A week of me fighting a bizarre urge to draw Selenis with a king-size head mercifully comes to a close!
Added 3 new A* comics:Okay so you may be wondering about the head thing. In fact maybe you saw it, but I've been stealth editing the big heads away slowly and steadily: her dome is about down to a respectably non-enormous size in dailies 74 and 82 and the corresponding art gallery entries now. If you did see it: cherish the horrid memories of Alien(s) and peanut-shaped Selenis heads! Hopefully I don't keep doing it anymore, it's a real pain to keep trying to fix. I think it's probably due to me never having tried to draw a woman with a crew-cut before, not to mention at bizarre foreshortened angles: where does the short hair end, and the skull begin? Did I leave enough millimeters for hair above the scalp? If I go back in there and carve out some individual hairs, is it going to shrink her head? Is this scale right? Am I just secretly attracted to girls with Cerebro-scale brains? Maaan the existential questions come thick and fast in this scenario.
While I'm on the subject, lest you thought drawing A* went smoothly even when not having the swelled head problem (*cough*), I present you with another horrifying rendition of the woman:
This was my process of trying to draw her today: I wanted the face toward the viewer, head angled slightly down, eyes glaring out straight ahead. Very often my first attempt fails to capture the look I want, but usually when that happens, I realize it right away. This time, I fought against the goofy expression, too-plain facial layout and too-level angle (top row, left)--not to mention a bizarre stoned vampire look--for a while, and things got worse and worse (top row, right). Egads!
What you have to do in a situation like that is just junk the thing and start over. So I started again (bottom row, left), and this time it went--for me--fairly smoothly, although you'll see that it took me a while and a lot of futzing to settle on the amount of shadow I wanted around the eyes (bottom row, right).
That's all I have to torture you with for now other than these last two gallery entries for the week (and the usual early-Sunday-morning Princess and the Giant update), so have a nice weekend! (Click these for the full-size gallery versions:)
Oh wait here's a brain-puzzler for you that had me pouring over bizarre cosmological phenomena and summaries of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity on Wikipedia this week: How fast is gravity?
(Answer: apparently nobody knows yet! Scientists are assuming it's the speed of light, but haven't had a way to test that theory. What if it's slower than light, even just in certain situations? Massive implications for cosmology! Maybe we aren't headed toward an infinitely expanding universe after all! Maybe all estimates of billions-of-light-years distances are significantly off-target! Maybe we could explain why planes flying by towers and stars at the edges of galaxies move faster than expected, and why the Voyager spacecraft are moving slower than expected as they try to escape the Sun's gravity into interstellar space!
Bonus questions:
- What is gravity? A property of matter? A geometric curvature of spacetime? A force? A particle? A wave?
- Ditto for magnetism! (This one's a *little* easier.)
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