11/19/11

Two commission sketches, adult art update, reference sheet in the works, a few art cards.

2, 3, 4.  Now part of a theme for Shadowed Lives ACEOs illustrating the different characters.  Colors correspond to their energies, personalities, and connections with other characters and forces in the story.

Sketch for an ink commission for Magnus on FA.  Since I've been watching too much Metalocalypse, this seemed like a good idea, lol.

WARNING:

NUDITY AND ADULT ART UNDER THE CUT.  

(in that order.  most graphic at bottom, nudity-only at top)

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. 

July 20, 2011: Design//Linework//Buttons//Hiatus

I've neglected scanning.  I have a huge pile of daily sketches but it's now so big that I think I'm only going to scan a few of them, and at that, I'll only be able to do so after I come back from vacation.
Vacation's around 8 days, I'll have internet access but no scanner with me.  Hoping to get a lot done, though.

I may be redoing my layout on here.  I'm not sure.  I have to decide what purpose this blog is going to serve....
Meanwhile, here's art I've been meaning to post. :)

Collaboration sketch for Hizzie.

Final of a tattoo design for myself.  

Sketches for above design. 

Badge for Sophie, part of a gift pack I sent her.  I like these; I may do more quick scrap badges (this is pencil and colored pen only) for gifts or commissions in the future.  Or for myself.  Hell, I never draw for myself. 

FROM HERE DOWN, BUTTONS.  Nothing inappropriate, but it's VERY IMAGE-HEAVY!  

I've put these up for input...I'll be linking the individual images to a survey or facebook or something to get a feel for which I should make.  I want to make buttons.  I have two more designs that aren't done yet, that are being drawn specifically for this purpose. 

6/22/11

Sketches from the 20th and 21st, adoptables (finished AND WIPs), some more general WIPs including a tattoo concept, a finished pinup of Emilie, and a racy sketch of Bailey being racy.  He does that.

6/20/ + 6/21

The 20th was pretty weak.  I had eaten nothing all day and then at around 10:40 (after my last post, actually) I ate a revoltingly unhealthy dinner while watching Avatar: The Last Airbender.  Really bad Dan and Liam abound.  I used a magazine cover for the pose ref but I was so not there.  I was already pretty sleep-deprived.
Also the scan cut off funny and the contrast was weird; my scanner is misbehaving.

21st was great, though. I slept earlier, ate properly hahaha, and what's more is the sketches came out well.  Liam and Emma.  Emma's nose isn't narrow enough (her whole face is a little wider than it should be, I think) but the shape of everything is right. Also a pose from another, more interesting magazine picture.

I'm not sure if it's a crow or a raven but I'm kinda going more for a raven, they lend themselves to something this scruffy and sketchy in line style....Tattoo design idea.  It would be under my collarbone on my left side.  I can't really explain why I like them so much.  I know they're symbols of knowledge in Norse myth, and I've always thought of them in terms of my personality because of their reputations for being such smart birds.  They're also handsome animals, and they're sometimes shown in conjunction with dreams and as a sort of afterlife connection.  I also always wear a raven pendant.  The idea of ravens make me feel kind of protected.

A badge commission I got from Kamilya a while back that I finally got around to coloring.  Obv. a WIP....:)

A picture of Dan.  The hands fit what he's going to be doing, bashing a window in.  A forward as to a sweeping motion.

I kinda drew silly things all over the paper since it's not actually part of the image.  He's taking out the not-dog, and also Him from the Powerpuff Girls...my current favorite cartoon character ;-;  Doodles of a character--Jack's ex and friend--are also on here. And a sheep cupcake.  I baked a bunch and more with a friend in April.  Also a boyfriend for the ex and friend of Jack's, a piebald deer. Elijah has no place in my storyline and I want a deer.  He won't be so pierced up though.  

 FINISHED CHARACTERS!  IF someone claimed one, they'd get to name them, decide their age, a few likes and dislikes, and their style.  That info would be typed and pasted on.  I also finish the little clothes people in the corners.  The original character sheet is then mailed to you.  They're notecard sized.  I chose to do 50 themes.   These guys are Fairy (the okapi-musk deer mix is based off of fairy-kei), Sweet (asian blue quail-corgi mix), and Punk (elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum, whose natural markings were difficult to draw XP).  My favorite guy is the punk guy, I think.  His tattoos are all based off of street art imagery, too, and the chest piece is "bullet with butterfly wings" I guess.  Yup.  Rastafarian or Nervous may have been a better prompt for him.   I might change that.

Warning: nudity and adult content under the cut.
There's ample warning before the adult content, and everything else is just nude.

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.

Recent art.

that's all I have for now as I haven't scanned much in the past week or so.  I have a new badge idea--most of mine are like this:

top left-Danno my man-no.  Then Odille for Morguelily on dA, and Liana for Plasticflowers on FA/Dead-groupie on dA.

Kinda...how I work.

They're always on parchment, but I came up with some using letter stickers and a really stylized look like on Dan's badge, on regular bristol. 

They're cute. :P 

I have a lot I wanna scan...been doing another ref for a friend and it's in the coloring stage.  the inkwork is really delicate.

Finished two pieces that I promptly hid in my portfolio so I gotta drag them out and scan 'em, too.

ALSO, PONY I MADE OVER THE SUMMER and never posted anywhere yet!

It's a Rasputina pony.  She's done after the song Hunter's Kiss from the Cabin Fever! album.  I used a sticker, gel pen, and acrylic paint for the symbol, dye and acrylic paint for the body, and sculpted the tail and fired it on.

She's gonna get a necklace-rose garland.  then she'll be done. 

yup.

Dan(no) "The Muey Sexii~~ Drummer"

Full Name: Daniel Murphey Ackton—usually goes by Dan, Danno, or to Emma and his mom, Danny.
Birthday: 8/15/1992
Height: 5’3”
Weight: 100 lbs
Body Type: Bony, scrawny.
Occupation: Tops employee, also works at an animal shelter. Plays drums in Bad Spider (band name is Danno the Muey Sexii~~ Drummer)
Ethnicity/Species: Almost completely Irish, rest is English. Regular human. Draws self as a Virginia Opossum.
Faith: Unconcerned.
Sexuality: Heterosexual…mostly.
Partner: Emma
Siblings: Melissa, 16
Pets are his kids!: Olliver the (rescued) Virginia Opossum aka First Born Son, Emma’s ferrets Rosalie and Amanda, Snickers the calico, and Snickie’s kittens, Mars and Butters, Stacy the house centipede.
Music: Marilyn Manson, The Dresden Dolls, Amanda Palmer, Evelyn Evelyn, Coheed and Cambria, Lady GaGa, Say Anything, Tool, MSI, Jack-off Jill, The Used, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Atreyu, Tegan and Sara, Kill Hannah, The Blood Brothers, Placebo, A Static Lullaby, Chiodos, Alexisonfire, Nine Inch Nails, Metallica, Skinny Puppy, The Matches, AFI, Misfits, Alice in Chains, NoFX, Garbage, Smashing Pumpkins, Gorillaz, MCR, Nirvana, Horrorpops, I Read the Giver, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, The Academy Is….. Screamo, funk-infused emo/alternative, metal, grunge, horrorpunk, some electronica, some pop, some industrial.
Fashion: Fairly plain, except for colors. Band tees, plain colored tees, cartoons (powerpuff girls, flapjack, courage the cowardly dog, ren and stimpy, adventure time, south park, metalocalypse) tees, wifebeaters. Always skinny jeans, can be plain, solid colors, or colorful and patterned (think hot topic girls’ jeans). Sometimes flannel shirts over that stuff. Favorite colors are yellow, magenta, vivid red, and vivid purple, but he also likes grey, black, and green. Shoes are usually really beat up hi-top chucks, usually black, red, or pink. Few accessories if any. Has a ton of band tees for Bad Spider…be creative!
Personality: Can come off as a jerkoff. Bit of a teenager’s I Can’t Die complex going on. Is sometimes reckless but is pretty sensible anyway, easily amused, hyperactive. Leader’s abilities and personality, likeable, but kinda childish at times too. Hard on himself. Cuddly, dependant, fairly open. Insanely incredibly sweet, but tends to lash out if confronted (or if he thinks he is) and can really hurt feelings. Not very smart, and ok with it, usually. Loves really “gross” things like bugs (house centipedes and roaches especially) etc. Tries to look more manly than he could ever be. Idolizes his girlfriend, Amanda Palmer and Lady GaGa, cousins, and Liam. Eats like a four year old, can't eat when he's stressed (almost all the time unfortunately) and really likes chicken patties.
Drugs: TONS of cigarettes each day, pot sometimes, heavy acoholic—is somewhat in denial of this, and rarely psychedelics. Recovering cocaine user.
Likes: Music, playing the drums, South Park, basements, girls, girls’ underwear, junk food, getting high, PISS-POP ROCK!!!, web design/poster making, record players, gross old 90's cartoons (Ren & Stimpy, Courage, etc), opossums, drawing, Dr. Seuss, Powerpuff Girls (favorite cartoon ever), Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Little Golden Books, horror films, bugs (especially house centipedes), cats, singing and writing, harassing his sister Melissa, Craig McCracken, Amanda Palmer, Flapjack, Hieronymous Bosch, opossums, rescuing animals from the local shelter, porno mags, scene girls, and brunettes. And non-sexy fursuits.
Dislikes: Boys (except Jack, lolol), school, his father, his super-happy fun time family, most recent cartoons, being told to stfu when practicing, his sister sometimes, anything with a touch screen, elitists and people with god complexes, trend chasers, the Rocky Horror Picture Show, conformity—he just does his own thing and it just happens to look incredi-scene. :P Also hates his acne, that gross growth on his neck, and how his hair’s fried. And shitty tattoos/piercings, and DIY’s of the aforementioned. And he really hates being short and looking like a kid.
Movies: From Hell, The Powerpuff Girls Movie, Yellow Submarine, Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World, The Princess Bride, Juno, People Under the Stairs, Plan 9 from Outer Space, Be Kind Rewind, Ferris Beuler’s Day Off, V for Vendetta, tasteless adult comedies.

Skinny!
Totally un-manly! Poor bby.
WHY DOES HE WEAR GIRL'S JEANS? WHY? are his hips too wide? not enough to fill the crotch? seriously. Why.
Freckles, birthmarks, a few moles.
Pale.
Roundish face, pointy chin, eyes often a little squinty and opossum-like.
VERY green eyes, almost unnatural-looking.
Cute little nose!
BRACES.
Tongue pierced. Ears are a little odd in spots from shitty cartilidge DIY adventures
Ears can have random piercings if you want.
Hair vivid red at roots, eyebrows are undyed. Hair’s a little fried, but not too bad. rarely washed, naturally in ringlets but length, weight, dye, and filth make it really tangled if he ignores it. lots of split ends. Fringe goes down pretty far.
Awful acne (clusters under his fringe).
NEVER LEAVE OUT THE BIG MOLE WITH HAIRS THAT'S ON HIS NECK. he hates it. It loves him.

Opossum form: feel free to draw him like this but he can’t assume this form.
Blue-grey
No feral form.
Spotty, freckly, acne in this form too.
Ears-torn up, pink with grey-black dapples on the tips.
Pink tail
No markings on or down back.