Wanted to draw a dead person, but... yeah. I'll try again later.

Something like 30 minutes in Painter. Was considering using this for a post on my WoW RP blog, but I have since decided to scrap the post altogether. :|
From left to right: Ravine, Amara, and Veshara.

Character head study for the next tarot card I'm doing. Vissic, you magnificent bastard you.

( Larger version under the cut )

Two fanarts:


This is actually a week old. Oops.
Anyways, wooh Vyse! (done in paintchat with charmwitch and friends!) I am rusty in the ways of oekaki-type applets.

(This reminds me that I need to work on playing Valkyria Chronicles again.)

( This one is bigger. And 10x more messy. inc childhood nostalgia )

A quickie! (And by quickie, I mean this took about two days.)



Late birthday gift for a friend on my RP server. :> Textures from http://princess-of-shadows.deviantart.com/ (although that set isn't there anymore oddly... Hm.)

After about two weeks--progress!



Finished up those damn glass bottles sitting in the back. Now, I'm having a conundrum with those two goblets in the back, and where to put them. :| I'll be toning down the brightness on them so they're not such of an eyesore, as well as other assorted things. And then, I can finally work on the character! (Which will... actually not take that long. Unless fingers give me a hard time.)


And one more.



Quickie 30 min speed paint in Painter, followed by color tweeks + filters in Photoshop! It has a nitty-gritty quality that I like. Didn't expect the snow to come out all bright like that, but heeeey. Contrast!

Also may or may not be based on recent RP. I do that a lot nowdays.

Two quick ones before going to bed. Both were done in my sketchbook with copics and white paint. :> Also a mechanical pencil.



Rav in her current RP wear. Also sporting a really large,fuzzy cloak. It's really freaking cold in the Storm Peaks, y'know. This one actually feels like this was done with watercolors, which is pretty awesome to me.




Scheen! Picture is blurry and kind of sucks. :| Also I have no idea how I managed to salvage this. because there were like a million things wrong with it as I went through the coloring process. Also used some multiliners to define some lineage going on. Practice practice practice!

EDIT: Better picutre has been uploaded

Since I'm pretty sure most people are sick of my WIP paintings at this point... D:



Yuyu, my super old RO priestess from like... seven or eight years ago. Before I get questions from some people, she was an acolyte/priestess when I used to play her on the Chaos server. I wouldn't consider her and Lilith as the same person, since one would much rather heal you, while the other would probably cut your throat. 8D

Went down nostalgia lane when I came across a site I used to frequent back in my RO playing days. Their old oekaki was spammed up to hell, but it looks like a few months ago, the site admin went and wiped everything clean, and installed a new board.

I haven't used an oekaki applet in about two years. It's safe to say that, holy shit, those applets sure have evolved since the last time I used them!

(Doesn't stop me from being lazy though. 8D)




More stuff! Almost done with the background, and then I can FINALLY WORK ON THE CHARACTER. :D I'm actually looking forward to it.

So far, largely pleased with how this is coming out--save for one thing.

Somewhere along the way, my composition ended up changing. I say this, because there's actually supposed to be a bar table behind the character. But it got turned into the wall behind her. Uh... oops. The main thing is that I actually like how it is, but that means I don't have a place at the moment to place the two cups that are supposed to be standing. :x

I'm thinking about maybe putting a shelf up behind her, but I dunno. I kind of don't want to mess with the background.

Arrrgh. Maybe I'll sleep on it.

(And probably work on the fallen goblets more. I'm pretty pleased with the perspective. But if it looks off in some form of fashion, someone let me knoooow.)

This one is going to take awhile to finish. I can feel it in my bones. Background is.... probably 25% done. :| So many things that I need to add to it still.

I'm actually on the fence with using the texture on the stones. I actually started hi-res this time (in 300DPI, unlike the IX of Pentacles where I was working in only 100DPI), so I can actually -do- detailed work. The wood textures are currently placeholders, as I'll be painting in the wood paneling in the background. (I already started on it if you look at the top horizontal bar. :x)

I'm trying something a liiittle bit different in my coloring technique. (I had a chance of starting fresh after a Painter crash destroyed the original file I was working on.) Taking a few tips from blackeri in her painting tutorial, so I remain hopeful! There's supposed to be something at the bottom, but I haven't put it in yet. Most (if not all) of the elements should be together in some shape or form on the next update. :D

Did a quick ref sheet doodle for a Rav bust commission. 8D A fellow artist on my server was offering to do $5 bust portraits in order to pay off vet bills for her cat. It was a really good offer, since she does some amazing work. Check out her dA here. :D [/plug]

EDIT: She is currently offering three more slots for her $5 colored commission portraits. If you have the spare change, I highly recommend looking into getting a commission!

Three weeks later..



( Full Card and Clean Version )

ITT: More progress shots
(Sorry folks. No dumb doodles today.)

( Arts )

Coming along slowly. There's some tweaks here and there from the last one. Oh hey, and this is the first picture where I used the masking tool. It's funny how it kind of confounded me for so long. But, now I'm seriously kicking myself in the face because it's... not hard to use at all. wtf me. :( Will be fiddling with the texture more when I move this painting to post.

( Onos some (implied) nudity )

So um... hey! I'm not dead!

To summarize the last month and a half: The flu sucks, but I'm alive in Washington right now--though currently jobless. In the meantime though, I've been getting myself back into drawing after being in a craptastic slump for about two months.

I got in my head while I was sick with the flu that I should put myself to work on an art project that takes a bunch of RP characters I've met in WoW and pairing them up with tarot cards. I don't want to reveal too much, since they're all going to be surprise gifts to these people--a thank you gesture for allowing me to RP with them over the years. But in total, there'll be 21 cards. (although two of them are Rav cards. I like drawing her. Don't judge me man!) I've also picked cards from both the major and minor arcana.

Anyways, I'm about... maybe a little over halfway done with the overall picture. About halfway done painting Rav (gotta paint in the details), need to add some ground and shadows under her so she isn't floating, and need to work on the pentacles. I started painting this uh... around last week? 8D I'm just really slow with painting characters. But goddammit, I'm determined to finish.

Oh hey. I have a sketchblog don't I? Yeah, I haven't drawn too much lately. Lots of stuff going on in life. 8U Soz. Will try and remedy that.

In the meantime, Rav looks kinda... antagonistic. She's been feeling like that a lot lately.
(Also, my copy of Painter IX is officially borked. orz)

Soz. I know it's been awhile. Got reeeally busy towards the end of April/early May.



Sat in my example folder during KK. Used to lure unsuspecting anime fans to my table and ask for work during the con. It was later traded away for a box of takoyaki.



People commission that I'm currently working on from KK. Truth be told, I had an older version all inked and I started to color it. But, I had some pretty glaring mistakes on it, which prompted me to start again. Hoping to finish this before I leave on Friday.



The first "for me" drawing I've done in a very long while. Senkir's design... sort of begs to be remodeled though. It's only a sketch though, so I'll see what to do with it when I go digital with this.

Today's Sav's birthday, so I drew him something. 8D

( Cut for being... half-naked. Ahaha... )