The Merciful

Another pirate.

An idea I got while crumpled face down on my mat at yoga.

Lenore is Jessica's character again, who had been speaking to my character Lance about being a pirate and sailing under blood red sails.

I really love Lenore's design, she was super fun to age up and turn into something new.

Weee.

Yes it's cliche, no I don't care.

Annie

12:10

Pirate Queen Dalia

A new character I designed this morning. She's the frightful pirate queen, Dalia the Blood Carver! My first African American character-

I like her, she's pretty awesome.

She was only mentioned ever so briefly as a bit of history for a character, but she was so cool I had to draw her.

Awesome. Feels good to be alive again.

Annie

6:06

Piles of Papers

As promised, I am continuing in my efforts to sketch more! As such, I have many more drawings than I typically do for an upload, and as such, I have broken it into many sketch dumps.

Instead of one giant one that gets resized into something you can't see.

In this pile of drawings we have some Sukas, some Jorns, some Tinas, and an Ainmire!

I did so miss my scottish oaf. I've gotten better at drawing him as the muscled man he is, which makes me happy because he no longer looks like a teenager. He looks like a good and proper twenty something or probably older. When I drew Baeddan this round I made him far too large. Eventually I'll get it right.

I have come to the realization that though Tinette is not overly fond of other people, she does like animals, and likes to take care of them. She has very few hobbies- she can't sew, or cook, or sing, or do any number of things she should be able to do because she was born into a family with many servants. I had a fun time coming up with hobbies; Dancing, fighting, horseback riding, reading, piano...

Yay!


And here I doodled some characters in their back stories, the other characters they happened to interact with, lalala-

This sketch dump is actually older than the one I already submitted. I drew Tinette and Jessica asked me if she was angry. I said yes. She said of course she's angry, because Tinette is always angry.

And so I started my mission to make her happy, which led to me drawing her with my first attempt at a horse.

Animals! They make even the worst people happy.

Shaari and Suka as kids, Phineas as a young adult and Suka as a teenager, Ninja with her new BFFL Jorn, and HUGS ALL AROUND!

Don't hugs just make you feel warm and fuzzy inside?

We had a lot of drama going down. It was going to end in hugs.

I'm not finished with this one, I don't think, which is why it isn't in any of the sketch dumps even though it's the oldest. I drew it reminiscent of a picture I drew a long time ago and was very fond of.

I'd like to colour it the same way, so they can sit side by side, like in a card set or something.

I have to ink it first though, ah ha!

I'm pretty sure I inked the last one digitally- but I'll probably do this one traditionally. It's easier, heh.

I think Suka and Phineas are adorable, but in a complicated spot. Suka still cares for Phineas, obviously, but she's given him up as a lost cause as far as relationships go- but Phineas on the other hand... well, he's got a ways to go.

The other day Sarah challenged me to draw some elemental ladies. After dicking around and ignoring said suggestion for a few hours, I decided I might as well, and I was having quite a lot of fun with them.

I only finished three, as I initially drew earth stick thin, and I don't know what I was thinking. I wanted earth to be heavy and real feeling, weighted with all the earth beneath our feet and trees above our heads. I made her really thin along the thought process of trees themselves- but earth needs to be everlasting, and needs to look capable of being such.

Fire was smokin' hot, of course, with a thin waist and giant hips and big boobs with crazy wispy flaming hair, and water needed to be soft looking. So I drew my favourite kind of figure ever; a tubby one.

Oh yeah, I love drawing heavier people. And now all I have left is air!

Once again, following the suggestion of my roomie, I drew myself as an element from her comic, the Awakened. We'd already determined last year that if I was any element, I'd be the element of rainbows, because I dress in fifty million different colours at the same time.

So, when I designed my human form, I just drew me, as I am every day. When I designed my personification, I was initially going to draw myself as my business card logo, which is a boar wearing a hat, scarf, my glasses, my earrings, with my hair, etc-

But instead I decided to go a little simpler, and took a boar, gave it some wings, added some bracelets, and as a final touch, added a scarf. My personification is a flying pig with a scarf made of rainbows! When it flies across the sky it leaves rainbows in its wake, like Nyan-cat. Only nyan-boar.

Yaaay!!!

Many many many drawings. Sketchbook cleanout!

Annie

7:36

Some Pirate Scribbles

YAAAY HELLO CREW!

A day of doodling.

Enough said.

Annie

12:06

Flashback

Some more Proto-Suka! This has opened an entire world of drawings for me, just so you all know. I mostly forgot Proto-Suka existed, but now I'm having loads of fun.

I drew this today to celebrate the fact that I'd posted over 1000 RP posts. Aw yeah, how's that for a claim to fame?

I'm so cool, I pee iced tea.

That killed me, just so you all know, I'm laughing my butt off right now.

Okay, so, picture! Some Proto-Suka and Phineas, a character of my friend Jessica Channer.

We've decided that the two of them were childhood friends, dated for a number of years until Suka realized she was the only one growing up and decided to end the relationship.

Poor Phineas. So I drew this picture as an homage to the relationship we skipped! And it was adorable and super fun to work on.

Next time I try to scan in a line art without erasing my coloured lines first, someone shoot me in the face.

Annie

11:20

Privateers

Yaaay, I finished my last pirate picture for my space pirates RP thing.

I tried a different colouring technique on this dude too. Haha. It was fun.

Alan's supposed to be sexy and suave and awesome.

I failed. He's a total dork who whacks his horns off things and doesn't know how to properly woo a woman.

I'm sorry Alan. So much for a lady killer.

Seriously, why can't I invent a proper lady killer? Other than Eli, he's the wrong kind of lady-killer.

Ah well, he's charming enough, I suppose.

Sorry Alan. At least you're getting some air time.

I also finished this!

Yes, it is just all the characters I coloured plastered on a background I'd already painted, but who's judging?

So yay, Space Pirates! Lots and lots of space pirate-y goodness.

I love writing so much.

Annie

9:40

Stowaways

I decided to include Ninja in my current line up. She's pretty darn awesome, if I do say so myself.

I forgot how tiny she was though, and dressing her up in loose baggy clothes ended with her just looking like a little boy.

That's okay though, it's basically the thing I was going for anyways.

She's not a pirate also, she's a stowaway who scrambled aboard Tinette's ship on impulse, and now she's stuck with everyone else on the Lucky Shrew.

My teeth are getting better, I'm getting closer to solid foods though I had to eat super slow and I was starting to get pain in my gums towards the end of my dinner and had to stop.

I switched back to applesauce for that.

Tomorrow I'm off to the movies with most of the FM crew, and I'm super excited!!

Today was also the first day of our new work regime. It was pretty fun, haha, even if it was a lot of hard work. I left feeling I'd done a good job; Accomplished. It will be difficult to adjust to, and I'm going to miss working with whoever I'm not working with, but that's alright, we're still working together.

9:42

Annie

Pirates!

More pirates!! Because you know, you can never have too many pirates.

Okay, I actually only have one pirate here, and that would be Ain, in the kilt. And he's actually not totally a pirate, he's a privateer, so you know, it's different, even though I don't know who has him for hire.

It's been too long since I painted something for myself. And it's been way too long since I drew Ain, considering how much I love him to bits.

The original drawing of this had a very tiny kilt, but I had to fix it when I realized how short it was when colouring, and came to the awkward conclusion that his penis would fall out if he stood up.

So, longer kilt!


I also drew Tinette, for the same RP. She's not a pirate, unfortunately, as awesome as that would be, she's an heiress, true to her original story, and she's been kidnapped so that Irwin may find a way to her fortune by reading her mind.

Irwin is going to find himself punched in the face.

I'm sure he's slowly growing used to that. It has happened many times by now.

I put "SPACE PIRATES" On all of my drawings today because I could.

Also, I updated my comic. The new page will be going up at midnight. Yay!

9:45

Annie

To Boldly Go-

Buahahaha.

Okay so this is what I spent my morning doing.

I changed her sword from a cutlass to something a little more appropriate- even though the first thing she'd do at a hint of trouble is to drop that thing and kill everything.

I'm glad I spent my morning painting this.

No, I can't draw spaceships. No, I don't care. I just wanted to work on something for me for once; and I had a lot of fun doing so.

Aw yeah, Pirates. I'm drawing more- but I just realized it means I have to draw another ship. Aw, drat, haha!

Oh well.

SPACE PIRATES. A TALE OF PIRATES IN SPACE.

3:42

Annie

Pirates? It's been a while.

Man, I haven't done anything with pirates in years.

I'm not sure why, I love pirates. Of the real variety.

I started a new RP today. Cause I do that a lot now-a-days.

I ran with the usual suspects; Tinette, Ain, Ninja- and I wanted to use Suka. Of course I run into the whole "spineless" issue whenever it comes to Suka. She's difficult to adapt, unlike my other characters.

So, I thought back to Suka's initial creation, back when she actually HAD a backbone. Proto-Suka was a much stronger character, but I didn't use her because I felt she didn't have as much room for growth as Suka now.

However, in this case, she was what I needed. So, I pulled up a sketch I made last summer, and I decided to try again.

Proto-Suka was pretty fun; she had a spine, she took down a lot of various demons, and rarely fought with a weapon because she preferred to go at it hand to hand style with her bad-ass claw.

Yes, Proto-Suka fought like a bloody animal.

And she ripped everything apart.

I'm so excited about this.

Annie

10:45

P.S. No, I didn't finish my page. Again.