude's face when you hand it over for baking :D :D :D :D
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Date: 2010-02-05 02:52 am (UTC)Nah, if I like them enough to want to keep, I'll just let them airdry. Don't even know where there's a kiln around here.