Grand Battle High

Originally posted on MSPA by MalkyTop.

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>Wonder why the school is called Grand battle high, it's an odd name for a high school.

Yes. Yes it is.

Is that Lutherion?

> Cause: be Lutherion.

You can't be Lutherion! You've barely started being Maxwell Deakin!

> Identify the combatants involved and decide who to root for while not actually getting involved in the fight

Getting close to the crowd, you can see that it's a fight between little sophomore Zephyr and fellow junior Xeno whatever. You cannot comprehend how this fight had started. You cannot comprehend why this fight is attracting so much attention because Zephyr is not a good fighter as well as not a good fightee. You can't hit him.

Try and get it resolved before, y'know

a teacher breaks it up. And kills everyone in the vicinity.

You are pretty sure there is no need to worry about that.

"Punch 'em! Punch 'em inna balls!"

>Count the combatants to see what round they've reached.

Because every competition in Grand Battle high always takes place in groups of eight and the victor is always decided through a process of elimination.

Also,

> Think really hard about all sorts of rambly nonsense until you find yourself somehow on the other side of the fight, unhurt and alive, and continue on towards your class.

You are suddenly very interested in methods with which an artist can employ in order to avoid having to draw annoying crowd scenes.



For one thing, the close-up shot on a certain individual would certainly work out well, as it cuts out every other individual in the back/foreground. Lazily drawing an approximate shape of a person could work if you copied and pasted, but would definitely be a sign of low quality and would possibly turn off any other people from the art...



In seriously drawing a crowd scene, layers are important as well as a sense of perspective. It's otherwise hard to do without either and would probably look a little stilted or something like that whatever it looks like. How did they do it traditionally then, without layers? That seems amazing. Guess there's a lot of sketching involved. But once you start painting, how can you figure out what the tangle of pencil lines is? Because things that look like hairlines can actually turn out to be something like an arm or something...



And so that's probably the reason why lots of people like doing abstract art because it's so easy to bullshit some sort of explanation for whatever madness--see ya later, Vyrm'n--you create. But isn't it a bit silly trying to explain something abstract and random I mean seriously...



And how the hell do bananas--oh look you're at your locker. You're gonna have to drop off some things here and take out some books. You might as well drop off your backpack too and not because someone keeps forgetting to draw it in.



"Hey! Stop letting in the light!"

"What the--"



"...Uh."

Wuh-oh, looks like Syvex decided to hang out in your locker for today. It's always random, at least to be fair to everybody. But you wish you had gotten some sort of warning in advance that your locker would be occupied by a shadow-snake-thing for practically the whole day.

"Hey, c'mon, I need to put my stuff away! Can't I at least get my books?"



"...What was that."

"Your books."

"Did you just put them in someone else's locker."

"Yes."

"Do you even know whose locker that is."

"Nope."

"Why thank you, that's extremely helpful."

"Always willing to lend a hand."