I’m currently working at the Sableye shrine, which will be named Lithovore. If I manage to keep up with the schedule, it will be ready in ten days max, hopefully less so that I can work on Mewtwo. However, yesterday I ended up working on something else, namely the revamp of the weasels fanlisting. It’s now online. As you can see, it’s no longer just a fanlisting; it’s more of a minitribute - a weasel manifesto, if you wish. Actually, the revamp has been ready for about a month, but I never got to upload the new version because I never felt like making a top artwork for it, then I remembered I already had a weasel illustration lying around and used that one instead. I know, I’m beyond stupid.

Have some mouse doodles:

hello there
why are you in this pose

This is a random weasel I drew earlier, after uploading the new layout for the fanlisting. experimenting with colors, of course.

THIS IS WHAT I’VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR THE LAST FOUR DAYS.

apparently I sent the application for the Mewtwo fanlisting not only to The Fanlistings but also to The Anime Fanlistings.
because I just got the approval to make the fanlisting to the anime version of the character.

let me spell it out: I’ve been waiting for this moment since 2006
AND I DIDN’T EVEN REMEMBER I APPLIED FOR IT

WTF, SELF.

The point is that, since I thought I had already been rejected, I also applied for Sableye and got approved for it. Now, you must know that I like to make shrines which also incorporate a fanlisting so that the ones looking for the shrine will also have the chance to join the fanlisting and the ones looking for the fanlisting will find much more content than expected. So, my idea was (and still is) to make a Sableye shrine as my submission to the Pokéthon.

As for Mewtwo, in the past I said that there was no need for me to make another Mewtwo shrine since I couldn’t add anything worthy to what other people wrote, and I still think it’s true. However, this works in the case of a text-based tribute. All I need to do is changing perspective. So, I’m going to make an illustrated tribute to the character of Mewtwo. Think of the possibilities. It will be a big project, but I think I can pull it off. Long story short, if I manage to finish both websites in a month and half I can submit not one, but two shrines to the Pokéthon. 8D Let’s see what I can do.

Lately I’ve been doodling a lot with friends on IM and discovered that drawing with the mouse is fun. So, have some stupid fan art. Irene, I’m blaming you for these.

interesting uses of that dangling belt #1 - drunk piggyback rides

interesting uses of that dangling belt #2 - cruel and unusual punishment

interesting uses of that dangling belt #3 - musical instrument

interesting uses of that dangling belt #4 - catapult

HERE WE GO

this entry is about things which will melt your heart

and don’t pretend you can’t hear me

after the initial shock, he came to appreciate it

after the first time, Daevion kept appearing in my dreams to teach me how to control them :D

I really don’t feel like writing today

Okay, I lied when I said “tomorrow”. Actually, the drawings from the dream are still a work in progress. Instead, yesterday I drew some pics of my Pokémon Soul Silver team and some other stuff. Half of these drawings are currently being painted, so normally I’d wait for all of them to be finished before posting them, but:

I like these so much I cannot wait any longer to post them. This is Avantgarde, my female Scizor. The scan on the right shows the full A5 page; the left pic is the one I’m going to post in my artfolio and in other places. It was fun to try out a new watercolor technique.

Quartz likes to climb on my head. He’s so cute I don’t have the heart to ask him to walk on his own feet. Besides, he’s not really that heavy.
I just fell in love with Sableye.

What is this? This is my very first original character. His name is Dodo and I made him up when I was four or five. He was twelve years old and a cool and nice guy all around, he had many friends and he was always happy. He was also my imaginary friend, even though I never, ever drew him and his gang with me because I felt like we belonged to different universes (see? I had this idea even when I was FOUR). Anyway. Why this drawing? Well, yesterday my mom saw me sketching and brought up the fact she found some old drawings of him in a book, so she wanted me to draw him again. I was greatly amused by the fact these old doodles were also ridiculously tiny…yes, smaller than a finger. So, now I can say with certainty that my drawings have always been unusually small. I wonder why, though.

Other than those old characters, I currently have only one original character that’s based on an animal, which would be Sheila the fennec fox. After drawing Dodo I wanted to show her to my mom, but I didn’t feel like making her come all the way to the laptop to see a scan, so I just sketched her like this. The scanner then killed parts of the lineart, so I helped her with some digital color.

And this is me as a Pokémon Trainer. This time I checked the actual outfit before drawing it, so it’s more accurate than the other pics. YES THE ARM IS TURNED AT A WRONG ANGLE BECAUSE THAT’S THE WAY MY ARM IS SO THIS IS ACTUAL ANATOMY!!!
lol, I should take some pictures cosplaying as myself. Maybe when my Argonian name is no longer Bleeds-On-Chairs.

I should make some stuff for people too

Some concepts for Daevion. Not definitive in any way, but there are some new ideas.

On the left there is the first new design, the one I posted some time ago. But no one would ever wear a sweater in summer, so on the middle we have something for the warmer months. On the right, a Siberia-ready winter coat. I should make some color references at some point. The shirt will be definitely white, in any case.

More sweaters. It seems there is a lozenge theme with him. The dragon on the far right should be embroidered.

I was just randomly doodling and then I was hey wait let’s see how he’d look like with a tie
then I realized how sexy he’d look and I literally fell off the chair

and two Volkner and Flint pics under the cut, they’re uhhhh–view at your own discretion

• Mom: Will you ever leave that computer?
• Me: I have stuff to do!
• Mom: But what, if you’re not attending university? Can I see?
• Me: *nervously hides all Volkner and Flint pictures*

ICONS!
I actually made these on Thursday, I meant to release them together with the shrine but
I CAN’T WAIT ANYMORE

:D

Last Friday I was at Irene’s. Irene has a glass with The Flash on it. Combine all of the previous with the fact that my mind tends to be pretty one-tracked as of lately and some drawing materials:

then we laughed till it hurt

On Friday I’ll finally have my laptop back :> finally

In the meanwhile, three illustrations for Friday’s exam. All of them are watercolors on A4.

Fried Earth (on global warming). Of course the background is a texture, the original has a white background.

City of Tetris (on sustainable development). I like how this one turned out.

Solar-powered (on solar energy). A bit sloppy in places, but it’s still good enough I hope.

still twelve more to go. lucky me that I brought Jeel’s tablet with me so I can make something digital too.

GIGANTIC ARTWORK POST!
still without laptop, but since I’m currently at Jacopo’s I can use his awesome computer and do stuff! yes!

This was made at the same time as the Xivilai painting, so we’re talking about stuff that’s already two months old. Oldest joke ever, but still cute. For me, at least. :>

stop complaining, you’re just 257 and that bedroll was pretty comfortable too

playing with pencil shadows. naked because he looked silly with underpants.
…lol I forgot the chair
HE’S LEVITATING ON HIS MAGIC MAGIC BUTT

I don’t even know why I made this

Isaac Clarke from Dead Space
well this could really be anyone else with a RIG, but since I used his figure as a reference we’ll say this is Isaac

then I played Riviera yet another time and wanted to find a way to draw the characters in my style, and this is what I got. Here we have Serene and Cierra. In case you were curious, the note on the second page is the name I wanted to give to the shrine to Serene I was planning to make, but as you already know I ended up falling in love with Malice instead.
I’ll never stop repeating it: drawing in anime style is
SO BORING

These are the artworks for the test I’m making for Angeltower Page. The space on the left is where the text will be.
I think they turned out great 8>

Now to something completely different. This painting is a gift for Cercatesori and was inspired from the song Rachel by Klimt 1918. It’s a very moving song written to a true story, you should really listen to it. The painting was based on these lyrics:

Death is down at the end of the street, it brings me on my knees
But I live in a world where nobody loves, nobody hopes
“Please hold me now, don’t let me fall” She says, her skin dirty with mud
“I hold you, love, like a wounded bird, I won’t let you fall!” I scream with pain
Rachel knows her blood still runs, the ground turns red so close my arms
I see the sun going down her eyes, she won’t forget to sleep with me tonight

The blood in this painting is actually not paint, it’s my blood.

Now back to something less intense. When Cercatesori came, we spent part of the evening drawing silly stuff. Here, have a Pelipper.

After that Pelipper, crack ensued.

Chingling is useless, hence this pic

penises and bowties make everything better
Mantine’s cry is hilarious
also check that sexy Lopunny out

hi, I’m the Left Hand Snorlax

Carnivine’s Platinum sprite is silly

tiny wingull

Cercatesori asked me to make the opposite of this infamous pic
I’m so going to hell

Back to my head

Sheila makes a comeback with a new design. I think she’d look great in a digital work, but NO COMPUTER HURR HURR
For a few days, I toyed with the idea of actually making a comic with her as the main character but then scrapped it because I couldn’t make any other characters in her same style and because I really don’t want for this to be my first “serious” comic. I don’t want to give people the wrong impression about my work, since Sheila is my only anthro character and I don’t really care about furries and such, if you catch my drift. Well. Sheila lives on, though.

there’s no such thing as not enough Daevion

Classic!

this is really for my own amusement
you could say it’s fanservice, except this is not a fan art so I don’t know
I left a blank page after this one so that Daevion can cry in there when I’m not looking

At this point, Daevion is not a derivative character anymore, so it wasn’t fair to keep drawing him with the Oblivion outfit and to have his backstory fit with the Elder Scrolls canon. He’s really my own creation, so I wanted his outfit to be my creation too.
This is Daevion’s final design. He no longer lives in a fantasy universe; he now lives in an alternate present. Alternate, because how else could he still be an elf then XD I still have to write his new backstory, but he’s the same as before as for his personality. I’ll have to draw a better reference picture with colors, but as you can imagine his sweater is crimson and grey, his trousers are grey and his shoes are black. As for his necklace, the actual design is the one under his right hand.
He looks so elegant :> I like him even more now.

This is Hydride. Here we’re talking about another alternate present in which people are beginning to modify their bodies using cybernetic parts. Hydride - which is not his real name, of course - modified himself so to enhance his physical capabilities. He had a very strong reason for doing so. I don’t know what this reason is yet, but I know that, since he implanted a cyber hand on his dominant right, he had to learn to write with his left hand. The wires on his upper body don’t allow him to wear anything on his torso anymore, thus why he’s half naked. The rest of his clothing is very practical. As you can see, the upper part of his trousers is a bit larger than how it should be so to not rub against the wires down there, but they are also very tight on his legs and tucked into his boots so they won’t fall down. One could ask why didn’t repair his eyes so to stop wearing glasses, but he likes them, and that’s all about it.

Concept sketches. The colored sketch is his very first concept; the glasses were added later. I spent a good day working on his design, in case you were wondering. The first idea was to make him into an enemy for Sheila, but that was very silly since he’s a human and Sheila is an anthro fennec. This idea was dropped for good right after sketching him here.
I should really write a more detailed entry about my creative process, but know that for me is very important to understand how a character feels into his skin and to have his design making sense rather than being just pretty. For this, I even spent a few days wearing wires all over me to understand how does it feel. One would think that all those wires make walking hard and tripping easy, but I found out that’s not true and that after a while you end up considering them a part of your body. I also found out that people is more prone to notice someone who walks in a weird way than a person covered in wires. How else could I have made these discoveries?
But I’m getting off topic. Anyway, Hydride will probably be something like an evil guy in his universe. He seems to be such an important character, so I’m taking my time to write his story.

Margareth Stone belongs to the same universe as Hydride. She’s 31 and works in a cybernetic parts research center. She’s not brilliant at all, though; she just makes some components and that’s it, the big projects are in the hands of her superiors. Margareth is very average in everything, actually, and she’s not a beauty either. Her fashion sense is also questionable.
Her husband left her a few years ago because he realized his life was boring and that he could have much more. He was really one for adventure; he married Margareth before he could understand that part of himself. Margareth even let him have his way with other women without objecting, but in the end he couldn’t cope with this lie anymore. The problem is, he left his wife alone with their three-years-old child. All that’s left of Margareth’s family is her old mother and a sister who lives far away, so she had great problems in taking care of the kid, who had in the meanwhile become her only reason to live.
Luck turns to her side when a project for enhancing the brain’s capabilities with the help of technology comes to the human testing phase. Offering herself as a test subject, she has the right to work a lot less and be paid a lot more for only being in the project, with the downside that of course it’s her brain, so if something breaks down she’ll have to run to the center and get fixed as soon as possible. But even like this, the risks are not very high - she was also among the people who made the parts for that project, so she knows how the whole thing works.
So, she undergoes surgery and the top of her head is changed with a metal dome that can be opened to check what’s going on. Because of that she can’t have hair anymore, but since she doesn’t want to freak out people she always wears a wig. Now that she’s a test subject she has got enough time and money to take care of her kid, but she’s also become a lot different from before; she can now memorize and learn everything without effort, retrieve information from any part of her brain at any time and think a lot faster. So, her way to see the world changes as well…
And that’s when her backstory ends and her story begins.

You’re going to hear a lot more about Hydride, Margareth and their universe. There will be new characters and new details. For the time being, every post in which I’m mentioning this alternate universe will be tagged as “unnamed saga”. I’m going to rename the tag in the future, of course. It’s just a placeholder.

LOOK WHO’S BACK
this didn’t turn out as planned but well it’s still cute
There would be two more pics with them but they’re suggestive so I’ll be posting them in another entry, another time.

Phew, I’ve finally finished writing this epic entry, to bed now

For Kuroda_Taiki. Froslass is fun to paint :D
also, rescanned version of the Xivilai from a few posts below. My parents’ scanner sucks, this one matches the colors of the original much more closely.

To do list for this week:

1. At least ten drypoint illustrations for that school project. Remember that book about robots? After much thinking, I ended up changing my theme.  It would have been almost impossible to make a tiny illustrated book fit seamlessly with my huge sci-fi canon, especially since said canon is always developing. So I decided to illustrate “The weasel and Aphrodite”, a tale from Aesop. It’s about a weasel who falls in love with a man, gets turned into a beautiful girl from Aphrodite and almost manages to marry his love…were not for the fact that she’s still a weasel in her mind, so when a mouse runs by during her wedding, she begins to chase the mouse and blows up her cover. More about it later.
2. More illustrations for school, blah blah blah
3. A painting for Cercatesori
4. Two more paintings. Their subjects are VERY bizarre, I won’t tell you what they are to not ruin the surprise. I don’t know if I’ll manage to finish them for this week but hey, I can try.