Update!

Yea, so like I'm been trying to get inspired again. Been thinking about doing time restricted sketches and studies and things. I'm going to try working on things I SUCK at like feet, and bg's and everything else! To start I've decided to start participating in Conceptart.org's weeklies. So this is my first one, CHOW (character of the week) #183. It's still a wip, but I'm liking it a lot so far! The concept brief is a girl around 12-16 years old who finds a dragon's egg, the concept also includes the image being for a young adult novel cover. Anyways enough babbling, here's the wip.




ALSO. Looks like Conceptart.org is in some financial troubles. Please read this while you can - and please consider buying/downloading/donating if you can!

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=2552862#post2552862

~ Lindsay

Finished Finally

Yay I finished it XD Alright! This only took AGES. I'm not really thrilled with it but whatever - it's DONE! AN is tomorrow and I'm totally screwed lol Oh well. Same as every other year I guess.


Detail for the only reason that I spent forever on this and it feels unworthy lol
http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/3135/uraharaxyoruichidetails.jpg

~ Lindsay
(Look at me, updating frequently. Must be an apocalypse.)

Stress!

In trying to stick with the whole keeping this thing updated fairly often, here's a couple more things. All I'll be selling at Anime North this coming weekend. Man I'm pressed for time trying to finish things though lol!

This one is actually from last year but I've done some colour adjusting and never actually posted the whole thing (there's a preview in one of my first posts). Anyways some Zelda art. Personally my favorite game franchise! Midna and Zelda in their Twilight Princess glory.


I was going to make a group of No More Heroes keychains. Alas that was when I thought I'd be able to work fast enough to stick to my crazy schedule >.< I'll probably just be selling this as a postcard sized thing. (Please ignore the writing on it, I was too lazy to remove it before posting.)


And a wip of an original print of one of my favorite personal characters Cerulean. There's a sketch of her several posts down as well. She's my baby lol be kind X3!


Anyways! Thank you to those of you who've visited and left me lovely comments! <3 I really appreciate it :D

~ Linds

Some Fanart for you!

I've decided to try and update this thing more frequently :D Even though hardly anyone sees it lol!

This is a semi-old print I started working on again, as a print for conventions. Fanart is always hard for me but I started liking this one again. Obviously still a work in progress. Though I feel like it's really dull, I still kinda like it enough to want to finish it, which is rare for me. I gotta stop doing pin-ups with no real backgrounds -_____-;; Ooh, another thing to add to my list of many goals for the relatively near future! (Yay?!)



And this is one I've pretty much finished. I realized there's a couple things I forgot to touch up and add! She's Holly Summers from the Nintendo Wii game No More Heroes. For the record, such a good game! She's my fav boss, because Holly's damn sexy! Too bad I thought she was the easiest boss in the game :{



Any suggestions on things to help improve either of these, or future arts would be lovely, though not neccessary haha ;D

~ Lindsay

More than a year! :O

Wow. So like long time nothing posted eh? lol Anyway, it was brought to my attention yesterday that my last update here was from March last year. Lame on me haha. Not that people really check this out but whatever :} So here's something to post one of a group of picture that was to match my Ice Swordswoman from a few posts below. It's oldish now, and I see many issues with it but I'm still pretty happy with it :]

And something else too because I feel like I should be posting more than one thing after so long lol. This one's been a work in progress that's been sitting on my computer since maybe Christmas-ish time. I hope to get back to it soon. It's just something random. An elf princess or something, doing a dance of sorts. I really need to fix her right hand though >.> Looking a little irk...


EDIT: Wow, Blogger really butchers images. Here's a link to that second one again

Alright, maybe more later? I just wanted to update this thing :D
~ Lindsay

Happy St. Patties Day + Update

Ya, so life got crazy there for a while and I sort of forgot about this thing. Apologies to the two people who might actually look at it lol. I'm afraid Livejournal, Facebook and Deviantart are much more in my taste for being user friendly I suppose :/

Anyway, I might post some sketches later this week when I get a chance to scan them, in the meantime people can visit www.sketchtastrophe.deviantart.com for some of my more recent art though I haven't posted anything new there in the past couple weeks. Again I'll be updating that as well later this week, hopefully :}

In other stuff Brawl is awesome and I'm enjoying it. But playing against the computer's getting kind of old lol. Anyhow I must admit even while I'm playing Brawl I'm way more excited for this ---> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Kart_Wii So looking forward to it! It comes out the day after I get back from vacation this year :} From what I've seen of it it looks like it's going to be rad fun, the new tracks I've seen look great too :} I'd even consider getting Wi-fi for a game like this. The motor cycles and the whole 'stunts' thing sounds interesting too, I have a feeling I might fail at it though lol.

So check back later this week if any of yeah care to see some sketches and junk. Happy St. Patties day bums!






I can't believe I'm sober on this fantasticlly green filled day :{ There is so much wrong in the world.

Finished art for a sad day.

Ooh, two posts in two days again? Don't expect anything since this is just the image Photoshop closed on me yesterday, it's quite old as it is so I figure I might as well post it before I completely hate it ;p It was pretty much just meant to be a colouring exercise. I had originally choosen nicer colours for this image and change it at some point to what it is now, I wish I had left it how it was originally since the colours are half the reason I hate it now. The other half being the horrid anatomy and that shirt, of which I've tried in vain to fix. But I like the hair and skin (both of which I usually have trouble with) enough to post it. So I'll stop typing now.


Edit: The colours look even more blah now that I see it outside of Photoshop, hmmm.

Rest in peace Marc, you were such a sweetheart and it's nothing but a shame that you had to go so early in life. It's safe to say that anyone lucky enough to have met you, will miss you greatly. <3

~ Lindsay

Some works-in-progress

All Unavisis related arts this update, sorry peeps if you don't like that. I have some other things I'd sketched and worked on these past few weeks but PS just closed the program on me while I was resizing somethings to post here and I'm feeling lazy and don't want to hook up my scanner to post the ones that are on paper, so look forward to them for next time I guess! ;D

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This is just a small part of a Character Sheet Commission for a friend of her Unavisi Character Willow (actually she's the one who created the Una race and started up the community for them :D) It's late unforunately I've been having issues with it and this is the third time I started over, I'm hoping I can fix this one to something I'd be happy giving to her. Cuz this girl deserves something really good! Anyhow Willow's an interesting character and I'm happy with her face shape in this, but not so much in the other portion of the model sheet, I still have consistancy problems when drawing the same characters unfortunately. Something to work on.





And this is again a crop from another model sheet. But he's my own character, I'm pretty happy with how he's turned out so far, just need to do some touch ups on the spottled markings (cept his face which I already re-did). I think I'll probably leave his sheet in flat colours. This is from a while ago but I hope finish up Willow's sheet and to start up again and finish this sheet before Christmas. Anyhow he's technically a Wanderer and not a Una but they're essentially the same only one Wanderers are nomadic and based off animals/fish instead of fruits/woods. That being said his name is Narwhal, Nar for short, obviously he's based off the whale ~ I love Narwhals (so pretty!) But Nar is sexist douchebag.





And this was a happy birthday/feel better gift art for another Una-community member/friend, that I'd done earlier last week. I didn't totally have time to finish colouring it, but hope too in the future. But I sent off the lineart with the flat colours to her earlier so it's not rediculously late (like everything I usually do >.<) I need to plan out backgrounds better so people don't end up with floaty globe things behind them and floating on pillows like this ;____;


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Thanks dudes for all the kind words last post <3 Off to look at blogsss! I really need a new name for this thing, any suggestions?

~ Lindsay

Sketches Galore!

Alright :D Two posts in two days - this certainly won't last but I'm going to try anyway! So some old and some newer sketches this time all works-in-progress as I haven't finished much of anything over the summer.

Here's a preview of some Zelda: Twilight Princess fanart. A possible spoiler so I cropped it (but quite frankly if you haven't beaten it yet or already spoiled it for yourself I can't say I'm that sorry if this does haha). Anyway, this is another picture from the phase where I thought sketching and doing my lineart in photoshop was a good idea >.< But I am liking it so far, and being able to get so many details in is nice! :D Zelda's face is bothering me at the moment it's not very Zelda-esque, and her hair's not really right yet either. Midna's turned out pretty much how I'd hoped just need to fix her hood on the left there. Midna's human design always reminds me a little of the Bugrum Queen from El Hazard :/ Anyway! Hope to update with a more finished version in the not to distant future.


Another fanart still in progress, or more like on hold (yay possible con prints!?). Fran and Balthier cuz they're pretty freaking awesome together. And while I still haven't finished this game (It's just so slow paced D: Thank the lord for FF9) and find most of the characters rather bland, but I do like these two :D Balthier sort of disappeared in the scanning process he is there though haha (this on might be hard to see on bright monitors)


This is actually from this morning, there a bunch more along a similar theme (different character designs though) but I like this one best so far. Not for anything in particular, but this one was sort of an idea I had and I really just wanted to try colouring frost and ice (the whole sword is going to be ice) and this is what I came up with. You can probably take a guess at what the others might look like. Ya, I've no idea how she'd lift this sword lol. I have such a bad habit of drawing too tall girls, too low on the page, hence the horrible leg crop.


This is a really old character concept of mine like from at least 3 or 4 years ago. The drawing itself if newer however from early August I think. The anatomy is a bit wack and she's definately too tall, but the design itself is pretty close to what I wanted. She's going to have a little more of a mediterranean look colour-wise at the very least. It's for a personal project of mine, but it's still really a messy story that needs to be put on paper and sorted out. I've just been calling her Cerulean so far. She's a royal guard and nobility of sorts, and has a combat/fighting style somewhere between brawling, dance and a mix of like ball and chain type weapon (no idea what it's called but kind of similar to Gogo in Kill Bill). She can use her weapon for short and mid-long distance battling. The handles have a guard over the hand, with a rounded blade going from the thumb to pinky finger. The sash hold the two handles together is made of sturdy fabric which can be reattached if broken for whatever reason, and acts like the chain, giving her longer range. The disks hanging from her hair are also meant to be weapons, which is where the dance comes in more. I have a ton of sketches of this somewhere but can't finds them at the moment. I may possibly scrap this idea as she could potentially kill herself fighting this way. It'll be something to work out more as I get this thimg more on paper.


Another work in progress, and more Unavisi's (they're just so fun <3) Again the Unavisi race is created by Brianne Goetz (www.brianne333.deviantart.com). This is Apricot and Murta, they're pretty much married. He's a fisherman, she's a cook, they're totally cute togther (to me at least haha!) Drawing people with horns in close range to one anothers faces is a little difficult.


This was probably too much for one post, I'll keep them a little shorter in the future ;D Thanks again if you read this far!

~ Lindsay

Have at 'er!

Alright, going to try and start this thing up again (if you can call it an again lol since I never really posted here in the first place :/) Had had a lot of issues with this site, I seem to have figured 'em out in anycase. Anyways, I don't have much completed work to show from the summer and there's plenty I'll still have to scan and post, I suppose partially finished sketches would be fine too. Hopefully this'll be a bit of modivation for myself to do more drawing. Just wish I wasn't so slow haha. Here's a couple things I've done that I still like enough to show. Feels as though by the time I finish pictures now I've either improved enough I no longer like the picture anymore or maybe I'm just sick it it hehe. Anyway on to art!

Quite a few of the pictures from the summer from myself will probably be of Unavisi characters of mine. The Unavisi are a created fantasy type race (based of elves and unicorns and named and designed with fruits and woods in mind) belonging to Brianne Goetz you can see her art at well, I'll link her Deviantart page since her site's down for a major makeover at the moment you can find the link to her site on her DA page too :] It's www.brianne333.deviantart.com

Anyways this is one of the Unavisi's I was speaking of, Butternut. Based of Butternut Squash of course, she's a tobacconist, and formerly a messenger in the guard. This was actually my second sketch of her which I ended up finishing. The colouring of her hair is weak and definately something I should work on more before having another go at it lol!



The was my initial sketch of Butternut but I never quite got around to finishing it sadly.



This is another Unavisi character of mine, Kara or Karaka. Working on a character sheet this one's still a work in progress - I've gone through a bit of a phase where I thought doing my lines in photoshop would be good. What a stupid idea, this thing is taking so long, I'm not entirely sure I'll end up finishing it despite actually kind of liking it. Anyways, she's a herbalist/masseuse and has a narcissistic personality in every sense of the word.



Well I'll leave some for later I guess! I know nothing too exciting ~ yet! I'll try and update this blog a few more times this week with some of the art I'd done over the summer and maybe something new too, who knows? If you made it this far thank you for you time and all that :] I still need to think of a proper name for my blog. Any ideas for which are always welcome as are crits and such <3

~ Lindsay