2/21/12: Tear Your Little World Apart // ACEOs

ACEOs first since they aren't partial nude pin-ups.....

Going along with my other ACEO pin-ups, all risque but not adult.  I love Tess, she's so squishy and curvy and cute.  Although her lip may be a little big, but who cares, it's cute.

Only problem I have with this is the darkness of her ears and hands.  Otherwise I think it came out well.

Done to Supervixen by Garbage. :)

A portrait of my cat Harley as a goddess kitty.  I drew this because she likes to sit on my lap while I play Okami--it's her favorite time to cuddle with me, that is, when she's not under the blanket while I'm reading comics.  Anyway, she looks a lot like the cat god and the statues of her(?) throughout the game.  Also, she has very striking markings--opposite half moons.  Some people have told us they look like curling demon horns, but one of my friends pointed out the similarity to the triple goddess symbol.  So thanks to all of that, I drew this.  I don't often attempt backgrounds that actually look like anything and I think the water is way too green-blue for that sunset...but I still like it for what it is.  I added iridescent medium (on the card above too) to make a slightly bluish matte effect on the background, separating Harley from it.  It also made the colors mix a little better.  Also the eyes are kind of too dark.  Blech.  May fix that.

And finally, the piece I'm most proud of right now:

WARNING: Nudity and (slightly) adult content under the cut!

2/15/11: Three ACEOs; One's for V-Day! // Ref & Pin-up WIPs

DON'T FORGET THE RAFFLES: furaffinity.net/journal/3167400/

First, a trade with Brett!

I had a lot of fun drawing this character for him.  Except for the Not-Dog and a few miscellaneous sketches I don't get to draw monstery critters!  I REALLY love how it came out, I had been saving that ACEO for something special since I had colored it a while ago.

It's iridescent IRL so it's super shiny.

TESS!

Meant to go along with the ACEOs I've been doing of my girl characters being sexy.  This one is a little more clean than the others, I guess, since she's the most covered and the material's opaque :P  Gonna do an orange-yellow background.  Make her look all fiery and hot (punny).

WARNING: Nudity and adult content under the cut!

Tess

Tess started seeing Emilie, then after Lance came out to her, she agreed to see him as himself AND Emilie (same person, different forms).  She mostly hangs with Dorian and Ernest and Ernest's friends, but doesn't mind Emma, a few of Lance's other friends.  She's rather unsure if she likes Dan or not.

Also she's my excuse to have a sugar glider character, and to have a character with a ridiculous chest.  XP

If some of the linework seems old or out of place, it's because it is.  This reference sheet was half-finished for about half a year. 

Full name: Teresa May Bell, goes by Tess.
Birthday: July 16, 1992
Height: 5’7”
Weight: 160 lbs
Body Type: Curvy, long-limbed.  Large chest. 
Occupation: Engineering student.
Ethnicity/Species: Sugar Glider, indigenous Australian.
Faith: Buddhist.
Sexuality: Bisexual
Partner: Lance/Emilie
Siblings: Kelly & Joanie, 16
Music: The Birthday Massacre, P!nk, 30 Seconds To Mars, Sick Of Sarah, La Roux, Placebo, Deerhoof, Queen, Ra Ra Riot, Garbage, Arcade Fire, Motion City Soundtrack, The Used, The Matches, Metric, Tattle Tale, Mother Mother, Dragonette, Matt & Kim, Ke$ha, Scarling., AFI, Of Montreal, Lady GaGa, My Chemical Romance, Alphabeat, Say Anything, Never Shout Never, Tegan & Sara, Radiohead, Ladyhawke, Franz Ferdinand, Bratmobile, Spinnerette, Kaiser Chiefs,  Kill Hannah, Brand New, Freezepop, 3OH3!, The Decemberists, Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head, The Smiths, Le Tigre, Katy Perry, Runaways, Rasputina, Bjork, Evanescence, Panic! At The Disco, Joy Division, Never Shout Never.  Pop, electronic, rock, alternative, riot grrl, folksy tweepop stuff, scenekid fare.  She is always open/interested in new music; this is just some of what she listens to.
Fashion: Tees and slacks, shorts, skinnies, leggings, and/or skirts, jackets, vests, asian patterns, cool colors, band shirts, all sorts of shoes.  Usually mature but still colorful, usually rather modest, sometimes tattered or frayed.  She fixes things to be other things often after they’ve lost their original use. 
Personality: Highly energetic and social.  Tess is in part Lance’s foil and a parallel of Emilie, but she is capable of being as calm and deep as he can be, too, and finds his interest in the otherworld refreshing and interesting.  She loves to learn and be active.  Straightforward, confident, not given to panic or nervousness.  She loves more mathematical and science-related things, and is rather fond of sci-fi and superhero stuff.  Somewhat suspicious of men, mainly because she hates being ogled and approached.  Doesn’t mind abstaining from sex, as Lance is nonsexual.
Drugs: Drinks, but very rarely. 
Likes: Science, Demetri Martin, superheroes, clubbing, the beach, sailing, music, stuffed animals, kawaii things, sewing, sandwiches, traveling, exercise, sci-fi, math, accessorizing, window shopping, movie nights, board games, roller coasters, swing sets, hiking, reading, tech-geekery, manga, candy and fruits, farmer’s markets, Star Trek, Futurama, Firefly, Dr. Who, etc. TV-wise, body mods, rugby, badminton, videogames, fried grubs, MLP Friendship is Magic, Choward’s violet candies. 
Dislikes: Having a hugeass chest, when her gliding skin gets in the way (esp. in high winds!), sleeping in late, procrastinating, secrecy, beef, crunk, sleeping in, most drugs, Twilight, the pirates & ninjas debate (in her heart she goes for pirates…), “random humor”, winter after Christmas, star anise, bees. 
Movies: Big Fish, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Star Wars, Space Balls, Mean Girls, Inception, Pan’s Labyrinth, Coraline, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, Airplane!, the X-Men movies, Santa’s Slay, Tokyo Godfathers, Star Trek: The Search For Spock, Star Trek, Orlando, Kinky Boots, Little Miss Sunshine, Edward Scissorhands, K-PAX.  She makes a point of frequenting theatres for superhero movies. 


DD cup
Baggy skin down torso & legs tipped brown-black. 
Baggy skin on arms-white.
Thin, plush fur on body.
Long toes.
Piercings: 12g snakebites, 00g lobes, 8g cartilage above.
Large nipples.
Stripes run down both sides of legs, start at armpits, branch at hips.  
Back stripe starts on face. 
Non-WT face markings; NO swirls present under ears.
Full lips.
Choppy hair, turquoise (naturally dark brown), fauxhawk.
Back of legs and arms-white.
Pouch IS present; tiny nipples inside.
Baggy skin is VERY wrinkled/folded and close to her body.  In the wind or when wet, however, it puffs out completely if exposed and can actually push her a little to her annoyance.
Ears-black tipped, black-pink skin. 

4/6/11

I am SICK as a DOG.  Which is fitting if my fursona's a coydog.  Hahaha.

So while I'm home with the same exact damn sinus infection I had a few weeks ago (I apparently needed a second dose of the antibiotics but no one thought I did at the time, way to go guys) I've been working on reference sheets (all I do anymore, am I right?) but I also have an exciting announcement as well as some finished work that I am really happy with.
As per usual refs are under the cut.

First-off, I finally finished part of my trade with Twinklestah!
It's her fab fox girl Tika-Tiri doing some maaaagical stuff with a few bones and feathers.  My canine anatomy -sucks- and I'm the first to admit there's something off with her neck, but I'm still pleased with how this ended up.  I like the coloring and I bought this funky paper-tape border stuff that I used on here (it sort of tore, sorry about that Dx) and I really love it.  The background, I edited with little thread-marks...so it's patchwork, for the Patchwork Plane, where her characters live.

Then it's the final version of Dance In The Dark, for that challenge I'm giving myself to live a little within my art and just sort of do things.  It scanned -horribly- but I don't really have a camera handy so...yeah.
I'm really happy with it.

Now it's just a million ref WIPs and a finished thing of Carlos.
Some nudity under the cut.

Carlos.
This is just a change for her current ref, which needed updating.  I just sort of totally BS'd her first ref and the anatomy was crap.  I took a lot of time on this one and I think it portrays her body type, coloring, and markings MUCH better.  I'm really pleased with her ears, the softness of the grey facial "freckles" and how I colored the iridescent scales on her arms and legs.
Her tail is different now, way thinner, but that's about it.  Small chest, slender, rather androgynous...her basic body shape hasn't changed -that- much.  Pre-op trans, afraid of surgery and hospitals and unwilling to commit to a sex reassignment operation for many reasons.
I was aiming to get her personality in the pose.  She's a little childish, loves dressing up and feeling girly, and likes being the center of attention.

Rachel.
This is the original ref idea, but I liked her face pointing up better so I traced and redid that.  She's stretching her arms behind her back and kind of.  stretching in general.
I wanted to--again--get her in the pose so I was trying for something casual, sexy, and teasing.  Rachel isn't exactly a sleaze but is obsessed with her own body image.  She is a successfully recovered anorexic, and used to use her body as power over men she dated, but usually wound up being used.  Old habits die hard--there's a part of her that still wants to attract men she doesn't necessarily want to date.  A deep-down desire to be an exhibitionist except she knows she'd regret it and hate it heartily (lol, she's been scouted for porn but always laughs in the peoples' faces and declines).  Also she's WAY into body art, but I didn't include her tattoos on the anthro ref.  The human one--she's usually a human--will come later.

The idea behind the design is her self-criticism.  She knows, in a vague way, that she's attractive or capable of being attractive at least, but really doesn't see herself as such through her own eyes.  She likes chinese crested dogs and has one named Winnie, who is her little bby, and opossums are vermin that dig through the trash--she sees herself as trashy due to who she used to be and the people she used to date, some of which were really dangerous men that hurt her.  So she threw them together to make something of two animals many people see as ugly.  It's really sad I guess.

ALSO LIAM UP THERE
his pose is unassuming otherwise it would be REALLY stupid and silly so I thought I'd save us.  I'm not sure if the proportions or anatomy are right but I like his face.  He's fun to draw.

(dan's ref used this whole let's be posing like our personalities thing, he was standing looking awkward instead of loud and obnoxious, because deep down inside he is a sad little boy)

More of Tess.  She's a shameless OMG BOOBS character, I'll admit, and her pose doesn't really mean anything except HEY GUYS I'M A SUGAR GLIDER.
She's modest and doesn't really like her breasts much, they're too big and therefore make it hard for her to wear certain cut tops and dresses and whatnot while still looking modest.  I always feel really bad for certain girls at my school who -insist- on wearing tops I'd look fine in that due to their chest size they appear to spill out of.  Sucks.  One of the reasons Tess likes Lance/Emilie so much is that he's not constantly eyeing her chest.  She's got a cute color scheme aww.  Reminds me of toast.

Also more Emilie. XP  I'm working on the background.

veeeery pleased with this!

AND NOW THE EXCITING NEWS

after like two years of almost no use I am finally using Bailey again.  I was watching Velvet Goldmine over the weekend and was all the sudden LOVING him again.  It was magical.
So this is him.  I actually checked my anatomy for once.
EXCEPT I'm changing the legs, screwed up the hand horribly and tried to replace a finger somewheres else and ended up making a mess, and I really do NOT like the shading inside his ears and one is too short.  So that will all be fixed.
So I'm editing the scan.
BUT ANYWAY OMG I MISSED HIM

1/23/11

Drawn to I'll Take Us Home by Matt & Kim.  Specifically from the line, "Hey, New York is a wolflike shadow" in the refrain.  Liquid concentrate watercolors, blue ink pens, gel pen, bic pens, and markers.  Whew.  I started this over the summer....

 

This was drawn to Explosions in the Sky's album Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever, from the track Have you passed through this night?

This imagery is how that album makes me feel.  But in a good way--this is a dark image but it's not a sad or negative image.  Liam's face is too short here and his nose is too big.  I was still figuring out how to draw him when I made this. 

Markers and pencil and pens, pretty much. 

It makes me think of Desperate Hell by Christian Death but it was drawn a while ago.  Maybe over the summer.  I decided to ink it.  I miss Bailey.  I like him here--he looks raw and like he's trapped in himself.  Which he is, by his fears. 

Done over the summer, in Washington, with watercolor, ink, and gel pen, to It's a Metaphor, Fool by Say Anything.  Their first album is my favorite album ever ever ever.  I wish they stayed that good with their continued studio work.  They added in too much electronic stuff and lost their way a little.  Lost their individuality and beauty. 

...

I FINISHED IT!

HELL YEAH.  Sophie's ref is FINALLY done. You can see -her- art at http://likelaurels.deviantart.com oooor at http://www.arthousecoop.com/users/sleetmaa YOU HAVE TO SEE, HER ART BOOK.  IT IS AMAZING. 

She's excited to draw her furry sonar on everything and I'm excited for her.  

WIP of two badges (I redid the lines for Laurel's 'cause I didn't like her eyes) for Angel, and Hayden and myself as Lady GaGa and Beyonce.  Yeah.  I know. XP  I fucked up the phone line but redid it so it's all okay.  Angel's at http://angryprncess.deviantart.com and same name on FA, hayden's at http://sickheartsdofine.deviantart.com or sickhearts on FA.  

Headsketch (concept) of Tess (pictured under the cut).  This is mainly scanned to show how I decided to make my friend Quiche a sugar glider.  I drew this and asked her what she thought and she FLIPPED so I went forward with it.  Cuuute.  

Warning: Adult art under the cut.