my heart is beating like a jungle drum

So I've been around sort of and sketching for a while but there's nothing interesting so I'mma share random crap like I usually do.

Since J-Money and I are rewriting Darkheart to be less faggoty, I thought I'd freshen Ria up a bit. The awkward positioning is really not supposed to be there I just needed to draw the outfit. She's wearing leggings I swear.

And this is only really the basic stuff. I'll add to it and make it pretty soon and then post a COLORED VERSION FOR THE FIRST TIME IN AGES WHAT IS THIS BLASPHEMYYYY. And I'm really inspired by this guy and this girl. I really like that hidden severity in art. ;^;

Also, I might go to St. Louis for five weeks in the summer. Winner.

Saturn and Thatcher, also less faggoty! I decided to make them classy designers instead of really fking obnoxious. They are now obnoxiously classy, as cliche'd by Saturn's ascot. His hair needs a little updating, he looks too much like Eric for me to like. And he's mopey. He's really pretty happy. Self-centered yes but not a bad guy.

OHOHOHthisisexciting. If you can guess the subject then you're a winner. If you can't, well, that's just too bad. >:O

My first major project in forever.

ich denke das komisch.

A Thatcher and some other crap on a page that I did because I had an hour left after completing my biology exam (to which my score was a 98!) and had Candy Pop stuck in my head. Click the link. It'll make you fruity up the loopy.
My friend's mom described that song as "something a gay bar would play at the end of the night to chase the stragglers out."
I think it's the catchiest thing. :'D And something Thatcher would dance to. Duh.

IDEASIDEAS.<3

So this isn't a picture post. Sorry. D:
Basically, it's almost midnight, but I have to get this idea down somewhere or I'm gonna explode. x:

So I have an idea to like, display all of my awesome experiment fighters (becausehonestly, I've never drawn all of them accurately. There's a pretty spiff sketch of Saturn in my notebook, though...) and I feel like they need it.
So I was thinking something in the style of this picture, except like three times as aggressive and with WEAPONS ftw! Like Ria's cannon prototype! And I might attempt Adderson's guns. >> 'Cause he's awesome.
Butyeah. I'll try to sketch that while I'm in Canada! (More info on the Canada trip later. :3)

Oh, and I lied.
Updated page layout for you. Enjoy Claudius and Mortimer goodness! Evie's namesake is coming in on the next page. :3 She's just a less awesome/younger version of this girl here.
Remind me to re-attempt the comic script. XD

character designs, yum.

Now, see, the cool thing about blogging is that I don't have to fill out descriptions and categories for EVERYTHING I DO. Just throw on a few sentences, a couple of tags so when I over-blog I can fish this stuff out, and upload. Voila, insta-picture dump! So, anyways. What you're seeing above is another thing of bird sketches that I did last night. Credit will go where it's due, so thrumyeye shall receive it. I referenced all of these from their bird gallery. :3 My personal favorite is the duck and macaw, but I never said that. There is a method to my madness, but that's later.


Now, what is this? You're going to have to click it to full view, but that's my design for Ria's 'Diepullae' plot outfit. She looks like a freakin' admiral and I love it! : D Thatcher does think of functionality when she works, yanno. So, anyways, it's time to whip out the Style-o-Pedia on all of you, because I'm going to use some hard-core vocab. :3

Her jacket's Asian-inspired (doesn't help that we have a cool oriental store at the mall), with a Nehru-type 'collar' (it's not really a collar, more like the neckline) on the jacket, along with frog toggles and gauntlet cuffs. She retains her turtleneck underneath, but I gave her sleeves this time, and it laces up to just under her bust. Now, the cool thing that I didn't show is this: when the going gets rough and she's too tired of the clothing restriction, BAM! Off with the jacket, pull a string, and the bottom part of her turtleneck unlaces and zips right off. There's a reason for this that I'd rather not talk about. Since her rapier appears spontaneously, I didn't have to add a belt. The last two things I'm failing to mention is the clip that's holding her hair back and the metal band at the end of the fingerless gloves she wears. Think wolverine.
She has seven claws instead of five now.

This next display of awesome is a doodle (andspoiler) for Thatcher and Rosalia's story five designs. Rosie's a kitty, and Thatch is an awesome hummingbird. x0 This means she's super fast and durable. There's also a sun tattoo on her hip! She gets it... sometime later. Post-Diepullae. Rosie obviously never transformed back all the way, because her eyes are still freaky, and she may or may not have claws that she has to trim regularly, but it's not a big deal to her. She's still taciturn and awesome. WITH A HAIRCUT FTW.

What I'm about to post next is supposed to be top secret from Jordyn (fellow blogger), but I find it more suspensful to watch the progress of something. :3 Iduno why. So here!


Stage one!
This was drawn early last night, and sent out to Jenna, Osi, and Joe. They spotted mistakes with the bird (I'm not sure if it'll be a dove or some sort of finch...) and with Vlad's composure. He looked like he was leaning back, and I spotted that later. One thing I won't fix is the way his body's proportioned- I tried, and failed.

Stage two!
I fixed the head angle, the body proportions (a little) and the beak of the bird. I also gave it a few more feathers on the wings. Obviously, this isn't even CLOSE to the final sketch, but it's getting more and more refined. If Janice (fellow blogger) could do me a favor and (harshly) crit this (mostly the bird) too, I'd love her even more. x0 (Sending me more Akiko Shikata/Fairy Queen music would earn you <33 points, too...)

So, that's that for today, kiddos. I may or may not come back in the evening with more doodles. :3 Expect a playlist to be up soon!