Awwww, it's a little fledgling gryphlet! I don't know WHAT happened to this, the scan messed it up somehow.

OH DEAR LORD I NEED AMERICAN MCGEE'S ALICE.

I downloaded the demo and it is so FUN and I've wanted the full version ever since it came out, but the Mac version is immensely difficult to find.
Anyone have an extra/used copy of the Mac edition they'd be willing to trade for a commission??

The inking on this took such a long time and I think I killed the pen... sloppy colouring done at 2 AM in Elements. Blah. It was fun though, especially Alice's colouring. Verveine's was annoying.

Badge for Chanticlair, her forest shapeshifter spirit... Forest!

Screwed up a marking. Aaaah. Sparkly silver around the figure, sparkly yellow around the letters. Sparklesssss.

Pair of badges for Frost.

Done in July.

Both characters © GS

An inside joke I don't care to explain.

Gacy the demon horse for DA's BlcKwLfMoOnWrsHpR... among my first times trying my hand at equines since god knows when. I think the pen's nib when I was inking the tail... odd texture there.

Final ATC? I LIED

Gift for MY TOP PERSON, zweipelzeulen of DA Her birthday is today (12/28) so I was finally able to give it to her.

She loves rose-breasted cockatoos, so I felt it would be an appropriate gift. Happy birthday, Eve!

POISSON D'AVRIL!!

And in the fishy spirit of things, here is Verveine as a gar... one of my very favourite fish!

Happy birthday Velo!!

Trade with DA's GearOtter, her character Link! First time ever drawing an otter and I'm pretty happy with it.

I was going to erase the construction lines, but I liked the messy look and thought it suited her... so they stayed.

I've had this sitting around for WEEKS and just inked it now.

Ghostie the Eurasier for SpaceWhore of DA. Eurasiers... SO POOFY. Refined mix of Chow, Keeshond, and Samoyed... oh man. There's some floof. So I worked to show that.

Ghostie © her creator

This is Elegia. She's a corvid gryphon... part crow, part raven, but mostly the former. You probably haven't seen her before, but she is by no means new... I've had her since I was 13 or 14. If you HAVE seen her prior to this and the one other image she was going by a different name. And I am not going to tell you what that is.

Elegia has two physical forms, a small fledgling form (#1.) and an adult form (#2. and 3.) She can have pupils or go without them, but she's usually drawn blank-eyed.

She represents innocence and playful lunacy for me.

Two gift badges! It is kind of obvious who they are for.

I'm not sure if Vierdz's character is actually named that... whuh-oh. And I took slight liberties with Frisket's markings.
Vierdz's eye is actually intense orange, my scanner is just lame and does not pick that up.

characters © their respective creators.

Final mini-ATC holiday gift (for now). Apparently my step-grandmother likes giraffes? This is supposed to be a calf. I know the anatomy is a little off, but I've never really drawn a giraffe before.

Details have been EATEN.

Not an animal. NOT AN ANIMAL. (well yeah, but you know what I mean.)

Despite the relative simplicity of this (and its tiny size) I'm pretty pleased with the result. I never draw people, so this was kind of refreshing... no ref though. Would probably help.

I love the sort of weary-and-skeptical look I gave her. Heh.. you can see how the ponytail was originally sleek, but that didn't exactly fit with the rest of her hair so I added some poof.

My new character looking over her shoulder. Er... her neck. She has a very long neck.

She's got this stripe of long fur running over her sternocleidomastoid muscles (the ones running from behind the ears to the medial part of the clavicles) which she can lift higher than the surrounding coat... that's what's going on here. Yup.

It's been a while since I've done something entirely in graphite. This version is slightly different from the one at my DA gallery.

My half of a badge trade with Gravey.... blegh... the scanner....

Sparkly and bright in real life and the whole thing's outlined in sparkly purple for awesome effects at certain angles.

Gravewalker ©2006 Sunny Colaneri

This is pretty goddamned disgusting, eh? That was my aim. One sees so many of those "charming Victorian" frog anthros: where are all the sloppy ones with positively prodigious pendulous pectorals? Hahaha.

I drew this in math today but was too ashamed to ink it there. It IS embarrassing.

Gift for DA's JustRach to go with a trade... I think it's just SO pretty in real life, but like with all my badges, the scanner killed it. The letters are sparkly (red, purple) and the entire figure is outlined in sparkly green: makes the whole thing go POP at certain angles... I wish you guys could see it.

GutterFlower © 2006 Rachel Young

Two headshots of my new character... "normal" face and snarly face. Info on her is NOT TO BE KNOWN BY THE PUBLIC for now. She is NOT canine (the teeth hopefully reveal that). She does have her colours now. I hope to upload a coloured pic soon, and then will I reveal her inspiration info, species, and all that.

Ballpoint on cardstock... DON'T colour these. They are not a template for your character.

Another oldie. Willow being excitable. I think she looks more like a Samoyed here than usual...eh. She ain't no Sammy.

Willow and image © 2006 avelacuna.

This is old. So very, very old, but still likeable, I think, so here it is.

New picture for my FurBid page 'cause I was getting dreadfully sick of the old one. I suggest you investigate the fine wares I have for sale.

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

Anyone interested in an art trade? I'll probably take 3 or so to begin with.

Gift badge for the one and only Huskie. It looks... insanely better in real life. The U is supposed to be a bright, sparkly orange, but it scanned as some stupid shade of taupe. The border around her head and the name field are a sparkly green in real life.

All the letters are sparkly and rimmed with sparkly pink... lots of sparkles and very bright. As i said, much prettier in real life. The black isn't all streaky either.

One of two badges I made to test out my new markers. :)

Tentative design for a therianthropic husky I plan to use in a short story i may or may not write. There was originally a Pzychobitch logo on the tank but I completely screwed it up. Aww.

I had drawn this for an advertisement for animal shelters... thought I might as well upload it 'cause it's cute.

The Azoic's "Illuminate" is a rare song in that it makes me so HAPPY. I listen to a good variety of songs, and I think that Illuminate may just be the only song with such an effect on me.

I'm not too happy with the image, but listening to the song innumerable times during its creation was certainly nice.

If you're an EBM, electro, techno, futurepop, or whatever fan, buy the Azoic's albums. They deserve the money and support.

Many thanks to Kristy for allowing me to use her lyrics!

lyrics © 2005 Kristy Venrick of the Azoic (used with permission)

This is the first thing I've drawn in nearly 4 days due to both massive art block and an infected finger.

It's Illusion, my evil ghost wolf goddess with addax/oryx/ibex/I don't know which horns from my old comic. AAH SHE SO SCARY. She doesn't have a very original name, I know, but her design was actually quite inspired by Mirage's from the Incredibles (as hard as that is to believe), sooo... synonym name.

How come all of my deity characters have that lovely tetanic risus sardonicus? I have quite a few god-characters and not one of them lacks some sort of menacing smile. Maybe it reflects my view on religion...heh. Sangria, despite the rictus, is not among my divine characters.

I think I'm coming down with the dread disease IMPETIGO. Again. Second time in three months. It's much more horrid than the image suggests.

I hate the holiday season. Why? Every year I'm forced to churn out landscapes/floral scenes DEVOID OF ANIMALS for relatives. I love drawing animals. If there's no sentient life in what I'm drawing, I lose interest and it becomes a chore rather than something enjoyable. When I lose interest, quality goes downhill. So, is THIS what you want? A dinky little flower looking as if it could have been drawn by a toddler?

Anubis lamenting over has jackal head.

Jesus..i mean..the Cruxshadows' "Jackal-Head" made me do it.

My favourite part is how he says "dear god", even though he IS a god.

I need to get back to drawing realistically.