string bees

Stay Toasty

2011-12-27T09:03:00.000-08:00

Housewarming gifts for my brother.

From awhile ago, but it's new to YOU, right?

Stay toasty warm and eat lots of desserts. Happy holidays!

It's Tryndamere. He always looks like this.

2011-12-23T09:04:00.000-08:00

(animated)

MY RIGHT ARM IS A LOT STRONGER THAN MY LEFT ARM.

Cactii

2011-12-19T16:41:00.000-08:00

I got approached by an old FFXI friend to do some logo work for his translation company, Cactus Leaf Translations. It actually ended up being a lot of fun! You can check out his site here: http://cactusleaf.co

Here's the process from start to finish.

Sun Tigers

2011-12-15T12:38:00.000-08:00

For Janell and Aniket. Who got married and lived happily ever after. :] Except they were already pretty happy to begin with.

Bonus concept sketches:

September Sketches

2011-10-07T09:04:00.000-07:00

Wow it's been awhile. Sorry. Here are some sketchbook things to tide you over. I am working on a couple of projects right now. There have been some computer upgrades and technical issues, but fingers crossed, things look to be stable now.

Super Mario 3DS has Tanooki Goombas. This is a level of great that I was not immediately prepared to handle.

I would scan more sketchbook pages, but my scanner is so old that it can't run under Windows 7, and my MB is so new, that it doesn't like running Windows XP.

Patience

2011-07-16T15:14:00.001-07:00

Goombas.

Just messing around with a sketch.

Nyancake!

2011-06-29T13:10:00.000-07:00

For my birthday... my brother made me a cake!

You may all be jealous now.

Also:

Pixel stuff.

Remember, self, paint faster.

2011-06-16T18:37:00.000-07:00

Working on it.
Next time compose something in advance, too.
Noted.

Pixel Kitty!

2011-05-16T09:04:00.001-07:00

For Rachel.

Also a pixel environment, for fun.

Spritely, now!

2011-05-11T11:31:00.000-07:00

Progress continues on the sprites for the D&D game. I still like the Atari-esque ones, but these are fun too. Pixel art is so different from the way that I normally work, that it has definitely been a learning experience.

Anyway, having fun with them, and thought I would share.

Happy Mother's Day!

2011-05-08T10:21:00.001-07:00

To you, and to the person whose womb you emerged from.

Dream Paladin

2011-05-07T10:03:00.000-07:00

Some stuff from a few months ago, when I was working on something.

Now playing: D&D on the Atari 2600!

2011-04-15T19:09:00.000-07:00

Okay not really. But I am making little tiny icons for our virtual tabletop. Which is actually pretty hard.

I wonder what kind of tilesets we will be using for the map, though. I don't want to make one! But I kind of wonder if we can find something ultra simple to match. Haha.

Tricked!

2011-04-14T10:14:00.001-07:00

Still not really spring. I knew that the nice weather couldn't last for more than a few days. I knew it!

Can it be spring yet?

2011-04-09T15:26:00.000-07:00

I am definitely ready for spring. Lemme know when it gets here for real. For Calgary, that will probably be May.

The board is gearing up for a new D&D game. It's been a long time since I've played, I'm looking forward to it. It's 4e which is also more or less a first for me. But it's gonna be fun! My character is a Tiefling Swordmage named Bunny. Her interests include good swords, nice things, and breaking other peoples' legs.

She is pretty much a goon with a pretty face.
Semi related: Gnolls are amusing to draw, especially the less effort you put into drawing them seriously.

Leaning tower of sketches

2011-04-04T18:06:00.000-07:00

Was visiting Jay in Georgia for two weeks in March, and, despite not drawing on any of the incredibly long plane rides, was surprisingly productive. I'm starting to get better at plane rides, though... I spend less time staring at the wing and resolutely telling the plane what a glorious piece of aerial technomancy it is than I used to.

Some of these next ones are drawn with my right hand. Can you guess which!

The second set of pages was done as a combination of both, which turned out kind of interesting in terms of line quality... I used my good hand for the details and bits that had to be curvy, but I used my right hand to just kind of make everything else jaggy and random.

Me and Jay kind of think Space Wolf should be a flash game about spinning backwards through space while you breathe fire. I'd play it. For a little while.

The perils of coffee.

2011-03-13T20:50:00.000-07:00

Hung out with Rachel today. We split a peppermint chocolate cupcake, and a ginger creme cookie. Best of both worlds!

Here are some sketches. In some of the pages, Adventure Cat is off model..... very, very off model.

I don't remember why this happened.

Some sketches

2011-03-09T08:20:00.000-08:00

For Jay's birthday I decided to get the best birthday present ever. So I got the most beautiful pony I could find.

Here are some sketches from last week.

Based on a true story.

2011-02-12T19:07:00.000-08:00

One day they'll just download it into your brain upon payment.

Sketchbook

2011-02-03T19:04:00.000-08:00

I got a new sketchbook for Christmas, from Jay. It is a moleskin! Which means that, while not actually made from the hide of small creatures, it is still pretty fancy.

I drew more space unicorns in it.

Global Game Jam 2011

2011-01-30T20:29:00.001-08:00

Game Jam : Make a game in 48 hrs.

Here is the timeline of my experience as the team artist.

Friday: Join a team, concept a game. Draw sketches. Spend 3 hours trying to get the test critter animation to wiggle properly. No, I will not go to sleep until it is working right. Go to "bed" (floor) at 1:30am, don't actually sleep until 4am. Wake up constantly. Quietly panic that game will never be finished.
Saturday morning: Omg I look dead. And why doesn't the Tim Hortons have bagels. Oh hello delicious coffee. Then this youtube video.
Saturday morning onwards (time to get back to work): Paint the critter animation frames roughly. Paint it better. Paint repeatable background tiles ALL DAY.
Saturday night: Wait our game actually works? Amazing. Discover new types of tiles that I have to make. Make new tiles. Repeat. Paint ending screens. Sleep a little.
Sunday morning: Touch ups. Make instruction screen. Paint a few more tiles.
Sunday afternoon: We get sound! Game is working. Lack of sleep sets in. OUR GAME IS AWESOME AND I LOVE EVERYONE.
Sunday early evening: Present games. Everyone made awesome things. It's so fun to see what people come up with, probably the one thing I miss the most about school.

It was a blast, and I think our game turned out pretty great. Thanks / props to Scott, Ian, Ryan, and Jeff. It was fun working with you all, and everybody did awesome work.

People reading this: You should check it out!

Download / play game: http://www.globalgamejam.org/2011/critter-swarm
Youtube demo video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAqj_uQki4U

I think I need to sleep now.

Paintings from November

2011-01-15T17:16:00.000-08:00

I did these sort of "level palette" sketches for Balloon Ferret, back in November. Color and theme and style, making sure everything matches and works as a whole, kinda thing.

Some more sketches from the last couple days. I am so close to finishing this sketchbook, I can taste it!

Except I wouldn't really want to, because this sketchbook has kinda been dragged just about everywhere...

Sketchbook

2011-01-13T21:06:00.000-08:00

As my pens die, I tend to become bolder and take more risks with my lines. I wonder if that is a metaphor for anything.

Sketchbook

2011-01-08T21:06:00.000-08:00

Here are some pages.

Adventures in Cookie Construction

2011-01-07T21:11:00.001-08:00

We had grand plans for our gingerbread house. Inspired by the back of the box which had pictures like this:

I was sure that we would easily be able to surpass these examples and create something even better. We even mixed extra icing. Surely it would be great. We would make carefully constructed roof decorations of squiggly swirly beauty. Artfully applied icicles. A gated yard of licorice, candy, and icing snow drifts.

It is at this point which I would like to remind you that this gingerbread house was made by three adults, one of which has an art degree.

And things did not go exactly as planned.

The icing was not quite thick enough so.. we basically couldn't do anything with it. We decided to work with what we had, and change design intentions.

Actually I guess it turned out pretty good.

Sketchbook

2010-12-08T21:05:00.000-08:00

It's December! Do you know what that means? Perhaps Christmas trees and shiny lights, and madly rushing to gather gifts. Perhaps ceaseless snow outside and incessant christmas songs inside. Perhaps so. But do you know what the most important part about December is?

Candy cane donuts are back at Tim's!

They are my favorite.

Here are some sketches from today.

And also a Shadeywolf from not today.

Happy Patch Day!

2010-11-25T11:32:00.000-08:00

Oh and it might be American Thanksgiving, as well. But Patch Day has always been one of my favorite holidays.

Will this patch save FFXIV? Here's hoping, I suppose, if I ever want to fill this little sketchbook.

This one is definitely Seyrr's fault. I don't know what the guy thinks he is going to do with 200 blocks of fish glue.

One more, and the last one in the book unless I get drawn back into the game. Kind of funny, since chronologically, this ought to have been one of the first pictures. To the best bro I never knew. Stand tall, Elflad, you were an elf among elfs.

Please Stay

2010-11-19T21:11:00.000-08:00

Panya and Salamanders.

Took an old sketch and painted over it, to kind of play with technique. No matter how I try I can't quite seem to get rid of lines entirely... I was not able to complete this as quickly as I had hoped for (one sitting), but it still went pretty fast compared to how some of my paintings can end up.

Sketchbook

2010-11-18T13:02:00.000-08:00

More sketches!
Things are getting a bit better.

As of yesterday, when we went from no snow to nearly a foot of it, it is now, officially, WINTER in Calgary. I am sorry guys, I kept it away by sheer force of will as long as I could, but nobody can hold out forever. At least Boo is happy.

El Forto Adventures - FFXIV

2010-11-18T13:00:00.000-08:00

Don't let this happen to you.

2010-11-14T15:53:00.000-08:00

Haven't drawn much in the last few weeks. I'm not sure how that happened, but it did. Now the pencil feels fumbly and awkward, and nothing is turning out quite right. I'm like the fat guy on the treadmill. So, please enjoy some sketchings as I work to get back into shape.

Starting to feel better about it though.

In other news. Much like going grocery shopping while hungry, one should'nt visit the library after being book starved for a few days. Especially if you have to carry it all home in a messenger bag. Oooof.

Picked up some fun things though. Got Nine (9?) and The Maiden Heist on DVD. I am especially excited about the second one, because it is Morgan Freeman (!) and Christopher Walken (!!) in a heist movie (!!!). Epic!

Also grabbed The Dark Victory which is a retelling of some early-days Batman stuff. I flipped through it and saw a panel of the Penguin with a mouthfull of tiny sharp teeth and was sold. There's also Robin / Two Face / Catwoman / the Commish so it looks like good times!

The rest was a large stack of fantasy/scifi novels, but I think I will start with the comic.

In theory this will one day be updated as I complete pictures.

2010-11-12T12:51:00.000-08:00

But for now I still have a big backlog to go through. So enjoy the image dumps!

This whole being able to wear gear at any level, but it not being -optimal- until certain levels thing.. creates certain quandaries.

I like hats.

Does not everyone?

This is crafting in FFXIV.

Yes for real. AND I missed a couple of steps at the end (wood chips to logs, water to muddy water). Yikes!

I confess.

2010-11-11T13:17:00.000-08:00

I have been playing Minecraft.

It is pretty fun. And by pretty fun I mean "oh hello 2am, when did you happen?"

I made some character skins today. Possibly this is WORSE in terms of fiddly "just let me get THIS right and then I'll stop..." than regular minecraft.

I had been feeling intimidated about making my own skin, because the file they give you to work with looks like this:

But eventually I got tired of being Vincent Valentine, and they didn't have skins of any of the female FF characters I really liked (no Celes?). So I gathered my courage, and took someone's Terra skin and colored at it until it looked more like Shade and less like Terra.

Then Jay wanted a skin so I made one of Ammon~

He has a pretty bow.

But now my Shadey skin looks crappy compared to this one, so I went back and fiddled with it for hours to make it better. I even eventually sort of figured out how the second head layer works.

Anyway, just to confirm, in case you needed my own judgement on it, Minecraft is indeed awesome. However, I recommend you do not purchase it, even though it is an incredibly affordable $15, because you like having free time, don't you?

New to you content!

2010-10-30T16:47:00.000-07:00

Have you ever met my good friend Seyrr?

Now you pretty much have.

Fiddly bits are the hardest part of making things.

So, I can't quite figure it out... They're both basically me, and maybe its the heavier use of dialogue this time, but while Seyonne was mostly quietly earnest, mithra-Shade seems to be getting all of the lippy retardedness.

It's the perfect plan.

I figured Botany would be a good way to suplement Carpentry. However I found that I could not maintain the required focus.

I spilled water on this book yesterday, and was sad. Luckily only the inner cover was really affected. All of the regular pages are pretty much fine.

Good Fucking Design Advice

2010-10-27T14:37:00.001-07:00

Okay this is apparantly old news, because I found it through an old entry of Mandy's, but I am in love.

Good Fucking Design Advice (it's dot com!)

Picture unrelated.

El Forto Adventures - FFXIV

2010-10-27T14:00:00.000-07:00

The little sketchbook is perhaps the most fun thing about the game right now.

My brother is playing! Or he did!

For like a day.

Harder than it looks....

Double plus HQ.

I started playing FFXIV in September.

2010-10-19T22:28:00.001-07:00

The collector's edition came with a little leatherbound notebook. But imagine my surprise, the pages are not lined. It is a SKETCHBOOK. Glorious.

After long long hours of remaking characters and staring at the screen in beta, I had finally decided to be a catgirl, and not an elfboy, in official release. Enter Shade Salahar, newbie adventurer supreme. She kills lots of marmots.

I really like the LS crests. I wish you could see peoples' LS names when you check them though. Maybe it'll be in the miracle patch.

I got a free hat with CE too! ... and immediately, desperately began the search for a different one.

Lightning reflexes too, I'm sure.

So, the game still needs a ton of work. But I am having fun filling up this little book. I've done a bunch of pages already, I will post more later.

Beaches and Ruins

2010-10-16T14:35:00.000-07:00

Sketchbook

2010-10-16T14:30:00.001-07:00

Delicious grilled cheese sandwich.

2010-10-16T14:24:00.000-07:00

You would think that I haven't been drawing much, but in fact that is the opposite of true. Instead of trying to post everything though, here are a few highlights.

Fish Post

2010-10-14T18:00:00.000-07:00

About two months ago:

A few weeks ago:
My plant order finally came in! And boy did it. I definitely got extra plants. Many extra plants.... It is still a work in progress. Suddenly I have a jungle to deal with.

This is Oroboros (Oro) an orange/black copper betta plakat. Plakats have shorter fins and are hardier than their longer finned cousins. He is pretty when the light hits him, because he is kind of metallic, but he photographs badly.

Next time I promise arts.

Moss Genius.

2010-07-20T17:07:00.000-07:00

Most of the tutorials for planting java moss seem to be:
Step 1: Get moss
Step 2: Tie moss to something
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Beautiful underwater moss plains.

But the stuff comes in a clump. How does it ever become lovely waving grass fronds? Well after some trial and error, I may have figured it out.

Would have taken pics but no camera currently. And this is more fun anyway, right?

Not pictured: Having a grid with tiny holes, and needing to jab them with a pair of scissors to make them big enough. But my persistence has been rewarded, and I have a very small and very lovely small grass-like test clump in my tank now.
Now all I need... is another hour or three of spare time to sit and stuff the rest of the moss through a plastic grid.

Unrelated!

2010-07-08T21:13:00.000-07:00

I finally caved and bought the new fish tank I had been admiring at the local pet store....
It is a slick little six gallon, a rectangular glass box with the filter/lighting tucked away behind. Best of all? It's aspect ratio is kinda widescreen.

I decided almost immediately that I really wasn't comfortable having it on the desk. Box of water + electronics is a bad idea, and the location made it really awkward to get at. So I picked up a cheap little stand and found it a better home. Look, books!

Been very busy so the tank has been going up in stages.... Got some rocks for it today. Now, it is kind of hard to tell just how awesome these rocks are, but trust me... they are. Theyre black striped with white, I am going for a limited color palette with this.

The sand needs to settle again though. Sand does a LOT more settling than gravel does, let me tell you. And you need to do a lot more RINSING too.

Next step is cycling it, and then fun experiments with anchoring java moss! And by fun I probably mean that it will involve lots of swearing for awhile.

Balloon Ferret!

2010-02-11T10:11:00.001-08:00

Animation demo:

BF is not the cleverest of inflatable creatures, but darn it, he's cute.

Global Game Jam 2010!

2010-02-05T09:29:00.000-08:00

Make a videogame in 48 hours. How hard can that be? It's doable but... you better not expect to get a lot of sleep! The game our team made was called "Legend of Morph". I built and animated the various characters, and Rachel did the backgrounds. Here is a demo of my animations:

The most common comment about Morph is that... he is sort of like a little pink roasted chicken walking around. Which is very strange, but you know, I kinda think it works.

Sketchbook.

2010-01-12T15:03:00.001-08:00

Victory Road

2009-12-17T09:54:00.001-08:00

It's dangerous out there. There are monsters in the tall grass, and challengers on the road.

Just me goofin' around. This was too fun.

WISE FWOM YOUR GWAVE

2009-12-14T17:47:00.001-08:00

Sketch:

Final:

Sat on this for a long time... but I think the wait did it good. This was a sorta gift for a friend. Hooray for zombies and atmosphere. Also the color purple.

Balloon Ferret

2009-12-01T11:40:00.000-08:00

Animation:
Unibat flight cycle.
http://spiffy-keen.com/a/Unibat_4st.swf

Sketchbook makes me feel better.

2009-10-14T14:40:00.000-07:00

I think its because its very stream-of-consciousness. So I went out for lunch at the nearby Vietnamese place, and hung around for about an hour afterwards, drinking tea and drawing. It's not quite a coffee-shop, but its the closest thing within walking distance.

Not all of these are from today though.

Cockatrice

2009-10-11T20:11:00.000-07:00

These are from August. I don't think there is any reason that horrible monsters cannot also be pretty... do you?

Adventures in Vast and Varied Locales

2009-09-17T09:05:00.000-07:00

Prints of these and other images are available at my imagekind gallery.
http://www.imagekind.com/MemberProfile.aspx?MID=0e9c9915-4fc9-4abd-b631-ae63e161087a

Some Silly Sketches

2009-08-25T08:56:00.000-07:00

Adventure Cat and the Prince of Whales.

Bargain Bin Mythical Beasts... some assembly required.

Things with spikes and things that go pop.

2009-07-30T00:04:00.000-07:00

I am probably at my best when I get to draw small, cute, ridiculous creatures. These are for fun, but I want to build something in Flash utilizing them, at some point.

Oh hi!

2009-07-17T16:17:00.001-07:00

Sometimes I forget that I have a blog.

I like process images, maybe you do too! Here is a commission that I did for a nice dude named Drace, from start to finish.

It's 3D!

2009-05-28T12:47:00.000-07:00

I thought that I had already posted these here, but I guess not! In April, I decided to dig out my sculpey clay, and made a bunch of little figures. They are painted with acrylic paint, and then sealed with a clear resin.

The ferrets and the purple octopus are sold, but the rest are still looking for homes. Email me if you are interested, and I will quote you a price!

Norse Gods

2009-05-26T09:54:00.001-07:00

Thor was easily the most fun, but look at him... he has big spikey armpit puffs!
Loki kind of needs a bit more work.

Golden Bear of Magnificence (and Flowers)

2009-05-09T20:10:00.000-07:00

Here is a bear.

I hope you enjoy him.
Also, it was Rachel's birthday this week (happy birthday!) and my birthday too. So I decided there ought to be cake. It ended up bring mudcake, but thats almost as good, so long as you have imagination or no tastebuds.

My brother is awesome.

2009-05-06T11:02:00.001-07:00

This morning he brought me coffee, a donut, AND... a second monitor!

(to borrow)

Today is a good day.

Journey - Love Dog

2009-05-02T10:33:00.001-07:00

Where the land is low is, where the bones'll show through.

BROTHERRRR

2009-04-27T10:23:00.000-07:00

It is my brother's birthday today!
I have been WAITING to do this for months.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Final Fantasy VI

2009-04-26T14:06:00.001-07:00

Just for fun, and excuse to play with different colors. Terra and Celes. FF VI was nice for many reasons, but one of them is that it had some very strong and interesting female characters.

The Princess and the Plumber

2009-04-04T22:34:00.001-07:00

Travelling together, through all of life's obstacles.

This was a present for a friend of mine and his lady, who just recently got married. The print of it finally arrived, so it's okay for me to post it here now. :D
I had a lot of fun doing this.

Sunday night sketchings.

2009-03-22T19:38:00.001-07:00

Here is a page of sketches.

And a bee in a bikini.

Character Montage

2009-03-19T17:47:00.001-07:00

If you want a detailed description of all the characters, you can check out my deviantart post. It was too much text to cram into here, heh.

Happy thursday!

Films

2009-03-12T13:52:00.000-07:00

I keep meaning to post my VFS films to the blog, but I never remember when I'm actually at the computer. Well, except for today. So here they are! Some of you have seen these already, but I figured it would be good to have them here as well as linked through my webpage.

The Bear King - Classical Film

This was my main student film. I spent about four months working on it, start to finish. It was hand drawn in pencil and then inked with pen & ink, and colored on the computer with Toonboom Harmony. The backgrounds were all done in Photoshop. The story is something I've been working with on and off for a few years now, did a few projects with it at ACAD. I really wanted to use it for my film, even though its such a large story... there wasn't really just one bit of it I could pick and make into a 1 minute film. So I picked... a bunch of things, and just tried to get across the mood and the feeling of the whole story.

Sparks - Flash Film

This was my flash film. We had... about four weeks (!) to learn Flash and make a short film. It was very frustrating at first... but by the end, I was feeling pretty happy with it. I did the sound for this one myself, which was also interesting and actually pretty fun.

VFS was a good school, and I learned a lot from being there. Both from the people around me, and the curriculum itself. Making a film is very time consuming and challenging, but I learned so much from the process, that it was worth every second.

To end with, here are some felines in footware.

I forget if I wanted to say something else.

2009-03-08T22:58:00.001-07:00

Oh well!

Sketches of Panya. Still feeling out her design. Decided to draw squished baby versions of her too, for fun.

Kessa the paladin, Ammon the bard, and the "magic room". It goes up and down, how cool is that!

And that's all for today. G'night everybody.

Uncertainty and bees.

2009-03-07T15:37:00.001-08:00

Mudkip lacks confidence in the future. And butterflies.

Also, here is a rainbow bee. Rainbow bees are well known for the happiness-field that they radiate at all times. It is impossible to be morose when in the presence of a rainbow bee. They are about the size of a walnut, warm to the touch, and their buzz sounds remarkably like a purr.

The Most Fantastic Team in the Universe

2009-03-02T20:41:00.000-08:00

The unicorn is really a being of pure light. By which I mean, its horn is a LASER and it can tread the space between galaxies with a single instantaneous step. Only the most rugged intergalactic soldiers can handle their levels of pure awesome.

This is Pancake. He goes on adventures.

So I've been trying to remember to leave my cellphone on. My default is that I turn it off unless I need to call somebody. But maybe people want to call -me-! So far it's mostly been computerized voices telling me I may or may not have one a trip to Mexico, or people looking for someone else who probably had my number before me. The other day:

Me: Hello?
Lady: Yes, is Kris there.
Me: Speaking! :)
Lady: No, I'm looking for Kris.
Me: Yes, that's me.
Lady: ...Christopher ____?
Me: Oh. No, this is Kristin Rakochy. I'm not sure who you're looking for, but this is my number. Sorry!

Yay cellphones.

Sigdis Wolfbiter

2009-03-01T10:31:00.000-08:00

Sigdis is the best-loved child of a middle-rank Thegn, surely destined for honor and riches. When she came of age, she immediately set out with a raiding party, eager to earn the glory she had always known were her due.

Unfortunately, destiny has other plans, and her very first foray outside of her homeland ends in disaster. Due to some critical failure or betrayal, the raiders are expected, ambushed, and slaughtered by their intended victims. Few survive. Sigdis is captured by the enemy, clapped in irons, and marked as a slave. Having failed to die gloriously in battle, she is honor-bound to accept whatever terms her enemies set, so she takes this as both necessary and fair. She has brought dishonor to her family, and the lost lives of the rest of the raiding party are on her head.

She intends to serve her sentence until she finds death in a worthwhile battle, or manages to gather enough treasure/esteem to rebuild her family's honor and repay the wergild of the raiding party.

The story of my day (if I was a small blue wolf)

2009-02-26T00:03:00.001-08:00

Today. I was productive. Right from the get-go. Boy was I. But then....

KARATE CHOP

But that wasn't enough!

No! Reduced... to ashes.

The remains were disposed of. Ziploc'd away.

But then... resurrected.

openthebagopenthebagopenthebag

Finally....

RESCUE !

Sketchbook

2009-02-20T20:30:00.001-08:00

Sigdis is one of my D&D characters. She's a friendly gal.

Decided to do this Deviant Art meme, but I did it in my sketchbook.

It's weird! I always thought that Mudkip only counted for one type... I guess I was wrong!

Reclining Jungle Dryad (collaboration)

2009-02-18T20:32:00.000-08:00

This image is a collaboration between me and Rachel!

She drew the fairy/dryad chick and a few background-scribble suggestions for me to work from, and then I painted it and added the actual background. I'm not sure how it ended up being a pink jungle tree fairy, but that's how the colors turned out, so thats what it is.

Lovely figure and the linework- Rachel!
Colors and background- Me!

Sketchbook Dump

2009-02-17T11:41:00.000-08:00

Weasels! They're fun to draw.

Monster girls. Just doing some really quick sketches to feel the idea out.
Kessa and... whatever the panther-cat's name is.

More soon.

Journey - Pool of Stars

2009-02-11T14:58:00.000-08:00

I've been working on some character design projects for my portfolio, but I decided to take a break last week to do a little bit of painting. It would have been more of a relaxing break if it hadn't ended up taking 5 days! Sometimes paintings put up a bit of a fight.

I also decided to take screenshots of my progress periodically while I was working on this... so if you want to see my process, you can do so by looking at this image:

(Pool of Stars - Process)

Ended up changing some colors at the very end, on the advice of a friend (hi Spenny). I like it better this way.

Fresh Pages

2009-02-05T19:34:00.001-08:00

I got a new sketchbook!
This is the first page:
Torch rats are among the most useful of dungeon denizens.

Sketches for People

2009-01-27T13:37:00.000-08:00

For Christmas I did a whole pile of these, as gifts for some online friends. They were pretty quick to do, but even that adds up if you do enough of them. Here are a couple of my favorite ones.

Borris:
Thunder Phoenix:
Red XIII:
Seyrr:

Rin:
Arkanos:
Steel Gnome:

He really does.

2009-01-17T21:55:00.000-08:00

Megatron is a betta (siamese fighting) fish. His interests include: eating, resting on plants, fighting trolls, and patrolling the tank. For trolls.

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This one is not my fault.
Rachel: (watching World of Warcraft, over my shoulder) You should get a pony.
Me: I can't. Ponies are from Stormwind, and they won't sell ponies to a dirty night elf.
Rachel: Night elves are dirty?
Me: Well. They're all in touch with nature and living in the forest and stuff. Like animals.
Rachel: So animals are dirty.
Me: Well no. Some of them lick themselves, right?
Both: ......

Just a silly pic

2009-01-12T19:09:00.000-08:00

Kittyface

2009-01-10T12:51:00.000-08:00

My brother now has a small creature living with him. She looks like this:

She is a kittyface.