Title: Julia
Origin: Boredom
Medium: Graphite
Status: Finished.  Finished I said!

This was an idle sketch I started to kill time.  It killed it.  Then mutated.  At which point things got WAY out of hand and suddenly I found myself hunched over my sketchbook at five in the morning before work at nine, rendering hair and muttering unrelated snippets from the Batman movie (O.o?) over and over in my head.
I made myself stop when my roommate pointed out I'd been humming songs from Lamb Chop's Play-Along for the past few hours.
My muse wanted to do more but I put my foot down. 
I'll doodle something for the first person who can tell me what the symbol on her shoulder is.  X3

Title: Kieran Trevarde
Origin: The God Eaters
Medium: CG - Photoshop CS
Status: Colored doodle - finished?
Warnings: Uhm, nothing explicit but probably NOT worksafe.

The God Eaters again.  X3  So I decided Ash absolutely needed his Kieran.  He just wasn't complete!  They were SUPPOSED to be drawn so that if you set the pictures beside each other it would appear the two were making eye contact... but it really only looks like Ash is staring at Kieran's AHEM and blushing.  OOPS.  XP

Title: Cherry Blossom Green
Origin: Dear god make it stop.
Medium: CG - Photoshop 6
Status: Finished
Warnings: Nope.

So much for that.
::snort::  No one who buys this thing is ever gonna find this journal, I'm an idiot.
Besides, half the enjoyment is getting to exercise my tea-nerddom on y'all. 
Anyway.
Hopefully you can tell what this tea is.  It's pretty straightforward, I don't know what else I could add about it; except that, for some reason, when I drink this one it reminds me of my Twin, Jenny.  No idea why.  O.o;
Drawing this was great fun.  The outlined segments were actually a mistake that I liked the look of and ran with.
You know... I never realized how relaxing doing art just for yourself is.  No pressure to make anyone happy but me.   I dearly love giving art to people; catering each piece specifically for them then watching how they react....   It rocks my world.  <3
But once in a while the ability to try something new and odd because I like it and damn what anybody else thinks, sure is nice.  XD

Title: Madame Butterfly
Origin: My own kooky head
Medium: CG - Photoshop 6
Status: Finished
Warnings: I got nothing.

This was one of the cards I did for the tea room where I work.   A lot of the teas give me visual images when I drink them so one day I decided to start drawing them.  Because I'm an anal information-o-phile I put little facts that interested me about said tea on each piece.  I began to amass kind of a collection and presented them to The Ladies (my bosses.)   They support local artwork and decided to offer them in-store.  Now if people like, they can purchase a little booklet custom with the pics I've drawn for the teas they purchased.  It's all very cutesy.  The old fogies just eat it up.  ::snerk::
For reasons that are pretty obvious if you think about it, I'm only going to post one, but it's my favorite.  (Card not tea.)  :)



Ironically, I first visualized a geisha while drinking this tea without the knowledge that the base was a Japanese green tea.  Needless to say I was totally blown away to find out that the name 'Madame Butterfly' actually is a reference to a famous play about a geisha.  So when I told my coworkers what the tea reminded me of their reaction was a bemusing "DUH."  I was quite amused when they explained.

Title: Ashleigh Trine
Origin: The God Eaters
Medium: CG - Photoshop CS
Status: Colored doodle - finished?
Warnings: Nada

As you can see above, this is Ashleigh Trine from Jesse Hajicek's book The God Eaters.
I love Ash. And I heart this book HARD. No really. It occupies space in my dreams. I make wild gestures when I describe it to people. I don't even want to admit how often I re-read the thing. Let's just say it sits beside my bed in easy reach. ^.^;;
I posted this a while ago in the God Eaters/Metanoia LJ community, so if you frequent that you've probably already seen it, but I thought I'd start posting what I've been up to for the past... what? YEAR? And thought this is as good a place as any to start. XP

No body's gonna understand that quote and I'm just gonna look wierd, I know it. XP

( Death in progress, please wait.  )
I'm taking advantage of some free time to work on Death again. It doesn't look like much still. Just jumping around and seeing where my muse takes me; not letting myself sweat about making major changes on a whim.
I'm kinda proud, actually. I'm forcing myself to stay loose and leave the smoothing and detail work for later. Only cracked (ha ha) once. X3
I'm a little worried about the color scheme... I'm struggling to keep control of it. I've always been bad at color theory. Woe. T.T
I should probably get a move on with the background too, otherwise later I'll have trouble with it be screwed. I always leave the background for last and curse myself for it afterwards. XP
I'm just not sure what I want behind her yet.  Any suggestions?

So I just finished a huge batch of commissions and have been feeling a little burnt out on art.
And when you're lame like me and art is practically more precious to you than breathing... well.
You see the problem.  ^_^;

For a while now I've wanted to give my art a certian kind of look that I'm just not getting.  I got to thinking about a method to get the effect I want and spice up the drawing proccess along the way and that's when I realized that I've gotten too comfortable with the way I use Photoshop, I don't vary my technique anymore.
So rather than working on the five million in progress pics like I SHOULD... I opened up an old sketch I've been dying to color and threw everything I knew about drawing in Photoshop out the window.
The brushes I usually use, the way I set up my workstation, the style I work... EVERYTHIING.   I've tried this before but not to the extremes I'm going this time.  It's sink or swim.
I'm cataloging my progress here for myself and for anyone else who might be interested.
Comments and critiques welcome, of course. XP
(P.S - It looks retarded right now because I only just started.  It won't stay like this.)

Present for Jenny who has been working dang hard to churn out a snippet a day (and succeeding!) despite my foot-dragging.
I luff you babe!   XD

( Incubus Hugs! )

Title: What the Hell is this Buckle Doing Here?
Origin: Gameshift (Original)
Medium: Pencil
Status: Finished Sketch
Warnings: She's not naked, I swear!

Old art sketchbook again, pooh.  Being an avid reader and an artist at the same time sucks.  XP 
Anyway, this time it's a design sketch for one of the characters from a project Jenny and I are doing called Gameshit.
....
GameSHIFT.
Mustn't forget the f. 

Man I'm tired.

Title: Hearts Blood
Origin: My own brain. (Ahh run away!)
Medium: Pencil
Status: Finished Sketch
Warnings: Nudity, Randomness, ...a stroll up the alley of Wierd.  ^.^;;

GWY told me she'd post art if I posted too so I'm cheating by smacking up another sketchbook page I grabbed at random.  XP
...Huh. 
I should start writing down what inspired me to draw certian pics because it's the stuff like this that stumps me.  ::scratches head::
Whatever mood I was in when I drew this, it must've been a strange one.  XP
I think I just wanted to draw horns.
Though I do remember she was supposed to be clothed.  I don't know at WHAT point she became naked.   Lol
...
I scanned this badly but MEH.  I don't care.  I'm not particularly attached to this sketch.  And, as far as I'm concerned, I'm through with it.

So THERE Gwy.
...
I'm WAITING.  ::grins::

Title: Death Becomes Her
Origin: Me
Medium: Pencil
Status: Finished Sketch
Warnings: A little morbid, but nothing too bad.

I'm finally starting to get Kate to scan some of my sketchbook stuff.
We're taking it in baby steps so she doesn't get freaked out TOO badly. Lol.

This one was drawn a while ago, back when Jenny came down to Savannah to visit me for that awesome week. <3
I started it in the airport waiting for her plane to get in and MAN did I get a lot of people edging away stares.
Anyhow, Jenny was determined I read a book she'd lent me and eventually quite cleverly found a way around the foot-dragging I was doing by just reading it out loud to me. This I ADORED because then I could listen and sketch at the same time -- which I did.
Jenny had a hand in this pic as well, as I would occationally interrupt her and demand she challenge me by naming elements I should include, which I would then attempt to portray in the most creative way possible.
Ah, such is the life as a friend of an artist nerd.  Fortunately she's very tolerant.  XD
This is what resulted:

The book she was reading to me was The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold btw.  I'm pretty sure that it played at least a small part in this pic too.
If you've read it, then you know what I'm talking about. XP
If you haven't then you should. It's pretty good. XD

Another Xaio WIP.
I haven't had much time to work on him but I uploaded it to show Jenny and I figured what the heck, I'll stick it up here too.  I realized I have to start getting the background in and coloring it with the character otherwise it could turn out weird.   This is definately the undersketch for the final composition.  More or less. That, plus... whatever the hell eventually ends up behind him.  And in that gapingly empty space where the color dots are now.  Hm.  ::ponders::
I wish I had a free day in which to just sit down and concentrate on drawing.
The next time I post he will not be near as unfinished as this. 
Any thoughts?
( Burma! )

Hahaha.  Having come back from vacation I re-discovered this pic and, recieving a bit of a breather from art homework, have decided to to art for fun.  ::is a nerd::
And since I've temporarily snapped out of my drawing haze to talk to Jenny, I figured I'd post an in-progress shot before I totally forgot.  ^.^;;;
( Xaio coloring...... not very far along. XP )

Oh well.  XP

Title: Bane Color Test
Origin: Mythos (Original Creation)
Media: Intuos3 Wacom Tablet 
Status: Blech.
Warnings: None

Notes:  This is a very quick test for Bane.  I love him.  (The character, not the doodle.  XP)  He's from the same universe as Xiao and Adrian... though Adrian has, since that post, TOTALLY recieved a makeover and no longer looks anything like that picture... XP
Anyhow, Bane is a Selkie.  A baby one at that. 
...Comparatively speaking.  XP
Hence the white hair.
Well.
It was SUPPOSED to be white.  I got all retarded and now it looks white blonde. 

Xiao Again.
Random stuff.

Final sketch, blahblahblah....  This is the part where any good artist would go over the sketchy crappy lines in a nice smooth black. 
But yeah.
I'm not going to do that. 

Now we color.  Heh heh.  ::cracks knuckles:: 

Title: Xiao WIP (Continued)
Etc... etc...

Notes:  Tweaked it some more.  Messing with his arm, mostly, and worrying about composition.  As well as trying to figure out just what I want this pic to be about. 
I also fixed his necklace, because Sunhawk is a pervert.  XP

Title: Xiao WIP
Origin: My head.
Media: Intuos3 Wacom Tablet   >,<''
Status: WIP
Warnings: None

Notes: Well, normally I'm very secrety about my art... I don't like people to see it until it's done so that it has a strong impact.  But this time I'll try something different and see how it goes.  Lol
I hope this helps those people who've been asking for tutorials... I really don't have anything special that's worth it's own tutorial but maybe seeing how I work will help you develop your own style.  XD 
Feel free to critique (especially since it's not finished and I'll actually be able to FIX the mistakes as they are caught!) or ask me how I did anything (though I don't really use any tricky techniques, so it should be pretty straightforward.)  X3

Title: Edideuceto Sistas
Origin: Mom's nagging (lol)
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas.
Status: Finished
Warnings: None
Note: This was an assignment I did for class a while ago, in which I had to do a self-portrait or a portrait of a least one person we knew in the style of a modern artist.  I chose Charles Kaufman (who is one of the few modern artists I adore) and in the meantime took the oppourtunity to combine it with a request of my mom's for a personalized group picture of her and her tennis friends with references to all their little in-jokes.  And, yes, that is a roll of toliet paper on the table, thanks for asking.

Title: Want
Origin: (Fan-art) Gundam Wing
Media: Intuos3 Wacom Tablet
Status: Rough color -- permanently unfinished
Warnings: I hate this pic.