Carjack Fever

Kawanga!

2007-06-05T05:28:00.001-07:00

I has been absent. Oh so absent has I been.

But I have been arting like CRAZEH, so you guys get to reap the benefits. Or ... not. See if I care.

Dylan, new character who is supposed to be rather androgynous. Go ahead, guess his/her gender, I dare you!

Detective Jasper Tully, and his little bat, Sullivan. I wanted to show off his "scars" a bit:

Fanart for the wonderful Aimee, of her character, an AU Civil War vet who thinks he's Stonewall Jackson. SO BRILLIANT. I NEED TO DO ART OF HIM THAT DOESN'T SUCK.

Some doodles of a new character named Kohl Ihatov, an autistic artistic narcoleptic synesthete (say it five times fast):

(Also, Kohl's boyfriend, Nolan. Who is adsfjkl;adorable and belongs to Tessa.)

Speaking of Tessa, since Nolan actually is gay and a lawyer, I thought this was an appropriate manip to make:

I blame Lyndz.

I'm sorta fascinated by the idea of young parents lately (biological clock, mebbe?) and I think devoted dads are ADORABLE, especially ones who don't look the part, and that gave rise to yet another new character, Zeke, and his cutie toddler, Munroe:

The first Munroe has considerably more hair, but I decided to give her one of the puffy little kidhawks that are so popular over here. They're awesome. Feel it. Also, there's a snuggly NolanKohl and a Young!Kohl in that first pic. In case you couldn't figure that out.

And another new character(OHGODICAN'TSTOP), Eamon. He's a war veteran.

Chicks dig scars/missing limbs. At least, this chick does.

More Imber RP-related stuff, because yes! It's still going!

Duke Julius Covelle, his wife, Duchess Noa (who belongs to Lyndz), and the Inlaws Of Doom:

You'd think your parents would approve of a marriage they arranged for you, but there's just no pleasing some people.

Silas Penner, prominent politico, who will hopefully be causin' some good trouble soon:

(ANOTHER NEW CHARACTER OHSHIT. I HAVE A PROBLEM.)

Some Bennett-love, because... they need it. Lane used to be so pretty. *tear* And WOW, I finally drew a Kelsey that I don't hate! Also, d'aww, bebe!Dominic. YOU CAN'T RESIST IT.

Second one is a lame attempt at one of those fake screencaps, which I love. I don't know why I draw young!Lane in dresses so often. She is decidedly anti-dress. I guess she just cleans up well.

Crap, another new character, Martin, sculptor and gallery owner:

And here, as a special treat, an abortive comic attempt:

Aimee pointed out that Coyote in the last panel is dressed too similarly to Presley in the preceeding panels, and I cried and gave up. I'm weak. *hangs head*

And finally... MORE NEW CHARACTERS. These two were hand-delivered to me by my subconscious (via a really awesome-if-creepy dream), designs, backstory, personality and all. They may as well have had a big sparkly bow on them:

I won't say much about them yet aside from the fact that their names are Gray and Andre, and their psychology is fascinating. I need to do something with them. Oh yes.

That's all for now. Someone really needs to stop me from making even more new characters, I'm addicted to their creation lately.

I wish they'd come in so I could throw them out.

2007-03-28T19:02:00.000-07:00

China was blocking Blogspot again but now it's back so you get MOAR ARTS. YUSS.

Yvie's making me re-design my old Sonic chars as humans:

Stupid Fary-Como thing. So ugly but I am entertained by the idea that Como would steal a priceless work of art and then come home and eat all of Fary's icecream.

Kelsey is still scandalized by his wife and son's sailor mouths, even after spending 16 years in jail. THE BAD JAIL. This also amuses me to no end.

Style-test thing of Heck, Presley, and Belinda. Hojoy!

The King Brothers, being themselves.

Quick doodle of Veleno Leone, my mob assassin boy.

Wesson Fitzroy. He'll be going in the story with Heck and Presley.

These two aren't anything special, I'm just trying to teach myself to draw on the computer. FIRST THING I'VE EVER DRAWN 100% DIGITALLY. BE AMAAAZED.

And finally, fanart for Under Lock and Key, which launched this month and is COMPLETELY AWESOME AND OMFG GO READ RIGHT NOW. NOWWWW, DAMMIT.

情人节快乐，新年快乐！

2007-02-18T02:11:00.000-08:00

LALALA. I've been sick so I've been artsyfartsy.

First up, happy belated V-day:

Kendrick wants you to be his Valentine. I bet that heart is still warm. That's how much he cares.

I'm working on a comic page with him and Dom, but I don't know if I'll finish.

That's the only panel I like so far.

Lyndz and Tessa drew him too!

MUSHY COUPLE-Y PICS.
V-day picture for Joker, of her and her currently-deployed-in-Iraq hubby, Jon.

For Yvie, my Daniel and her Hewitt, 'cos they're all adorabibble. And stuff.

Wyatt and Ethan, for Tessa. <3

From her and Sarah's upcoming webcomic, Under Lock & Key, which I am going to pimp the SHIT out of cos it's TOTALLY AWESOME. I'll let you know where to look once it launches. (PSST, super-seekrit dialogue version of this pic here.)

Half-naked Phoebe! Click it, you know you want to.

TIME FOR SOME SELF-INDULGENCE. Well, this is an artblog. It's inherently self-indulgent. Anyway, pretend you care.

These are some of the oldest characters I have that are still around. I've had them since I was 10 years old, and I love them so, so, so very much that I'm going to do a LONG RAMBLY DESCRIPTION about them. They're all "heroes" from my Axis story, which takes place in a sort of post-apocalyptic world where gigantic super-cities ruled by scientific corporations strive to "improve" mankind by taking individual people apart bit by bit.

Yes, I came up with this when I was ten.

Yes, I had issues.

From left to right (I apologize in advance for being a tremendous dork):

Xavier Fielty was essentially stolen from his family and given to Dr. Fischer when he was three years old. He actually used to be quite normal, but 13 years of continuous torture and experimentation made him irreparably insane. He was declared useless for further experiments when he was 16 as bits of his brain tissue actually began to decay, and committed to Greenpoint Asylum. He escaped and joined Sanctuary when he was 20. He’s as much of a liability as he is an asset—he barely feels pain and has seemingly limitless endurance and strength but his judgment is questionable and gets continually worse as the story progresses. He knows he’s going to die (and soon) from what Fischer did to him. He just wants to cause as much damage as possible before he goes.

James Marston is the son of one of Fischer’s business rivals. He was kidnapped as part of a sabotage plot, then tucked away and experimented on most horrifically for seven years or so, resulting in the pretty damned awful form he’s in nowadays. Oddly enough James’s personality was the only thing about him that didn’t change—he’s a shy, quiet, polite intellectual with an absolute horror of violence. He's actually one of the success stories from Axis Labs; his design is near-perfect, if incomplete. He's tougher than Xav and Donny combined. James is probably the only character in the story who isn't out for vengeance or power in one way or another. He mostly just wants to be left alone. He's a coward, but he'll ultimately stand up and do the right thing. It just takes a lot more prodding.

Donovan Silver is the main character of Axis, and Fischer’s adopted son and bodyguard. He and his younger sister Angela were rescued from the streets of Salin City and raised as Fischer’s children, though of course to Fischer even this was an experiment. Eventually the good doctor proved just how little he really cared about his “son” by sending him on a suicide mission. Donny survived and turned his back on Fischer and Axis, joining Sanctuary to get vengeance on his former father figure and get his sister back. Cliché, I know. But Donny’s actually quite the cheerful little sociopath. He’s a monster, he loves being a monster, and glories in the carnage he gets to cause free of Fischer’s restrictions, despite Jade’s attempts to instill some morality in Donny’s shrunken soul.

They're all monsters in one way or another; James is the only one I would consider genuinely "good." Xav is too crazy and Donny has no moral compass whatsoever. They're fighting the good fight, but for the wrong reasons, and I like that about them.

HERE, HAVE SOME LINEART.

ALSO I'M TOTALLY PIMPING THIS REALLY AWESOME DONNY PIC THAT SARAH DID FOR ME. IT'S SO COOL. OMG.

Okay I'm done. Where's my advil?

We Carry a Heavy Weight

2007-02-03T15:04:00.000-08:00

Okay, here's another batch.

Couple pics of Como and Fary, everyone's favorite royal + shopboy:

I'd be remiss if I didn't squee about the incredible Como art that Tessa did for me here and here. Or the gorgeous Comofary arts done by Yvie here and here and here. I'm so damn loved.

Kyra gave her character Takoyaki muttonchops. So of course I had to draw him.

Donny and Xav, my monster boys, and some regular damn monsters:

Elliot and Colt, new characters for the RP:

I shamelessly stole Elliot's line from Quentin in Charlene's ORAR comic.

Johnny giving Kanti a headache:

Lane Bennett and her son, Dominic Bennett. Before her husband went to jail and Dom was nearly killed. Twice.

That's all for now. I really should get in the habit of updating more frequently.

(Pssht. Like anyone's looking at this thing anyway. I could dance naked here and it would cause nary a stir. XD)

Boo.

2007-02-02T05:07:00.000-08:00

So Blogger made me log in with my Google account now? And now Blogger is in Chinese. And there's no English option. Not that I don't know how to read a lot of this anyway but goddamn! I'd rather have it English kthnx.

Anyway, I've sort of fallen behind on the updating, but here's a few things I have lying around on Photobucket:

More to come once I start sorting and uploading.

Wow, I can see Blogspot again.

2006-12-07T06:05:00.000-08:00

Home for the holidays, and no more censored Chinese internet, so it's time to update this puppy.

Spencer Holden, my psychokenetic prosecutor. He's kind of a stick-in-the-mud. I love him.

Spence and his little sister, Nazaree, who is a cheerful little airhead who knits.

Phoebe and Preston. They're a rediculously pretty couple.

My girls in the Imber RP that I'm doing with Lyndz, Yvie, and Tessa. From left to right: Marsailles, Rowena, Phoebe, and Nazaree.

Mia taunts Spence with babytalk. Technically, he's her boss, but Mia likes to spit in the eye of authority.

Oran Dwyer, mute mob enforcer. He's Irish. Yum.

Phoebe wouldn't do this to Preston, but since she and Seraphyn are both bi (and hot), I couldn't resist drawing it.

That's all for now. More to come soon.

Evil is delicious.

2006-09-09T10:28:00.000-07:00

RP-related arts.

Johnny, cute police boy who still lives with his mom:

Jiang and Rudu. She's a were-binturong. They drop on their prey.

I got to unleash my serial killer recently, which makes me insanely happy because Kendrick is FUN to play. He's 100% pure id.

Life is Wonderful

2006-09-03T18:47:00.000-07:00

So the long absence is not due to laziness or a creative block but the fact that I moved to a different country. Namely, China. And China's internet blocks access to Blogspot about 90% of the time, and until a couple of days ago, I didn't own a scanner.

SO IT'S NOT MY FAULT, MKAY? Mkay.

Anyway, here's some of the junk I've been filling up my sketchbook with since I arrived here two months ago.

Green Eggs and Hamlet

2006-06-14T13:19:00.000-07:00

Forgot to post something else. Gaw, I suck.

I was re-reading Hamlet and was reminded of how much I adore the "What a piece of work is man" speech. And then this dialogue between James and Donny popped into my head and I had to draw it.

668: The Neighbor of the Beast

2006-06-09T06:31:00.000-07:00

Posted this in my LJ but entirely forgot to do it here. Done to celebrate 6/6/06. That's Isobel, Daniel, and Lucifer, aka TEH_DEBIL. He's not so bad, actually.

Also, a quick layout sketch of a picture I'm planning to do a better version of later. Jade and her boys: Xavier, Anthony, James, and Donovan.

Look, ma, more Axis stuff!

2006-06-01T06:59:00.000-07:00

AMAZING. I did what I said I was going to do and drew new stuff, dubya-tee-eff.

Donny and his little sister, Angie. There's a Melissa in there but it's an UGLY one so ignore her.

Axis dump

2006-05-25T22:45:00.000-07:00

I have been writing more than drawing lately but cuz Aysha did THIS OMFG I feel obligated to post some Axis stuff that never wound up anywhere. Most of this is hideously hideously ooooold. I should draw some new stuff. Mmhmm.

More, less horrible Axis stuff here, here, and here.

Sketchfight.

2006-05-10T09:35:00.000-07:00

Oh yes, and here is a quick scene I did in crappy pen at work, cuz it got stuck in my head and would not leave. I want to do a proper comic of it someday, but I probably won't. I suck that way.

C'mon, if you had a goliath bird-eating spider, you'd train her to jump on people's faces too.

Albinosalbinasalbinism

2006-05-10T08:47:00.000-07:00

Did a p-chat a few weeks ago with Kyra. I drew her albino, Sashimi, and she drew my albino, Presley.

Then I did a Presley oekaki.

I guess I should mention that I only want to see The DaVinci Code because of Paul Bettany as Silas? Albinos are so hot.

Oh I know you just di'int

2006-05-04T09:13:00.000-07:00

Yvie and some friends of hers have a trio of gay unicorns. They're very popular. So popular, in fact, that the gay anthro-unicorn population has apparently spiked. Thinking this was funny, I drew my own unicorn-boy, Jim, who is embarassingly straight and possibly homophobic. He's shown here with Mazza, who belongs to the Chee.

No mean-spiritedness is meant, at least not towards Yvie. Unicorn boys are shockingly fun to draw.

Mush.

2006-05-01T11:26:00.000-07:00

So like. If I may wax extremely mushy for a moment, Aysha has been my best friend since forever, if forever could be quantified as around ten years, and we've remained close enough to where I can easily see us still being best friends in fifty. I lack words to express how much she means to me. She's the other half of my soul.

So you'd think I'd draw for her more, right? WRONG. Oh well. I drew for her this week, though. She's been on a Rethamnel tear lately, so here are Karash (scary elven warlord) and Ludo (wimpy mer-historian). I hearts them both.

We ARE

2006-04-25T07:42:00.000-07:00

More One Piece fanarts. I'm trying to practice drawing Robin. She's very difficult. Her nose confounds me.

I was really hoping that the next Strawhat would be another girl, but right now it's shaping up to be either Franky or Paulie, so oh well.

Still without a title to my name

2006-04-24T08:00:00.001-07:00

Some sketches from that still-hasn't-got-a-fucking-title westerly story.

In which my white eyelash fetish is revealed

2006-04-17T09:29:00.000-07:00

So yeah I'm totally digging on the idea of making Presley an albino. Check it:

Hrrrrr. Of course, he'd keep the pink hair most of the time, since I dig that and he does too. But his skintone would be lighter and his eyes will be purplish or blue instead of green. He'd probably also have to dress different for the times he accompanies Heck into the deep desert.

I keep trying to figure out how he can defend himself. Presley cries at the meat section in supermarkets. The idea of him with a weapon is very out-of-character. Yet he wouldn't let his wife march off into danger without him. And he wouldn't be silly enough to go unarmed. It is a dilemma.

Origins

2006-04-15T16:46:00.000-07:00

A musing in comic form about how Heck and Presley might have met. It isn't set in stone, but I like this as well as anything else I've come up with. Creepy girl rescues albino boy!

Donny needs a fanclub.

2006-04-13T11:26:00.000-07:00

Of course it would probably consist solely of Aysha and myself. Most people seem to like Xavier best.

... Actually, I like Xavier best. But Donny's getting more interesting, since I beefed up the creepy factor of his powers.

OooOOoh.

2006-04-13T08:23:00.001-07:00

I have markers and gel-pens. Thank-you, Hobby Lobby.

I <3 x-parrot's shockingly well-written One Piece fanfic. Interesting plotlines, and Sanji and Zoro aren't trying to sleep with each other, or anyone else. It's like a goddamned miracle.

Jackassery

2006-03-28T07:50:00.000-08:00

A different Fox, this time Coyote's long-suffering brother.

Snack attack, motherfucker.

2006-03-22T08:30:00.000-08:00

Yeah, Lazy Sunday is awesome.

You know what else is awesome? One Piece.

Know what else is awesome? Saying awesome.

I need to practice my Robin. I totally can't draw her worth shits.

Feniculi Fenicula

2006-03-12T12:45:00.001-08:00

Was trying to do cell-type shading. Came out shockingly well. The whole thing came out shockingly well, actually. I'm so pleased.

Also, they both look really hot in sleepwear. Hrrr.

Dumpdump.

2006-03-10T13:36:00.000-08:00

While I'm thinking about it, here is a tremendous sketchdump of older pictures. I still really like a lot of these, even if they are OLD.

Are you surprised?

2006-03-10T11:56:00.000-08:00

Heck and Presley are my current favorites of my dozens and dozens of characters. Certainly my favorite couple.

I tried drawing them more realistically this time. Heck in her undies is easy to draw, only took around ten minutes, but then I'm pretty good at chubby girls. Maybe I should just give up and only draw chubby girls. Presley, since he's a skinny boy, took about forty minutes, comparatively. I am proud of his yawny face though, since I yawn every time I look at it. Success!

(Think about it, though. A comic consisting solely of drawings of chubby girls in their undies. I think it'd be fantastic.)

Is it dorky in here, or is it me?

2006-03-09T15:04:00.000-08:00

It's me. I'm a dork. I've been playing Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney more or less nonstop since it arrived in my mailbox and OHGODHERECOMESTHEFANART.

Seriously. I love this game.

Other than that, here are some more sketches. Kiddifying your characters is a worthwhile excercise, I think.

The Free People's World-Tree Library

2006-03-04T10:34:00.000-08:00

Fox is a television character, and she isn't dead yet. But she will be, soon. She's a character on a television show called The Library. You've never seen The Library on TV, but I bet you wish you had.

You always know Fox by her costume (the too-small green T-shirt, the long, full skirts she wears to hide her tail), by her dramatic hand gestures and body language, by the soft, breathy-squeaky voice the actors use when they are Fox. Fox is funny, dangerous, bad-tempered, flirtatious, greedy, untidy, accident-prone, graceful, and has a mysterious past. In some episodes, Fox is played by male actors, but she always sounds like Fox. And she's always beautiful. Every episode you think that this Fox, surely, is the most beautiful Fox there could ever be, and yet the Fox of the next episode will be even more heartbreakingly beautiful.

Kelly Link, Magic for Beginners

Shae Maxmason in: I Was a Teenage Starmap!

2006-02-16T21:20:00.000-08:00

Happy birthday, my chica.

Randoms

2006-02-10T08:27:00.000-08:00

I started off drawing reaction shots, then I decided they should be reacting TO something, and then dialogue happened. I have no idea if this has anything to do with their story or not, but I like it.

Presley has girly shoulders.

Spock, the Rock, Doc Ock and Hulk Hogan

2006-02-04T20:25:00.000-08:00

Can you tell? I'm totally crushing on Presley. I want a pink-haired geeky boy with a tarantula and an inferiority complex to call my own.

Imaginary places

2006-01-30T07:28:00.000-08:00

I like burlesque. I want to try doing it someday. As a hobby. I have a good figure for it I think, if only I had a modicum of talent.

To hump is human

2006-01-27T08:05:00.000-08:00

It amazes me how worked up people get over pornography. People should just admit to liking porn. It's naked people. Who doesn't like looking at naked people?

Schadenfruede!

2006-01-26T07:24:00.000-08:00

I'm playing catch-up with all the little things I never posted anywhere. Some stuff from Axis, some random stuff.

Man, even typing out the html is easier than freakin' devart.

As yet "Untitled"

2006-01-25T10:27:00.000-08:00

I'm enamored of my sketchblog. Yay! Here are some concepts from an as-yet-untitled story I'm kicking around. I'm not sure what it's about yet, exactly. More will follow.

These are all from the little sketchbook I bring with me everywhere. It's amazing how handy a teeny sketchbook is.

Devart Sucks!

2006-01-25T09:07:00.000-08:00

And I'm not doing enough "finished" art lately to post there, anyway. And it loads too slow. So witness my new sketch/story blog thingy where I will be posting whatever doodles I uh... dood.

To kick it off, here are some incredibly unfinished Axis comic pages that I was playing with. Action is hard. *whine*