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EEEEEEEEER! I'm in love with Sherlock Holmes now!!!! Mainly because of the new movie. XD I LOVE Robert Downey Jr.My grandfather has been trying to get me to read Sherlock Holmes for AGES and the new movie really got me into it. Now, I know the original stories and novels are not like the new movie. Not all the action-packed Holmes beating the snot out of someone, but that wasn't my favorite parts. I liked the mysteries and deductions and Holmes's arrogant attitude about deducing said deductions. XD
And I like the Watson and Holmes characters and whatever....relationship they got goin' on. *shrugs* (The part with the hag in the movie made me laugh so much!!! Aw Holmes...)
So, I'm just trying to figure out how I'm gonna draw these guys and make them actually look like the characters. I went with classic-y Holmes and sort of an inbetween Watson.
I like Jude Law's Watson, not the bumbling, overweight, old man from the originals. Sooorrry. *EDIT* Okay, so Watson wasn't a bumbling, overweight, old man in the BOOKS. That's just how I'd always seen him portrayed as...I guess from the early movies. I dunno. I haven't even seen the old movies, so I don't know where the idea came from. I had quite a few people correct me on this matter. XD Thanks guys. I'm a little new to the world of Sherlock Holmes. Still reading the first novel.
Alright, enough rambling.
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I approve of your rant. Haha!
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The comments on this piece (which makes me smile, by the way 
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"[...]more than a few people have a mental image of him as a fat old dodderer. Unfair!"
Anyway I thought you would get a giggle out of it!
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Bahahaha! I think I got more than a giggle out of that. XD Haha!
Thanks so much for sending me that. I'm still laughing about it....I'm so easily amused.....*gigglesnort*
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^^ I like your version, I've begun to read the first sherlock holmes book (also due to the movie) and Watson wasn't fat at all, quite thin actually. I'm not sure if it mentions him getting heavier in later books but I'm thinking that's just how he tends to be portrayed. Holmes should have been taller than Watson, that was my only problem, but they both played the parts very well
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Yeah, I think I'm gonna edit my comments because people keep saying "Oh noes! Watson wasn't fat, fool!" XD
Yeah, the height thing did bug me a little as I was watching it. *shrug*
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lol, yeah. kind of annoying that he was always portrays as
a chubby guy going "amazing Holmes! who'd you do it?"
but yeah
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Yeah, that's kinda annoying. If I was Holmes, I'd get annoyed with it...after having my ego inflated several thousand times, I'd just get annoyed. XD
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how Watson just gets annoyed as hell
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Yes! Haha! I love Jude Law's Watson. He just makes me want to huggle him. And RDJ Holmes just makes me want to pat his head and tell him that Watson isn't leaving him completely. He'll still be around, dearie. X3
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hehe! yeah, for a long time I really didn't like Jude Law but
he's coming around now, and RDJ is just awesome in every movie
I've seen him in 
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I'd heard of him before, but I could never place him. I didn't know any movies he'd been in or remembered him being in.
Ohhh! I LOVE RDJ!!! He's epic! XD
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I had seen him in a few things, I just didn't really like his
attitude or expressions most of the time, but he's getting better
(I won't like his next movie much tho, it's quite a rip off
from a movie from l2008 that I love)
yes! yes he is
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What's his next movie?
Oh! I saw him in The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassuss recently. Have you seen that? I really liked it. It was weird....
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I wanna see that sooo bad! it hasn't come to the theatre here yet! >.<
his next is called Repo Men, which is very similar to Repo The Genetic
Opera only not a musical and not so goth
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Ohh! You should!! I love Heath Ledger *giggles*
Huh. I've never heard of either of those....
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I want to! I will soon
well, Repo Men isn;t out yet and Repo! the genetic opera is
more of a cult film, it didn;t get into very many theaters
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Ahhh...okay. ^__^
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yeah...lol
but it is really crazy and cool
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Yeah, they meet each other when they're in their twenties or something-- Watson's fresh out of the army and Holmes is fresh out of school or something. I read somewhere that they aged him up in the illustrations to make him look more...respectable? Something like that. I'm a diehard Holmes fannnnnn and a HolmesXWatson fan as welllll and this artwork is AWESOME!!!!!!!!
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Hmm. Interesting
Me too! X3
Thank you!!
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These are great versions
They seem very ambiguous to me..but that's a good thing. Because then you don't have to feel like you're trying to ya know..commit to one particular version and you can mess around with it. I tend to do that a lot. Or at least use that excuse.Lol.
And I agree, Jude Law Watson>fat Watson. I mean come on..he was a doctor. That's gotta mean something.
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Thank you!
Yeah, that is a good thing, I guess. I don't know enough about Sherlock Holmes to know if I'm leaning towards a certain Holmes or whatever. *shrug* I hope to correct that thogh
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You're welcome.
It is harder to pick one when you just start out. But after awhile you know exactly what you like. :] I hope that makes sense. It made snese in my head lol.
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No, that made sense to me too....maybe we're both a little bonkers then XD
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Haha that's good then. It makes me feel less crazy. %D
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Hahahah!! I saw this coming a mile away. Knew you'd love it.
I'm actually just going to wait until the movie can be rented before I see it. XD
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Am I really that predictable? >_<
Psssssshhh...you should see it now! XD
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Yes, yes you are. XD
LOL!! Maybe I will. XD
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Lovely job!
I've read the originals since I was a child, and the original Watson is not fat and old. That old, fat version came from later movie/TV series adaptations. I don't know what the movie makers were thinking.
A simple calculation based on the original books proves that Holmes and Watson met each other when they were around 30, and worked on cases till their 40's. Even the drawings of Sidney Paget of the books donβt depict Watson old and fat. Yes, Paget did draw both Holmes and Watson a bit older than what they were in the books, still...
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Thank you!
Really?! Seriously, why'd they do that?
Well, I haven't really read any of the books (I'm just on the first novel) and anything I've seen of Holmes and Watson are from the movies. Well, coolio!
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I really don't know why they did that. So we'd better always stick to the originals and "read" the stories 
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Yup, yup!
Well, I've never seen the movies and TV series. I'm kinda a late blooming Holmes fan. XD I've just seen pictures of from the movies....and the Great Mouse Detective. >_<
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It's OK! It's always nice to become a Holmes fan, no matter when! 
By the way, about our earlier topic (why the movies depicted Watson fat and older than what he really was) I have a theory. Watson is the narrator of the stories and is also a doctor. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was the writer of the stories and he was a doctor himself. So I presume the movie makers or maybe even some of the readers assumed that Watson was, in a way, Doyle himself. Have you seen the photos and portraits of Conan Doyle? He looks so much like what the first movies depicted Watson. But reading the books, I never got the notion that Watson looked like Doyle - in appearance anyway β except for the mustache, of course!
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Yay!
Really? Fascinating! And no, I haven't seen in pictures of Doyle. *runs off to look*
Wow! He really does! (His mustache makes me giggle, especially when he has it long and turned up at the ends) I think I agree with your theory. ^_^
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Oh, and something else worth mentioning (and I know you've kind of said it in your artist's comment already), but you should know that there is a lot of difference between the new movie and the original books. If in the books you are looking for the kind of relationship displayed in the movie between Holmes and Watson, you'll be disappointed. In the books, Watson only reports the cases and how his intelligent companion solves the mysteries. That's all. There are very little hints about Holmes and Watson relationship. As for Watson, he doesn't write much about himself but rather about the cases and about the detective's characteristics and mystery-solving methods. So I highly recommend that you draw a line between the books and the new movie.
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Yeah, I figured that'd be the case, but I love the books so far, nonetheless. ^_^ I just love the characters, so anything about them makes me a happy duck. Thank you though!
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Well said! That's exactly how I fee too. 
And sorry about the long replies before.
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^____^
Oh don't apologize for those! Psssh! I'm quite enjoyed it too!
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AWESOME!
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I mean Holmes... lol and yes! In the books it never said Watson was fat 0:<
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*blush* I've loved Holmes and Watson since I read the books way back when. >////< You do them justice!
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Awww thank you so much!!
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Very nice
... but no money...
... rental...
neways, very spiffeh. I would comment on how much like the movies/characters they are, but the extent of my knowledge of Sherlock Holmes comes from Wishbone....
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Yes....you do. XD
Thank you!
Haha! I didn't really design them after the new movie. More after the original movies which were a little closer to the books, at least on Sherlock. ^_^
Awww Wishbone! I remember that show!
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I loved that show XD So awesome.
By I know nothing about Sherlock Holmes, I mean I've never seen a single movie or anything >_>
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I hadn't read any of the books, or seen any of the movies either. The closest I got to experiencing Sherlock Holmes (XD) was the Great Mouse Detective. Lolz!
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