Yep, it's another pile of art.

Yep. This is becoming a regular thing, it seems. If it becomes a regular enough thing it may get its own categorization and become some weird lumpy little deformity of a feature.

Let's get this rolling with some Homestuck fanart, for starters (Homestuck is, once again, an excellent webcomic). I drew the antagonist Spades Slick, alias Jack Noir, a little while ago and stuck it up here last post, and in the interim period have drawn the remainder of Spades' friends/minions/partners in crime, who like him are themed after the suits in a deck of cards and are collectively known as The Midnight Crew. These are my visual interpretations of the characters--the ones in the comic are drawn more simplistically, but are consistently described as having "carapaces," so I aimed for sort of a jointed-plate insectoid feel.

Clubs Deuce, the smallest member of the group, who tends to be sort of easily distracted and slightly more innocent (slightly) than his fellow crew members. He's also the only one who is never drawn with a mouth, so I gave him a smallish set of mandibles. I imagine he'd make little chittering noises with them.

Hearts Boxcars, the group muscle. Much larger than the others. Far from the standard "dumb muscle" stereotype, though he still doesn't appear to think things through entirely. His face had to be sort of complicated, as I was trying to allow for the necessary range of motion that was present in a darkly comedic scene where he swallowed and ate someone's head, whole. This unfortunately had the effect, for this drawing, of making him look like some sort of basketball robot, althought there is an unintentional bit of stag beetle in there too, which works.

Diamonds Droog is the brains of the outfit, a careful deducer and planner who seems most likely to backstab Spades (sort of a Megatron-Starscream relationship if you'll forgive the incredibly geeky analogy), and has a predilection for finely tailored suits. I deviated the most from his character design, to provide more of a shout-out to his last name (a Clockwork Orange reference), giving him a bowler derby and eye marking (Droog as Homestuck depicts him wears an odd sort of cowboy hat, or some sort of tall, lumpy fedora).

Moving on, some more photos from photography class.

I just really like how this picture came out. The angle, the lines, that little splotch of maroon on the ground from a nearby piece of sculpture--this is one of my favourite pictures that I've taken this year. It's of a bike rack.

Kind of silly, but I had fun with this one. Made possible with a combination of a good steady tripod and Photoshop. It's not perfect--I noticed too late that I still didn't line up where I had cut and pasted one photo quite right, so if you look very closely, there's still a little bit of a seam; and my instructor pointed out that there's too much dead space between the two mes. Still, I'd like to do something similar to this again sometime.

 Finally, another school notepage doodle. Random punk-ish girl, possibly from Korea, (nick?)named Vitriol because I love ridiculous names. I like this one enough that I might colour it, in spite of the wonky right elbow and the misplaced bit of hair on the other side of her head (I realized it suggests her other ear must be somehow further back...unless maybe it's draped behind that ear?). Also, the neckline for the fishnet thing is a little weird because I temporarily forgot about the existence of breasts. Tried to compensate for this by just making said neckline look stretched/worn (as though someone had at some point given it a hard tug and it never completely reshaped).

[Holden Out.]