Image of my mutant draik I did for a Beauty Contest on Neopets.
My username: enetrix (so yes this is me if you see it.)

Image and Xhuryth©Melissa O'Brien
Draiks species©Neopets

I can't say I'm overly happy with the image. But frankly? It's as done as it's going to get.

I had to do an image pertaining to Halloween. It's not only my favorite time of the month (Autumn), Halloween is near, and it always means another year tacked onto the end of my age (yay birthday on Oct 29th) But most of all? It gives me a happy excuse to draw my candy-corn inspired vixen who was last seen in 2004

Happy Howloween

Hex©Melissa O'Brien 2006

Image of my mutant kougra I did for a Beauty Contest on Neopets.
My username: enetrix (so yes this is me if you see it.)

Image and LeBeau©Melissa O'Brien
Kougra species©Neopets

Image of my mutant lupe I did for a Beauty Contest on Neopets.
My username: enetrix (so yes this is me if you see it.)

Image and Vreno©Melissa O'Brien
Lupe species©Neopets

Little phone doodle I did of Candy's character, Candy Cat.

Candy has one of her pet ratties on her shoulder to boot :) Adore Candy. She lives just down the road :D

Time: 30 minutes total.

Candy©Candy Palmer
Image©Melissa O'Brien 2007

Because I'm a geek.

I'm a big geek.

Yes. This disproves the myth there are no girl gamers (hell. Candy is the one who bought me my World of Warcraft!)

Never the less. I'm unable to play WoW until I get a new computer (which'll be sometime soon.)

This is NOT the Draenei I play. Mine is Amethysta. Anyway. Just some scribble I did while at work on the phones. The doodle took about 10 minutes and coloring about 20

Lanterra©Melissa O'Brien 2007
Draenei©World of Warcraft

3 of 3 Lineart commissions for Farellemoon of DA

She wanted her alternative version of Farelle drawn (named Mnema) and her boyfriend's character, Jay :)

Hope you like it gal.

Characters©Jennifer Rae Allen
Image©Melissa O'Brien

Old image I did for giggles back in 2006
Character I dubbed Lady Heather. Inspired/themed after a CSI character by the same name.

Heather©Melissa O'Brien 2006/2007

Oh yes. That BG is completely BS. It was something I did rather quickly so she wouldn't be just standing with a white BG.


And before questions arise, no I've not yet seen Pirates of the Carribean. This character was created with someone else's character in mind. The artist, Wicked Sairah, has a tasmanian devil pirate character named Roscoe. A while back, I said I'd create a character for Roscoe's crew. I did (some odd time later).

Meet Mina, a Tasmanian wolf / tiger and Pickles the kiwi! (Who tragically lost his eye in a horrible pickle-jar accident.)

Decided to color her up as practice. I'm rusty.

Mina and Pickles©Melissa O'Brien

Due to a lot of kids wanting to use my art and my characters for RP Boards and the like, I figured a good way to let them use my art (and not my characters like Sutra or Frisket, who I do NOT want to see being used) was to create a template.

This way you can take this linework and color it how you want! There is a catch though.. Rules persay for using this template:

1) No claiming the linework.
2) Post a link back to me/credit on the image stating the linework isn't yours.

That's it. It's a matter of respect. We'll see how this goes. If it goes well, there might be more templates for people. However, if people cannot show respect, then I will remove and revoke template usage rights. So show me you guys can play nice. :)

Image©Melissa O'Brien 2006

A commission I did for ZepherFox of his (duh) Fox character :)

Whee., Males are actually getting fun to draw.

Thank you again Z'.

Zepherfox©his creator
Image©Melissa O'Brien 2007

I found another one of my phone scribbles I did last week.

Notice the lopsided head/face? This is what happens when you draw at an angle. It looks -great- when it's laying down and in an angle. Eh. Not so much head on.


Image©Melissa O'Brien 2006

So I finished a reference sheet for Tigereye as requested.

Tigereye©Melissa O'Brien 2006
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Eh. I did this actually a few weeks ago. I had drawn Tigereye as one of my usual Snapdragons. I was amused. She totally needed to be doodled as one cause of the Tazmanian-wolf side of her genetics. So yea. Large jaws.

I dunno. I was gonna color it but I'm flat lazy.

Tigereye and Snapdragons©Melissa O'Brien 2006
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A little character I designed up. I dig vanner gypsy drafts, and unicorns. Combined them.

The coloring job is weak, I know. Coloring black or/and white is a challenge for me. I tried. It didn't work out to my expectations.

Never the less, this is Wintermint. Set of two female vanner unicorns. Yes. I drew her primarily so I could draw a bell harness.

Wintermint©Melissa O'Brien 2006

Paperdoll Reference.

One thing I love to do is to design clothing for various characters. But often, it's difficult if you sketch it all out and then try and ink and erase, only to find portions of the outfit aren't right, and no way to test colors.

So I made a paperdoll out of one of my old sketches of Sutra (The original sketch was done in 2005, hence a bit of wonky anatomy on the chest) But never the less, it also shows a good pose, her hair down, and allows me to play with costume design readily and easy.


Sutra©Melissa O'Brien 2005/2006

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

AG©Herself
Image©Melissa O'Brien 2007

Image I did for India of her character. I might go back and color it, but I'm just unsure as to when. I decided to upload the old linework. The linework was done several months ago.

India©Shawna Simpson
Image©Melissa O'Brien 2006

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!

Well I had done this some time ago. Leona had been kind enough to send me some markers.

I had did this up as a test to play with the markers with the colors I was given. Unfortunately I misplaced the original and have been unable to finish it. I might try and digitally color over it sometime.

Image©Melissa O'Brien 2006

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

The second Paperdoll Commission I was to do for Seribaba

This time, of her hell hound character, Ankara. Frankly I dug drawing her horns. Horns are fun :)

Enjoy, gal!

Ankara© Seribaba
Image©Melissa O'Brien 2007

Part 8 of an on going Gift-Icon spree.

I don't know where to begin when it comes to HuskyKei of DA. I met Kei a couple years ago, I suppose.. the years blurr together. We've both love MLPs and she is a terrific artist. (and again, who doesn't love gold/cream dogs. HA! )
She's an amazing artist, and an amazing friend. She does -WAY- too much for other people, and this is just a little thank you for it all.

Kei©Herself
Image©Melissa O'Brien 2006
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A paperdoll commission for SteelHelix of his winged shadow wolf character, Artemis.


Artemis©SteelHelix
Image©Melissa O'Brien 2007

Well a friend of mine, Astolpho of DA, was sweet enough to want to color one of my sketches of my little vulpix character, Chemistry.

I had doodled the picture a week or so ago to sate a need to draw something stupidly cute... And thus, Chemistry chewing on a pecha berry, was born... or drawn.

I had it up as linework, and it'd probably of rotted if Astolpho hadn't come along and rescued it and splashed it with color :D

Thank you Astolpho!

Image and Chemistry©Melissa O'Brien
Pokemon/Vulpix/pecha©Nintendo
Coloring©Astolpho of DA

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

This is a low-res version. The scan isn't the best due to the fact I had to scan it in two pieces.

This painting might be for sale in the near future. I'm currently entertaining bids.

Prints will be sold at AnthroCon06.


The image took me a few days (then again I procrastinated). It's of a maned wolf priestess character atop of a Quetzalcoatl Guardian. The Quetzalcoatl's head was referenced off of an Aztec temple of the serpent I had found online. The little bird on the character's is called a Queztal. -- I tried to impliment a lot of Aztec designs (hence the face/skull beads and turquoise)

Media: Watercolor (acrylic touch ups)
Size: 11x14"


Teka and image©Melissa O'Brien 2006

What do you do when you're stuck in Games Workshop for 8 or so hours?
Why my friend, you -draw- ...

Tyler (boyfriend) works at GW. Was lucky enough for Candy and Fred to drop. Well Candy Palmer and myself decided to sit down in the 'Battle Bunker' in a corner, drawing beneath one of the demo-tables...

Randomly we did up our characters as "Sisters of Battle" from Warhammer. (Check out Candy's Sister.) Keep in mind these were bored-induced scribbles.. (Armor is NOT a strong point for me)

Anyway. Yes.

Frisket©Melissa O'Brien
Sisters of Battle©Warhammer

Paperdoll commission for Big Blue Fox.

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

I actually did this back in October. It was for my boyfriend's birthday. I was sneaky and incorporated the help of many friends (thank you darlings. This went off with total flying colors)...

They helped me make Tyler's birthday really special...as Operation Cake had about 30 people involved in it :) Thank you so very much for all the work you put in!

Operation Cake Frisket©Melissa O'Brien 2005/2006
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THANK YOU AGAIN!