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Genre/Fandom: meme, Star Trek Reboot
Characters/Pairings: Spock, James T. Kirk, Uhura, Keenser, Enterprise, Borg, Kirk/Spock/Uhura, Kirk/Keenser
Media: pencil drawings, digitally pasted into the template
Notes/comments: Here’s the link to the blank template.
Genre/Fandom: creature doodle, Star Trek
Characters/Pairings: my RatCreature cartoon avatar that I use for LJ icons as Uhura
Media: pencil sketch, inked with a Wacom tablet in GIMP
Notes/comments: You can see my complete icon collection on my website. (These icons are not open for sharing, they are for my own personal use only.)
Uhura!RatCreature, pencils and finished image — screen resolution (ca. 84k)
Uhura!RatCreature, final icon — screen resolution (ca. 8k)
Fandom: DC Comics
Characters/Pairings: Nightwing (Dick Grayson)
Media: acrylic paint
Notes/comments: I tried the scratching thing again, and unlike in my previous try with Robin I used this time only acrylics rather than supposedly water resistant ink. It was slightly harder to scratch (it sometimes sort of chipped?), but at least it didn’t dissolve when I painted over it. Additionally this time I remembered to scan the lineart and b/w scratched only inbetween stage in case something went wrong again after all. But I had no mishaps this time. \o/
Nightwing (Dick Grayson), finished image — screen resolution (ca. 268k)
Nightwing (Dick Grayson), detail — high resolution (ca. 152k)
Nightwing (Dick Grayson), line art — screen resolution (ca. 232k)
Nightwing (Dick Grayson), b/w scratched image — screen resolution (ca. 320k)
Fandom: DC Comics
Characters/Pairings: Robin III (Tim Drake)
Media: mixed media (ink, acrylic paint, chalk pastels, razor blade)
Notes/comments: This turned out rather more mixed media than planned, due to me trying to salvage the image from the completely blotched state that was the result of a supposedly water-resistant ink being quite soluble in specific circumstances after all. So it looks rather different from what I imaged, and not nearly as nice as a promising pre-blotch inbetween state did (which I unfortunately didn’t scan), that had more texture and scratched gradients, but the black ink dissolved when I tried adding the color highlights and thus the ink ran into them. Also as usual the scanner didn’t actually scan the colors as they are on the paper, though I tried to correct it as best as I could to compensate for that piece of color blind crap. Um, well, I usually try not talk this much about everything that went wrong (it doesn’t give a good audience bias) but this was a very frustrating evening, and I can’t help the venting.
Genre/Fandom: Drawble / DCU, SGA, HP, Terminator, original art
Characters/Pairings: a Terminator, Severus Snape, Deathstroke, John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, an iguana, a kangaroo
Media: pencil
Notes/comments: Drawbles I did based on prompts.
Genre/Fandom: creature doodle
Characters/Pairings: my RatCreature cartoon avatar that I use for LJ icons
Media: pencil sketch, inked with a Wacom tablet in GIMP
Notes/comments: You can see my complete icon collection on my website. (These icons are not open for sharing, they are for my own personal use only.)
Fail!RatCreature, finished image — screen resolution (ca. 52k)
Fail!RatCreature, final icon — screen resolution (ca. 8k)
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters/Pairings: a diricawl
Media: pencil, fine liner pen with waterproof indian ink, black tea, GIMP
Notes/comments: This is the third in my magical creatures series, a diricawl encyclopedia plate this time, showcasing their escape method. The crosshatching in this took me forever. Okay, a couple of hours, but it felt like forever. Also, after I had already drawn that predator cat, it occurred to me that HP canon says they come from Mauritius, so there wouldn’t have been any cats. Oops. OTOH maybe some magical cat preyed on them, I mean, why would they have developed the vanishing thing otherwise? Without enemies they would really been like the dodo I think. Anyway: *handwave*
diricawl — screen resolution (ca. 316k)
diricawl, detail — high resolution (ca. 300k)
diricawl, detail — high resolution (ca. 112k)
Fandom/Genre: Sandman
Characters/Pairings: Morpheus, Matthew
Media: pencil, fine liner pen with waterproof indian ink, acrylic paint
Notes/comments: This was my Yuletart gift for Rasetsunyo. Besides Morpheus and Matthew, Rasetsunyo mentioned in the requests (for another, non-Sandman fandom) the Egyptian pantheon, and also liking crossovers. This isn’t really a crossover with the other fandom, but I thought it would still work to mix Morpheus into in one of the classic scenes of the Egyptian afterlife, i.e. the Weighing of the Heart. So there’s Anubis weighing the heart against the feather of truth, Thoth keeping the records, and Ammit (the crocodile/lion/hippo mix demon) waiting to eat the unworthy hearts. I decided to show the waiting soul as Ba with a bird body and human head. I’m not sure why Morpheus is there, but I figured that the Egyptians connected their afterlife underworld to the night and to the journey of the sun might be good enough for this Endless to show up there.
Weighing of the Heart, finished image — screen resolution (ca. 372k)
Weighing of the Heart , detail — high resolution (ca. 160k)
Weighing of the Heart , detail — high resolution (ca. 224k)
Weighing of the Heart , detail — high resolution (ca. 56k)
Genre/Fandom: creature doodle, Numb3rs
Characters/Pairings: my RatCreature cartoon avatar that I use for LJ icons as Don and Charlie from Numb3rs
Media: pencil sketches, inked with fine liner, cleaned up with a Wacom tablet in GIMP
Notes/comments: You can see my complete icon collection on my website. (These icons are not open for sharing, they are for my own personal use only.)
Don and Charlie!RatCreatures, finished image — screen resolution (ca. 72k)
Don and Charlie!RatCreatures, final icon — screen resolution (ca. 8k)
Fandom/Genre: SGA/Merlin/Numb3rs cartoon
Characters/Pairings: John Sheppard, Rodney McKay, Merlin, Arthur Pendragon, Don Eppes, Charlie Eppes
Media: pencil drawing
Notes/comments: I felt like trying something cartoon-style that didn’t involve big-nosed creatures, so I picked my currently favorite fandoms and forced the poor characters into a Christmas card… *G*
Christmas Card — screen resolution (ca. 140k)
Genre/Fandom: Drawble / DCU, SGA, original
Characters/Pairings: furries, dragons, batmobile, John Sheppard
Media: pencil, fine liner pen
Notes/comments: Drawbles I did for various people on request in my LJ. These were either based on prompts or on interests I picked from their profile pages.
Genre/Fandom: creature doodle, Merlin
Characters/Pairings: my RatCreature cartoon avatar that I use for LJ icons as Merlin and as Arthur
Media: pencil sketches, inked with a Wacom tablet in GIMP
Notes/comments: You can see my complete icon collection on my website. (These icons are not open for sharing, they are for my own personal use only.)
Arthur!RatCreature, pencils and finished image — screen resolution (ca. 116k)
Arthur!RatCreature, final icon — screen resolution (ca. 8k)
Merlin!RatCreature, pencils and finished image — screen resolution (ca. 84k)
Merlin!RatCreature, final icon — screen resolution (ca. 8k)
Genre/Fandom: original doodle
Characters/Pairings: teddy bear, child
Media: pencil sketch
Notes/comments: –
Teddy’s revenge dream doodle — screen resolution (ca. 68k)
Genre/Fandom: original doodle
Characters/Pairings: cute cthulhu
Media: pencil sketch
Notes/comments: –
cute cthulhu doodle — screen resolution (ca. 52k)
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters/Pairings: a red cap
Media: pencil, fine liner pen with waterproof indian ink, black tea, GIMP
Notes/comments: Some time ago I drew a bowtruckle supposed to look like an excerpt from an old book about magical creatures from the HP universe. I wanted to do more in this style and did a poll which creature I ought to draw next. The red cap got two votes, all others either zero or one (it wasn’t a popular poll, heh), so here it is. Admittedly my turn around time isn’t exactly fast. I also have to give credit to Amelia Eve for suggesting a title for this imaginary work, because I couldn’t come up with anything, and she commented with several options in the bowtruckle post.
red cap — screen resolution (ca. 260k)
red cap, detail — high resolution (ca. 196k)
Genre/Fandom: creature doodle
Characters/Pairings: my RatCreature cartoon avatar that I use for LJ icons
Media: pencil sketches, inked with a Wacom tablet in GIMP
Notes/comments: I made an icon with a RatCreature that hasn’t heard right, both for the literal meaning (seriously, how can people on tv series, trained actors, mumble this much?), as well as the figurative one. I also felt the need for a nitpicking icon. Belatedly it occurred to me that I’m not sure English has the expression about “finding a hair in every soup” for people who nitpick to find something to complain about. Still, the imagery is fairly clear, I think, so I went ahead with my motif for visualizing the activity. You can see my complete icon collection on my website. (These icons are not open for sharing, they are for my own personal use only.)
What?RatCreature, pencils and finished image — screen resolution (ca. 60k)
What?RatCreature, final icon — screen resolution (ca. 8k)
Nitpicking!RatCreature, pencils and finished image — screen resolution (ca. 84k)
Nitpicking!RatCreature, final icon — screen resolution (ca. 8k)
Genre/Fandom: original doodle
Characters/Pairings: cute monster
Media: pencil sketch
Notes/comments: –
cute monster doodle — screen resolution (ca. 64k)
Genre/Fandom: creature doodle, Babylon 5
Characters/Pairings: my RatCreature cartoon avatar that I use for LJ icons as Minbari
Media: pencil sketches, inked with a Wacom tablet in GIMP
Notes/comments: You can see my complete icon collection on my website. (These icons are not open for sharing, they are for my own personal use only.)
Minbari!RatCreature, pencils and finished image — screen resolution (ca. 72k)
Minbari!RatCreature, final icon — screen resolution (ca. 8k)
Genre/Fandom: original fantasy, doodle
Characters/Pairings: dinosaur with a steampunkish raygun
Media: pencil sketch
Notes/comments: –
Dinosaur with a steampunkish raygun doodle — screen resolution (ca. 68k)
Genre/Fandom: original fantasy, doodle
Characters/Pairings: werewolf
Media: pencil sketch
Notes/comments: –
Werewolf doodle — screen resolution (ca. 76k)
