Nivvixian Commtest

The Nivvixian Commtest hosted by Zimeta08 from DeviantArt. It was basically an anthro contest. The Nivvixians are a race of anthro insects that live in the world of, you guessed it, Nivvix. The rules were to select an insect, select a job and get to it! I did two entries which you guys have seen, the Deathwatch Beatle Inventor and the Paper Wasp Coroner.

My placing piece was the paper Wasp Coroner, earning second place. I have to say I'm pretty pleased as I was up against some tough competition.

First place was Nora the Nanny by missuspatches. A beautiful piece with a real gentle storybook feel. Not only is the art engaging (with that totally unique format) but she came up with a story and named every Nivvixian in the piece!

Second place was the coroner.
Paper Wasp Coroner


And Third was the...
Cockroach Fry Cook
This guy has a wonderful story, struggling with his dead end job to put food on the table for his wife and two lil bugs. He dreams of owning his own resteraunt. Lovely inks on this! See just the inking here..

See all the entries in the DA News post!

Prayer (Mature warning)

I am an agnostic, bordering on atheist...however, religion always intrigues me. It's such a power in our society, it should not be ignored.

Anyways I did two pictures based on my impressions of prayer.

This one is based on desperation developing into anger.

It will probably get a dabbing of color at some point, it's a lot more realistic than the next prayer pic.












This one is a much quicker doodle, but I was so pleased with the emotion of it I didn't feel it needed a lot of clean up.



I hope you enjoy them.

Quick Update

My internet should be up in a few days and I'll submit some more animations.
But as a preview of what I've been up to :)



http://desiree-joy.deviantart.com/art/Grasses-WIP-122867240

Goals - Accountability

Well they say writing things down is the best way to hold yourself accountable... well that and telling others. So I figured with this blog I would do both!

So here are my goals for 2009!

Professional:
Get Storybook finished, illustrated and sent out to publishers!!!
Animate a short (Perhaps Gentle?)
Get my art on Side7, Artwanted, and any other gallery I can get my hands on!
Complete one comic - at least 5 pages! (Pogen or Nuclear? or AID... or heck any of my millions of ideas!)
Be involved in at least TWO collaborative projects!


Personal:
Go to Chicago (I miss u!!!!) and NYC!
ROAD TRIP!!! (May involve above)
Lose 20lbs (That's typical isn't it?)

Snow Leapord Trust

Slightly off the art vein I know, but I signed up and so should you!

For ever subscriber to snowleopard.org enews the Kearsley Fund will donate $2 to the Snow Leopard Trust's found raiser!

They are close to raising their goal of 6000 dollars, just a couple hundred people short! They're receiving a lot of support from DevArt and Facebook, let's keep it going!

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p.s. This picture is why I don't draw animals....

What's been taking you so long!?!?!

Alright I sadly do not have a lot of progress to report on my WIP of Shylock, I've tried a few different tattoo designs but have hated all of them. Anyone know some awesome places for design ideas, plz let me know! Tattoo art is not my forté. He has power over pestilence so that should somehow be incorporated. I have decided on a small shadow badge over his left pec and three claw marks symbolizing his loyalty to Tsunami, on his shoulder. I'll keep working on it.





Here's a random battle enemy for Wytheria. I realise the perspective is a little off, but I still am amused.


I've also been working on one of those 25 expression sheets. Ideally I'd like to do one for all of my characters, but this is taking some time! And this guy isn't even my character!?!?! This is Alisa's Bob Russel, a well intentioned if occasionally "out of his league" politician.





What's been taking up the bulk of my time (and why I haven't gotten anywhere on these projects) is Windharps.net It may not look as amazing as it could, but I've added a blog there, that uses rss to syndicate to the site, as well as to facebook! I've been updating the blog. I tried to make a wiki page but that failed as it got deleted because I accidentally submitted it before it was done, rather than previewing. Maybe later I'll have the energy to do it again, but I spent forever and lost it all. I'm pretty irked with Wiki. We're featuring a new upcoming exhibition of some really awesome harps. I have seen them in person and they look wonderful! It's of course a secret until they're revealed at the Croswell Opera House in Adrian Michigan for Steve Cameron's solo exhibition!!! (All of the month of March) So go there, but make sure you buy your harps through the website ;)

This is it for this blog, I promise these will be better thought out and written in later posts! I'm kind of overwhelmed with all of this windharps stuff and learning about how amazing RSS is! Now if only Myspace would let you import blogs... stupid Myspace... -.-

:) As always, I love critques on my art! post your thoughts!

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