Recent Commissions

Due to my extremely poor advertising skills, I usually don't get a lot of commissions. However, there was an awfully strange weekend earlier this month where I was bombarded with about four different requests at once, on top of a commissioned larger work that I was making for my aunt, and had been slacking a bit on. Very unprofessional, but there was no rush.

This is the commissioned picture in question... albeit it's an unfinished scan of it. The finished picture still only has red bits colored in, as she requested. I think the red cape had more of an impact on the first attempt I did at this piece - but I did not care for the picture (plus I realized I had misread the cape requirements!)

I also got three Furcadia portrait commissions from two different people. Zuko came back for a couple more portraits, while an old friend commissioned a portrait as well. I'm extremely proud of how these came out. I do wish the portrait of Ewickly could have had a bit more details in the clothing design, though.

I also got a quick and dirty digital lineart commission. I feel... okay about it. Rather wish I had put more effort into it (or started over), but the commissioner loved it anyway. It's always a sad dissonance, when you feel like you didn't put your all into a paid work, but the person who paid for it sees absolutely nothing wrong. It makes for a rather awkward exchange, especially when you have to send them more final copies because you were fixing your mistakes.

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.

30 Characters Challenge completed!

Here's a link to the thumbnail post linking to all thirty characters!

It's been a lot of fun! Not much else to say, I mostly say it all in the post. I did kind of barely make it, but I did it! Some of the characters were old ones, dragged up to be polished and re-made, or some very recent ones that weren't quite as developed or even designed.

An Altered Reality

Just a little snippet from my Foundations final. This was one of my favorite images out of a set of six I did - each showing a transformation of a different part of the body. Yes, it was as annoying to set up as it looks. I had to settle to do it in parts, as pop bottles are really hard to work with to get to stay together. I'm really happy with how these turned out, though!

30 characters - Regine the High Valkyrie

Thought I'd post this here, as I thought she turned out pretty great.

She's made to fit in the August Rye universe, hence all the runes. The Valkyries in this universe are more along the lines of humanesque women training them to defend themselves from demons. They practically gave birth to the Protectors faction, which is a loosely-linked group of independent demon hunters all over the globe who are more interested in defending themselves from rather than attacking demons, like the D.O.