Sketchbook - Walrus and Puffin

Some more mermaids. I was going to have more humanized plush sketches, but I don't feel like getting out my scanner.

The Walrus. She's really silly and likes to make a lot of noise! I think she turned out cute.

The Puffin. She may look like a spunky-type character, but she's just as ditsy as real puffins.

The bird-maids turn out so weird. Wait till you see the duck.

State of the Projects - October 2012

Nothing new here. Moving on.

Okay, I have high standards for myself and this past seventy-five percent of the year has piled a mountain of frustration on me. And this pencil I've been writing with must not be graphite because it has horrible cleavage and barely shows up but I still wish to use it up because I'm economical like that. Grr.

I did get posts done each week, including a Dark Writers one this month. Accomplishment. I have a lot of plans for my NaNo and a couple pages of notes. Accomplishment. I'm beginning to hate tumblr. Am I doing it right? I've got a plan for getting back on track. I'm stubborn and I'l probably fail again, but we'll see. Sketches. Woo?

I still am trying to finish Toilet Spawn, my Plush art, and the Silly Calendar. I'll have to make it up this month since the last weeks of September didn't work out so well.

But this month's focus is Hellhoney. And for the first half, QT Crawlies and Zodiac. For the second half, uncategorized original art and Mervscorn.

And for other things (like fanart plans), I have a month a week at this point.

I am insane.

Major Projects

1.) Hellhoney - Nothing.
2.) Toilet Spawn - Nothing.
3.) Minervellas - Nothing.
4.) Power Warp - Nothing.

Minor Projects

1.) Plush Owls - Nothing.
2.) Random Silly Calendar- Nothing.
3.) QT Crawlies - Nothing.
4.) Zodiac - Nothing.
5.) Random Original Art - Nothing.
6.) Mervscorn - Nothing.
7.) Birds - Nothing.
8.) Super Popcorn - Nothing.
9.) Pantheon - Nothing.
10.) I'm a Bug?! - Nothing.
11.) Optimizzy - Nothing.
12.) Pin-Up Calendars - Nothing.
13.) Tunnels and Elevators - Nothing.
14.) Playing Cards - Nothing.
15.) Hobo Story - Nothing.
16.) Tutorials - Nothing.

Other things that should be worked on this month at high priority:

- That large list of art I want to do for Rica's novel but keep getting side-tracked on because I want it to be perfect. I had one drawn at the beginning of this year and felt bad about it and have been wallowing in shame all this time... forgive me, Rica!

- Other gift art I wanted to get done since forever.

- Boatloads of Pokemon!

- Boatloads of Hello!Project! (Does anyone care besides me, lol?)

- That October NaNo Prep Challenge thingie from writing.com.

Sketchbook - Dolphin and Shark

Mermaid time again!! Don't worry, it will be a little while before I run out of them (for this year, at least.)

The Dolphin! She's sporty, but chatty. And loves fish, obviously. I particularly like her design. If I could make a doll of her and go back in time and give it to my four-year-old self, the doll would be a close friend. She just looks cool to be around.

The Shark! More sharp teeth and fun with grumpy faces and muscles. Though sharks aren't really angry beings, but rather unemotional-seeming, right? (Eating machines.) That would actually make her more scary, hmm...

But a mermaid needs a human touch, so I guess her face is all right.

Sketchbook - Foagie and Irma

I'm going to have sketches of my owl family (human style) pretty regularly now (like when most weeks I posted QT Crawlies.) 

I'm taking Meshia's advice and thinking of each series as an assignment. So I'll be trying to catch up on a major project a month, a bigger minor project and a smaller minor project every two weeks, and then divide up the rest of my fanart and other tasks to get back on track. For the rest of this month I'll be working on Toilet Spawn, Plush-related art, and the Silly Calendar. I'm just trying to get them drawn. I'll worry about inking later. Coloring even later. Things that I want to digitally color, even later still.

But before I can illustrate my owls, I have to finish sketches of them, so here's a couple!

Grandpa Foagie. A grumpy, scary, but classy man. Not as derpy-looking as the old style, I hope!

Grandma Irma. I think I should have made her larger and more huggable, but her plush avatar was staring at me, so she turned out more like this. I'm a bit conflicted whether I should change her or not.

... Please stop looking at me like that, Grandma Irma!

I mean, I always think of her as a rocking chair or comfy chair type grandma. But I also have a hard time picturing her as particularly old looking. She carries her age well.

Oh wow, here I am debating on the human appearance of one of my plush owls.

Sketchbook - Dugong and Crab

Iiiiiiit's Mermaid Time!

The dugong. Along with manatees, they inspired the old mermaid tales, so I had to have one of the sea cows represented among my mermaids. (And Meshia is going to draw a manatee mermaid, so I didn't want to copy her.) She's the motherly one among the mermaids.

The crab. She's belligerent, rude, always grumpy and sharp-tongued, and tastes great with butter.





Except I prefer to eat my seafood plain without any butter or sauces because I'm hardcore like that.

Sketchbook - Jupiter and Saturn

This week, I have sketches of my eighth and seventh favorite Sailor Senshi.

Sailor Jupiter! She should have been one of my favorites, being a tomboy and having the green image color. But she ended up too girly and dull (girly is all right if the character is interesting, but girly and too down to earth? Not my type. I like silly and/or sharp characters.) But at least her character isn't a mystery or annoying, so that is why she ranks eighth.

When I draw her for the fanart series, I intend to make her look more powerful, as she's the muscular Senshi.

Sailor Saturn. She's so cute and exotic! But soft-spoken characters usually aren't very interesting unless they are secretly diabolical. And well, she usually isn't. But still so cute and fun to draw!

I have an MC (or MM) for the next installment of this series.

WIP - Lilith and Sayu

This week we have a mother/daughter combo of the owl family. They share similar names, which wasn't originally intended, but just seemed to fit and work out that way.

Lilith. I imagine her being a proper Victorian lady. ("I am not amused.") With a cute, baby face. And large breastmeat.

Sayu-Lily is a spoiled little princess with a mischievous side. She's also a crybaby when she doesn't get her way. Even though I imagine her older than the hootlets (probably because she was my first owl), her human form looks younger than them. I don't know how that works out, but it does.