About a week, two pizzas, and a crapload of inking and painting later and these punks are DONE.
Individual and team wallpapers forthcoming, for now you guys get the dA group shot. After I cut the wallpaper versions, I go onto the next phase of network customizing… which involves sprites and seeing how much Flash ActionScript I can remember.
And this is on top of prepping the AP podcast graphics. But that seems laughably easy compared to this, since those are mostly a ton of variations of the same thing (much like drawing skit portraits for RT).

And now… I really need to go do something else for awhile.

Nin nin~

…and old man is ooooooold.

That finishes my side of the network. As far as mother’s side goes, only Jin (ink and paint) and Tsunami (paint) are left. Unless the rest of Yggdrasil’s parts arrive today (I’m sure to at least get his mobo), I’m going to see about plodding through the last two Avatars so that I can distro to wallpapers. Individuals, two teams of 3, and one with all six.

First, an update to the Yggdrasil situation.

I tweeted this earlier but didn’t get a chance to elaborate further.
Thanks to some… unexpected assistance from mother (who cannot fathom the thought of leaving a system incomplete until January), Yggdrasil will be brought online next week. Yeah, she actually wants Iggy finished faster than I do. WTF, right?

I am surely overthinking this and should be squeeing my pants off over getting the coins needed to get the needed replacement parts sooner rather than later. I guess I’m just too used to these things being giant traps. Which, of course, this PROBABLY IS, but mother insists, so…

Bonus awesome: I had enough Wells Fargo rewards points piled up to generate a $25 Amazon eCert. Awesome because I could use it immediately. I was literally seconds from submitting the Amazon order when at the last moment I raided my rewards status to see if there was anything I could do to slash the grand total further. That eCert dropped the total from $206 to $181, w00t!

So, if all goes well, I’ll have a Yggdrasil on the network sometime next week. :D

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And now, time for some more Avatar WIPs!

Onyx is colored! Again, a full-size version will be released when all six are done.

Dinah gets inked. I have to move the layers to get all of her because of her high ponytail.

Tsunami got inked too. Ah, this makes me miss archery class…

Literally minutes after I posted that WIP, mother came by to ask about Iggy (she thought he was working even though I told her I’d inherited bad parts and couldn’t fix it until January). Seems I’ll be getting coins to fund parts replacement– namely, the difference between it and the deposit from my VPI checks. o.O

Trap fodder? Oh yes. But she insists– seriously, I told mother I didn’t mind waiting until January to get Iggy’s mobo and she’s all “What? No :( That’s too long to wait!” So I guess that’s decided. Better go price out the parts I need to get the final coin count…

I’m getting her at least some Starbucks for this, if not an IHOP raid (I still need to burn up this Visa gift card before December hits and non-usage fees kick in…). >_>

On a mildly-spooky other front… uh, Dinah? You’d better not be going Squirtle on me. Ever since I slapped 7 on her, sometimes Dinah will auto-hibernate after standing idle in screensaver mode for awhile. Her fans are running high, yes, but she doesn’t get THAT hot. (SpeedFan says Dinah tops out around 145F most of the time, and she’s run WAY hotter than that before.) Hm. Well, at least it’s auto-hibernate rather than SUDDEN SHUTDOWN. It could also be a hidden power-saving setting I’ve overlooked. I’ll have to poke around in there.

As opposed to yesterday’s insane amounts of lazy… today I was stricken by… I dunno, some kind of freak artist ADD or something. o.O

SUDDENLY, AVATARS. SIX OF THEM.

Blastoise gets another revision. Don’t mind his crappy-looking spear, I’m bringing back the one from the last version since that one was actually badass.
He gets a mix of Jade and Balmung armor this time. As learned from the Aries FE bromide, sometimes it’s really worth cranking up the detail. >_>
Blastoise is all about KILL IT WITH SPEAR, but he’s a decent offensive caster (after all… LOL HYDRO PUMP).

Dinah gets a detail upgrade, too. Makes her look slightly more like a Disgaea ninja as far as the lower half of her goes. Ditched the double-saber for a ninja dagger this time (though I would imagine Avatars could literally yank their weapons out of subspace or what-have-you as needed). It’s all about flipping out and killing stuff quickly, and she can use low-level debuffing ninjutsu. Nin nin~

Old man Yggdrasil gets a slight tweak to his robes to make him look a little more like Phil. Note the bubbles coming from his pipe. XD
He is a badass old guy, meaning magic and nothing but! Offense and healing, there is nothing beyond his grasp!

And now, mother’s half of the network! Enter Tsunami. She is, as you can tell, based on a Disgaea healer. Why not? :P
In a way she’s kind of a successor to the retired unit Lapras, because Tsunami has a bow. Obviously, she’s a badass healer, matched only by Yggdrasil in oomph.

Onyx, who is huge, heavily armored and has a giant freaking hammer. I guess he’s sorta like a Disgaea-brand heavy knight. He’s not much of a magic-user, aside from a couple of spells he can cast to boost defense.

And then there is Jin… based on, you know, that badass dude in Xenosaga. You don’t see his weapon but assume he’s packing a katana anyway. (like… Sephiroth-length). His magic is more like a FFT Samurai’s “Draw Out” thing.