Battle Ostrich

 

Titled: Battle Ostrich.

So this is another piece inspired by/is a portrait of my punk friend (this time with correctly colored hair). She mentioned something about riding the ostriches into battle as a metaphor for getting ready for her college's convention and I was inspired to draw it out. It was tempting to make it a chocobo as made famous by Final Fantasy but instead I went with the straight ostrich. When I happened to present this to my friend she was at a meeting for the officers of the convention and she shared it and they immediately wanted it for a t-shirt. So I made a black and white outside version of it and gave it them and they are giving me a t-shirt in return. How cool is that. Proof under the cut.

Madrin, Dragon Knight

 

This is Madrin, she's a dragon (shapeshifting) from a story I asked a friend to write. I gave the prompt: "fairy tale with reversed humans and dragons" and ey wrote me a cute piece about a captive dragon prince being rescued by silent but deadly Madrin. And so in return I had to draw Madrin for em. The Prince will be coming eventually.

Punk Angel

Piece titled: Punk Angel. Alternatively titled: Bitches I can fly.
So this is sort of a portrait of my friend who is a punk master and was complaining about how she wanted wings, so I went ahead and drew her with wings. Her hair isn't currently accurate as she's dyed the top pretty much with the colors that you see with in the wings, but she was ginger when I started this drawing. It came together very smoothly and wow, I even did a background. Mostly it's photo editing though. That is Chicago at night from the top of Willis Tower. Details under the cut.

Still Not Dead

Still in Chicago though and will be for a couple more months. This has been a terrible winter weatherwise. Getting close to record lows, record snow falls, and lake ice coverage. It's been nasty so I've been staying inside. I've been trying to date up here and had some success, but they all end up a flop in the end. It's still been fun. As it's getting warmer, I've been venturing downtown so I'll have more pictures soon. Also took a cruise in January and got some good shots there. So more Chicago Story coming. Meanwhile I have a couple arts that will post over the next couple days. And remember Fairy Tale? Well I didn't write it for NaNoWriMo, but I am getting ready to start it for real. I have the story fully pinned down now. But I have over a half million words posted via Tumblr and Archive of Our Own, so that's a pretty cool accomplishment. Talk to you people later!