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motetusI could spend my entire life drawing nothing but the most beautiful, magnificent, explicit gay porn, and still all I'd be known for would be this stupid duck. WHY DIDN'T I JUST DRAW SERVIUS PLACIDUS' GIANT THROBBING UNDERWATER ERECTION?
On Friday I had the creature known as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ainsoph15 turn up on my doorstep bearing cupcakes and a certain Pleistocene mammal*, and therefore I had the task of keeping her fed and watered and entertained for the weekend. For the first I had toad-in-the-hole (now with extra batter!), for the second gin and tea and port, and for the third I dragged her to the university museum, mainly because I thought it was finally time I said a proper hello to the T-rex skeleton I walk past every day on the way to work. One of these days I will go back there again with my camera to document the sarcophagi of these two ancient Egyptians buried in the same tomb who were totally gay for each other (names suggested they were brothers but they were very clearly not, and they were buried with little dolls inscribed with each other's name. Aww!), but the point of this post is what we found in the museum gift shop.
Paint-your-own rubber duckies.
Yes. Fabric store for supplies, back home, stayed up late (and this morning) trying not to accidentally drink the paint water instead of our G&Ts and sever arteries with aluminium shards and nails and needles. So uh, say hello to Centurion Ducky and his little Brigantes friend, everyone.
If we'd been a bit more organised we would have taken progress photos, but we weren't. I think it's fairly obvious what we did though - all the metal stuff is from aluminium cans and very thin wire. Which was why we needed to drink those G&Ts, yes. ALCOHOL FOR ART.
Off on their wee ducky adventures. Apologies for the rather boring setting - I would have taken them outside for better lighting and scenery, but have you seen how miserable it is out there today?
Brigantes Ducky and the totally unsubtle tattoos I gave him. They are dark blue, really! Evil camera magic has sort of killed off how blue they and his tartan cloak are. Yes, that's his little dagger too.
Centurion Ducky in more detail. I cannot claim any credit for the beautiful metalwork on the helmet and lorica segmentata, that was allainsoph15's work. I would have ended up with many fingers missing had I tried to do it. And anyone suggesting that the top of the helmet needs to be more rounded should try persuading the wife to let us construct a miniature blacksmith's forge in the living room.
Aww, duckies. ♥♥♥
* It's official. I have a mammoth collection. :D
His name is Mrc. Because he is big and soft. YAY MAMMOTH.
On Friday I had the creature known as
ainsoph15 turn up on my doorstep bearing cupcakes and a certain Pleistocene mammal*, and therefore I had the task of keeping her fed and watered and entertained for the weekend. For the first I had toad-in-the-hole (now with extra batter!), for the second gin and tea and port, and for the third I dragged her to the university museum, mainly because I thought it was finally time I said a proper hello to the T-rex skeleton I walk past every day on the way to work. One of these days I will go back there again with my camera to document the sarcophagi of these two ancient Egyptians buried in the same tomb who were totally gay for each other (names suggested they were brothers but they were very clearly not, and they were buried with little dolls inscribed with each other's name. Aww!), but the point of this post is what we found in the museum gift shop.Paint-your-own rubber duckies.
Yes. Fabric store for supplies, back home, stayed up late (and this morning) trying not to accidentally drink the paint water instead of our G&Ts and sever arteries with aluminium shards and nails and needles. So uh, say hello to Centurion Ducky and his little Brigantes friend, everyone.
If we'd been a bit more organised we would have taken progress photos, but we weren't. I think it's fairly obvious what we did though - all the metal stuff is from aluminium cans and very thin wire. Which was why we needed to drink those G&Ts, yes. ALCOHOL FOR ART.
Off on their wee ducky adventures. Apologies for the rather boring setting - I would have taken them outside for better lighting and scenery, but have you seen how miserable it is out there today?
Brigantes Ducky and the totally unsubtle tattoos I gave him. They are dark blue, really! Evil camera magic has sort of killed off how blue they and his tartan cloak are. Yes, that's his little dagger too.
Centurion Ducky in more detail. I cannot claim any credit for the beautiful metalwork on the helmet and lorica segmentata, that was all
ainsoph15's work. I would have ended up with many fingers missing had I tried to do it. And anyone suggesting that the top of the helmet needs to be more rounded should try persuading the wife to let us construct a miniature blacksmith's forge in the living room.Aww, duckies. ♥♥♥
* It's official. I have a mammoth collection. :D
His name is Mrc. Because he is big and soft. YAY MAMMOTH.
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Date: 2011-12-04 08:21 pm (UTC)stalk youfollow your journal can come and admire them too!And I love the woolly mammoth too! Yes Mrc is perfect because he is big and soft. And not sharp. :D
Thanks for sharing
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Date: 2011-12-04 08:53 pm (UTC)I think I need a stuffed baby sabre-toothed tiger to name Esc and keep Mrc company...
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Date: 2011-12-04 08:32 pm (UTC)I LOVE IT ALL.
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Date: 2011-12-04 08:58 pm (UTC)That centurion crest is indeed feathers from feather boa-like material. Should I ever get bored and decide to do modernAU!duckies, I can totally make stripper Duckies with the rest of it.
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Date: 2011-12-04 08:34 pm (UTC)AND THE MAMMOTH ♥ I WANT TO CUDDLE HIM.
Also, I would pay good money to have my very own Centurion!ducky and Brigantes!ducky so if you are ever short of money and feel like making more... ;)
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Date: 2011-12-04 09:03 pm (UTC)Ha, not that we didn't have lots of fun making these, but they took SO LONG. Probably about... at least 7 hours with both of us working on them? But aside from the time they weren't too difficult, you could probably make your own quite easily! :D
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Date: 2011-12-04 08:45 pm (UTC)It's never too late for a second version ;>)
And congrats on the duckies and the plush mammoth. So cute!
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Date: 2011-12-04 09:16 pm (UTC)AND MRC! Aw, nice thing to cuddle up to on these horrid cold rainy nights.
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Date: 2011-12-04 09:33 pm (UTC)Mrc is just awesome for snuggling. If only I could train him to make tea, I'd have no need for the wife...
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Date: 2011-12-04 09:28 pm (UTC)!
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I am speechless. These are just too cute!
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Date: 2011-12-04 10:23 pm (UTC)Glad you like them!
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Date: 2011-12-04 09:44 pm (UTC)LOOK AT THOSE AWESOME PHOTOS!!! Heh, there is no doubt now that the duckies really did come out properly yellow, after all our angsting and the all-important three layers of paint *g* Ha ha, yeah, progress photos. THERE WAS NO TIME FOR PROGRESS PHOTOS. WE WERE ON A SCHEDULE, DAMMIT. I totally misread this part of the itinerary of our adventures - for the second gin and tea and port as describing our dinner last night, BECAUSE IT TOTALLY WAS. BEST DINNER EVER :D It is probably a good thing that we did not imbibe more, or I think one or both of us would have ended up in A&E, and we would have been featured on one of those delightful Channel 5 programmes documenting the most embarrassing reasons for ending up in the emergency room - 'Well, you see, nice Mr Doctor, there were these rubber duckies and an Eagle...'
Thank you again for an almost bearable weekend. I suppose that your toad-in-the-hole was tolerable and the company adequate, and I had a reasonably good time ♥ ♥ ♥
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Date: 2011-12-04 11:25 pm (UTC)I will save the awkward embarrassing TV appearence for when I try to make Placidus and Seal Prince duckies. Set your TV timer! I'll even try and have the wife in the background going "No doctor, I'm not with this woman. Never seen her before in my life."
Thank you for coming over! It was an awesome weekend, and I am most sorry for all the cold over-steeped tea I inflicted on you.
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Date: 2011-12-04 10:10 pm (UTC)I love the way that Centurion Ducky has taken on a whole life of his own since you created him. In his own way he has given as much pleasure as a drawing of Placidus's man-bits in all their underwater glory could possibly have done... and there's nothing to say that you can't draw those as well!
(And hey, I don't just remember you for the duck - there is the pervy seagull too... *g*)
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Date: 2011-12-05 12:04 am (UTC)Heh, I choose to believe that Placidus' penis would have been every bit as popular had I painted that instead. There would be penis icons, fondant penises, and Channing Tatum would first mistake it for an red throbbing eagle before saying he liked it... :D
YAY PERVY SEAGULL! I'm glad he gets some love too!
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Date: 2011-12-04 10:51 pm (UTC)Also, I'm fascinated about these two Egyptians you talk about! I heard something similar on class a while ago!
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Date: 2011-12-05 01:42 pm (UTC)I shall go back to the museum for a more thorough explanation. :D
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Date: 2011-12-04 10:59 pm (UTC)WHY DIDN'T I JUST DRAW SERVIUS PLACIDUS' GIANT THROBBING UNDERWATER ERECTION?
May I just say that I am sitting here cackling.
You will never see the back of these ducks, I fear, especially not given this latest endeavour. How do you have the patience and talent to do these things?? BRIGANTES DUCKY'S MINIATURE LITTLE DAGGER. I ACTUALLY CAN'T.
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Date: 2011-12-04 11:59 pm (UTC)The details are incredible, the breastplate, helmet, and the wee little eagle necklace! <3
Why didn't I think to make a tattooed Brigantes companion for fondant!ducky? Blast! I mean, look at how much cuter they are together!
"and still all I'd be known for would be this stupid duck" --- Aww, that's not true, you'll be known for your gorgeous explicit gay porn AND centurion!ducky. It's a win-win! :D
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Date: 2011-12-05 03:01 pm (UTC)Wait, what? I draw explicit gay porn now? Why did no-one tell me this?! I thought it was all baby animals and G-rated scenarios with Marcus looking protective of the baby animals. :P
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Date: 2011-12-05 12:42 am (UTC)Man. and I can't even sew buttons.
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