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Art

Remember the chickadee gryphons I mentioned in my last post? That got me thinking about them, so I decided to sit down and draw one.. except I got distracted halfway through drawing the head, and when I came back to finish it, somehow it ended up transforming into...this monstrosity, which I have dubbed the "chickasquirrel". Mostly because "chickasquirrel" is really fun to say.

I really think I need more sleep.

Total Time: 1 hour
Tools: Tablet, Photoshop
Finished?: Yuh

Rambling

I got nothin' today. Have a few links that may be of interest to a couple of you? =D

FreeRice - Everyone and their grandma has linked to this one, but it's still a good site to visit if you have some spare time on your hands (or you're trying to avoid doing the work that's keeping you from having spare time on your hands, like me).

Cheap Eats - A really cool blog about uh.. cheap food. If you're like me and you're on a massive food budget, you're probably really tired of rice and ramen noodles. :] There's a lot of good, inexpensive recipes here, along with some pretty fun to read reviews of foods.

Ugly Overload - I'm sure you've all seen or at least heard of Cute Overload - this site is like the antithesis of it. :] If you have a severe aversion to bugs, I'd suggest avoiding it, since he posts them up pretty often, but they're almost always accompanied by interesting factoids, and I've actually learned quite a bit by reading some of his posts.

The Comics Curmudgeon - If you're like me and you have pretty much lost all faith in newspaper-run comics, this site will make you laugh. It will probably make you laugh even if you love to read them. It's a daily blog in which he essentially just rags on various serial comics, and it's almost always hilarious.

Posemaniacs - A very useful reference site for artists, featuring about 2,000 different 3D-model poses that you can rotate. Print-screen to save them, as far as I can tell there's no way to just right-click.

K! I'll go away now. =D

I saw this fun little survey in terioncalling's journal and had to snag it for myself. It's a series of survey questions, answered by five PT characters. You can find more info on the characters here, if you're confused.

Just as a warning, there are some very minor spoilers contained below.

1. Choose a few of your own characters. Five at the most.
2. Make them answer the following questions

( Cut for length! )

Oh, and happy Thanksgiving! Don't eat too much, or you might explode. Nobody wants that.

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Art

Done! :D He actually didn't take as much time as I though the would to finish. The leaves were kind of added in as an afterthought, and I'm not sure I like them too much, but it needed something in the foreground and I couldn't think of anything else to put there. *deep breath* Despite my deep hatred of this particular shade of purple, I still had fun with this piece, and I'm pretty happy with how it came out. Expect to see me prodding around with some more fan art in the future.

Total Time: 2 Hours
Tools: Photoshop, Tablet
Finished?: Yes :D

Rambling
This apartment complex kills me.

It's, like, November, right? Freezing cold outside, the grass is no longer growing, there's still a couple of leaves falling off of the trees now and then. 8 am this morning, they had the grounds crew outside, sweeping up leaves. Not only were they sweeping them off the ground, they were also sweeping them off of the roof. With their giant power sweepers. This would be okay, except for the fact that they just did this not a week ago, and there are hardly even any new leaves on the ground, because they have all fallen off of the trees already.

As soon as it starts snowing, as it is every year, all of these grounds workers will vanish, like the flowers, underneath the snow. Not a single one of them will be anywhere to be found as the snow piles up outside of people's apartments, making it impossible to walk to their cars without a grappling hook and mountain climbing gear. The road will not be plowed until somewhere around mid-February, after the cars have already crunched the snow down into its own little snow-road anyway.

However, if one single leaf should fall off of a tree, seventeen workers will appear out of nowhere and descend upon it instantly, all with their giant noisy leaf blowers,to make sure it doesn't sully the look of the apartment complex.

Sigh.

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Art

I don't really know what these things are. I was actually messing around with brushes in Photoshop, trying to make something that looked like a pencil, and got a little carried away when I started drawing hair, as I tend to do. Drawing stuff like this makes me realize exactly how little I actually know about anatomy. I usually just start fudging around with lines and hope for the best. :D

Total Time: 20 minutes
Tools: Photoshop, Tablet
Finished?: Yeah.

Rambling

I'm currently wearing three pairs of socks, two pairs of pants, two turtlenecks, a sweater, a pullover, and a hat. And I am still cold. I hate winter almost as much as I hate summer. I really need to find a climate that goes straight from spring to fall, and then right back to spring again. This whole "four seasons" system is really not working out for me.

Work tonight. Is it sad that I'm looking forward to going in because the building is heated?