How Did You Come Up With The Design For You're Merpeople? They're Freaking Epic.

Hooooly shit, okay, I love your art a LOT./creepin

Thanks! I don't mind the creepin, I thought that was what the internets were for? 8| Trust me, if I didn't want to share my art I'd be ALL the way under my rock instead of just partially!

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I decided to post some unfinished stuff that is floundering on my hard drive!

And to buck the trend of overambitious fanart that I lose interest in when 80% complete or so…. have one actually finished picture :D

the doctor is always worth it

Can you please have an about page somwhere? It's just that I'm nosy and I'd like to know things. For example, how old are you? Do you have a day job? Do you draw a comic or just random art things? (Both are good). I'm only interested because you're art's so pwetty :3, so please take this comment/these questions in the least creepy way possible!

I'm so comfortable under my internet rock! A long time ago I used to be super open about my life but I hate to admit it was cos my life was boring as hell. It hasn't been boring in a looong time... but its not in a fun way that I want to share... Hmm. I'm 26. I don't draw random art things but I don't draw a comic either (though I have a story I am writing to be a comic, the rest of my stories aren't, my ideas for their formats vary). I am... looking for a day job AHAHaha man I am such a starving artist cliche right now.

IS THIS SATISFACTORY cos that's all you're getting :)

WALTER MANOR?

Ok this is gonna be rambly bear with me. I don't blab about what I post here usually cos portraits and clothes whatevs, self-explanatory. But ARCHITECTURE, OK. I am so happy with this you don't even know. I've messed with sketchup a few times in the past with the intention of modeling locations in my stories but this is the first time I was motivated enough to power straight thru 3D's infuriating learning curve (I still can't function in Blender at ALL the interface makes me cry but I'll keep trying). I traced the elevation from the comic and the rest has been a series of educated guesses from what I know about architecture. It's pretty straightforward to figure out scale and floor locations based on window placement. I reeeally want to do the whole manor because it's fun to think about all the wacky stuff that must be in it and I'm seriously looking forward to the comic for exactly this reason. Seriously, where is Bebop.

So YEAH I totally want to do the interior, etc, but that depends on what Bunny and Sam share with us. Hint hint.

Hint hint

Oh man so I don't pay much attention to top 40 so it took me forever to discover that I... LOVE... Katy Perry's style. Her and Lady Gaga THERE I SAID IT. It just makes me so happy that they like to be so so weird. Anyways just watched KP's new video and am going nuts over her outfits, found a blog posting of photos from one of the people who worked on the wigs augh omg, omg clothes, etc

...I'm a little mad cos recently I doodled a new character that looks WAY too much like Satyr!Katy but she looks so awesome that augh its hard to stay mad when that sort of thing happens if its awesome so brb I have to go draw 10 pages of clothes in my sketchbook now

I will ask you a thing for WW. Where do you find your inspirations for all the rad awesome outfitery for your elf dudes? So many mixes of different textiles and structures.

Inspiration is just seriously everywhere, movies, thrift stores, magazines, historical clothing reference books (especially these!). My favorite strategy is picking elements from a few different cultures and time periods and smashing them together. I think it works because I have clear ideas about the world, the sets of cultural inspirations (use a LOT of japanese, victorian, indian, and modern western styles), and the technology level (there's mass production... retail catalogs... zippers...). Errikan has this pleated samurai pants thing, leather jacket with coattails thing, and hiking boots (but taller) thing. Naroth has jodhpurs that turn into spats, a utilikilt, and a goddamn cowboy hat. Sounds ridiculous written out but I Tim Gunn that shit and make it work

I noticed that this raised some questions, lol. I did waffle on it for a while but yeah there was some reasoning behind it (no really)

a. rubber bullets.

b. she is a cop (detective NOPD anti-gang, coast guard reservist instead of full time) and feels naked without it /stereotype

c. she has great aim with firearms, not so much with powers.

d. edited her abilities so she has to switch her entire mass to energy form to use her power, no laser hand-blasts.

e. this version of Monica is when she is very new and doesn't have precise control over her ability, her resting energy state is basically a glowy white-light energy being that is diffused over a fairly wide area so she doesnt risk incinerating everything/one around her. When she concentrates it she can tap into the cosmic background radiation to boost her intensity but its like opening power floodgates. This is great for battle against superbeings and giant monsters, not so much against humans. She CAN manifest at more midrange intensities but no matter what area of the spectrum she's at this would be either very annoying to downright dangerous (disrupting radio communications, internet and wifi, being too blindingly bright. Or uh giving everyone around her radiation poisoning/cancer... not really an acceptable form of collateral damage. Everyone tends to draw the line at weaponized throwing cars)

f. IN CONCLUSION, her two current settings are essentially "light show" and "atom bomb". 

/nerd

PS- later on she learns to reign it in enough to work as an Active Denial System though :p but takes a level of precision she doesn't initially have and would just microwave everything.

My fiercely burning Tony Stark fetish has been flaring up and the only cure is FAN ARRRT

Camera phone and photoshop express for android are poor substitutes for a scanner and actual photoshop, but those don't fit in my pocket, ok. I've been using my phone so much for stuff I'm considering getting a nicer one.. I kinda want a galaxy note for the giant screen and stylus, but I need my qwerty slider, kinda want a mytouch slide for the 12megapixel camera and HDR... etc. Godammit gadgets still not scifi enough, gimme all these things in one smartphone already I basically want a pocket-sized tablet laptop is that too much to ask??

:p

Extremis Tony is my favorite (ugh don't get me started on that magical bleeding edge armor, I suppose he stores his extra mass in a pocket dimension??) but a while back I did some research on bionanotechnology for a paper and I always have my own sci/fi bullshit ideas for how stuff works. Instead of having an undersuit stored in his bones (arrgh bones aren't hollow, learn to anatomy!) he'd sweat out a protocellular metallic gel that functioned as a medium for nanobots and synthetic flora to leave his body and interface with the armor like a circulatory system. He'd sprout fiber optic "hair" that would wire into his nervous system. Wetware! It would be super gross :D

I steal ideas from myself (in this case the Antonia Stark that I did forever ago)... cos it IS challenging and fun to design robot armor, but you can't really improve on perfection :p There's only so much you can do before it loses its iron man...ness.

BUT I needed to give him rocket launcher arms I DRAW WHAT I WANT

Gryph Encarcer, Jackalope Faun Ranger, Ghostbuster of Eldritch Horrors and Primordial Evils, fights with a giant paintbrush staff using calligraphy magic... because OCs can be whatever you want to draw all at the same time xD

First time I'm tempted to do a proper character Illustration in FOREVERRR, something fun like a flashy calling card maybe

omg you punk i didn't know you had a tumblr

it's new! New ish! I promise! Augh I am making an effort get off my ass, woman