Art Journal

( Stuff under here )
(Also, what's with the new posting set up? It's not very photobucket picture friendly. Or just posting friendly, it keeps messing everything up. I would be screwed if I didn't know some basic html.)

( Tiles )

EDIT: Might as well as participate in that question meme going around too. So go ahead and ask me stuff, I almost never know what to say about myself otherwise.

Some of you may remember the personal project I pushed forward a while back. In which I endeavored to create three high quality pictures for underappreciated fanfics. But I didn't quite make my goal of three, just two. *shamed* This month hasn't been the best, blah is a good description, and unfortunately it impacted my artistic drive in a negative way. I can't count the number of times I'd pulled up one of these to work on only to end up staring blankly at the screen.

Of the pics I did finish; Lost and Found by laratron , and Intersection by azardarkstar were selected from a list of four.

Azar was kind enough to permit me to post the one I did for their story. While I asked a number of people to help with collecting fanfics, the art is for the writer and I wanted to give them the option of sharing it or not. Once I get a reply from laratron, we'll see if the other goes up.



This was an enjoyable challenge, I don't draw movieverse that often (mostly because I haven't organized a suitable reference folder yet), and until now I hadn't even so much as sketched Bumblebee. The dark bot is Sam, who in this fic was changed via Allspark shard. So coming up with what he would look like and making sure he appeared like he could be canon designed was also a challenge, but one I enjoyed. I have no idea how many hours this took.

I hope everyone's had a good month, I'm catching up on replies and posts. So there's going to be some older stuff brought up as I finally have the energy to socialize again. And my hiatus is meeting an abrupt end, I'm doing my January challenge again. Though I think I'm going to need bunnies chucked at my head early this year, there's still some lingering art block I need to break through.

*gets to working through their messages* *is thankful there's not many*

A little while back I brought up a giftart for underapreciated fanfics proposal. There was some interest but no fics were sent my way, and I figure that I'll put it in it's own journal along with a few rules I'm using. There's not that many, and it's really more of a "Q & A" than anything else.

What you do is find a fanfic or fanfic writer that you feel deserves fanart for that wonderful story that doesn't seem to get any attention from their fandom at all, you send it my way and then there's the chance that it'll happen.

The deadline for sending fics is October 1st. This is to give me time to read all the fics, to actually pick which ones I'm going to do, and finally to draw them. Because I know how I think, the earlier you can get the fics to me the more likely I'll choose one of yours, as I'll read them as I get 'em and the more they sit in my brainspace the more likely it'll stick.

My goal is to complete three pictures of high quality, and maybe, maybe some simple ones for the others if I have the time. Examples of the high quality kind include this, this, and this.


( The Rules: Don't worry, there's only seven. Five of which are more like questions than rules. )


I think that's it, if there's any other questions feel free to ask since I have the feeling I may have forgotten a thing or two. If there's a fic you want to nominate but you feel is not quite allowed thanks to every rule but Number 2 you can still ask. Also, if you want to remain anonymous for the gift receiver go ahead and PM me. (I haven't figured out how to do the anon comments thing yet)

ETA: If a list is being made or some time is needed, I can add a few days. *really wants at least three fics to work on*

*making everything ambiguous because even after the four-plus-hours it took to do this, it still scares me*

You can blame this picture on puffitheinsane with her singular art bunny which goes hand in hand with this music video. Which was one vicious bugger as it wouldn't leave me be until I finished it (I swear, it didn't just bite me, it fragging ATE me). So thanks, I'm up this late because of you. Not that I wouldn't have been anyway with the humidity and heat we have here. And I can't even tell if I broke my own brain or not. I think I did, but it doesn't feel like it. Mostly because I'm ridiculously proud with how the shirt and the coloring came out.

( I'm not going to apologize, because it won't undo what I've done. )

Also, I just left the boombox as a regular boombox since I've already traumatized Megatron, and I couldn't bear subjugating another mech to this.

And I can't believe it's Friday already, what the hell happened to the week?!

The great thing about getting the last one done so early is that it gave me nearly two days to work on this one. And while that really wasn't enough time, it had to do. Bunny number 2 from here.

Would you believe Screamers' face took me longer to do than all the hands combined? Hands are easy (it probably only took a minute or two tops to do Soundwaves') so are feet, I enjoy doing them. Faces? Fragging HARD to do, Starscream I wouldn't be surprised if it had taken a whole hour and I'm still not happy with it. I'm starting to hate drawing him solely for this reason, as the last time also took a rediculous amount of time as well . Probably why Soundwave looks the best, no face to really speak of.

An artists tip for you all. Try to avoid using straight black or white in your coloring. It just adds a little something more if there's a little bit of color in there. As the dynamics of light rarely ever have something appear pure black or pure white.

( Forgot the cut AGAIN. )

Any mistakes you see or lack of certain details, I blame on my time restriction. But I am pleased, as it did force me to work faster than what's my usual comfort zone. *goes to work on tomorrows piece*

You can blame these on heslestor . Apparently she's my own personal transformers bunny farm, I've gotten more ideas put in my head from her lately than the actual comm.
( Three pics under here. )

( "You're a lovely little parasite. Yes you are." )

Somebody shoot me. I've got other people's fancharas hijacking my brain.

heslestor's questionable Autobot, Hotzone. A Toxicologist and Pathologist whose ethics don't quite match up to the Autobot ideal, and if you kill him it's very likely that all the chemicals he's carrying around would make the surrounding area for miles a dead zone. Recent conversation had him cooing over a parasite of his own creation, and this image promptly burned itself into my brain along with the name Talin for the parasite. Which, like other made up words that hit me, turned out to be not-so-made-up. In this case, there's two. *exasperated*

Before, I'd offered to draw Hotzone because I like him so much and actually had a different one in progress. But nooooo, the pathologist wanted his parasite-in-a-vial. *sulk* It's really not fair when I'm struggling to get my own characters down and visualized. But hey, I'm glad it's one I could finish, there's not been many of those lately. And I hope you like this Heslestor, he was fun to design.

And if anyone knows where I can find some good tips on doing metal that's colored, I'd be very grateful.