Liam

So, Liam is my primary writing muse.  He and I have collaborated a little on some little first-person sketches and snapshots, and one longer story.  Most of these are whiny things concerning his previous drug habits and shameful acts.  Unfortunately.  Or maybe that's fine.  I'm not sure.

(apologies for lack of a nice background, I totally forgot and was gluing things when I realized I didn't scan it properly)

Full name: Liam Anthony Starling

Birthday: November 20, 1989

Height: 5’6”

Weight: 170 lbs. 

Body Type: Stout, masculine, somewhat muscled.  Bullneck lol!

Occupation: Freelance surreal, horror, sci-fi, dystopian, and LBGT fiction writer, hobby artist (watercolors mostly), theatre actor, playwright.  

Ethnicity/Species: Human!, French, German, Polish.

Faith: STRONGLY opposed to most faith.  Atheist.

Sexuality: homosexual, 100% for sure yes definitely.

Partner: Andy

Children: Someday (future daughter-Harley, future sons-Isaac & Eli)

Siblings: Alyssa, 6 years younger.

Music: Bright Eyes, Modest Mouse, Brand New, Murder by Death, Cursive,  Gravy Train!!!!, Catch-22, Cocks in Love*, Smashing Pumpkins, Talking Heads, Leftover Crack, Dear & The Headlights, Dead Kennedys, The Pixies, Tool, Bob Dylan, Flight of the Concords, Bad Spider*, ANTELOPE+2*, I Read the Giver*, Elvis Presley, A Perfect Circle, AFI (pre-decemberunderground), Johnny Cash, Stone Temple Pilots, Incubus, Soundgarden, Say Anything, OPERATION IVY, The Blood Brothers, T-Bone Walker, Of Montreal, Cat Stevens, Alice in Chains, The Sex Pistols, Franz Ferdinand, Pearl Jam, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Sublime, Manic Street Preachers, Explosions in the Sky, Iggy Pop, Interpol, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Matt & Kim, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Rufus Wainwright, Fleetwood Mac, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Credence Clearwater Revival, Jane’s Addiction, Bob Marley, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, The Doors, Rage Against the Machine, The Rolling Stones, The Used, 311, Deftones, Killswitch Engaged, Nine Inch Nails, NoFX, Audioslave, MCR, The Vines, and lol, Jonny McGovern.  Rock, punk, stoner, queercore, indie, reggae, ska and skacore, hardcore, metal, acoustic, British blues-rock, blues, folk, 90’s. 

Fashion: WOODEN ENGAGMENT RING NOT OPTIONAL NOR IS THE DORKY BANDANA as his forehead sweats often so he hides it this way plus keeps his hair from being directly in his eyes (well…no).  Can be any color but pink, always paisley.  Can also be a skullcap, lol.  Homemade screenprinted tees, band tees, theatre humor tees (Shakespeare jokes, etc), Batman, Watchmen, X-Men, and Sandman tees too.  Some mildly offensive/brash gay as hell tees—not hugely gross/sexual.  Ancient baggy jeans, cargo pants, whatever.  LOTS of hoodies, and mostly dark or muted colors, black, green, brown, grey, etc. but will wear some eggplant and some red too, hell, even yellow.  hemp bracelets/necklaces. NO RAINBOWS EVER, except a pride/rights button or bracelet, may do more for a parade or something.  For the feets, birkenstocks, sandals, skater shoes, cheap sneakers, whatever.

Personality: Two main sides: the really scary young angry tortured artist, and the big silly best-friend-ever.  He’s an insomniac and copes frighteningly well on almost no sleep.  He has a very big, often offensive/disgusting, over-the-top, sarcastic, and totally gay sense of humor—and is pretty much capable of making anybody laugh.  He writes constantly, often staying up all night clacking away at the typewriter his grandfather gave him.  For Liam, his art forms are his entire life purpose.  Well, that and his dogs and friends and life goal to adopt little kidlets, too. He’s medicated, but used to skip on purpose at times (not smart)—he felt it stifled his creativity and energy but really he was used to relying on his mania for productivity.  The rapid cycling that characterizes bipolar 2 is still present, but manic and depressive swings are usually pretty mild and manageable.  If he was not successfully medicated he would not be capable of a normal lifestyle.  He has almost too many triggers to keep track of.  He is horrifyingly impulsive and used to act rashly often, but has learned to curb this.  Who he was in high school still hurts him terribly.  Liam’s incredibly devoted to his partner, Andy, who in turn has stuck by him through even the worst of his illness (and other problems).  He is acutely aware of his addictive personality—drugs, but also betting and competitions are all potential habits for him.  He should probably avoid Dan and Rob and other friends, then. The part of him that’s the young angry artist is the part of him that’s wickedly opinionated—he almost wants someone to come up and challenge him, because while he’s somewhat okay in his own skin, some of his family isn’t and the rest of the world (well, some of it) isn’t either.  It’s the part of him that gets down about things.  When he’s on your side, he’s a wonderful listener and likes helping people and hugging people until they yell at him to cut it out.  If he’s on the opposite side, beware. :/ 

Drugs: recovering heroin user, relapses sometimes but is fairly diligent.  Pot sometimes.  Drinks often—usually gross cheap whiskey—and chain smokes like a fiend. Like…there’s a lit cigarette on him all the time.

Likes: Batman, guys, Livejournal, Cilian Murphey, dogs-especially big breeds, mastiffs, and bullies, typewriters, band tees, zombies, screenprinting, Mythbusters, racing games, horror, David Levithan, Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, Stephen King, Dave McKean, superheroes, movies/movie theatres, bell peppers (he’ll eat anything but this is his favorite), Shakespeare, acting, writing, whiskey, watercolor, crafty stuff, illustration/cartooning, skyscrapers, horror, practical jokes, dares, drawing, playing guitar, Hugh Jackman, Russel Crowe, Jiz and the Mammograms (lol), lizards--horned toads and bearded dragons especially, working, hardcore dance pits (lol mosh), reading, concerts, really hella gay stuff, cute little kidlets.

Dislikes: Girls, the porn industry, Pete Wentz, McDonald’s and other big food companies, the PETA, coconut, how chocolate bars are cheaper than vegetables, the cost of cigarettes, not being able to pet Andy’s tail as much as he wants (lol), himself, Jeffree Star and like every scene thing alive, women’s clothing, pigs, home improvement shows, drag queens sometimes, clowns, club kids and ravers, a TON of 80’s cartoons, Parenthetical Girls. 

Movies: Little Miss Sunshine—favorite movie ever, Pleasantville, All the Batman Films (favorites are Adam West Batman, Batman Returns and the first of the new Batman films), Mirrormask, No Country For Old Men, Donnie Darko, Where the Wild Things Are, 12 Monkeys, Fight Club, Coraline, The Shining, The Prestige, Pan’s Labyrinth, Ponyo. O Brother Where Art Thou, 2010 True Grit, Zombieland. Inception,The Iron Giant, Stand By Me, Fargo, The Shawshank Redemption.  Anything by Studio Ghibli or the Cohen Brothers is game to him.

European Starling tattoo on right arm, Sandman quote on ribbon underneath: “You are alive, so, live.”

Grey eyes, prominent, permanent bags.  They age his face hugely.

Hairy.

Large earlobes, pierced, but he doesn’t wear earrings anymore.

Bulbous pug nose.

Thick jaw, small chin.

Hair can be short or long in front, can have dye (green or black only), usually doesn’t. 

Sunburnt/tanned shoulders and arms.  

Scruffy facial hair, often in a short beard.  

Barely-there scruff ‘stache optional.

Fursonas: Timber wolf, bandogge (mastiff-bully mix), bearded dragon, orange tabby cat.  He draws himself as any of the aforementioned, often mixing features of the different animals to fit his mood or the particular picture he’s drawing.  He doesn’t have a set fursona design.  ALSO he has a pokesona, a feraligatr.  

Usually he draws himself as a bipedal with a humanlike build, but he does draw digigrade legs sometimes too, and his pokesona often is drawn as a feraligatr usually is, on its hind legs, hunched over.  

Feel free to draw him doing naughty things in any form, but note that Liam doesn’t like to see animal bits and doesn’t draw himself with them.  I don’t like that either, so please, no dog, cat, lizard, etc. genitals ☹ Human bits only!  

He also is never drawn as a quad, but can look like a were-animal. 

Also, Liam is against most fetishes.  Unless it’s a derpy joke picture AND WE ARE CLOSE FRIENDS, you can’t draw him doing anything adult besides good old fashioned fucking with other two-legged, consenting, grown-up characters.  And please, boys only.  ☹ He is monogamous but feel free to draw him with Batman, Destruction from Sandman, or any of his celebrity crushes. XP Or his partner, Andy.  And please no bondage.  I may like that, but that’s not his deal.  

A bandana or skullcap and wooden engagement ring are a must.  Fashion follows what he wears as a human: muted colors excluding rasta or purple and yellow, faggy/band/self-made screenprinted/theatre/geekery shirts, jeans or khakis, hemp jewelry, birkenstocks, skate sneakers, or...whatever lol. 

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

Lindsay

BFFs with Carlos, lives with her and Carmichael and during certain times Merriweather too.  Does a lot of stuff for a living, makes good money, is kind of on the rise.
Also friends with Bailey, Jazz, Gage, and others.
Pretty bad childhood, she doesn't like to talk about it.  Her mother is very unstable and unfit to parent but not an unkind woman; Lindsay took care of her more than she did Lindsay.  Her father was a disgusting abusive pervert pig of a person but he's kind of out of the picture, luckily.  She has a little residual stress but copes really well with tough situations, better, probably, than any of my other characters.

Full Name: Lindsay Powers
Birthday: December 18, 1989
Height: 5’1”
Weight: 90 pounds
Body Type: Leggy, well-muscled, petite.  Slender, almost bony build, small chest.
Ethinicty/Species: Chinese Crested Dog (hairless).  Chinese.
Occupation: Fashion and fetish model, dance instructor/performer (burlesque, pole, children’s tap, ballroom, performance/artistic), drag queen, singer.  Also draws and sews much of her own clothing.  Almost totally self taught in all of above disciplines, except dance.
Faith: unconcerned.
Sexuality: straight.
Partner: Carmichael.
Music: Lady GaGa, The Knife, The Birthday Massacre, Iggy Pop, Ladytron, The Faint, Regina Spektor, Metric, Vince Giordano, GiGi, Cristina, Louis Prima, Kylie Minogue, La Roux, HelloGoodbye, ELO, Real Life, Panic! At the Disco, The Pipettes, Rhianna, Nine Inch Nails, Hot Chip, P!nk,  Duke Ellington, Dragonette,  ATC, Audra, Cocteau Twins, Daft Punk, Spinnerette, The Dresden Dolls, Chromeo, CocoRosie, Tones On Tail, Robyn, Madonna, Nicki Minaj, September, The Distillers, The Crystal Method, Sugar & Gold, Dead or Alive, The Pixies, David Bowie, Apoptygma Berzerk, The B-52’s, Shiny Toy Guns, Patrick Wolf, Annie.  Glam, electronic, pop, cabaret, goth, musical/theatre, 80’s, swing/big band.
Fashion: Being a high-fashion model, you can draw her in almost anything.  Wears a lot of pink and black, but is not limited to this!   Likes glam, drag, burlesque. HUGE on 20s fashion as well, can wear any color, especially white, green, blue, cream.  Also likes mod and deco, she enjoys doing more mature takes on Fairy Kei—that is, fewer accessories, corset elements, etc.  No Lolita.  Corsets, short skirts, skinny jeans, leggings (sometimes as pants), mod dresses, bold prints, nettings and stockings, legwarmers and armwarmers, partial tops, spaghetti straps, glitter, bows, faux fur, leopard and zebra print, sequins.  Will wear mild bondage elements.  Shoe addict, loves all kinds of shoes.
Personality: Intuitive, street smart, caring, sometimes blunt, a little gossip-y.  Likes shopping, dancing, helping others to expand their minds, solve their problems, etc.  Has a slight lisp.  Incredibly busy with her career—modeling and performing (singing, dancing, drag, etc.).  Loves conventions (art, music, dance, fashion, politically minded, etc), clubbing, performing, meeting new people, etc.  Has a low libido.  Used to be way more heavily into BDSM (subbing), still is, to a lesser degree.  Fan of suspension, latex and leather, spanking.  Not easily riled up or upset.  Incredibly dignified, but not egotistical.   Very insightful and aware of others’ problems.  She refuses to be pushed down by others and takes shit from nobody. Also a great baker.
Drugs: Drinks on rare occasion; never caught drunk.  On even rarer occasions, she’ll smoke weed w. Carlos, Merriweather, Bailey and friends.
Likes: Dance, exercise, glam fashion, teaching, baking, sewing, drawing, glitter, make-up, napping, DDR, helping others, SAILOR MOON…a lot, Jem, Rainbow Brite, MLP FiM, quiet afternoons and evenings, Disney movies, studying languages, Marilyn Monroe, interior design, conventions, drag performance, cabaret, classy burlesque, acting, singing, learning, gym class, pole dancing, modeling, BDSM, androgyny, gender studies, masculine men, gender awareness/rights, activism, Columbia (RHPS), kawaii stuff, sugary foods, stickers, Halloween, exotic foods, shoes.
Dislikes: Pedophilia humor and pedo bear, hate groups, forced feminization fetishes, her lisp (can usually work around it), trashy people, feminazis, casual sex, Ren and Stimpy, horror films, large concerts, hating on cabaret/burlesque/pole dance performers, math, her biological family, her rotten ex and his family.
Movies: Spirited Away, Hedwig and the Angry Itch, Some Like it Hot, Chicago, Moulin Rouge, Cabaret, My Neighbor Totoro, V for Vendetta, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Party Monster, Paprika, Kamikaze Girls, Tokyo Godfathers, Velvet Goldmine, Connie & Carla, Millennium Actress, West Side Story, Plague Dogs, The Aristocats, Lilo & Stitch, Lady & The Tramp, Oliver & Company…basically all the cute animal Disney movies.

Born intersex,but it doesn’t show at all (except internally)—she appears and ID’s as female.
Delicate, slender frame.
Two-tone heart nose!
Speckled, mottled skin.
Long muzzle.
Can shave fur from wrists and ankles.  Underneath are faint, pink scars from chafing of bondage supplies, scratches, rope burn, etc.
Hair is naturally white and rarely dyed, if ever.  Bangs are modeled after Marilyn Monroe’s hairstyle or done into 20’s waves/sweeps.  Can crimp and curl it as well.
Birthmark on right cheek.
Grey-blue eyes, long lashes, sometimes adds decorative fake ones.
Tail is not like most Crested tails.
Ear piercings all at 16g..
Breasts are a small B cup.
Various scars on body, most are now just barely visible.  Include them if you want.

3/29/11

FIRSTLY, I made a new header.  The old one was big and ugly and I meant to remove it and somehow forgot to....Anyway.  Anyway, I will -probably- make a new one using the same elements in a little while if/when I get an animating program in anticipation of college.  

I challenged myself to make 100 images--or something like that, maybe more--where I would draw something to a song or something that would have to come easily or be worked on in whatever way I wanted.  This is finished now but it started with the background, which was splatter art.  It's not quite done, I think.  I'm planning to add some shadows and iridescent medium and some text.  So you don't see it yet.  Soon, though.  I promise.  This was to Dance in the Dark by Lady GaGa.  

I traced and reworked the old version of this.  Evelyn Evelyn fanart.  http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2182416918151440743&postID=6558473618026877693 original version.  

 I could've sworn I scanned a trade for twinklestah, whose blog on here is REALLY awesome and you should all see it: http://twinklestah.blogspot.com
But I either didn't or finished cleaning it up before I transferred things to my new laptop.

Warning: adult content under the cut. 

When I redesigned Carlos....

Warning: nudity under the cut.

Derp-badges for myself and Hayden, sickhearts on FA and sickheartsdofine on dA.  Buttons on his jacket are for MCR, The Used, and Rancid.
Accidental telephone line will not show up in the cut-out version.  Ahaha, these were fun.

This is all I've done lately besides redo Dan's reference sheet.  I'm working on Carlos's, Merriweather's, Tess's, and have plans to redo Lindsay's and maybe even Bailey's (le gasp!) in the near future.
I haven't scanned any trade WIPs but they exist.  I will soon.

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.