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Time for me to dump some work on you folks.
Work from the last while
Time lapse of the process is below...
So, Desert Bus fans may be familiar with this image. Graham's Driver challenge was to draw him as a Planeswalker. I decided to stay up from 1am-7am on a very busy work day to do this piece. I won the driver challenge, and promptly gave the giveaway (The Commander's Arsenal) right back to Graham, who I thought might like it better than I would. I really loved the idea of the challenge, and wanted to produce some cool art, but I wasn't totally in it for the prize. Had a blast doing this piece, but lost my mind entirely in the process
And here are the time lapses for Twin Arrow Canyon (featured in post #2425) and for Koi Fizz (featured in this post, above).
Cheers!
Work from the last while
Time lapse of the process is below...
So, Desert Bus fans may be familiar with this image. Graham's Driver challenge was to draw him as a Planeswalker. I decided to stay up from 1am-7am on a very busy work day to do this piece. I won the driver challenge, and promptly gave the giveaway (The Commander's Arsenal) right back to Graham, who I thought might like it better than I would. I really loved the idea of the challenge, and wanted to produce some cool art, but I wasn't totally in it for the prize. Had a blast doing this piece, but lost my mind entirely in the process
And here are the time lapses for Twin Arrow Canyon (featured in post #2425) and for Koi Fizz (featured in this post, above).
Cheers!
Bloody hell! Where have I been!?
Well, I had a bit of a... Period where I just wasn't feeling up to creating much of anything. But I've recently sparked myself out of it.
(I know I spelled Berserker wrong.)
These guys are the main-players of a comic series me and my girlfriend are co-writing together, I'll spare the details just so that when/if I start actually doing it that nothing is spoiled.
The most I'll divulge is that it's a Fantasy-inspired comic that takes place in a type of "hero training academy" only conveyed with more modern sensibilities.
I'm hoping it'll be a good comic because I've so far fallen in love with the characters.
Well, I had a bit of a... Period where I just wasn't feeling up to creating much of anything. But I've recently sparked myself out of it.
The most I'll divulge is that it's a Fantasy-inspired comic that takes place in a type of "hero training academy" only conveyed with more modern sensibilities.
I'm hoping it'll be a good comic because I've so far fallen in love with the characters.
Time for an art dump!
From my blog, on LoL character design (and female character design in general):
Now, I feel like I need to address something as a disclaimer: this is not my character design. Now, League of Legends has some excellent artists behind it, and there are some truly beautiful designs at play in that game, but there's one thing that they have to improve on: portrayal of female characters. Now, I've, for the most part, imitated for the purpose of the competition, Elise's impractical and absurd outfit, so you can see what I mean when I say that there's some room for improvement. In all media, characters tend to display unreasonable standards of figure and attractiveness and, for me, I don't have such a problem with it. If you're creating larger-than-life fictional characters, why not make them attractive? But there is a slight problem I have with the particular trend, in video games (and in fantasy video games in particular) of clothing female characters in the smallest semblances of fabric imaginable. I felt I needed to get that out there along with this piece. I'm proud of the work I did on this piece, and I hope I win, but I want to make it clear that my own character designs I hope never to resort to the metal-bikini stereotype so prevalent in fantasy.
And a time lapse of Bruisers:
From my blog, on LoL character design (and female character design in general):
Now, I feel like I need to address something as a disclaimer: this is not my character design. Now, League of Legends has some excellent artists behind it, and there are some truly beautiful designs at play in that game, but there's one thing that they have to improve on: portrayal of female characters. Now, I've, for the most part, imitated for the purpose of the competition, Elise's impractical and absurd outfit, so you can see what I mean when I say that there's some room for improvement. In all media, characters tend to display unreasonable standards of figure and attractiveness and, for me, I don't have such a problem with it. If you're creating larger-than-life fictional characters, why not make them attractive? But there is a slight problem I have with the particular trend, in video games (and in fantasy video games in particular) of clothing female characters in the smallest semblances of fabric imaginable. I felt I needed to get that out there along with this piece. I'm proud of the work I did on this piece, and I hope I win, but I want to make it clear that my own character designs I hope never to resort to the metal-bikini stereotype so prevalent in fantasy.
And a time lapse of Bruisers:
Hi. Wow, everyone here is so talented! I draw a little, kind of anime...here is a link to one of my facebook albums.You have to click on the pics to enlarge them.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.355376641235689.1073741826.100002900673637&type=1&l=3194bff8e1
and another
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.303752439731443.59933.100002900673637&type=1&l=91924a6c2c
and more
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.341164022656951.66740.100002900673637&type=1&l=1bde4aca80
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and another
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and more
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.341164022656951.66740.100002900673637&type=1&l=1bde4aca80
Numb
The word is numb
Green gave way within
yielding to the longest winter a man can know
A winter without a sun
The weeks and months rolled by
relentlessly
indifferently
cheerfully adding to the total
To the snowbanks lining my soul
I stopped shoveling one day
the storm seemed without an end
I wallowed in this perpetual blizzard
In a way... I came to welcome it
In a way... I came to deserve it
A flash arose on the horizon then
the briefest of glances
And I saw you again
Brighter and warmer than memory could ever recall
I saw my way out of my frozen hell
and my digging had meaning once more
Towards the light, the heat, the future
And though I know the trip may kill me
that your blaze may melt me away into oblivion
I need it. I crave it.
Better to burn and burn and burn...
to try to feel spring again inside
not freezing away, losing the internal fire
that we started
together
so long ago
The word is numb
but one way
or another
The thaw is coming
The word is numb
Green gave way within
yielding to the longest winter a man can know
A winter without a sun
The weeks and months rolled by
relentlessly
indifferently
cheerfully adding to the total
To the snowbanks lining my soul
I stopped shoveling one day
the storm seemed without an end
I wallowed in this perpetual blizzard
In a way... I came to welcome it
In a way... I came to deserve it
A flash arose on the horizon then
the briefest of glances
And I saw you again
Brighter and warmer than memory could ever recall
I saw my way out of my frozen hell
and my digging had meaning once more
Towards the light, the heat, the future
And though I know the trip may kill me
that your blaze may melt me away into oblivion
I need it. I crave it.
Better to burn and burn and burn...
to try to feel spring again inside
not freezing away, losing the internal fire
that we started
together
so long ago
The word is numb
but one way
or another
The thaw is coming
I call it "A glimpse of sunrise".
For my Girlfriend's Sister's Birthday I did a pair of 'Adventure Time' shoes. It's Prisma markers on Faded Glory white canvas shoes covered Kiwi Protect-All shoe spray. It bled more than I would have liked, but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. It only took about four or five hours. If I do another pair next time I'll waterproof them a little bit before so they won't bleed as much.
No exit
speed bumps ahead
headlights gone
eyes closed
cross the road
muggers pass me by
made it to door
home free
yet still looping
endlessly
car awaiting
risks abound
one trip to hell
and I'll say
"I've been around"
speed bumps ahead
headlights gone
eyes closed
cross the road
muggers pass me by
made it to door
home free
yet still looping
endlessly
car awaiting
risks abound
one trip to hell
and I'll say
"I've been around"
Hello everyone. My name is LeiFangHelenaFan and I'm a huge fan of video games, especially the Dead or Alive series of games and I love to play video games and draw when I have nothing to do. Here's some of my sketches of characters and/or counterparts of character and alternate costumes that should've been and are in my version of UMvC3. I hope you guys like them.^_^
UMvC3 Cammy
UMvC3 Jill Valentine Revamped
UMvC3 Nathan Spencer Revamped
UMvC3 Tron Bonne Alternate Costume Revamped (Bon Bonne themed Gustaff)
UMvC3 Roll
UMvC3 Mega Man X(Unarmored, Icarus Armor, and Hermes Armor)
UMvC3 Zero(D-Fan stance)
UMvC3 Zero Alternate Costume Revamped (Girouette's Model Z)
UMvC3 Axl
UMvC3 Daredevil
UMvC3 Rogue
UMvC3 Moon Knight
UMvC3 Mr. Fantastic
UMvC3 Emma Frost
UMvC3 Cyclops
UMvC3 Dante Revamped
UMvC3 R. Mika
UMvC3 Blade
UMvC3 Nightcrawler
UMvC3 Frank West Revamped
UMvC3 Gene
UMvC3 Loki
UMvC3 Chun-Li Alternate Costumes Revamped(Panda Suit and rejected Chinese dress costume from concept art of Street Fighter IV)
UMvC3 Marrow
UMvC3 Cammy
UMvC3 Jill Valentine Revamped
UMvC3 Nathan Spencer Revamped
UMvC3 Tron Bonne Alternate Costume Revamped (Bon Bonne themed Gustaff)
UMvC3 Roll
UMvC3 Mega Man X(Unarmored, Icarus Armor, and Hermes Armor)
UMvC3 Zero(D-Fan stance)
UMvC3 Zero Alternate Costume Revamped (Girouette's Model Z)
UMvC3 Axl
UMvC3 Daredevil
UMvC3 Rogue
UMvC3 Moon Knight
UMvC3 Mr. Fantastic
UMvC3 Emma Frost
UMvC3 Cyclops
UMvC3 Dante Revamped
UMvC3 R. Mika
UMvC3 Blade
UMvC3 Nightcrawler
UMvC3 Frank West Revamped
UMvC3 Gene
UMvC3 Loki
UMvC3 Chun-Li Alternate Costumes Revamped(Panda Suit and rejected Chinese dress costume from concept art of Street Fighter IV)
UMvC3 Marrow
Hey! So I've been gone for a while...
Not really got an excuse.
Figured I'd drop by and show off what I've been working on lately
They've all been coloured and are just waiting for me to make them a nice home. I'm also working on 008 currently and I'm hoping this idea will have some stay in it because I'm really enjoying it at the moment.
Also, feel free to check out: [link]Http://www.Archemetis.co.uk[/link]
And [link]https://www.facebook.com/Archemetis[/link] to like my Facebook page.
I try to post regularly on both.
-Arch.
Not really got an excuse.
Figured I'd drop by and show off what I've been working on lately
They've all been coloured and are just waiting for me to make them a nice home. I'm also working on 008 currently and I'm hoping this idea will have some stay in it because I'm really enjoying it at the moment.
Also, feel free to check out: [link]Http://www.Archemetis.co.uk[/link]
And [link]https://www.facebook.com/Archemetis[/link] to like my Facebook page.
I try to post regularly on both.
-Arch.
Some of these are particularly inspiring. I remember taking a writing course at university but failing to see it through to the end. It often seemed as if there was a serious lack of cohesion and visible progress in the lifeless seminars. Writer's block turned into nagging self-doubt and serious depression. I don't regret leaving, as I think it was for the best, but I do regret not throwing caution to the wind and submitting some writing. Worst case, people laugh for a bit and move on. Best case, it inspires.
Thank you for this. It has helped.
Thank you for this. It has helped.
http://kasumi-tengu.deviantart.com/art/Time-Mage-409457356
My most recent art that I can happily say I like. I really need to study anatomy and things like that....
I think I'm a much better writer then an artist though....but all my writings are either sex, violence or nonsensical drama.
I am not responsible for the 2k+ word long quote wall. This is a chapter from a story I'm writing/regularly releasing....and yes its a fan-fiction...I know I suck
My most recent art that I can happily say I like. I really need to study anatomy and things like that....
I think I'm a much better writer then an artist though....but all my writings are either sex, violence or nonsensical drama.
I am not responsible for the 2k+ word long quote wall. This is a chapter from a story I'm writing/regularly releasing....and yes its a fan-fiction...I know I suck
William glances upwards at the nearby clock and then releases a heated but quiet rush of air.'7:20 am'. He reads the clock silently as Katherine casually walks past his half of the bed, getting dressed for the beginning of her day.
'I'm not drunk...and she's in a good mood.' William rubbed his hands together until he could feel them warming up in the frigid, tense darkness of the room. He isn't sure if it's only him being afraid of what could come of his want to speak with her or if they have reached an uncanny sense of pre-knowledge about one another and Katherine is preparing herself.
As he opens his mouth to speak he hopes fervently that its the latter. He hopes that the conversation will lead somewhere without him putting pressure on it or testing her and her patience with it. He's already done that enough for one lifetime.
?We're going to have to talk about it eventually.? Whether this is more of a declaration to her based on his hope that she could somehow read his mind and tell what the subject would be about or just him telling that to himself he was unsure. Nervously he ran his warmed hands against his upper arms before pushing himself up from the blankets of his bed ? no reason to stay lying down during this.
?About what?? Her voice, floaty, heavenly and melodic voice drifted weightlessly through the air ? he loved hearing her tone when she was happy.
So he tore himself apart inside as he said his next word ? knowing the feeling and horrendous emotions it would bring with it. ?About North.?
Katherine's body seizes up before she momentarily takes in a jagged and unstable inhale of breath ? a clear signal that gives two messages to her attentive husband. 'Yes, we do need to talk about this' and 'No, I don't want to'.
The mother of two regrets allowing her reactions to show, knowing the signs and signals she was sending were going to be the death of her. Tongue tied and at a loss for words she tries to wriggle her way out of it rather then talk about it or ignore it ? talking about it is too hard and pretending ignorance just makes it ache worse. She gazes at him through the bedroom mirror with a plastered on and plainly involuntary smile. ?It's fine, I'm dealing with it my own way.?
?For eleven years now??
She bit back her curse and turned away, no longer wanting to look at her husband. William was too sharp now, no longer blinded and deafened by alcohol consumption and he certainly wasn't stupid ? in fact reminiscing back to when they had first met it was his intelligence that drew her to him.
She takes a quick breath and tries to think, tries to find a way to escape and wriggle her way out of this situation....she can't. ?I'm dealing with it, okay?? She insists and does her best to return to a 'normal' state while her body prickles with anxiety, renewed depression, and a want to leave and escape any place he's mentioned. A need to be at the lower end of a large bottle of alcohol to sort of drown it all out.
The alcohol always helped.
?Really?? He questions her already knowing its a lie before she can counter it. But he doesn't push the subject and instead lets it rest. ?If you ever feel like talking about it I'm here Kat.? He promises before relaxing himself and drifting off to a world of sleep, unwilling to wake up at such an early hour in the morning to begin with.
Noticing the calm lull of his breath and the lack of any thrown objects ? her time of living as an abused woman making her cautious around William even with his recent lack of drunk madness ? she quietly exited the room, carefully walking on the very tips of her toes and stealthily dodging the ever familiar creaky plank in the floorboards as not to alert him.
?
She practically stormed her way down the street, her walk hasted and her heels hitting the concrete like a proud soldier marching off to an easily winnable skirmish.
She felt like anything but.
She felt like a quitter...
She kept on walking anyway; pain needed to be dulled out and things need to be done, she'd quit later ? she wasn't like William during his drunk phases after all, she just did it because it made everything feel a little better. She could quit any time she wanted to....but for right now, she needed a relief.
Katherine came to a short stop and gazed upwards at the sound of a buzzing that made her feel more at home and relaxed then the house she lived in...
Then again, with the amount of time and money she spent here it was a wonder why she didn't just move in. Above her the flicking light sign of 'Open 24 hours a day' flickered like a dying flame light in the night and beside her an advertisement for another new 'flavor' of Budweiser and part of her considered getting it ? not that it really even mattered. She drank alcohol for the alcohol.
She needed some of the liquid in her system to drown everything out. At the bottom of a bottle things were quiet, peaceful even. No rapidly soul-absorbing guilt raging in her mind about things, none of the detestable voices of regret screaming and echoing off the wall of her mind making her feel guilty about everything that she did wron-
With much more physical force then necessary she pushed open the door of the small store and strode in, almost jumping at the sound of an all-too familiar chuckle.
She turned around to the counter and gazed warily. 'Jonathan' She mentally recalled all the times she was in here and almost shook her head in shame ? they both knew why she was here and instead of saying 'hello' she gave him an impatient look.
She was hoping this time she could skip the pleasantries.
Instead of the result she hoped for John leaned back in his chair, placing his arms back against it to form a makeshift pillow for his red-haired adorned head. ?So...? He spoke slowly and deliberately, making her stand there and wait for him just to finish a simple sentence.
Clearly she wasn't going to get her wish and upon realizing it she shifted her feet and rolled her eyes in annoyance. By the time she returned her gaze back onto John every fiber of every muscle in his face was being used to make a fox like grin that split it in two.
As if trying to anger her he put his feet up on the crumbled up newspaper, crinkled beer can and half filled cigarette tray laden counter and relaxed himself with a sigh that spoke of nothing but arrogance. ?Why...would you-?
Katherine couldn't move away any faster as she walked to the back of the store and extracted a cold one ? of no particular brand or label because really, all she wanted to do right now was get smashed - from the near-endless rows of golden alcohol. Then whirled around with impatience and returned to her standing spot, coming extremely close to slamming the bottle of beer onto the counter.
John took a single look at her and grinned, immediately reading the situation from her face and body language alone. He knew her for well over ten years now and she always came crawling to him for her alcohol, her fix at least once a week ? her personal record was coming by as much as seven times within five days.
?Well, my my.? He remarked with his own high-quality level of snark on full blast, absent-mindedly twiddling a small pen in-between deft fingers and grinning darkly like he had just been told the dirtiest and most hilarious joke in the world. ?Someone's not in a good mood tonight. Your time of the month?? He paused, brows pulling inward towards his nose before raising back up in feigned curiosity. ?In fact do you even still get those??
?Not tonight Johnathan...? She muttered, rolling her eyes again with a knowing that this is when it began. Here came the usual abuse and teasing, taunting that came with the territory of having to deal with a man as self-righteous, stuck up and untrustworthy as John.
?I mean like, your like forty now right?? A fake question, he knew her age.
?John.? She hissed impatiently and glared at him hatefully.
?I'm just saying, you're getting on in age is all~? He spoke in a sing song voice, half laughing as he avoided eye contact in a fake sense of wordless apology.
?Just shut up and ring me out.? She was reaching her limit with him.
?Alright, alright just...? He faked looking for a notepad as he so often did, just to keep her in the store a little longer. ?Gimme a second to find my-? He grinned, flashed her a cheeky smile and feigned a hand slip, knocking the bottle off the counter and letting it fall to the ground in an early morning cacophony of shattered glass and spilled beer.
The sound of utter hate that left Katherine's throat was unheard of and unrivalled by anything John ever heard before in his life. She was already stalking to the back of the store when he released his near-crazed hyena like laugh.
If there was anything she hated more then the memory of North breaking down her mental walls it was Johnathan's bullshit.
Doesn't mean she didn't force herself to deal with it to get her fix though.
?
After fifteen uninterrupted minutes of unspoken but passionately repeated death threats and having to make sure she kept her hands away from any sharp objects or Johnathan's face lest she become a murderer, she was back at home. Unsurprisingly twice as pissed off and needy for a release from reality then when she left since staying within the proximity of John usually did that to people who were in their right minds.
She skilfully sneaked her way into Mary's room with a large beer bottle shaped brown paper bag in hand that was rapidly dripping condensed water from the bottom ? fresh and cold from the local twenty-four hour grocer's freezer.
Katherine sealed the door shut behind her as she walked in, thankful she could slip into Mary's room without alerting anyone with the abnormal sound of a whining, half-rusted over metal door joint since Mary loved to have her door opened 'just a crack' so she could keep all the bad nightmares away.
As she began to make her way towards the closet, guilty pleasure in hand she left...frightened. As if she was being watched ? she glanced towards the door, nothing there...she glanced towards the bed...
And there Mary lay in her bed with her mouth shut in utter silence. Her wide-awake auburn eyes stared with a stoic knowing that far surpassed her age as it trailed over the figure of her mother, who clenched her entire body around the brown bag as if defending it from Mary's gaze as if she was been judged by it.
Katherine's eyes met hers and for a moment a spiral of tormented guilt swirled in the bottom of her heart, aching her in a way she almost never felt before. She knew what she was doing was wrong from the very start but then she had the gall to try and hide her indulgence of it in her daughter's room.
She took a painful, regretful swallow and unhooked herself from the bottle, carrying it normally and opening the closet door.
?Good morning Mommy.?
The door shut and Katherine sat on the ground underneath all of Mary's coats and seated on top of her shoes, responding quietly before allowing herself to sink to the bottom one more time.
?Good morning Mary...?
'I'm not drunk...and she's in a good mood.' William rubbed his hands together until he could feel them warming up in the frigid, tense darkness of the room. He isn't sure if it's only him being afraid of what could come of his want to speak with her or if they have reached an uncanny sense of pre-knowledge about one another and Katherine is preparing herself.
As he opens his mouth to speak he hopes fervently that its the latter. He hopes that the conversation will lead somewhere without him putting pressure on it or testing her and her patience with it. He's already done that enough for one lifetime.
?We're going to have to talk about it eventually.? Whether this is more of a declaration to her based on his hope that she could somehow read his mind and tell what the subject would be about or just him telling that to himself he was unsure. Nervously he ran his warmed hands against his upper arms before pushing himself up from the blankets of his bed ? no reason to stay lying down during this.
?About what?? Her voice, floaty, heavenly and melodic voice drifted weightlessly through the air ? he loved hearing her tone when she was happy.
So he tore himself apart inside as he said his next word ? knowing the feeling and horrendous emotions it would bring with it. ?About North.?
Katherine's body seizes up before she momentarily takes in a jagged and unstable inhale of breath ? a clear signal that gives two messages to her attentive husband. 'Yes, we do need to talk about this' and 'No, I don't want to'.
The mother of two regrets allowing her reactions to show, knowing the signs and signals she was sending were going to be the death of her. Tongue tied and at a loss for words she tries to wriggle her way out of it rather then talk about it or ignore it ? talking about it is too hard and pretending ignorance just makes it ache worse. She gazes at him through the bedroom mirror with a plastered on and plainly involuntary smile. ?It's fine, I'm dealing with it my own way.?
?For eleven years now??
She bit back her curse and turned away, no longer wanting to look at her husband. William was too sharp now, no longer blinded and deafened by alcohol consumption and he certainly wasn't stupid ? in fact reminiscing back to when they had first met it was his intelligence that drew her to him.
She takes a quick breath and tries to think, tries to find a way to escape and wriggle her way out of this situation....she can't. ?I'm dealing with it, okay?? She insists and does her best to return to a 'normal' state while her body prickles with anxiety, renewed depression, and a want to leave and escape any place he's mentioned. A need to be at the lower end of a large bottle of alcohol to sort of drown it all out.
The alcohol always helped.
?Really?? He questions her already knowing its a lie before she can counter it. But he doesn't push the subject and instead lets it rest. ?If you ever feel like talking about it I'm here Kat.? He promises before relaxing himself and drifting off to a world of sleep, unwilling to wake up at such an early hour in the morning to begin with.
Noticing the calm lull of his breath and the lack of any thrown objects ? her time of living as an abused woman making her cautious around William even with his recent lack of drunk madness ? she quietly exited the room, carefully walking on the very tips of her toes and stealthily dodging the ever familiar creaky plank in the floorboards as not to alert him.
?
She practically stormed her way down the street, her walk hasted and her heels hitting the concrete like a proud soldier marching off to an easily winnable skirmish.
She felt like anything but.
She felt like a quitter...
She kept on walking anyway; pain needed to be dulled out and things need to be done, she'd quit later ? she wasn't like William during his drunk phases after all, she just did it because it made everything feel a little better. She could quit any time she wanted to....but for right now, she needed a relief.
Katherine came to a short stop and gazed upwards at the sound of a buzzing that made her feel more at home and relaxed then the house she lived in...
Then again, with the amount of time and money she spent here it was a wonder why she didn't just move in. Above her the flicking light sign of 'Open 24 hours a day' flickered like a dying flame light in the night and beside her an advertisement for another new 'flavor' of Budweiser and part of her considered getting it ? not that it really even mattered. She drank alcohol for the alcohol.
She needed some of the liquid in her system to drown everything out. At the bottom of a bottle things were quiet, peaceful even. No rapidly soul-absorbing guilt raging in her mind about things, none of the detestable voices of regret screaming and echoing off the wall of her mind making her feel guilty about everything that she did wron-
With much more physical force then necessary she pushed open the door of the small store and strode in, almost jumping at the sound of an all-too familiar chuckle.
She turned around to the counter and gazed warily. 'Jonathan' She mentally recalled all the times she was in here and almost shook her head in shame ? they both knew why she was here and instead of saying 'hello' she gave him an impatient look.
She was hoping this time she could skip the pleasantries.
Instead of the result she hoped for John leaned back in his chair, placing his arms back against it to form a makeshift pillow for his red-haired adorned head. ?So...? He spoke slowly and deliberately, making her stand there and wait for him just to finish a simple sentence.
Clearly she wasn't going to get her wish and upon realizing it she shifted her feet and rolled her eyes in annoyance. By the time she returned her gaze back onto John every fiber of every muscle in his face was being used to make a fox like grin that split it in two.
As if trying to anger her he put his feet up on the crumbled up newspaper, crinkled beer can and half filled cigarette tray laden counter and relaxed himself with a sigh that spoke of nothing but arrogance. ?Why...would you-?
Katherine couldn't move away any faster as she walked to the back of the store and extracted a cold one ? of no particular brand or label because really, all she wanted to do right now was get smashed - from the near-endless rows of golden alcohol. Then whirled around with impatience and returned to her standing spot, coming extremely close to slamming the bottle of beer onto the counter.
John took a single look at her and grinned, immediately reading the situation from her face and body language alone. He knew her for well over ten years now and she always came crawling to him for her alcohol, her fix at least once a week ? her personal record was coming by as much as seven times within five days.
?Well, my my.? He remarked with his own high-quality level of snark on full blast, absent-mindedly twiddling a small pen in-between deft fingers and grinning darkly like he had just been told the dirtiest and most hilarious joke in the world. ?Someone's not in a good mood tonight. Your time of the month?? He paused, brows pulling inward towards his nose before raising back up in feigned curiosity. ?In fact do you even still get those??
?Not tonight Johnathan...? She muttered, rolling her eyes again with a knowing that this is when it began. Here came the usual abuse and teasing, taunting that came with the territory of having to deal with a man as self-righteous, stuck up and untrustworthy as John.
?I mean like, your like forty now right?? A fake question, he knew her age.
?John.? She hissed impatiently and glared at him hatefully.
?I'm just saying, you're getting on in age is all~? He spoke in a sing song voice, half laughing as he avoided eye contact in a fake sense of wordless apology.
?Just shut up and ring me out.? She was reaching her limit with him.
?Alright, alright just...? He faked looking for a notepad as he so often did, just to keep her in the store a little longer. ?Gimme a second to find my-? He grinned, flashed her a cheeky smile and feigned a hand slip, knocking the bottle off the counter and letting it fall to the ground in an early morning cacophony of shattered glass and spilled beer.
The sound of utter hate that left Katherine's throat was unheard of and unrivalled by anything John ever heard before in his life. She was already stalking to the back of the store when he released his near-crazed hyena like laugh.
If there was anything she hated more then the memory of North breaking down her mental walls it was Johnathan's bullshit.
Doesn't mean she didn't force herself to deal with it to get her fix though.
?
After fifteen uninterrupted minutes of unspoken but passionately repeated death threats and having to make sure she kept her hands away from any sharp objects or Johnathan's face lest she become a murderer, she was back at home. Unsurprisingly twice as pissed off and needy for a release from reality then when she left since staying within the proximity of John usually did that to people who were in their right minds.
She skilfully sneaked her way into Mary's room with a large beer bottle shaped brown paper bag in hand that was rapidly dripping condensed water from the bottom ? fresh and cold from the local twenty-four hour grocer's freezer.
Katherine sealed the door shut behind her as she walked in, thankful she could slip into Mary's room without alerting anyone with the abnormal sound of a whining, half-rusted over metal door joint since Mary loved to have her door opened 'just a crack' so she could keep all the bad nightmares away.
As she began to make her way towards the closet, guilty pleasure in hand she left...frightened. As if she was being watched ? she glanced towards the door, nothing there...she glanced towards the bed...
And there Mary lay in her bed with her mouth shut in utter silence. Her wide-awake auburn eyes stared with a stoic knowing that far surpassed her age as it trailed over the figure of her mother, who clenched her entire body around the brown bag as if defending it from Mary's gaze as if she was been judged by it.
Katherine's eyes met hers and for a moment a spiral of tormented guilt swirled in the bottom of her heart, aching her in a way she almost never felt before. She knew what she was doing was wrong from the very start but then she had the gall to try and hide her indulgence of it in her daughter's room.
She took a painful, regretful swallow and unhooked herself from the bottle, carrying it normally and opening the closet door.
?Good morning Mommy.?
The door shut and Katherine sat on the ground underneath all of Mary's coats and seated on top of her shoes, responding quietly before allowing herself to sink to the bottom one more time.
?Good morning Mary...?
I've been making an active attempt to improve my skills this year. I won't pretend anything I'm posting here is any great shakes but it's probably the best work I've produced this year.
More than anything I wish I had planned that name plate better. (Special thanks to the Salt City Derby Girls for not caring/not noticing that I was sketching them for reference material.)
Note: She's meant to be sitting on his left shoulder pad, which I neglected to colour...she's not popping a squat.
Orc Warlock, not much else needs be said.
I don't really know why I drew this.
Lest you think I only do goofy WoW fanart.
Rockabilly Batgirl. This makes more sense in context. (My buddy plays in a psychobilly band, and has a wife named Barbara who is really into Batman.)
Minotaur girl.
Dullahan girl
Harpy
And lastly, a li'l sumthin' for the ladies.
Note: She's meant to be sitting on his left shoulder pad, which I neglected to colour...she's not popping a squat.
Lest you think I only do goofy WoW fanart.
And lastly, a li'l sumthin' for the ladies.
What a blast from the past this thread is eh? Looks like it gets updated occasionally, at least. It makes me feel all nostalgic, which interrupts my tea drinking and angry stick shaking towards youths.SharPhoe said:
And I've just spotted this, and although it was posted a good few months ago, I have to say that I really really love it. It is an awesome photograph.Private Custard said:Did a little photography this weekend
Thanks a lotGalletea said:
All change since then though. I've spent the entire summer and autumn photographing aircraft....my main love!
EDIT: Small size doesn't really show up the effect I waited so long to capture. It's not very often you see a perfect total heat-blur from the exhaust of one Typhoon, over another!
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5519/10359199216_c5417f7873_o.jpg