OMG a post!

same as I put on my dA journal:

Back from unofficial hiatus (school is so rough)

I have graduated (unofficialy, I get my diploma tommorrow)

Things to do:

Finish illustrating my three children's books.

Buy a new computer monitor and/or laptop

Stop playing minecraft (...PFFFT. so much for that one)

Some artwork I did for my school art show:

Gillgan, a character of mine. Love the brown tint in the fur.

A random amphitere that I finally finished (after sitting in my computer for nearly a year). Background color/texture is just the original horrible photograph I used to trace over.

Next up will likely be some recent sketches and when I get around to it there will be scans from my school art show.

Playing Possum

New year's resolution: update my blog semi-regularly.

Anyways, Dad set up a trap to catch some stray cats that have moved in around our house.
(No worries, it's a live trap. The plan is just to move them to the fairgrounds nearby where they can be happier)

Instead of catching a cat though, he caught a possum. We've got lots of them around our house, but I don't usually see them close up, so I asked him to leave it for a bit so I could do some observational drawings. Here they are:

Things I noticed:
1) Their tails are scaly
2) They have what appears to be a backwards toe that they walk on on their back foot
3) Their faces are a bit shorter than I thought, so I had trouble drawing the angle accurately.
4) I also had trouble keeping the paws and head in porportion

In the bottom corner (in the circle) is the picture I did from memory the next day.

-Courtney

MoM: Meteor

For the latest Mercs of Meleee challenge: We had to stop a meteor.

Tayne held the heavy book and stared straight at the fireball quickly growing in the sky. According to Kisa she had the book open to the right page, not that she could read it anyways. Kisa leaped up onto Tayne's shoulder and stepped down onto the spellbook.
This would have to be a team effort, and they had to act fast. While Kisa could read even the ancient script of tomes like this, she could not speak. Tayne was totally illiterate, but at least she could speak, and with their shared telepathy, that was all they needed.
One spell later the meteor was gone; blasted off to another dimension