I've been making things!

See, lookit?

Christmas cards ^^ and lots of them, too XD

Tastefully Nude ATCs

These four ATCs are for the Tastefully Nude Women ATC swap on SwapBot.

I hand drew each woman on plain computer-printer paper, inked them with fine-line architects pens, coloured them with Derwent Coloursofts, added some detailing with glitter-gel pens and then cut them out (painstakingly slowly, with both scissors and a scalple) and then stuck them down on the pink/purple ATC sized card. I added just a touch more glitter-gel pen detail to the card and then I was done ^^

I am inordinately pleased with these. Someone on the little forum-comment-box-thing on the swap page mentioned wanting something NON-Vintage, so I thought I'd do modern punk/goth for my cards.

Hopefully, whomever it is recieving these, likes them well enough ^^

Decorative Star Wallhanging

I've made this for a friend for christmas, it's part of a small selection of decorations I'm making for him ^^

More info about it can be found in my Flickr gallery.

Christmas Gingerbread House swap

I made this today for a swap being run by my mom on the UKScrapper's forum. I'll send this off to someone soon and get one back myself ^^

For more info on it, go to my flikr page.

Crafty meme knicked off've Psychodiva

The Rules:

a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search. (Use the advanced search and scroll down and click on Creative Commons License so you use shareable photos!)
b. Using only the results on the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker.

The Questions:
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One Word to describe you.
12. Your flickr (or other online group) name.





1. Ban-hannah, 2. eye candy!, 3. 1998 Camp - Corsham Court nr Chippenham, 4. Green on Green, 5. Actor, 6. Ghost Town, 7. A link to all things "New York Taxi", 8. Chocolate and Banana Cream Cake, 9. Strip-tease!!!, 10. The Old Library, 11. temperamental, 12. United Kingdom 1

ATC collections

I'm trying out ATCs again, so I thought I'd put up the ones I've done in the past ^^

Enjoy!



Mermaids Collection - done for a ten person swap. I used water colours, acrylics, ball-point pen, glitter-gell-pens, tip-ex(white-out), paper cut-outs, stickers and bits of gorgeous wool.




Fairies Collection - done for a ten person swap. Not one of my best, unfortunately. I used various papers, water-colours, ball-point pen, pencils, stickers and strips of netting.




Chocolate Collection - done for a ten person swap. I rather enjoyed this one ^^ I used soft papers, stickers, a lovely fluffy string and pencils.





Two collectiosn featuring found images of women, using anything I had to hand. I quite like them both and still have them all in my folder.




Purple, Rust and Green - two doubles and a single I did using anything to hand. I still have these ones in my folder as well ^^




Angels - a swap I did with a young woman in France. I used tissue paper, acrylic paint, a glittery gell-sticker, a gorgeous ribbon, ball-point pen and glitter-gel pens. I'm quite proud of these ^^

Blue Girdled

I'm breaking out in Digital Painting again. Enjoy my latest.



And the one I'm working on at the moment:




Both painted on many layers in Photoshop CS3, using various brush-styles.

Character Designs?

Psychodiva caught me working on some character designs the other day, and she admonished me for not yet adding them to this blog. So here we go, simply to please her - some character designs ^^

Webcomic:Fancomic Character Designs

Mikomi Hyuuga
Yahiko Uzumaki
Sanosuke Uzumaki
Dee Rock
Mitsuki Rock
Gen Rock
Toshiko Subaku
Okita Subaku
Shihomi Nara
Shirabe Nara
Shintarou Nara
Shifumi Aburame
Kai Inuzuka and Dango
Katsunori Inuzuka and Mae
Chiaki Akimichi
Yakuya Akimichi
Rihito Shiranui
Yukiko Shiranui
Nanako Maito
Orika Maito
Baku Maito
Uzuki Maito
Asuma Sarutobi
Obito Hatake
Machi Hatake
Daichi Umino
Aki Umino
Junpei
Hayate
Kukiko Uchiha

These characters were created by taking existing characters, pairing them up and imagining what the genetic mix may come up with.

They were created for the webcomic Naruto:TNG which is still a work in progress.

Enjoy ^^

H

Micheal Turner

Micheal Turner Passes Away at 37

I only just heard, but a great man has passed.

Micheal Turner - of Witch Blade, Fathom and Aspen fame - passed away ten days ago after a long battle with cancer.

Micheal Turner was the man, the artist, who got me into comics in the first place, his art was what inspired me to do it.

I know in the last year or so, I turned away from his work, but that doesn't change the fact that he was a huge inspiration to me, one of my biggest influences.

He was a brilliant artist and a brilliant writer.

He will surely be missed.

First attempt at animating