May? already? meep.

[ratcreature]

My drawing activity this year so far has been largely non-existent. This is depressing me in a somewhat self-reinforcing, vicious cycle. And not even the added pressure of public commitment helped any. (Yeah, I have not forgotten that poll, I just suck.)

However, I have yet to fail a drawble meme. So as I'm obviously not achieving what I want to wrt actual fanart, I'm lowering the target from "produce a drawing" to "produce a doodle". (Kind of like shifting definitions around to get better looking statistics.) And I have decided to offer sketches based on comment prompts. I'll do my best for any fandom I'm familiar with, or random stuff (monsters, steampunk machines, animals...) or I can just pick prompts from your interests. I don't draw porn though, and I'm not good at portrait likeness.

Considering that I now crosspost to three places, it isn't really workable to promise things like "the first X prompts will get a drawble", so just comment with something, and I'll try my best. (In the past I've usually managed to draw something for everyone who prompted me for these non-demanding, open drawble offers, but with the way my creativity and motivation seems to have shriveled and died recently, who knows.)

If you want to see the quality (or lack thereof) you can expect, look at the drawble tag.

Also, I currently have five Dreamwidth invites in case anyone should still want one. (My flist was rather flooded with offers, so I'm not sure whether there's even still demand for them.) Anyway, if you want an invite you can comment, and I'll give those I have to the first five people in order of the comment notifications I get. I'll edit this post if/when I got five requests.

BTW, of course you can ask for both an invite and a sketch or one or the other, the two are not connected, I just didn't want to make separate posts.

P.S.: Why is the Dreamwidth spell check broken? Does anyone else get a "Spell checker not set up properly." response when they click the spell check button?

Comments

*pokes masked nose in shyly*

[ilyena_sylph]

Are you at all familiar with Tad Williams' Memory Sorrow and Thorn series?

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[ratcreature]

No, sorry. I've never heard of that.

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[ilyena_sylph]

*laughs* Nah, you're not under a rock. If you wanted to do a drawble for someone you've maybe seen once or twice, anything out of my interests would be great (speaking of which, I need to go add Tad...

Re: *pokes masked nose in shyly*

[ratcreature]

Sure, I'm glad anyone is interested at all. Here is your sketch, I picked Terminator and gardening from your interests, I hope you like it:

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[katarik]

That is just all *kinds* of adorable!

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[ratcreature]

Thank you!

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[ilyena_sylph]

...Ratcreature, it's you. I've lurked your art and journal for ages!

I'm just... trying to be braver on Dee-dub than I've been on LJ.

Also, thank you so much, is awesome!!!

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[ratcreature]

Heh, it's not like I ever pick a different name if I can get this one. Glad to see you come out of lurkerdom more.

And I'm happy to hear you like your drawble.

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[copracat]

Ha ha ha! This is bending my brain, it's so incongruous and delightful.

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[ratcreature]

Thanks. The incongruous combinations are most fun to draw.

[katarik]

Do you follow the GIRL GENIUS webcomic at all? I would *adore* a drawble of Zeetha.

[ratcreature]

No, I don't know that webcomic. Sorry.

[katarik]

Nah, not a problem. Hope your draw-fu gets sparked by somebody's comment!

[ratcreature]

Not that you asked, but I looked at your interests, and drew you something anyway:

[katarik]

Well, didn't want to bug you, but oh, man, am I ever glad you were so kind! Seriously, I *cackled out loud*, oh man, Snape's FACE. Slade's SWORD. HIS BOOTS, LOOKIT HIS BOOTS, GLEE. Oh, man, this is AWESOMESAUCE.

[ratcreature]

I'm glad you like it! (It's not like people lined up to prompt me...)

[katarik]

*recs in journal, gleeful cackling all the way*

snape v. deathstroke deathmatch

[ilyena_sylph]

Eee! Snape! Slade! Eeee!

Oh, his boots are perfect!

*needs slade icon

Re: snape v. deathstroke deathmatch

[ratcreature]

I'm happy you like it.

re: P.S.

[auburn]

I get that message too. It ends with =banner, which baffles me. But since I forget to spellcheck 99% of the time, I've been letting it slide. I'm sure someone else has lodged a inquiry.

Your gardening Terminator is a enough to scare the weeds away! Adorable.

Re: P.S.

[ratcreature]

I've filed a support request, and got the reply that the thing is broken, but they are aware of it, so I guess it'll be fixed soonish. I mostly wondered whether it could be because of my imported style, because a little while ago when the preview didn't work it was because of that, but apparently this is something else.

But I'm glad you like the Terminator. Certainly if I had a reprogrammable one and a garden that thing would do all the digging and weeding and such...

[telesilla]

*dies* Gardening Terminator is AWEOME!

If the offer's still open, I'd love anything SGA and/or steampunkish.

[ratcreature]

Yeah, the offer is still open, here is an SGA + steampunk drawble. John and Rodney find a raygun:

[telesilla]

Eeeeeeeee! Thank you! I love it so!

[ratcreature]

I'm glad you're happy with it.

[forestgreen]

Awesome! I love both their expressions.

[ratcreature]

Thanks. I'm sure they'd have fun with a raygun.

[anatsuno]

whee! that is awesome. :)

[ratcreature]

Thanks!

[mrkinch]

Gorgeous and adorable! I see McKay is already pushing buttons.^^

[ratcreature]

Well, they are not the most cautious bunch... (he could be just running diagnostics with the tablet though)

And thanks for commenting, I'm glad you like it.

[cerise]

It's wonderful. I love the way McKay is getting ready to press buttons and John's expression.

[ratcreature]

Thank you.

[salsgal]

This is made of steampunk awesome! I can just hear John's 'Cool!' and Rodney's pleased little hum as he pokes at things and proceeds to figure it all out - and then make it better, natch. =)

[ratcreature]

Thank you. I'm glad you like it.

[copracat]

This one makes me dance with glee! What a fantastic machine with all its pipes and coils and cogs and tubes. Love John's expression, his hair and his thigh holster :)

[ratcreature]

Thanks. Quirky machines are fun to draw (as long as you don't try to go for plausible functions for the stuff *lol*).

[velocitygrass]

Very cool!

[ratcreature]

Thanks!

[slashbluegreen]

thanks for the invite! :-)

[ratcreature]

You're welcome.

[slashbluegreen.livejournal.com]

I'd love to have an DW invite!

[ratcreature]

I've sent just sent it to your email below. I'll screen that comment, so that it won't get picked up as easily by spambots.

[ane.livejournal.com]

I'd take an invite if you still have one.

[ratcreature]

Yeah, I still have four left, so I'm more than happy to send you one. To the email on your profile?

[ane.livejournal.com]

Yes, please. Thanks.

[ratcreature]

I sent you one.