Well, I hope at this point you've checked out this big thing I've got. No, not that. This. My first fanart! And trying to explain just how much I like it would be a wasted effort. Euphoric might be a good word to start with, though.

With that said, I'm now going to get into a couple nit-picky details about the pick, to give you all a better idea of the characters and my thoughts about them. Just in case you're doing fanart of your own, and want to remain close to my own "vision". Not that I'm not up for your own interpretations or ideas.

One thing is the fingers. I don't know how well it comes across in the comic (since my art is, well, crap), but I've tried to give him claw-like fingers. Just a little something to further distinguish him. And I'll be referring to "him", since I haven't really come up with a good name for what's going on there - "Tim bonded with Sym" is the idea, but a bit of a mouthful. Another point - I've tried to draw him a little more buff. The idea, again, is that his strenth is increased. Here it looks like I've lost 150 pounds. But that's 10er's style...I'm certainly not going to fault him for it. ("In fact, that's why we love you." - Dr. Zoidberg) And the color. 10er actually contacted me to ask about his color before sending it to me. And I actually had to think about it, since I didn't give too much thought to it before. Sure, it's easy to keep him gray, especially sine you get used to him in that color, due to the fact that I'm too lazy to color my comic. But the shade that he is there, I think looks good. Plus, he can always change ;-)

And now the big point I wanted to make. Again, I'm not criticizing the pic - these are just my thoughts, for future reference. Sym wouldn't pop out on his own when he and Tim are in that fully-bonded stage. Sure, he pops out all the time when he's "going for a ride", so to speak, but my idea was that the mouth (and to a lesser extent, the eyes) of the full-bond were from Sym himself. So you wouldn't have the two mouths going on like that.

I just want to reiterate again just how much I really, really like this pic. (Oh, I'm sorry, anyone else - please don't be discouraged!)

It's late as I write this, so I'm sorry if my thoughts seem half-finished. I might edit this entry if I think I can improve on it, we'll see.
posted by Tim at 12:29 AM