[re]birth

formerly: http://www.livejournal.com/users/gunshot_residue

i'm basically moving my sketch journal over to blogspot because...well...i'm jumping on the proverbial bandwagon, i suppose.

since i don't have a website up and running, this blog is going to serve as a makeshift gallery of sorts. i intend to post both sketches and work that is finished - by my definition.
possible commission/art trade information will be available here, too.

here's to a comeback to the online art community for ms. ephemeral.

this is the part where you pretend to be excited.

vinyl

commission for a friend. her character - vinyl. a cheshire cat, i believe.
the description i was given was for a very gaunt, emaciated looking creature with a sweet disposition...so i figured i'd have her admiring something "cute" like a butterfly.

i like butterflies XD

Commissions are back in action

starting with this - a commission for yugoloth on fur affinity.
as i understand it, the character is a jackal-ish fiendish sort of thing...and her name is shylara. she was a lot of fun.

classy

oh my god. it's been a long time since my last update. so much for the promise of once a week. i have an excuse though - i call it chiropractic school.
i've been very busy since the start of the term, but that's hardly a bad thing.

i digress.

here's an unfinished drawing of my friend's fursona - a tarentaise cow named edelweiss.
kind of an inside joke/portrait combo.

the bad girls

sulia [above] and chase [below]
two of the girls from my story - both of them are incredible combatants.
heh, the drawings were both done on the same page, as you can see by the extra body parts in each image. i don't particularly like these drawings anymore, and they were intended for practice rather than anything else...

tower

inspired by vienna teng's song, "the tower".
the lyrics reminded me of clarity, one of the girls from the story.
i consider this a 'failed attempt'. i'll probably try to do another [better] version later.

lyrics [for those interested]:

The one who survives by

making the lives of others worthwhile

She's coming apart

right before my eyes

The one who depends on the services she renders

to those who come knocking

She's seeing too clearly what she can't be

What understanding defies

She says I need not to need

or else a love with intuition

Someone who reaches out to my weakness

and won't let go

I need not to need

I've always been the tower

but now I feel like I'm the flower

trying to bloom in snow

She turns out the light anticipating night

falling tenderly around her

and watches the dusk

The words won't come

She carries the act so convincingly the fact is

sometimes she believes it

That she can be happy the way things are

Be happy with the things she's done

And yet I need not to need

or else a love with intuition

Someone who reaches out to my weakness

and won't let go

I need not to need

I've always been the tower

but now I feel like I'm the flower trying to bloom in snow

Reach out

but hold back

Where is safety?

Reach outand hold back

Where is the one who can change me?

Where is the one?

I need not to need

or else a love with intuition

someone who reaches out to my weakness

and won't let go

I need not to need

I've always been the tower

but now I feel like I'm the flower trying to bloom in snow

The danger and the power

The friend and the foe...

death god

since it first aired in english on cartoon network a little more than 8 years ago, i've been a huge fan of gundam wing. here's a very quick [and slightly older] doodle of duo maxwell - pilot of the incredibly bad ass deathscythe.

tomorrow - i'm off to visit my hometown in michigan for a week, so i won't be able to post next monday, but i promise to update as soon as i return to california!