Art Journal

A painterly styled sunset dragon for a card of mine that I should have done months ago. I'm really bad at doing certain things that need to be done for myself. Like really, really bad. At least I've come to the point where I know just how bad, and know that the fact I need help with a lot of executive tasks isn't my fault. 

Mostly, though I thought I already had, coming to terms that I'm disabled has been both freeing and terrifying.

Alright, so I think I mentioned during my cat posts that I've been without reliable transportation for a while. Well I've got an update on that. Since this time last month my car’s been at the mechanic, refusing to start with any sort of predictability. Now I’ve got a great mechanic so this isn’t an issue with them, they’re actually cutting the cost some for me because this has been a such a mystery problem. It's been an issue that has plagued me the last few winters and just now has it been figured out.

Problem is, even with the discount, it’s still going to cost me $740. I wasn't planning on opening commissions for a while yet, but right now I need to. Please see below for the details of what I'm offering. Now, since I am strapped for cash, I am willing to be flexible with what is added to any one piece before adding to the price.

( Commission info under here... )

( Happy Chinese New Year ) 

Tried something different this time, though I'm not sure I succeeded, any and all ability to judge my own work has gradually but irrevocably left me this month. This last week that I still have to do is going to suck. Big time. *repeatedly bangs head on nearest hard surface*

Tried to incorporate both of water's colors, blue and black. And while its body hides its paw, I went with the three-fingered Chinese dragon.

Also, depressed again. Would very much like not to be but my head's not listening and nothing I do is helping, things that I usually find enjoyable are neutral at best. Again. This is getting really old. (though I think I need to stop reading the news, all the horrible laws that are being pushed and the awful people running for presidency can't be helping)

( Because I can draw dragons whenever, including when I lose all my spoons to something stupid like my car battery dying, and because they turn out decently even when I'm drawing very half-heartedly.  )

A revisit to my anatomically workable traditional styled dragon. Instead of one big physiological mess of muscle and bone the forelegs and wings create when the dragon is given four legs and two wings in which the dragon shouldn't be able to fly at all, I found a work around.  

The dragon has its' proper hind legs, and a proper set of wings that include a deep breastbone for the muscles needed for powered flight, and then a set of "forelegs" that are actually a pair of modified ribs that float over the wing muscles. They're not terribly functional, but they work well enough to support the dragon when its' on the ground and to slash out when attacking like this.

Included two versions because the stupid smoke covered its' false shoulders.

( Burn. )

Loaded from another computer as mine decided that now would be a good time to break down even though it's virtually new. So have a dragon about to roast the guy in armor as a metaphor for how snarly I am right now.

How long was LJ down anyway?

( Another dragon, but just a head this time. )

Well, I didn't sell anything during the art walk, but I did make a couple of what look like promising contacts. One of which is the printing store I went to, so this'll be good. And because of that, I now know that the Dennos' Museum(local, right next to Northern Michigan College) is having a small print gallery thing going. Small prints, no bigger than a 5x7, in recognition of the U.S. economy playing merry hell on everyone, especially artists. Michigan as a state is particularly guilty in terms of state rank.

As to not posting for a week, I've been sick. Again. Merg, it feels like I've been sick all through winter, and now spring has decided to compete. Slept for three days straight more or less, and I was too ill to enjoy it too. Friggin hell, can I please be healthy for more than two weeks? *heads off to bed after posting*

( *still fiddling with the moosebot design* )

Also, I'm just going to get rid of my art and fanart tags. There's really no point when I post at least one picture every time, and they're cluttering up my tags area by being ridiculously large. Oh, and melting deer brains smell really weird.

Determined to get working on art and actually finishing stuff again. Dragons help. And saving multiple files of my progress was interesting.

( My halfhearted attempt at a squishy dragon. It didn't really work. )