I feel you're already longing for the continuation of my Star Trek quiz. Here you go!
This time I'm looking for the stand-in for Dr. Crusher during the second season of The Next Generation. She looked approximately like this:
Who can tell me her name?
After several years which weren't very successful career-wise, I decided to study again. I was already 28 at that time. To open up my opportunities a bit, I chose media sciences, but obviously I overshot the mark because that study covered almost every medium except books.
Finally, towards the end of that study we could choose between different elective modules. One of them was about continuing a media literacy website aimed at pre-teens. To promote that, a comic book containing entertaining but also informative stories was to be produced. And although I never had been much into comics until then, that seemd to me to be by far the most interesting thing in the whole study and the closest to my professional aspirations.
And that university project is where I first learned about SP-Studio ...
Let's get back to my story:
I decided, it would be the best choice to pursue a career in the publishing industry. So over the next couple of years I tried various ways to get into it.
First I tried to study, but I quickly found out that wasn't the right way for me. After that experience I wanted to serve an apprenticeship but I never got more than an internship. During this time ironically I found hardly the time to write something. On the other hand I was introduced to a variety of graphics software: first Freehand, which doesn't seem to be used a lot anymore nowadays, then Photoshop, Quark Xpress, InDesign and Illustrator roughly in that order. Thus I mainly trained my artistic skills in this time rather than my literary ones.
I took the guest appearances of Wil Wheaton on "The Big Bang Theory" as a sign that his character Wesley Crusher still is present in the public consciousness. Maybe I was wrong.
As a bonus, I redrew Wes's mother, Dr. Beverley Crusher, who already appeared in the last contest. Here she is investigating the mysterious death of a crew member in a cave on a foreign planet:
Actually, my own artwork will be the smallest part of this thread and only appear right in the end. I thought it might be confusing for a thread to be listed in the own art section and then not featuring any own artwork for weeks. My plan was to tell you more about myself, then to explain and show the evolution of my artwork from the SP-Studio characters here and later create a separate thread for the actual, completely original artwork. Maybe it's not common to have to many threads per user?
I always had artistic aspirations - I liked to draw and to make up stories. But then I got the impression that, although I like drawing, I'm not really good at it. In addition, I found out, that some of the most talented painters could hardly make a living and died at a young age. Writers on the other hand, seemed to be more lucky. So I decided to work on becoming a novelist, although it didn't feel completely right yet.
Alas, the problem with writing is that - at least in Germany - there are not really places where you can learn how to do it. Of course, there are literature studies. But they are about analysing the works of others and then are occupied with the so-called world literature, which I always found quite boring. I was more into adventure stories, fantasy and most of all science fiction. The other thing ist, that they normally focus on literature that is seen as historically relevant for a certain nation an not on stories that are particularly entertaining.
The next difficulty is that as an author you don't get paid during writing but only when you're published. Only the most successful writers - who already create revenues with their previous books - get money in advance for a new book project.
So, after taking all that into consideration, I came to the conclusion, that I would have to learn on my own how to write a novel. Then I would have to write it. And then I would have to convince a publishing house to publish it. Which meant that I would have to bridge many years before I could earn the first money with a book.
What I made of that situation, will be the topic of my next post here.
In this thread I want to tell you, how SP-Studio influenced my life so far and how it inspired me to my own artwork. So this is basically an extended "Who are you". But because this will also include stuff that would fit better into the "More than just pictures" section, showing unedited and edited SP-Studio pictures and finally some own drawings, I decided to place it into "Life, the Universe and Everything". Later it was moved into "Our Art", which I personally find the least fitting.
Also, because this thread basically tells a coherent story, I decided to colour the text to distinguish it from the comments.
(I edited this post to make it clearer, what the whole thread will be about.)
I must admit, I took some liberties with the beard. Here's the "real" William T. Riker.
Lets's turn to one of the more controversial Next Generation characters. His unique uniform style should make guessing easier this time.
I'll give you one more chance: The character I'm looking for was often called "Number One" by Captain Picard.
That was quick, especially for someone who's more into Star Wars. I like the old movies, but I'm generally more a fan of series, because when I like something I don't want to wait three years for the sequel.
So let's continue! The next one should't be difficult to guess either. He was quite a womanizer, particularly in the early seasons. Later he settled down a bit and grew a beard.
Maybe I didn't fully capture her look. I had difficulties findig a matching hairstyle. This is how Deanna Troi looked like in the series.
The next guy I drew for you was one of Deanna Troi's most loyal patients, especially in the later seasons. Because of his healthy looking skin tone, you should be able to identify him:
I'm revealing the secret: The depicted character is Guinan. She was the bartender aboard the Enterprise but quite often also served as some sort of therapist, although that was actually her job:
Who knows her?
Maybe I didn't draw her as well as I thought. So I give you a clue again. This character was played by Whoopi Goldberg, who also starred in "The Color Purple", "Ghost" and the "Sister Act" movies. Who could it be?
For the next character there weren't enough custom hats available, so I had to improvise. Additionally, I had to move every body part a bit to make room for the spatious hat. So maybe the character doesn't look as flawless as normal.
You're right about Worf!
I tried your suggestion plus some other small improvements:
I'm not sure though if the earrings are already the best solution. In any case it seems you have to think outside the box here. Because Worf's forehead is a part of his body, I was looking in the body parts section and not in fashion accessories.
Something is weird about the picture sizes. The first one is to big, now the second one is so small.
It's plum time, so what could be more fitting than presenting a true connoisseur of prune juice to you!
Who knows him?
As long as at least the administrator keeps visiting, not all hope is lost. - And of course, you're right about Captain Picard.
Well, quite a few people took part in the contest. And as I'm knew, I don't know what degree of activity would be normal here.
Well, I'll give you a hint. It's the captain of the starship Enterprise, but it's not Captain Kirk.
