"A Fairytale About Slavery" is a really pretty song by Miranda Sex Garden. Katharine Blake has quite a nice voice. That thing on Verveine's leg is supposed to be some sort of a snare.

Lyrics © Miranda Sex Garden/ whatever label the album Fairytales of Slavery is on..

I had some free time today and did a loose ballpoint bird doodle in green pen which quickly became this unholy avian monstrosity. Some of the green's still visible. I call it a pseudocorvid because it looks a lot like a crow with a raven-beard, but missing the abundance of rictal bristles that most of true corvids seem to share, as well as the distinctive corvine scale configuration. Maybe it's an artamid?

Kachexie the zombie Icelandic sheepdog looking as if something she was pursuing just flew off.

Not going to colour this.

She has a massive, gaping hole in her brisket, from which her heart has been removed. Several veins and arteries protrude from the wound and the hole and blood vessels often bleed profusely.

aagh, head's too big

A sketch of Amy, because I haven't drawn her in forever. I rather like the face, but I REALLY screwed up on the wing. It's funny- birds (particularly corvids) are my favourite animals, yet I detest drawing wings and have a morbid fear of heights.

Amy's design has changed pretty significantly over the years. Back in 2003 she had an almost rabbit-like body: more weight in the hindquarters and small front limbs along with a sail-like crest.

Sometime in 2004 (the blue one should be labeled 2004-2005) her crest was reduced to wispy plumacious feathers and her legs lengthened. An auricular stripe was also added.

Now her crest has become a thick mane of hairlike plumes, analogous to the hackles on a wolf's neck, but much longer. Her body is now long like a corgi's, but her medium-length legs prevent her from appearing at all achondroplastic.

This was originally drawn in February, but I managed to dig it up while searching for pieces to display in an upcoming art show.

This is my precious Amy, sitting somewhere with a somewhat lachrymose expression. I forgot that this character isn't supposed to have a shadow.

Amy Lacour-Delacroix in human form! She's a gryphon who can take the shape of a human and anywhere between the two species. The bars on her arms are always present in any of her forms though: they're remnants of her scutellar scales. She retains several other avian characteristics in this form; long, flexible neck, curved talons, a penchant for mimicry, and an obvious furcula rather than typical human clavicles.

First time I've drawn either Amy or a humanoid in a while. She may look licentious, but she's completely faithful to her mate, the gryphon Andor. Who is dead. Amy's eyes reflect her nature- cold and deadpan, any warmth forever extinguished.

Basic inking for my "about me" page on Furbid. I'm going to experiment in adding a few more values to this than just the solid black and white.

In related news, I'm on Furbid now! Go to http://www.furbid.ws/cgi-bin/auction/aboutview.pl?user=avelacuna to examine my wares!

This is done as it'll ever be, I think. I'm kind of happy with the results. A little.

It's for my "about me" page on Furbid.

http://www.furbid.ws/cgi-bin/auction/aboutview.pl?user=avelacuna

If I may be so conceited, this is a VERY pretty badge. In person, at least. The scan does it no justice. None. It is intensely sparkly and has a lot of pale shading which unfortunately did not show up... lots of very tiny ink lines look faded as well. This also marks my first time using my Copic 003 pen... so fun!!

Badge trade with Aurin/Sunwolf.

In my recent DA journal I asked for suggestions on which non-canine and non-avian creature to draw and Chanticlair suggested some sort of herp, so I chose one of my favourite amphibians, the vacant looking AXOLOTL. It is a Mexican salamander that some people eat. (eeewww) Most of the ones I have seen are leucistic, with dark eyes, white skin, and pink gill fringes.

This is my MENTAL IMAGE of an axolotl as it was done during school and I had no opportunity to find a ref... a google search revealed that their feet are in fact NOT webbed and their gill fringes are more of a constant length rather than crazy all over the place. WHOOPS.

Kachexie came out like lame x500, especially in the scan.I think I'll have to go over it again.I'm glad I got to show her black gums and pink/green/black patched rotty tongue though. The whole thing looks MARGINALLY better in person. When I did the lines/colouring my hand was aching like crazy, so I think that had something to do with it.

I like Marsillach's. He's a character I don't draw much of and this is my first time even colouring a picture of him. He's outlined in sparkly blue, which somewhat obscures his black outline, but it looks good in person.

I like Shine's too! Pretty green and blue. Her piercings are coloured in sparkly silver and she's outlined with purple.

This type of badge is $20.

Second of the "series" of little cards I'm doing as gifts. This one, for my uncle, is a Eurasian badger. Never drawn one before! Why a badger? Why not? What kind of monster doesn't like badgers?

I used a mélange of refs for this, including the infamous cartoon.

An exaggerated and simplified little bee eater in a terrible bastardized Faboarts ripoff, but lacking the warmth and roundness.

I cut off the feet and body. They looked dumb.

It's coloured pencil, but it looks kind of oily.

I learned Friday that Belle had died. She was a scrawny, balding cockatiel, not at all a bird who grabbed your attention when you walked into the animal shelter where she lived the last few months of her life. I, however, fell in love with her. Initially a fearful, VERY aggressive creature (My hand ended up perforated as a result of my first meeting with her), I eventually transformed Belle into a wonderfully affectionate little bird.

This picture doesn't much look like Belle, but I want to remember her. I'll miss her.

Lineart commission for Blackhuskie!! Craaazy proportions and toefloof!

I've been drawing a lot of this shiba inu lately... maybe she'll become a character soon.

Shibas have an insatiable bloodlust... this one must have slaughtered something. She seems pretty happy about it.

Another brightly coloured gryphon.

Will be on Furbid starting at $20.
Like the other, 005 and 01 microns and prismacolour markers on plate bristol.

Finished commission for DA's Darlenewolfen, pretty happy with it. This her character BlueScar.
AH CRIPES I JUST REALIZED I MESSED UP ON SOME MARKINGS.

BlueScar © 2006 CM

Trade with DA's wingedwolf2004. Not as sparkle-intensive as the others, but just as destroyed by the scan... the letters are kind of weird, but I do like how everything else looks in real life.


Mmmm, bran muffins.

Bran ©2006 SJ

Just a little something for myself, but if you're taken by him and really want him, email me with an offer.

His colouration reminds me of those 60s-trip-cartoons. He's done in 005 and 01 Pigma Microns and Prismacolor markers on plate bristol.

A scan of brightgryph.jpg before I coloured him. Please don't recolour this.

Finished trade with DA's scbordercollie01, her character Brynn.

I borrowed the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting from my English teacher. This book is a document originally from about the late 1600s, intended to instruct in traditional Asian-style art. Sooo, I set to wasting class-time drawing these pseudo-Oriental birdies.

The first three are done in fountain pen and the fourth was done several hours later with a ballpoint. I love the second and fourth ones, they're so cute! I'm going to try this again, the style is really simple and fun.

More birds! These were all done with a sumi-e brush, which is obviously more suited to this style of art than yesterday's ballpoint or even the dip pen. This should be the last of the miniseries... no more arrays of Asian birdies. Aww.

I like this one so much better than the first!

Kachexie is a zombie with a VERY slow metabolism, slow enough that it is difficult to detect. This is why she requires caffeine as her main "energy" source! As a stimulant it boosts her metabolic functions and she can digest what she eats and perform CELLULAR RESPIRAAAAATION. She's somehow able to glean more energy from her food than a living dog her size after receiving her caffeine fix, but as her bodily functions are regulated by so fickle a source, she stores a good deal of glycerol as FAT. Not excessive fat, but adipose tissue nonetheless. This is also why she fails to live up to her name. (kachexie = cachexia = atrophy) Other zombies, such as Lerie, lack fat entirely and appear completely emaciated.

Badge commission for Calypte! Reupload as Ch'marr was kind enough to clean it. How nice!!

This was inspired by a really amusing chat with xenidra in which we discussed the horrible candiru, which is a wicked Amazonian catfish that likes to invade the urogenital system! And I wondered whether or nor they could "camp out" in the uterus, which led to this...

And make sure you check out her own hilarious rendition of the scene! http://www.deviantart.com/view/31123695/

Unfortunately you must be a logged-in DA member to view it for it is billed as "mature content"

"Death's Head". I have really been bitten by the painty bug lately. I wanted to make the head itself an ACTUAL caput mortuum colour to fit the title better, but... no. I have a pretty limited watercolour palette.

When Chanticlair got her tablet, she made a journal entitled "MASSIVE FOAMING AT TEH MOUTH"... which inspired this.

Prismacolor markers, micron inks, gel pen on plate bristol. Don't use this unless I made it for you, and there is a 6.5 billion to one chance that you are not.

char © AC
art © NN