Ah munna show what I worked on for roughly seven hours for my final project for my final class

The goal was to create a monument to commemorate an Asian-American who died due to hate crimes. I decided on a plaster carving (since I had a bag of plaster just lying around) with a slight slope at the top to inscribe the name and year of death. Then peaceful forestry relief carvings along the sides to symbolize where the man died (in a forest because he was shot by a white male hunter) and also to give a sense of “peace” and “serenity” since the victim’s culture (Hmong) celebrates death as an important journey to the afterlife. Thus, some of the forest scenes extend into the background like some kind of magical Narnia forest path. AWW, YEEAAAH.

Pics are crappy since I only had my phone camera at the time. 🙁

Because I now have commissions to do, and I’ve been trying to juggle art commissions with schoolwork and final projects. 🙁

My first attempt at traditional eastern ink drawing. It was… very hard… May attempt again if I want to punish my hand.

Here’s a quick, silly drawing I did for TERA Online. Just a random Castanic Warrior of some kind. Legs are wonky.

Oh, dang! I remember doodling this on my laptop at school, and when I tried to save it after I was done, Photoshop crashed on me. I’m surprised it was waiting for me in my folder. Somehow it must have avoided the gravitational pull of Photoshop’s collapse!

It’s a dargon. It breathes cold ice lololol

Look, Larry, it’s my Guild Wars necromancer! 😀

And some other characters.

And I have no idea who this is.

I have tiny hands so when I reach for octave keys on the piano, the stretching of my pinky somehow translates to achy wrist for the rest of the day. 🙁 And I have to do a plaster carving today in art class too… BOO~!

I’m currently trying to work on digital painting with quick, easy sketches from my sketchbook. I modified the weird, painty, fade-y default brush most use for a softer shading technique so now, suddenly, I feel like I can go for the style of painting I want. Will experiment more. Still not done with the piece, but I’ll post some old art just to let y’all know I haven’t abandoned the blog after, what…? Six posts? Guffaw-haw-haw. Oh, and a new header image is incoming as soon as I remember to steal back the scanner from my mom.

Here’s the Left 4 Dead witch. Old pic from ’09, done with the Pencil tool in Photoshop to get that MS Paint-y feel. Drew it for a casual art contest. I really liked how it turned out even though I feel like I half-assed it.

Not having good thoughts. Hate those nights.

Sad feelings make for a sad drawing. Enjoy.

Been drawing them. I’ve never had a pirate fascination to begin with, but I’ve always liked that kind of swashbuckling fashion… with the poet shirts and the silly pirate hats (that are impossible to draw) and the frock coats and the BREECHES. Oh, MAN, I love the breeches. Don’t even get me started and don’t even begin to question my love for breeches. Just accept my love for what it is!

A deep appreciation for awesome pants.

On the inverse side, as much as I love swashbuckling breeches, I absolutely loath pirate hats. They’re awesome as hats, I guess, and I’m not hating on their design. I just hate how fucking hard they are to draw. It’s like my brain is unable to compute the mental image of a pirate hat… either forcing me to scroll through many pages of “pirate hats” via Google image search or just letting my hand + pencil vomit some monstrous head gear that is neither “pirate” nor “hat”… It’s usually best described as “DERP”…

Anyways, I’m conducting numerous pirate hat studies which drives me progressively insane. One day I might just have to procure an actual pirate hat (the type that I want to draw, that is) and spend an entire day staring at it, sketching it, turning it this way and that, putting it on my dog’s head…

Anyways, another character that is actually based on another character who is actually the opposite of a pirate and doesn’t look like she’s liable to sock you in the face aaaaaaaaaand… Yeah, that’s a cybernetic eye. WHAT OF IT, MMMM?

I’ll draw her with the frock coat and hat when I finally discover the secret to drawing pirate hats.

I never know how to title my blog posts. Know that a lot of them will start with a “blaerg”, “blah”, or “hurk”…

Sometimes I ponder about my lack of creativity. Or, rather, I think it’s more accurate to just criticize my creative process. When creating an original creation (whether it be a character, creature, or even an idea), I’m always berating myself for realizing just where some of my ideas stem from. They often have a core inspiration that, somewhere in my mind, nags and nags and reminds the rest of me that I needed to “borrow” an element from said inspiration in order to make up my own creation. Worst thing is that I know I’m being illogical. It’s not a “bad” thing to derive something from an inspiration so long as it’s not blatant, and I’m careful not to replicate to an offensive extent.

Aw, Hell, I can’t even begin to motivate myself without taking a peek at some OTHER artwork. Then I become inspired, but I also have this weird fear of imitating what I just saw. Even as a kid, I looked down on other children tracing or copying artwork, and I have no idea when I developed past that, but… maybe I’ve been carrying that disdain even to this day. Don’t get me wrong, though; I’m not beating myself up over this. I sometimes have to spend some time to reflect on myself and my outlook on art. I even began to question whether I wanted to continue with art a year or so ago. (I’ve gotten over that depression. It was a bit of an embarrassing episode…)

Anyways, I really, really need to touch up on my artwork. I want to go into personal art. I want to create and design my own things. I WANNA BE MOMMY OF SOMETHING NEAT. Yet… I don’t think I have any desire to create my own stories. Role-playing back in the day actually helped me with some character conceptions, but that’s a pastime I no longer actively indulge in. I do still look into revisiting and revising my old characters’ designs. Recently, I’ve even begun to draw a lot of one particular fox girl. (Yup, I have an aminal chick. So sue me, I was, like, 11 when I made her!)

She actually underwent several design processes… Out of all of my characters, she is the one who has changed the most frequently. Maybe it’s because I didn’t want to just make a boring, generic fox girl… but, by someone’s standards out there, she’ll probably still look boring and generic! Eh, I’m going to just… not care so long as she appeals to SOMEONE. Anyways, originally she had shoulder-length, layered black hair. She also wore clothes. :3 She also only had one tail despite being a nine tails fox (wtf was I smoking). Probably the only thing I’ve kept consistent with her was her golden color scheme. I had her designed with “SHINY GOLD FUR” in mind, and I’ve gradually increased her shinyness with each redesign until, suddenly, she sprouted long, white hair (that actually somehow transitions into gold at the tips).

Notice the white, “feathery” tentacles that kind of sprout from her clavicle and back? Those were DEFINITELY inspired by Okami’s Shiranui design. Dammit, I feel a pang of guilt.

This is the reason why I even rambled at the beginning of this post. Don’t worry, I’m getting over this.

Soooo… yeah, now I’m losing steam. Better finish this blog post soon before I just fully peter out with some pathetic– OH NOES IM GONNA DO IT HERES THE FOX GIRL I DREW TODAY WITH NO SILLY BOOBY FUR COVERAGE (Went with a more “girly” style than usual… Turned out good. Randallcat [his blog is over this way —>] is going to make sure I actually finish this picture.)

Will post progress. I promise.

The hair… confused me very much so.

No new art. Just my last semester’s art class final projects. It was a prerequisite basic drawing class which was an absolute breeze. (BECAUSE IM SO GOOD YOU SEE THIS IS ME ATTEMPTING TO BOOST MY SELF-ESTEEM AM I DOING IT RIGHT RANDALLCAT!?) Anyways:

This was on an 18×24 sheet of grayscale Canson paper. Primarily black vine charcoal and white compressed charcoal. Smudged with a blending stump. The project was to produce a still-life (minimum 3 objects) using graphite and/or charcoal. Charcoal has always been easier to work with, easier to blend with, and I felt that starting with a mid-tone canvas would cut me a lot of slack. I also really like using white charcoal.

This was done on another 18×24 sheet of Canson paper, this time a slight metallic gray-blue. Again, I had wanted to work in charcoal since it was the fastest method available to me. The project was to find an artist and show said artist’s influence in our project. I chose two artists: H. R. Giger and Norihiro Yagi. They both draw alien/monster boobs that I appreciate. I wanted to try my hand at alien/monster boobs. Oh, and color pastel was a required thing so I did a minimal “blue” thing or something. Idk.