Man_Of_Mer: This is what if like to aim for in my work. Emphasizing movement, using the body to it's full extent; this is what I want in my work. Keep it up my good sir, keep it up.

Compound: i used spiderman as a reference, his moves are rather exaggerated; how i imagine a panicking Katia would bail.

Zokva: preety dope design

Tahrey: sweeeeeeeeet

Man_Of_Mer: Someone had to do it, so I did what I could. Feel free to add the artists in the tags.

CaptainLackwit: I really like the one SomeDork did. Love the hair- dude can draw hair.

Man_Of_Mer: I feel the same.

ShroomBot: The KillerFishSG one looks really cute...

ShroomBot: KillerFishSG and SomeDork's are the best.
Not that the other ones arn't awesome as well.

yugijak: YUS.

Tahrey: What's with the crazy error-diffusion?

Anyway, Gold to SomeDork (reminds me of Heimdall, or maybe some other vikingy thing I saw somewhere), joint Silver to CptLackwit, POMA and KFSG (the latter is somewhat Ghibliesque, oddly), honourable Bronze to tronn because I want to see that zip opened. Respect to all entrants.

MetalC0Mmander: The enrichement center once again remind you that furry hell is a real place where you WILL be sent at the first sing of defiance.

Bob: Kazerad in his all of his sadistic glory in the sad cat realm of oblivion.

Abandon all hope ye furry who enter here.

Jahirr: This one knows trouble when it appears. Jahirr will take no part in this insanity.

Tahrey: Please proceed into FURRY HELL

D_C_N: I guess that was enough dumb call of duty emblems, time to get back to work.

Sorry it took so long, and, yeah, lemme know what ya think.

obamafanboy69: llǝʍpıpnoʎ

D_C_N: Hopefully this segment was better than the last one. I feel like it was less boring if nothing else.

Geravind: Not bad. Almost realistic. Noticed some typos again.
Unfortunately, crossbowmen were not mentioned in the skirmish.
As usually, incompetence of the commander doomed all the platoon.

D_C_N: Thanks, at least it's getting better. Hopefully the next part will be devoid of typos and... missing groups of soldiers. And likely not too much incompetence... except maybe for a bit of my own.

Tahrey: Best art. 10/10.

D_C_N: Trust me, as far as my "art" is concerned, an actual drawing would deserve a lower score than my crappy hand writing.

Geravind: Nice!
It looks like the storm is coming.

AMKitsune: @BadReligion: The 'uncanny valley' is a phenomenon where if you a graph of how 'human like' something is (or in this case, just how realistic it looks) compared to how relate-able/believable you find it. Near the 'realistic' end of the graph, at the part just before where something is so lifelike that it's believable, there's a massive dip in how much people like things that look 'almost believable' but not quite. This is usually experienced when you see a 'near perfect' CG model or a drawing or painting that's almost perfect but maybe has one or two aspects that are off just enough to prevent you fully believing in what you're seeing.

In this example, Mr Incredible is clearly meant to look like more of a cartoon character than an actual human. That's why so many people are at ease with his design. the characters from the Polar Express however, while quite well done, aren't quite perfect enough to be fully accepted as being believable humans (in your minds subconscious).

Honestly, I don't think this image is anywhere near the uncanny valley. It's a great picture but makes little to no effort at being '100% believable and realistic'. If it were rendered in a more photorealistic style as opposed to as a painting then yeh, that could potentially be uncanny valley material. As it is though, it's a really nice, stylised painting that your brain can easily interpret as such.

RedRuin: @BadReligion: I was using the latest version of Photoshop when I made this.

ThatGuyWithAKhajiitWaifu: @BadReligion: It would be before prequel, as she grew up on a farm, she might not want to return to that life.

BadReligion: @ThatGuyWithAKhajiitWaifu: She can't grow up hair again? Ok, no more questions.
I'm reminding that sentence she "grew up in a castle on the middle of desert", but I'm not sure about that.
Anyway in childhood she used to have two braids, but nevermind, you can always change hairstyle.

May just RedR tell us.
@RedRuin: May my laziness be cursed, I'm quite sure I won't even try. (and your picture is nice motivation)

@AMKitsune: Hooray! My long tongue is finally useful! (picture in a message)

These ears aren't too close to eyes?

Arcsome: @ThatGuyWithAKhajiitWaifu: wait she is from hammer fell, which is like a desert I think. So how can this farm be so beautiful.

Pepsidude: @Arcsome: Alternate story where Katia grows up in the American Midwest? :p

Bluedragon: City Folks just don't get it.
FarmersOnly.com

Tahrey: Storm's-a-comin' in, ayup. Whaa d'ya think a'm ploughin' this here otherwaas perfickly good crop a' <HUMAN CORN> back inter th' mud, la'k?

(that IS the handle of a draft plough, yes?)

And you can still farm in the desert. You either have to make sure to time your work to what rains actually come, or adapt what you farm to the climate. There's still plenty of people who live on and make a living from the land in arid areas. Hammerfell would never have been settled otherwise.

Very nicely painted, this, and not at all uncanny (the valley only really applies to CG renderings, robots/sculptures, and hyperreal paintings or edits of photographs where something isn't quite right any more, anyway). It's less than a lack of empathy or an inability to suspend disbelief, it can actually end up weirding people out and making them not want to watch the film/show or be around the robot/statue any more. It's why shop mannequins are so creepy and why they tend, of late, to be more abstract rather than fully featured with painted faces. Coming across something that's nearly-but-not-quite human spooks us and sets us on edge, and is arguably part of why we can have an instinctive gut response to someone with serious disfigurement even though our conscious mind is howling at the subconscious to shut the hell up already. Some evolutionary thing, maybe meant to stop us mating with Neanderthals or something, or to do with aliens, who knows.

tl;dr, if you can't make something look sufficiently realistic, back off and make it more deliberately stylised instead (but don't go too far THAT way either). It's a lesson Pixar learned a while before Dreamworks did (and most animéka did before either of them), and a lot of children's TV artists (esp those who work with 3D) have yet to realise...

Tahrey: ((The only thing I'm wondering, though - is that her hair, or a yellow shawl? It seems a different colour from her face, but not her ears)

D_C_N: Started to make another, and there was an earthquake... guess that's a sign.

obamafanboy69: inspired by your emblems and maded one myself in aw :3

D_C_N: Pretty cool :)

Tahrey: This one is fully autokhajiit... Full Metal Khajiit? The Beer Hunter? Rambo: Furrst Blood?

mnerg

D_C_N: I think furrst blood is the clear winner here.

D_C_N: This stupid thing took 64 layers and a large portion of my sanity. But hey, at least it turned out extremely meh... that makes it all ok...

D_C_N: Also my new emblem... fear me.

Geravind: Looks impressive.
Proceed with the story...

D_C_N: I finished the story. Hated it. Deleted it and restarted, so it may be a while.

Tahrey: 64 layers? What in?

D_C_N: In the emblem editor in the game it's in. It's made from a crap ton of, cresents and curvey triangles; stuff like that.

Tahrey: teh cuteness, omg

AMKitsune: @MetalC0Mmander: If the recent Dodger side story has taught me anything, it's that somewhere in Oblivion, 4 Daedra have just had their nether regions magically teleported to another dimension (and at quite the inopportune time from the looks of them... If you get what I'm saying.). It's no wonder they're always so pissed off!

CaptainLackwit: I mean.

You can conjure worse things.

TemporaryFace: @AMKitsune: That is, in fact, how Conjuration canonically works.

tronn: So you're saying that those are Daedric dongs...?

MetalC0Mmander: @tronn: YES. We've been saying that for a while now. Well I don't know much about the Elder Scroll lore so I was was just making a joke but it ended up being earilly probable. So anyway can you tell us who drew this picture?

Armored-Struggle-Wagon: Looks like she's conjuring /too/ hard, the excess heat from the rays are making her face melt, like a candle! tsk tsk, when will our silly kitty learn not to conjure, (or draw, in this case) /multiple/ dicks?

Man_Of_Mer: I can't tell if she's surprised, aroused, or nervous.

SomeShadyGuy: @Man_Of_Mer: Maybe all of them.

emperor_agon: Perfect in every way love interest; "Katia. Do you want to go out to eat and then live in my house and live happily ever after?"
Katia; "I don't know. That sure is a long way to go from dicks.(conjures more dicks) I'll think about it."

Tahrey: BUT WHY

Also what does she intend to do with them, seeing as they're floating about 8ft in the air? Is this what the Pineapple and Yoyo Trick actually involves?