Because I love this black drawing paper... and because I needed a new picture of Deiyei. *chuckle* I'm still getting used to male nudes... haven't quite gotten the hang of them yet. *frowns* Anyway, his hair looks awesome though, right? ;)

Your guardian angel is closer than you think.

Yes... I'm having a bored night. And while I was complaining about how bored I was to my sister, Ami noMiko. She suggested we network on OC together, and this is the result. ^.^;;

I totally took over the entire canvas... the cute little shell-shocked looking froggy is hers. The giant bunny-man is mine, obviously. *cough* I'll let her take over next time. It's always a mistake to say to me, "why don't you just start with one of your bondage bunny-men?" when you don't know what to draw. *looks sheepish* I tend to go overboard.

When searching for love, you can never be quite sure about what you're gonna find at the other end of that attractive lure.

This is my anthro angler fish-boy. Yes, I know that male angler fish are teeny-tiny and spend most of their lives physically attached to the females... but hey, he looks cool!

Three blind mice...

Ok, yes... I'm smack dab in the middle of another artist's block. I hope it goes away soon. The only thing I could make myself draw was this little Night Fear. Cute, ain't he?

This started out as a sketch in my "pretending I give a flying fuck about contemporary art" sketchbook... but I liked it so much that I had to take it home and fully render it while watching 28 Days Later with my roommates.

And you know what inspired this particular bit of madness? My teacher, blathering on about everything OTHER than contemporary art (like usual), happened to say, "You know me. I am who I am." And given that I think that she's an absolute LOON, this is what I got out of that.

Yes, I'm fucked up. But I am who I am.

All boys, no matter how old or jaded, love flowers.

Ok, so maybe they don't. Not being a boy, I'm not really in a position to say. But MY boys all love flowers. This is my kitty-boy, Deiyei, looking oh-so cute and innocent, playing with the flowers. Yes, I know neko-boys are cliched and overdone, but I love my Dei-baby. He's so fun to play. I should stick him in a comic sometime... if I ever do one that has othercreatures in it.

More playing with colored pencils, this time on blue pastel paper. The sheer amount of effort it took to get the pigment into the grain of the paper made my fingers hurt sooooo badly. I think I'm getting better at this.

I bought me some new black paper to play with... and this is my first drawing on it. I actually didn't have very many color pencils... just a few left over from early art classes... but I did remember a gem. I had a few metallic color pencils tucked away in a box, so I drug them out.

Good thing about the metallics: they look absolutely awesome on the black paper in person.

Bad thing about the metallics: they scan funny. They pick up the light TOO much, thus the uber-bright colors on the scan. It's still kinda interesting to look at, but it's nowhere near as cool looking as the original.

Ah well. This was really just a test, after all, since I've never drawn on dark paper before. All in all, I'm fairly pleased with the results.

This started out as me just fooling around, and twenty minutes of crappy sketch later, something finally comes out that I'm somewhat happy with.

My sister says that this looks like a naked Victorian goth kitty-boy gardener. ^.^;; I wasn't going for the whole "granny gardener" look, but damn if it didn't turn out that way. *laugh*

This t-shirt design is my birthday gift to my sister, Ami noMiko. Hopefully the shirt will show up before we leave for Anthrocon... then maybe might stop assuming that she's a feline. ;)

Bring April flowers... and cougar-chicks taking advantage of the cooling downpour to enjoy a nice, open aired shower.

Copic multi-liner pens are happy, I tell you. I've never been able to pull off such delicate linework before. This is the b&w version of this drawing, a color version will most likely be forthcoming.

This is a bit of a plea from myself to both the furry and anime/yaoi communities. Why can't we all just get along? *laugh*

Yeah, it's been a while since I've done one of these. I think I should do them more often... I dunno how interesting they are to actually look at, but they're fun as hell to draw. There's just something freeing about sitting down with a sharpee and a blank piece of paper and letting a creature emerge without planning or reason.

This is the second of the gifts that I've decided to draw for my friends in an attempt to alleviate my artist's block. All Jen said was that she wanted something twisted. And I hope that this is twisted enough.

And if I don't get at least one flame for this drawing, then I'll be horribly disappointed. ;)

Happy Easter, folks! And to celebrate the holiday in as messed-up a manner as I possibly can, here's the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland, done in my patented moth-eaten, famine-thin goth-bunny style.

You may not be able to see it very well on this small scan, but the mushrooms all have EAT ME written on them. I actually didn't notice anything amiss until a friend of mine mentioned how phallic they were. And darned if she isn't right. ;)

This, once again, is my kitty-boy, Deiyei. This drawing actually has the distinction of being the first picture I've ever done outside of a life-drawing class where the boy actually has a visable penis. *Shrug* It's not that I have anything against the nude male figure, I've just never really felt like drawing it before now.

I'm also desperately trying to figure out this computer color thing. I dunno... it may be a lost cause. It takes me forever, and it still ends up looking as mediocre as ever. >.<

"Ich liebe dich, mich reizt deine schone Gastalt,
und bist du nicht willig, so brauch' ich Gewalt."

"I love you, your beautiful form delights me!
And if you're not willing, then I'll use force." ~Erlking
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm obviously a big fan of inter-specieal love. *chuckle* I'm not sure exactly WHAT species the changeling is... use your imagination, I guess. I particularly like the spotted fur around his knees and cheeks.

Ok... I think I'm going a bit overboard on the black ink lately... since the Microns that I got three weeks ago are dying already. >.<

This started out as a sketch on my Chinese Culture class notes... but I liked it enough to ink it. ^.^;; I must have bondage on the mind, lately.

This looks much better in real life... since I once again gave in to the temptation of metallic sharpees. ^.^;; Greatest invention of mankind, those things.

I'm trying to work color back into my art... since all the time I've spent perfecting my inking techniques, it seems like I've almost forgotten how to do color. I guess this is because I've never really liked doing computer coloring, but my inking style hasn't lent itself to marker very well. *sigh*

Must... find... happy... medium...

One of the very few pieces of fanart that I've ever done. One of my friends wanted me to draw him a piece of Ranma fanart with a furry Ranma. Now, I haven't watched Ranma in yeeeeeears, but I guess it's still identifiable.

This is actually about six months old, since my friend took it home with him after Anthrocon, but he just now got his scanner hooked up. But I guess it's still decent. *laugh*

This is just me trying out my brand spankin' new gold metallic sharpees. And let me just say... *squeeee!*

This really does look much better when you actually see the physical thing, because it's all neat and shiney. My sister ended up walking away with it at our white elephant gift exchange... so at least it's in good hands now. *laugh*

Well, I've had this lineart done and scanned for a long while, I could just never decide how to color it, since no color schemes for marker lept out at me. And considering how unforgiving marker is, if the colors I want don't come to me right away, I tend to let a piece sit forever. O.o

But I'd just gotten Painter, so I decided I'd try it out on this lineart. This is the first picture I've ever used Painter on, so it took me much longer than usual, since I had no clue what any of the tools did, and I couldn't find any decent tutorial. >.<

This took me three days to finish, and I can't figure out why. Usually when I get to the inking stage, I hit a lovely almost meditative state and it moves fairly quickly. But that didn't happen this time. Maybe it's because I've been so bloody tired. Perhaps I really should look into a multi-vitamin. O.o

So yes... I was feeling rather burnt out when I drew this. I'd been working so hard on my NaNoMangO pages, and even though I was still far behind, I was really hurting for some nice, simple pinup cheese. *chuckle* And so I did this... it didn't hurt that I was pissed off at someone on a forum at the time, either. And look, color! That's right, I do use color every once in a while. Er... when the moon is blue and the north star is in the east quadrant... or something.

Ok, this is Tariff again, with my character, Deiyei. It's a gift for my friend Nick, the owner of Tariff, since I realised that I haven't drawn the sadistic black dragon for him in quite a while. And it pays to keep your friends happy, eh?

This is the second drawing in my "Night Fears" series... and my personal favorite. He's just so cute... in a completely grotesque kind of way.

This is a valentine I created featuring my character, Deiyei.

This is a T-shirt design I've been fiddling with. I've decided that I really like the flat-tone coloring of the boy and that the caption should be "My inner child is a Kitten."