![]() I've been collecting a list of phrases that would make great captions for pictures. So far this one and the two further down the page of Kieran & Mort are the only ones I've drawn. There will be more. This is fun!
![]() The campus Writing Center where I work puts on creative writing workshops (playshops really), called for some reason Parlour Parlour. Last semester I got to help run things, and this is the flyer I made for the first one. You can tell it's a very solemn, serious event.
![]() I saw a similar pic to this on Sanna's website and loved it. She's going to start a comic about pirates and ninjas; how cool is that? Anyways, I had to draw my own funky pirate crew, so I did. From the left we have a goofy human steering, a forest elf navigating, an aristocratic elf shooting a rubber band, an otremn playing checkers and eating an apple, and a redheaded female elf being sarcastic. Wheeee, fun.
![]() This took up the whole page. It started out as just a face; I planned to go on to others, but this guy said "No, draw me." So I did. He's a very enigmatic fellow. I think he's some sort of royalty among his own people. He can do magic, obviously. Oh, and he's wearing someone else's shoes. He stole them. I have decided this because I wanted to draw long lizardy toes on him, but failed horribly. So he stole someone's shoes, even though he doesn't usually wear them. He's an odd one, to be sure.
![]() Except for the aborted attempt at a sketchy trenchcoat (*sigh* it looks like a bathrobe), I quite like the stuff on this page. From the top there's some more of that eyeball magic I'm always doing, the aforementioned trenchcoat, a fun pose of someone on a stack of books shooting magic at my signature (why not? I needed something there), and some inking practice. I think I'm actually learning; how about that? I love that hair.
![]() More inking practice! I only had two pens and a pencil, so I tried switching them around to see what I got. Then I gave up and drew a friend of mine. Yes, he's supposed to have gray skin. And red eyes. I didn't say I was drawing his human form, now did I? Whee. I like the result.
![]() The shirt says it all. I don't know where this guy came from or where he's going, but odds are he'll have fun getting there. His name's Temeri. I don't know why either.
![]() The first picture here came from a design on a wooden beam in my ceiling; it looked like two people standing with their arms around each other, looking up at the sky. The one on the left's wearing a furry coat/robe thing; I imagine they live in an artic place. Next to that picture is the inverted version; I like that too. Below is a sketch of someone from class in the act of taking off his hat and tufting his hair amusingly. And the last pic on the page is a fun one from my notebook margins; wheeemagic!
![]() More good stuff from my notebooks. There isn't a lot of space to draw in the margins, so I started drawing tiny things in between the lines. It got to be a lot of fun. I put dark spaces on every other line so the pictures didn't get confused with each other. And on the last section, I drew pirates! Yay! With words and everything. The small writing that you probably can't read says "That's a sword, dangit."
![]() Here be some faces, and a furry creature on a log. Woo. The pale one that's hard to see is a sketch of someone with ferns instead of hair; I was going to do that for Tasseta Tate there on the bottom left, but decided she looked plenty cool as she was. She even gets a shortened name: Tast. I'll have to think of something else to do with her; she's nifty. The other nifty person in the collection is the blue fellow on the right, who was supposed to be an otremn, but now looks entirely too pretty to be a fullblooded one. His face is too long. And he has a goatee. While that suits his face, I don't think it's very otremnly. So for now he's a mystery. Maybe a half-human hybrid, though I can't think of how that could have happened, since the races do hate each other. Oh well. I'll figure it out.
![]() If you're already seen the last page of art here, you might recognize this critter. If you haven't, lookit! It's a stripey! Yay. Stripeys are fun. I drew this one in class when I could have been doing something else [but wasn't]. I'd say this is a perfectly good use of time! If ya wanna see more stripeys [and oodles of other cool artness], go see Sanna's website, The Swerve. 'Tis a very cool place.
![]() I came across this quote in someone's forum signature and loved it. It was just begging for a picture to go along with it, and I had to oblige. Ended up with two entertaining new characters, who I eventually named Kieran Vijiya [on the left] and Mort Shaw [on the right]. Just settling on those names was fun. I started with two real names, and warped them beyond recognition. Yay!
![]() Here's Kieran & Mort again, with the other great quote I found that day. Says something for their friendship, that's for sure: it's an interesting one to observe. About as interesting as their clothes... (*snort* Goofballs.)
![]() Notebook sketches, yay! At the top we've got Mal, the little ecoterrorist plant elemental [drawn in environmental studies class, for obvious reasons]. At the bottom on the left is an elfy fellow with some cool stylized magic around one eye. Named him Trobi [this came from a term in cultural anthropology, which is where I drew him]. That hand with similar magic came from the same place. Next over is a sketch of an interesting hairstyle someone in class had: long hair except for a buzzed slice down the middle. Mini-mohawk [or accident; I'm not sure which]. And on the right is Twig Furrtz, a purple-haired fellow who knows Kieran and Mort in some way. I drew him on the same page as their pictures, and have yet to figure out how he fits into things. But I will.
![]() I always end up drawing otremn headshots scattered throughout my notebooks, and they always look really weird put together. I realize "Wow, that looks nothing like an otremn should; why didn't I notice that before?" At any rate, Dondari there at the top left is the one who looks most otremnly [despite the fact that his eyebrows take up most of his forehead; shh]. Sennem looks a little wonky, and Ander is purposefully weird. That's an otremn eye next to him; I didn't draw the rest of the face. And that odd thingy on the right is the design from a wooden doorway; it looks like a dragon head to me. I meant to draw it again better, but I never did, despite the fact that I spent a whole semester in that room. [Too busy taking notes; tsk tsk]. |