guess what i did this afternoon!

[phosfate]

There's a lot to be said for monochrome art.

The most annoying, fan-wankiest thing I am regularly required to do - and it has to be done several times a year, what with one thing and another - is find out what color eyes various characters and actors have. Now, yer anime characters, it's obviously not too tough. But the real folks, unless you're fortunate enough to have a calendar handy (Frank the Pug's eyes are brown, by the way), are a huge problem. Video images rarely do the job. Unless there's a well-lit, extreme close-up, everybody on TV has black or hazel eyes. Photos that aren't processed with care or are from old negatives skew red and dark. Google image search makes the whole business much easier - if you can find pictures larger than 100x100 pixels, that haven't been messed with by somebody with Photoshop, and don't suffer from any of the other problems listed above. And of course you feel like a total tweenie surfing for close-ups, dreading that voice over your shoulder that says, "Whatcha doin'?"

Still, better than schlepping to the university library.

Anyway, thanks to everybody who's helped me out on this (and without asking questions!) over the years. It's a small thing, but it matters to me - if only to prevent some fangirl buttonholing me in a hotel corridor to tell me, "You drew his eyes the wrong color! Unclean! Unclean!"

So thanks, y'all.

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[cybertardis.livejournal.com]

It's a small thing, but it matters to me - if only to prevent some fangirl buttonholing me in a hotel corridor to tell me, "You drew his eyes the wrong color! Unclean! Unclean!"

I think I did that to you once (though it was a her, not a him). I sorry.

--sah

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

really? I have no memory of that at all - I mean, we know how you make shit up all the time. In any case, if you did it, I'd actually feel bad for messing up rather than want to punch you.