Ritual of the Forest Lord

Personal pic done for fun while waiting for a few clients to getback to me about their commissioned pics.

Forestmute is one of the five gryphon lords in the religion of the land the main bulk of my stories take place in. He is a supernatural being, but he is not a god. Think of him more as a kami, or spirit like those found in the Shinto religion... or if you'd be more familiar with a pop culture reference, think of him as a gryphonic version of the forest spirit from the movie Princess Mononoke.
His true form is actually pure energy, but he manifests himself into the gryphon form shown in the picture to interact with mortals.

He serves all the nine gods of Thera, but is most closely tied to Iris, the goddess of nature.

Friza - EAX Adoption

Finishing up the art that I owe other people...
now I'll be taking things a little slower.

Adoption for Friza via the Equine Art Xchange since the person who had her last month apparently bailed out on her. :/

I love ]drawing pin-ups.

New character... though I haven't thought of a name for him, yet.

He's a dart frog... (to be more specific, his species name is "dyeing poison dart frog"), and as you can tell by the picture, he's a happy frog.

Character is the intellectual property of Traci Vermeesch
DO NOT REDISTRIBUTE WITHOT PERMISSION!!!

One of my projects for my advanced watercolor class this semester. I wanted to paint an angel, but I didn't want to make a fru-fru angel with fluffy white wings, so I chose Gabriel, the angel of Death.

Watercolor paints outlined with Micron pens.

"His Divine Presence" - A revamp of Gale, the chief god in my comic book.

Keeper of the Dead Forest

This little gargoyle dragon started out very... uninspired.
I didn't feel like working on commissions, so I tried to procrastinate but had a severe art block. After some sketching, I came up with this little guy.

I thought he was kind of cute, so I colored him. I'm glad that I did.

Happy Halloween!

Gideon Rayne with a horse.

Gideon Rayne (AKA Raindance) rides Schnell, his Mialek.

Gideon

Gideon with his sword - final version. About 20 layers and 5 hours of coloring. I had fun coloring the small details in the bracelets and sheath. :)

Tree brushes used in the background from anarasha-stock.deviantart.com . Celtic knots in the clothing were also stock, but I couldn't find the artist to credit them to.

Gilded

This feels like it's the first real piece of personal art I've done in a while. I've been wanting to incorporate a wider variety of subject matter into my personal art so I will have a broader range of things for my professional portfolio and art shows rather then having nothing but anthros.

I don't draw humans (or in this case, elves) very often, but I do enjoy drawing them. The dragon was added for more scaling practice.

The Golden King.

"Gonna Get You!"

Suddah my Verin character - fun with foreshortening.

After doing all those commissions, I decided to relax and draw something for my own self gratification. :)

Hmmm.... this little guy may make a good tattoo design.

I've seen several people do gryffoxes, so I decided to draw one too. :)

Design for my own personal stationary for resumes, etc. This design goes on the top left corner of the page.

Ugly watermark is there to prevent others from using it.

I tried drawing another gryphon-taur... but I used Indian accents for this one (Middle Eastern, not Native American)

Silver gryph mage.

A young gryphon warrior watches over his mistress.

Ulario poses in Central Park (Strawberry Fields to be more exact). My first real cityscape in a picture. I'm a bit excited about my upcoming trip to NYC.

"Freedom of the Gryphon Spirit"

I hadn't drawn my human character (and Ulario's mate), Tetra in a while... so I decided to. His nickname is the "Prince of Gryphons". Why? Well, it's a long story that takes up an entire issue of my comic to explain... so I'm not getting into it right now.

Cute little gryphon artist.

Wedding Imvitation - "Gryphon With Fleur De Lis"

The image for my wedding invitations. I'm gonna start working on my invitations tomorrow and I'm just finishing this now. Talk about procrastination. LOL.

Not your standard wedding invitation image... but nothing about our wedding plans are standard or traditional.

Gryphon with a blue Fleur De Lis. The gryphon has been my personal symbol for years... and the Fleur De Lis is there because, well, my fiance is a Quebecer... and as he's always said "There's nothing that screams "Quebec" more then a blue fleur de lis". LOL.

Anyways, the date is official. We're getting married on May 22... less then a month from now.

My entry for OldRabbit's Valentines Day Contest. Two of my gryphon characters snuggle, Alesto the kestrel-gryph and A'Taiaith the barn owl-gryph.

Gryphon sage. This is going to be part of an art show in Bay City.

Mieyth - Anthro Xchange

For Mieyth-Wolftear VIA the anthro Xchange.

Ulario doing her morning exercises.

I'm dressing up as the Crow again this year :)

Ulario tries on my costume.

Every year on Halloween I try to do a picture of some of my characters in costume. This year I wasn't able to do a nice full colored picture. Between illustrating a children's book, being sick, and my grandma being in the hospital I simply didn't have the time. However, I was able to whip up this sketch this morning. It's not much... but at least it's something.

Trick or Treat 2008

Effin finally! Got this done! It's posted a little later then I normally like my annual Halloween pic to be... but this has been the month from helllllll!
Admittedly, I did have to rush a few parts... but I wanted to get it done before tomorrow.

The characters are as follows from left to right:

Ran-Qui as Fox McCloud:
Well, the female version of Fox anyways.

Ulario as Lady Death:
All too late I remembered that earlier this year I had plans to dress her as Lara Croft for my halloween pic this year. D'oh!

Aredon as Professor Chaos:
Butter's supervillain alter ego from South Park. This specific version of Prof. Chaos was taken from the first episode form season 8 titled "Good Times With Weapons".