Thanksgiving artses

Happy tofurky day. Love you guys too.

This is the violent thing I was working on at school. And guess what? That giant mass of black stuff in the backrground there: those are bees.

This was kinda hard for me to draw, because you know I hate bees. So much. And wasps, and hornets, and yellowjackets, and pretty much any kind of flying stinging insect. I hate them. They stalk me. So it wasn't much fun to come to school and draw nothing but bees day after day. *epic shudder* Blaargh. So glad to have that one out of the way.

This is Fiera, scowling at something or other. She scowls a lot. She's some kind of feline alien, and I'm pretty sure the bad guys in the steampunk story like to enslave aliens and make them work the coal mines and all that crap. So she's a slave, probably, but somehow I don't think I'm gonna stick her in the mines. Maybe she serves the food or something, I dunno.

So I'm painting another gun this weekend, because I can. XD My lovely amazing wonderful Spanish teacher gave us NO HOMEWORK over the break, which made me very happeh, since the history teacher positively loaded us down. Gak. Anyway, pics of that when I get it done.

LADY ARIN'S COMING OVER TOMORROW BWAAAAAAAH *leaps about squeeing* And my room is CLEAN and you can see the FLOOR and everything...

Commander Kip

"Hey, Georgie, how d'y'feel?" "Saint-like."

Normal is overrated!

the glow of a dying sun

My posts ought to all have such interesting titles, I think. Anyway, Thalassa changed her dress.

I was in the tree during all this, by the way, terrified that I was going to drop the camera. But I've always wanted some close-ups of the awesome.

Looking straight down. This picture does not accurately convey how high up I was - well above the roof of my house at this point.

Then I came down.

BWAHHH the tree's on fiiiiiiire! No, actually not.

Taken out the back windshield of the van on the way to Kirksville. Stupid line thingies.

Just getting that out of my system. Poor Thalassa's all bald now - these pics are from several weeks ago.

Oh, dude, THIS SONG: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2M0GQOgYGg I'm comandeering it for Anabeth and the Irlican rebels. Because it's their job to fix thousands of years of bad blood between the Zraelanders and Farshoreans, and I think they're gonna need a theme song to do it.

GAAH, SO MUCH HISTORY HOMEWORK... *dies in agony* I'm epically procrastinating right now, in case you couldn't tell.

Commander Kip

Yes, I will pat you with my thumb and everything will be all better. Cuz I'm just magic like that.

Normal is overrated!

mostly the Commander

but some other unrelated stuffs tooooo. Oh, and it's supposed to snow tonight. Just throwin' that out thare.

So I keep sprouting more people for the new steampunk thingy. This is Commander Benathy Greene, and she is an epic ninja. And Benathy is not a misspelling.

I lent her my boots, because they are epic and manly and she likes them. She is such a manly man. It's pretty funny. Sir Beast is her gun, by the way. XD *loves the Beast*

My history teacher's gonna have no idea what to make of this. Ben's a weirdo. She collects thumbprints in a little tiny book and wears it around her neck like a locket. Also, that tiny scar by her left eye is from a piece of shrapnel from the explosion that killed her husband. Yeah.

She smokes like a chimney, swears like a man, and wears trousers and a cravat to the opera. But she knows what she's doing and sticks by her crew and all that. Currently she's leading an expedition into the Static Zone along with her cousin India and some other learned gents, partly for the good of science, partly to escape the Hounds, which I shall explain at a later date.

I just discovered that there are strange and unearthly creatures called the Green Knights living in seclusion in the Static Zone. Apparently, they're in cahoots with Rebellion himself and their job is to make sure that no one who ventures into the Static Zone will ever return to civilization. MUAAAAAHAHAHAHAAA!!!!! *epic cackle* So, that there is one of their generals, I dunno his name. More of these guys later, I think.

And here we have one of the most celebrated inventions of recent exploration history: Brackolt & Fain's Aethernautical Escape Pod. With improvements. And stuff. This particular model appears to have seen better times. No doubt Sprocket crashed it into the side of the factory while taking it for a test drive. 'Able to withstand the immense and deadly pressures of Space', says the advertisement, but of course, steel walls are something else entirely.

This stuff is for real. I saw all of them while walking around the Renfest earlier this fall. I wish I could have found out where people were getting this stuff, especially the sparkly green antennae.

Booooooring sketch of Kimie from history class, while she was listening and I was not. Normally, nose rings creep me out, but hers suits her.

And lastly but not leastly, I saw Legend of the Guardians on Halloween with Reedfrost and Blondie - oh, have I told you this already? Whatever, it was pretty gorgeous. So here I present you my exceedingly lame rendition of the Great Tree and the awesome floaty light-bulb things. Of doom. I don't know when I'll have time to get pics of my mistcloak. Hopefully sometime before my birthday. I hope.

Oh, I read Dorian Gray last night, kind of in one sitting, because I couldn't really put it down, or bad things were sure to happen when I wasn't looking. And sure enough, they happened, but I saw them all so it's all good. CREEPY BOOK, YOU GAIZ. MUCHO CREEPIFACTION THARE. I'm kind of shocked I didn't have dreadful nightmares last night. Whatevah. Dorian reminded me of a much less Stu-y Edward Cullen, just a little.

Commander Kip

Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

Normal is overrated!

Winter's Coming Home

Such a lovely Tom Jacobs song, which is probably nowhere to be found on Youtube, but feel free to look anyway.

Reminds me of this strange thing I found in one of my folders just now. What is it? A ninja with a flowery scarf? Um. It looks old. I can't remember. I DO know what this is; a strange sorceryful lady with claws and stripes and horns and very odd clothes. I was drawing without thinking, obviously.

And these peeps are from Portals. I've never drawn either of them before. The cutie mouthing off at the top there is Anabeth Walker, Ellian's younger sister's daughter from the new prologue I've been toying with. The younger sister, Ingrid Morgan, was born just after the Portals storyline ends and grew up without ever meeting her sister Anabeth, for reasons I can't explain without giving away some very painful plot twists. In the new prologue, Ellian visits Ingrid and her family and discovers that little Anabeth knows nothing about Irlica or her namesake's disappearance. Ellian explains. The other guy on the paper is Cairbre Faileas, Thaelen's father and the previous Inkmaster. Pre-Blight, obviously. Muaa. Shiny, isn't he?

And here we haz the planz I drew up for mah loverly Spatler a while back when I was bored in art class and had nothing more productive to do.

Psh, I dunno who it is. Some random small person. Something appears to be wrong with her head. I was listening to Rachmaninoff preludes and my hand just kept throwing down lines while I wasn't paying attention.
If you crazy people still haven't read Larklight by Phillip Reeve, there might be some imminent smitation coming your way. Possibly. I'm serious, this book is a fount of steampunky epicness. And it has Jack Havock in it.

Gaw, that book was gross and depressing. But so masterfully written. NIGHT by Elie Wesel, you guys. Read it and weep. My art teacher said this was 'a very powerful image', thanks very much.

And this is my buddy DJ on the bus on the way to the Kemper a few weeks ago. He does actually wear his hair like that, for realz. It's pretty beasty.

I'm making something rather violent in art class right now. Once it gets done, I'll have to take it out of doors to get a good picture, because it's about three times the size of my scanner glass. I also have two more faerie doors to take picsies of, and another cool thingy that is sort of hard to explain. I'll just take some pictures and show you sometime.

Stuck on Chapter Twelve again, surprise surprise...

Commander Kip

"LUKE, IT'S A TRAP!!" No rly? I think the hordes of stormtroopers kind of gave that one away just a little bit...

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NEWSFLAAAAASH

Guess what, peopleses? Some of you already know this. If you missed it, pay attention this time. If you didn't, happy birthday, you get to hear it again, because I'm announcing it all official-like this time.

I am now the freakin' STATE CHAMPION pianist in Missouri for my age group. (!!!) And to that I say, WHUT NAOW. So there. XD I also somehow managed to take third place in the regional Young Artist's piano competition this weekend, which was also awesome. Plus, that one paid monies. Yay.

Hokay, just had to get that out of my system really quick.

Commander Kip
Zombies and pizza. Pizza... zombies. How did we get on this topic?
Normal is overrated!

Renfest 2010

It rocketh, as it does every year. I think I've been every year of my life so far.

Just look at it. Look!

Just look at the llama!

The gypsies were like my favorite part this year. The dude gypsy in the middle - see him? - he was hilarious, and suitably hawt besides. He and a few other dudes did this fire-twirling thing where they had these flaming staves and they were swinging 'em round and blowing fire out of their mouths and awesome stuff like that. *epic squeeface*

I have art, but no pictures of it, so you get the Renfest piccydump instead. I saw a hobbit there, by the way. And an elf dude with long pretty hair in a black leather trenchcoat. Not to mention the aforementioned hawt gypsy dude, who was also funny and also played with fire. Epic much.

And on a completely different note, I had my Yamaha state piano competition this weekend, and I... won. O.o I am the FREAKIN' STATE CHAMPION THANK YOU VERY MUCH HAVE A NICE DAY.

Commander Kip

I know you think it's stupid, but it's good for ya. Like vitamins. And... vegetables.

Normal is overrated!