Art, mostly

Hello there are lots of arts let me show them to you! You might have seen some of these on the internets before, and for that I apologize.

( THE MAW PROTOTYPE SCULPT IS DOONNEE! )

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( Mostly doodles, mostly stupid original characters doing things )

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( some teeny paintings )

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( the promised high-res Girl With The Skeleton Hand pages! )

WHEW! That was fun, we should do it again soon!
awh man now I want new socks

Awh hell yeah! New icons! armaina did this for me out of the blue after we hung out at CTcon! Thank you so much! I also have a new default icon, from a drawing Conrad did for me while he was watching the table for me also-at-CTcon.

I just got back to my parents place from the new apartment Brooklyn-- John and I spent the whole dang day cleaning (again) to prep for Saturday. Finally, finally, finally we're going to be finishing this move. I miss everyone terribly and can't wait for us all to be back together again. Additionally, we did get a pretty sweet place.

Hope you like dumb art, because I scanned in a bunch of dumb art!

( photos of scads of package doodles, mostly some terrible sketches )

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So can I ask you guys a hypothetical question? If I put in a pitch for a figurine to Patch Together, would anyone be interested in purchasing it? It'd need 50 preorders to be made, and will probably cost $30-$50 per order. I'd probably do a Maw to start off with.

I got missmonstermel's Foo Dog a bit back, and it is excellent quality. These guys do excellent work. Also: I want a maw figurine.

Oh goodness, let me post some art. I've been sitting on most of this for somewhere between months and weeks. 8O

( a few artist trading cards, some gift art, beasts, nerdity, tegaki things. There is one half-naked lady. )

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SO, RECAP:
Draw a girl for harveyjames.

Read rufftoon's Water Tribe.

Oh gosh, there's so much more art that I left out. I need to share this stuff more often, I just have a bad tendency of getting all nervous and jittery about posting. :/

One final thing: It looks like I'm going to be following Ananth to do a Free Comicbook Day shindig at J&M Comics in Eldersburg, MD this upcoming weekend. (I'm 100% not important, I'm just going as moral support. If you stop by, we can hang out or whatever.) Also, I'll be at TCAF the weekend after that-- I don't have a table, but I hear I'm halfway recognizable in a crowd! If you see me, say hello!

Hi everyone! Sorry it's been a while. Ananth and I are headed down to Katsucon soon, so I'll post this as quickly as I can.



( assorted dumb art, some finished, all original characters. One NSFW nude lady )

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So hey, if you're at Katsucon today, I'll be hanging at the Applegeeks table flirting with Jess folding t-shirts or whatever. We will have Phoenix Down shirts if you want them.

I should mention, at NYCC last weekend (o-oh yeah, I was there too), Ananth and George and I wound up chilling with the Oni Press dudes for a bit. Charlie (who is a fantastic photographer with a KILLER CAMERA) took some great photos of the weekend. Check out his flickr! i-it is like we are in a movie

We have this totally awesome paper monster face taped on our front door from Halloween. We put it there just before Halloween as a hopeful invitation to trick-or-treaters to knock on our door. Unfortunately, there is a Real Neighborhood with Real Houses right next to our shoddy apartment complex, and all of the kids went over there.

Perfect transcription of neighbor's comments directly outside our door from Just Now:

"And like, check out our neighbor's door. It's like, what's the point."

Whatever, ladies. Just wait until we have our construction paper hand-turkeys out there, then you'll see.

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In any case.

I had this silly idea for an easy artistic/writing meme today. Character Post Secret. Write/draw out secrets from your characters in a Post Secret style. It doesn't really matter if it entirely touches the heart at whatever they're feeling, you can't get the whole story with a real Post Secret message, either. Just, y'know, make it as though they'd made it.

( and you don't have to feel bad because they're not real secrets! )

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( also, I drew a thing today. )

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And to further implicate me of SHAMING NERDLYNESS, Ananth recently picked up the first volume of Tezuka's Black Jack and I'm hooked. The guy was House before House was House and probably a good majority of the inspiration for Ginko from Mushishi. I've been spending my evenings trying to find episodes of the many animes that were based on the books. If you like really silly medical dramas about badass dudes who can't dress themselves properly, this may be the series for you.

Thank you to everyone who bought stuff from the Etsy store! :D I sent out all of the pin sets yesterday except for one, whose payment hadn't gone through yet. I'll be replenishing the stock some time at the beginning of the week. Since I have the store set up, is there anything you would be interested in seeing from me? I mean, there isn't much I can do in bulk -- I don't have amazing screen-printing skills nor can I make cool things with yarn, and I don't have the time to put together things like small paintings at the moment. I have some leftover oversized postcard prints on hand, and the bookmarks, but that's really about it. I'd like to do small t-shirt runs in the future, but that's a bit off in the distance. Thoughts?

Since I seem to be plugging other things, I should mention that there's a livejournal RSS feed set up for that comic I'm doing these days. (thank you again, Mal. :D )

I don't have much impressive art to share, I'm sorry. All of my effort has been going into work-related stuff these days. Or that aforementioned online comic. I'll work harder in the future!

( Mostly ink tests and stupid doodles - NSFW for a tastefully nude lady! )

I do not think I can properly explain in words how much I want to own this shirt.

(icon made from beatonna's comics-- you need to read them if you haven't)

S-sorry, I wanted to have this done for the weekend, but there was more artstuff than I'd anticipated. Watch out if you have a slow connection, there's a lot of images here.



( art x 20something -- dinosaurs, original characters, lots of girls, a pseudo-tarot card, a bit of fanart )

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Argh, I'm so sorry to do this, but I'm going to turn off anonymous posting for a bit. Spam bots have been getting onto my journal lately, hopefully this'll dissuade them. :/ I'll turn it back on in a few weeks and see if it gets any better.

I just turned on the 'human testing' option. It'll make things harder for anon commenters, but hopefully this'll get rid of the spam bots.

[EDIT] WAUGH, I think I broke the server ;_; kreggan help mee Ee, fixed! :DD

Hey, guess who has an internet connection again! :D

The move (oh yeah, we moved-- I think I failed to mention that one) went pretty terrible and rocky, but we (and the tomato plants!) made it! We're more or less settled into the new apartment. I might friends-only post the new address, if you guys want it for non-creepy purposes.

There's not much to mention from the past month or so that I'm really at liberty to mention. Although my paid account apparently ran out, so I'm down to six random icons and my journal doesn't have its cool maw background anymore. =_= If someone wants to pay for a year-plus-icons, I'll draw you an icon...?

Also, this happened:


AHAHAHA you guys are awesome. XDD

My scanner's pretty busted until I figure out how to force it not to run through Rosetta, so it's been hard to scan things in. I do have some art though, if you're into that kinda thing.

( Some original character sketches, a stupid comic, another page of The Alphabet Meme. )

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That's about all I got. Here, let me quickly reiterate everything everyone's been saying on LiveJournal: Wall-E, Dark Knight, Dr. Horrible= very yes.

I just finished my last in-person final, and I can count the days until graduation on one hand. Well that's scary as hell. Now I have to become a real person.

After a short consultation with my friendslist, it's been decided that it's time to rename this journal. In a bit, DHIO is going to turn into aidosaur. I never wanted to name this journal after one of my characters, it just happened that Aido and Kaido and Yuko were taken at the time and I couldn't think of any other options. I'd like to redo the layout of the journal at the same time as I rename it, so it'll probably be after graduation when I have a free day.

I figured I'd mention, I'm a registered marrow donor now! That's cool! I can't legally give blood because I weigh as much as a toothpick, but they don't seem quite as picky when you're giving bloody boney bits. I gave in a cheek swab a few weeks ago, they're supposed to give me a ring if they ever want me to donate. @_@

OH RIGHT, ART.

( Assorted life drawing etc. in fountain pen. Vaguely NSFW for exposed breasts. )

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( A bit of tegakiE stuff )

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( OH MAN, FINISHED ART? )

S--sorry again for the long hiatus. I remember when I was about to graduate high school, I was inflicted with chronic "senioritis." As my college graduation draws nearer, I am finding myself inflicted with a serious case of "OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT WHAT IF I DO SOMETHING WRONG THEY'LL NEVER LET ME GRADUATE, MUST WORK HARDER AT EVERYTHING."

In any case, sorry for not being really active on the internet as of late.

I have an art post, but before I go on, some recommended reading:

• Vinland Saga has some undeserved obscurity. If you like semi-historical comics about Vikings being manly, this might be the thing for you.
• Admittedly, I have not played Portal. But I seem to know just as much about it as a person who has played it, and if you have, I guarantee that you will find this article on the design of GLaDOS fascinating. Warning, there's spoilers.



( Nearly 30 assorted images, sketch/tegaki. Original, Battlestar Galactica, Patapon, Phoenix Wright. )

In lieu of both having left my sketchbook at work and not wanting to draw on looseleaf, I spent the better part of the evening ignoring Patapon and doodling on my Tegaki.



( Art x20: Avatar, Katamari, House, OldInternetMeme, FFXII, Phoenix Wright, Original Characters. )

[edit] ohjeez guys I'm sorry, ananthymous and I have a made a complete mess of the comments. We're going to bed now, I promise.

owwwwwwww

( a million tegaki whatevers. some various horrible fanart. (PW/Bleach/Disney/Pokemon/House) )

Sunday is the 10th of February, and if you live anywhere around the internet you probably know about this Chanology thing. (And if you don't and want to know, I'd suggest reading up over on sheepyrai's journal or Luka's blog. They've been my internet-journalists.) I'm certainly not going to be participating in any of the protests in any way, but if you are: be careful. I'm so serious about this.

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I've gone and made a Tegaki account. Ohman, that place is great. It's so freaking simple, go make an account. I've only really produced scribbly crap, but it's so dang fun.



( A few more, nothing special though. )

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I think I promised a doodle-dump two or so weeks ago? S-sorry about that. I've even had these pictures all uploaded. I'll put up a bunch now, but I don't think I can do all of them. M-man, I can't keep up with the doodles I've been producing--

and be warned: there are sketches of dissected cadavers and preserved fetuses mixed in here somewheres. I don't think they're anything explicit, but don't say I didn't tell you so.

( Mostly original stuff, a little bit of fanart. A hojillion pictures, slow internets beware )

Jeez, I need to get up early tomorrow or something. =_=

I gotta get over this irrational fear I've acquired lately of posting things on the internet. C'mon, no one's judging you. Well, not too many people, anyway.

S--sorry for disappearing for so long. I hope everyone's New Year was okay? Most all of my time has been going towards School and Work, I've been especially boring these days. Ananth is in India visiting family for a few weeks— our communication is usually pretty minimal as it is, but we've been having to get by with a 3-5 minute phone call every several days. I miss him terribly.

Before I go posting art, I need to say one thing: eto is my Patron Saint of the Internet. I've been too weird and busy and neurotic these days to even think about poking AIM and usually barely even Livejournal, but thank you Jess, she sent me snickerdoodles and chocolate oatmeal cookies and a scarf that had a MAW EMBROIDERED ON IT and Sheena thank you so much for the picture, no one ever draws Pythias how did you know it was just what I wanted you guys are so great, the greatest, really I am so serious.

Also: woodooferret, I got your card! :D Thank you so much!

I have so much art to share, I've filled up over half a sketchbook since the last time I've posted, actually. But it's late, and I need to get up early tomorrow. So I'll post some now, some later.



( I draw myself too much. )

I have this terrible fear that if I ever start making posts that don't include pictures, people will stop liking me/being my internet pal/watching this journal. Which, ah, makes it less and less of a 'journal' these days, I suppose. I've probably mentioned this before, but that's why I post once every two weeks or more these days. (I HAVE GREAT SELF-ESTEEM YOU SEE.)

I'm headed home tomorrow, for a bit. I've been promising various people all over the east coast a visit but that's not going to be possible this time around. ._. S-sorry, guys. On the upside, I'll get to see my parents, my parents' new kids (the cats), and MEGAN AAHH I'VE MISSED YOU SO MUCH ;_; There will also probably be a Special Celebrity Guest some time in there as well.

Ah, I'll get on with the pictures.



( Art (x15), mostly original characters, one piece of fanart. Lots of babbling, you can ignore that. )

( Extended non-spoiler babbling about Phoenix Wright 3 character design(s) )

Well, today was Scott Pilgrim day. Hope you guys got your Scott Pilgrim Vol. 4's!

Ananth and I spent the better part of the day (the rest was spent between work and feverishly studying for my Japanese final-- once again, I am the worst Japanese-speaking Japanese person) running all over the city (and nearby towns) of Rochester trying, trying, to find any book/comic book store that knew what Scott Pilgrim was. The search came up fruitless, so I'll probably be ordering my copy (and Conrad and Rachelle's?) through Borders. Ananth is leaving in the morning for DC, which I hear is a pretty indie-comic-friendly town. Alas.

It's finals time, so I haven't had much spare time for non-work-non-project related stuff. But I'll post some drawings from around Halloween. Because they're already scanned in, and also all Scott Pilgrim-y.

( Two pictures--! )

Wow, people are still doing the CoffeeMeme! Crazy! I need to update the entry-- sorry I've been lagging, I only have one final and a research paper left--! (haha, but that's still a lot...)

(Ah hah hah, there are so many other things I should be doing right now? One research paper to write, two books to read, one quiz to study for, two private projects to work on (one of which is time-sensitive), work meeting in the morning... PERFECT TIME FOR ARTING)

I've decided to start a meme. Y'know, for the hell of it. Let's see if it catches on!



( Memememememe )

( Cool, people who've participated! :D )

I got Emma 5 as well as Yotsuba 5 last week some time. OH MAN, THEY ARE BOTH SO GREAT. New icon is of the Hot Voyeuristic German Couple. Ohmans, they are the hottest.

Before art, first thing's first. DO YOU LIKE THRILLER/MYSTERY/HORROR MOVIES? If not, move on. If you do, can you help a gal out? Megan wants recommendations for good thrillers (possibly with Christian/demonic undertones, she's big on those) that aren't completely predictable. I'm not big on scary movies, but as her Best Friend Since We Were Something Like Seven Years Old, I said I'd try to direct some more knowledgeable people her way. Thanks! :D

I have SO MUCH ART. I'd have more, but I've been doing a lot of Project stuff, and I feel kind of uncomfortable about/have been asked not to share it. Some bits and pieces still managed to sneak into the post, though. Maybe I'll start posting more to friend-cuts?

Warning: Lots of images, and large images.

( MY ONE YEARLY MEME )

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( General Stuff, mostly an assortment of my characters )

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P.S. Tomorrow's episode of Avatar: Extreme Beach FireNation y/n?

P.P.S. bravecows! I got your package!! <3 The Maltesers are nearly gone and the Fingers are well on their way to joining them. (British chocolate is the best... ;_; ) Thank you so much! I owe you something nice for your wall now. :D <3

OH HAY IT'S MEGAN'S BIRTHDAY TODAY YEY


This is the picture on your card, sorry you didn't get your package today! You'll probably get it tomorrow!

( A big artdump of class!doodles-- lots of dumb pictures of me. Sorry. )

( I MADE A NEW THREADLESS THING? IT'S SO GROSS, DON'T LOOK AT IT XD )



Feel free to vote, if you want to. XD BUT YOU ARE UNDER NO OBLIGATION

A few warnings:

1.) This is something-like-four-months worth of doodles. It kind of barely scratches the surface of the amount of stuff I've drawn. I'm only posting what I have scanned in.
2.) I've been going through a bit of a rough patch recently, and it kind of shows in places. IGNORE IT.
3.) THERE IS A LOT OF DUMB ART HERE FOR ANANTH. I'M SORRY.

( Art X30-or-so. There's a lot here. Mostly original characters, some fanart at the bottom. )

[edit] AND OMIGOSH eto! I forgot, I got your package--! The cookies are all but gone now, Conrad and I kind of demolished them. THEY WERE BOTH DELICIOUS AND AWESOME, THANK YOU!