I never showed you lot the AWESOME ARTS I made for my working "NaNo09" page on my site, did I?

( PREPARE TO BE GREATLY AWED )

*LOOKS SO MODEST AT HER AWESOME ART ABILITIES*

Unconnected edit: Lordy, if I see that "artists on Craigslist not being paid fairly" ONCE MORE, I'm going to go crazy.

Incidentally, comparing "making art" to "neurosurgery" just... does not compute. O_o

Giftarts. *gleee* *squish*

Warped - arts!
(lineart for the above)

And (unrelated) I think certain people should leave these in discrete places around the home for Warp to look at:
Caring for Baby!
(Thank you Gonard for breaking my brain *headdesk* ;)
And "Clearing baby's nose" looks wrong BOTH ways. O_o I'm sure those air-puffer things usually say "Do not squirt into orifices.")

Now to get back to work on the latest chapter.

Edit: OMFG I DIDN'T EVER LINK TO JILL'S FIIIIC *slaps self*
"Old Wounds"
A companion piece to "Unaccompanied Minors".
Go read, go go goooo.

HOLY CRAPOLA.

I've not logged into my Angelfire site in years - and I mean, the last time must have been 2003 or so.

AND I REMEMBERED MY PASSWORD. I just typed in a totally flukey guess and I WAS IN.

W00T!

Edit: *lol* How hideous is this old thing?
http://www.angelfire.com/my/keaalu/

( Nebula! (Art under cut) )

Aaaaand a rambley cross-post off my devART journal. I prefer my ElJay for stupid crap. *nods*

    SO! Okay, so this had a point to it when I started to write it, but when I read back over it I realised the point had gone walkies. So… go fig. Anyway. I’m not feeling ranty or angry or anything, just… thoughtful.

    Aaaanyway! I was taking a break from writing last night – “lol, don’t you mean the writing WAS the break among all the endless web-browsing?” – and came across a pic that made me think. I forget where it was, precisely, or who the characters were (I think they were OCs?), and it was well-drawn and kinda cute and everything, but… my brain went “…buh?” and just kinda twisted in on itself:
    Daddy transformer was putting a nappy/diaper onto his little girl transformer, and then in the second picture Mummy was breast-feeding it.
    OK, I know, Transformers are “ridiculously human robots” in the first place. They talk like people, socialise like people, fight like people, refuel like people… At what point can someone no longer suspend their disbelief? I mean, sure, I like the idea of “ridiculously human robots” – to a point! (I know, I know, “then why make them robots at all” some will cry – and that’s a can of worms I’d care not to open right now. :P But anyway!)

    I mean, in the first place – nappies. Robots… in nappies. Aside from the fact that FUCK that would be one huuuge nappy, this requires that the baby robot, well… poops, right? So by that token… so do the adults? It’s not new, no, I have staggered blindly across some terrifying badly-written rather-abusive “watersports” stories involving TFs – and yes I know Bumblebee peed (after a fashion) in the 2007 film (and THAT made me go wtf as well), but robots urinating? It just seems… no.

    So I guess it boils down to me just being my usual nitpicky self. :P Yeah, I can accept a machine loving a non-machine, but when they get to popping out babies? Not to recycle a point, but HOW IS BABBY FORMED?! Robot breast-feeding a baby robot? NAPPIES? I just… buh. Even machines with big huge pregnant abdomens make me go “…whuuuut?”

    All right. SO. The point was, where do you lot suspend your disbelief? Does "robot + biological + magic = babby" = OK? Orrr... does ANY idea of a similarity to biology (including just a coding-intermix) = RAAAGE?

    See, the point has run off. BAH. I’ll shut up. I need to go wrangle an over-energised Seeker back into his storyline.

Yeah, people on my FL have prolly seen this doodle of Lara in another pic before, but anyway.

At last I can has a NIGHTSUN! One of the very first of the rabble to show up in my brain (I think he and Spotweld appeared together), but it's taken me almost a year to get a headshot of him on paper. HE HAS HEADPHONESS. I wanted to give him the looks of a helicopter pilot, hence the visor and headphones and stuff. I'm not sure if he's going to have one of those little microphones that sits alongside the mouth - it'd only be for effect anyway, because, well, robot. Snazzy little police helicopter.

And finally! OMG I MANAGED TO HALF-DRAW HIM BEFORE HE RAN OFF AND HID AMONG THE NEURONS. Lucy (channelling Lily Allen? *razz!*) and (half of) Deuce, who's looking a little long-suffering and why-is-she-climbing-on-me, but that's natural for him. BLESS. (I know, he's got the same sort of pose as Nightsun, but I no care. I just wanted to TRY and grab him on paper.)

Totally CAN'T IMAGINE what SHE might be thinking about... ¬_¬

     This looked so much better in my brain. :P Lucy's badge.

Come one, come all, and make lol at Abi's halfassed attempt at vector logo design! Yay. Scary lopsided HUGE EYED Policebot emblem. Woo.

This is a "Thing a Day", btw - going to TRY and achieve it this year as I ran out of steam last year and forgot about it until Anna reminded me about it on devART. So! As I'm hiding from the snow, this is actually yesterday's thing. Today's thing will be up later.

Why is the weather always mank when I'm on annual leave? :P

(Yes, I reused the same picture that I used last time. Live with it. :P)
( Exciting Arts under cut*! More stained glass beasties, and OF COURSE, more alien giant f'cking robots of flying doom (or something) )

Unrelated but related, I'm sending my Christmas Cards to the printer tomorrow. I would have sent 'em today but I fell asleep in front of the telly again ¬_¬ and ran out of time to do the vectors. (Lol, Vectors. Vector's what? And what's she doing there, anyway? *ramble*) But! I shall put out the call for addresses very soon (those who had cards last year, I think I have your addresses in my notebook still). :) Don't want to miss the last post!

* - disclaimer: "Exciting" might just be a lie.

Edit: ARGH how HARD is it for you to spell "NOT" and "YOU" today? *flail*

( More Art thingers! (2 pics under cut) )

I was going to have a go at doing these like "real" fake stained glass, as in: use some sort of dimensional paint for the leading then fill/colour with a clear coloured plastic "lacquer", but then I realised HOW wibbly my lines were with the dimensional "leading" so I gave up. ;) (Besides, I've got about a billion shades of green and no firking ORANGE. I don't think they MAKE a proper orange. So... curses.) I may post the experiment later.

Anyone got any ideas for more creatures?

We are Riot Control!
Hardline (top, back), Celerity (left), Longbeam (middle), Vector (right) and Whitesides (bottom)

Woo. Lurid-coloured transformers FTW. (I took most of my inspiration for their colours from the local police fleet, and that's even LOUDER colours - the yellow is literally dayglo.)

Constable Whitesides (the little guy on the floor) seems to have reinvented himself as the station bike, bless him; everyone's had a ride. I'm trying to work out if he's trying to sleep his way up the chain of command, or is just a trollop. I think it's the latter. Mind you, he's finally coming across a lot more like I originally envisioned him (i.e. a bit of a gossip-hound, but otherwise pretty sweet-natured), before he got hooked on Prophet and turned all crazy-paranoid.

Chief Inspector Celerity (on the left, with the bun) has just got back off duty, I think, because she's all scruffy-looking, unlike her sister Vector (on the right, with the bunches or whatever the frag they are.) I'm not sure why Constable Longbeam (in the middle) looks so coy - probably just not been photographed with her girlfriend before? I don't know.

Aaand of course there's Superintendent Hardline, in the back. About to kick some aft with that giant watergun. Whee. :D

(I feel halfway inclined to doodle Whitesides "caught in the act", as it were, but eh, my brain won't stretch that far without melting.)

Lully artings! Yaay.

Everyone go admire it now. *dances about*

Observe also the bottom line - go make with the giving of custom!

( OMG SCREAMING BLUE SPOILERS! Robosnugglings (Arts under cut) )

I wonder who here remembers Hak? ;) He's had a bit of a refit (and an extra letter) - thus, I present Hack, the riot policebot. ;) Yeah, it's just a nickname, like "Sepp", but eh. They're both gentle giants, at heart. Hak's nickname was "Tank", ergo, the tank gets the nickname "Hack". :) Fair play, I figure.

( ''Thunder Daughter'' Cover ideas. Kinda... more brainfarty than actual arts. (Art under cut) )

And now, to bed. *zzz*

"Like Clockwork" Forgot to post this yesterday. Doodle with GIANT HANDS OMG. *grumps* Need to decide if he needs wings or anything - supposed to be a very stylised doodle, like something Tora is thinking about, but I'm not sure if I can do that. :P "Stylised" isn't so easy for me, I just want to go OMG UBER-DETAILED ATTEMPT AT QUASI-REALISM all the time. :P Puh. Going to add some real watch parts/cogs, later. They'll be the "flowers" in his hand. Looks "grey" because it IS drawn on grey/thready paper. I hoped it'd look suitably "industrial", but eh. Whatever. (Click to enlarge)

To come: been making progress with my cover. Vectors, watercolour and pencils, and "real media" (cogs) (when they arrive) (grr). Might post pics later.

My art makes my brain hurt, at the moment. *sigh*

Edit: Typical, stupid in-house ElJay code stuffs up and breaks my journal.

( Dull art is dull. (pics under cut) And some ideas, and stuff. )

And there ends your art-dump for today. Dull art is duuuuuull. *grump*