The poor, malnourished, tiny mom cat having a staring contest with my fat, spoiled, ungrateful cat:



( Pictures of the Kittens :3 )

I haven't done work yet today, I just keep going outside and looking at them. ;___;

There's a random litter of kittens on our front porch, well-guarded by their single teen mom (seriously this cat is tiny).



She stares at me for a bit, I say GTG and walk around the house to go through a different door.



Glancing out the back porch window - I've been followed! She sat there for a few minutes until I came out to give her water and cat food. She's not terribly friendly, just hungry and cautious.......and I'm a sucker.

( Tales of Stray Cat Woooe )

There doesn't seem to be much of an animal control here, I called several months ago and they don't deal with cats [edit: Rather, they only deal with threatening animals, despite the diseases an overpopulation of feral cats can bring - I dunno]. Does anyone know about this kind of thing?

I've had a fever for a couple of days (oddly no other symptoms) and I haven't felt like doing much but sleep. But based on your suggestions in the critique meme, I was inspired!

The full-size is NWS for artsy boobs. Yes...it's a pinup, which is contrary to much of what I said I'd do on my own time...but it started as figure practice and I liked where it was going.

Key things you advised me to be more conscious about:

+ More size variation in lineart widths (moar thin lines)
+ Try more graceful, delicate subjects and characters
+ Less idealized figures, for the love of God draw an A-cup, vary body types (I think her leg is still too long but oh well D:)
+ I tend to have TASTE THE RAINBOW colors within skin-tones, restrain them a bit to prevent the image from appearing overworked
+ Have backgrounds more often

...But crap. I forgot to address the lineart suggestion in this drawing (Seee, this is why I needed your critiques :B)...but what I draw next will focus just on that. So - thank you all very much for your help!

1. Do I have a distinct style of drawing?
2. If so, what exactly is it that defines my "style"?
3. Would you say my art usually follows a 'theme'?
4. Is there anything I really need to improve on or change?
5. Does my style (if I have one) remind you of/look like the style of anyone else?
6. Judging from whatever art of mine that you've seen, what do you think I do the best at?
7. What do you think I suck at?

Be brutally honest or whatever! I'm only most aware that I draw too many busty women, not enough original characters, and I have the usual anatomy struggles. I need you all to help me realize my other flaws <3

Animation A
Animation B

These are samples for a sim/adventure game I've been hired on. They're weird because I used too much blinking to segway into the different emotions, but I won't be selecting the frames for the in-game animations anyway. This...was just me playing with the layers in Imageready, because it's fun.

I've worked with the creator last fall, for his puzzle game called Spandex Force (which parodies superheroes and follows a Puzzle Quest type style).

CHECK IT OUT KIDS

Hay guys :D I've returned from my vacation! I actually finished these a few days ago, but I haven't had a moment to scan 'em. Anyway...

Your drawing request results ( are behind the cut. )

I hope you all like them - something I enjoy the most is giving my interpretation to an existing design, but moreso when it's not a commercial character that you see 32936289 versions of on deviant art!

Also, this:


I finally beat Case 5 from the first Phoenix Wright game (sheesh, that took me like a month!), but to my joy Emily got me the next game for my birthday! Armed with that, like 2139861 borrowed volumes of Et Cetera, and Venture Bros Season 2, I should have plenty of things to keep me from working this month. Hurrr hur

Monster faaans, I know you're there because I got at least one of you to read it like two years ago, and more of you read it on your own. For everyone else, any summarizing I do with my bad writing will probably put off people from reading it, but fans like spiffyfish have done so marvelously!

Anyway, I'm linking the community now 'cause I've just finished some fanart for the series and posted stuff there a few times. If you wanna see what I drew, you have to go there to view (and hopefully allow all the amazing fanstuffs by others to get you reading it).

It's my birthday; I'm gonna actually take the night off. Actually.

WHAT? I personally know very few people who are into the comic Blade of the Immortal and it barely exists at my local bookstore, but it is a comic worth getting addicted to (I've only followed it for 2~ years, but it's been out for a whiiile). It has an insanely cool cast, genre-defying art, and of course really screwed-up-yet-intriguing violence. CHECK IT YO

okay also


Cat: "...i heard something scratchy coming from my printer and was watching it confused and all of a sudden a giant roach squeezes its way out of the front USB port"
Me:"
"

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD. In her printer. Out her USB port. WHAT. I hate little else beyond roaches, and hating them is even in my LJ interests: "watching roaches die." So...sweet dreams, everyone!

Oh oh Emily:



This is probably not useful for you since your other icons at least try to follow a base style, but the idea super-punched me in the face at like 3 AM, at the time when dumb ideas are totalli funni. I won't be offended if you don't use it! >___> I just love that Fry picture.

I am sorry for all the absences and negativity in emails/IMs this month. It mostly comes down to a painfully rushed work-month (I'm leaving town next week for a bit), and then everyone asking "HOW'S WORK? lol!"

So...positive stuff!

RETURN OF ART REQUEST MEME

Remember this stuff? Time to turn that around! For my coming birthday I'm giving art presents to you all.

Comment with a written description/drawing of YOUR OWN character, and I will draw it while I'm on vacation next week.

• This must be an ORIGINAL character of yours; not commercial fanart. I'll probably do a meme for fanart another time!
• It can be an existing character from your own comic, someone you plan to write about someday, an original roleplay character...just about anything, as long as you can write about them or have a drawing for me to go on.
• No "draw me, but like, totally crazy and wearing a hockey mask lol" requests, I want your creativity as well. :D

Now...request away, be you friend or kindly e-stranger!

I'M ON UR LJ, WRITIN ON UR LJ STRIKE (baaaaaw)

HAI GUYZ! I forgot to exist online for the past week and a half, mostly because I was preparing art table stuff and spazzing out a lot. I'm still catching up on real work, but I'm sort-of back.

A liiittle late, but...Megacon! It was fun and very 'educational' for an art-table newbie like me. Thank you cetriya for inviting me, and heck - for allowing me so much table time. Everyone show her and Sarah (a fellow table invitee) looove!

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1</sup> This was AJ's birthday gift. Woohooo Bebop!
² Towards the final minutes of the convention, Cetriya commissioned me to digitally sketch her a picture of the early 90's anime character, Devil Hunter Yohko.
³ I liked this girl's look a lot, and was super happy that someone commissioned this to be based off her.
⁴ Emily, my good half-e-friend (we originally knew eachother online but she lives quite close!) took the train down to Orlando, dressed for the convention as the newest incarnation of Phoenix Wright. We had a mini-collab: she penciled and I inked/colored it. (((it wasn't until later that we realized his eyebrows had a different shape and I totally gave him SJJ hair but WHO CARES it was fun and I love drawing with friends)))


Convention sketches: ( EVERYBODY CUT, EVERYBODY CUT )

Kind of old since it happened three days ago...but hurraaah.



Recent Commission Love



( Self-Absorbed-Reminiscing-Thing )

Oh God, someone even sang the high part towards the end!

AJ and I have been marathoning seasons 2 and 3 of Lost (been out of the loop for two years), and we're nearly done with Season 3! I wonder if I'll be ticked off with all the cliffhangers once we're caught up? Probably. But for now it's fun, it gives me something to look forward to while working through each day.

Hey, a question for people who've worked Artist's Alleys in conventions: I've been invited to share a table with someone (woo) at Megacon in March, but I've never done anything like this. What should I focus on more, selling prints or trying to sell commissioned sketches? For that matter, do I need to know how to draw characters off the top of my head (like your Narutos and Inu Yashas or what have you), or...are references provided? That sounds unlikely, but I wondered anyway! Should I make a list of stuff I know how to draw?

This process is all crazy to me ahhhhhh D:

I've definitely cheated this week, and drawn too many things for myself instead of the stuff I'm being paid for.


Another soap mascot design thing, this one being based on "Dove" soap.


Trying to move on from the murder of Jack Hammer, Ms. Oldbat makes Edgeworth take her on a beach stroll before she'll testify in court. Needing her testimony, he cannot object!

...Happy Valentine's Day.

HAY THAR, 5 AM! I haven't seen you in a while.

junemermaid linked this really cool doodle-blog site called "Tegaki E." You draw a picture then people draw comments - or you view the index for others' drawings to draw comments on.

EXAMPLES OF FUN I encountered last night, for the skeptical: (I really wanna get people on this)

The drawing vs. the viewer
Bashing DA lol
Continuations via comments
Fanart fun

It lends itself very easily picture battles, and the site is freee from all the DA crap such as favorites, watches, and pageviews. Just draw fun things and be happy! The site isn't about who's who, but here's my profile in case you notice some jackass with a weird soap icon drawing on your entries.

Back to work I go.

Weekly Whatevers:




What the hell is this:

or (it's a personification of Ivory Soap, which makes me break out in hives and is eeevil)

Because of my allergies to Ivory soap, it was suggested that I'm not worthy of the name "Soap Committee" and that I should change it to "Filth Committee."
Filth Committee is cuuute

This icon is outdated, but...I kinda like its MSPaint/Wattersonesque quality.









And yada yada yadaaa

The next week will be spent drawing comic pages. \o/

Not that I caaare....cause I don't have a wiiiii...and AJ sooold his...

We immediately played the real song and sang these new lyrics along with it.

( sketches )

I've drawn a lot more stuff, but most of it's under wraps. How are yoooou?