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that's right, voice!
meet inks, a little fellow i came up /w back when i was fighting 3d modeling
(evil 3d... )
i think he's a cartoon version of me
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Sound? Oh, best turn the speaker on! Your legs ARE very thin and I'm a bit worried about your envelope head. I think we see now why the police are so interested in you. Wearing purple stripes...were they the fashion police, ha ha. It's late, I stared at this for far too long (enviously) and I'm beginning to ramble. In fact, you are keeping me from my bed and you're not even a book, explain yourself!
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(i'm such a rebel)
reader note: "inks" throughout is a reference to the character; a name, not a noun.
i've never liked using capitals, not to mention other characteristic 'mistakes'.
i was beginning to feel like i was at the wrong school. (heh... again.)
'listening' to some lecture, i got the idea 'gee- what would i look like as a cartoon character...' (many others had flashy toon-selfs, and i handn't ever tried to draw one). so i picked up one of the thousand black bics i had myself armed with and proceeded to scratch out, on the reverse side of a rather unfriendly spiral notebook (the wires always manage to get me), the rough lines that would become inks.
fortunately, inks solved one of my problems in a 3d class i was attending at the time- i was able to sculpt him out and complete a render, something i had been unable to accomplish.
so that's the story of inks.
explanation of the visuals?
i have naturally wavey hair, and as i had been getting up at 4:30/5 in order to catch the bus- combing it wasn't an immediate concern of mine (it's always been impossible for me to style anyways...).
skinny legs? i like spiders. gave myself spider legs 
i capture and release spiders i find in my basement room. creepy, i know. and what more? i remember playing with black widow spiders from as young as 6. i'd have fun waking them up to watch their long black legs and shiny bodies dance across the chaotic mess that was their silky web. i'd eventually scream for mother after coming dreadfully close to being stung. (when you're young/immortal you'll do almost anything when you're bored, right? odd that i was living my teen years as a child.)
envelope head?
original inspiration was a marshmallow.
if my memory serves me correctly, i believe inks was 'born' around october; halloween. i had recently drawn a face on a marshmallow- don't remember exactly why (sometimes you just do things). the image stuck /w me.
the eyes remain glass-less.
i hadn't dealt with my vision problems yet, still haven't completely, (eventually i'll have to take on the corneas of cadavers) it's a genetic issue that's left me with really only one good eye.
so: didn't have glasses at the time, explaining their absence in the character's design.
as far as the color- there's two variations of the original black/white.
the 3d render features a pink body. why? well, with a marshmallow head- wouldn't a semi-edible body make for a perfect match? i chose double bubble bubble gum. (which was always one of my favorite candies from trick-or-treating later on in childhood. my early childhood years didn't have halloween, one reason being: we didn't live in a wonderful part of town. there were known razor-blade/poison issues in nearby areas, not to mention the tyrannical teens and touring bloods*)
the purple and white stripes in the version above are the result of a complication in flash.
many pieces have their own layers (experimenting). unfortunately, in order to color the toon with the paintbucket tool- shapes must be closed. the area close the the head is actually open, so i couldn't color that portion of the body. the 'quick fix' was to allow for white stripes, which actually turned out pretty cool (imo)
purple? i didn't like the visual of pink stripes (too bright when neighboring white stripes). purple's pretty much a darker pink.
~thaniel
*bloods: a serious gang. there was a park on the other side of the black-widow infested fence that i could rarely visit because of frequent gang vandalism. so i learned to play /w spiders.
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spiders v bloods hmm...just how a childhood should be!
Well I accept all of your explanations with great interest. Have never drawn on a marshmallow and now I'm a veggie can't even eat those yummy, delicious pink and white cubes (drool, drool) until someone makes them without out, I suppose it's gelatine, I'm not sure. If I could find one I could eat I'm sure drawing on it would be the last thing on my mind. That and turkish delight, sigh, although some types of turkish delight are ok. I love 'inks' anyway so keep up the good work.
Regarding spiders, as long as they are not too big I can bear them now since I took up buddhism (in the lowliest, least committed way possible except that I won't now kill anything if it can possibly be avoided). Having rescued one from the loo the other day it then proceeded to run around the back of the pan growing to at least 500 times larger than it had been when it was actually in the water and scaring me in a most ungrateful way I have to say. Thankfully it then ran (high speed of course as only spiders can) onto the empty toilet roll I'd just scooped it out with and could be thrown out of the window, with me squealing like a banshee the whole while. Scary stuff being kind to things!
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i'd like to think i could be a vegie- but, i'm afraid i like eating creatures too much 
"in the lowliest, least committed way possible" doesn't sound that way at all- moreover (imo) it's about how you interact with the world around you.
"scary stuff being kind to things!" plz don't try and save spiders that could bite you!
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tee hee! its great, like the stripes! that hair! its brill tho!
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a lovely cartoon version with hair style and purple...so cute
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thx
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hello to you to 
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it's really just frame by frame (some bits automatically repeated themselves thru the flash),
the hard part was getting sound to work
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thx, that i do (no lance armstrong... haha- shouldn't his name be legstrong?)
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