Mask, fully repaired and back from the kiln

Finally DONE! I actually finished this ages ago, and just now remembered to post it.

Mask done, at long flippin' last:

Doncha just love all the clutter and mess around it? Very proffesional, no? By now I've got it back from the kiln, and it's a lighter color of brownish-tan. My art teacher decided not to have it glazed, because the Clay Guild just got a new glazing kiln that's not quite calibrated yet, and some of the other student's glazed projects came back funky. So I'm just gonna paint it green myself, and slap some air-drying topcoat on it, and call it done. At LAST. Sheesh.

Omg, I just had an awesome idea for a fanart! Listen to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv2kmFZTDeY My latest Loreena McKennit obsession. What does it remind you of?

Commander Kip the DONE WITH THE STUPID MASK, FINALLY!

Total Pwnage.

Normal is overrated!

Greek sword plus other stuff

Check this out. -> My li'l bro made this at his friend's dad's warehouse the other day. It's a Greek short sword, see? I was fairly impressed with the little bugger... and especially since he wants to paint it now. He nevah does art projects willingly... so I was like, 'Yeah, go for it!' First we gotta get our hands on some metallic bronze paint. That would be awesome. He wants black for the handle and bronze for the blade. *is proud, ruffles his hair*

Also: some things that I'm working on... Cairi's grad gift, which is coming along great and is gonna be so cool... some Artemis Fowl-related fanart doodles, inspired by my recent re-reading of the Time Paradox (ARTXHOLLY FO' EVAH!!!), flippin' awesome school project that I can't wait to show you guys, and a piano arrangement for the Secret Garden song, "Prayer". Most beautiful sound EVAH. Go listen to it immediately. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih3aAx-S5xg Yess. I'm trying to arrange THAT for piano. 'Trying' being the operative word here. XD It's actually not going too badly... I can sing the solo voice part, after all, and the piano can pick up the other voices. I looove this piece... *hugs it*

Other stuff: some art pieces in the planning... Pendragon scribbles, mostly Kasha, since I finally got the Books of the Travelers thingies and the first one has a believable picture of her on the cover... fanart for Hannaliese, another school friend, who is in wub wid Germany and all her kickbutt characters are German and amazing and have handguns (I love those guys... especially Arlene and Aryann)... um, er, what else? Ah yes, the long-procrastinated Guardians Versus Warriors pic. I'm a tetch scared o' that un, porque sera muy dificil dibujar. I did a short study a while ago on cats and owls, but it was sich a short study tha' I doubt et ded any guid a'tall. Anyway, it's in the lineup for... eventually. Also, I really need to draw my four lovelies from Savvy. I tried a while back, but it was such an epic fail that I gave up. Timo looks quite demented. I shall have another go at some later date.

Gotta go memorize my lines for the epic skit we're doing for Spanish 2. It has to do with airplanes, and Ipods, and sandwiches con carne, y un vegetariana (yo) who gets to freak out over the meat-based menu. And hand sanitizer. *cackles gleefully* Sera muy divertido indeed.

Commander Kip the DONE WITH THE SPANISH FINAL WOOOOOT!

Total Pwnage.

Normal is overrated!

Andra

Take a look at this ancient relic! It's Princess Andra from the Tales of Castle O'Konnor story. Ooooold. Well, not THAT old, actually... it's from last year, during art class, when we were supposed to be drawing portraits of a live model, and then class got over and the model left, and I had only done the braid. XD So I turned it into Andra, 'cause it sorta looked like her. Mind you, this was done before I knew how to draw. Lol.

Writing excerpt that I am rather proud of:
“Eran!” I screamed. “What are you doing? Tell them to stop!”
“Can’t do it,” he shouted back over the roar of battle-hungry warriors. “Stay out of this, Andra. I would hate to see you get hurt.”
“You don’t seem to care if they get hurt,” I fired back, motioning to Father’s soldiers.
His voice dropped in volume, and I had to strain my ears to make out his words.
“They are not you, my love.”
I tugged myself free of Eran’s bodyguards and stormed over to him. “If you really loved me, you wouldn’t be attacking my father’s men! My friends are down there! Please, Eran.” My voice sounded whiny and desperate, even to me, but I had to at least try to save the squires. “Call off your men. Eran, I’m begging you…please.”
I saw the conflict on his face for an instant before it became a stony mask. He sounded cold and dispassionate as he replied, “No.”

Hehe. This bit happens near the end of the book, when Eran turns out to be a traitor who was smuggling in mercenary soldiers in order to take over the kingdom. Pretending to be Andra's suitor proved an excellent cover for him... but he sure blew that when his men started attacking the O'Konnor soldiers. Bwahahaaaaaaaaaa. Eran does NOT turn good in the end. He dies. So there.

So Eran and Andra and Eran's burly bodyguards are all on the top of the wall, watching the battle down below. Andra's friends the squires are down there in the fray, and of course she's worried to pieces about them, and she just found out that Eran doesn't really love her, and she's kinda going to pieces. But hey, can you blame her? Eran is eeeevil. *swats him* Eeevil eeeeevil boy. He's in league with Fable and Claptrap. Until Nath kills him, anyway.

Commander Kip the randomly digging through old computer files (that's how I found all this decrepit stuff...)
Total Pwnage.
Normal is overrated!

PH34R T3H H3M0G0BL1N!

Hemogoblin time!

Finally got these on my computer. XD Here's the lineart: And here's the colored version, which I scanned. Lookit the difference! Now I wish I had waited to color it until I got a scan of the lineart too.

So. This is Amzi's request drawing: her Hemogoblin, from the Hopshire story. I had naught to do in study hall one day, and I was like, "Amzi, what should I draw?" and she was like, "Draw me something - ooh, draw me my Hemogoblin!" and I was like, "Okay!"

So most of the lineart was done in study hall... but I finished it when I got home and decided that it should be colored. He's red, because he's the Hemogoblin (you know, hemoglobin, Hemogoblin, get it? Lol.) Yess. I had too much fun making him ugly. I actually like his hand! Gawsp! And his ears, those were fun. And - see? - he has Sauron eyes. *titter* Oh, and I heart his weapon. It's not very savage or goblin-ish, I admit it, but it came out so cool all the same, and I'm still learning how to do blades, so piff.

Mechanical pencil and Prismacolors and a kneaded eraser and a SCANNER YAY!

Character AND art belong to Amzi the Mandolin Warrior, even though I drew it. I gived it to her, so it's hers now. I have a copy in my folder though. *grin* Printers don't like red...

Commander Kip who SHOULD be doing Spanish homework - can you believe this: On the last day of school, my brother gets a party, and I get... a final. WHAT IS THIS TREACHERY?! *blusters* I am inscenced! *snarl* Blasted high school.

SPRINK ON YOUR SPRONK!

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Heartwood

INNENT SHE PURDY?!?!?! And lookit the nice white-ness of scannerism! *flips out big time* I love that thing. The skiving software that came with it, howevah, shall be the death of me. It wants my blood.

ANYway: This is my Lord of the Rings OC (don't eat me, Amzi!), Liriel Heartwood. Her name has an accent mark over the first 'i', but of COURSE the computer won't have that. X( She's blind, in case you were wondering what the heck is wrong with her eyes. They're supposed to look like that.

I am ridiculously proud of this for several reasons: One, I shaded it (!!!), two, there's a border, three, her left hand came out awesome, four, there is a design on her kirtle, and five, I wub the tree. Oh yeah, and her hair looks like hair. Shock, I know.

The light source I did was... dumb. The light is supposed to be slanting in from the top left, but then there was the tree throwing all sorts of funky shadows on her entire right side. Meh. *smacks self mentally* Oh well. Next time, I shall remember to stay away from questionable light sources.

Drew this while I should have been starting Cairi's graduation pic. Yes, the entirely fictional one, the one I just thought of, but should have nearly finished by now. School's almost over and I've not even started yet. *sweat drop* Yeah. Gotta get to work. Hint: Cairi's a Faramir fan. *evil cackle, wrings hands*

Commander Kip who's nearly feeling better now
SPRINK ON THIS NASSTY COLD THING! I SHALL SMITE IT
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THAELEN'S HAIR!!!

Happy Easter to those of you who celebrate it, lol.

The scan on this kinda failed... so washed out you can barely see it... so look at both of these, I suppose.

THAELEN'S HAIR!!! *squees and makes grabby hands* It actually sorta looks like hair, too. *is impressed with self* I don't like his mouth though, or his eye. Argh, eyes! And is it just me, or is his ear too small? I loved this while I was working on it, but now that I back up and really look at it as a whole, I see all my mistakes. *grouses* Ah well. It sorta looks like Thaelen! *hugs the poor boy*

I think the reason it scanned so badly was that I drew the entire thing in metallic silver Prismacolor pencil. Scanners and colored pencils do not get along well. I like the effect though... made it look kinda soft and transparent on paper. On paper, that is. Paper. Not the computer screen. Snarl. On the screen, it just looks... gray.

Look, shading! *points*

No touchie my favorite smexy angst bunny! You take, I smite, all clear? *scary music*

Commander Kip the very protective of Thaelen

SPRINK ON YOUR SPRONK! Wow, 'sprink' and 'spronk' are so hard to type...

Normal is overrated!

Kip the faery

I am so proud of myself, for several reasons.

First off, this is a scan! Crooked, but a scan nonetheless. Amazing, I know.

Second, I just am really happy with the drawing in general. Look how nice and white the background is! I didn't draw the border all skewed like that, it happened when I scanned it... must have gone in lopsided. Ah well.

I shaded this! Even the sword! I really love the sword. I could do some serious smiting with it. Mi madre says I look a tad grumpy, but I told her it's because I'm about to smite someone. That thing sprouting out of the top of my head is my other wing, not some kind of messed-up horn like my brother thought. And I is so very proud of the border. Yess.

Hmm. I just noticed that the boobs are too high up... oops. *shrug* Bother. I want that dress though.

Ears! *zips about squeeing*

Mechanical pencil and nassty baad sketchbook paper. Baaaad. It doesn't let me erase! *smites*

Commander Kip the Scanner-Crazy
SPRINK ON YOUR SPRONK!
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Autumn Leaves

Did I spell 'autumn' correctly??? Why doesn't Blogger have a spellcheck - wait - IT DOES! Cool! I never noticed that before...

I checked it, and yes, that spelling was right.

Random watercolor fun in art class: It's Kartik! Lol, just kidding. It's some random tree I painted with watercolors during art a week ago. I never use watercolors because of how messy they are and they take so long to dry, plus it' impossible to erase, which never works for me 'cause I always mess up at least once. Usually more than once. Anyway, this is going into the art coffin now, just thought you might wanna see it before I hide it under my bed with the rest of my ancient art, lol.

I drew the CUTEST PICTURE in my notebook. It's a self portrait of sorts, and I shaded it and there's even a BORDER around it, which, frankly, astonishes me. I ought to put borders around things more often. It looks twice as professional, even though it's not. Muaah. You can see it... as soon as I get around to making another scanner run. XD *squees giddily at menti0n of scanner*

Commander Kip the - oh yes, one more thing: I'm writing this scene near the very end of Portals, where Anabeth died and came back to life the first time, and Thaelen doesn't know she's alive, and he goes off to kill himself, and Anabeth almost drowns trying to save him. Very epic and romantic scene. I am having way too much fun torturing those two. Only because I love them, you understand.
SPRINK ON YOUR SPRONK!
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Laughingstar

I'm baaaaack, with something a bit more interesting than chemistry homework.

This is one of my many alter egos, Laughingstar of StormClan. I botched the coloring job a bit, all those blonde spots should be lighter, but ah well. A doodle I did on the back of a choir handout in church, then colored when I got home. You can't tell in the pic, but her eyes are a very pretty blue color.

Hey, guess what? Kipin's daddy finally fixed the scanner! FINALLY! *dies* It wasn't a data card problem after all, it was just a matter of installing the proper online software. Duh. I wonder why no one thought of that months ago??? *fumes* Ah well. I scanned my friend Amzi's free commission with it, and it's on the computer now, yay! But the scanner kinda sucked out all the red, so the poor Hemogoblin's skin looks kinda orange now. Oh, I'll just post it so I don't have to explain it to you all. *dashes away*

Laughingstar
SPRINK ON YOUR SPRONK!
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Modern Art

... And here we have some lovely modern art.


APRIL FOOL!!!

Sorry. I had to. *snickers behind hands* Did I fool ya? Knowing all you smart people, probably not. *sigh* Ah well. It's a page of chemistry homework, by the way.

Hey, this isn't my most epic fail of a prank ever! That honor goes to the one I did on my brother and younger cousin several years ago. I took two bowls of soy milk and cereal and froze them overnight in the freezer. They took one look at them, said, "EW", and got their own breakfast. *fumes* Epic fail.

Still don't have the rest of my pictures on the camera, but as soon as I do, I'll post something real. I swear. Outlaw's honor. XD Happy April Fool's Day!

Oh yes, I totally wore my elf ears to school today. Epicness ensued.

Commander Kip the Elf-Eared
SPRINK ON YOUR SPRONK!
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