’Til The Day Breaks

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If you want to be my friend just comment here. If you comment there is a better chance I will add you back. I'm sort of a private person, so if you add me and I have never met you before, I may not add you back right away. I will probably wait and see if we have anything in common.

If you don't comment I won't know who you are, so please comment and let me get to know you too!
I wrote a lot of quirky random stuff about me in my profile.
I'm an artist, a cat lover, fantasy/sci-fi, video gamin', comix lovin' kind of girl. I used to ride my bike a lot of places, but the car gods smiled upon me and now I work on being a lazy fat bum!
I drive a 2008 scion XD. Or Scion crazy smiley face.

Most my art posts are public as of Oct 2007. But my design work is often locked friends only.

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II used to take commissions. I don't anymore though. I am still interested in meeting other artists though. :)

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I wanted to do this this year. Link me to your lists!!!!


STEP ONE
# Make a post (public, friends-locked, filtered... whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of ten holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV"). The important thing is to make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.# If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) can get in touch with you. Your home address is not required!# Make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ, or link to this post (it'll be public) so that the holiday joy will spread.

STEP TWO
# Surf around your friends list (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now, here's the important part...# If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes one person's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use - or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free - do it.# You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf - to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not - it's your call. There are no guarantees with this project, and no strings attached. Just... wish, and it might come true. Give and you might receive. You'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.

( Wish List )

SO! I've made some kitty word balloons. I'm going to offer these as 1.25in buttons.
$3.99 ea or $9.99 for a set of 3.

These can also act as high quality custom badges in the size and shape of your choice:

CUSTOM Product Details 2 shapes, 6 sizes to choose from: LJ icon - $7.99 ea Round Small: 1.25" round - $9.99 ea Med: 2.25" round - $10.99 ea Large: 3" round - $11.99 ea Huge: 4" round- $12.99 ea  Colossal: 6" round - $14.99 ea Square  2" x 2" square - $10.99 ea

Incentive------> You get a free kitty pin of one of the above if you refer two sales to me!

Animated LJ icons: $9.99!
Customized for you, and you choose what they say on the back!
Examples:

 

I finally finished my commission for Felix! He was so patient with me having a stressful time with graduation and all. I had to put it on hold for months. But it's finally done now under the cut. :)

( Commission for Felix )

I was bored last night and I was thinking about drawing. I started playing around with this idea of Layra's dragon but made very human or fawnish. Just playing around. If I colored it I would have made the nose blue and fade into a sort of brownish skin tone. You can see a few scaly things around the outside of her chest. I also put fur right under the neck instead of the sides of the head so it didn't look like facial hair. :P I also made parts of the blue striped things on the appendages into more stripe like things so she wouldn't be really scaly. The head is too big. I wasn't using any reference and I seem to always make heads too large when I don't haha. I wonder why.

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tearstained_ Mood Icons:

Amused	Angry	Annoyed	Confused
Devious	Embarassed	Gloomy	Happy
Sick	Crushed	Loved	Sleepy
Surprised	Thoughtful	Working

This just puts me with Felix's art left to do. Phew!

Doodled a bit today. This was one thing I liked.

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Here is some of what I've been doing in Life Drawing class at Ai. There are problems with some of them but they are 2-5-10 minute drawings so .... yeah. I don't say what is what but you get the idea basically on how much detail they end up having. More difficult positions maybe were a longer time and it took me a while to get the figure right.
Some of them came out pretty good I think.
Anyone who doesn't know what life drawing is, it's basically nude models and you don't get a lot of time to draw them. It's mostly about getting the form down in a good gesture and proportions. These are not finished drawings. This is my favorite one:


( +18 )

I had this idea for a mercat and I made a character sheet up for it to test out the wacom I'm using from school before starting to color Felix's commission.

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I finished felix_carni's last icon:
Awake:

Whole set can be seen here for those interested: http://nippyfrog.livejournal.com/227534.html