enigmatic expulsions

Man, Do I Miss RPing

2009-03-05T01:26:00.000-08:00

Someone else should post here :| But until they do, have some RPG character WIP :D This would be Ceridwyn O'Connell my Innish brawler from Mike's 7th Sea Game (which I miss dearly ;-;) In truth she should be drinking and/or beating up swarmy Vodacce men in alleys but whatever.

I've been wanting to draw a buff Ceridwyn for awhile now so I guess this is my chance. Her design is being influenced by Adam Hughes and the delicious way he draws strong/buff heroines like Wonder Woman and Power Girl. The skull is a stag's and references her boyfriend's ship The Wild Hart. I'M SO CLEVER. I'm tempted to leave her clothes white and color the background either an off-white or green. We'll see what happens.

Geek Spam

2009-02-05T21:32:00.001-08:00

I said I would and here's the proof! Trek girl #2 - a medic (probably a nurse) with a roughly sketched med tricorder and legs that need to be fixed. God, that I even know the name of her pretend tech kind of makes me sad on the inside ): Even sadder is that I have several reference pictures saved so I draw it right. OH GOD WHAT AM I BECOMING

I'm really trying to own this whole flat coloring thing. It would seem that it is becoming my "thing" in digital arts so might as well get it looking really good, yeah?

Just wanted to share what I've been up to lately, guys :D

My favorite has always been TNG, tho

2009-02-01T22:23:00.000-08:00

In case you couldn't tell by now Liz is the cool one and I'm the super dork :B And Liana hates all of us and never posts.

I don't know about y'all but I cannot WAIT for the new Star Trek movie to come out. It's going to be super awesome :D That's not why I started this, but it is related! I've always loved the ridiculous-ness of the female officers' uniforms in the original series. Miniskirts and go-go boots, while banging hot, do not exude authority nor, I would think, are they that practical for exploring new worlds and civilizations. Tho if those worlds/civilizations are in Captain Kirk's bed then I guess, yeah, they do the job pretty well.

My favorite part of this is the TERRIBLE green color I chose for the background. I'm gonna do something snazzy with that after I finish coloring everything and tidy up all the lines.

PS WIP

2009-01-26T00:04:00.001-08:00

Tegaki was being a bitch so I decided to open up PS and sketch in there. Sebastian (lol who else) looking somewhat bored :/ I kind of want to do a similar Anatoly sketch but I don't know ... HE DOESN'T HAVE BEAUTIFUL WINGS ;-;

Christmas touchings!

2008-12-29T10:12:00.000-08:00

From Orlando I return with images of ART PARTY with the elusive LIANA and some other horrifying stuff.

"omg liana, omg omg omg"
some vietnamese pop guy(???????) postered upon the wall outside pho 88, where we ate lunch on Saturday. D8

HAND IN BAD PLACE! D8 at the mcdonalds on idrive (after crappy ice bar. never go there, ever.)

ART PARTY!!!!!!! liana and i stayed up on thursday night drawing!
we decided that we would sketch out a picture, then trade and ink each other's sketches. you can see that i drew anatoly, and she drew adore. 8) up close, you can tell the difference between the two inking styles, far away, you can see her delicious heavy lines. that picture in the middle is spawned from her saying, "LETS MAKE EMILY ART" but i failed and just ended up doing the same crap i always do.

MOAR; is dat sum angry plumz?!

good times. :>

The fish nibble crumbs from his fingers

2008-12-20T23:01:00.000-08:00

Spamming the internet with sketches is fun :D Whatever, I love this so I'm sharing it here <3 Gift sketch of Anatoly for Liz. Even though he's a miserable bastard and has done nothing whatsoever to endear himself to anyone I still love him <3 And, I suspect, Sebastian will always love him as well (tho why he should what with the threats on his life and the wife hiding and the aforementioned bastard behavior)

I've said it before and I'll say it again ~~an elephant's faithful, one hundred per cent~~ water is hard and I just might have to do a full out finished version of this, I love it so :)

Gaying It Up

2008-12-15T23:24:00.000-08:00

Quick and dirty sketch I did on Tegaki the other night. Teddy Altman aka Hulkling and Billy Kaplan aka Wiccan from Marvel's Young Avengers. Hulkling is an alien shapeshifter and Wiccan might be the reincarnation of a crazy witch and robot's magic wish baby. Together (and with some other friends) they fight badguys and get yelled at by Captain America!

I love posting synopsis like those <3

Seriously, though, YA is one of my favorite titles and I wish they would go back to publishing it monthly instead of as a bunch of mini serieses ):

wordy wips.

2008-12-10T18:09:00.000-08:00

here are some wips i've been working on writing-wise. i don't post my writing much because it honestly takes me forever to create even a paragraph that i am satisfied with word/image wise. in these i am going for surreal, and such, it will take me a very long time to muster up the motivation and inspiration to elaborate to completion.

for those who know anything about my tastes in literature, i tend to completely adore the types laden with symbolism; the vignettes so thought out that it makes your head spin with confusion of all the ways that a single word can mean in the numerous contexts given. i like pieces with heavy imagery, that make you feel like your skin crawls with every letter thud that rolls from the tongue and along the pages. often times, i feel that i should be so lucky to accomplish this with my writing, but sometimes i get surprised at the fleeting moments of what i like to call brilliance that come to me.

this first is for a solo anatoly piece. it is another dreamlike vision that should soon evolve into a mess of hindustani visions of gods, crime & punishment, heat, red and brown. i drew some images to accompany it on tegaki last night. i can only hope that this devolves into nonsensical adjective vomit, but we'll see; i just need to learn to be patient.

amber weavils wove their way down a skinned flesh back in which flickering lights danced upon like graves in a cemetery hall. moonlight candles stretched out smoke fingers who wound a story of curses and contrition, falsehoods and accusations of deeds done past present and future. soothsaying were the scents of the heavy air, clotted with an incense smoke so thick that eyelashes would clump together in tearful hugs, blood vessels engorged, a haughty dry burn, the punctuated sting of sandalwood splinters.

the second is the beginnings of a solo piece for miyahara. he is supremely paranoid, so i try my best to remember that every little detail is what he notices, and make that apparent in my portrayal of him.

The movement of eleven locks clicked to awaken the silent air like the empty shots of a revolver's roulette wheel. On the twelfth there was victory, the final blow of bullet puncture, a sharp snap of success before Miyahara Taki's door was pulled open less any further deadbolt decadence. Earlier, the thunderous rumble of a rolling knock announced a presence that caused him a twitch in the pits of his stomach-- he didn't have a good feeling about it, thus had waited until the moon signalled the tide's departure to really inspect the situation and see past a peeping port hole in the door to the real, tangible outside world. A light at the end of the hall flickered, strobing a soft beat to the time signature of ⅔/4, L'artisanat furieux spoken in a series of flashing florescent with undertones of the constant red drone and electric hum from the neighboring fire exit sign.

i plan on tying in the poem quoted, Le marteau sans maître. but again, who knows when i will actually get my act together and finish this stuff. i suppose i feel the most verbose in the mornings, however, Dir en grey's new song VINUSHKA has also been a great inspirator/motivator to my cause.

hm, in rereading, i used that flickering light shit in both passages. bleh.

brb, jpn.

2008-11-30T15:42:00.001-08:00

So. A few weeks ago, I got this Russian drink called BURATINO only because it came with an AWESOME Pinocchio bottle (pictured with FOX and CAT), but it turns out that it actually tastes REALLY GOOD-- like ginger ale cream soda..!

I'll be leaving for a week long vacation in Japan tomorrow, so see you guys next week! Hopefully I'll have some cool art to post, or if that fails, definitely pictures. :>

Now, have some Abele wip. 8)

Corel Doodles

2008-11-28T19:03:00.000-08:00

Even though I've had my tablet (which I love to pieces) for about two months I haven't really played with all the software that came with it. And since I have an abundance of free time (lolz economy) I decided that maybe I should see what everything's all about, yeah?

So behold! My first try at doodling/coloring in Corel. It seems easy enough - everything's very soft and it seems to be all about layering - I just might have to keep playing with this :)

auf deutsch..! (aber nichts :X)

2008-11-24T20:57:00.000-08:00

just a quick photoshop doodle.

have i mentioned how hot tom cruise looks as von Stauffenberg in the previews for that Valkyrie movie? i'm actually kinda excited to see it... but maybe it's just my LUST for berlin.

goddamn, that is the best city on the planet.

south pennsylvania waltz.

2008-11-23T18:57:00.001-08:00

i ain't afraid of your laughin'

nor afraid of your fist

come on with it brother

your sweet betrayal kiss

i ain't a scared of you no more

nor the scars upon your wrists

these bullets you've been shootin' at me

yeah, they all fall short an' miss

oh, brother

get your boots on boy, an' get on out

an' make your leavin' quick

this shack you built is on my land

it's comin' down brick by brick

oh, brother

oh my darlin', oh my girl

again i made you cry

i got a mean man in me

yeah, i guess that's why

oh, brother

goddamn, this is my favorite song. David Eugene Edwards is so amazing. *_* his voice is so beautiful.

.... GOD THE WAY HE SINGS WRISTS *_____* bestillmyheart~

Lucifer perish; I recall sin.

2008-11-19T15:22:00.000-08:00

so much post-it art. why are they so TEMPTING and HANDY. 8(

<3

2008-11-18T21:50:00.000-08:00

More comic fanart. In case you didn't know, I love me some funny books I tell you what boy howdy. This here is Sarah Rainmaker (Apache lesbian teenager with weather-related superpowers) from Gen13 (a delightful T&A romp from the 90s recently rebooted into a grimdark affair) ANYWAY. I just really wanted to draw her profile and a fat quail :3 So I did!

Pulchritudinous Professor

2008-11-14T22:57:00.000-08:00

Chris' character Ivory Dragon. This is the woman who took over Sebastian's job when HSU fired him XD
Coloring in this style is simultaneously really easy and really hard

carnivorous carnationism.

2008-11-13T18:57:00.000-08:00

red carnation petals weave a path downward like spattered blood of a broken heart. may they be met and keepsake-pressed with the leather sole of a finely tailored loafer.

for ma-malai!! characters from her nanowrimo novel she's writing. the guy on the right is STERRRRRLINNNNNNG and he is my love. 8) in one of her recent chapters he takes the carnation from the blond's lapel and CRUSHES IT WITH HIS FIST (which is probably not wearing the faggy gloves that he is depicted with here) because they are ex-lovers and there is TENSION. you guys should check it out and comment spam with me.

and now, here is a picture of my work building. :D

it was another beautiful atlanta evening. when the foggy breath of a fall sky blows it's breath over the tops of all the downtown high-rises. such chilly incense inhalations~

abele! abele!

2008-11-11T11:22:00.000-08:00

FEELIN' KINDA SPAMMY.

wip of abele! hopefully i can slap a bg on it soon and watercolor away!

what a faggy fag you got thar, mister. :B

my blackberry takes much better pictures than my treo did, as a side note.

rrrrrrrgh.

2008-11-09T18:24:00.001-08:00

wip. it's taking so long. :( corel painter is hard. especially since i keep forgetting what brushes i use.

FEH. >:(

Fictitious Frore

2008-10-27T13:55:00.000-07:00

Emma Frost aka The White Queen from Marvel's X-Men. Quite possibly my favorite mutant <3 Her abilities include (but are not limited to): seducing grieving husbands, ambiguous morals, antagonizing team mates, shopping, righteous bitchery, affecting a British accent, remaining pantsless, boobs, telepathy and taking on an organic diamond form.

Yuri's Yearnings.

2008-10-26T18:41:00.000-07:00

my character for a post-apocalyptic game on tegaki. HE'S A COSMONAUT whose soyuz craft crash landed in the water of this city and he sees space fireflies all the time and has gone MAD. He is convinced that barium acetate-laden chemtrails-- courtesy of the IEPA/NASA-- oversaturated the atmosphere and everyone died because that compound is very poisonous. You would always know which city would be next because of the tell-tale fatal cloudy X that would appear above, in the sky.

Yuri Vladimirovich Budarin. :D

AH, CHEMTRAILS.

Bella Blues

2008-10-25T03:28:00.000-07:00

Cross-posting the HELL out of this XD
Adore for Liana <3

opiate opacities

2008-10-24T23:41:00.001-07:00

some sebastian for ma-malai.

Tegaki Tomfoolery

2008-10-22T17:56:00.000-07:00

Quickie Tegaki sketch of Vasilia, an RP character of a friend. Her hat's supposed to be one of those fuzzy Russian hats, but I was way too lazy to actually look at a picture of one.

Fun fact! Read Anatoly's dialogue in Molotov Cocktease's voice! It's hilarious XD

lea[d]evil

2008-10-22T14:57:00.000-07:00

how do i drawed straight?
i dunno, lol. :(

highlighter hijinks.

2008-10-17T06:12:00.000-07:00

I always feel the greatest desire to draw on tegaki when it's 11AM and I am at work (and only at work, never on the weekends). I suppose this is colored with obnoxious orange and purple because I am longing for the saturated hues of the internet?! I try to make due with the objects at my desk.

Not pictured: A game of chess he is losing. (Perhaps that's why he's so angry.)

Wonky hand is WONKYYYYYY. o lawd.

Welcome, welcome!

2008-10-14T11:05:00.000-07:00

Hello! Welcome to our sketchblog! The contributors are three artist friends who once used to live in the same city, but have grown apart from eachother only in mere terms of distance. This will hopefully be a successful exercise in encouragement for each other to be more creative and maybe even get some feedback!

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