just a little 2x6 scrap of paper i wanted to try a speed painting on. took about 15 minutes.

charcoal, white charcoal, and colored pencil on grey paper. took about 4 hours and this is my first time seriously trying to do something on toned paper... overall im pretty pleased, even if the lighting on the feathers isnt quite right. :)

the vertical lines are a texture in the paper... they're not as visible in person.

Great Tit is an awesome name for a bird. srsly. had to do this to go with the boobie.

it wasnt really an option. :P

in a toss up between painting Great Tits or a Boobie, the Boobie won. still like the tits, though... they might have to be done sometime in the near future.

one of several crappy sketches today. thinking i'll try painting instead and see if that turns out any better, or if im just not going to get anything done today.

assuming i ever go back and do a color version of this, the hair would be made of leaves, maybe a few flowers, and the skin would have a wood grain to it. yay dryad.

i like this one. :) watercolor and gouache, touched up a bit digitally because it didnt fit on my scanner, so i had to take a photo. the icky white pixels on their heads and wings are because i used an iridescent medium in the paint and the camera flash didnt like it.

took all day, but yay birdies.

a pair of quaggas* for Olivia! hooray gift arts. :)

*inside joke. yes, i know one is actually an okapi.

i doodled this while watching Star Trek 4. there are issues (like the missing leg, and the misshapen head) but all in all its not bad, considering its watercolor on old caricature paper i had lying around rather than watercolor paper... one of these days i may redo it on proper paper and see if it comes out better.

last one for tonight. the blue is a lot bluer, but it got washed out in the scan for some reason. oh well. toodles.

someone stage an intervention, im still painting. o_O

using up the scraps from cutting 8x10 bits out of larger paper. this one took about an hour, mostly figuring out where to put the stripes.

another 8x10. this is a redo of something i did digitally five or so years ago. while the colors didnt turn out as vibrant as i might have liked, its not bad for an hour and a half.

behold. i have doodled. took about... eh, maybe 3 hours? 8x10, which is bigger than i usually work, so there's both more detail and more fail. not sure which outweighs the other. the more i look at it the more i think i can do something similar but better if i try again sometime.

also, i dislike the character more than the background. silly rabbit... edges are too hard, lighting isnt right. but oh well.