so we might have started watching voltron

and predictably, Ari and I are in Sheith hell.

Literally, truly and seriously, how did anyone watch this scene and think they were platonic friends??????? The shipping wars in this fandom are UNREAL dude.

- KP


Quote of the Day: "Careful, man, this isn't a simulator." "Well that's good, I always crash the simulator."

Nightfeather (and Rathersting portrait, finally)

Back from Lady Arin's, and we had such fun! See here:

Lady Arin has the book How To Draw and Paint Faeries, by Linda Ravencroft, of which I am insanely jealous. It is the coolest book! There are all these pages of eyes and ears and noses and mouths and hair and adorable faery clothes, called 'swipe files', that are expressly for copying. *swoons* So I swiped the facial features and the bodice from the book and drew the rest myself. I think I shall call her Nightfeather. XD

Speaking of faeries, here's a pic from the Rathersting photoshoot Lady Arin and I finally got around to doing:

Those tattoos Miss Laini designed are EPIC. We're both wearing our pointy earses, see? *points* There are some better pics, but they have our lovely faces in them, which, of course, you don't want to see (or more accurately, our paranoid parents don't want you to see.) My mommie thinks everybody's a stalker. *cackles, wrings hands*

Miss Laini's baby's name is Clementine Pie! *shrill squeeing commences* I love it! So perfect and cute and awesome! Go look at her blog and marvel at the cuteness!

Commander Kip
TEEN TITANS! ("Why did the aardvark cross the road?" "To beat up the idiot telling jokes about him?")
Normal is overrated!

awesome Raven quotes

*dies laughing* Sorry, I know most of you probably don't care, but this amuses me. Endlessly. I was re-scanning some things I drew a while ago, and was just thinking how hilarious it would be if I were to take this picture of Raven and put some of her quotes up with it. She is so very quotable. If you can't read the text, click on the image to make it beeeeger, kay?

Awright, I'm done now. ;) I've been on such a Teen Titans kick these last few days, it's not even funny. Well, it is actually, that's what makes it so good... but anyway, mah brother and I were discussing plot twists the other night, and we were up till like one in the morning, arguing over whether it was Batman or the city government that provided funding for Titans Tower... it was hilarious. 'Specially cuz he claims he doesn't like Teen Titans. Psh. I know better.

Commander Kip the Temporarily Obsessed
Dude, I am not on the menu!
Normal is overrated!

Artemis Fowl sketchies

Hello - waow, this came out so light, I can barely see it. *smites scanner* Ah well, no matter. ARTEMIS FOWL!!! I just finished re-re-reading The Time Paradox, and just had to do fanart.

N01 turned out way cuter than I expected. Jest lookit the li'l bugger! Top left (the nearly invisible one): a rather blatant copy of Holly's profile picture in the Artemis Fowl graphic novel. I sketched it out with a mechanical pencil, looking at the drawing in the book. I wonder if someone's gonna nail me with a copyright lawsuit or something? Hope not. I think I'm okay. Different media and all that. But just in case, that image is copyright the guy who drew the graphic novel... lemme go look him up... *leaves*

*comes back* Giovanni Rigano. He drew the lineart and Paolo Lamanna colored it. Italian names are such fun. Anyway, none of the characters, or even those runes at the top, belong to me in any way, shape or form.

So. Captain Holly Short in the top left corner, Opal Koboi, the evil little pixie lady, in the other top corner (she looks mighty peeved... perhaps someone just stole her truffles. Mulch, perhaps.) I had inordinate amounts of fun with her hair. It's far too shiny to be credible. Ah well. N01 the demon warlock in the middle. He is ridiculously cute. I always imagined him to be a cute little monster, and he is. By the by, that pose fails in real life. I tried it, and got the nastiest cramp in my calf for the trouble. *annoyed snort* But he's a fantasy critter, so I suppose I can put him in whatever pose I want. His anatomy will adapt. Besides, I had so much fun covering him in runes that I promptly forgot about the cramp in my leg. Moving on: Foaly the paranoid centaur in the bottom left corner. He came out awesome. I am so proud of myself - he looks just like he looks in my head! That is a rare occurrance... something in my head coming out neatly and accurately on the paper. Cheers! I like his ears, and his horsey teeth, and his belly. *sporfle* I love the part at the beginning of the Time Paradox where Holly is teasing him about his belly. Will I get in trouble if I quote it?

"Did you see that human movie with the centaurs?" she asked the centaur on the other end of her helmet communicator. "They were noble and sporty. 'My sword for thee, Majesty, then off for a spot of hunting.' Fit centaurs, now that did make me laugh."
Thousands of miles away, somewhere in the earth's mantle below Ireland, Foaly, the Lower Elements Police's technical advisor, rubbed his paunch.
"Holly, that hurts. Caballine likes my belly."

At which point the book goes on to explain who Caballine is, then Holly apologizes and says she likes his belly too. And Kipin dies laughing. I think I shall do so now. *dies laughing* Again, just in case, I didn't write any of that. Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox is copyright to Eoin Colfer, one of the awesomest, most hilarity-inducing dudes out there.

This post is starting to feel long. Last doodle, lower right corner: the Gnommish text just above it says "PROBE", which refers to the scene from The Time Paradox the doodle is depicting. Holly is magically testing Artemis to make sure he doesn't have the killer magic disease. He doesn't, but it's awfully funny to watch him squirm. He's all like, 'um, Holly, what the crap are you doing with my face?' Not in those exact words, of course, but you get the idea. Oh, and I used the graphic novel again for reference with Holly's LEP suit. So the suit design, once again, is not mine.

I own nothing in the picture (except my signature, which is one hundred and fifty percent mine), so don't eat me!

DONE with Cairi's grad gift. Now, I just gotta get it out of my sketchbook without tearing it, hopefully, and find it a nice frame. Wish me luck. I'm not that great at frame-shopping... we went to like three different department stores for the frame around Lady Arin's Kartik picture, so... yeah. Hopefully this time, it'll go faster. I wish I had a scavenger imp. XD

Commander Kip, Lordess of Long Posts
Total Pwnage.
Normal is overrated!

Oh, wait! Kipin forgot to mention that the Gnommish at the top of the page just says, Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox. I got the Artemis Fowl Files a while back and finally committed to learning how to read and write Gnommish. 'Tis much fun indeed.

the Raven collection

Hey everybody, you won't believe this...

KIPIN FINALLY FINISHED CHAPTER 4 OF PORTALS!!! *dies in relief* That took forevah!

Anyhoo, just thought I'd get that out there.

This is Raven, from Teen Titans.

I am most especially fond of the big colored headshot in the bottom left corner. That was a screenshot from one of the early episodes... the one with the Puppet King... doormat, what was it called? Don't remember, but that's beside the point. I was watching the episode on YouTube and saw that awesome shot, so I paused it and sketched it down. Later, I colored it. The pencil sketch in the top left corner came about the same way. That screenshot was from the episode Spellbound, where she falls in love with an evil dragon who's pretending to be a wizard, lol, lol, that was a cool one. She's about to throw something at Cyborg, a stankball maybe, and I loved the expression on her face. I don't think I captured it quite right... you'd have to see it, gaah, that cracked me up. The one in the top right corner was done first, and I drew it looking at the Volume 1 dvd cover. She actually looks better far away than she does up close there, because of how many times I had to erase her eyes. The paper got all scarred. It looks fine from here though.

In case you can't read the text (it's fairly tiny there), it says, 'I speak English, German, Latin, Romanian, Ancient Sumerian and Sanskrit. Do you have anything I can read?' *dies laughing* Gaah. Best Raven quote evah. From the extended feature thing, Trouble in Tokyo, the ending of which irked me to pieces. *grumblesnarlhiss* I am a RobRae shipper. The ending was decidedly RobStar. 'Nuff said.

Or maybe not. Kipin likes to rant. So - SHE'S TOO HAPPY FOR HIM! IT WOULD NEVER WORK! BESIDES, SHE'S AN ALIEN! Not that we don't all love Starfire, and she does kick serious butt. Howevah! She's simply too bubbly and carefree for Robin. He's from Gotham, raised by Batman. He's seen plenty of things that no teenager should have to see, whereas Starfire is about as naive as it gets. She thinks mustard is a beverage to be drunken through a straw. Besides, Robin and Raven had some valid, convincing moments in the End of the World story arc, and they ah so flippin' cute togethah.

Graphite mechanical pencil, then Prismacolor pencils. Nothing new here. And the disclaimer: Teen Titans is a registered trademark of somebody-or-other, who isn't me. So yeah. Don't own nuthin'. Unfortunately. If I did, the show would still be running and thousands of heartbroken fans would be... un-heartbroken.

Commander Kip who is awfully happy with how Lady Arin's birthday present came out! *squees to self*
Normal is overrated!