March 2010

My contribution to the 2010 Werewolf Calendar!

Visit our website at http://www.werewolfcalendar.com/ !
Our sales open a week from today (Sept. 1st), and the project has some awesome artists on board this year. The first 50 orders come with a free set of the 3 bookmarks, so its definately worth jumping on it fast.

Jeffrey Matter Commission

Commission for Jeffrey Matter of his fursona.

Meeting in the Mist

I painted this a in February for the Furry Fiesta art show, and have just now finally gotten a successful photo of it (well, as successful as you can get with your phone). .

I painted this in 5 days, and this is the first time I felt "fluent" with acrylics. A big part was that my boyfriend gave me a gift card and insisted I bought something other than beginner's paints- and then the salesman told me to never use black to darken, which I hadn't known before. It certainly paid off, both the paints and the advice.

20x30 inches, Acrylics.
For sale if anyone is interested.

Mira Commission

commission for Mira!

She asked for an african wild dog similar to my "Hyena Matriarch." I think I might have said blue jewelry, so if you'd prefer I change it, let me know. I hope you like it!

I tried a new method of fur on this, so feedback on whether its a change for the good or not is greatly appreciated.

6 hours
shown at 65%

The Guide

The alpha of the Luhkazti pack will often barter with raptors, who see and know everything.

This took about 45 hours, and I started it last saturday! I've never finished something this quick. I tried a slightly different method on fur. All critcism greatly appreciated.

Closeups - http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/42660875/

Photoshop CS2
3432 X 4680 px (image is 23%)
45 hours

Art and Myenia (C) Myenia

The Necromancer

Yay pensil, and my first coyote! I needed the practice. I actually like this, despite many things. Anatomy and such is fine..balance is a bit funky and I discovered magic never looks good in black and white. This was originally going to be full-body but I couldn't find a good position for the legs.

The thing across the bottom is the crow spirit, being summoned back. Coyotes seem to have a natural talent with practicing magic, and travel around sharing their services.

Pensil on matt board, not sure on the size...so I'll guess. I guess its about 15X9 inches.

art (c) Myenia

Nashoba-Hostina Trade

My half of a trade with the talented ! We agreed to this a very long time ago, and finally got around to it! I hope you like it .

She's supposed to be at the edge of a dropoff down to a river. I can't help but feel there's something off about the outstretched leg, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it and decided not to fix it.

Nashoba-hostina (C) Nashoba-hostina
art (c) Myenia

Photoshop CS2
3100X3121 px (30%)
~30 hours

Night Guard

So...really dark paintings don't like cameras OR scanners. If I can get a cleaner shot later I'll replace the file...I just got tired of trying. It looks significantly different in person, etc etc.

9" x 12" acrylics on watercolor board. Will be in the FF art show next month!

Night Wolf

This is an old digital painting, I was interested in trying a starscape. I have edited it since the original, only slightly. I -think- I'll keep it in my gallery. Anatomy is all funky, but hell, its old art.

art (c) Myenia

Puppy Cry

A werewolf puppy howling. I sketched this a long time ago, and finally without the power cord this last week, I got around to painting it. I'm going to try a different method of fur/painting next time around, cuz I'm just not sure this is the way I want to do things.

acrylics on mat board
16X20 inches

14 hours (and all at one too!)

....for sale, anyone?

My Favorite Spot

Wanted to do something for myself, so I made a desktop. I love doing stars!

Record time- started this on Sunday.

Scrapper Black Dragon Commission

Commission for Scrapper Black Dragon. Acrylics, a little prisma 15X20. I feel like I'm getting better at acrylics

I only had about 5 minutes to paste the scans together, so the colors are a bit off and too dark.

scrapper (c) Paul Fuller
art (c) me

September

For an upcoming calendar project that Zakka and I are organizing.

The idea is a werewolf calendar that will resemble wildlife calendars sold featuring animal photographs. Each month will have a paragraph giving some "information" about werewolves. Watch either of our journals for more information, they will become available for order in October!

"Even though werewolves can pronounce human words in beast form, body language still plays a very important part in their communication, even in human form. Poses, growls and barks can often express more than words do.”

Photoshop CS2
shown at 45%
Alot of hours

Shiba Obasan

CS2, ~8 hours.

I want a shiba inu.

The Northern Lights

A commission for Spark! His character...Spark...is a wolf with fox coloring. Creative title, no?

This was quite a challenge lighting-wise, but I think its about right now. A making-of has been done and will be uploaded in a little bit...as several people have asked for an updated tutorial, which I simply don't have the time for.

Spark (c) Spark
art (c) me

Image at 35%

The Wildfire Wolf

This was the first time inspiration 'struck' me. I'm pretty proud of this, I did it within 24 hours, and it came out pretty much like I imagined it.

He's demon helping the fires spread from a volcanic eruption.

Photoshop CS2

(c) Myenia

StarKeeper

8 x 16 acrylic painting on mat board, 4 hours. I really wanted to paint the pendant that the wolf is holding, but I decided this was more effective.

Up for auction at http://www.furbuy.com/auctions/1004788.html !

Deep in the Heart of Texas

The stars at night
Are big and bright....

For those of you who arent from the best place in the world: Texas is covered in blankets of wildflowers in the spring. The blue ones are the bluebonnet, the state flower, the red are my favorite, the indian paintbrush. The feather in the coyote's hair is a mockingbird feather, which is also the Texas state bird.

Wow, this took me forever. One of my layers is titled "layer 62." They do not actually number that high in the finished file, because I was constantly merging, but that just shows the minimum that I dealt with. Other than that, I'm not too happy about how the flowers in the distance look, but am very happy with the abalone in her hair .

Art (c) Myenia

photoshop cs2
1848 x 2034 px at 300 dpi
alot of hours

The Champ

Acrylics, 9" x 16" ...will be in the Furry Fiesta art show.

Please check out the close-up here...the small version gives the fur no justice: http://myenia.deviantart.com/art/Th.....seup-153966095

I think I do better fur with paint than I do with digital media. I'm really proud of this one, even though I'm a little concerned its a bit boring. Maybe I'll go back and add more blood. Or something.

The Queen of the Night - Pride

I'm doing 7 small paintings for Oklacon going along with the theme "the 7 furry sins," and each representing a character from an opera representing that sin.

This is the Queen of the Night from Mozart's "The Magic Flute", representing pride. I promise she looks better in person

Acrylics, 5x7 inches

A Werewolf sniffing some leaves while tracking something. Or...someone.

This scan is HORRIBLE. I know everyone says that, but you know, I have a great scanner, but its one of those ones that rolls the picture though, so it has to be 8x11. So considering the size of this, I had to use my parents crappy scanner.

Mechanical pensil on 15X20 illustration board.

art(c) Myenia

Tussle

Werewolves or Luhkazti? I never decided. I have alot of difficulty with multiple characters in one picture, so this was a big challenge, but it was fun. I also chose to practice light, which I know I still need alot of work on.
This is something inspired by someone who I will always care about.

Photoshop CS2
3024 X 2400 px
~35 hours

Myenia (c) Myenia
art (c) Myenia

Warprincess

Here she is, in charge of organizing the pack hunting, scoping out a herd of bison.

Her name is Quaa (pronounced Q-a). Thanks to Deafblood for the name!

Image is at 25%....see details at 100% here: http://www.deviantart.com/view/36993594/

art (C) Myenia
Luhkazti (c) Myenia

Adorned for War

Oh, I have been waiting to scan this for like 2 months. I put alot of effort into this and am pretty proud of it. The sides are all cut off a bit, because I wasnt scanning at home, I was at kinkos. Im especially happy with the cactus . He's a Luhkazti warrior, painted and adorned for a fight.

I would really appreciate criticism..especially as to the painting aspect...if it looks choppy or chunky or the fur or whatever. I know about the anatomy mistakes. I really enjoy doing acrylic paintings.

Acrylic on 16X20 Mat Board.


Details : http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/41676001/

art (C) Myenia

My Rings

Whew! I'm happy with how this came out, this took me only about 8 hours to do. I'm still figuring out paints though...so I still feel like this was partly luck. If I do go to my first convention this year (looking at midwest furfest right now), I may take this one with me.

Acrylics and prismas
15x20 in.

art (c) me

Winter Run

Commission for Kyan. I really had fun with this one, and probably was my fastest full commission to date.

The airplane is in there because I felt like the background seemed like a set, and I wanted to make it feel more...sky-ish.

art (c) me
character (c) Kyan

Wolf portrait

The results of a camping trip! In reality its alot less patchy and grainy...this is actually 4 scans put together. The drawing is about 11x15 inches.

Yummy

Two werewolves on the hunt.

I've been working on this between stuff. I wanted to have a solid black background but it would have been too boring. Fingerlickin' good.

Photoshop CS2
~20 hours
1392 x 1747 px (45%)

art (c) Myenia

Zakka

A trade with one of my favorite artists, Yellow-eyes. I really worked hard on re-doing my anatomy here, I really hope she likes it!

Photoshop cs2
~30 hrs
3340 x 2559 px (30%)

Character (c) Yellow-eyes
Art (c) Myenia