for DA's chanticlair, inspired by one of her journal posts there.
Lineart is a little shaky, this is due to my being jittery for unknown reasons.

Do NOT colour over this, do NOT use it as an avatar, a shirt design, or WHATEVER. This is not your character, nor is she mine, and if I see this anywhere else I'll be apoplectic.

Will be coloured. Same rules apply to that version.

wwaaoo I haven't uploaded here in a while, despite my having done some pieces...

Chanticlair's redesign: a narwhal-unicorn horror. SHE LOST HER BADGES.

Done in May.

Gift badge for DA's Chanticlair in the "cutout" badge style I've been doing a lot of lately. Why? Because she is cool and she draws SO well. Go give her some attention.

I'm also selling this type of badge now... $10. But you would have to specify that you want a cutout badge, or you'd end up with one of my normal badges (which I do on different paper, so they don't cut easily). And those cost $15. I know $10 seems a bit pricey... but I seriously worked from 10:30 PM to 2:00 AM on this little thing!

This one's VERY little... 3.5"x3"! And the blue is metallic gel pen, which SHOWED UP!

Badge for DA's RedrumWolf to go with our trade... I just love her new character Cherianey. You can't really see them here, but she has the cutest little heart markings above her eyes!

I like this badge a lot, it's really little and cute. And yes, in person, the letters are actually ORANGE. And sparkly.

Cherianey © 2006 CB

For Cherokee14, as she drew this terribly awesome picture of Verveine with entirely accurate markings.

She's plotting something! JUST LOOK AT THAT FACE.

Chero ©2006 PH

Commissioned badge for Chiz, on DA as untitledthought. Blah.

OLD! Citlalicue the Arbeiter. Colours got all screwed up.

This is pretty old. Slightly more recent than the first "citcpencil" image, but old nontheless.

Citlalicue © avelacuna

Citlalicue. She was essentially Verveine's precursor and a Siberian husky/Alaskan malamute/border collie/maned wolf/golden jackal/grey wolf mix. Since that was quite a mix, I called it the German Arbeit Wolf, aka the Arbeiter.

This is from about May or June.
Citlalicue and arbeiters © ave

Spent a good half hour during English drawing Corax. He's an older character, but I never seem to draw him. He looks rather reptilian with that pupil, don't you think? I believe I captured his choleric nature rather well here.

I was coming down with a cold on Friday and I had sick breath. Yuck.
The tears are there not because I was sad or anything, but because I tear like an emo kid when I yawn, and I was yawning a LOT. Poor people around me!

Alternate title: SPAAAAACE VOMIT!!

He's cute, isn't he? Microns on cardstock, the result of a free hour.

I like him.

Blue ballpoint sketch outlined in black ballpoint! I think it looks neat. Anyway, this is a rough design for a new character... yes, the neck is supposed to be long. I think for the next "draft" I'll have to shorten the neck and/or make her head bigger. There are two flowing blue lines in the neck indicating its ACTUAL thickness... the rest is just fur!!

Second draft of a character design I'm working on. Wow... compare it to the first!! Much better.

I plan to digitally give her preliminary colours later.

Same materials as the first draft: blue and black ballpoint on cardstock.

My golden jackal/Siberian husky cross character, who is currently unnamed. Very creepy.

This was an experiment in using Roseart pencils... normally I use Prismas, but I wanted to see if these could be a cheap alternative. Maybe. Came out okay, but I should definitely put more detail in the white fur next time...

Cute li'l crested zombie gryphlet. I've been on quite the reanimated gryph kick lately.
This guy doesn't have a huge forehead, it's just the top of his head.
I wish I had a spare Micron set so I wouldn't have to use Unis in school.. the detail one can get from the former pen is incomparable.

I adore Delerium, gryphons, and corsets, so here is a (sans corset) psuedo-new age Karma inspired gryphon. The background is going to be equally confusing and maybe even coloured. If this guy were a character..he'd be hell to draw.

DISEMBODIED WOLF HEAD COMIN' RIGHT AT'CHA!!

This is for Psamophis's colouring book project. Check it out and contribute to it!
Free fro the colouring. Just show me if you do.

(note: this is the "freaking huge" version)

Hm, the colours are far smoother and brighter in the original. They should be blended rather than abruptly switching to another shade.

Saw a dolphin movie on super IMAX DOME today and it inspired me to draw a dolphin. This guy's based on a dusky dolphin. That's why its rostrum is so short.

I almost never draw dragons, so I thought I might as well do so. I like how this came out.

Some cute lineart: my (unfinished) trade with DA's purpleglovez. It is kind of odd-looking right now due to the texture of the watercolour paper that it's on; I hope that will change once it gets painted!

This is Enondo. WHY ARE SO MANY OF MY TRADE-PARTNERS FROM NORTH WALES.

Trade with DA's purpleglovez, her Enondo, all watercoloury. Unfortunately I forgot her curvy eyebrowthings and as is typical with my watercolours, she has a mandorla of colour. Woo hoo. Simple colouring is good.

Enondo © 2006 CE

American Eskimo.... Gryphon! It's silly.

Here a zombie gryph in the early stages of decomposition ever so provocatively lifts...

AN AVULSION IN HER GUT, REVEALING HER GAPING EVISCERATION WOUND.
That WHORE!

The meaning of this is that you can now find me at avelacuna.deviantart.com as well as here. My VCL gallery will remain my primary gallery, of course, but DA's good for uploading the stuff I can't here, such as photographs and animations!

Yes, I understand that Merle's ears are two different sizes. Keks are pants, to you uninformed.

Merle McCambridge, image © 2006 avelacuna/nn

Inspired by my so-called "magical" ability to get creepy people to go away. Am I that intimidating? Haha.

That stuff between her paws is condensed magic, y'see. Yup.

When I was little (9ish) I made up this race of anthropoid falconbeasts, which I rediscovered while digging through a pile of old drawings a short while ago.

I wanted to revisit the concept.

These guys are fairly short (about 5 feet), with no external sexual dimorphism save for the females being slightly taller. They are quite masculine in build, with well-developed pectoral muscles (vestiges of flight ability) and somewhat narrow hips. The females do NOT have breasts (they're birds, f'serious).

You know that Coke commercial from around the holidays with penguins at some concert and some polar bears looking in from a snow drift? Cute? NO.

What you DON'T see there are the years of enmity between penguins and polar bears. No bears were allowed at the concert. The sneaky bears watched the event from a secure area, but the cub blew their cover when it slipped. Penguins lynch polar bears at the drop of a hat, so it was pretty much a death sentence for them. The penguin adults were about to get their nooses and pitchforks out, but a nonbigoted penguin chick came and presented the cub with an offering of Coke. This wowed both the penguins and the polar bears, who had come down to fetch the cub, so the formers, in the Christmas spirit, decided not to lynch the bears. Until Boxing Day.

Inky mantis.

"'Cause everybody knows (she's a femme fatale)
The things she does to please (she's a femme fatale)
She's just a little tease (she's a femme fatale)
See the way she walks
Hear the way she talks"
(© Lou Reed)

Inspired by a baby mantis I found... my mind drifted to the infamous ritual of mantid copulation, and then the Velvet Underground song popped into my head.