An elf monk I created for DnD this week. I wanted to play with the typical proportions and aesthetic of elves.
As kids, my brothers and I loved to rent Unico in the Island of Magic and one of my favorite characters was big brother Toby who gains magical powers to serve a crazy evil puppet. And like he had to turn everyone (animals too) into magical puppets too.
This is Toby, but a girl Toby.
This was just a raw digital painting – no pencil/paper like I usually do. It’s really hard to get started, but once I get painting it’s really fun. I think I am just much more dexterous with a pencil so I can get my ideas down much more quickly and in greater detail. Whereas with the tablet/stylus I feel like I fumble a little bit more to get the sketch down. I think it’s mostly to do with the free rotation of the paper – it’s not as easy to do in Photoshop.
Aimless sketching with a ballpoint pen while our family played Cranium over the holidays. Utter silliness, surely!
Figaro and his lil’ Hufflepuff sister, Winnie. They’re about crazy enough to be a match for each other. See them in action at Absit Omen Harry Potter RPG.
Used the excellent reference available at SenshiStock.
Niobe Thursby loves to talk, but since she’s a reporter for the Daily Prophet, mostly she listens. Here, I give her a chance to state her mind.
I often reference the rad stock photography of SenshiStock at DeviantArt – there’s so much inspiration to work from.
My old friend John posts pictures from his life on his tumblr. One of his pictures inspired a quick drawing this morning.
I gather the dog is called Rosy.
Sometimes you simply must draw, and in those times I just drop everything and do it. Like writing down a dream if I don’t do it, the feeling might disappear.
This is Dominik Wiedman, Natalie’s character at Absit Omen Harry Potter RPG, surrounded by thirteen moons, all pulling him in different directions. He and Niobe have this thing together, but there are forces in Dom’s messed up vagabond criminal life that are pulling him to reform his ways. Poor lil’ fella.
This is a pencil drawing with alterations in photoshop. I played with values and gradients and filters and junk to work with a fast pencil drawing.
Yesterday I felt I needed extra protection so I wore the biggest t-shirt in our apartment, fuzzy pajama pants, my nice plaid Converse blazer, my infinity scarf, sunglasses and the larges knit hat in the world which I bought from Thailand because I have a big head and big hair.
Clothes are armor. I am a clothie?
Or maybe she’s a Jedi. Just sketching last night to help myself think about a website project.
Figaro is notoriously distracted and loud-mouthed. Seto is infamously lazy and flippant. They are made for each other. They are the princes of Hufflepuff.
Dance Teachers Shape the Lindy Hop Community : In modern Lindy Hop, most people's entrance into the community is through a class. I think perhaps Back In The Day, you just got out on the floor and learned 'in the wild'. But Nowadays, instructors rule our world.
Good and bad, right? I think h...879 views
Free Steampunk Gears for Photoshop :
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A set of 10 free Photoshop custom shapes for any of your fine mechanical construction projects. Ideal for zeppelins, airships, gyroscopes and widgets. These gears are offered gratis, but don't go off trying to sell them.
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Potterverse School Uniforms : Absit Omen is getting ready for the TetraWizard Tournament, which for our role-playing site is going to be a massive, probably years-long site-wide plot. It's probably the biggest project we've taken on and one of the things we wanted to sort out as...832 views
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Web design and development-ready .psds, basic HTML, CSS and Wo...817 views
T-Shirt Mod Tutorial: Two Color Hipster Cowel Neck : I think t-shirt modding is one of my favorite craft projects because it's cheap and it really doesn't matter if you mess up - it's a $2.99 XL shirt from the Goodwill. I don't like t-shirt mods that are just a cut-job and you end up with a tattered ga...430 views
Old World Fantasy Map Tutorial : This tutorial takes you through how to create an inked effect for lines for something like a fantasy, or old-timey map. Uses Photoshop and takes advantage of an repeated Photoshop Action. The tutorial shows you how to create the Action, but you can...410 views- Steampunk Goggles Activate : Oh the days of steampunk. What happened to those simpler times where steam and clockworks powered everything, we were all zeppelin pilots, mechanics and inventors, and daily life for most folks necessitated goggles? (Was it all the alchemical motes ...358 views
Women Leading & Men Following : I've collected some YouTube clips of Lindy Hop partnerships where women are leading, and men are following. Some of them are social clips, others choreographed for competitions, and still others are improvised jam-style competitions. They are all o...323 views
Jack’ing in the J&J : A couple weeks ago, I competed as a lead in a fun little Jack & Jill at the Omaha Jitterbugs' Christmas party. I say 'little' because well, there's probably no friendlier audience and lower stakes than that homey atmosphere surrounded by your home s...314 views- The Discussion of Gender in Lindy Hop :
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An entry of mine from later this month. I'd forgotten I'd written it: Leads...268 views