cloudmonet's pix, new pg 5- 11/11/05

[cloudmonet]

I've started making illustrations for some of my stories. These might be categorized as screenshots modified beyond all recognition, but there's a lot of trackpad painting added.



The first one, the "Mona Kimberly," is for a story I'm still working on.



The second one, "Shego at Taishu Falls," is the opening scene of "Save the Whales."

Shego sat on a chair that had seen better days, watching the morning sun through a curtain of falling water. She wore a green peasant blouse with black embroidery and loose black stretch pants. Her hands rested on her swollen belly. She got up and walked to the cave entrance, peering to one side of the water at the thick jungle below, and up at the pale blue sky with patches of white clouds. She sighed and walked to the back of the cave, bent down to lift up the sliding door, and walked through tunnels and opened doors to walk into the back rooms she shared with her husband, Drakken.

www.carlmillerpoems.com/606savethewhales.html

[trollis]

Cool pics cloudmonet

MvH Anders "Trollis" Bernhardsson

[molonuk]

My jaw is wide open...those are superb and hard to think they came from screencaps!

[cloudmonet]

Okay, I'll explain how I did "Shego at Taishu Falls" since I remember the details better.

The background came from "Twin Factor" of course, from the moment when an angry Shego was chasing Drakken out of the lair. I painted them out, using colors sampled from the background. Then I used the photoshop selection tool to select the green area around the cave mouth. While this was selected (it prevents painting anywhere but in the selected area), I made a lighter and darker green paint, and used this to shade the entrance, then same thing with the browns. I used the smudge tool on the waterfall to make it look slightly more painterly.

The chair was originally the dilapidated couch from Motor Ed's junkyard. I squashed it horizontally to make it into a chair, changed the color with "hue/saturation," painted out the centerline, and added arms.

Shego's face and upper body came from "Mother's Day." The rest of her body, mostly from the "Kimitation Nation" bathing suit shot. I had to unfold her. Shego never seems to sit normally, much less like a pregnant woman sits, so I had lots of work to do here. She's always got her knees folded tight, or slouching some weird way, or something. I had to redraw her feet by hand-- the Kimitation feet look like molerat feet! Then, of course, I had to draw her new clothes. The shirt's genuine Shego green sampled from her uniform. Then I shaded her shirt, pants, and skin, and fussed with everything till it finally looked just right.

[Carbon]

Mona Lisa Kim.... nice that makes me want to do a similar 'sticking KP chars in famous art' idea i've been kicking around for a while.

[cloudmonet]

Teenaged Tweebs! (and girlfriends)-- From left to right, Tim, Katie (Tara's younger sister), Jill Mankey (Josh's younger sister, and Jim. From my new story, "Art Attack."
www.carlmillerpoems.com/609artattack.html

You realize, in real life, there's no way the tweebs, with their little concave button noses, are going to grow up to have long convex noses like their dad, but that's what "A Sitch in Time" shows happening, so I did what I could. And it's not easy turning Josh Mankey's face into a pretty girl, either. The result, as I foresaw when I tried to imagine how she would look, is very like Bonnie (except the nose). I could have said, maybe, like Kim, Jill Mankey wasn't cursed with Dad's nose, but then she would have been exactly like Bonnie.

[trollis]

That is an awsome pic cloudmonet

MvH Anders "Trollis" Bernhardsson

[aliciamartin]

they are great good job i love the Shego and the teewb ones great job

[cloudmonet]

For those of you who collected "Shego at Taishu Falls," above, you might want to take another look at her. I fixed a few minor details about her hands and sleeves that gradually seemed wrong.

Here's a new one, "Yori and Hirotaka," illustrating my story, "Ninjas on the River." She's the hero, he's the sidekick, saving eastern Asia from evil.

www.carlmillerpoems.com/605ninjasontheriver.html

[zoza]

Those are amazing. I love them all, esp. the one with the tweebs. Jill Mankey looks a little like a mix of Josh Mankey and Bonnie, is Bonnie her mom by any chance?

[cloudmonet]

What I realized, trying to imagine Josh having a younger sister, is that she probably would resemble Bonnie. Same squinty eyes, same hair color, similar head shape (ignoring Josh's swept-back hair). Primary differences, that nose, and the widow's peak hairline.

I thought it would be fun to write a story with a subplot involving tweebs who've discovered girls. You know how it is when you come home from college-- everything's different!

When (based on one of our crazy poll threads), I paired Josh Mankey and Tara as an engaged couple, I thought maybe they could both have younger sisters who've become close friends, and there's my girlfriends for the Tweebs.

[zoza]

cloudmonet said:

What I realized, trying to imagine Josh having a younger sister, is that she probably would resemble Bonnie. Same squinty eyes, same hair color, similar head shape (ignoring Josh's swept-back hair). Primary differences, that nose, and the widow's peak hairline.
I thought it would be fun to write a story with a subplot involving the tweebs who've discovered girls. You know how it is when you come home from college-- everything's different! When (based on one of our crazy poll threads), I paired Josh Mankey and Tara as another engaged couple, I thought maybe they could both have younger sisters who've become close friends, and here's girlfriends for the Tweebs at least with connections to established characters.

It's a cute idea :-)

[cloudmonet]

Here's my newest picture, "Kim's dorm room," from my fanfic story, "Big Monkeys."
www.carlmillerpoems.com/601bigmonkeys.html
I really like the way Kim's hair came out.

Kim pulled her keys out of her jeans pocket, turned the lock, and opened the door slowly. “No scream,” Kim whispered, turning on the light. Two small beds, one with a pink spread, one green, were at opposite ends of the room. In between, both closets were crammed with clothes, and the desk was crowded with computer equipment, CDs, and textbooks. “You know, I think Monique’s not here,” Kim said, stating the obvious with a bit of music in her voice. “You didn’t seem to be busy studying. Would you like to hang out with me for awhile?” She wiggled the fingers of her left hand to make the small diamond ring on her finger sparkle in the light.

[cloudmonet]

Welcome to Wade's secret engineering lab. You're looking at one of his server racks, wired together to make a supercomputer, and an eight-foot wide monitor screen, 5760 x 9216 pixels. Don't try to buy one of these. Wade's become the world's second richest 15 year old with his consulting firm, Lode Tech.

This picture's from my new story, "Finals Week."

www.carlmillerpoems.com/610finalsweek.html

[jmt2005791]

wow very good pics all of them are. i have a question is shego preganat in that pic it looks like it to me

[cloudmonet]

Yes, she's pregnant, Drakken's the baby's father, and they're married. (Perhaps to avoid being forced to testify against each other on their defense lawyer's advice, but the marriage became real, whether it was at the start or not.) They're laying low, hiding from 167 years of prison sentences for accumulated crimes. I'm gonna do a picture of her and Drakken together, maybe on the Greensleeves boat, just haven't got around to it. I should do one of the trial too.

[cloudmonet]

Happy Halloween, from the third floor of Mathom House
The elvish girl in purple is Belinda Brockmeyer, Felix's date.



based on my Halloween story, "Valley of the Monkeys."

www.carlmillerpoems.com/604valleyofthemonkeys.html

[Winterfrost]

Awesome!

[Blink]

HAHA, Ron's wearing tights!

Sheesh, could Kim be drawn any sexier? Nice Job again, cloudmonet.

[drakkenfan]

Awesome Halloween pic! You should enter it in FaZhou's KP Halloween drawing contest on DA.