A small colored pencil request pic for one of my friends on Sinlahekin ( http://www.matrices.net/forum/default.asp?Group=3 ) Hopefully I got the furcolors right!

Image (c) Sara Howard.
Character, Disaster (c) her player.

Spikah's face.

I felt this would be a good oppertunity to let people know of my new LiveJournal Community, toonfurs, If you like and/or draw cartoons and have a LiveJournal! please join us, and add to the discussions! http://www.livejournal.com/community/toonfurs/

Spikah (c) Sara Howard.

I drew this in the Seatac airport while watching people-- even babies, getting scanned by metal detecting wands watched closely by the eye of bomb sniffing dogs.

Spikah (c) Sara Howard.

Spikah again. In a 3/4 profile.

Spikah (c) Sara Howard.

A new character. A simple housecat, I suppose. This is one of the first drawings I did of him. His fur is black with blue-grey points (ears, face, paws, tailtip). His name is Spikah.

Spikah (c) Sara Howard.

My hybrid character, Odium. a profile of his face.

Odium (c) Sara Howard.

More often than not my life feels dull and meaningless. My apathy leads to nothing good. But my motivation often leads me to failure because what little expectations I have for myself are too high. And I'm never willing to lower them.

Matrices (c) Sara Howard.

My entry for the VCL's January Competition. My characters Mukilteo and Matrices before and after. Yeah... so I've had 3 years to improve (drawing skills)... but have they changed? heh heh heh.

Matrices and Mukilteo (c) Sara Howard.

A picture of Matrices I drew with a purple pen.
Matrices (c) Sara Howard.

Yay! wolfie coyote lookin' thing. that blob he has in his mouth is meat. I just didnt put any detail in it.

A Greek vase design assignment I did for my Art History class. I used the banding styles from the Orientalizing period. The figure (Matrices) I just threw on there last minute. It doesnt go with the orientalizing style, but whatever, I still got full credit, even though I half-assed it.
Matrices (c) Sara Howard

Preliminary colored copy for a commission for WolfPac.
WolfPac (c) his player, Foxer (c) his player, picture (c) Sara Howard.

( Reupload: WolfPac's grey color is now darker. :D )
Final version should be completed soon.

A preliminary sketch for a commission for WolfPac.
WolfPac (c) his player, Foxer (c) his player, picture (c) Sara Howard.

New character: Cadmar. It means "strong in battle" He's a yearling non-anthro wolf character I made up for my Sinlahekin RP. Join us! http://www.matrices.net/forum/

Cadmar (c) Sara Howard

Matrices, shouting, and trying to cover her ears. Inspired from an RP on my new forum: http://www.matrices.net/forum/
If you're interested, please sign up and join in or start your own. Or if you dont like RPing you can just join or start a discussion. :D
Matrices (c) Sara Howard.

I bought prismacolor markers and was experamenting with them combined with prismacolor pencils. This was my little experimental picture.
His head is gigantic, the anatomy is way off.
Mukilteo (c) Sara Howard.

Just a ballpoint pen doodle. I started with the mouth and did the rest of the head. No pencil undersketch (except for when I was trying to decide on where the eye should be placed, which I did last)
He kind of looks like he's either yawning, or laughing, or in pain or maybe yelling.. heh.
(c) Sara Howard.

The larger version of the 404, also the colored version of the "mukilteosquare" pictures.
Mukilteo (c) Sara Howard.

The New Matrices mask, all finished. Its almost too big for my head, unfortunately. I had to pad the inside so it would stay put. The nose is foam rubber stuff, the rest is fake fur, I had to dye the fur grey, thats why it appears a few different shades. I tried to make it blend as well as I could.
Matrices (c) Sara Howard

Mukilteo, confused easily.
He doesnt understand why he's on a piece of paper with squares & lines.
Mukilteo (c) Sara Howard.

"Hey baybeh, don'tcha find me attractive anymore?"
Mukilteo (c) Sara Howard.

"Hi! I've been dead for years."
Taxidermy deer head which resides on my living room wall.
(c) Sara Howard.

I thought this picture was kinda cute, its actually about the size of a quarter.
(c) Sara Howard.

A rather lame picture.
(c) Sara Howard

I make a mask every year for halloween, this began in 1999 (when I made a mask of Mukilteo).
The "old" Matrices mask was made with flour and water paper mache, with corrugated cardboard to shape her nose and ears. The Odium mask I used wheat paste and water paper mache, plus watered down glue, with cereal box-type cardboard to shape his nose and ears and styrafoam to make his tusks.
This year my "new" Matrices mask uses just cereal box-type cardboard and watered down glue. and its stronger and lighter than the other two masks pictured. I plan to cover it in faux fur like the others as well.
I've been trying to redesign Matrices so she is easier to draw, sculpt, etc. specifically just her ears and how they behaive. Usually I draw them folded back, which is reminiscent of when I was learning how to draw and couldnt draw ears, so it was simpler to just have them folded back (which became part of her and Mukilteo's characters) So I'm trying to break out of that, but still keep it as Matrices, instead of /completely/ redesigning her. So I've made her ears look more relaxed rather than rigid & erect like Odium's, or lazily folded back like the "old" style.
If I have any left over fur I plan to make paws & a tail to complete the look. Although fursuiting doesn't interest me other than on halloween or possibly to a convention or a party, its really a fun process to make your own mask. I obviously like talking about how I do it, and look forward to creating a new one every year. (and sorry for such a long description)

(c) Sara Howard.

Her paws.

(c) Sara Howard

A different angle

(c) Sara Howard.

This was an assignment for my college class, where I had to draw a "still life" (even though this is my dog petunia. she was still, and she was life, so that was good enough for me) using one continuous line on my paper to trace all the contours of what was in front of me. And I couldnt lift the pencil off my paper, I had to find another way across the paper to keep it on the page.
(c) Sara Howard.

Here's a tablet drawing of the tanned bobcat's face I used to have sitting above my monitor. The "eye" was the lens of my webcam.

(c) Sara Howard.

Meet Roy, he's a wolf, er, well the wolf character I made up for him at least. His mother said it wasn't "noble" enough. Whatever, its a cartoon, what do you expect?? :P

(c) Sara Howard