PIC: Chibis of the CSP

[backupmemories]

...well, because no one will understand who all these extra random chibis are without a guide, I decided to draw one. Mostly for my own benefit, which is why it's all rather thrown together into a single page, and why the names attached are more identifiers than they are names. If you've ever wondered how the chibification process goes, it's something like this. XD

Oh, and due to a lack of good colour references, I guessed on a number of things here. If you see anything you think ought to be changed, tell me! This is very tentative, and if you tell me now, I should be able to correct it before I post the next few pictures that have these guys in it!

Warning: large image








...so, thoughts?

Comments

[nirejseki.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It's amazing what becomes cute when you chibify it, yes. ^^ I'm glad you like them, both the chibis and the realistic ones. ^^ I hope the chibis give at least some indication of coming from the realistic ones. ^_^

Pictures are always welcome. Though I think I'll stick with the Lindet I have, if only because the big poof of hair makes him distinctive from the other chibis...

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

The only one for whom it's a bit difficult to tell is Carnot; and I don't recall Couthon looking quite so sallow-faced in his portraits, though I could be misremembering. Overall thought, you've captured them admirably. :D

Your reasoning makes sense, though personally I prefer the David portrait. >__>

[nirejseki.livejournal.com]

With Carnot, I was trying to change the only picture of him I had (one painted with his hair in a later style) so that it would be more in tune with the time period of the others. This generally meant that the entire thing got fudged. -__-;; As for the skin tone, I mostly just guessed or took a color or two from the portrait. *will edit that, then, as it's pretty easy to fix ^^*

It's a much prettier picture, admittedly...but I'm trying to imagine chibi!sideburns of that sort and I think my mind just broke. XDD

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Oh--but didn't maelicia and I both send you different portraits of Carnot? I thought mine was earlier... It's easy enough to mess something like skin tone up by taking a color from a portrait, since there are often unexpected gradations in paint.

It would look pretty funny, admittedly. And he probably only grew them post-Thermidor in any case; I don't recall having seen any portraits of men with sideburns for the Year II or earlier.

[nirejseki.livejournal.com]

*blink* I didn't think that you sent me a picture of Carnot at all...*goes to check* No, Bar�re, Couthon, Billaud-Varenne, Herault, Prieur de la Marne...no Carnot. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place?

But yes, that's what happened - I managed to eliminate the mostly obviously wrong of the skin color graduations (damn those blue undertones, that's all I'm saying...)

Just with the way everything is exaggerated in chibi-form, they would probably turn into sideburns of doom and would scare everyone else around him by being so unfamiliar. XDD

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

No, I must have forgotten. -__-; This (on this page, if you scroll down to the "c"s http://membres.lycos.fr/discours/) was the one I meant; I have it in one of my art books, so I know that it's really supposed to be Carnot. But I think it too comes from sometime after Thermidor. In trying to find it again online just now though, I found an anonymous drawing of him from the Collection Carnot (http://www.diagnopsy.com/Revolution/images/0424.jpg), which I find somewhat perplexing, since he looks older but is dressed in a style more similar to that of the early 1790s than he is in the other portraits... Perhaps it's just because he has his hair pulled back instead of pushed forward though.

You did a fairly good job with the skin tone of the majority of them, certainly.

As in "I have sideburns. Of DOOM. Be afraid, be very afraid"? XD