Learning to Fly

My submission to the 2007 Symphonies in Fur Minor portfolio, based on the Pink Floyd song "Learning to Fly."

I'm in an odd art slump now. I haven't been drawing much, but I've been finishing pictures I had already sketched. *shrug*
Anyway, here's a lion angel. With a flaming sword because sometimes angels have them, and a sheep becauses sheep are awesome. There's some problems with the fire ands the wings, which were chewed upon by the scanner, but mostly I think it's good. I'm not remotely Christian, but this image seemed like a good idea at the time. And hey, who doesn't like lions and fire. ^.^

(C) "Squeaky" Chewtoy

This is a reworking of an older composition of mine. This version came out much better! I'm keeping the old one in the archive here for an interesting comparison, and the original now resides with Taj.

(C) "Squeaky" Chewtoy

Here's a lion couple. They're not anyone in particular, just some lions... They're wearing hyena skins. I like hyenas, but real lions don't so much. :) And the male has a weapon made of a hyena's rib. I'm not too happy with the female's face, but the rest of it is good I think. So here it is.

Random lionman I drew. He looks kind of old and sad. One of the more realistic things I've been drawing lately. Yay, realism! I like realism! And I like lions! Hooray for realistic lions!

Image (C) the "Squeaky" and Chewy one.

If this looks familiar, look at Lionman.jpg. :) All I did was switch it backwards and paint it with acrylics. Through this I've discovered that I'm really not too bad at painting after all. I actually did this for a project in design class. We had to make an image that used a cool color for the background, a warm color to show shadows, and a warm color to show highlights. Well, at first I used yellow for the highlights and I didn't like it at all, so now the the project is over with I went back and fixed it with white paint. And lots and lots of blending... The scanner kind of mutilated some things, like the edges of where the blue and brown meet really on't look that hard and dark. But at least you get to see it! :) I'm going to play with paint some more tomorrow, so look for more acrylic works from me!

Image (C) "Squeaky" Chewtoy

Design class project. We had to take another person's work and transform it into an original composition, but the placement of the objects and the visual movement had to stay the same. So I took a picture by Boris Vallejo(because I have some of his art books handy) of a dragon and some fighters having a spat to a group of kitty-people toasting to their Lion god! The scan looks kind of fuzzy and lost a lot of detail but it still looks OK I guess.

Image (C) "Squeaky" Chewtoy

Anubis, the Egyptian jackal-god who guides the souls of the dead into the underworld. Another piece for my Gods series in pastel.

Contest prize for Lougara Swifthart. She won second place in the contest I held on DA. :)

Lougara (C) herself(http://lougaraswifthart.deviantart.com/)
Art (C) Christiee Anne Hochstine

Tajha's Bastet characte, Malaika of the Swara tribe, in Crinos form, sitting on some rocks in contemplation.

Art (C) "Squeaky" Chewtoy, character (C) Tajha Angeline Marleau

We all know about genetic modification and the scientists who will break the laws of nature to make something... well, unnatural. What if these people tampered with the family pet? Well with scientists creating glow-in-the-dark fish and rabbits, it's only a matter of time before they start doing the same to cats and dogs...

Personally I think it's kinda cute. ^.^ Would I want one? I don't know...

(C) "Squeaky" Chewtoy

One of my rare inkings. I love minotaurs, they just scream poetic justice! :D This was asking to be drawn...

(C) "Squeaky" Chewtoy

Some werewolves gather to celebrate the full moon, as an intruder enters their grove... Yeah, I like to break the fourth wall a lot.

(C) "Squeaky" Chewtoy. A (very) larger version shall be on DA soonish...

Me giving Mutteo a big hug! I'll always be there for you, my friend.

Art and Chewtoy (C) "Squeaky" Chewtoy.
Mutteo (C) himself.

I want a pet velociraptor. I drew this while watching Jurassic Park. Of course the raptors in there are pretty inaccurate, more like utahraptors than velociraptors. And if you notice at the beginning they're digging up a "velociraptor" skeleton in Montana, but velociraptors didn't even live in Montana, they're from Asia! This is the scientific version, only 3 feet tall with feathers, and Asian(but the Asian part isn't so obvious). Okay, maybe he is a little too big since I'm 5 feet 5 inches, but still so cute. :) And if you're wondering, yeah, I am kind of a biology nerd and I tend to yell at movies a lot if they have inaccuracies about animals. :)

Possible tee-shirt design for the animal rights group on campus. Such an angry sheep. Well sheep are my favorite "farm" animals(followed by chickens, and then cows). They're so soft and wooly. I was actually able to get this done pretty quickly. Drawn with micron pen.

(C) "Squeaky" Chewtoy. No stealin.

My half of a trade with Nykalia. Her tail is very fluffy!

Art (C) "Squeaky" Chewtoy
Nykalia (C) herself

Birtfday present for Nykalia. <3

Nykalia (C) herself.
Art (C) Christiee Hochstine

It's a furry faerie! A furfae... faefur... um... Well whatever you call it, she's an ocelot! :) Made with watercolors and colored pencil! And my watercolors still want to beat me up!

Might end up doing a series of furry faeries. They're spiffy!

(C) "Squeaky" Chewtoy

If Oompa-Loompas were furry, I think they'd be orange gophers. :)

Image (C) "Squeaky" Chewtoy. Oompa-Loompas (C) whoever created Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Mmm, chocolate... *drools*

Results of overdosing on recreational mutagens. Remember kids, stay off drugs! XD Inspired by Gryf's awesome TF art!

(C) "Squeaky" Chewtoy

Here's the best thing I've ever drawn, EVER! Intended to color this in Photoshop and use it on a web page (if i ever get one), so I never really intended to shade it too much, but things kind of got out of hand and I ended up spending at least 3 hours on it. If you're an artist, you may know what I'm talking about. Still going to try Photoshop-ing it, so it's still a work in progress. Anyway, this is my cute little undead puppy. His name is Patches. Go on, pet him! He likes you. Just don't steal him, he's (C) me, the Chewtoy.

Wheee, I'm done with this one. Finally! I've been working on portfolio stuff for college(going to Fredonia State in NY, if anyone lives near there or is interested...) which is probably the only reason I made time to finish this. Anyhoo, image and character (C) 2002 "Squeaky" Chewtoy

My sweet little undead puppy, Patches, in digital portrait form! I'm about as proud of this as I was of the original picture I drew of him 6 years ago, when it was my best piece at the time. :) Eventually I'll do one of these for all of my characters.

Character and art (C) Christiee Anne Hochstine

My half of a trade with the lovely Pipkin. She's a vampire bunny and I think that is awesome. XD

Pipkin (C) herself.
Art (C) Christiee Anne Hochstine

Commission for Pop, the Balloon Pup. He is shineys! XD

Pop (C) himself.
Art (C) "Squeaky" Chewtoy

Yay, another cute little undead puppy! It's a poodle! Her name is Precious. Go on and pet her. :)

Image and character (C) me.

It's the Gay Pride Faerie! Umm, yeah. Vixen with big rainbowy wings. As for why she's saying "Moo," it came from a conversation with Java, and he's insane, and he said someone he knows said "All animals say 'moo,' they just do it when no one's around." Yup.

(C) "Squeaky" Chewtoy

A muscular kitty man I drew who looks vaguely puma-like. I think I really got the feline facial features down in this one! And I don't even recall using a photo reference. Muscles aren't bad either, think I looked in a drawing book for those....

(C) "Squraky" Chewtoy

This is my neat little raptor gryphon. I fugured, gryphons are half bird, and raptors are pretty close to birds though evolution, so a raptor would make for a great gryf! Look, I even made him feathery! I don't usually do that with raptors but it does make it look all cute and cuddly... even if the face does look like it's going to ite someone's face off. And I've gotten questions on why this gryf has no wings. Well when you think about animals, birds' wings are in the same spot where other creatures have front legs or arms, so a raptor would simply have arms there. See, I paid attention ib biology class! :)