I had seen the Dog Show a night or two ago. I saw a type of dog and feel in love with the breed.

The breed is called a Tervuren Belgium (Fawn dominate) Her name is Lucia. I messed up on colorin' a bit and mostly did this out of experiment and a way to advance myself a bit more.

The character's name is Lucia. Don't be surprised if you see random art of her and her family (Meg Gile's Linda, Vision Crafter's Shahla, or RRChaser's Kalia)


Lucia(c)Melissa O'Brien 2006

An image I'm working on for the Metal Shrine

This is an assassin character owned by Soryane, named Doku. My goal is to finish this in color... But since I'm slow with coloring, I figured I'd upload the lines.

Doku咎oryane
Image和elissa O'Brien 2006

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和elissa O'Brien 2006

Work doodle. Rather fast one at that.
Doodled a Frisian horse. Decided to base him on something (cookies if you guess) Picked out a color named 'seal brown' for the color scheme (Also called Tan and Black when the dominate coloring leans towards black)

Doodle: 5 minutes.
Coloring 10 minutes.
Shading 5 minutes
Total: 20 minutes

Yes. Bad anatomy on that knee.

Avarice和elissa O'Brien 2007

What can you do with crayons and a planning period? This.

This. The image is of my character Sutra, an 8 tailed kitsune, carrying a stick with some tassles and star lanturn. On her tail are tied a star for each tail (so 8).

The image took me 2 hours. Did it during my free time in lunch and in spots during the day (at my school I work at).
It was done with simple crayons alone and sharpie (Which was used when wax got too thick to make the lines from tail to stars)

Sutra和elissa O'Brien 2006
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I love trying to do something nice for people randomly. Picked Kat (ilovethedarkness on DA) , as she's a real sweetie. She's very thoughtful and has a very good head on her shoulders (always leaving wonderful feedback on art!)

I drew her character Figment leaping/flying through the sky after some neon dragonflies. No clue why. Enjoy Kat.


Figment呱at Crowe
Image和elissa O'Brien 2006

Media: Non-photo blue pencil and mechanical pencil
Time: about 40-60 minutes.

I was rather slow with this, as I did it in seminars. Had a few issues (and they're still there in my mind) with a few anatomy things. But over all, it was another practice doodle of Sutra.

I like drawing Sutra. Fun/easy character to draw. Taking the wings from an old idea/image I had done back in 2003 inspired by Victoria Secret.

Sutra(c)Melissa O'Brien
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Thank you.

Well darnit. I got re-addicted to Pern MU*s.

This is for Anatoly (aka: Jeshala) on 5th Pass MU* of her bronze dragon, Saludith.

I was in a dragon-drawing mood.

Media: Tablet and Photoshop Elements
Time: 15 minutes


Image和elissa O'Brien 2006
Saludith咐eshala
Pern Dragon Species呸nne McCaffrey

Paperdoll commission for Taelianessa of her lynx character, Anya. Fun character to do with lots of nifty little tattooes :)


Anya固aelianessa
Image和elissa O'Brien 2007

Icon/logo I made for a Guild I'm running with Kei.

Writing says: "Tetsu-Ga" .. it means "Iron Fang"

Information on faction coming soon


Image/Logo和elissa O'Brien 2006

I wanted to create a 'literal' maned wolf. They're called a 'stilted fox' due to their colorations being similiar to a red fox, and of their abnormally long legs. I took a few artistic liberties. I'm aware that they are a South American (Brazilian type) animal. So while she is Brazilian in origin, I wanted to play with the Aztec themes -- hence the necklace of turquoise and skull beads (traditional Aztec-like jewelry). In Aztecian (?), Tiegan means: "Little Princess in the Big Valley" .... frankly it was the -only- Aztec female name I could find.

This line art is actually fairly old (several weeks old to be exact) and just now laid colors on it to keep my mind off stress.
Anyway. Yay for mindless canine art :D

Tiegan和elissa O'Brien 2006

This is an image that'll be later used in the creation of Tigereye's reference sheet that'll go over her statistics, features, and bio. As it stands, just an imge to show her off as someone requested I drag her out of my morgue-sketches.

She was created back in 99/2000 ... and was before the big craze of making random species splices. She was my attempt at creativity back in the day when I was also trying to fit in with the 'husky' craze. She's a Tasmanian Wolf / Husky hybrid.

I'll be doing her reference sheet soon. This was a practice image -- I need to work on coloring techniques. Not entirely displeased with this image for once... :)

Tigereye(c)Melissa O'Brien 2006
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Drew Tigereye up in a State Alchemist uniform from FullMetal Alchemist for RP purposes. Fun stuff.

Might draw her transmuting sand into glass spike towers and the like.. (IE : Sand = Glass ) Eh. I've issues with the coloring.. But personally I like the anatomy n' face in this image.. Named her "The Glass Alchemist" ...although it isn't as snazzy as some other State Alchemist names I know. Anyway.
On her lapel is a pin that is the alchemic symbol of "Earth"

The coloring job was a tad rushed but eh. At least I finished it. The background symbol is from the Show itself.. Information provided by animeindepth.com


FMA Costume咄ullMetal Alchemist
Tigereye/Image和elissa O'Brien 2006
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Paperdoll commission for Neekko of his character Tiko. A thank you for snagging me a Comic Con Pony 2007.

Thank you again, Neekko!!

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

Every once in a while I get the urge to draw something more than just a canine ... And it's a good way to challenge me. The linework is actually a few months old. I just now got around to coloring on it a little.

It isn't much, but it was fun practice. Yes. I've a thing for giving my characters pink hair. I like pink.


Candy和elissa O'Brien 2006

Gift image for VanillaKitsune

She's an utter sweetie and really lovely person to chat with. I had seen her character, Trixy, and couldn't resist the pun. This also gave me a chance to practice with more coloring techniques - this time a type of animation/cell shading. I'm trying :)

Hope y'like it... and remember..
Silly Puppy! Trix are for... Trixy Yea! :D

Trixy坷anillaKitsune
Trix咒eneral Mills
Image和elissa O'Brien 2006
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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穢Alexandra Malmberg
Image穢Melissa O'Brien 2008

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咐enna DaQuanno
Image和elissa O'Brien 2007

Late night linework.

Doodle that I did watching tv. Nothing big. Lot of errors, but I did it because I wanted to play with expressions.

Image of Greed talking to Tigereye. Probably about something she doesn't care to hear about.


FMA Costume咄MA
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Image I did actually about a month or so ago. I wanted to wait until I finished coloring it, however.. time doesn't permit that.

You can see how she's changed ever-so-slightly in my doodles of her from the Ribbon image to this one. Yayness. She's all snarly. Anyway. For her 'adult' version, I decided to give her a flare of color and add violet and orange flight-feathers -- the original black dragon had its entire wings color-coded like fire...so sorta a play on that.

Media: Pencil
Time: 30 minutes (clean lines take a bit longer to do)

Lunix(c)Melissa O'Brien 2006

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咕lizzard
Image和elissa O'Brien 2008

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和elissa O'Brien 2007
Pernese Dragons呸nne McCaffrey

I had every intention of finishing this concept. I merely got frustrated and lost interest.

A while back I had a FMA anthroized series going on. This was my choice for Wrath - A Striped Hyena with a Fox leg/arm... However I lost interest and didn't like how this one came out nor its face. So it's been rotting on my computer for some time now.

Design/Image和elissa O'Brien
Wrath Inspiration咄ull Metal Alchemist

A badge I did for Xian Jaguar.

Image和elissa O'Brien
Character坩ianJaguar

Scanned on a computer not my own.
The colors are dulled down considerably and scanned blurry due to paper warp.

White is also (FYI) a difficult color to scan. You lose a lot of dimension :P

I'll try and get better scans sometime later.

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Gift image to my Mom and her boyfriend. It's of my dog, Pepper, who recently passed away.

I did it for them as a Christmas gift. Originally these small paintings were to be cut out (as there is a pair of them) to be mounted and arranged as ornaments. However, they wanted a frameable image. I provided.



Image和elissa O'Brien 2006

Scanned on a computer not my own.
The colors are dulled down considerably and scanned blurry due to paper warp.

White is also (FYI) a difficult color to scan. You lose a lot of dimension :P

I'll try and get better scans sometime later.

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Gift image to my Grandma. It's of my dog, Pepper, who recently passed away.

I did it for them as a Christmas gift. Originally these small paintings were to be cut out (as there is a pair of them) to be mounted and arranged as ornaments. However, they wanted a frameable image. I provided.



Image和elissa O'Brien 2006

Paperdoll commission for Eenyu of her dragon-wolf hybrid, Zeth

Zeth呷enyu
Image和elissa O'Brien 2007