Andy Roth

Liam's partner, friends with some people we don't really see from his hometown in Orchard Park, NY (near Buffalo), Emma, Merriweather (Carlos too but he and Merriweather have more in common in terms of personality and experiences), Andrea, notJude's!Rob (kind of--he's not sure how to feel about him), the guys from I Read The Giver, and his friends from work.  Andy is comfortable with being alone or with Liam's friends and while he doesn't see Dan as one of his best friends he does see him as a sort of family member since he's around so much and Liam and Dan are so close.
He also looks like a librarian. :/

Andy's got some recessive traits causing his fur to be thicker and small differences in his facial structure (more catlike than the rest of his family, most likely) and physical structure (six nipples, retractable nail-claw-things, etc).  He's a ticked tabby, hence the small number of stripes.  He has a human reproductive system and organs, though, so don't draw cat parts.  Please.
He has a few tendencies he's had to learn to curb such as pouncing people he doesn't like (or does like...), clawing things, chasing things, stalking things, swatting at things....etc.  He also purrs and hisses more than most anthro cats would deem normal or appropriate, but it's something he has difficulty controlling.


Full name: Andrew Roth, goes by Andy.
Birthday: January 14, 1988
Height: 5’8”
Weight: 155 lbs
Body Type: Average, on the slight side.
Occupation: Journalist, poet.
Ethnicity/Species: Grey tabby cat, Jewish, Polish.
Faith: Raised Jewish, loosely Jewish but doesn’t do kosher and all that.
Sexuality: Homosexual
Partner: Liam
Siblings:  Oliver, 1 year younger, Peter, six years younger,  Zach, 7 years younger, Zoe, 9 years younger.
Music: Bright Eyes, Ben Folds, Parenthetical Girls, Of Montreal, Coldplay, Interpol, The Shins, The New Pornographers, Extra Life (he feels they’re hit-and-miss), Keane, Brand New, Mother Mother, Radiohead, Bob Dylan, Jason Webley, The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, Smashing Pumpkins, Buffalo Springfield, CSNY, Explosions In The Sky, This Will Destroy You, Dear & The Headlights, The New Pornographers, The Boy Least Likely To, Sholi, Joni Mitchell, Smashing Pumpkins, The Jezebels, Florence & The Machine, Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton (preferred to Metric, likes them too), Interpol, The Starlight Mints, The Servant, R.E.M., Radiohead, Ra Ra Riot, Arcade Fire, U2.  Soft rock, indie, acoustic, folk,
Fashion: Sweater vests, jeans (skinny or regular), slacks, earthy colors, natural prints, argyle, band tees, slacks, ties, wooden engagement ring, sandals, barefoot, leather dress shoes, tennis shoes.  Usually librarian-ish/grandpa chic, erring towards dressy more often than not.  Doesn’t accessorize.
Personality: Andy is gentle, kind, and quiet, but not unsocial.  He has some incredibly house cat-esque tendencies due to a “primitive” gene he expresses that he sometimes has difficulty curbing (chasing things, pouncing things, purring and hissing—the latter two he often can’t help).  Very easily embarrassed and self-conscious, overly critical of himself especially in terms of his personal writing, which he lets almost no one read (he’s only published because of Liam’s coaxing, bribing, and trickery, but it did boost his confidence after). He already has made many sacrifices for Liam’s host of medical problems and hospital stays, but has also remained with him through the drugs, suicide threats, medication failures, etc.  He believes in Liam more than anyone.  He is disgusted by the devolution of news to hype, which is partially why he’s a journalist.  He is somewhat easily annoyed but less easily distracted.
Drugs: He used to smoke pot, rarely does anymore.  Drinks, but only on special occasions; has a veeery low tolerance level.
Likes: NPR, BBC, Harry Potter, Torchwood, coffee, cafes, Mac products, Pickled rodents and fish, East European cuisine, Sunbathing, cooking, interior decorating, fall, walks, Pomeranians, their dogs Fortinbras & Hamlet, MLP FiM, Where the Wild Things Are, Shaun Tan, The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, chocolate, scritchings from Liam (haha, tail especially), stalking and pouncing Liam & pets, shiny things, catching flies.
Dislikes: Elvis, Gravy Train!!!!, Blink-182 (he tolerates them, and listens to them ONLY if Liam’s not around and he misses him). Politics centering around personal gain, incorrect news, real cats (they creep him out), horror movies, cigarettes, crazy parties, snow, smoke, pretentious asses, hot humid weather, how his fur puffs sometimes if he blow dries it, MTV.
Movies: Cohen Brothers & Miyazaki.  Also Mirrormask, Where the Wild Things Are, The Dark Crystal, LOTR, Be Kind Rewind, Little Miss Sunshine, The Birdcage, ET, Lilo & Stitch, Inception, Muppets Treasure Island,
Due to his recessive genes he not only has more cattish behaviors but features too—unusually thick fur, six nipples, retractable claws (usually trimmed, shown here out)
Bangs are swept in an effort to cover his forehead
Hair and eyes similar honey color
Face mix of human and cat features
Ticked tabby
Cinnamon fur, warm red stripes
M-shape on forehead, stripes down back, socks with stripes
Toes on left foot all white

11/01/11: Halloween!

Firstly, since I neglected to post my Halloween art....remnants may be working their way in over the next few weeks.  I'm still in pumpkin mode.
So my neighbor decided to throw a party and I couldn't sleep because the apartment was shaking so I made a bunch of Halloween ACEOS.

I worked on another project that -may- be too fragile/big to scan; I'll have to see...but it made me way into toning paper with ink.

The Shining, woo.

More of The Shining.  Liam is a frighteningly plausible Jack Torrance.

Not-Dog from Shadowed Lives, hunting for some...food.

Then a departure from creepsville for a really cute little greeting card sort of deal of Carlos with sugar skull face paint, all ready for Halloween.  And delicately licking a lollipop....saucy.

 I've got prints of all of these coming in the mail thanks to Snapfish having free tiny prints when you join (well, shipping, but still a good deal).  Plus now til mid November if you use the code PRINTSFREE you can get 100 tiny prints excluding shipping, so...a lot of ACEO prints coming to me, yay!

10/14/11: Badges n Stickers // MLP FiM Dolls // Andy Ref WIP // Altered Book preview

Hi, y'all.  I have a lot to post, but it's really cool stuff and I'm pretty excited to share it.

The one to the left is for my IRL friend Liz.  I made the character for her for Christmas.  The one on the right is a bonus for a trade with Trey. 

Rest of the trade--Trey's ratpossum fursona.  Fairly pleased with the outcome--the coloring, shading especially, I'm very pleased with--I use a lot of tones when I color to make things more rich and lifelike, and I feel I did that well, but her eyes seems off to me, slightly :P.  I added a little star between Retro and Rodent, but that was after I scanned it. XP 

Okay, so since I'm going to Anthrocon and ToraCon next year, I figured I should make some fanart to sell....and I love MLP FiM, and so does everyone else, and I wanted to make fanart of Rarity for some time...and had been considering doing an ATC for each of the mane six, and I wanted to draw them in their Gala gowns, but then my friend suggested how about making paper dolls?  Here's the inks for Rarity.  

Each one's gonna have at least a slightly different body type.  I feel the show's message of "girls are all unique" would, if they were human characters, hopefully reflect this in body types.  I'm thinking of making Fluttershy a little slimmer than this, and more flat and less curvy--a typical model (the model episode's one of my favorites).  I want Pinkie Pie to be a little heavy.  Rainbow Dash would obv. be more muscular without being un-feminine, and I dunno where Twilight Sparkle would be--I feel maybe curvy, borderline plump...and then Applejack would be on the athletic side as well.  Each one's going to have their gala gown as well as underwear and a regular "casual" outfit. I may make their pets to go with, and maaaybe a little Spike with a little bowtie, haha.  Not sure yet.

I also have plans to do some comic promo art in the style of Adventure Time as well as some Pokemon and maybe if I have time some Powerpuff Girls and Flapjack art too.  These are gonna be my main focus for now, though.  Very excited.

I'm gonna fix the width of Rarity's right eyelid to match the left when I add her eyeshadow and then I feel her linework will be fine.  Been playing with line weight and this was another good opportunity to do so.

ANDY

Liam's partner, a ticked tabby cat.  I did two headshots and at first liked neither but I kinda like the one on the left more.  I think he may have a white belly but I'm not sure.  

Andy's a genetic rarity--he has a more animal face, more body fur, extra nipples, and slightly more animal behavior.  Not that he's uncivilized--he usually shows more restraint than Liam could dream of, but he purrs, hisses, etc. unconsciously, which most anthro cats don't do.  Most of them look more humanoid as well.  He also has a bad habit of pouncing, and has retractable claws--his nails are supposed to be slitted, my bad XP maybe they're really blunt and the tips are visible?  Idk.

Ticked tabbies are really cute. 

So that's what I've been up to over the past few weeks.  I finished Carlos' ref last week (or was it the week before?) and posted it on her ref page on here, and also worked on a really neat altered book project themed after the comic (shadowed lives) but it got collected before I could scan the pages.  

Here's two unfinished pages....it's all I've got scanned.

warning, this file is massive.  I kind of forgot to resize it.  I probably should but it's also the unfinished version and I just don't care right now.

First page illustration.  It was cut out and pasted onto a tinted page--every page of the book was inkwashed. 

6/14/11-6/19/11: Daily sketches.//Dan, Pokemon, Etc.

I'm challenging myself to do a sketch sheet a day for the rest of the summer. This means 3+ views/expressions of a character, and 1+ pose, referenced from either a photo or anatomically accurate illustration, drawn at least once, pref. twice, on computer paper.

AN ABSOLUTE FLOOD OF IMAGES UNDER THE CUT.

12/13/2010

Doing REALLY well on my Christmas gifts for friends.  I've done a lot of human sketches, mostly of my boys Liam and Dan, and I'll scan them soon. I'm trying to design a sugar glider...it's tricky :P

Doodles of Dan I did on the corner of the French version of "Oh Christmas Tree" all ready for winter (well, sorta).  He gets a red nose on a good day so his nose must be like, NEON here.  He doesn't wear a nice, puffy warm winter jacket either (which is really dumb) because he thinks it makes him look fat.  This, from the kid who weighs nearly nothing--and no, Danno ain't manorexic, he's just plain thin.

But he does wear a cute hat and scarf. :/ He straightened his bangs only here.

 Dan and Jack.  Dan's side profile is atrocious.  I like the one above better.  I love his front view though.
Jack is in Bad Spider--he's the Guitarist Who Needs No Introduction--and is a fursuiter and fursuit maker as well as general furry artist.  He's an incredibly stylish person.  I SUPER stylized his features here as I'm starting to zone in on how I want him to look (the guys in Kill Hannah all resemble him in a certain way, lol).  He wears bunny ears and antlers (sometimes reindeer ones with little bells he bought at the dollar store) most days--his fursona is, oh god, such a groaner: Jack the Jackalope. :/  Dan had a crush on him for a while but then got over it because essentially Dan is not a gay character XP Jack is though.

 Liam and Derrick.  Still playing around with Derrick.  If the side profile looks familiar, it's a sketch based off of a different picture...that didn't turn out as well as I hoped.  I like his front view, though, and that initial picture of him works with the front view, so I just need to get better at those.
LIAM LOOKS PERFECT TO ME HERE.  I LOVE IT.

I "saw" Liam in a restaurant and doodled the guy on a napkin while watching him eat chicken wings and laugh at stuff his friends said.  I starred the ones I like.  I REALLY like the one of Andy with the hat on. And Anthro!Liam is a big masculine ginger tabby.  And may also be a wolf.  Depends on what he wants to draw.  

The side view looks more like the guy (who was in a hat) than he does Liam, but it's still close.  The picture above is WAY closer, but seeing that the front views were really similar was neat.  The hat makes him look different.  Plus I actually scaled his skull correctly on the napkin doodles....

And here's something I scanned for Mandeaux (Chizbizz on FA) yesterday, a little gift in exchange for some naughty arts of Carlos and Merriweather. X3
And another one just for being an awesome friend.

Also, WIPs from forever ago of Bailey and Benihime (contest prize...I want to just get it over with, I REALLY hate drawing anything for fetish furs).  I'm scared to finish the Bailey one.  Lately white on parchment has been a frightening thought.  But it's so cute. -_- 

WIPs for Sophie  (the moth-deer-rabbit-spirit character) and Joy (super cute peach-faced lovebird).  Characters for IRL friends.  I was really close to Sophie for the designing because she's a fellow artist and is planning to draw this design (eee!).  It's ALMOST done. 

her hair does NOT have V-bangs.  It has Bettie Paige bangs.  MY bangs are V-bangs. >:E

So she's a forest spirit primarily of decay (leaves rot where she walks, she can create dirt, create maggots and worms, decompose dead animals and plant matter, and make mushrooms grow) that gives off a weak aura attracting mostly moths but calming other animals so that she can approach any of them.  She didn't scan right: the arms are a pale grey, slightly brown, and the colors are darker and more mixed.  Oh well.

She can run around in the city or country, either or.  Likes lolita and vintage dresses, and high-fashion goth.  She is SO fucking fashionable irl.  One of those people that can wear ANYTHING.

So yeah, she's a forest spirit but she doesn't exclusively live in the forest.

Joy is a lovebird for a bunch of reasons.  She's annoying, cocks her head a lot like one, and sings.  She felt it fit her immature charm. XP Plus her buddy Liz is a dog-bird-thing so they sort of half go.  She also doesn't have breasts, but instead has this "bump" of feathers that lovebirds have on their chests.  And she has comic book bird hands, lol.  No fingers...but still left handed.  

Her pants are funky.  They're made to accommodate bird legs, and have holes for the knee and can zip off right above the knee or down the back for greater comfort/other options of wear in general.  I had a pair of zip off pants as a kid...ah, those were the days.  

Also, for my friend Kiera.

I don't really know why but I've always drawn her as a papillon, for a few years now.  Other animals may fit her better, but she's got this fluffy hair that she dyes all the time and she's just got this sophistication that reminds me of one.  She's by no means small.  She's really tall and is either a brown belt or lower-level black belt in karate.  She's sturdy, more sturdy than these dogs are.  BUT it just fits, so I don't question it.  She likes it anyway.  

She'd make a good owl. :P 

ADULT ART UNDER THE CUT.