My birthday was on the 6th, so I decided to say thanks to all of you who have supported me, excluding those of you who steal my work.

An inside joke I don't care to explain.

Krasnaia, I've read, means red in Russian, which is just PERFECT for the trusty steed/sidekick of a Soviet communist dictator clone superhero, eh?

Krasnaia is red with black swoopy thing on its back, black ventral fins, yellow dorsal fin, caudal fins, and cheek patch.

Aquastalin and Krasnaia are mine.

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

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

Verveine badge... for myself, of course! I'm on quite the badge kick lately and having tons of fun, so now would be a pretty good time to commission one if you were considering it,

I don't like this one nearly as much as Tori's, but at least all the colours for this one scanned properly.

Badge for Tori, formerly Uranium, as she has tons of Uranium badges, but now that she's made her fursona more relevant to herself by switching to Tori, they aren't relevant anymore.

The pink is super neon in real life and the green is sparkly. I wish it scanned properly.

Tori © 2006 Victoria Woods

Trade with Jessicat! Took forever, but I'm pretty happy with it. First kitty in a while.

Copyright stuff on image.

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.

I dug this up yesterday while cleaning... it's a portrait of my character Moth, lady of pestilence and decay. This is from February '05 (as one can see from the signature..), but I like it, so I have uploaded it.

"Bored in maf" drawing, should have used a ref, but couldn't. I haven't done anything purely graphite in a while... haven't coloured much of anything either. Hopefully this marks the beginning of the end of that trend.

Doodled quickly in a friend's teeny little sketchbook because she left it at my house. LEFT SKETCHBOOKS = AVELACUNA SURPRISES.

My beloved cockatiel Zap somehow tore his foot last night and began bleeding uncontrollably.. I tried every method I knew of stemming blood flow but it all failed. We ended up taking him to Angell Memorial Hospital, a VERY reputable veterinary center.

But before that... we drove around, lost, for a while with the poor, weak little bird in the middle of the night... ugh. We eventually found the place and Zap stayed overnight for subcutaneous fluid treatment and oxygenation. I was entirely drained emotionally by the end of the night's ordeal. I got him back today, he seems to be doing okay, and he was SO mad at me! I'm just so relieved..

Verveine's gryphon form has not been drawn in ages. TODAY I RECTIFIED THIS SAD TRUTH. Here's the result.

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!!

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"

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 had this sub today in one of my classes... the bitch SINGLED ME OUT in front of the class and chastised me for having a messy binder, of all things. I have OCD and mild NLD, both of which can result in poor organizational skills.

I don't think she has ANY fucking right to impose her fascist neat-freak ways upon someone without knowing the goddamn CAUSE behind the disarray. Not a big deal, I know, but I just can't drop it.

Warm, sleepy Verveine. Lucky her.

I wish I had a dense feathery coat to keep me warm... nature's greatest insulator! Unfortunately Verveine just has fur. Hahahaha.

Final version of Newenglander123's commission piece. Something like 9" x 12", Winsor & Newton watercolours, Derwent watercolour pencils, and Pigma Microns on Strathmore vellum.

The black border and copyright thing are obviously not present on the original, and I signed it after scanning.

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.

Hrmmm.. don't know why I haven't uploaded this. It's from last month.

For DA's xenidra, who draws spectacular many-limbed beasts, among other equally delightful things. She deserves a LOT more pageviews than she gets, why not check her page out?

The one in front is her Alamar, lunatic sorcerer and dog king. The one behind is my Sangria, the demon malamute. They're both red and they both smile. Hence, "red puppy smile crew".

Alamar © 2006 CMA
Sangria, image © 2006 NLN

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.

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.

"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.

This is cute. So.... I accidentally double-dosed on ALL of my medications today. That's a LOT of drugs. I felt okay for most of the day but did experience some stomach pain, which may or may not have been related. I might refine this sometime, maybe.

Another demisketch thing. Annoyed about being rushed and forgetting an assignment as a result...

Inked version of Newenglander123's commission pic, that border collie were. I spent SO long inking this thing... ouch!!

This'll be painty soon. Yes it will.

Demisketch snarly Verveine. Drawn mainly because of my horrible fury over KAPPA MIKEY. Even before it premiered, this racist POS cartoon made me angry. Stereotypical "Asian" accents and personae galore. As an irascible person of Japanese descent I think I find it particularly offensive. And don't you go telling me to get a sense of humor. The damned show just isn't funny.

This is also the first thing in my new sketchbook.. first sketchbook of the year! BOY HOWDY!!