Once again, English language, you fail me miserably.

[sospan_fach]

If there isn't a specific swearword for getting halfway through lining in a draft sketch in permanent pen, being rather pleased with it, then realising that for some reason you have depicted a right-handed character firing a service revolver left-handed, and being unable to simply flip the image in Photoshop because of stuff like hair partings, buttons, belt-pouches, etc. all being on their correct side[s]...

...then there BLOODY WELL SHOULD BE, to my mind.

Hrrrrngh....

[On the plus side, the paper I used for this one - which was intended as one frame in a strip - turned out to be woefully unsuitable for photographing and colouring in Photoshop, as the (actual, physical, rubber) eraser not only works at about 50% efficiency, but also tends to scrape and fluff it up something terrible, both of which lead to a serious degree of jagged and murky patches in the electronic file which are Not Easily Got Rid Of...so a good excuse to start all over again on smoother paper for the strip, and possibly use this as a (kind of AU ;) ) header image for the LJ. It's too good to waste (by my standards, anyhoo).]

Appropriate icon is appropriate.

Comments

[spacefall.livejournal.com]

Agh!

[sospan-fach.livejournal.com]

Agh, yep. It might be a blessing, though: at least I can give up trying to draw that bloody pack-mule. ;) (Pantomime Horses At Maiwand, The Untold Story...)

[elina-elsu.livejournal.com]

Would it be possible to cut the revolver hand and move it in the place of the right hand? :D Good old copy paste has saved me few times...

[sospan-fach.livejournal.com]

In a word...no. Body positioning, etc.

Good idea, though. :) I'll save it for when it could be useful!

[elina-elsu.livejournal.com]

Aw, oh dear...
Hmm...you could flip it, and then flip the buttons&etc and move them to their right sides...but that sounds like a lot of fiddling, esp. if you're colouring it by hand.

[sospan-fach.livejournal.com]

That's another good idea, but I work so bloody slowly, it's probably easier to scrap and restart. ;) I'm very patient with clicking pixel-by-bloody-pixel on photo-manips, but it just doesn't seem to work as well for me with my hand-drawings, for some reason.

Oh, well. I like the hair, anyhow. :) Might scrub Watson and the deformed horsey out and use the pic for a spot of colouring practice!

:retains you as Fanart Troubleshooting Consultant:

[elina-elsu.livejournal.com]

As for curse words..."Jumalauta Saatana Perkele!!!" is a good combination...

[sospan-fach.livejournal.com]

Aww, how could I have forgotten "Perkele!"? :D

[tepintzin.livejournal.com]

I usually go with a heartfelt, "Oh, motherfucker!"

[sospan-fach.livejournal.com]

:tries it:

Yep, that works, too. :D

I also called the paper's parentage into question on a number of occasions. Loudly. And rather less ambiguously than "into question", now I mention it.

[luckykaa.livejournal.com]

There's the meaning of Liff method. Find a town name that sounds right.

I suggest Pwllgloyw is the word you're after. It suggests anger and irritation at the same time.

[sospan-fach.livejournal.com]

That's actually highly appropriate, considering Mr. Left-Hand-Firing here is Welsh. :D (Though I just tried to pronounce it, and spat on the monitor a bit in the process.)

(I will reply to your email once I've finished swearing at my sketchbook, BTW!)

[kathie-d.livejournal.com]

I like... OH AMBIDEXTERITY!

[sospan-fach.livejournal.com]

I was tempted. ;)

Not that he can hit anything when it's in the right hand either, but it's the principle of the thing, dammit!

[kathie-d.livejournal.com]

Maybe he needed to hold the horse with his strong hand?

[sherlock2040.livejournal.com]

Can you adapt the drawing so that there is a reason he's firing left handed?

As for swearwords, we made up a few at work as we ran out of them. I shall try to remember some of them.

[sospan-fach.livejournal.com]

I've been Havin' Thoughts On That. I think everyone's remorseless application of logic has made me reconsider and convince me not to scrap it, so we shall see...

And I want to hear your workplace swearwords! Are they cable- and spotlight-specific? ;)

[sherlock2040.livejournal.com]

You could give him a bad goatee and say that it takes place in the mirror universe. A lot of our swearing involves calling the equipments parentage into question, occassional bits of Latin. We've had things like fucunshi which I'm sure you can work out ;-).

[derien.livejournal.com]

I think he's just awesome like that - he could actually shoot with either hand.

As for a swear, I've always been partial to "mots dit de blaspheme!" It's like meta swearing: "Words said of blasphemy!" Although usually people around here only get so far as "Eee, mots dit!"

[sospan-fach.livejournal.com]

Hah, fair point. Considering he shouldn't really be yomping around with any kind of weapon whatsoever in the first place, though, I think I might be stretching credibility even further to make him that awesome. ;) On the other hand, minus the horse and plus a bayonet, it might work pretty well as a cracky "Don't You Touch My Kettle, You Bastard" pic instead...

I love the polite little "mots dit de blaspheme!" That's rather endearing. :D