I named him Otieno. I love these snake men, especially this one. I'm so bloody tired.

I didn't want to draw. I've been struggling to churn out something for the past few days. IF's just been -frustrating-...I've been frustrated.
So when R asked for some pchatting I resisted internally but went along with his suggestion regardless. I was having major issues. Sitting back after a couple hours of erasing and steaming I may not have much (he's got some amazing stuff) but I'm happy with what I did get out. Even if it doesn't seem like anything at all.

Morning doodling!

Played with in OpenCanvas3.03 instead.

Got to draw in pchat, just a little but it was good. I miss it. Hopefully I can go back to it tonight when I get home from work because I would like to finish this.

Special Edition Repaint! OMG!

Color! Though I'm "unhappy" with it, it's little and simple so I may redo it when I get home.

Kiki meets a mechanical pencil, a brush pen and my sick love of super deformed Japanese toon things.

Illustration Friday's "reinvent" topic. I've had Bright Eyes' "From A Balance Beam" stuck in my head -- that's where the lyrics come from:
"It was in a foreign hotel bathtub I baptized myself in change and one by one I drowned all of the people I had been and I emerged to find the parallels were fewer. I was cleansed. I looked in a mirror and someone new was there..."
Done in OpenCanvas3.03 approximately an hour and a half.
I really hated doing this. I kept going away and coming back and it took much longer than it should have. I think I spent 3 hours fiddling around trying to get away from it only to come back and sit here for 15-45 minutes at a time to draw. Blech.
Please click for a full view, there are a few details lost in the shrink.

Doodled on the bus on the way home, colored in OpenCanvas3.03. Boys should wear hair pins and pink.

Something for Illustration Friday's "alone" topic. Click for a larger resolution. OpenCanvas 3.03, 38 minutes.
I missed the last one...but meh. I don't have time as it is. This is a scene from Haruki Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. If you haven't read the book I highly suggest taking a look. I just finished my second run at it. If you would like a further explanation feel free to ask...it just spoils the book if I say so. So I'll just leave that for now. I'm pretty happy with this for a speed sketch.

Background was crap. Is still crap...I have no patience, but at least it seems to suit her more?

FIN.

Coloring eet in OpenCanvas3.03, yay.