Fantastic Fantasies Co., Crap

Keeping with the theme from last post, here’s more 80’s gals.

Madonna was a tough one.  She (in the 80’s at least) has a face that’s really just a classic ‘cute,’ all her features more or less in even proportion.  Her most defining feature is her nose, and since I draw all Japantastic I don’t really put that much focus on noses.  Debbie Harry (from Blondie) is another pretty blonde but I’ve always noticed about her that her eyes always look half closed.  She also has a wide, square jaw.  In her videos she likes to do all kinds of great cute expressions for the camera that match the lyrics, but I guess I’m not as good at expressions as I thought!

These first two are concept sketches for an upcoming comic thing (eventually I will do comics again!) and the third is just Taylor.

Birds in hats!  I’m trying to develop my cute bird characters a little more.  Somehow Boof and Geet got ahold of bird-sized hats, which should totally exist.

Here are me and Hundy dressed as our characters from Stone Age 2!  I’ll review that game later, it’s a free MMO and pretty cool.

Hey, art today!

Here’s a very special someone, and her boyfriend.  Look how damn big his lower lip is, it’s crazy cute!

Here’s some Pat Benatars sketched from the Love is a Battlefield video.  The song makes little sense, the video makes little sense, they’re two awesome things that make even less sense together.  What really makes the pimp-fighting, boobie-shaking, boom-boxing video come together is Ms. Benatar’s positively angelic little anger face.

And here is Tracy Chapman, a folky singer who is hella hard to draw.  Look at those cheekbones!  She is the cheekboniest denizen of cheekbonia.  I like her song Fast Car because it’s magnificently depressing, but I like Talkin’ ‘Bout A Revolution because it seems to be about poor people getting angry and attacking the rich.  Like, the chorus is ‘You’d better run, run, run!’  What the hell man.

I drew these girls while listening to 80’s music.  My favorite is the girl with the braid.  I think Cosmic Thing or Love Shack was playing when I drew her.

Here’s some rather boring drawings of Clarisse.  What makes them boring?  I dunno, I guess I’m just too comfortable drawing her, she turns out the same every time.

This started as a few sketches of generic shoujo manga-style girls but then freakin’ Clarisse got in on the act and draged her whole motley crew with her.  The only one that made the transition well is Mistaire.

Some random girlies!  I went over the hat girl in pen because she turned out so cute.  Her puppy was supposed to be a papillion but kind of turned into a weird fluffy mutt thing.

I got a notion in my head that Matt probably had to fight off a lot of bullies in school.  He’s really a weird kid so he’d be like a natural magnet but his penchant for violence has protected him through the years.  There he goes to avenge little Tony, who probably gets beat up a lot because he’s a nervous little kid with messed-up legs.  Josh just sort of slips under the radar, if someone tried to beat HIM up he’d probably have a heart attack or something.  So he fits in the best he can while still keeping his friends close by.

Here he is in some outfits!  He really does have a sweater like that, his mom made it for him.  She has come to accept his fate!

This is some sweet shit, I found a cord to connect my printer-scanner directly to my computer instead of trying to go through the dodgy wireless network.  It took a little bullshit to get scans to come out right but now I totally have scans!  Also, seven Maximum Whimsies are up.

These are concept sketches I did when a friend asked me to design a DnD character for him.  He gave me info on the race and class and let me do whatever.  The final design:

She took for damn ever to do!

This lady…I think she has something to do with Princess Blue.  I call her Lady Bighair but that’s not going to be her final name probably.  I drew a young Lady Lilac (the queen of Tokatori) next to her.

This is a desing for a queen of dustbunnies.  The not-so-final lineart (hastily colored) looks like this:

Gag me with a damn spoon.

Here are designs for characters called Astronaut Viking and Embla.  If ever actually made (never), Astronaut Viking would be an action cartoon about hitting aliens with a hammer.  Later design:

He is the best thing everrrr

Here are some 50’s girls!  None of them are characters or anything.  There’s a certain sort of face that women had on propaganda posters and ads that you just don’t see on women past the 50’s.  It’s just…softer somehow.  I failed to capture that, but whatever.  That glasses girl is so cute that I inked her:

Such a sweetie!

Some 60’s and 70’s girls.  For some reason, I always envision 70’s white girls with their eyes half-closed.  I blame Debbie Harry for this.  My favorite is the girl with the small, tight afro.

And here’s some 90’s girls!  I skipped the 80’s because pretty much everything I do normally is 80’s-ish.  Have you ever noticed how high people wore their short-shorts in the 90’s?  One of my friends has a rather lewd theory about why…  My favorite is the girl in the center with the wavy hair.

OKAY, here’s what I done did.  I still don’t have my normal scanner hooked up, but my ol’ reliable scanner of yesteryear still works and is still installed on my laptop.  So I plugged those babies in and transferred the scans over to my other computer via USB.

One of the things I did was add new strips to Maximum Whimsy!  Check ‘em out here!

…Did you check ‘em out?  Okay now look at these.

These poses are pretty generic and I made the sketch lines too dark so it’s a big jumble but HEY it’s the girls.

Looking back at Laserwing’s bio pages I realized that they look like dump.  I tried sketching out some new images for updated profiles, but was hit by a block.  This was the best I came up with but by no means finalized.

This was an attempt to solidify the designs for the Red Jackets in an alternate future that probably sucks.  Look how old and ugly they are.  And how badly drawn they are.  I kinda like how Clarisse turned out though.  Baaaasically in this possible future everyone gets all serious and shit.  If I decide to go with this, what happens is that the present gang will wind up seeing their future and hating how grumpy and distant they’ve all become.  It’ll be heavily implied that the timelines diverge when Matt loses his eye in a fight.  From that point on in the present timeline we’d see Matt come incredibly close to getting his left eye gouged out in fights, but it’s always just a close call.  Always.  I dunno.  Too much drama?

Butt-fartingest is now an official word.

I was playing around with facial features and decided to see how a bunch of different characters would look with the same expression.  Tony and Clarisse, the first two I did up there in the top left corner, look like absolute ass, but after that I really got into the swing of things.  They’re all basically doing the same thing but their eyes and mouths and eyebrows (and in some cases ears) all move in different ways.  My favorite is Glana, on the bottom third from the right.

I was listening to some 80’s music and was inspired to draw some random 80’s girls.  I think they’re pretty cruddy though, I was in a brief, fifteen-minute rut.

This skinny, vaguely pignosed girl is Rosamond Sharmat, Josh Connor’s ex-girlfriend and the only female he’s ever touched.  As you can probably tell they’re part of the same goth clique at school.  But while most of the goths are fashion-obsessed and slightly rabid, Ro is quiet, creepy, and likes her cats a liiiiittle too much.  She and Josh break up when the rest of the clique reject her for being ‘not goth enough.’  She’s silently resented him ever since.  Interestingly, Matt actually likes her, probably because of that very same ungothiness, and because Josh gets angry when Matt talks to her.  She shows up to junior prom with no date (though her cats inexplicably follow her inside) and Matt somehow talks her into dancing with him.  Rococo Madeiras, leader of the goth clique by force of personality, makes a little appearance there to point out how similar the characters look.  That’s not really MY fault though, I actually ripped off Rosamond from a character also named Rosamond in the childrens’ EZ reader series Nate the Great by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat.  Her role in the story is extremely brief and not worth suing over I hope?

Here’s the many faces of Sylvette- Angry, angry, slightly less angry, seductress, and ANGST.

This here is Warmi Kallisad, alien sorceress psycho and love interest for that goth kid.  She shows up on the blog from time to time so it’s high time I explain her.  Okay, basically, once upon a time Warmi was engaged to a nice young man on her home planet.  Said young man was then drafted into some kind of space wizard war and he died in battle.  Girl went BATSHIT and devoted the next 16 space-years of her life to finding him.  She eventually comes to Earth and is totally convinced that Joshua Connor is her fiancee reincarnated.  It turns out she’s right, but that doesn’t stop the entire affair from being the creepiest thing ever.  It takes a while for Josh to come around.  They’re both psycho bitches, they deserve each other.

I found a CD fulla Blondie and Pat Benatar songs on my bookcase and was inspired to draw some girls.  We get some rare glimpses at a young Pauline, a young Annmarie Cook (the first Renegade), Renei Light, and Cherri O’Leary, the Canary Fairy, a minor, minor, incredibly minor background character during the Banshee fight.

Mistaire looks drugged up and Sylvette’s hair is MASSIVE, but I firmly believe that this Jenny is the best of all possible Jennys.

Here are the dudes in the Midgard knights, plus two.  We also see the High Faery Empress Mytherea, who is a huge bitch and sort of the villain, and Princess Sonja of Trollebotten, Haaken’s older sister and Trygve’s fiancee.  She is scheduled to die.  Oh, and Marco is pictured with a cat because that’s his favorite form to shapeshift into.  Never you mind that it’s badly drawn!

UPDATE:  I have moved into a new house and not everything is unpacked.  For instance, my scanner’s cords are still in a box somewhere.  Plus, I’m in an artist’s block right now.  But I figured, hey, I can still post SOMETHING, right?

There’s a lot of art that I did before this blog was started so I figure that’s a goldmine.  I don’t save everything I draw, so many important first drawings are lost to the trashcan, but what I do have is pretty crazy.

Here’s a picture of Anthony from 2005, when I first started forming the first ideas for Laserwing.  Goodness, I drew shittily back then.  I hadn’t fully decided on what his face looked like, so his big goofy eyes are the only element that lasted to the present day.

WOW.  This is the ugliest thing ever.  Fun fact- Matt and Josh were created at the same time and both predate Tony by a few months.  Initially they were separate from Laserwing, and then after a while I joined the two worlds, but made Matt and Josh mere side characters with no powers or nothin’.  That didn’t last long!  I was sliiightly reluctant to make EVERYONE a crimefighter, but the end result is an ensemble that really works well together.  Clarisse is biomagically defensive because I absolutely did not want her to have superpowers.  I was more lenient with the boys.  In case you can’t tell, Matt is proclaiming that McDonalds’s Fruit n’ Yogurt Parfaits are worth more than a dollar.  Back then they were, but I’m pretty sure they’ve made those things smaller since then.  Ripoff!

The oldest pictures of Mistaire have been lost to the ages.  She’s one of the earliest character designs amongst the main cast (Sylvette is older).  At first she had no name or personality, she was just a drawing in some cool clothes.  I don’t have the pictures of her original costume anymores.  When Laserwing came along, I needed a sidekick for Tony and her design was free.  She quickly got a name and vague personality, which were developed from that point.

This picture of Clarisse isn’t as old as the pictures above, but it’s one of the earliest pictures of her in any kind of crimefighting outfit.  It is GODAWFUL.  And in black and white, you can’t tell that she’s wearing a skintight body suit that just has a different color in places.  It looks like that shit’s been painted onto her bare flesh.  Awful awful awful.

There are so many things I could say about this one, but honestly, I STILL can’t draw his head-frill consistently.

This is the VERY FIRST picture of Trieg EVER.  It was a random doodle and I thought, hey, Laserwing has no villains yet so BAM.  His backstory came quickly after.  Interestingly, even though he was introduced to fill a villain role he shifted to the good guys’ side pretty quickly.  That’s okay, because he left behind the devious Prof. Penki (originally Prof. Penguin, UGH) to wreck shit up.

For contrast, here’s a drawing of Matt from summer 2005 next to one I drew this week.

That is a difference of only three years, people!  Look at that!  Seriously!  I flinch every time I see my old drawings.

Hey guys, go to writing.com and punch the names of shows and games into the search.  It is creepy fetish central over there.  Here, let me show you.

Search for: “Kingdom Hearts”

First result: “Kingdom Hearts Giantess/Shrinking Man”  Yes, this is a fetish.  Some dudes like giant women?  I guess that’s the appeal behind those Amazons in Futurama.

Favorite result: ”Exiled Master (Sora’s POV)”  The description reads, “Sora is exiled from Destiny Islands due to an unexpected pregnancy involving a dragon” (emphasis mine).  Okay, Mpreg is, to my knowledge, the most varied genre of bullshit on the internet.  Nobody can agree on how it happens, nor how the baby comes out.  But I think this is the first time I’ve heard of dragons getting involved.  It doesn’t even say that the dragon knocked him up, or actually maybe HE knocked up the dragon (yikes), we don’t know, but rest assured that dragons WILL be involved.  A further description reads as such:

“This is a story about Sora becoming pregnant with a dragon due to a great war that broke out with the against the dragons and demons. In order for more dragons to be born, humans males must become pregnant with them because the demons cursed the dragons and the females are unable to carry them. Being the only things with the same DNA as dragons, the dragons have chosen male humans to bare the young. Now that Sora has become pregnant, he is excited about it but there is something bad about the pregnancy, King Mickey has banished the creatures ever since he was once attacked by one. Now Sora has a choice, will he choose exile or death? You decide.”

Demons and dragons?  I will bet you this has NOTHING to do with Kingdom Hearts, aside from the choice of using Sora as a pawn in the entire ordeal.  Unfortunately, there’s only one paragraph of this thing written.  Here it is, for you to laugh at.

““Sora! Where are you?!” yelled Riku. You were sitting on the beach with the most wonderful news to tell your friends, Riku and Kairi. “Hey guys! Guess what!” you said as you got up. You staggered over to them. “Sora, where have you been? Me and Riku have searched everywhere for you.” said Kairi, her eyes look into yours with relief that she’s found you. “Guys, I have very important news.” you said. Riku and Kairi sat on the sand while you stood proudly. “Riku, Kairi, I’m pregnant. And it’s not just any baby, it’s going to be a dragon.” you say with pride. Riku and Kairi have stern looks on their face. With anger, Riku punches you. You…”

I think Riku has the right idea here. 

Other Highlights:  A foot fetish piece, a Kingdom Hearts/Power Rangers crossover, and a Kingdom Hearts/QUANTUM FUCKING LEAP crossover.  I could’ve sworn my mom was the only one who ever watched that show, and she’s dead.

Search For:  Pokemon

First Result: “Pokemon’s Pet”  This is an interactive fiction (a choose-your-own-adventure where many people can write chapters) with rules involving shrinking and growing (again) and a warning that bondage can be ‘nothing weird.’  Unfortunately it has like four chapters with nothing in them, so I’m puzzled as to how this is the first result.

Favorite Result: “pokemion unbirthing schools”  I’m pretty sure that unbirthing is when someone crawls up a vagina, making oneself comfortable in some woman’s womb.  When done through a male’s urethra this is called ‘cock vore.’  This is important information that you will need EVERY DAY OF YOUR LIFE.  The best part of this interactive fiction is that it’s rules forbid penises (’no dicks at all’ it says), homosexuality, feet licking, sex toys, butts, and farts.  Shrinking, however, is okay.  The funniest fetishists are the ones who freak out about fetishes that aren’t their own.  Oh yeah, this is about furries, just so you know.  You are then given the option of starting this ‘unbirthing school’ in daycare, elementary school, high school, or college.   …DAYCARE.  Crawling up a toddler’s birth canal?  A-ok!  Butts farting?  That’s a bannin’.  Unfortunately these dull options chapters are as far as they get.

Other Highlights:  More junk about giants and shrinking, some tickling fetish pieces, HOLY SHIT a second Pokemon unbirthing school with even more chapters, and a contest between Lucario and Mewtwo to see who can gain the most weight.  Yeah, actually, there seems to be a good portion of these things that are devoted to fat Pokemon.  I really don’t see what’s so sexy about Lucario.  Bonus:  I know from past dumpster-diving that SOMEWHERE in here is an interactive about Ash and May being kidnapped by a Kangaskhan, force-fed to obesity, and mentally degenerated to the level of toddlers.  And it’s supposed to be sexy.  Yes, now none of us will be able to sleep soundly tonight, knowing that.

Search For:  Legend of Zelda

First Result:  “Legend of Zelda: Okami Part 2″  I don’t know what this is, but it’s not another abandoned interactive, and it’s not overtly fetish-based.  I’m kind of disappointed actually.

Favorite Result:  There are disappointingly few results for Zelda, despite it being such a huge franchise.  I guess my favorite mess would have to be “Legend of Zelda:  Link’s Gaining”, a weight gain fetish interactive where random Mary-Sues and convoluted spells try to make Link fat for some arbitrary reason.  This would be my favorite because it has 132 chapters of this bullshit.  There are others here with more content, but they involve more giants/shrinking and tits, both of which seem to be fairly common on writing.com.

Other Highlights:  Body-swapping, giantesses, and what I assume to be run-of-the-mill non-sexual fanfic.  Bleh, BORING.

Search For:  Dragonball (I don’t know if the search will acknowledge a single ‘z’)

First Result: “My Male Giant Story”  What is it with this giant fetish?  Writing.com is all about giants, DeviantArt is all about fat chicks, it’s like they all congregate to certain websites that aren’t actually fetish-based at all.

Favorite Result:  “Aqua Teen/DBZ crossover story”  Wait, what?  Aqua Teens and DBZ?  There’s no way this wasn’t made to be ridiculous.  Unfortunately this thing was abandoned before it got anywhere, damn!

Other Highlights:  Some obligatory Dragonball/Dr. Slump crossovers, MORE GIANT FETISH STORIES, and somehow, a DBZ wordsearch.  A…wordsearch.

Search For:  Sailor Moon

First Result: “Usagi’s Weight Gain”  Another interactive with only one chapter.  How do these things get to the top of the search?  Anyways a Sailor Moon weight gain fic sounds more like DeviantArt’s style.  We don’t get to a giantess piece until the 22nd result, which astounds me.

Favorite Result:  I actually can’t say that there’s any result here that particularly amuses me.  Which is tragic.

Other Highlights:  Some more foot fetish stuff, more tickling stuff, some shitty fanart, blah blah blah.

Search For:  Final Fantasy

First Result:  “Am I Real?”  A small bit of ‘prose’ that has nothing to do with Final Fantasy, and is basically just some twitchy internet guy being paranoid.  VERY disappointing.

Favorite Result:  “This was a mistake its not a story”  The description is a line of gibberish, and the only line in the piece is “Okay.  First.  Which game?”  There is nothing here more interesting than this.

Other Highlights:  Multiple word searches (!), some more assorted giantess, weight gain, and blah blah blahs, and an assortment of what I assume are non-sexual fanfics.

Search For:  Muppet Babies

First Result:  There are absolutely NO results for Muppet Babies.  Thank goodness for that, I say.

I strongly encourage more internet weirdoes to write more weird fetishy fan fiction, because every weirdo writing about ‘Pokemon unbirthing schools’ is a weirdo who realizes that trying to enter an actaul toddler’s actual birth canal headfirst would be the worst idea ever.  It is also HILARIOUS to sift through the poorly-written abandoned muck of completely bizarre sexual practices.  It’s just…what the fuck, internet.

So I finally got around to drawing basic color pictures of the Midgard Knights, a group that showed up when the Red Jackets rallied a bunch of heroes to take on the Space Banshee.  They exist in the same world as Laserwing but usually deal with entirely different adventures.  Here they are, explained at last!

Hansen Q. Phillips is the unofficial, unwilling leader of the team, despite his rampant apathy and inexperience.  He is a sound elemental, meaning he has excellent hearing and ‘eats’ sounds.  Prolonged silence can kill him.  Because human society is such a noisy clusterfuck there are thousands of sound elementals disguised as humans, living amongst them.  He was raised in a perfectly normal American family that just happen to be magical monster things.  He’s got decent physical strength, good common sense, and can imitate most sounds and voices to near-perfection.  His knowledge of the magical world is limited but he does a good job of bridging the gap between his human life and the magical jerks who hang around him.

Amy Daniels, the token human, is Hansen’s best friend since middle school.  She’s the kind of girl who likes video games and internets and blah blah blahs, and makes sure EVERYONE knows it because guys on the internet would slit their own throats for the chance to be with a girl like that.  She’s pretty laid back and just a tad sarcastic.  A lifelong fan of Zelda and bad fantasy novels, she gets extremely enthusiastic when Hansen reveals to her that he’s more than human.  Because she’s more sociable than Hansen, she quickly started making friends amongst the mythical world, and drags Hansen along with her on her escapades.  She has no special abilities beyond her willingness to learn and quick thinking skills, and on their long-winded quests she fights with a snubnose revolver.

Marco Trykkleif is a shapeshifting faery who lives in the woods surrounding Amy and Hansen’s town.  When Hansen was small, Marco was like a protective big brother, and helped him learn and understand the magical world.  But faerys age much slower than most creatures, and now an 18-year-old Hansen can’t believe how immature Marco still is.  Marco has the ability to change into any living thing, without limitations.  If he morphs into something with super-strength then he gets that super-strength.  If he morphs into something that breathes fire he gets to breathe fire.  The only thing that limits this talent is his weakness to plain ol’ mundane iron, which burns the skin of all faerys.  Because of this weakness he can’t enter human cities safely.  Also, he is a huge slut.

Haaken is the crown prince of Trollebotten, a troll city hidden under the mountains of Norway.  Due to a longstanding curse, trolls cannot touch sunlight or they’ll turn to stone, and they do NOT change back when you get them out of the sun.  The first adventure the Midgard Knights take is a long-winded rigamarole to remove the curse.  Since his father is super old and super ill, Haaken is the effective ruler of Trollebotten but isn’t as good at it as he wishes he were.  He’s good at making people like him, but his understanding of politics and legislation is what you’d expect from a kid who’s only 16.  He gets by on advice from his older sister Sonja.  He and Marco are boyfriend and boyfriend, which is exactly as gross and disturbing as it sounds.

Trygve is one of the younger, non-heir princes of Jotunheim, the ice giant kingdom up at the north pole.  Trolls and Jotuns have been allies since creation, and for half of the year the trollish royal family vacations at Jotunheim, where the sun doesn’t rise in winter.  Trygve and Haaken’s sister Sonja have been in an arranged engagement since the both of them were born, but he’s much closer to Haaken and acts like a big brother to him.  He is an accomplished warrior, but owes at least a fraction of his strength to the Dwarf-forged gauntlet he never removes.  His right arm is much smaller than it should be and he only has three fingers on that hand, but if you tell anyone he’ll kill you.  Otherwise he’s a friendly guy, really.

Miriam Feckshire, an Elfin farm girl from Lemuria, walked out on a dull marriage and left Alfheim for Midgard (Earth), where she spent a hundred years having madcap adventures as a mercenary and spy.  Her most recent job is as head of security in the Trollebotten palace, but somehow that translates into practically babysitting Haaken.  He has her run all kinds of bullshit errands that aren’t in her job description, but she’s usually happy to help.  She’s somehow managed to get a working internet connection in her office at the palace and keeps in touch with Amy via AIM.  She got Haaken an account too, but he’s not very good with electronics.  And Amy keeps making internet troll jokes.  Miriam has a hundred years of experience as a spymaster, and her preferred weapon is a crossbow.  She’s the most capable member of the team but allows the younger scalawags to lead, so that they can learn to stand on their own.

Leigh Wyllowynd is a sylph assigned by the Seelie Court to accompany the team on their first quest through the faery realm, which I call Faerheim to keep with the Norse theme.  She is a healer but also originally meant to keep an eye on the Midgard Knights to prevent them from doing anything that might jeapordize the court’s power.  When certain events lead the team to switch sides and help some rebels take down the court, she has a personal crisis of loyalty, but in the end she sticks with the team.  She’s very small and frail, and usually sticks to the sidelines.

 Welp, that’s enough for now.  There’s others, but these are the ones who go on the first adventure, so I’m stopping here.

So a few days ago I was thinking, if Taylor and Matt did the fusion dance (which sounds kind of dirty actually) I could name the guy ‘Firewall.’  So I drew it.

Firewall turned out great, especially that wavy-hair mullet.  The others all have dumb names (though ‘Velocilaser’ could be an 80’s band) and I realized that Jenny has no superhero name.  She used to have a few prototypes but they were all stupid.  Warmi…I’ve never explained Warmi, have I?  She doesn’t show up for a long time.

This was a quick flash of inspiration.  I think I’ve been getting cartoonier with my expressions.  I really like birds but it wasn’t meant to be, pretty bird.

My weird dumb boyfriend insists that he doens’t have an ear fetish and I believe him one hundred percent.

And here’s another cupcake!  These are fun to do.  My sister wants me to print one out for her wall but WHATEVER.  I don’t do requests for sisters.

I’ve been doing some wholly digital work lately and it’s been going much more smoothly than usual.  Here, let me show off for you.

This was done as a pet trade on Sandbox Farm.  I was just showing a few pictures I did and got the offer.  This was my end of the deal, and what I got in return was this:

In a word:  Squee.

This was a Sandbox Farm commission that netted me 2 mil in imaginary money.  I’m still not sure if that’s a lot, but still pretty good!

This is a balloon.  I was in an artist’s block and told Hundera to name something cute.  He said a balloon, and here it is.  It’s gonna go on a button eventually.

I’m not sure where the inspiration for this sucker came from but I’m really, really pleased with the result.  He’s gonna get’choo!

This is just an abstraction.  I digitally painted this with the sepia underpainting technique I’ve been playing around with.  My only regret is that I made it at 72 dpi so it’ll print shittily.

I got inspired and drew my girls all dressed up.  With these I really let loose and didn’t bother with connecting the lines, nor coloring within them.  I really like how Clarisse’s skin turned out here, it’s the best I’ve ever done for her.  She’s the kind of white person who’s more red than white, because you can kinda see through her skin, as if she had a perpetual blush.  I made these at 300dpi so I have a bookmark-worthy version if I ever want to make some.  Do you think anyone would actually buy ‘em, nonexistent blog readers?

That’s it for now.  I’ve had a good run.

So I found a new internet game called Sandbox Farm.  It’s not actually a farm sim because there are no plants.  No plants!  Just animals, so it’s more like a ranch.  But the animals range from worms and ants to friggin’ centaurs, so less of a ranch and more of a zoo.  I guess ’sandbox’ comes from how you can add species to the game, but doing that costs real money.  So instead of ’sandbox farm’ it’s more of a ‘corporate zoo.’  It’s fascinating for me, because I’m the kind of person who can look at some numerical stats next to the word ‘ferret’ or ‘gerbil’ and create an emotional connection.  I don’t know how long it’ll STAY fascinating to me but hey.

Though the game has like zero graphics, it gives you the option of adding your own picture to a pet’s page.  So I’m going to pretty up my corporate zoo with pictures of what the animals are supposed to be!  So far all I’ve done are a chinchilla and a tetra (the aquarium fish, not the Princess Zelda).

I really should redo that Chinchilla.

You can find Sandbox Farm at, simply enough, http://www.sandboxfarm.com