A Secret Santa gift

I've been trying to keep the two worlds seperate - keep my deviantArt stuff to my deviantArt, and keep the other stuff here. But I really do feel like this deserves a post here.

The picture is of a Raichu character, Roxy, from a deviantArt group called Pokemon Crossing, a crossover between Animal Crossing and Pokemon. I participated in a Secret Santa exchange organized by one of the members, and being myself, I like to put a lot of effort into gifts; I guess I also like to go the extra mile for strangers. I used my precious new Prismacolors for this, and I'm glad I did, it turned out very well!

I just mailed the physical copy of this to the character's owner this afternoon, along with an extra little drawing to go with it, which I didn't scan. I didn't feel I had to. I feel I have a need to get over this idea that I need to share every single thing I've done, or to keep it all. That picture will be like a precious secret, between me and this girl half a continent away, from a deviantArt group and with whom I've barely even spoken with. A secret between me, her, and whomever she wishes to share it with.

I will go as far to describe it, though: it was an ink drawing of my own Pokemon Crossing character, a Froslass named Lycie, holding up the wrapped present and drink mug to the viewer. There was a little note I wrote in the corner, nothing special, just wishing her a happy Christmas. I hope she has a wonderful holiday season, along with everybody else, too!

Volcarona Portrait

I still like to do remappable Furcadia portraits, and I did this as a spontaneous favor to a friend. I tried to push myself to play with the lighting a bit more... I usually default to a generic top-left light source, which is a big no-no. So I tried a bit more of a dramatic top lighting along with an interesting perspective angle.

The character depicted is a Pokemon named Volcarona, one of my favorites from the fifth generation. This portrait is actually made to go with an avatar I made for the same friend back in August.

I'm pretty happy with both of them, all things considered!

End of Fall Foundations

Well, we finally got our foundations class exhibit up and running! It's running all weekend, and we're all displaying pieces from our finals - an exploration of transforming the human body.

My final project, a series showing different parts of the body transformed with pop bottles and labels, and three studies from beforehand.

Myself next to my final project display.

A fair number of people showed up for the first exhibition night!

The various studies we did before the final project, displayed on the front panel of the entrance.