Sketch 48 - Amy

Meet Amy. A random bunny girl. Don't really have a thing for her or not sure I can use her as a character but we will see. I went through some serious artist block drawing this one.

So today I got paid YAY! Then went and paid the people I needed to pay haha. Also gave Andy his Easter chocolates and got a practice session with a standard vehicle. Which I must say I did fairly well until I 'kangaroo'd' at a busy intersection in town and stalled out. Nerves got to me I guess. Oh well more practice to come I'm sure. Need to get this down pat if I am to survive on English roads. Mind you over there I could chalk it up to driving on the wrong side of the road that I am used to.

So Richard put his new 1 TB hard drive in today. He needs the space for all of his games and stuff on steam. I'm happy for him! When I finally cross the pond I would like to maybe look into getting a decent desktop. I love my Alienware but its getting dated and you can't upgrade them easily like a desktop. Anyways....

I have been getting into some Tpop recently to go along with my mass collection of Jpop and Kpop. Speaking of which my Big Bang CD finally arrived! OMG its so amazing and the case was so cool. But back on track, I really need to learn Taiwanese... I sorta started on my own awhile back but I didn't get too far. I only know like 3 people from Taiwan and we don't keep in touch a lot so it was hard to ask questions and get a good response. Maybe I should pick it up again seeing as I'm not getting far with Chinese at the moment.

Goodnight world! Love ya <3

Sketch 46 - Sophie

Its funny how this character came to be. I received an anthro commission and Rich and I were talking about the art form and how you hardly ever see a reptilian or dragon anthro so I decided to give it a shot and thats how Sophie was created! Now I'm gonna ask everyone out there what colors she should be!

Went for my blood work today. 6 vials of blood for like 12 tests uhhg. lol. I don't hate needles but I hate the feeling of my blood leaving my body through a needle. Apparently it happens a bit. I am posting early tonight because I will be hanging out with Alex again tonight before he leaves for British Columbia again. And I would like to have a drink or two without having to worry about driving home. So I will be off to work then a good night.

Love ya <3

P.S. I have a deal going on for my CG commissions. Send me an email (mrstwig2963@aol.com) or FB message or twitter message if your interested! I am only opening 5 spots with one already taken.

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Sketch 43 - Too Cute for Words

A really bad Chiyo-chan from Azu Manga Daioh. I should really stop doing fan art.... It never looks right. haha oh well. If you haven't seen AMD then you should! but take it in small doses. This anime is all over the place weird cute.

So today was eventful. Had lunch with Will and then dinner with my mum, and our friends Richelle and Doreen. Then I got a call from my friend who is the cook for the Canadian Army Edmonton division so I went out for coffee/tea with him and his wife and caught up. Plus finally got the whole video to PSP thing working and talked to Richard and yeah. Good day! Too bad all that running around has my pelvis on fire (not literally ^^;)

Really missing my trainer, Andy. I will have to go visit him after the end of the month! Now with Easter done I should be able to see how much mail I have after the post office being closed for the holiday. Hopefully my CD has arrived!

Well have to work tomorrow so goodnight world! Love ya <3

Sketch 42 - CHEER

So this is an older animation I did, but I am in too much pain to draw anything tonight. I really need to get to the doctors for that blood work. The pain started today after just walking across town. This really isn't good.

What is good, is the book I recieved for Easter. SO amazing like all Kelley Armstrong's novels. I wish they would go into movie form but they would have to be rated R or I wouldn't watch them.

Anyways time for rest. Goodnight world! Love ya <3

Sketch 40 - Hot Head

No one in general this time. My friend Chris or Will w/e he wants to be called put in a suggestion/request for me to draw a red head. I have recently gotten back in touch with him after he found me on deviantART and stuffs. Its been YEARS since I have last seen him so its nice to catch up.

Speaking of red heads... this morning I colored my hair my natural color again which is a lighter version of the one above. I must say after a year of being white blonde, pink, purple, blue, teal, and green... I look weird in natural red. Take some getting used to I suppose.

Thanks to my mum I have a memory stick! YAY I can finally save my PSP games and stop re-playing the tutorials over and over again. Also converted some of my music videos and they look AMAZING on the screen and the playback is smooth.

Back to my friend, he is a very creative writer and has offered to help me with the story part of Pyowaan so it will be easier for me to draw it for the web comic/manga. I hope all my fans are still with me by then! Also still waiting to hear back from MBJ about getting together to try and polish off the MEDE story and characters. Might also work on character back stories and the side stories.

Well thats all for tonight. Goodnight world! Love ya <3

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Sketch 27 - Right On the Mark

This is the new concept for Nynde. This one took longer to plan out then Purtalic's. Had to put a bit more thought into this one because of her childhood she is in battle a lot as an archer. Plus I was trying to go for more coverage and functionality. Also for her being half demon and dragon-ling I decided to give her red eyes like her father. I think it suits her better.

Today has been an odd day. Got up, did about 2 hours of dishes, then worked on art, then volunteer appreciation dinner and then home to finish sketch and relax. So soon will be the relax part I hope lol. It's been a long day! Tomorrow Im gonna try the Zumba class at my gym. Looks interesting. Well gonna keep this one short. Goodnight world! Love ya <3

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Sketch 26 - The New Snow

A new concept I have been working on for my Purtalic character. I like it. I have always been fascinated by gypsy type clothing, although this has a more color coordinated scheme. I like how the fabrics lay and flow with good coverage that plays with a body's curves. I like this new outfit. What do you all think? With her being a magic user I think it works! Plus it looks like something royalty would wear and not too impractical for close combat.

If my personal trainer Andy is reading this, I want to be able to wear this come August! lol This will be my goal. Because if I can look like this (minus the ears and ridiculously long silver hair) then I would be happy. Also I know this is a 'sketch' blog and all but I am sorry for how sketchy this sketch really is. I plan on doing a cleaner copy at some point soon. First to work on the new outfit for Nynde.

Also work on the wallpaper has begun! It really is hard trying to get 11-13 people on a group shot worthy of a wallpaper but I will succeed! The whole composition of having to play people and perspective and stuff is challenging.still not sure if I should do a street scene or a splice type. Let me know what you guys would like.

Well I'm out for the night. Goodnight world. Love ya <3

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Sketch 25 - The Underdome Riot

Mad Moxxi's Underdome Riot is the second piece of DLC for Borderlands. It features three new riot arenas (Hellburbia, the Gully and Angelic Ruins) and storage for players' items. The plot of the DLC is Moxxi, a crazed lover who is setting out to find her 4th husband, leading her to make the arenas in the DLC. Players fight several of the game's enemies, including bosses, in arenas. No experience is gained from killing enemies in the arena battles, but experience can be gained from completing challenges or quests in the arena. New game modes are added, such as low gravity fighting, enemy health regeneration, and shieldless fighting. It was released on December 29, 2009, for the Xbox 360 and was released January 7, 2010, for the PlayStation 3 and PC. IGN gave Mad Moxxi's Underdome Riot a 6.0/10, praising the fact that friends can be added in to play, and stated that everything else needed work. "There's no more gun, money, or ammo drops, and no XP" and stated that "the only decent amount of guns you'll find are in Marcus Kincaid's vendor machine."

Info courtesy of wikipedia. I personally love Borderlands. Its a FPS RPG which is nice. not all just run in and shoot people. You have an awesome story and quests/missions that are challenging and make your heart race (mine did at least!) Too bad steam is still being dumbass's and hasn't fixed my account yet so I haven't been able to play. Also for some reason Moxxi's outfit reminds me of a FFXI PUP AF1 sorta haha. I miss my puppet Totomo <3 Anyways.

Oh! I would be honored if everyone could sign the petition to SAVE PALAWAN which is in danger of being destroyed by miners. It's free to sign up and all they need is your name, e-mail and country. That is hardly classified info unless your under protective custody. So please help save the rain forests in Palawan! They need 10 million signatures and have over 600k at the moment. On another note apparently this place is so remote that the name Palawan isn't even in the spell-check... wow.

Early one today so Im off to relax. See ya world! Love ya <3

Donations for Japan ~ $168/$500

Sketch 23 - Power Waves

Metablue. Southern queen of Asaro. Strong willed and passionate, however strict and sarcastic in her teachings. A high elf warrior she has become a role model for her people even as she found love in a human and gave birth to a hybrid, her people support and cherish her. After her lovers death she has not sought out love nor rejected it.

A lot of the original character designs were cloth and leather based which even someone who is nearly immortal probably wouldn't go out in battle with so I have been having fun making the outfits a tad more realistic and conforming to the times they live in. I hope MBJ doesn't kill me for this outfit change. I love it personally and I think it suits her character. Elegant yet sexily badass, what human wouldn't want a piece of that? After changing up the characters, I realized that Nynde and my character haven't been updated for awhile. So I might re-work their outfits over the next few days. Gives me a few more ideas until I get more requests.

My stomach has been in so much pain these past few days. I don't know if its something I ate or over working myself at the gym or what, but the pain is excruciating. So today I'm supposed to top up my prepaid cell service and the whole system is down. Now they will charge me because I didn't top up my account in time. Also has anyone ever had it where you call client support and its suppose to be a free call and they charge you a relatively small amount that's actually a ridiculous price. But you pay it anyways because your too frustrated to care at the time and you go through a million automated options before you reach someone and they start to transfer you to the right department.... so you think. The next voice welcomes you to a whole different company (solo mobile is a sister company to Bell mobility) and the people there tell you that they can't help with your problem and you should call your people back. I almost threw my phone into the wall. So aggravating. Anyways, more stress to add to my migraines.

Seeing as I am poorly I will be heading to bed shortly. Until tomorrow, goodnight world! Love ya <3

Donations for Japan ~ $168/$500

Sketch 22 - Tied Destiny

Ryona. The Daughter of Metablue and a human sire. Because of her Elvaan blood, she ages slowly and has well surpassed her fathers life span. Orphaned as a child, Ryona grew up not knowing of her heritage or of her royal blood until a crush on a forbidden love opens her world to new possibilities.

So much fun re-doing her outfit. Much more suited to a warrior half elf that makes her a bit more 'squishy' than the full bloods. Still a sexy outfit if I may say so. I wanted to give her long hair but the short really suits her best. Plus long hair gets in the way when your trying to swing a sword. I would love to see this made into a real costume... would be so awesome. Tomorrow will be the last of my character draws unless someone wants me to get into all the secondary characters and bad guys.... I do have a request for Wednesday's however.

On another note, trying to fit 11-13 people in a wallpaper picture is sooooo hard. But I will get it done eventually. Anyone that knows me will probably expect me to not even have it done before I hit the 1000 mark (the rate Im going that wont be too far off). Much love to all my readers/watchers out there. Seeing all my views from around the world makes this so much easier.

Last night my cousin and I were to lazy to clean off the spare bed so we share my double... with the 2 Jack Russel Terriers.... I got like NO sleep last night. Then up for a shower and then to the gym where my training was re-scheduled because of a power failure. Also posted a new video of the week that's English for once. Been so tired today it is unreal. Happy to have the sketch done today and it looks great. I think that will be all for today's so goodnight world. Love ya <3


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Sketch 21 - A Swift Death

Stryx. All anyone knows is hes a ninja. Noble and kindhearted, he ends his foes swiftly and fights for what he believes is right. Unfortunately, I have said too much so I mus...........

Very short tonight. Today has been awesome. My cousin finally came over and its been fun. About to go watch Disney's Tangled film. So its started already so I will see you all tomorrow!

Donations for Japan ~ $168/$500

Sketch 20 - Silent But Deadly

Damein Steelblade. Everything about him is dark. From his element to his humor. Able to vanish and blend in with his surroundings he became widely known for his skills as an assassin. Very few know but beneath his cold exterior he harbors love for a select few and his protection. Among his travels, he acquired his partner in crime, Kohaku and fell for the hybrid princess of the Southern nations.

Damein who started as a secondary character along with Kohaku actually grew to be a primary character in the story. Kohaku and Damein must have touched a spot with MBJ and I and brought them from the back to the front lines and as far as I know we are happy with that decision. Damein is an odd personality. He is logical and gives off a cold demeanor, but bases his attacks on what outcome will produce the lest amount of casualties.

So 10 more days and I will have been doing this for a month! It's already lasted longer then my comic which makes me proud of myself. Got a lot of cleaning done today and finished translating a video and yeah. Also checking my emails I got my usual e-newsletter from Tokyopop (people who publish English manga in North America) saying that Lady Gaga has been cast for the lead in the new live action Sailor Moon movie set to be released in 2012.... not sure what to think about that. At lest that would be better then the casting for the live action Akira movie.

Also I am working on a wallpaper for everyone for my 500 view mark (the counter doesn't count mine). It will feature all the characters I will be drawing in the posts. It will also be free to download! I hope you will look forward to it! Well time to go finish a few things. Goodnight world. Love ya <3

Donations for Japan ~ $168/$500

Sketch 19 - 12 Going On 21

Entali Steelblade aka. Tali. The 12-year-old sister of Damien who's mental state is that of a 21 year old. Because of her mentality,  she's very logical and has no idea how to act her age. She is a black dragon-ling and because of her rarity her brother likes to keep her hidden and protected.

Not too sure about Tali. She's not a productive character in the story but important none-the-less. I've always wanted to draw her though and I'll admit I had a lot of fun drawing that outfit. Sadly not much else to say about this character since her creator barely talks to me.

Today I finally got my BigBang CD. Not impressed with how the items actually arrived. The poster is worse for wear and the CD case was dirty. Oh well I still love it. As well at the gym today I was weighed and found out I have neither gained nor lost any weight, however I have gone down in inches and my body fat percentage. Go me!

Get to see my cousin tomorrow which should brighten my smile. His silly antics always make me laugh. It is April fools day and I have not done any pranks today...so ashamed. But I did celebrate Sakura Kinomoto's birthday with eating a strawberry.

I guess today's will be a short one. Goodnight World ~ love you <3

Donations for Japan ~ $168/$500

Sketch 18 - Purrrfectly Shocking

Misha Dallare. The anthro cat of our adventures party. She is emotionally secluded to anyone outside her trust circle. If you manage to get in the circle you are in it for life, however to get in may cost you one. A proud nomad, she is expert in the art of throwing and small weapons. Her element is electricity, however, she can only imbue her weapons with said element. With a secluded heart is there room for a love outside her family?

Sooooo much fun drawing Misha its unreal. Something about the sexy cat girls is just fun to draw....maybe its all those curves! There is a lot of debate floating around about what type of cat she is based from. Cougar? Jaguar? Havana Brown? Until her creator gets back to me we will leave it undecided (I prefer the cougar myself ... goes with the outfit and personality). Shes kind of like a fierce, cute amazon cat woman, no?

So much going on today, yet I did hardly anything. With how warm its been lately all the snow is melting far too fast and the roads and alleys are a slushy, muddy mess. Had to help my mom get out of the garage this afternoon because she got herself into a rut just outside the doors. And with three playful dogs our floors are a muddy mess. The sun is a nice change though ~

I also found out that a semi-local tattoo business called the Camrose Health Department on me for doing tattoos out of my house. Well not sure what a health department in a city 4-5 hours away is really gonna do to a person that has only done tattoos on 3 other people beside herself. And the fact they were volunteers and I didn't charge. Plus I use all sterile disposables and proper cleaning methods with a sterilizer on the way. So all I have to say to that is if they choose to come for me... BRING IT! I think the artist is just jelous because I do better tattoos then him with his 20+ years experience. (conceited ... maybe, but if you've seen the work he's done versus mine you might agree!) And I am in no way saying mine are amazing, I'm still learning after all and have only done 6. Very happy my friend informed me right away, at least now I can get all the papers in order. Oh well.

I am off to bed! Gym at early morning so need my sleeps. Goodnight world! Love ya <3

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Sketch 17 - Noble Snow

Purtalic Tamakai Lahncey. Or PTL for short. Northern queen of Asaro. Sister to Metablue, Partner to Pyro, Mother to Nynde and Daemon. A high elf whose element is ice and the cold. She may not be the sword wielding battle maiden like her sister but her magics are bar-none the strongest. She is one of the few remaining bloodlines for the ancient dragon-lings that now watch over the lands as protective spirits.

My character! Oh how pretty she is. I love her outfit and if I were to choose a "look" goal for my gym training it would be too look like this. Curvy and muscular but lean and sturdy. Because this is the character representing myself, I went the extra mile. I know I know like a parent I shouldn't take favorites but come on its me! Or at least who I would like to be. Bold, daring, kind, smart, leader, and cant forget modestly powerful. Keep dreaming right? Yeah I know lol.

So sorry for the late post. Had a lot to do today with my eye exam and getting stuck in traffic on the way and yeah. Left the house at about 12:30 in the after noon and didn't get back home till about 6:00 pm. So tired. While I was waiting for my exam I did some shopping and found "The Book of Awesome" which after reading a bit into really is awesome. The book started out as a blog by Neil Pasricha @ 1000awesomethings.com. It put a smile on my face on the first page. So if you can find it I highly recommend it (its cheap too!).

I also have a BIG thank you to give out to the generous person who donated $100 for my Japan donation pool. THANK YOU!! That brings us up to almost half the goal amount. Oh and for only 17 days/blogs/sketches I've gone over 400 page views (having it set up so it doesn't include my own). Thank you everyone! I hope I am living up to your expectations. Maybe for the 500 view mark I will post a free wallpaper for people to download if you like.

Well time for bed. Goodnight world! Love ya <3

Donations for Japan ~ $168/$500

Sketch 16 - Demonic Romance

Pyro. A high demon from Eeres. The story of how Purtalic and Pyro met is a near-death survival romance that ended in an amazing union. From there he becomes the soul partner of Purtalic and helps govern the North. He ends up fathering a daughter and son and survives the great war.

This picture is so hawt... if I may say so lol. Ah Pyro. He has some reason to believe he has a little dragon-ling blood in him but its not enough to make a difference. Well as his name suggests he is a fire demon. Thinking about this, me being Purtalic and all.... I don't rule over the fire element yet a lot of my characters are fire elemental ... go figure. Its okay though. MBJ has characters that are under my elemental governing muhahahaha. I spent a lot of time on this picture today. I had to re-do his outfit a lot. Pyro was the 3rd favorite character for the fan-art contest as well.

Tomorrow I have an eye exam and hope to get some contacts again... FINALLY.  Also I have two viewers from Ireland. I don't know anyone from Ireland so this is cool. Hello out there! Hope you liked what you saw/read. This really is exciting. I have a lot of viewers from China as well. Anyways, in other news my cousin Kelly will be arriving for a visit on Friday (hopefully with his gf!) This will be awesome! Also my cousin Alex will be coming for a visit in April sometime. Can't wait. So far I have a lot of people wanting tattoos from me but no one is making dates to do them ... *cries* lol j/k but still come on people!

Love ya <3

Donations for Japan ~ $68/$500

Sketch 15 - Diamond Frost Smile

Nynde. The daughter of Purtalic and Pyro, making her Princess of the Northern races. A mix of royal dragon-ling blood and demon, she is light of her people and the nightmare of her foes. Her demon blood gives her a temper unlike any other. After her first love dies, she finds refuge in a heart similar to her own.

Ah Nynde. My daughter in the story. When I had a fan-art contest, she was the most popular pic. Speaking of fan-art I should find it all and post it. Maybe? Got to the gym today and they said I had a balance on my account, I had a feeling it would come up because of my card being a visa debit and Canadian businesses aren't up to the technology yet. So Im expecting about $50 and it was $80 .... my jaw dropped. So after some negotiating its down to $40 so I am happy.

Got a lot done today, surprising. More work on the commission done, sketch done early, gym, chapter 1 almost finished and job hunting. So tonight while I wait for man to get home, I am gonna play minecraft! Perfect wind-down game seeing as steam still hasn't gotten back to me on my account yet (its been 2 months.... wtf is going on!) Or might feel up to playing Civ 5. I hate war games but I LOVE civilization games. Blame my ex-husband and father-in-law for that :P many nights playing civ revolution on the x-box. Which makes me think of our nights playing magic the gathering and other tabletop games. Oh the arguments and the tears that were shed. Those were some good times.

We were doing so well with the donations for Japan and then it stopped. I guess people don't wanna hear me sing haha (don't blame you). Anyways ttfn world~

Donations for Japan ~ $68/$500

Sketch 5 - Bubbles!

So want a bath! Still might have one. Been a rough week and I am so sore!

Some reason I find it hard to 'sketch' in CS3.... they usually come out looking fairly refined. I need to find a new sketch book so im not tempted to spend 1-2 hours coloring haha. Although I guess the color is good for my fans? Yes? No?  Hopefully this doesn't offend anyone, nothing is shown. Kinda wanted to do something sexy but cute and PG-13 for a bath so yeah. ENJOY!

For someone like me who likes sweets this whole no sugar thing is so hard. I'm not even allowed cheese! And I am a BIG cheese fan. I will succeed! Tired of being the 'fat girl' so to speak.

I finally got my new Rotary machines and they are amazing. Can't wait to tattoo someone with them. Uhg my life is crazy atm. Need to organize my time abit better I think. Anyways, I hope whomever is reading this is happy and well.

Yoi yume yo mina-san!

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Sketch 1 - The first of many

Welcome to my blog!

First I want to thank my friend Mikaela for choosing my title! I love it. Anyways ... HELLO OUT THERE!!! Haha.

The Picture: Well its the first sketch of my first blog so went with drawing myself blogging... Yes i dye my hair green and I have an Alienware mx17 laptop and a WACOM Intuos 3 tablet for those who were wondering.

Why: I started this blog because like a few people I start things with passion and then fail to finish or continue.... maybe I have ADD? So I chose to start doing a sketch a day and blog about it. The theory behind my madness is that if I want to become a tattoo artist and work on a manga I need to be able to draw every day. Plus having to do it everyday forces me into a habit and therefore seeing my comic come back to life. It will also allow others like yourself to give me criticism on my art (good or bad!) so I can improve and log my improvements over the net. I'm hoping to improve my style, gain confidence, reliability and stability in my art.

I will also post stories or events that happen everyday as a life blog so it wont be all art biased. I play video games and listen to j-pop and k-pop ... although im more of a k-pop fan (BigBang FTW). I like anime and fantasy/horror novels. We will keep it kinda short for tonight so until tomorrow, I bid thee farewell!


* Purtalic . Tamakai . Lahncey . Oreos *