A Noble Use of Lunch

[tealin]

Warning: There are a couple of scantily-clad handmaidens behind the cut, so ... be warned.


I managed to get over my absolutely wretched drawing days and come up with some stuff that, while not particularly genius in itself, didn't feel like repeatedly running into a brick wall at speed while drawing it. It was such a relief to get the pencil moving again that I stayed up way later than I should have last night ...


There's a mention of how interdimensional travel might have funny side effects, in The Science of Discworld III, and indeed one of the wizards comes back with a morbid fear of feet. The drawing is hraka from the bad drawing days but the idea was funny...


A couple of Chidders ... I'm having doubts as to whether it's actually Chidder who's the freckly one from the beginning but it's too late now. Yes, he looks like Fred/George. That's kind of who he is ... can you imagine Fred and George at the Assassin's Guild? Hah! That would be brilliant.


I momentarily forgot she had long hair while drawing #2 and tried to go for the Egyptian wig thing. I don't know nearly enough about Egyptian costume, but luckliy the smallest bikini that can still serve its purpose looks roughly the same everywhere. (I could have made it smaller, but ... nrgh.)
I first read Pyramids when El Dorado was still fresh in my mind, so Ptraci has (understandably) Chel-like flavours.


Okay, he looks like about 2,517 other characters. Yeah. And I forgot his staff, or just didn't want to draw it, I don't remember.


Some Teppics. The first one looks too much like Lupin, and the second (which I like much more) rather obviously reflects my casting bias ... but I like it.


Every time I read Small Gods, I try to draw Brutha again, and every time I get a little closer ...

If any of these are really gigantic on your screen, please leave a comment ... I can't judge accurately with my GIANT HUMONGO HIGH-RES CINTIQ!!!

Now I have three minutes in which to eat...

2:39 pm
An observation upon listening to GP (again): The Tump Tower. [facepalm] How many times have I read this and I only get that now?

Comments

[fryingpanofdoom.livejournal.com]

Now that you've read Thud!, is Going Postal still the favorite? It seemed to me it wasn't that funny, so I'm not sure it's mine.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. Still so favourite. Not funny? Not funny? It seemed to me the funniest since ... well, since before The Fifth Elephant anyway. Maybe it's just my particular sense of humour, but so many things in that book had me chuckling for days. Pin collecting, being raised by peas, the sombre suit, the knife for murdering bastards, the feathers drifting down at the end, and Ridcully's bit with tuning the Omniscope that I don't want to spoil for anyone who hasn't read it because it's my favourite one-off gag in the whole thing. [happy sigh] And so many others.

Of course the main reason for liking it is the way you get to ride the character arc from the inside, and Moist has an entertaining brain to sit in...

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[fryingpanofdoom.livejournal.com]

No, no, I meant Thud! not being as funny. Somehow it was too dark and cute at the same time to be funny. I didn't laugh out loud once during Thud (although I did gasp and go awww).

Going Postal, I think, is one of the funniest. That and Monstrous Regiment still make me laugh each time I read them. Every darn chapter title makes me laugh!

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

YES! The chapter headings!! How could I forget!

No, Thud! wasn't terribly funny. It was dramatic and gripping and lots of other good things. But not exactly hilarious.

Though 'That's not my daddy!' pretty much made up for the lack of humour in the rest of the book... heehee.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, and the fact that I break into a goofy grin whenever I so much as walk past a post office. That brightens innumerable days.