12/4/11

I decided to make some ponysonas for myself and a few of my characters...so far just Carlos and Merriweather. 

Carlos is the only one with a finalized design, so I drew her out...

Her ponysona's name is Sweet Surprise, her element is spontaneity, her special talents are performance art and design, and her cutie mark symbolizes that, along with her strong ties to family and friends and interest in kink.

Her wings are really quite weak; she's afraid of flying and isn't very good at it, is only able to hover a little. Her horn is much more powerful and she is an accomplished magic user.

Sweet Surprise is also half zebra, hence the stripes on her legs.

I'm gonna make a doll of her to go with the others too, I think.  I have all the bodies done and I need to scan them.  I'm starting the clothes--the underwear is all inked except for AJ and about halfway colored.

Also, an ACEO that's probably going to my grandma for Christmas.  I had been messing around with my inks and tinted a few cards, then decided to draw a peacock (reference-less) on the card.  No undersketch.  I hope she likes it.  I never know what to get my relatives and I VERY rarely am able to draw something I know they'll enjoy, so this will literally be the first piece of art I remember planning to make and give to a relative.

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. 

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. 

The tiny sketchbook.//New badge ideas.

I have this tiny sketchbook I carry with me.  It's got 110 lb. paper and about one million pages in there, and it's 6 by 9 inches.
I haven't done much in it yet, though.  Got it over the summer while visiting my bro in Seattle, WA with the intent of keeping it in my purse.
So far?
Obscene doodles, some things friends have drawn, a few gifts I don't wanna post yet, a practice or two, aaand these.

EVELYN EVELYN FANART!!!
I killed Lyn's tail and don't have any idea how to draw a banjo so this will probably be computer-edited, then re-inked....
Plus the banner's crooked or something.
I should make it all whooooosh in a different way.
A bit of the physiology isn't what I wanted, but it's okay.

A fish I saw at these cool gardens around Capitol Hill in Seattle.  One of many, I may have even made it up from the other ones around me.  There were so many.
He's cute.  I almost wanna finish him up.

Carlos as a human.  yeah, the anatomy's fucked but I LOVE the thought vs. word bubbles.
She was gonna be taking off a bra or someshit but then her anatomy died and went to Hell.

Liam sitting there looking unhappy.  He looks like a big, cute, alcoholic dog here.  Except he's not a heavy drinker. XP
Still playing with how he looks.  I'm considering using refs of Max Bemis from Say Anything for future attempts...I think he has a similar facial structure.

My personal favorite.
It's rather graphic and there's nudity and gross buggy stuff.

Yes, I will finish it.  I love it. ;-;  anatomy mistakes and all.
I was working on the mass of flies and maggots and big stinging insects while watching the tail end of the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear yesterday.  It's coming along quite well!
Drawn while listening to Pretty Hate Machine.

And then these derp badges.
They're on bristol as to parchment because I felt it'd fit the look better.  They use letter stickers and have fun bright shape things drawn to frame the character's body/movement.

I wish Darkmoon's was smaller like Lance's.  I like Lance's better almost, but Dark's came out better than I expected.
optional dimple piercings ftw.  But they're ridiculously close to the lips themselves, not off in neverland cheekspace.
Trying to figure out how to price them.  They'd be cute and quick for a commission.

Aaaand that's a wrap!
I have a few more WIP's...a friend's reference sheet, both of Merriweathers forms (donkey and human), and a nude pin-up that I suppose would have to count as softcore porn, or something, of my character Rachel.  I usually draw -her- as a human but she has a fursona (non assumable) that's really cute and fun to draw.  She makes me think of Halloween without being a Halloween-themed character. I'm pretty proud of it so far--the anatomy around her pelvic bone and legs is really, -really- good!  ;-; I reffed it to be certain, and reffed her face too because opossums are hard to draw from front view.  She's an opossum chinese crested mutt.

Also...I was drawing opossums before it was the fashionable thing to do.  I started actually posting them around the time they started being popular, and all of a sudden, everyone and gramma has an opossum character about two or three months after I'd been drawing and posting Dan regularly, and it's not cool.   -_- It's boring.  And I think it subtracts from the fun-ness of running into a random opossum character.  In fact, it totally does!  BECAUSE PEOPLE LOVE PUTTING OPOSSUMS WITH EITHER ORANGE OR BLOND HAIR AND NATURAL COLOR MARKINGS.  And I'm sick of seeing them everywhere, looking like rip-offs of everyone -else's- characters who had them first, WITH red hair.
It's like...the hipster furs exploded and made clones of someone's character. ;-;  And then after that, even the -sparkledog- artists got in on it.  Sparkle 'possums don't look good.
I don't mean Dan, I mean a few other people who have had those kinds of designs forever and there's like, two of them.  Only.  Besides, who'd rip off my guys?  Exaaaactly.
Plus it makes me think Dan looks less special.  He wasn't a bandwagon attempt and he looks it.
I guess that must be how people with shepherd or lemur characters felt for a while there.

Or halloween bats.  Ev-ery-where.  I'm still working on Estella's design and I have to dance around so many toes....
/rant.

So yup.  Hopefully I'll have more soon.  I like posting here.

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.