Lalalala break

At some point I'll even clear out this mess and find my mouse . . . incidentally, if any one at the House of Fong happens to come across a pink USB mouse, please hold on to it for me or place it on a shelf or something. I need it to do 3D things.

Just work in progress stuff for now, since there is no school work! Yaaaay~! (or not yay, I can't ever finish anything anyway.)

(Also: fuck, I'm becoming a character artist. Fuck. Fuck!)



Why green hair . . . ? I guess for the fun of it . . . ? Also, embarrassing slow workflow revealed. It's supposed to be a tarot card she's holding, and eventually it might even become The Fool. I'm pretty sure she goes with the interpretation that the Major Arcana is the journey of the Fool to, um, enlightenment. Also, I have a feeling that this is another color-retarded character. I will resist the urge next time and do a perfectly color-coordinated classy male figure; unfortunately he'll probably lavender or robin egg blue coordinated, the rate I'm going.


They're supposed to be twins who grew up to be opposites but still like the same things (symbolized by the red? I dunno, I just like that color a lot.) Again, embarrassing workflow revealed! One day, these blobs of color will in fact become people!

I find when I paint stuff randomly a story sort of assigns itself to the picture anyway.

it's great to be lucid

I think it's a wonderful state of being.

Anyway, REAL work always goes firsties



A design for the flash class. There's a story behind it, The Nightingale and the Rose, or "Oscar Wilde Bitches About the I-Know-What-I-Likers in the Art World." Otherwise enjoy your suicidal bird shirt.

I won't get this out of my head until the 24th. So um deal.

Miss T on the train back from Harschmort

Chang on the train from Harschmort, same scene.

Really not a lot for him at all, but the Trifecta of Doom needs to represent itself in equal measure to the Triad of Wickedness.

Le Comte d'Orkancz & Angelique, totally prior to the events in the book sort of kind of perhaps? Right when he's like "hey you should contribute your memory to the greater good."



The Contessa!!!



I think she is my favorite villain in not just the book, but in a long, long time. Again, I'm really kind of curious about her motivations and also glad not to know . . . ? D'Orkancz and Xonck had great James Bond type motivations, so her ambiguity is crazy cool compared to those, it makes me think that she had an even better James Bond reason for being in the Cabal with the others.

And to top it off a color sketch of Edie in costume. Wtf that wig is ridiculous, I need to curb my terrible wig fetish a little for reality's sake.

we're all having SUCH a FANTASTIC time here in the RANCHUMS

I seriously don't know what is wrong with me today. It must be the insomnia + coffee spectacular combo attack.

Nananananana PREP WORK nananananana


Nanananananana FINISHED PIECE nanananananana

Dum dum dee dumm DOODLES dee dum dum dee doo


Lol hiiiii Miss T I forgot that you spend 60-70% of your time running around drinking tea and killing people and being molested, experimented upon and splattered with gore and taking it like a champ

Also shoes.

why am i doing this

Wooooooooooooo give it up for Eyes Like Night!!!!



Shooting the old man/cat was a bitch and her dog to do and plus someone was getting super fucking snippy.

Okay real supposed-to-be working shit:




And as usual the doodles I do in class while watching youtube videos of crazy people instead classwork in class:


I haven't really posted anything of this woman being ridiculous. Also featured: her normal boring life as a waitress.

I watched all of Pohadka o Honzikovi a Marence, and while I don't necessarily need to understand what they are saying (and also I thought Honzikovi was a silent character until he started chewing out the fairy people.) And while I don't know how to say Marence's name I do know how to say Honzikovi because Marence screams it several times with echo. I don't know how badly I want to see the Krabat tale. I hear it's supposed to be like Harry Potter except Dumbledore is Satan.

First Real Post

Yeah, so no icon, no layout fanciness or anything yet, but sketches and things. Let's start out with what I'm supposed to be working on, which is a classy 1860s Japanese cable car, if, you know, Tokyo had put in cable cars in the 1860s.

It seats a grand total of nine, including the attendant who takes the money and pulls the cord to make the driver (leading the team of horses, probably three or four on popular lines) stop at all the stops. It doesn't go backwards without switching the lines so a driver who doesn't stop in time for the platform probably won't be a driver for long.

This is what I'm actually drawing more of:

She's a super herooooo! Fuck, I'm such a geek. I think she might be just an excuse to draw foreshortened marvel poses (not pictured). She also has a foil, and it's fun to draw them just pounding each other into concrete.




You can see where the guy, Quick, had a knife or some sort of counterweapon to her bat, plus the chick, Edie, was also a bit taller/he was bit shorter. Edie's design has kind of shrunk since the initial drawing (also a bit skinnier). I think the refined drawing doesn't show off her left hand as the initial where I think it was, I dunno, prettier? But at least her right arm isn't (as) broken. The foreshortening on her raised foot isn't as pronounced and it looks . . . too small? Not forward enough. And sadly, like a lot of my refined stuff, it looks awkwardly stiffer than the original doodle.

This is the first time I've had to consider how the damn wig she wears stays on. And to end:


(I haven't read this book in ages, but I just found out there's a sequel, a real sequel and not this misleading volume 2/the 800 page original got split up by the still-hopeful publishers shit. I don't remember if Chang has the hat or if Svenson actually wears a pince-nez, but these are the images that stuck in my head when I imagine this book. All I seriously remember is that Miss Temple rocks the sausage curls and they spend all their time together arguing about what to do next. Oh god steampunk.)

First Post Let's Celebrate!

Yeah! Let's start off with a bang!