Stuff'd

For all my wonderful friends.

I can't believe I actually finished this in two days...

I think I've always intended, but I've never got around to making a tribute for my friends so here you go: all my friends turned into animals which are then turned into stuffed animals. And just in time for New Years, too.

Have fun guessing what the animals are what who they're supposed to represent. Some of them are more obvious than others, such as Inkeh just being her fursona, but for the majority, I had to come up with an animal counterpart. I really hope I didn't forget anyone because I don't really like vectoring. 

But yes, how often do you see me vectoring anything? Uh, never. But I thought it suited the picture I was trying to make, so I went through the pain staking process of fiddling with the pen tool to produce with (with some cheap tricks thrown in of course).

Original sketch. It's missing some people because I couldn't fit them on the paper so I drew it in PS.

I might make a wallpaper-friendly version where I just isolate each character on their own, because a lot of detail is blocked off with the layering, and that makes me sad considering all the work I put into it.
Speaking of layers, I think I used the most layers I've ever had for a picture, topping at around 150.

Thanks everyone for making my year awesome. I really do appreciate you all.


Made in Photoshop.

This is the first time in a long while that I stayed up late just to draw

It's only fitting that it's Zelda inspired. When I'm not staying up playing Zelda, I'm staying up drawing Zelda. Hurhur.

Just a bunch of Skyward Sword characters and references. I love kikwis.

...I wish I could be Professor Owlan and own my own kikwi.

But that's not all. Let's step away from the wonderful world of Zelda and focus more on me - or really, my fursona.

Stylized fursona

I left out a lot of details because she looks preeetty stylized. makes me want to revisit her design, especially her half-assed markings. I like the star/wing pattern I have here on her rump right now, though.


First picture drawn with pencil on paper.
Last picture made in openCanvas.

Meme: Draw This Again

Look at that difference.

When some people do this meme, I don't really see too much of an improvement in the before and after picture. Maybe it's due to them just redrawing a picture a year or a couple of months old. So went all the way back into my picture archives and dug up this piece of crap from 7 years ago to ensure that wouldn't happen.

Check out my MS Paint and mouse skill, guys. Check out that anatomy, and my super original OCs (but you already knew that). I don't really remember what the whole context was, but guess she's watching something tragic... or something. Doesn't look like she's really sad. Maybe's she's actually too shocked to display an emotion? We will never know.
At least it's obvious that she's sad in the picture. I mean, look, there's tears. Nothing says despair better than throwing in a couple of tears. Cuts and bruises too. And muscles, because, realistically, you can't be stick and be fighting off evil demons at the same time.

The picture on its own.

Anaria looking sad for some reason.

At first I was gonna render the background a bit more, to really make it obvious of the difference of skill level, but I left it half-assed. I am okay with that.



Blank meme.
Made in openCanvas.

Derp Link

Look at dat beautiful face

So I've got nothing done for Christmas thus far, and it looks like what little gift art will just have to be late. In the mean time, I'll show you this beautiful piece I made for someone else.

I know that it's nothing too difficult to create, nor legit, blood-and-tears art. It's pretty much a traced - yes, traced - image of Link's face on a rainbow background. Actually, I didn't have any carbon paper so I used newspaper instead. That's what you call being creative.

And I never knew how useful retarder could be until doing this. Man does acrylics dry fast, which was hard to work around for me because I've worked mainly with tempera. I didn't mind it that much because this is mainly cellshaded anyways.

Anyways, it's super simple, and made it within a day, but I got an awesome reaction from it, and I guess that's what counts. :)


Made with acrylics on canvas.

I've been sleeping in guiltlessly

An elf, I guess? His/her eyes remind me of a hawk.

To help with the gender imbalance...

Yup, school's out, andI haven't been doing much with my break thus far, so here, enjoy some drawings.


Made in openCanvas.

Blankey ♥

Me and Blankey

There are times when I wake up and my blankey is the softest, warmest thing in the world. This is especially true now since it's winter.

So let me introduce the one that's kept me warm for years: Blankey! Yes, he - that's right, he - must be referred to that as that is his name. I kind of lied about how Blankey looks like in my picture, because he isn't completely red, but I liked the simplicity of it.

And here's more me with my one true love.

I walk around the house like this

Made in SAI.

Finals week

Study sessions are so productive. I mean, look at what I got accomplished there:

A girl, my friend's butchered fursona, an otter, two Kikwis, and a box guy. Oh, and an Russian Nazi Domo holding a cake with a crab with whip cream, a cherry, and a sparkler on top.

Link chasing a Cucco, Hiei blasting an isometric drawing, and me going FUUU because I can't understand anything.

What? You think I'd actually study the entire time?


Made with pencil on paper.

And when I say "colours", I really just mean red

What is wrong with that hand?

Headshot of an OC.

I like to sketch with pretty colours.


Made in openCanvas

Project: Art Noveau Phantom of the Opera

I already introduced the topic on a previous a post, but in case you're too lazy to either click the link or scroll down, I'll recap for you:

We had to pick a graphic design style (New York School or Swiss design, say) and were given the choice to either make a poster based on a movie or a famous place. I don't know how famous place got so many votes, because I know like one person who actually chose to do that boring thing.

Anyways, my partner and I chose to do Phantom of the Opera in the style of Alphonse Mucha.

And there you have it. But before I post the actual poster, would you like to see some more drafts first?

A cleaned up version of one of the drafts, where I pretty mush centered and neatened things up a bit, as well as give you an idea as to what colour scheme we would be using.

Our final second draft. Made her looking towards you a bit, widened the space allotted for the title, as well as added a text box for all the movie-like stuff like actors and what not.

So which draft exactly did we end up going with? The answer's none of the above, but a draft my partner put forward. I've never seen the movie before, but I think this is supposed to be based off the scene where the Phantom meets Christine at a mirror, and she realizes it's actually a door. I don't really know, I'm just getting this off hearsay.

And, without further ado, my final poster!

Art Nouveau Phantom of the Opera Poster

Sleep? What's that? I don't even know if you could count those two measly hours of sleep I got as actual revitalizing sleep. But yeah, if you already couldn't guess, I spent two all nighters on this thing just so I could get the impossible done and have this ready for presentation day, even though we wouldn't be able to print it in all 36" by 24" glory until much much later. I actually have the poster sitting in my room right now, ready to be handed in but can't because my TA isn't at school until Wednesday.

I've grown to have a greater appreciation for Illustrator and after doing this, it has opened my eyes as to what the program - or really Live Trace - can accomplish. Yup, I pretty much made all the people out of Live Trace.


Drafts made in openCanvas.
Poster made in Illustrator.

Art style poster drafts

Just dumping my first drafts I did for my poster project for school. We had to pick a graphic design style (New York School or Swiss design, say) and were given the choice to either make a poster based on a movie or a famous place. I don't know how famous place got so many votes, because I know like one person who actually chose to do that boring thing.

Anyways, my partner and I chose to do Phantom of the Opera in the style of Alphonse Mucha.

I later on found out I was doing it wrong because I was supposed to draw all these drafts out on paper and not computer, but meh.


Made in openCanvas.

Project: Automata

Our beautiful automata

Oh, hello there final project. Even though it was the cause of much shedding of blood, sweat, and tears (mainly tears), I'm pretty damn proud of it. Best of all, if you couldn't tell from the gears and stuff in the box that something is supposed to happen to the figures when turned, movement is smooth and works most of the time without issues.

Yeah, our thing is pretty lame, but at least it's beautiful, dammit! That's all we have. We were able to secure a spot in the spring showcase from it, so I'm not ashamed of it at all!
I think after the horrible "definitely ugly" rating we got when we pitched our idea, we just strove to make my prof eat his words.