enough procrastinating already

I finally sat down and drew this. I've been wanting to do it for ages. So yeah, you know who these people are. Peter Pan in Scarlet: go read it NAOW. Peter in Hook's second-best coat and Wendy in her pirate-flag dress. And her daughter's ballet slippers, lol. I had fun doing them. Don't even think about looking at their feet, by the way.

All right, so I'm leaving on Monday for my third year of the Future Astronaut Training Program, which means I'll be going to Houston, yaay! So excited. I get to push all the important buttons. WOOT. So anyway, I won't be anywhere near an Internet connection until the following weekend, so don't freak when I disappear. I'll try to remember to take pictures.

OYAN workshop was mythic win, by the way. I gotta see if I can find any pictures that don't have my face in them. Lol.

Commander Kip
Got the ------! Er, pardon my Martian, ma'am.
Normal is overrated!

Ekklesia...

... was awesome. If you didn't go see it, then shame on yuu. The COSTUMES, gaah, it was awesome. This charrie was my favorite. Her name is Sabra and she's this demon-possessed slave girl who can see the future. Or something. So her two nasty owners make her tell people's fortunes in the Philippi marketplace, and she's hating life because she hears all these voices in her head and can't make them shut up, and then one of the disciples chases the demons out and Sabra's all like 'wut...' and then she can't see the future any more. The actress who played her did an outstanding job of being demon-possessed. I'm glad I had my sketchbook handy while I was there, cuz there was no way I was going to remember what she was wearing if I waited till I got home. Plus, that evening I somehow hurt my face and Mom had to drive me to the chiropractor, who said I'd managed to pull my sternocleidomastoid, which was messing up my face. So then he pinched my neck for a while and I felt better. Sigh. I love my chiropractor. He has some serious skills.

So yeah, that was that day. XD The sketch was actually an assignment for my SME art class I'm taking in the fall (public school, gaaaaah!) We're supposed to keep a notebook full of everything for the next two years - like, seriously everything - ticket stubs, gum wrappers, trash, string, photos, food spills, sketches, book reviews, lists of things, art critiques, random crap - EVERYTHING. The book's called 'iBrain', and it is totally the best assignment in the history of the world. So much fun. I've already taped a bunch of ice cream sample spoons in mine. I love it.

I'm taking a temporary time-out from Chapter Twelve in order to finish reworking the first four pages of Chapter One in time for the OYAN workshop... tomorrow. O.o Better go deal with that.

Also, I'm reading Much Ado About Nothing and it is hilarious. Yeah, you heard right. Shakespeare. Is. HILARIOUS.

Commander Kip
It's the polar stinkin' ice cap.
Normal is overrated!

more green

Because green is yummeh.

This here is mah baby Thalassaneldrisorca. Or Thalassa for short. Doesn't she look fine in her summer frock? XD She has quite a few battle scars, but I love her anyway. Best climbing tree evar. It's like a whole nother world up there.

I can't think of a single thing prettier than a nice frothy mass of maple leaves with the sun lighting them up from behind.

Some lovely contrast here.

Hey, lookit, cotton candy! *reaches for* *isn't QUITE tall enough*

*sigh*

What are these called - bleeding hearts? Barbaric name for such an elegant flower, don't you think?

Mah yaaard. It's not as epic as Lady Arin's, but I love it.

Why hallo thare.

RANDOM RAMEN!! *wants to go watch Naruto now* *but won't, because the OYAN workshop is tomorrow and Kipin hasn't edited her first four pages yet, OR finished Chapter Twelve, OR written Chapter Thirteen, or anything*

I'm tired this week. Taekwondo camp. Twenty sugar-crazed children. Seven teenage instructors. One cardboard box full of plastic collapsible lightsabers. EQUALS INSANITY. And lots of spilled Koolaid.

Awright, off to do something productive naow.

Commander Kip

"What is the matter with you? Do you even HAVE opposable thumbs?" "Most of the time..."

Normal is overrated!

another assortment, w0ot

Again. Yes.

I saw Avatar again last night and couldn't resist the urge. Those stinking Na'vi are too much fun to draw. Oh, and I forgot the stripes. Oh well. Captain Holly Short, take two! Much better now. I had a good time with her gun.

Blasted liney paper. *smites*

Okay, lemme introduce Xandria to you guys. She's one of the weird people from that weird story idea with the dead person, remember I told you about that? Yeah, she's from there. I love her cuz she wears strange clothes. XD

Closeup of the ponytail shot.

Different outfits I could put her in... her arms are REALLY short on the last one...

Irk, mah faery. Looking decidedly unlike herself. *shrug* I was bored with algebra.

Another faery boy. His name is Gremlin, but he'd rather be called Chase. Strange child. *swats* I was trying out a different style of face on him.

Jace Wayland. With little floofy wings, because I say so. Cocky little angel boy. EVERYBODY go read Mortal Instruments, cuz Jace is way hotter than Edward Cullen. He acts like a human being and everything. And his eyes are prettier too. Just saying.

Okay, I'll stop spamming you guys now. Better stuff on the way. *cackles in anticipation*

Commander Kip

"How will I know if he chooses me?" "He will try to kill you." Meep.

Normal is overrated!

the Nobchild

I know, this really doesn't fit under the label 'faerie doors', but... close enough. Whatevz.

It's Fizzy's graduation present. His name is Nob. XD

That was fun. I might do more of these. Provided I can find some more heads, lol. I've been cannibalizing the first batch of faeries I made a billion years ago and stealing all their heads and bodies. I had a very strange sense of color scheme back then... *shakes head and shudders* I used to think blue, pink and yellow went well together. Gaack.

In other news; Mom, Brennie and I had a Charlie's Angels marathon the other night. Saw both movies one after the other. It was... fun? Hehe... pretty dorky, but fun. I need a little dork-age in my life every now and then. I kinda wanna draw Madison now, something dark and blood-splattery with swirlie hair and symbolic wings and stiletto heels and guns and boobs and stuff. HA. As if I have time for THAT. What? Madison was cool. Despite her rebellious evilness.

Hey, you're never gonna believe this. (Seriously, sit down. This might be kind of a shock.) I, Commander Kipin M. Rakshana of the Order Reborn, hath finally completed Chapter Eleven of Erimon Hill. TAKE THAT, FABLE. *smites* I was up till two in the morning again, and my brain sort of died on the last paragraph, but it was waaay worth it. Cuz now I get to write the fun part! Fun for me, not really for anyone else. Most especially Nath. Ye be warned - I am about to be incredibly mean to him. MUAAAAA.

Commander Kip

"I have something you'll never have." "What's that?" "Friends."

Normal is overrated!

an assortment

Seriously, none of these are in any way related. Whatsoever.

I had a crack at Farid from the Inkworld trilogy. Meh... better than my previous attempts, certainly, but he looks so short here. Why can I never make people's legs long enough? Some random Eigon that happened while my computer was droning at me about the quadratic formula. He looks a bit confused, doesn't he? I like how his tattoos came out.

Went to hear a gorgeous baroque concert last night that my parents were playing in. The cathedral was as gorgeous as the music. There were these awesome purple stained-glass windows and little curly bits and bobs and statues all over the place. I had to draw pieces of it. Yeah, I epically botched the perspective on that window alcove, but whatever. That's not the point.

Randomly colored this, since I was sick last week and school was sort of over. All I had left was Spanish presentations, which I coughed my way through quite miserably (habia sangre por todos partes blaargh ack choke) but other than that... I was feeling home free. And I missed the fetal pig dissection, ta-ha. *is pleased with self*

This looks loads better in real life. Meh. I do so enjoy those colors together.

Don't look at me like that. I happen to adore this pairing. And what else am I supposed to do when the two of them show up in the margins of my algebra 2 textbook?

If you don't know who this is, then there is something wrong with your brain, and I shall be forced to do surgery on it with the business end of mah orc cleaver thingy. *pat pat* Kidding. It's Orochimaru, the awesomest creeper evar. Seriously, he's like indestructable. Sorry, guys, I am in extreme Naruto overload over here.

And this is Ratter, another new charrie of mine. He's somewhere in his mid-teens, has awesome dark curly hair, and is a pirate! *squeeface* His job is to keep the vermin out of the provisions on Captain Calamity's ship. Too bad that's pretty much impossible (hence all the scars.) He gets kicked around a lot... but he always comes out of it grinning. I luvz him. Yeah, I realize his anatomy is ridiculously skewed and his hand looks like a blob, but I'm mighty pleased with the expression on his face, so I'm keeping him.

Now, about that piano practice I was supposed to be doing... *sidles out of the room wearing a guilty don't-eat-me expression*

Commander Kip

Gotta get dat protein in dere.

Normal is overrated!

Secura photoshoot

I luvz me mah Aayla Secura action figure. She's so bendable. And check out that massive Imperial cannon, yo! The infamous Anakin pose.

I was really mad when she died. Meh. Stupid Order 66. *smites the Emperor*

Okay, I'm done Star Wars fangirling now. G'night.

Commander Kip

"Happy..." *death glare* "... never mind."

Normal is overrated!

GREEN

I missed green. So happy to be drowning in it now. Even when it's NOT nice outside, there's still enough green to drown in. *happy sigh* There's this awesome gorge behind my piano teacher's house, and it's like a river of leaves in the spring and summer. I wish I could camp in there. That would rock.

GREEEEEEN!!! *points and squees*

Have you ever seen such a gorgeous leaf in your entire life?

All those delicate little curlies...

I thought these flowers looked like little faerie wedding bouquetes or something. Aren't they adorable?

And look here; faerie cabbadge!

And this was just too gorgeous, but there were so many bees flying around it, I thought they were amassing to mount a full-scale attack on me. Luckily, they were just there for the pollen. XD

Lookie, it's my Valentine's Day present. Moar green, yaay!

And this is Mom's Valentine's day present. Cute, isn't it? My dad can be sweet on occasion.

*squee* Look at those nice fat droplets...

Prettyful sunset. Check out the purple!

Tree silouhettes. Mmmm.

In other news, I passed my recommended-second-degree black belt testing without any broken bones or other mortal injuries, woot! So I'm the same rank as mi hermanito now. Haa. So thare.

Just a second, I'm gonna post again. Hold on.

Commander Kip

RE-AN-I-MAY-SHUN NIN-JU-TSU!

Normal is overrated!

as if I need more characters

But they just keep coming to me, you know?

Terrible excuse? Yeah, probably. Will I try to put a damper on it now, lest all the random charries form an army and take over my soul?

Nooooo. Nevah!

Anyway, this is Rosephayne Stone. Yeah, she actually does talk like that. The profile of her face came out nice, I think. That and the tail end of her braid, and her butt. She has a nice butt. Everything else... meh. Whatever. There's a very small revolver in there somewhere, but the whole blasted thing made a lot more sense in my head.

Rosey is an energy vampire like the ones in Lady Arin's and my collab... but she's kinda floating right now. Tam's letting her crash at his place, but they fight so much it's barely worth it. Gaah.

I started sketching this cute Thaelen/Anabeth thingy last night, but as always, I can't get Thaelen to cooperate, so we'll see how that goes. Plus, I can't draw hands to save my life. *smites Thaelen and his oddly spiderish hands* Anabeth's look weird too. Like puppet hands. *shudder* I'll keep working on it. Oh, I think I'm getting better at drawing people kissing though... it makes so much more sense now... wonder why...

Blast, it's starting to look like Chapter Eleven might be one of those twenty-five page epic ordeals. I SO don't have time for that. But Nath had to have his little angsty moment and be all "Don't ever do that to me again, I thought you were dead, call the WAAAAMBULANCE" and stuff. *snort* Don't get me wrong, I love him to pieces. But too much Naruto will have that effect on my writing, I notice. And I've had far too much Naruto of late. Hehehehe. Not that I MIND.

Ouch. Someone needs to defrag my brain.

Commander Kip
NO PEEKING!!! *defenestrates*
Normal is overrated!