Providing I actually get the stupid printer to work, this will be a badge for Redkam. Redkam, aka Gabby, has always gone out of her way for Ty n' I. This is just a little something small for her since we'll be both hitting up the Pony Con.

Image is of her summer wing MLP character, Cardinal Melody. Enjoy Gabby! :D


Cardinal Melody©RedKam / Gabby Fullerton
My Little Pony©Hasbro
Image©Melissa O'Brien 2008

Alright. If I stare at it any longer I'll scream. Had the character idea in my head for a while - little druid named Ravenwave. Tauren are fun to draw and not enough draw fem-taurens. They need love too.

There are linework issues as well as coloring issues. But with a lot of my pieces as of late, they're practice pieces. I want to also mention that the background (IE the very far background) is a reffed/altered screenshot I took while in game.


Ravenwave/Image©Melissa O'Brien
Taurens©Blizzard

You see. I've learned the trick of stealing Tyler's taquitos. Oh yes. Simply lay there cute. Look at food. Look at him. Look at food. Look at him. Whine.

Bad joke between me and the boyfriend. Never the less it was fun to draw. He hasn't figured a name for his lion character, so we call him Nall-Lion. Yay for stupid art.


Nall Lion©Tyler Barg
Image and Frisket©Melissa O'Brien 2008


Guard your taquitos!

Nanook came down to visit with us this weekend. While chilling on the couch, I doodled up her character Cougari.


Fun having you over Nan! :D Come back and visit again.

Cougari©Nanook123
Image©Melissa O'Brien 2008

Do I really need an excuse?

It was a doodle I did at work I splashed some color on. Yay for Lakitu! ... One of my favorite of the Mario game characters.. Decided to shove Frisket in that job position. Spinies are undoubtedly confused by their canine-Lakitu.


Frisket©Melissa O'Brien 2008
Mario themes©Nintendo

Paperdoll gift for Quoting Mungo aka Alexandra Malmberg. This character, Alex, is a violet summer-coated artic vixen.

Alex©Alexandra Malmberg
Image©Melissa O'Brien 2008

Enjoy, Alex!

There honestly could be more done to it, but having putz around with it for some odd weeks now, I'm done. Truly done. I don't want to see it anymore. Thank you.

Image is of one of my favorite game-beasts found in World of Warcraft - Omen from Moonglade. Ha. During Lunar Festival, he's the true party animal. Ha. Get it? Ya. Okay.

Anyway. It's going to be submitted to the WoW page.

Omen©Blizzard
Image©Melissa O'Brien 2008

A little belated 'Happy Valentines' gift for my boyfriend, Tyler. I really just sorta rushed it, as it was a way to play around with a 'stupid cute' idea. It was something I hammered out in about 3 hours.

Nall's character is a little lop gray rabbit, and I used my little maned wolf, Miloki. Yay Lisa Frank pallet.

Happy Valentines Tyler.



Nall©Tyler Barg
Image and Miloki©Melissa O'Brien 2008

A sketch I decided to finish. I really just wanted an excuse to draw flowy tails and stuff.

Amaterasu from the game Okami. It's lacking the coolness factor because I've not played the game and was only BSing around.


Amaterasu©OkamiGame
Image©Melissa O'Brien 2008

A while ago I did an image of a vulpix named Chemistry. Got bored, and drew her evolved as a Ninetales. I had several prelim versions, and the Pale version one. Frankly she doesn't look too different than a normal Ninetales, but that's dandy. It was practice-art anyway.


Chemistry©Melissa O'Brien 2008
Ninetales©Nintendo

A thank you gift (one of many if I've may say of things) for Quoting Mungo aka Alexandra. She's utterly fantastic and found something to add to my little MLP collection that's just.. awesome.

So figured I'd be doing things to say my thanks :D One paperdoll gift of her Equine-Canine hybrid character, Tussi. Interesting combo. Thank ya Alex!

Tussi©Alexandra Malmberg
Image©Melissa O'Brien 2008

My boyfriend, Tyler's, character of his demonic zebra character, Hekili. He's a complimentary character for my Death Ballad.

Quote from Ty:

Originally a Hawaiian cameraman zebra, the chacter quickly took on a demoic persona in early playtests. Inspired by the four chaos gods of the Warhammer world, he shows a gift from each in their own little way.

The four gods: Tzeentch, Khorne, Nurgle and Slaanesh


So this was sort of a test piece as well as a portrait piece for Tyler. No more stripes please.

Hekili©Tyler Barg
Image©Melissa O'Brien 2008

A paperdoll of my Draenei Paladin character, Amethysta, located on Ysera.

You see I really struggle with armor. So what better way to practice armor than to create a doll which I can play around with.

Was a quick doodle I did at a party on New Years. Yehaw.O_o; (PS: I'm still for the Horde. :P )


Amethysta©Melissa O'Brien 2007
Draenei©Blizzard/World of Warcraft


(commercial) What's your game?

Making little fishies for friends. This is batch one of a few. Yes. This is what happens when you get bored at work and doodle all over the place. Things become fish.

I love fish.

Sophia©Rulerofeverything on DA
Kumori©Jenna DaQuanno
Frisket©Melissa O'Brien
Nall©Tyler Barg
Mungo©Quoting-Mungo/Alexandra
Zyrena©Zyrena_k

Fishies Images©Melissa O'Brien 2007
Please do not reuse unless these are for you. :)

Paperdoll commission for Neekko of his character Tiko. A thank you for snagging me a Comic Con Pony 2007.

Thank you again, Neekko!!

Tiko©Neekko of DA
Image©Melissa O'Brien 2007

Paperdoll commission for Big Blue Fox.

Big Blue Fox©Karsten Auchter
Image©Melissa O'Brien 2007

A rather quick sketch I did for Dwelian of DA.
It's of Ezili and Baron. Ezili being my loa-inspired little mare and Baron, being a collaborative effort on our part to come up with another voodoo-pantheon character (based on Baron Samedi)

Just a teaser image. I've a full image of Baron in the works, along with more images of Ezili.

Time: 15 minutes.
Materials: Blue Lead + Mechanical Pencil.

Baron©Dwelian
Ezili and Image©Melissa O'Brien

Okay. Ya. This was total crapped out. Was a doodle I did some odd week or so ago so I decided to slap on some color since I was inspired when I initially created my Tauren on WoW.

Yay Moo-cows

AppleBlossom©Melissa O'Brien 2007
Tauren©Blizzard

A thank you piece of art for WhiteSage of DA aka Fry. She's done a lot over the years and I've owed her a lot. This is just one little thank you for her.
So I drew a paperdoll of her whiptail wallaby character, Ruri.

Ruri©WhiteSage
Image©Melissa O'Brien 2007

This is me being geek. Enjoy.
I did the Homunculus, Greed, as a Fresian sometime ago. In a horse mood and feeling witty (though this probably has been done countless times) decided to draw a Mustang... named Roy.

Roy Mustang.

Huzzah. Okay I'm done.

The image was rather fast. Completed the sketch and then slapped some quick colors on it.

Image©Melissa O'Brien 2007

Paperdoll commission done for WolfWind of DA of her boyfriend's character - a feline with an interesting medical anomaly that's reflexed from RL I'm told. Sternum caves in and/or is lacking.
(stating this before people ask about the chest)

Bixby©His creator
Image©Melissa O'Brien 2007

Paperdoll commission for WolfWind of DA of her artic wolf character, Keeker.

Thank you for the commissions, hon!

Keeker©Herself
Image©Melissa O'Brien 2007

Thank you commission for AG.
Thank you for helping me get a Comic Con Pony :)

AG©Herself
Image©Melissa O'Brien 2007

Second of Wolfwind of DA's commissions. She wanted a picture for her friend - who had a raccoon character.


Accipitrina©himself
Image©Melissa O'Brien 2007

A commission from Keekers aka Wolfwind of DA for her friend's character: an artic fox (summer coat) named Risky in a fencing pose.

Risky©His creator
Image©Melissa O'Brien 2007

Talking with T'yr and Liz about 5th Pass MU and how we missed it. 5th Pass was a Pern themed game in which we all had played before lives got complicated and busy.

Decided I missed my little queen dragon and decided to draw her up. Still in an art rut, and in an explosion of 4 pages or so of random dragon doodles, this was the one I picked to actually -attempt- to finish. Hadn't yet done an image of Wraith, so ... This is her. Maybe one day I'll get to finish Wraith with Liz's and T'yr's Bronzes.


Wraith©Melissa O'Brien 2007
Pernese Dragons©Anne McCaffrey

Eh. Doodled it up at 3 am and decided to slap some colors on it. Yes. FMA-inspired horse. The name should give it away. Fresian tan-and-black male horse. In a drawing rut but eh. It was at least something to do.

Time: 1-2 hours?

Avarice©Melissa O'Brien 2007

Well. Thought I'd be nice and to show you how I did things.

This is an animation my boyfriend did up to show the progression of "Waterfall Gardens"

Enjoy

Aisu©Jenna DaQuanno
Image©Melissa O'Brien 2007
Animation Skills by Tyler Barg

Sorry for the huge ol' copyright name across the chest. This image is gonna be offered as a print. That's why.

Anyway. The image is of Miloki's sibling, Aisu, designed/created by Jenna Daquanno (Kanashimi). Aisu is a maned wolf with margay spotting. Was a thank you to her in general as well as a way for me to explore coloring. There are areas I know I'm weak on in the image. But, it's another one of those 'burned out now' type moments.

Again. Prints of this will be sold at AnthroCon 2007.


Aisu©Jenna DaQuanno
Image©Melissa O'Brien 2007

I'd be lying if I didn't say there wasn't more to be done. There's a lot more. And my obsessive nature could easily spend more hours pouring over this. However, enough is enough. I'm burned out on it.

I decided to play around with some new brushes I got in photoshop (credits listed in my DA journal). Linework is actually old - by a few months. Only recently found the resolve to finish it.

Really just wanted to draw my little unusual maned wolf character with a quetzal bird.

I'm done. Yay. This will be sold as prints at AnthroCon coming up in a few weeks. Prints limited to no more than 20.

Miloki©Melissa O'Brien 2007