So I had this drawing of Silverblue the Gothbunny. And I did spill ink on it, so I used it as a test to see how the new inking style I'm learning works. And then I cheated by removing the blotchy stain in photoshop...

Silverblue in colour now, sitting in front of a truely frightful wallpaper print.

I was vaguely wondering what Silverblue would look like
if she was male. As most of my friends said, not that
much different from the female version - she's not an
intensely feminine character normally, so this really
isn't much different.

But I would have liked him to be a little more handsome...

Silverblue of the Roses

And here she is, finished, Silverblue of the Roses - with her rose covered top hat.. I'm getting the hang of this digital painting thing! This is using an entirely new technique I've been exposed to recently - a way of painting using gradient fills on layers to modify the colours beneath. I really should have worked from an inked sketch instead of a very basic pencil rough, but I'm quite pleased with her.

A little while back I had the good fortune to be in the UK. And I met a nice
gothfur called Ia'kat. And this nice gothfur did take me shopping. And I did
find a really nice dovetailed jacket and PVC pants. And I did mail them back
home from Italy and they're not here! Argh! So I drew Silverblue in them
because I have a nasty feeling they're lost forever.

Well, she is cheerful sometimes...Silverblue the Gothbunny simply being happy with Brandt the otter. Brandt is played on FurryMUCK by my RL husband.

Here is an updated picture of Silverblue - with her backfur dyed to be roughly the same as the tattoo that I have iRL. And yes, suddenly she has glasses and a slightly heavier figure. Goodness, is this making her gradually look more like me? Probably!

She is still much cuter, though.

And yes, I was supposed to draw something sexy for Furbid, but I'm not sure I can bring myself to part with this. Pencils and inks.

A griffon femme, dressed somewhat reasonably for winter, fashions a snowball to throw at the first creature to point out how cold her claws must be.

"I'm only happy when it rains..." -- Garbage. Sophie is copyright her player.

Sosael

Sosael is a destructive moth-butterfly-cocoon with many, many incarnations of various kinds. Usually female, but drawn male here for Egypturnash, and belonging to her.

Squirrel Glass!

This is my first attempt to design my first own leadlight :) The black and white version while I try to get the lines right.

Two otters pole through a swamp in search of their evening meal. Speaking as someone who spent part of a holiday in one, I didn't draw enough insects!

This will be the logo for my new website at http://www.gothbunny.net. I needed a new little picture to use on the side and wanted the gothbunny in it somehow, but didn't want to show her face.

Pencil, ink, and Copic markers.

Przewalski's Horse - Tea Merchant

This is a mongolian tea merchant demonstrating his wares - he's a Przewalski's Horse, and his species is the only remaining truly wild horse in the world. He's a very hardy fellow, and very proud of the quality of his tea.

The Sphinx, when outriddled by Oedipus, decided not to kill herself after all. We find her here in some dark forest, staring into a pool, still dripping with the blood of those who failed to answer her riddles succesfully.

If I were to fall from grace, I'd catch myself. A minute's haste is all I'd
need, it would suffice - to still my rise to paradise. Silverblue takes a fall,
but her phage reactions are enough to save her life. To be honest, it doesn't
require preternatural skill to do this - I did it during a climbing competition
after I'd fallen two meters. The audience was very impressed. And so was my
shoulder afterwards, so impressed that I couldn't move it for a week.

I have an obsession with the idea of the phoenix. Less the
actual creature, and more what it represents. I used to draw
dozens and dozens of them, little strange elfin bird creatures
on fire. Time has no real meaning for them - their version
of immortality owes more to renewal and new life than
continued existence, so I see them as more free...

And I rather like the little pocket she's got on her wings.

A native Australian rat (one of our few placentals :) examines his thieves kit for the correct probe to use on a lock.

Tribute for Ch'marr, who runs the Velar archive. Digital painting with Wacom tablet and Adobe Photoshop, if I can claim the phrase 'painting' for this.

If I was a Swara king I'd ask for some sign of the allegience of my vassals. Beads or bounty, food or somewhere elegant and cool to sleep after the heat of the day and the hunting.

Here's a sketch for Pyroness because she said Tuesday
should meet Silverblue, because she wanted bunnies, and
because I felt like drawing rabbits on mushrooms drinking
tea after she did. Really, I'm an artistic vaccuum
hoovering up ideas right now.

Still, there we go! Done without brushes, which I almost
never do any more...

Tuesday is Copyright Pyroness.

Turbing Divinity

An artswap with Turbine!

Taking the Tree Out

It is absolutely important not to ignore your tree when you go out! If necessary, take it with you. All miniature bonsai turtle trees enjoy a good swim.

Thinking of making this into a t-shirt

Ursula the Scribe

A polar bear sketch!

A sad, sad picture of Wallflower of FurryMUCK, and I apologise to him dearly.
Wallflower is Copyright himself...

'When wardrobe gets it wrong'. Imagine being sent out for the day in a pink mohair sweater. Of course, TerrieKitten will probably have sore paws by the end of the day in those boots. The wonderful TerrieKitten is copyright Boris Chwosta, and naturally Silverblue is moi. Terrie was kind enough to do a sketchbook swap with me at Anthrocon, so everyone be nice to 'em, right?

This is, believe it or not, a wedding invite commission from a pair of non-furry friends. Thus it its layout, design, and characters are copyright Geoffrey Brent and Gillian Richards.

And inking this took forever. Trust me.

"What the hell...?" Mighty heavy rain around these parts for a small mouse.

I did a tiny little sketch at work while pondering my
alter-ego's recent appearance in the online furry comic
'Jack'. There David's done her in her normal form - a
vampire rabbit. But I was wondering what she would look
like as a demon, so I did a little doodle on a scrap of
paper.

What came out was this delicate little creature, with a
wary, warning look and fragile, tiny wings. At first, she
was sitting on top of a cliff, but my husband mistook it
for a candle. After a moment, I realised that it was far
prettier this way, so she was retraced and coloured in
Adobe Photoshop with my Wacom.

I'm enormously pleased with her. I probably shouldn't be.
She was done while listening to 'Teardrop' by Massive
Attack on continuous repeat, which might explain the rather
inoffensive creature she has turned out as instead of the
demon I'd envisaged.

'Winter' is, for reasons best known to himself, a
bat-eared foxish sort, though his ears are rather
too small, unfortunately. The piece has marker,
greylead, pen ink, brush ink, and coloured pencil.
He is a partner to 'Autumn'. I rather like his pants
and bird-skull tatters, I rather dislike his face.

These are the pencils for a painting I am going to finish off hopefully at some point in between NaNoWriMo. More dream imagery than you can shake a stick at.