Wowza!! This picture has so much detail in it, it's astounding. Of course, the cuteness of Lisa as a little bird is in itself something worth a lot of praise, but i am going to stop on all the other details here. Your arm is well done! I know from experience that even having the model just in front of you, it is not enough to make a decent drawing of it if you dont know how to handle perspective.. and you did! Not perfectly, but you did

Details, details... details make a picture! The leaf, the window with the somewhat crumpled and grayed out buildings in the back, the dent of the wood in the windowpane, the wood itself and your arm's shadow. It all gives a settign to the picture... a mood of "being home. It's not the best home in the world, but it's my home... and yours if you want  ".

Lisa's posture is awesome. She really acts like a little bird.. leaning forward with her overbite/beak and keeping her arms just like her wings... congratulations for this idea and its realization.

This is truly a masterpic and i'm out of my mind with happyness knowing that you wanted to make it a gift for this new forum... i'm sure Dagdamor will be VERY happy too!

Thanks, thanks a lot!

I agree with Marco. This picture looks so great! You've paid alot of attention to the details, which makes the pic look very good.

Keep up the good work!

Woah,..I'm also not exactly sure what the pic means either However, that is some wonderfull shading work *me likes very very much *  Oh and lisa's pose is also extreamly cute ^^

Yggdrasill
True... but if you can see her and even virtually feed her with some grains, things are not so bad.

Anyway, back to reality... man, your recent art is SO impressive! Of course the first picture is my favorite (who would've doubt that ). I love the colored version! It's very cheerful, and sweet, and you have chosen probably the best moment from the story. Technically, the picture is very well done too; I love their poses, Maggie's big smile, Lisa's concerned expression... heh, I have no words, only emotions

The illustration to the "Gently" fanfic is also very good. I imagined that scene a bit different, but you pictured it nicely. What I like the most here, is Lisa's expression. I just see how she quietly asks Homer to take her to the hospital, being close to lose consciousness... and the dead monster under the bed looks very believable, too (nice monster "design", btw). Again, very good piece of art. I hope D.B. will see it eventually and will like it, it's his story after all.

"Lost our Maggie"... cute scene, though a bit scary you apparently have no problems with drawing characters in different poses and from different points of view, and that's good. Worried Marge looks very natural, and Lisa looking under the couch is pictured well. Homer... well, Homer is Homer.

The last picture has great shading. I'm at loss for words already, will only say it's surreal and strange... but still Simpsonic. Very interesting work, and very impressive.
Keep it up, what else to say?

There's some seriously good pencil shading in those pics, especially in "THEM".   "THEM" is a really atmopsheric pic and the distorted perspective really adds to the nightmarish feel.   In fact you've done a great job conveying mood and atmosphere in all your pics.   Okay, the models and proportions aren't always perfect and like Serge, the way I imagined that scene from "Gently" is different from how you portray it but over-all you've produced some great atmospheric, thought provoking pictures.

laguna sky
If you mean "Gently", then it's a story written by D.B. several years ago.
I cannot find it online, and the attachment @ gfwc is lost, so I can only repost it on this forum or send it to you.
I'll need author's permission to repost is though. And D.B. is not an easiest person to catch...

Anyway, back to the topic. It's a bit disturbing when people start discussing something unrelated in your fanart thread, I should know... Yggdrasill, sorry about that. I'll be good

Neat work Yggdrasill. You got the beastie almost down pat. I'm honoured  .

No offense, but Lisa's pose in the first one is kind of creepy. The second one I really liked; It is very natural.

One little nitpic about the "Autumn Lisa" pic: The car tire seems to disconnect where the saxophone touches it.

Oh my oh my, what a bunch of goodness we have here. Yggdrasil, you are a *VERY* talented penciler! Did you follow some school, or is it just personal learning? If it's the latter, i must bow to you, because you have a natural talent that you should nurture and refine.

Let me talk of the piccies now...
VERY SAD DAY:
I really, *really* disliked the subplot of this episode... the start was good, i mean, Lisa losing SnowballII and being honestly heart broken about it was believable and a strong plot. The way the writers handled it... it was just horrible. They toyed with Lisa's feelings and made her act completely unnatural, imo.
But anyway, er... the picture: The emotion on Lisa is wonderfully portraied, so much thati can almost hear her wailing. the way she holds her legs and fists together is very touching. Marge is very on model, as Dagdamor said, and good job with the detailing of her dress. Maybe her arms are a bit too thick, just that though.

AUTUMN LISA:
Oh, i love this one. Autumn is my favourite season of all... the weather, the fallign leaves, the colors, and just the mood of it. It also goes perfectly with the kind of music i love best (walking through a foggy cold riverside, with Opeth's Blackwater's Park blasting in my ears... but i digress) 
The amount of detail of this picture is amazing, the mood of it is... warm, despite Lisa's wearing a jacket. I feel completely in sinthony with her when i look at this picture, and i wish i could spend hours sittign with her on that car looking at the gentle storm of colors all around us. Really, amazing: a poetic picture that tugs at my most powerful mood strings ^.^

LISA AND MAGGIE FLY:
Cute! The redrawing is pretty different from the original, iirc, so i cant say which is better... again, i have to praise your attention and care for details. The clouds are especially impressive.. as are the colors. They're particular, realistic, but still quite "cartoony". It's hard to say, but i wish you did more colored pics

GENTLY:
This picture is very much like the fic that inspired it. Unsettling, kind of scary, stark, morbidly interesting, original and more of all, damn well done Great white/black contrasts... and very nice background visible through the window. i'll say it again... this pic is perfectly toned iwth the fic it depicts.

LOST OUR MAGGIE:
Heh heh, congratulations for trying to draw Lisa's overbite from above! I bet it's a real hard challenge... but it was pulled off nicely. As for the pic, it's full of life and details, as always. no dshading, but the linework is encomiable, and all the characters are pretty on model!

THEM:
I was a *huge* fan of King Diamond though it kind of eebed out in these years, where i changed a bit my musical tastes. My favourites albums from him are still "Abigail" and "The Graveyard", but i like even Them. I admit i never cared too much about the story though, so i can't place well this picture... i sohuld reread the lyrics. What i know is that the picture is astounding. Marge on the weelchair is incredibly well detailed and unsettling, the perspective is a touch of genius, the kind of thing you see in horror movies... the whole atmosphere of the picture is just like his music. Scary, evil, somewhat insane, but beautiful. Lisa in the spotlight is the "missing" piece of the picture that make it gain a whole lot of mood to it.
The shading is completely awesome. And congratulations for leaving a KD "cameo" in the picture on the wall. He'd appreciate

Foremost I would like to say "thanks" to all who have posted here. Thanks for your opinions people, that's very important for me.
Now...

ametur_poet
It seems to me, I realized that you meant. But I have dared to draw her in such pose, hoping that everyone will understand me correctly. Certainly, it doesn't concern to those who at all does not know who is Lisa. And also what is so special in a scene in drawing.
About "naturalism" in the picture - thanks!

Dagdamor
Thanks for praises! I'm glad it was pleasant to you. I'll try to please you with my future drawings (I hope that they will appear).
Certainly, there are no problem with it. Next time I will load files onto your server. The matter was not that I wanted that were a thumbnails. Simply I was operated in accord with defined "technology" and  did not want to change it. But since there's such occasions...

Casper
Take up as much as necessary. I'm always ready to listen the critics at my adress. Especially if it does not contain negative emotions in itself. :-)

Thank you very much on it! I'm very glad, really.

Yes, I have no special liking of using the ruler in my drawings. I think it looks awfully in conjunction to the details which drawn by a hand. But it's only an opinion. I'm not going to instruct someone of course.

Oh, yes, that's right. I do understand that she looks so as she about to...(I will not say that :-) ). But people, just dismiss similar ideas. I hope you are higher than it. Eventually the Lisa-fans should not suppose such thoughts (I'm still smiling while typing this message :-) ).

SimpReal
I never went to any art school or a hobby group, so I can boldly say that that it is my personal "achievement" ;-) *casts a sidelong look at corresponding thread*  Of course thank you that you called this as a talent.

Yes, I'm absolutely agree with you. It was very unpleasant to watch when Lisa almost reconciled to destiny to have no cat. And how she suffered... Who will understand those script writers? They will continue to play with our feelings like they do it with Lisa. In order only to show some "ridiculous" situations...That is really not serious relation to the personality of the character and admirers.

That's an excellent words, you're just voice my own ideas. Well, the ideas of the majority of us, as I sense.

I wish that not less than others, but still there is only two colored pics in my assets. I will make an efforts.


It's very nice to see another KD fan (though in past but still...)! And as well as you, my favourite albums are "THEM", "Graveyard" and "Abigail", though I do love all His albums (less or more).
"Abigail" - that's classic! It's out of discussion. "The Graveyard" - is very unusual even for talent of King. There is nothing to compare. And, in my opinion, King has managed to show the secret desire of each human being to find out more about awful dirty acts breaking the rights of little children (you know what I'm speaking about). It's really horrible album.
Also I will tell the "Voodoo" album is very pleasant for me too. The music is quite tough, I would to say that it heavyest album of KD. And fresh mystical themes of sorcery which has come from black continent.
I'm very glad you like "THEM". :-) Thanks for your message of the impressing size.

capadde
The sight of this guy will pass nothing! Here I see all the faults in my pictures. But in one thing you are wrong. And here it is:
I'm not SO brilliant artist to increase my skill of drawing in two or similar number of pictures. There's only one trouble with me: laziness to do as my best. That's all. Sometimes I endeavour more, sometimes it less. That's the secret of fast growing of the skill, hehe. ;-)
I agree all the items of your remark, especially this one:
It is that on what I pay always steadfast attention. Certainly it my fault that I'm in something simply powerless. Well, as Casper said:
and I also add: there is so much room for improvement, that the end of a way is just not visible.

Hurray, I'm finished it! That was not too easy.

Gustavo
Thanks for a response! Glad to see it was pleasant for you.

My new picture is devoted to King Diamond - again. In particular to their album "Abigail". It is very known in metal society and undoubtedly King's best album. If you do like metal music and still didn't hear anything about it I very much advise you to listen it some day (especially song "Black Horseman" - it simply amazing).

And here's the "Abigail" and "THEM" lyrics, if it's interesting to someone.

The last picture is incredible... excellent shading, so many interesting scenes within, great sketching as well... reminds me of Marco's FLWS illustration for some reason, only uncolored. Perfect collage picture, I love it as is - great work! My only nitpick is quite predictable - there's no Lisa on the picture but Maggie the Ghost makes up for that! Keep up the great work, man.

... Holy!

This is a MASTERPIECE! Wow.... i just relistened to the whole album with this in front of me, gaved me the chills. You really are something, Yggdrasil. Everything is on spot, the characters... Maggie's shape on the stairs is creepy, original, wonderfully drawn! But the architecture.. the architecture!! So many details, the delightful bent perspective of the house and stairs that gives out an INCREDIBLE mood to the whole thing.
Heh... i think i might have another "favourite Simpsons pic" ever here. It makes me depart from this world and go into another one whenever i look at it, especially with its music in background.

Now, please, do one based on Opeth's "My arms, your Hearse" album and i will pledge my soul to you