Fan art for the comic Demonology 101. This is Raven, the main character. She really has pointed ears, but the horns and wings are supposed to be transparent, figment-of-your-imagination things.
This looks really cool on paper, but my scanner apparently can't register the right colors. Grr. The weird thing is, that scanner has no problem with pen drawings, just colored pencil. Anyway, this was originally going to be Spot Paisley, the plaid cat morph (there's a pic of him in the Semi-serious Art), but I liked it so much that I left it as a sketch, not wanting to ruin it by drawing plaid over it.
Here we have a lot of little pictures scanned together. At the top there's somebody with pointed ears and funky hair [I'd been reading the Sandman books], and a capricane who's supposed to be scowling at something off-screen [or maybe the guy with spiky hair; it's funny what kind of interactions you get when you scan pictures together]. In the middle we have an experiment in inking that turned out pretty well, and a rather bad drawing of a character I've been meaning to write about. That thing he's holding is a pencil with a little magic spark coming off it, and the writing in the corner is the songs I was listening to when I drew it. At the bottom we have a sketchy dragon that looks remarkably like my friend's gecko, and a tiny drawing of a capricane with an interesting profile.
A while ago some of my family members went to a Celtic music concert, and I brought a little sketchbook. This is a dragon playing a flute.
And from the same concert, an elf dancing to one of the songs.
The eternal search for how to draw my frilled-lizard self from the front. It's harder than it looks; I can't quite figure how to draw it so I look like myself. Anyways, here's practice. Two of the faces I made into whole people [one's not me; I just drew the head because it looked neat].
At the top is a sketch of something I made my Dad for Father's Day: a cardboard cutout dragon perched on a stick, to put in a pot with one of the plants around the house. At the bottom is the color-scheme sketch for one of the drawings in the other art category. I almost like the sketch better than the final pic.
Two very different pix of my gargoyle self: one pretty old and one fairly recent. My sketching style has changed a good deal, as has my skill [the old one was almost a serious drawing, while the new one is just something that came to mind while listening to 80's music].
Two pix of the same character, done at school on those handy index cards. This is a character from Retractable Claws [see the story page]. If you combined the two pictures here, you'd get something close to what she really looks like. She does have a ponytail, and she does have dark fur; I just forgot the ponytail the first time and didn't bother with the fur the second time [in the second pic she's dancing to a song I had stuck in my head].
My friend Jax Runner and I were drawing gargoyles, and she couldn't decide on a pose. She ended up with something like the one at the top of this page, only with the wings in a different pose. I liked my idea so much, I drew another version, below the sketches of wing types.
This was drawn on the bus during a field trip. It turned out pretty good, if a tad fuzzy. (This dragon does not have fur: it isn't supposed to be fuzzy.)
Origin pic: here's the first appearance of Ecto [the name comes from "ectodorf", the term for tall&thin people]. He's some kind of forest elemental, and definitely tall & thin. By the way, I will never agin draw on paper with stuff written on the other side. No matter how hard the words are to see off of the computer, they jump into visibility when the picture's scanned. >:( And no matter how much you mess with the color scheme, they won't get much paler.
Here's a character from a story that would have been fun to write if I'd ever gotten around to it. Rhiannon, a punk-looking skunk [whee! rhyming!] who meets and travels with the female griffintaur named Zalachi. They eventually also meet Twag, a wingless dragonoid of near-intelligence. I really should write the story; it was fun.
A sorta joke-y thing and a kinda creepy thing. Yay for sketching! |