Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Teaching myself how to paint! I really struggle with it as a subject, same with drawing humans (MY WEAKNESSES!), but you know what they say, if you're bad at it, you gotta truck through it to BEAT IT AND WIN!


Recent stuff that's misc. I'll put new paintings and stuff seperate!


Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Doodle from the train ride home! :D

Comic pages

I began to adapt a fanfiction into a comic book for practice and because the story really touched my heart with beautiful writing and characterization of characters that were relatively abandoned on the personality development front in canon. With permission from the author, I started it and it's helping me apply and practice human anatomy which is something I struggle with! Huzzah for progress! It takes place in an post-apocalyptic world somewhat resembling The Road's set up and follow Mathias and Peter as they try to make their way back home.

This is an ongoing project and it starts on chapter 3 and what is posted is only chapter 4 and the first page of chapter 5! I'm just showing some highlights as I'm not posting all the pages here, just the ones I like so it's impossible to follow the story. Sorry!


Monday, October 24, 2011


Pick and prod until the bone
Muscle, sinew, all is shown
Throw the king off of his throne
Carve their soul into Earth's stone

-Vultures' Chant
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Traditional - Recycled Paper, Ink, White Pencil, Photoshop Touch Up.
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Sometimes I write little poems for my art. Doesn't mean they're any good, lmao. Some creepy stuff in the mood of halloween.

Thursday, October 20, 2011


“Marvelous, isn’t it, Angleterre?”

“I haven’t a clue what you’re referring to, frog,”

“Now, now, there’s no need for hard feelings, you know. You’ve always been a sore loser, but I think even you can share in my victory just this once.”

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Francis as a Horse Grenadier of the Imperial Guard and Arthur as a Major-General during the Napoleonic War in 1810

Grenadiers à Cheval de la Garde Impériale, aka, Horse Grenadiers of the Imperial Guard were heavy calvary regiment (1166 men at it’s height) that acted as personal guard to the Emperor on the battlefield at times. They were considered, when under the command of Jean-Baptiste Bessiéres, to be the best heavy calvary unit in Europe. Their bear skin bonnet and standardized use of dark horses (in a time of some of the first instances of military standardization, including the first ‘military haircuts’) earned them the nickname of Les chevaux noirs de Bessières, or, The Dark Horses of Bessiéres. Their ranks were normally recruited from the 9th dragoons of the French military (which was in shambles for some time after the Revolution) and were an absolutely terrifying force when charging enemy ranks. I’d easily place Francis as being a part of their ranks throughout the war above any other position.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Monday, October 10, 2011

Never stop posting art eveerrrr



First time drawing caricatures from video/at all. Was fun :O I'm sure they won't be as terrible as I go along!

Sunday, October 9, 2011

ConBadge in the style of Soviet Russian posters. Note: I in no way agree with communist ideology, I just like the graphic nature of the time period.


A 9 Banded Armadillo from the Royal Ontario Museum. Such an awesome day! I LOVE SKELETONS...

Historical stuff and just playing around



Roar vs. Roar, I have a hard time associating Romania with vampires the way the fandom does, because it's werewolves that first pop into mind when thinking of Romanian folklore.

This folklore has many tales of werewolves and their ilk. Strangely, some stories and rituals that continue to this day are closely tied to religious holidays such as Christmas, Easter, and Pentecost. It's said that if a couple were to have intercourse on the eve of these holidays, the child will be malformed with "wolf ears", a "wolf's head", and the offspring will generally be malicious or unlucky. The child is said to resent their parent's for such a transgression, cursed to live as a werewolf for the rest of their days.

Vampires and werewolves appear during 'cycles' associated with those holidays. Christmas and News Years are the major of the cycles with Easter and Pentecost coming second. However, their appearance is also closely tied to the Moon's natural cycles as in many European traditions. In Romanian folklore specifically, the vircolac (pricolici) eats the moon and sun, thus causing the eclipse, just as Slavic werewolves have the same habit. In Italy and Sicily, werewolves were conceived on the new moon or under a full moon.

Source: Folklore Volume 93:2 by Harry Senn (JSTOR)


Additionally, from a friend;

Vlkodlaks were a slovanian evil spirit that was the fore-father to the beasties of Eastern Europe. In Romania, this gave way to The Strigoi (literally "revenant" but referring to Vampires), while men that were possessed by wolves (or any other animal) or animals that had been bewitched against man was called "Moroi". Hungarian's conception of the Vlkodlaks were strictly wolf-like thanks to their Nordic/ Germanic influence that already had anthropomorphic wolves in their stories. Vlkodlaks could possess anyone/thing, and had no specific form; the debate is weather the influence of neighboring gothic groups solidified the wolf association, or that this was back-dated by later stories. The story of the Vlkodlaks eating the sun/moon causing an eclipse is Slovanian, not Romanian.

The line gets blurred because the Carpathian region kept getting carved up; Aldera was a part of what then was the Hungary of the Austro-Hungarian empire, and Moldova (part of what would later be known as Romania) was part of the madigrade against the Ottomans. When Muntena, Moldova and Aldera were amalgamated, they became Romania, with Aldera becoming "Transalvania" (Trans-slovanian area). Parts of Hungarian culture then became synonymous with Romania, despite the fact that Romanians themselves don't believe in them.

According to my friend Julia, who is from Brazil, the toucans like to gather around coffee bean fields when they're being harvested! I guess toucans need a morning picker-upper too.

Friday, September 9, 2011



Goat is inspired by the young Frederick the Great of Prussia. Sometimes I don't know why I draw things.

Sunday, August 28, 2011