Years ago, when I was still in High school I had my first persona, Doubt. She was made before the fad of wacky colored canines/vulpins, where as Huskie and Jade were the only other people I could remember at the time having a unique colored character.

I redrew her... Changed her hair from brown to blue --As it seemed to fit her better. The originals are hideous and makr a vast improments from me over the years:

http://vcl.ctrl-c.liu.se/vcl/Artists/Frisket17/Ancient_Pictures/Loungdo.jpg
http://vcl.ctrl-c.liu.se/vcl/Artists/Frisket17/Ancient_Pictures/Stars.jpg

Scary. Isn't it? Eitherway. Might reanimate some of my other dead characters too. :) They need an upgrade. ^_^

Doubt(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

I had decided I needed to practice drawing Frisket in more animated non-anthro poses. Doodled her up and posted her. But something was missing.

A collar. Due to something I bought recently (Ty knows XD ) I decided to give her a pink collar.. but I wanted a unique tag... I decided to give her a spiral with a dangly heart at the end. I love the spiral shape :)

So yea. Frisket running.

Frisket(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

Ha ha. Yea. Bad puns.
So much for riding lessons. He looks disgruntled. -innocent angel halo- Anyway.

For Ty :} Cause I was bored n' it was funny n' I'm addicted to drawin' Zero. There's a lot of elements I don't like, but I like Zero's expression n' Frisket's leg :} Frisket's face looks to puppy-ish :P

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

Honestly I was just BSing around in class and doodled a happy little pouncing Frisket... and what better to pounce than my all time favorite pony (in plush form; sadly Hasbro never made her into a plush), Sweetpop. She's my favorite. One I had lost as a child, and Tyler had replaced for me.

Anyway. Yea. This is me around ponies. No. Seriously. I go into a hyper 'OMFG! PONIES! PONY PONY PONY'.

Everyone has obsessions. This one is at least in colorful plastic. :)

Sweetpop(c)Hasbro
Image and Frisket(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004


Got ponies? Want to give them a good home? Contact me. Art for ponies.

Anyway, today in class we were to make sculptures with our playdoh that we made. Many made little flat things or rounded pots and 'cigarette trays'. As you know playdoh is EXTREMELY soft and floppy. It does not do well being sculpted and generally falls apart without skeletons/armatures.

Well I played around, and came up with that. A Horse.... I didn't use any armatures/skeletons and it's all free handed. I'm pretty proud of it ^_^ Considering it is PLAYDOH :P I'm really proud cause the class was half in awe n' my teacher was amazed I was able to do it without the aid of skeletons or any clay tools.
Anyway. Yea. :)

Playdoh Horse(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

Bwha. Drew Ty n' my's Quezaquines (tm)... Meh. I am -not- happy with this picture. Really screwed the wings up, and Mapiya is bugging me. finished it because I liked how Inteus came out...

Ain't bad. But it definitely is not my best work.. But something for Ty. ^_^ I'm rusty on horses. Not drawn them fluently in years.

Inteus (means 'Has No Shame') is (c)Tyler Barg
Mapiya (means 'Sky/Heaven') (c)Melissa O'Brien 2004
Quezaquines and Designs(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

This was done as a over due trade with Poofy Wolf. Damnit. Colors in photoshop are always lighter than those when you actually upload'em O_o;

HOPEFULLY Poofy will still like this. Whee. c.c; Yea.

Poofy(c)Herself.
Image(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

This is because of some -very- odd conversations Kei n' I had. Ha. Wow. We've issues. So yes. Puppies like bawls and we like playing fetch. Draw your own conclussions XD We like balls. We like green balls. Blue balls. Pink balls. Big balls. Little balls. Bouncy balls. Rolly balls. o_o;; Bawlz


Bwha. I found it funny. I'm not commenting further. XD

Kei(c)Kei MacPhail
Image and Frisket(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

Oh my! The collars are off! Naked puppies! OMG! He's licking her chest! Oh the insinuations I had with this one XD

A lot more innocent than it seems. My boyfriend, Ty, has a tendancy to fall asleep laying on me and sorta tribute to that. :) I miss'em. That n' I wanted to draw playful puppies. Originally was gonna draw her all 'ARG! Tickle me and DIE' but then that expression came out n' I kept it :}

Isn't Ty cute as an AI dog?

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

Doodled this, this morning. It's a Sun Conure. :3 LOVE those birds and it is so decided Ty n' I will get one n' name it Puppy :3 Bwha.

Anyway. Was jus' testing my color pencil skills, as well as just HOW well I can do realistic.. Especially on something hard like an avian. I think it came out pretty nicely....

Puppy(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

Because simply put, Imitated But Never Duplicated.
Adore Mayra. She's been a long time friend and always been one of those people with a gold heart. HOW or WHY people give her shit is beyond me. She's too nice of a person O.o; -hearts the pup-

Anyway. Did this for her. Over all really pleased with it ^_^ Puuurple was my theme.. Mrr. All shades! Lavendar, lilac, violet, purple, magenta, foxglove, mulberry, light and dark purrrple. Yay

Huskie(c)Mayra Boyle
Image(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

Another piece up for grabs at AC04 ... Please if interested to cast a silent bid.

Took me a while to figure out what type of cat to do, but Jac', Ty's sister, finally helped me decide on a Siamese.. It fit. The earthy tones of the feline and her rosey brown leather go well in my own opinion with the otherwise bright and colorful background. Personally love the rose stone wall she's sitting on. Think it came out nicely. Surprised the light blue in the castle background didn't come out... then again, despite Pegasus's software, Ty's scanner is no cannon ;) But it does the trick well enough.

Hopefully this'll go to a nice home :}

Kitten(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

PLEASE DO NOT COPY/REDISTRIBUTE/ALTER/ETC.

FOR SALE:
http://www.furbid.ws/cgi-bin/auction.pl?fur&1095863494

I decided to snag a better upload of this. This image is now up for sale. (Stupid college fees c_c; ) Never the less, this image was to be sold at AC but was unable to do so due to matting problems.

Image inspiration was from the Puss In Boots fairytales :}

The female Quezaquine: Mine is a Fresian horse breed (hence wavey hair) with the markings of a Purple Throated Mountain Gem Hummingbird.

Ty's Quezaquine: Pinto type horse (light breed), and a British Barn Swallow (he wanted to keep his blonde hair. Trademark ;> )

NOTE: No. I didn't draw their wings. I'm trying to learn their patterns first so I dont use wings to hide up critical markings n' stuff. Wings are to be added with Quezaquines, (means: feathered horse.)
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Never the less...
Inteus (means 'Has No Shame') is (c)Tyler Barg
Mapiya (means 'Sky/Heaven') (c)Melissa O'Brien 2004
Quezaquines and Designs(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004
Anyway.

Was inspired by Wolf's Rain.. I tried to mimic the style. I failed ._. ;; This bothers me a lot.. lot of things aren't right.. including the shit-tastic colorin' job ;P

BUT I do like the face. My sole reason for finishing this ;)

Whee. Mean Frisket Puppy (c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

Another gift for Jasanni. Her other alter-ego character that's different from Jasanni ^_^ Bwhee. This is again for the fact that she has been uber kind to me. I can't thank ya enough, gal :}

Rayvn(c)Jasanni
Image(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

Well last night in Murray, we had a tornado. Stuck down on the 1st floor of the dorms, decided to draw. I tried to reflect in my old style of wolf I use to draw.. Long before Wolf's Rain (Ha. Posers O_o; -tease-) I had a wild fascination about large opening mouths.

I decided to play with my were' character and just play with different expressions. One reason she's cut off is I ran out of paper room n' this was the only doodle I had I liked.

I used my old art for ref (done in 2002):
http://vcl.ctrl-c.liu.se/vcl/Artists/Frisket17/Ancient_Pictures/2002/2allgamb.jpg

Anyway. Might try and work back refining my old style.

Melsa(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

Ha. Just a doodle of Frisket as her fire unicorn self anthroized O_o;; Yea. I was bored.

Meh. Jus' a doodle to keep things off my mind.

Frisket(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

This 'species' was originally created 8/25/2000 (so states my first upload of this character.) Originally to be a pokemon, she's just now an insane facet of my personality. Ha. Originally named 'Osisiris (breed..based on Egyptian qualities)

Reviving this old character..Sorta fun to draw :) I have, however, removed her hip markings as I felt them to be a bit too cliche. Normally Ris has bangs.

The Risarii are prankster ghosts with a toxic bite. Should write stuff on'em.

Risarii and Ris(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

A gift for Kei. I decided to go back to my own drawing roots as to what made me first start drawing in the first place. It was the show Road Rovers. Currently rehooked onto the idea and decided to doodle Kei up in the traditional armor n' the like ^.^

New Community for RR Art Exchanges - LJ: roadrover

Happy Birthday Kei! -hugs-

Kei(c)Herself
Armor design(c)Warner Bros.
Image(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

Gift for Ruby. Gah. She has a raspberry colored Welsh Corgi character XD I was in love with it so had to draw it. Dunno. Corgis are too frickin' cute! They've short little legs.. :3

Chatted with Ruby briefly. Utter dear heart ^.~ So consider this a gift. Jus' doodlin' :3 CORGI! XD -glee-

Ruby(c)Rubyheart
Image and Frisket(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

Meh. Just in general, treat artists the way you want to be treated. Don't scare us. We scare easily (at least I do.) Don't IM us and expect us to be your best friends. We, at least I do, love fans... but I do not like having to worry about people that instantly tell me their sexual orientations and if they'd do this or that. It's creepy.

Notes: I liked the face..thus inspired the picture. :3 Was in a rut.. meh. But yea. I had a point. Really :3
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Frisket17(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

This is a LOOONG over due art trade with Bander o.o; Bander rocks. I'll probably do another picture for him later jus' cause he's waited so long and he's been so nice (did lots of fun doodles of Frisket for me.)

Anyway, sorta a complimentary piece to the piece he did for my half of our trade. Bwhaha. Volley Ball... Bring it ;) Jus' somethin' fun...

While not keen on the background, really feel like I did a good masculine body :3 Yee :3

Bander(c)himself
Pic(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

A little gift for Neeka, aka Eternal-Dream of DA.

She really is a sweetie and a great artist. :} As a surprise, she had sent me a package containin' a bunch of MLP stuff as well as a wicked cool plush- MLP :D Yea.

Sorta a thank you... Merry Christmas, Neeka :D

Neeka(c)Eternal-Dream / Kelly
ImagE(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

Bwhaha. My Little Ponies! .. Ideas for customs, mostly. :) LOVE Roulette, and ironically she was my most difficult to decide on her colors.
I think they turned out decent enough.

Chocolate Raspberry - Unicorn.
Vegas - Flutter Pony
Roulette - Twinkle Eye Earth Pony

Bwhaha. Shinies. c_c;;;;
(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004
MLPs tm of Hasbro.

This is my submission for a mythology/were-animal book.

I picked out Selkies. Love the myth and it's always interesting to learn about older myth stories. :} Anyway. I like it. If someone wants to color it, go for it.

Just remember by myth standards they've dark hair, pale skin and big dark eyes.

Eee. I hope this gets in the book. ^_^

Selkie Image(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

Tee hee. Not only did Sinnam0n surprise me with a badge she made for me at AC04, but she had also found a My Little Pony for me that looked like it was trippin' on acid or somethin' XD -- Was neon pink with neon lime yellow hair that was crimped. Needless to say it was an epitome of the 80s.

Sort of a thank you for all she's done :} Thank you hon!!

Sinnm0n(c)herself
Picture(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

DO NOT REUSE UNLESS YOU'RE SINNAMON~

Was the topic of last night. When I get married, Liz and my bridesmaids will kill me. I plan on finding tacky pink dresses that scream 'Cotton-candy Queens' o_o;
...

Nyah. Not that mean ;) Never the less, Liz said she rather attend my wedding naked then. Thus I don't draw enough for Liz, so I drew her Batty char, Skade.

I love yew' Lizzy ;)

Skade(c)Liz Carlson
Pic and horrid dress(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

Well like Tyler designing Wisp, the son of Halo and Zero, the other is a daughter named Slip Stream. She's a water element.

A branch of coral makes up her horn and hooves. Her coloration was inspired by the muddy river banks (henced tried to use watery greens.) The fish fins are resulted from Zero's spikes, but also to fit with the water theme.

After all, Fire + Ice = Water

Slip Stream(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004

I designed the BG for the aspect that if it's put on a dark t-shirt, it'll really pop out n' look really snazzy.

Anyway, this is for the MLP Convention Mascot contest. I'm hopin' to win a nifty prize ^_^ Either a Pearly Baby pony (mail order) or MIB Pony (G1)

Anyway. The theme was "From Another Universe." Decided to make a space themed unicorn...

I'm going to submit a PDF file for the contest people to able to take out the moon, stars and BG if they so desire. But for presentation reasons, they're there.

Space Case(c)Melissa O'Brien 2004
MLP(c)Hasbro