Art Journal

It occurred to me today that I'm past the halfway point in this. I have driven myself to distraction and frustration getting all of these done. And because I can't seem to keep the drawings simple, it's eaten so much of my free time I've had little time for everything else I usually do. I'm going to have to do something really basic just so I can catch up with people's LJ posts I haven't had the time to read. Of course, I thought it'd be a good idea to participate in that friending meme so now I've got a bunch of new folks I haven't even gone and browsed the things they've had to say, despite their commenting and awesome attention for this new years resolution of mine. Sorry people! D:

( We're now femmes? )

But ideas are always welcome. All unfinished prompts will be completed, just give me some time.

( Two hugs and some crack. )


Oh and I'm reading a 726 page guide to synonyms that's fifty years old for fun.

( "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.

Mermafied is pretty much the only 'club' I belong to. It's an online only (we're from all over) so I don't know how that effects the definition.

Anyway, Mermafied is an art club dedicated to the practical mermaid. Meaning real animals, or adaptions you'd expect to see in a water animal are used and they don't have human skin tones anywhere. Terms such as mer, merman, mermaphrodite, merfolk, and transplant mers (for those disney mertypes you see everywhere) are used to discribe the various kinds there are.

Exchanges are a fun way for people to draw each others characters, while getting something in return. Who draws who's character is completely random and I got Chael's (an awesome artist you can see on dA, who is also founder of the club) dumbo octopus mermaid named Dee to draw with a halloween theme. That's a big FAIL on the halloween part, but I desparately wanted to get my part done and with the end of the month when it's really due. With roughly the last two weeks of the month looking like chaos I really didn't want to miss the deadline just because I was somewhere without computer access. Chael wanted glowy and I couldn't think of anything else, too busy worrying about losing time to trying to come up with something better.

( Resizing and jpegging hurts pictures something awful. )

I hope Dee is well liked, they haven't seen the picture yet.