stunt_muppet

Breaking News: Drawing is even more slow and frustrating than writing. I ended up with, like, five faces. After a million billion years.

So I'm guessing it'll be a while before I can post anything on DA, then.

Figured I might as well put them up here, plus some more of the photos from my garden. Now that fall's started in earnest there are fewer and fewer bugs for me to photograph, and that makes me a bit sad.

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I'm practicing drawing fuller-figured characters than I usually do, since I draw too many skinny people and I need to learn to draw more varied figures, especially if I'm going to do humanization fanart. And since I wanted to draw people in big dresses anyway...here's a lady in a big dress. Yeah.



I was taking a go at fanart, here. I wanted to draw an older Sari while still making it recognizably her. I don't know if I succeeded (plus it's photographed from a weird angle so her head looks lopsided) but I liked the suit I drew for her.



Was trying for a different face shape, going for a more rounded, younger look. And I wanted the face to look cheerful, so...yeah. Ended up with a fairly epic derpface. It's going to be a while before I can draw girl!Bulkhead any kind of decent.



In addition to drawing more body and face types, I'm also trying to draw more poses and expressions so I can draw things other than people staring blankly into the middle distance. So here, I was going for anger, while simultaneously looking over one's shoulder. I'm not sure under what occasion these two would coincide, but there you are. The figure drawn here is based on my ideas that I had for the genderswapped humanized TFA Prime, but is not necessarily supposed to be her because. Um. Whatever.



Also tried to draw humanized genderswapped Lockdown, but she ended up weirdly androgynous instead - not that there's anything at all wrong with androgyny, I'm personally a big fan of it, but it's not really what I was going for here. I kind of wanted to give her dreadlocks, both as a visual reference to Predator and so she'd look less like "Odd Couple" Lockdown (and because I really like dreads and there aren't nearly enough characters with them), but I realized that that had could have some bad racial overtones and also I can't draw dreads for crap, so she's shaven instead.



This is the only humanization design that I really like enough to stick with (it's genderswapped TFA Shockwave). I have to take off points for originality for giving Shockwave an eyepatch since everyone does that, but I've also sort of convinced myself that the closest human equivalent to being a shapeshifter is a master of disguise, and I read somewhere that when people are trying to identify people in disguise the first place they look is the nose, since it's pretty hard to alter your nose without surgery. So if Shockwave-ette's going to most efficaciously disguise her appearance, the first bit of her face she'd get rid of was her nose, so she could instead wear any number of false ones in disguise. Hence the bandages.

Technically if I really wanted to make her fully committed to diguising herself, she'd be bald and wearing a wig, but pretend that's a wig she's got on now.






And now, photos!





A few days ago I found a bumblebee lying on its back on our patio. I thought it was dead, but it stirred when I poked it; it was alive, but for some reason it couldn't fly (probably because it was too cold). So I scooped it up on a leaf and placed it on one of our porch plants, where it promptly started crawling and clinging to the leaf in a really rather sad manner.



Later he crawled to the underside of the leaf, which I'd never seen a bee do, so I took its picture. Poor thing. I hope it survived.



A spider on one of the window ledges when M, J and I went to Harpers' Ferry. Don't worry, I took a bunch of pictures of buildings and my actual friends too, I wasn't being completely antisocial and just photographing bugs all day.



A macro photo of a lichen on one of the rocks. I thought it looked nifty.



I actually took this photo with my uncle's camera, except I couldn't figure out how it worked or even how to turn the viewscreen on, so I took this photo essentially blind and it still turned out okay. I'm rather pleased with myself.




I've got an interview tomorrow! Which means I should go to bed. That huge Real Life post I've been meaning to make will have to wait. Wish me luck.