lykomancer: (Gabriel)
I have the sexiest werewolf on the planet. LIEKWHOA, hardcore.

Admire the hotness that is Gabriel Koboyashi, second beast of Revelations, right hand woman/wolf to Satan, assassin, smartass. )

*wibbles, then licks the beastie*
I so need to get cracking on Blessed Be. Gabriel must be written in all of her sexy, sexy glory.

___
The icon, interstingly enough, is actually a scan from one of Hirano Kouta's earlier pre-Hellsing manga that I cropped and colored to be Gabriel. It was too perfect for me not to.
lykomancer: (I'm a work of art)
So you get drawings instead of writing.

First you get anime-style sketches of my werewolf assassin, Gabriel.
Her first appearance on paper, which is a little rough, of course.
Cleaned up a bit. After a few tries, I nailed this look as her final draft, which I am really happy with.
Because everyone loves a naked werewolf
Chibi Gabriel! Awwww, she's so cute!

Next up:
Bad Envy fanart! Huzzah!
(Man, this sketch is old! It's from, like, last May, when I decided that Envy in a pair of cut-off Daisy-Duke shorts was a must in my life. However, I just couldn't bring myself to draw a realistic...um, bulge...as he should have. Just couldn't.)

But sometimes I REALLY, ACTUALLY draw!
A draco-corn from a D&D campaign I played in once. Fiddled with this a little in Photoshop, but not much. The colors really are that luscious and vibrant on paper. ^_^ Prismacolor pencils on smooth grain paper.

And the creme de le creme:
An anthropomorphic doe crucified.
Blessed are the Meek
I was doing a lot of reading about animal rights and liberation theology, and it occurred to me: if Jesus came to embody all human suffering, why not all animal suffering as well? This is the result of that musing.
I love pointillism. I don't know why, but I do. Sick, huh? This was done in a week, using .3 Micro Pigma markers and fine-point black Sharpies on rough grain paper.
Here's a detail


Maybe I'll scan in my kirin later, as I am inordinately proud of how that one came out.
But there you go.
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Well, for the first time in over five years, I've finally begun drawing again. Not those piddling half-realized sketches, not anime-style junk-food portraiture with no backgrounds and half-assed colored with Prang pencils, but REAL drawing. Shading, detail, backgrounds, perspective, symbolism.

I went out and spent 70 bucks on new art supplies: Prismacolor pencils, waterproof India ink, finepoint dip-pens, Micro Pigma markers, camel hair watercolor brushes, tubes of watercolor gouche, a heavy-weight fine-toothed 8x11 drawing pad. Totally worth it, though I actually haven't touched any of it yet (...except to unwrap it from the plastic and gloat over it, sniffing the "new stuff" smell). I wanted to finished the last picture I started with the old before I broke into the new.
And what a picture it is that I just finished! For the for time in years, I sat down an did an entire piece in pointillism-- yeah, I did the whole thing with dots, shading, texture, and all. And it is super-cool.

(And interestingly, I did a brief bored sketch from memory of Theresa-san, and when Julie flipped through my book and saw the sketch, she recognized who it was supposed to be. o.O I don't think it's that good of a likeness...)

And I've got so much homework to do...still working on that #$%&!ing annotated bibliography, but I've go enough done that I think I have plenty of time to find my last six sources and write them up. And I have to remember that I'm on the worship group for Thursday's class, and that I should find some reading or artwork or something to bring. And I really should finish reading Harnack for Historical. And I have to remember to take my sexism collage into class with me on Thursday.
And I want to remember to find a Writer's Market and write down some likely places I can sell some of my older writings both to a) get some money and b) get to say that I actually am published. I want to see if any place will take my photography as well.

And sadly, Tom comes home tonight. Is it wrong of me to hope that bad weather will keep him in Iowa another day?

I suppose I should go get crackin' on my work...
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So... my therapist-- Xan-- finally decided that I need to take the crazies test and possibly get put on meds.
This is because I told her about my funfunfun week in Ashland; damn, if I had known that's all it would take to get my Zoloft...
I think I frustrate her a lot. I also think she's just trying-- at this point-- to get me to say that I feel "sad" (instead of frustrated/annoyed/angry/disheartened) and to say that I am lonely, which even though I am most of the time, I won't say, though I'll agree with her when she says it.

I got another A- on a Historical paper.
I wish I could be just like Paul-sensei! If I were male, and it legal, I'd marry the man; I love him so damn much-- and I don't even really know why! I absolutely do not understand my infatuation with him, not at all. Although at the potluck on Tuesday before class, I did find out that I'm not the only one. Apparently, he has a small cult following, and no one really gets why they like him so much.
I guess that's what you call charisma!

I also think the married male TA in Historical was hitting on me. !O.o;;; And the chiropractor that's in the class told me that my ribs still hurt-- yeah, still, two weeks after the fact-- because I probably cracked the cartilage. Skippy. And then he told me that he was trying to get rid of some computers; did I want his number?
(Even though he says that they're still Windows 98 and not too much better than the one I've currently got, I'm thinking that I can salvage some of the parts; I mean, what the hell? it's free.)

Speaking of that, I'm browsing computers on the internet, but realize I have no idea what I'm looking for. Could someone give me some stats so that I can have a basis for comparison?
(Like this: "Intel Pentium 4 Processor, 2.8GHz, 512MB RAM, 200GB Hard Drive, 4X DVD+/-RW Drive, Windows XP Home Edition." ...OK, fabulous, and this means what to me?)

I need to stop buying manga.
Like really.
I have about 250$ worth of manga now, and I want MORE! It's like candy; I can't stop buying it. Y'know, I'd say, "OK, I'll just buy the rest of the series I've started, and then stop" but even if I bought the rest I'd just move on to another series. (Like Kenshin, which I've never seen/read but have heard so much about.)
I've totally abandoned my interest in fantasy (except for the Dark Tower series, which is finally finished...but I'm waiting for it to come out in paperback), books on disease, religion...all my favorites...for the junk-food that is manga.
Can't go into Borders; can't go into Borders; can't go into Borders...

And I need to find an art supply store. Like a real one. Although, everytime I ask someone if there's one in the nearby area (no matter where I am), they always direct me to Office Max.
Ok, kids, Office Max is NOT an art supply store. Not by any stretch of the imagination. I know this because, for example, they don't sell linseed oil.
So stop telling me to go there.

Right.
I should go to chapel.
____
EDIT:

HotASLlady is so very, very hot. I ran into her on my way to choir and my heart felt like it literally stopped. It hurt.
I am also very impressed with (I think his name's Brian) the new ASL person that's in Thursday's Historical class (which, since Tom dropped the class we shared on Tuesday night, I more of an excuse to attend, because it's easier for me to get to and from Thurday afternoon's class than to and from Tuesday night's. This means more HotASL-ness. Yippee for me!); he's cute when he smiles, too.

...I'm not really a walking ball of hormones.
Really.
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It's freakin' 2 goddamn am, and what does my brain decide to do?

Yeah, you got it... draw Envy in short Daisy-Duke style cut-off shorts. Stupid brain.

He came out surprisingly well considering how badly I suck at drawing the male torso, however, his hair came out waaaayyy different than I intended (trying to correct an inking mistake ended up being most of his hair, which is far more voluminous than it should be), and his head band should be wider. He is also, for some reason I have yet to ascertain, holding what is supposed to be a beach ball.

So I bebopped the last little while away listening to Pogu and occasionally humming "Who wears short shorts?"

I also decided, based off of this, that I now need to draw Lust in a "yellow polka-dot bikini."

Sins at the beach series?
Who the hell knows.

Maybe Envy's grinning at Gluttony's antics-- namely, trying to eat a vacationing family who is also (unfortunately) at the beach.

...

Ok... I'm GOING TO BED NOW.
Before something else seeps into my head.

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