Saw some people's char's t'day, n' thought they were neat ^.^ So random gift for Mirror Eyes n' LunarFilly (not met LF and not met ME outside a few messages.. so..)

Huskie(c)Mayra Boyle
Sabarika(c)Jinn
Lunar Filly(c)Herself
Mirror Eyes(c)Tina Purin
Bander(c)Himself
Lockjaw(c)Allison T.
Bloodhound Omega(c)Himself
Unayok(c)himself
Augie(c)James Desterhouse
Leona(c)Melissa Swanson
PM(c)Jon
Kaffe(c)herself
Twitch(c)himself

My second round.... I love you guys ;)

Swandog(c)Her creator
Synchra(c)Her creator
Zer(c)Holly R.
Skade(c)Liz Carlson
Jadewolf(c)Her creator
Cateagle(c)Evan M.
Emilu(c)Emily Hopson
Bloodhound(c)Kim Kirkdorf
Katarina(c)Her creator
Pat(c)His creator
Pic/designs(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

I'm addicted to this crap X_x;

Art Trade with Bloodhound Omega :3

Hope y'like it. And I'm going to say this, if any Neopet type person touches this for a Beauty Contest or what not, I will have fun kicking your ass. I spent 9 fucking hours on the simple act of -COLORING-. =.=; Want something? Draw it yerself. Yea. Bitter. Yee. Wrist hurts C_c;

Anyway. Luff ya' Omega :3 Hope you like it. I really pushed to do a good background for you. BGs n' Coloring are not strong points, but I'm really pleased at how this came out. Hope you are too ^_^

-bounces- Glowy shiny things of doom :3

Bloodhound-Omega(c)their creator
Pic(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004. Rawr. X_x;

Yea. This was jus' me F'ing around O_o; I just wanted to draw new angles of faces and work on anatomy a little. I had a pain with hands all day... and can't tell if I did the hands right or wrong, so no slappin' me on the wrist for that. (pun o.o; )

Eitherway.. Havin' a bad color day too. So ...yea. But I liked how the legs came out, and the face :3

Frisket in 'Crash' mode. (c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

Long live X-men. (end geek mode :3 )

Little gift for Allison for being so patient with me thus far. Her Lockjaw :3"

Lockjaw(c)Allison T.
Pic(c)Melissa O'Brien 2003

Wow... The colors were NOT as dark as this in photoshop elements O_o;; If I get time, might try and recolor this...

Eitherway this is my half of a trade with Max Black Rabbit who was a total dear heart n' drew Frisket n' Nall. ^_^; Hopefully he'll like this pic... Eitherway.. Maxine in the Easter spirit! ^_^

Maxine(c)Max Black Rabbit
Image(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

... I like the peeps n' chicks o_o;

Meh. Needing to do a painting coming up soon. Practicing on trying to ween myself off my traditional 'comic book' style and get into 'realism'.. If I can. It's far from real, but it's at least ain't cartoony. meh. Not sure if this is good or not. But it's -ok'... Otherwise I'd not have uploaded it.

Anyway. Hopefully I'll do at least one good painting for my Mid-Degree Review .. :P Gag.

Frisket(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

I like the hands C_c; Did this a while ago.. Still trying to learn how to draw unrabid, realistic werewolves. Meh. It bothers me still C_c;

(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

I was goofing off basically. I doodled this in class and applied my mad coloring skills to it. Yeehaw. (I'm sarcastic. I'm not happy with the coloring o_o; ) Never the less.. Normally I am the one that's bouncy and wants to play, but Ty gets that way too.
We've both become attached to our unicorn personas and thus the reasons for more pictures of them! Yay.
Ice Unicorn vs. a WTF Fire Unicorn. (Also made this picture for people to see the size differences in the pair. Frisket (The fire unicorn) is the size of a normal quarter horse.. .to give you example of height.

Anyway.
Zero(c)Tyler Barg
BG(c) unnamed photographer. Jus' found a cool forest image off google.
Image and Frisket(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

You show off ;)

To quote the book "Dragons: A Natural History" by Dr. Karl Shuker... Page 56:

For centuries, people living in the Bavarian, Austrian, and Swiss Alps have claimed that the mountains are home of an extraordinary animal known locally as the tatzelworm.

In 1954, Sicilian farmers reported that a creature with a cat's head and a serpent's body had attacked their pigs.

Tatzelworm (clawed worm) also called the Stollenwurm (hole dwelling worm) is said to be snake like, 4-5 feet long, two visible forelegs, resembling a lindoworm. It's head is described as being catlike.

This is my take on the beast.

Tatzelworm Rendition(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

For the past week I've been struggling in an art rut. And this was a doodle that transpired in one of my Thursday classes. I decided to finish it for kicks and work on it.

While not the best piece out there, I personally am surprised and pleased how it came out. :) I forget what exactly my inspiration was - beyond the image of rabbits out of hats (hence Tyler's bunny char by her foot) But felt that too cliche. So just played on what known tricks magicians did and put'em. I wanted some simple BG.. to help the image pop out.

Frisket(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004
Nall(c)Tyler Barg.

Well on an equine kick. I love horses... Decided to do elementals. Drew my boyfriend as an elemental - Ice/Snow since he's a thick blooded northerner n' stuff :) Anyway. I like how it came out ^_^
Double icicle horn... Ice hooves. Articuno (ice pokemon, one of our favs) like tail, frost mane and small snowflakes on'em. I think it came out decent. :3 Yee.

Plan on doing one for myself. I'm gonna be fire.

Zero(c)Tyler Barg
Design/Image (c)Melissa O'Brien 2004
Screen capture from a game so (c) That game.

Now my "Frisket Experiment" will be now known as "Experiment F"

The third, I tried to push the limits. ... Go with a floofy earred dog and try to really define what makes Frisket herself. ... I'm not wild about this..but the face n' ears n' tail came out ok...

Frisket as an Afgahn Hound.

Frisket(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

Did this for Almalthia. Utter sweetheart o.o; She sent me a Valentines package AND drew me Frisket. -swoon-

Recently she's had a bit of down times. I jus' wanna try n' cheer her up. -hugs Almalthia :3-

Much luff chica.

Almalthia(c)Herself
Pic(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

This is for Jaclyn, Tyler's sister. She did a MeMe Quiz Jill had made for making your own My Little Pony. Her results were this... Golden rod colored body, strawberry hair, unicorn, irridescent eyes.. Although the symbol the quiz gave her was food, she picked out stars. I played with the arrangement. I hope she likes it :3 Jac came up with a pretty name

August Twilight(c)Jaclyn Barg
Design and picture(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

I doodled this in class. God I need to get back into practice. The coloring job sucks :/ But.. meh. Jus' a 'baby' picture of Nall and Frisket. Bwha. Big paws.

Nall(c)Tyler Barg
Frisket(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

Mm. Did it in photoshop elements... The image came out darker than what it was in the program. :P

Oh well ^_^

It's a pic of baby Bonsai, and baby Sweet Peep. Decided to do it up in class some odd weeks ago and just recently had a chance to color it. :)

Sweet Peep and Image (c) Melissa O'Brien 2004
Bonsai(c)Tyler Barg
MLPs(c)Hasbro/Sunbow

Tee hee. Okay. So there's no such thing as a blonde bordercollie according to my friend Liz ( :iconaureath: )

Never the less, I call her blonde. In the true scheme of colors she'd be called tan/sable. Never the less, I really like rare colors, and this is one of the more unique ones (another being red or the merles)

Jus' a little border collie named Winter :} She's like OMFG! BALL! My Ball! MINE MINE MINE

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Winter(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

Dunno. Was jus' doodlin' n' decided to finish an old sketch I found. Was inspired by my boyfriend's sister's belt. Bwhaha. Bullets. Ahem. Never the less.. was bored. I wanted a south western feel to it. Unfortunately the BG is sorta half assed. The lace pattern was from a free sewing site.

Cuff Lace(c)site (forget the name ..d'oh)
Frisket(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

Yehaw? O_o;

Tee hee. I just had the image in my head n' doodled her out all floped out and bored or disgruntled. I dunno. I like her. I loved how her front paws came out.. .The hind however, need work :P

The face isn't bad.. just my coloring XD

Melsa(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

I want to smash my head into a brick wall. Seriously. I don't like the coloring job :/ Meh. I'm horribly rusty. Then again it isn't like I was that good to begin with XD -- Meh. Jus' a major art rut...

Tyler likes rabbits. I don't in general. I prefer drawing canines.. but did this for him basically... -shrugs-

She needs a name.. So her name will be Violet. I've African Violets that Ty is lookin' out for me..so.. it's fitting.

Violet(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

Yesterday was my day off from classes. Decided to doodle a bit n' had a strange concept in mind.

A black fox named Hex for Halloween. (LOVE halloween..especially since my birthday is on the 29th of Oct)

Never the less, after looking at some images of silver and black foxes, decided on what I was gonna do. Halloween stuff. Sadly I ran out of room on the paper and didn't realize until I was nearly done inking. The legs look too short -- And not positive why.. as the torso n' arms are porportionate.. Oh well.

I'm probably going to do some symbols down her spine... Anyway. Jus' a doodle.

Hex(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

These are the wizards for My Little Pony Mush.
Jill plays Moondancer. She's our coder.
Liz plays Wind Whistler. She's a builder/desc/general help.
Bonsai is Tyler.. same as above.
Sweet Peep is me. Same as above.

kydance.net 2345 is the addy for MLP Mush. We're still building but welcome to drop by.

Sweet Peep and image(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004
Bonsai(c)Tyler Barg
Wind Whistler, Moondancer, and MLP Idea9c)Hasbro

A very surprised lock jaw gets a candy cane and a wreath shoved around its neck .... C_c;; Oh yea. That's safe. XD

Anyway. Did this for Allison. Cause she's an uber sweetie.. This is a little Holiday Santa Surprise for her :D Enjoy it hon!

Blah. I've problems with shadows beneath the chars. c_C; Gonna hafta' work on that. But tried new colorin' techniques on the figures. IE: Usin' a multiply layer of 'yellow' for the lockjaw shadows.. and Frisket's lines being segmented between her cream and gold divisions o_o; I like.

Lockjaws(c)Beastofoblivion aka Allison Theus
Image and Frisket(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

It had to happen. Several people had nudged me this way since they've seen her as a unicorn (by Huskie) and as a dragon. Frisket can be ANYTHING! BWhahaha. Yea. C_c;

I actually liked how it came out. Meh. But this was mainly a doodle to help me chill out and get into my art groove again. I like it. Stripes. :3 Reminds me of caramel.

Frisket in all her stripey glory(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

Hee Hee.. It's my were char again. O.o; Doodled it late ago a few nights ago. Finished inking it during my classes today.

Anyway. I really like how she came out :D I like the paws :3


Melsa(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

Wow. Keep forgettin' photoshop elements makes things 'lighter' when you're doing them and darkens them when you take them out of the program.

I might have to go back n' alter it a bit. The colors are a bit darker than what the should have been :/ Damnit. If Elements saved how it looked on my screen, I'd be all happy. But never the less....

A character sheet for unicorn-version Frisket.. .whom Tyler n' I decided to name Halo to tell the characters apart. :)

Halo(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

First of all I want to say by no means do I claim to be good at male bodies. But as Tyler said, I need to practice if I want to learn. So I tried. I gave it my all. I know I've a lot of reworking to do to understand the male body (especially their arms/torso/hips)... However, I think I did decent despite my lacking ability in males.

I drew this for Tyler and for the upcoming contest(s) involving this character. Zero's information is all lined up as well as a small image of his non-anthro form. I think it came out decent... Personally I like the tail. Pretty tail :D

Zero(c)Tyler Barg
Design/Image(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

On behalf of Tyler and I, we want to wish you a Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays :}

This is the Zero version. There's to be one of Halo too. :} But yea. I just had to get this on paper. Had the idea of a prancy little Zero with jinglbells ^_^

We've decided, for those who noticed, since Tyler has long hair RL, n' all others have long hair (his characters) we've decided to alter non-anthro Zero to have long hair too :D Personally I like it ^_^ Anyway.

Zero(c)Tyler Barg
Image(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

Bwhahaha.

Tyler found her name. It means 'Wings of Heaven'. Yeee. I like her.. I'm not wild about the BG.. but the rocks are okay.. Meh. The grass frustrated the hell out of me.

I like her. A zebra with pretty flamingo wings n' striped hair. Yehaw. ^_^ Meh. Yea. Anyway this is Coatl.

Coatl(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004