Why, yes, it has been 5 days

Sorry, but I've been really busy with the whole... getting ready for my grandparents and dad to visit... type thing. I've been doodling in some of my spare time, but I'm too tired to scan anything now. So, before my grandparents come tomorrow, and I lose any free time to do anything fun or liberating... here's something that I speed painted in oC4:OC4 is being a witch right now, so I can't save the file to finish it later. I guess I'll just have to leave it up for days until I'm finished with it. Dx Anyway, talk to you soon. If I don't die. XD;

It's a terrible day in the neighborhood...

They're holding Greek Fest at the Greek Orthodox Church right up the street from Soli's house... w00t for drunk Raciners staggering back to their cars after having way too much fun at the Fest. But, due to something that happened today, Soli's not in danger of dying from any health issues for now. Which is awesome, of course.
But... my older younger brother took a spill on is bike, and suffered contusions to both of his arms, and got pretty scuffed up. We thought he'd broken his elbows, but luckily that doesn't seem to be the case. My mom texted me for the first time (from the ER, too) today. I was so proud, even if they were only 3 words maximum. x3 She was telling me to make pasta for dinner... which I did, of course, being a dutiful son.
Anyway, I really didn't have much time to draw today, unfortunately. Here's the best stuff that I churned out today.A weird, severely disproportionate Soli anthro. He can be a total whuss sometimes... but I love him. And he's big for a Malamute, so I thought it'd be cool to draw him all muscular-like. This was originally going to be drawn with a gym background, but... I got tired of trying to tweak it, and abandoned to to even worse doodles.Soli, just starin' and smilin'.I started working on my collab with PW again... Now that I, you know, know how to do some basic digital art and stuff. Above was my first color scheme, but I think I like the old colors better, which are below.
I think I'm sticking with these colors for me again. I wonder what I'll devise for a background... after I color in the burgers first, of course.
Well, I hope you all had a good day. Thanks for stopping by.

Dog sitting

I've been dog sitting since yesterday (Thursday). Pollen was falling like snow in a blizzard here today, so I'm way too congested to really think up a decent entry. For anyone concerned, please pray for Soli... he ate a corn on the cob a couple days ago (Monday, I think it was) that his family accidentally left unattended, and he hasn't passed it yet. They can't afford for him to have another surgery... so if he can't pass it... Well, I'd rather not think about it at the moment.I've got this great drawing book, and this drawing on the bottom right is based off of one of the basic canine pose... thingies. You can still see the circles and cylinders that I used to construct it. Unfortunately... I started with the head, and... well, I thickened all of the frame to make it look like Soli--except for the head. I forgot to resize it... so it looks ridiculous.
Another sad attempt at realism.
Professor Stein, from the anime Soul Eater... as a canine. No references whatsoever... so I guess it's not terrible.

Depressing day

Today was one of those days where I woke up miserable... and only felt worse as the day went along. I wish I hadn't woken up today... that I'd slept through it, and that I would wake up tomorrow morning. Oh well, no sense in complaining about it now.Duh nuh nuh nuh nuh nuh WOLFMAN! I swear, the B-52's made that first Batman themesong... it sounds like something they'd do.
Baaaaaaw I feel terrible baaaaaaaw
Another attempt at keeping things in proportion. EPIC fail, I know.
I read some where that if you don't know how to properly draw an expressive position for a four-legged animal, quickly draw a human in the desired position, and that should help. So I did. I guess it really didn't help... I sorta liked the head, so I kept it.
"Life sucks. Then you die." --Mr. Gulle, my [awesome] 7th grade Geography teacher. He was one of the most fun teachers I've ever had the pleasure of meeting, let along having. That's a wolf skull, btw. I needed to practice drawing 'em, to help me with my realistic(ish) wolf busts.
So, yeah. Hope you all had a much better day than I did. Thanks for stopping by.

His Royal Soliness... and my cell phone plan.

I got to see Soli the Malamutt today. And I also got my cell phone plan worked out at AT&T, so now my mom and I can send and receive pictures from our phones. w00t. Um, so, yeah, the day was okay and all... but now I'm exhausted. Too bad I won't be able to sleep for a while. Here are today's best doodles:A thank you for everyone who's glanced at my page/wa
Step 2......Step 3, as of now.
My laptop's monitor is freaking out and acting like it's trippin' on some explosive high every time I turn the computer on, or wake it up from sleeping. It's rather annoying, waiting 20 minutes and rebooting a couple times, waiting for it to come down off its high.
PW was really busy with school work his senior year... so... yeah. PinoyWolf (PW) © PinoyWolf (PW). Yes, he's copyrighted to himself.
A random canine eye that I just did, hoping that I can some day learn how to shade. I guess this didn't turn out so badly.
So, yeah, there you have it. Thanks for stopping by. Have a good one.

I didn't die in a horrible car accident! 8D

Aren't you glad? I can just tell by that look on your face.
Anyway... the hotel there did have the interwebz. Only, it was LAN (since WiFi is really unsecure)... I didn't feel safe logging on to any of my accounts any where, because I'm paranoid about someone stealing my passwords and what not. But I did watch one of the best action anime episodes that I've ever seen.... evar. For real. D: Check it out! Bleach Episode 166 (Japanese with English subtitles) It's awesome, srsly.
Um, onto some doodles... in chronological order.After watching some good ol' Soul Eater, I was in the mood to draw some swords... so I drew this here kinda classy one. :B (If I were a Soul Eater character, I'd definitely be a weapon... maybe a sword? XD) So... yeah, scribbled in the hotel some time yesterday before dinner.
Something that started as a basic thumbnail and became something more. I really enjoyed this... I've been tired and really congested ever since I got back to my house, so it was kinda like soothing art therapy or something. T'was ossim.Something that I started, but couldn't finish before dinner... so, yeah, stage 1 in a work in progress.
Hope you enjoyed these. See you tomorrow.

Just a quicky...

Sorry that this is so short, but I've got a 2 day trip starting tomorrow. I'm going to go see my Dad for Father's Day! 8D Unfortunately, I dunno if the hotel has the interwebz. Sorry guys... If it doesn't, then I'll have to do some retroactive postings. D: Anyway, if I don't post in, like, a week, you can be reasonably confident that I died in a car crash or something. If that does happen... well, I love you, all my friend. <:3 And if I don't know you, well... it would've been nice to know you. I'm not paranoid. what're you talking about? >w>

Anyway, on to the images. I was extremely busy today, so I only barely got to scribble out one thing...Um, yeah. Don't ask me, I dunno either. Sorry for the blur on the bottom... it was at the bottom of my sketchpad, and that's how my scanner handles that, I guess. XD; Anyway, yeah... I was thinking of Ryuk (from Death Note) when I drew this. Um... yes.
A really, really, really old doodle of L as a wolf. I can't stress how old this is... but it's very old.
Anyway, see you guys later, hopefully. Happy Father's Day, to all you fathers out there.

On Friday the 13th...

...14 years ago... my first brother was born. Happy Birthday, young 'un! *dorky wave* :B
Anyway, today I actually bought something for myself (in addition to stuff for my brother... since I forgot to get him stuff until today.... whoops). I'd forgotten how good it feels to buy a little something for yourself. I bought the latest Bitter:Sweet cd, entitled Drama. Fun stuff... but I really wanted The Mating Game. TT__TT I wanted to listen to it on my trip to see my dad this weekend... but I guess I'll just have to wait to listen to that cd on the way to Pittsburgh in a few weeks.
Anyway, on to the art stuff that I've done today...Look familiar? I should hope so. I tried shading it in The GIMP while I was on my parent's computer (the birthday boy was borrowing the laptop at the time). I forgot to shade his tan parts (belly fur and muzzle). Oops. Guess I'll get the .xcf off of my parent's computer, and fix that... tomorrow.Yeah, I saw that shirt drawn on some character somewhere on deviantart... couldn't get it out of my mind, dangit. Anyway, yeah, I've had to wear my splint every once in a while lately, because my wrist has really been killing me with all of these storms and stuff. So, yeah, some anthro practice... screwy hands, I know. Enjoy.
Don't you think he looks like Aizen? Meh. One of my brothers (two) presents was Death Note vol.1, to complete our Death Note manga volume collection. W00t. Btw... those are the clothes that he was wearing today. and, yes, he does have hair like that. It bugs me. x__X
Anyway, good night.

Oh, hey, I'm still alive. Neat.

*throws a party* *ends it abruptly, sending the partygoers out the door*
Anyway, just thought I'd update you with two things that I've worked on today. Oh joy.Just something that I started working on as preparation for PW's graduation present. It's practice on cleaning up sketches, coloring lineart, and stuff like that in the GIMP. It's not finished, but it's still just practice, so I don't expect it to turn out all that well anyway.Well, I was working on that practice for PW's graduation pic... so I couldn't resist trying out a Yonkama with PW as a chibi. Just a continuation on the Stitchwork Talos that had to continually sew his leg back together... Except this is a chibi doll, and he's losing his head instead of his leg.Something that I sketched to cheer up a close friend. It didn't work. Did I mention that today sucked really hard?I don't feel comfortable drawing a large picture, which is probably part of why this really stinks. The other half probably has to do with the fact that it was drawn at about 3 in the morning. Oh well, can't be helped. Hope Seff at least gets a smirk out of it or something.

I hate the Geek Squad...

I wish they'd fix my laptop right the first time. As of today, whenever I boot up my laptop, my monitor goes nuts. It doesn't display anything normally until a couple minutes after start up... then it's fine. I rebooted twice, and it still happens.
I wish that, instead of making sure that the machine passes "minimum hardware diagnostics", they would try and make an effort for my laptop not to die every month or so. What a total load of--you know what? Nevermind.
Anyway, as severe thunderstorms and tornadoes whiz by my county (for the moment not hitting my city), I've decided to make a blog update now, in case my laptop dies or the power goes out before tonight.
I scanned a bunch of old drawings that are just pictures here. Before I go on to posting them, I would like to make something crystal clear. These images are mine. I made them. My heart poured 'em out onto paper through my hand. You did not in any way make them; neither can you claim to own them, or anything stupid like that. You may not use them (i.e. modify them, photoshop them, etc.) in any way without first getting my expressed, written (yes, written. as in, on paper, with my signature on it, all that jazz) permission--which you will not get. These images are copyrighted (©) to me, and no one else. That having been established, here are the pictures:

http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn172/rhyme_nor_reason/scan_talosnekkidnicht_by_RJL.jpg
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn172/rhyme_nor_reason/scan_dontleave__by_RJL.jpg
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn172/rhyme_nor_reason/scan_dontforgettobreathe.jpg
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn172/rhyme_nor_reason/scan_cigTalos__by_RJL.jpg
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn172/rhyme_nor_reason/scan_blargh__by_RJL.jpg
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn172/rhyme_nor_reason/relaxedandsubmerged.jpg ("new")
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn172/rhyme_nor_reason/cannot_be_erased.jpg ("new")
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn172/rhyme_nor_reason/bunnylabz_eatlove_scan.jpg
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn172/rhyme_nor_reason/blackiluchibi_scan.jpg
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn172/rhyme_nor_reason/PWgradpracticepose_scan__by_RJL.jpg

Yeah, links, because I don't wanna spam your screen with images that you've mostly seen already. I hope you all are having a better week than I am. I hope to post tonight with more sketches. Until then, try and have a good afternoon.

Terribly sucky day... of doom and finishing landscaping

Today sucked big time... I'm still suffering from getting 2 not-solid hours of sleep yesterday. I woke up with a knot in my neck, and it's still there, although I massaged it out 3 times... it just keeps coming back, and making my neck stiff. Meh. At least I'm done doing all of that landscaping crap for my mom (until she comes up with some more for me to do... which will take her a day or so, hopefully). My body will appreciate the rest, hopefully.
Anyway, on to the good part of today. I read some of that Death Note novel, Death Note Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases, by Nisio Isin. The elder of my two younger brothers bought it at B&N recently, and he's letting me borrow it so that I can read it quickly. It's only 176 pages, though... way too short. Especially since L's in it. The dialogue between Misora and L is awesome, and Mello is a better author/storyteller than I thought he would be. X3

"Don't worry. I'm a top."
"A top?"
"An aggressive top," Ryuzaki said. "I have never once been submissive. One of the few things I can boast about. I have never even been submissive to a traffic signal."
"You really should."
"Never."

(Pg. 82, Death Note Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases, by Nisio Isin)
Yeah, yeah, all that's copyrighted to Nisio Isin and Shueshi. Blah blah blah, etc.

Anyway, on to the two doodles that I just sketched up.Scribblin' names down in a Death Note. And, no, if I came into possession of a Death Note, I would not use it. I'm just not that kind of person. When I was reading the manga series, I actually thought to myself whether or not I would use one if one fell into my possession... and I decided that doing so would be heinous, even if I tried to reason that my motives for murdering a person were "good". When people die should be left up to God, and it is.
Dudes... srsly. And, yes, that's how you write Death Note ("Desu Noto" in Japanese) in Katakana... so says the front cover and logo of all of the Death Note manga volumes.
Thanks for reading. If today sucks less, I'll probably churn out something better for you guys to glance. Magandang gabi po.

Less than 2 hours of sleep ftw

< 2 hours of sleep = crappy day and crappy drawings.
But here you go anyway. I'm too exhausted to talk about my day, other than that it was exhausting.A gift drawn for my Danish coyote bud when he was feeling down this morning (well... it was lunch time in Denmark). My city has the largest concentration of Danish bakeries in North America (or so I've heard... but I believe it, they're all over the place here), and sometimes competing bakeries will have samples of their Kringles and stuff for you to try. So, here's Temper, trying our wares, seeing if they compare to what he gets at home.A sketch of Temper that I did in the van, outside the SC Johnson world headquarters building (my mom is one of their local tester peoplez). It's crappy because I'd just gotten out of the optometrist, where the lady flashed that bright light around in my eyes... causing some nice strain. Plus, the sun was in my eyes (no sunglasses >__<), and my pencil wasn't sharp enough. Yes, I realize that it looks really weird... but this is what comes from me after less than 2 hours of sleep. XD;
From the same sketch session as the last sketch. I inked it... 3 minutes ago. Joy.
Well, that's all for now. Thanks for keeping posted.

(By the way, Temper is © djtemper on dA. that means he's not yours, so don't steal his character. kthnxbai.)

This is madness! This is WISCONSIN! >__>

The Root River flooding 1
The Root River flooding 2
The Root River website - Wonder at the amazing webdesign of the locals. Lovely.

I love Wisconsin. If it's not tornadoes, microbursts, hail, and severe thunderstorms one day, it's flooding and having 60 citizens in your town evacuated from their homes. Loverly.
Anyway, the flooding brought about a nice change in my house that I think you'll all enjoy (unless you don't like my art... in which case, why are you reading this?). I moved the computer upstairs into the living room and set it up for my mom... and now I have the scanner in my room, since I use it the most, and it wouldn't exactly work down there. W00t.
So, yeah, all of the pics will be scanned from now on. Exciting, no? I did sketch some stuff today, but I'm only going to submit the best thing that I produced over this past 24 hours:
I drew this to the tune of Moving Forward, by Bitter:Sweet. Yes, uh, that pretty much sums it up. It was fun working with my Prismas again, but I wish I could use my Microns with them. Too bad Prismas kill Microns. ): Anyway, thanks for stopping by.

Bad day... meh.

Well, today really sucked. XD; I'm not going to go into it or anything, but it was pretty bad. I didn't doodle much... and my camera's batteries just died. x__x So I guess you only get to see these two today:Schizo Talos - Yup, it's another Secondary personality/design for Talos (you know, like Emo Talos and such). This is the version of Talos that you saw with Mildred (the skull) yesterday. He's schizophrenic in that he thinks that Mildred is still alive, treating her skull as if it were her. He hears her voice and all of that other schizophrenic stuff. He's smart... but has a tendency to snap and turn homicidal at the most inopportune moments (hence the blood bath in his first appearance yesterday). So, um, yes... moving along...
Just a sort of shout out. It's got a little story/saying thing behind it that goes something like this: I love you. You were such a huge part of me and my life that when I had to leave, I left a piece of me with you. I look different now, but I know now, too... I love you. If we ever see each other again, would you return that piece of me, just for a little while? I want you to keep it... couldn't you stay with me forever, and fill this hollow space in my heart? I love you.
So... yes. Thanks for stopping by. Sorry for the lame update... but it's accompanying a lame day, to be sure. I hope to have something better for you tomorrow. Until then...

A weird day calls for weird art, no?

Yes.
Yes, it does.
So, yeah, without getting into the weirdness of my day (since I'm sure you don't want to hear about it, and I don't really wanna talk about it), I'll just move onto my doodles for this morning. I'm going to continue sketching... but it's probably not gonna be stuff that I'd put up on the interwebz anyway, let along my art blog. So, here we are:"Mildred! My love! You've come back to me, at long last! Oh, my love! I was so lost without you!" - Kind of funny story behind this. Back in Kentucky, my mom took me to Big Lots to shop during the Halloween season. I found a skull there, and I went around the store, bonding with her (my mom takes a long time to shop, sometimes). I named her Mildred... she was my muse. And my mom wouldn't let me buy her. Hee hee, another Bunnylabs blob. I love these things, they're so much fun to draw. Props goes out to Taoren for inventing Bunnylabs. :3
Well, thanks for reading and staying posted. Talk to you later.

Tornadoes, SAT Scores, and other such nonsense...

So, yeah, a tornado touched down a mile or so away from my house today, during one of those massive storm systems that kept brewing over Northern Illinois and pounding us up here in Southeast Wisconsin. We got some bouts of torrential rain and some microbursts (bursts of wind up to 125 mph) at my house, but no hail like other people did. But enough about that...

I got my SAT scores back today. Without telling you my actual scores, I'll read off how well I did opposed to last year's college-bound seniors. Cryptic, I know. In Critical Reading, I scored higher than 96% of last year's college-bound seniors; Math, I did better than 31%, and on Writing I did better than 77% of them. They advise that I not take them again, because a large percentage of students that take their SATs again after getting my score either stay at or score just below they did where I am... so... I dunno. I'm taking the ACTs again next year, so maybe I should take the SATs again? Or maybe I shouldn't flirt with potential disaster like that... hmm... Well, anyway, moving along...
First, some old stuffs:
These are paper furdoll concepts for my friends PW and Seff. I modeled them after my furdoll for Talos (you can hang all 3 of them from two points... or, at least, that's the idea). I may or may not make real ones. Dunno.
This was practice for Talos's life story comic. I've never drawn him without his markings being tatooed/dyed. This is what he looks like underneath. The dye and tattoos were placed over them ornamentally before he left the human tribe he'd been living with. His birth pack inflicted the scars on him as a sign of his future status in the pack. :B So, uh... that'll all be explained in the comic. Sorry, but it's gonna take a long time to finish... I'm lazy like that. Anyway, onto what I sketched really quickly about 5 minutes ago. XD;

As you whisper softly, "Don't forget to breathe." - It's from the song Don't Forget To Breathe, by Bitter:Sweet. I discovered it today, and now I'm in love with it. <3

Broke in my Sketchpad... >83

We-e-e-ell... My tiny sketchpad of love got full of my sketches, and she won't let me put any more in her, so... I had to go out and get a new one behind her back. >_>; I'm not proud of what I did, but I did what I had to do. If you're reading this, tiny sketchpad of love, I still love you~~~~! ;w; But you limited capacity has forced me to move onto a much larger sketchpad.

My old sketchpad is 5.5" x 8.5" (that's 12 x 21.6cm, for those of you outside the US)... and my new one is 9" x 12" (22.9 x 30.5cm). HUGE. I'm sort of intimidated by all of the space... but, anyway, onto the only thing that I've put in it so far:

Lame, I know. XD Uh, if you wanna see close up shots, here are two:
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn172/rhyme_nor_reason/sketchpad_title02.jpg
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn172/rhyme_nor_reason/sketchpad_title03.jpg

And now onto my nightly sketches...
Talos, uh... crouching under a low roof, holding onto some wire that's conveniently hanging there. XD; Just a practice on poses and hands and stoofs. I know that the expression is kinda plain... sorreh.

One of my best friends that I've ever had/will ever have, PinoyWolf, is graduating from High School sometime this week! So I'm trying to get him a graduation drawing done on time. What's that? Me, getting something done on time? Hey... it could happen. And I sure hope it does, because I wanna make a really awesome gift for my best friend.... and I want to get it to him on time, dangnabbit. X3
Just a random picture that I decided to take of my 3 erasers... the magic eraser is my favorite. I just bought the kneaded eraser, and we're not getting along all that well... because I don't usually draw thin, light, dainty lines, which this particular eraser seems to be designed to pick up. Pffft.

So, anyway, I'm off to update my deviantart journal. Thanks for taking the time to look and read. Good night/morning.