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.

not so tough found out, found out.

So only after discovering how much of a pain editing Blogger can be, I have decided to pull through and actually make a post for once in a while. I swear I'm starting to become like Jordyn- ninja-like and never seen.

So this is my sketchbook cover. Ziegte. She can dismember her own body in streams of crackly magic. I might finish it if I feel up to digitizing the deal.


This is Arthur and Beluga. Arthur is my gay flowershop owner who loves his partner Zeke and his baby Beluga, who's a cracked-up man-eating plant and we all love her blahblah. She's phenomenally acidic and deadly and ... wonderful. C:







This next trio of images is actually the separated duo from my would-be webcomic type thing which I should really get back to doing 'cause it's been a while and I'd like to improve. Clearly, Evie and Claudius got a makeover. And I like it that way. Bwhahahahahah!















And this... might be my lovey-dovey belated Valentine's Day picture if I feel up to finishing it.

the biggest tragedy is not your death, but a life without reason.

So, first and foremost, welcome back to the Klutz Kronikles, which hasn't updated since October 16th. How ever did I live?


Today we're gonna start with the first product of my boredom in class- bikini girls! There's some chibi and ... Thatcher, I think. Very pink, very hoish.


This was something I drew listening to Robert Randolph's Ain't Nothing Wrong With That. And I felt like drawing poofy hair and superstar poses. So sue me. D:


Continuing on the path of music-inspired drawings, this is from Iron&Wine's Boy With A Coin, featuring, DA DADA DAAAH, GALE! Because I felt like it, kay? Really. My drawings lack any sort of form or purpose anymore. I' almost sad. Almost.


Finally, we're getting somewhere. Xiu (pronounced Zhi-oo) is my Asian OCD-ridden experiment of awesome. The last "resonator," as Jordyn knows her, and probably one of the classier additions to the team. I'm going to enjoy this. Color scheme pending.



Here's where we get srs. The first picture is my final concept of Eric once he ditches the creepy labcoat. I've got his hair worked out, the trinkets, yadda yadda. His concept design was probably my favorite, but this is the first time I've ever been able to draw his hair perfectly. Har har.


And who would I be without a Riadump? This was more fun than anything else. Meaning, it's useless. So on the left we've got a very interesting battle outfit of awesome that reminds me somewhat of Verunica's, but with a more... flat-chested twist. Watch that stuff be made of some sort of armored spandex blend. That'd be funny. Upper middle is something I uploaded because the anatomy is so whacked, and yet I wanna finish it. Lower middle is one of the more accurate representations of my baby, colored with a Q-Tip. 8D On the right is the pending design for her new uniform. Booyaaaah. 8D

&i know it seems like we're never coming back.

I've been in an incredibly sketchy mood as of late, so a blog entry seems... incredibly fitting. Before, I start though, I'd like to touch on three things that have bothered me MAJORLY as of late, and all of which are things my friends have said to me. The first, I remember distinctly, began with a conversation between my friend and I during art class. I was done with whatever project we were doing at the time, and I decided that, hey, maybe I should doodle for a little while, since nothing extra was assigned.

Can I just clear up, for those who think my art is just really bad realism, that I'm NOT AIMING FOR REALISM K? It's fun to have exaggerated features and limbs.

So anyways, my friend says to me, "Why do you draw those anime people? I hate them." Or something.

As much as I love said friend, and I'm not mentioning any names by any means, I got a little offended. One, not only did several people comment that my art has strayed far from anime and into a more cartoony semi-realism, but you don't just say something like that to someone. I'm like, afraid to draw around that person now in fear of making them say something else like that. Same person and I were having a discussion about our school art program and, since I might wanna have a double major in Literature and Art and a minor in Music, I said that I might have to transfer school simply because the school one of my friends goes to has a better program. And my friend says, "You'd want to transfer schools JUST for the art program?"

Well.
Yes. Since that's what I want to attempt to incorporate into the rest of my natural life. Yes.

The third thing was actually something from this morning and from a different friend, and all she asked was, "Do you ever draw real people?"
My question is, "Am I obligated to?"

I'm not sure if anyone else is bothered by stuff like that, but seriously, man. I doodle because I like to doodle, and I'm (usually) proud of my finished stuff. I really do not understand why in hell people who don't even want to do anything with art later on in their lives feel like it's necessary to criticize little things like that. And yes, I have drawn real people before, and it's hard, and I'm still working on it.

Fuck damn.

Hem.

WIP Halloween picture. Some witchy thing sitting on the edge of some cauldron, it's prolly gonna end up looking like crap anyways so I'm not even gonna talk about it.
After listening to the Decemberists (Mariner's Revenge Song), I felt like sketching something folky, and was in the mood to put Ria in different situations just because I wanted to. After much repetition, I came out with this piece of crap.Finished digital cover of my sketchbook, should do it in colored pencils on the real thing. Her claves are too long, thighs are too short, I see it, I know.

Now I'm in a crappy mood.

then sunday morning i'm regretting it all.

New layout, again. Let's see how this one works out. o_o Anyways. Here on my left is a sketch and a short description of a character named Aline- the common-sense-infested fashionista, a good friend of Cassie's (who's the woman Vlad cheats on Ria with, for those of you who know). She's got this thing about thinking that Ria may actually be alive, so she's pretty wary of letting Cassie do inaproppriate things. :< What a good friend!

And funny at the same time. She'll be great.

IIIIN THE BLUE CORNER... we have Ria as a child. : > She'ssocute.

Alrighti'mdone. 8D

i know the secrets that you keep, i know where you sleep.

Hello one and all and welcome to the 49th entry to the klutz kronikles. I assure you that the 50th will be celebratory, and without crap art!

Now, here on the left (this new formatting is an attempt to stop making my entries so freakin' long-looking) is something I doodled in lunch while ignoring James and talking to Jarret about some random stuff, and listening to Emily and telling Laura to stop slapping the table. I decided she'll be some sort of jester thing, but Iduno. I still have lots of time to decide!

Now, what I've actually had time to get adjusted and get some doodlin' time in class, I've been drawing several pages' worth of RiaRiaRia. She's been swimming in my mind, and since Jordyn and were planning to possibly edit the entire story, I wanted to give her younger self a slight revamp. That's for later, though. This is something cheesy I decided to doodle, because flowing leaves/flower petals seemed superfun to do at the time. And she's wearing a skirt. That'sjustweird.

Here we have something I totally FAIL at drawing - pregnant women! ;D Yousee, Zieg's gonna leave her alone when Vlad does and hit her hard after her kidsies are born. So she looks relatively healthy here, right? Right. Not for long~ ;DD

And finally, we have the last sketch in the series. This was the doodlebit I did of younger, 16-year-old Ria. I hate it. I don't like it at -all-. Why am I even scanning it? Iduno. My character design here is totally flawed. I have to go back to making her look punky with a bad haircut, 's how I'm used to seeing her when she was younger. ._. Ohboyohboy. She'ssogorgeous.

And Cassie commented on my way of drawing curly hair today. She 'wtf'd a little, even. ;DD

referential recordings - neu!

Hi guys!
I'm not really posting art, that'll be around Monday afternoon (Sarahphee is letting me use her scanner on Sunday, which means I won't be here all day. It's Gaia&&YouTube all Sunday with mah dork!twin.) I'm actually just here to inform you that I have made a second blog for the purpose of keeping my character profiles intact! The new one, referential recordings, is located at http://leyleykeepsherprofileshere.blogspot.com/ and will be kicked off as soon as I stop being lazy and start filling in skeletons.

Why am I even posting this?
To remind myself to stop being lazy and start filling in skeletons. :3 <3
And, if you'd like to know a bit more about the crazies I draw, click it. I don't promise much. :'D

[/shot for being crappy at writing and character development]

seamus ist sehr shoen.

A sketchdoodle of my new OC, Seamus! Seamus is a fairy. Say hi, Seamus!
... Yeah. Seamus is an Irish fairy to go along with Janice's Lucy, who is made of win and hearts and love. Tidus kisses (read: almost rapes ) Yuna played back in my head. Just thought I'd let you know. XD

But yeah, you'll be seeing more of this brainchild. :3

die neue klamotten, und musik fuer dich

Title Translation: "The New Clothes and Music for You"

For the past two days or so, I've been toying with the idea of Ria in casual clothes, just meandering about and doing the whatnot. xD Working on the house, maybe! You never know with her. You start to feel kinda bad for the poor lass once you spend some time working with her. :<
Just a little bit of pose stuff here, it's not even that clear on the scan, but 'tis Ria on a couch. XD I wanted to let her have some sort of remote control, but my bio teacher was passing out papers at the time, so I couldn't. :< This, though, is something I could see her wearing just around. Jeans and an off-the-shoulder top and some form of necklace. Or sweatpants. I imagine she's a big sweatpants person. xD ANDLOOKIGOTHERHAIRRIGHT. Sorta. XD

Now, for music! <3 I got lots of new little tracks to share.
Coheed and Cambria - Welcome Home
Anberlin - Dismantle.Repair (Acoustic), Dismantle.Repair, The Haunting, A Whisper and a Clamor
Lola Ray - Automatic Girl, Slave
Copeland - Coffee, Priceless, No One Really Wins, Hold Nothing Back, Brightest

sketches galore! not.

I have this funny OCD thing about updating frequently, so I looked about my desk and found a few doodles that I should probably finish soon, but don't have the time to.
Whoops?

Anyways, let's start off with something I'm actually mildly satisfied with- the Ria reference sheet! It's not very detailed, but it's about as accurate as something needs to be. 'Cept I should have made her hair curlier. Let's not ask when this was drawn, 'cause I won't be able to tell you. XD
I do rather enjoy the little expression I doodled. There was actually a caption I cropped that said, "WHAT ARE YOU IMPLYING?" Good times, good times. ;D
Now, this next doodle is somewhat of a self-portrait. Note the somewhat. Actually, it's a bandwagon challenge that I should really get to soon. If you can't read the text, it says, "Prone to weird situations, like getting caught in a Disney-style bear trap with a paper expression in hand." I love how weird it looks, honestly. XD
Should reeally get to finishing that.
Oh well.
For now, comic page! : D


In other new-- ooh! My hair's all soft. <3
... Ahem. Anyways! In OTHER NEWS, I managed to superglue my hair to a clip today. How? Well, it all started when my mother was UNAWARE OF MY EXTRA SHELVING (floor) and stepped on a clippy. I superglued it together today, but then I had to leave for a choir audition, and, you know, being impatient little old me, I shoved it onto my head to look spiff.
Came home to discover that a strand was rather safely secured onto the clip. Needless to say that I had to cut it Obviously not a very big deal, but... Yeah. I think I oughta go to bed. 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!