Postoberfest Year 2

So last year I made a very VERY half assed attempt at posting everyday of October, why? Because I am mental.

SO I am not doing that this year, screw it, but I'm gonna try and post a few times a week to get back in the habit ) September was quiet)

I started Uni like a week or two ago, its pretty amazing. Good flatmates, good course, lots and lots of booze. And for the first day of like, lessons we had to do a self portrait type thing that said something about who we are.  Which of course, meant I panicked about it and made this the night before it was due. That is true discipline right there. Its really just me doodling (it is also my new theme)

5 Comic Ladies I Like Reading: Terra

Oooh, tis the last day of August so I may as well post SOMETHING, and that something is this,

A countdown of my 5 New 52 favourite ladies, I made a haphazard attempt to do my top 10 favourite comic ladies of all time months and months ago and only managed the first entry with Power Girl who may or may not be in this list. 

Moving on, our first favourite Lady of the new 52 is... 

Terra! (yay!)

Now, as a child I'd never heard of the Geokinetic-Teen Wonder that was Terra until I began watching Teen Titan on Cartoon Network where she looked like...

And I LOVED her! But of course she turned evil and then got turned into stone and was never heard from again which, when I began to actually read comics a couple of years back and discovered a similar thing had occurred to her comic counter part I was a little heart-broken, not because she was no longer in universe, but that she's been created solely for the purpose of betraying the Titans and was such a waste of a character.

Then I began to read the Power Girl books and a new Terra showed up looking like...

this:

Some subterranian ambassador to Earth, who had the same abilities but was not evil and decided she would be Power Girl's side-kick (for whatever reason) and I never really took to her, she wasn't as blonde or badass as the Terra I'd known as a kid.

Then came the reboot, with a new set of Teen Titans with their own spin-off; Ravagers.

Where the original Terra showed up looking like this:

Which is ther version I have drawn above, I have high hopes for her this time around!

If they can shove Lois Lane out of the way in favour of Superman pairing up with Wonder Woman then they can make Terra not evil.

Not evil and ass kicking!

Cocktail Girls; Revisited

Hey! Remember those Cocktail Girls I drew like months ago?
No? Well click here, here or here to remind yourselves. Forgetful fillies!

Well anyway moving on, I quite clearly abandoned the series, why? One cannot remember but I was flicking through my rather extensive sketches folder and found...

COCKTAIL GIRL NUMBER 4!

I am pretty sure she is a Clockwork Orange, which I cannot for the life of me remember the recipe for so...
I'm going to guess! Yay!

25ml of Vodka (a good foundation for any cocktail)
then...

25ml of Malibu
OR
25ml of Archer's Peachy Stuff (I prefer this because its nice and smells nice)

then you may top up your glass with fizzy orange and ice.

Delicious, but not many people buy them

Wonder Woman

I love Wonder Woman, she's no Black Canary but I like what she stands for and I can't grasp as to why, of the 'trinity' she alone seems to be less popular, you would think that a hot battle-goddess whom hails from an island populated solely by other hot battle-goddesses, fighting mythical creatures whilst scantily clad would appeal to most readers but hey. Whatever.

I've given her a teeny bit of a redesign as I believe pants are a tad more practical for fighting monsters than knickers. I also thought this looked hella good when I was drawing it last night at 2am but my woken up eyes see it differently.

Really need to start doing more traditional work, also BONUS SKETCHES!

Really just me trying out different costumes/hair/doodling

Grr and also Argh

So, like, I've been angry quite a lot lately, which is weird because I used to just bounce between depressed and boredom like a space hopper but I've replaced in with anger and being content which is probably just as bad.

I think it's hard to draw an angry image, especially digitally because the amount of refinement that goes in so any anger that goes into a piece is eventually worked out as you calm down whilst working on it. So yeah, ranting.

Ninja GIrl Doodle

More digital work, as I'm more likely to be near my laptop to draw than I am to paper these days.

I find my biggest problem at the moment is that I'm completely useless when it comes from making a jump from rough work to a finished piece, whether working digitally or traditionally, I generally love my quick sketches and then once it comes to trying to refine them it never feels quite right, woe is me. Woe. Woe. Woe.

Random Sci-fi Girl

Oh boy, this blog just can't seem to keep itself updated can it? The lazy dickens.

So err, digitally drawn generic sci-fi battle girl because... I could? I dunno this isn't going to be a long post so you may as well stop reading it right now.

Stop.

Cocktail Girls:- £3.40

So yeah... this is my first post in nearly 2 months, I am a dedicated and hard-working blogger its true.

Moving on, Cocktail Girls:

I am now a working girl, I work in a local bar and its fun and stuff. It provides me with enough money to fuel my budding alcohol addiction which is lovely :)

So anyway, we have like a list of cocktails for £3.40 each and ones called the Green Devil (not my favourite)

and so I drew it as a Green Devil Girl, OH HOW MY MIND WORKS

Done in Sketchbook Pro.

Quick Sketch for Monday

Goodbye March, hello April. March as a particularly good month for my little blog of wonder, the most popular month so far and I would like to keep it up, SO KEEP READING, tell everybody about it, post it through your neighbours letterboxes and tattoo it on your forehead.

Anyway the picture is a drunken reflection everyone will have experienced, the drunken phone call. You're guarenteed to get one whenever a good friend or a particularly bad ex has had a few and you may even make a few yourself. Well I say, no more. It's embarassing for everyone involved and there's nothing worse than checking your phone when your hungover and see your inbox, Ugh

Earth-2 Huzzah!

I can't wait! Ahh!

So in May, in the wake of DC canceling some of its less succesful titles such as Hawk & Dove (meh) O.M.A.C (I only know what an O.M.A.C is because of Power-Girl) and Static Shock (yawn) although I will miss Blackhawks, DC have announced the 'Second Wave!' of the new 52 which brings with it new titles, 4 of which grab my attention like a burger grabs the attention of a fat person at 50 yards.

Batman Inc. (Batmen around the world? Cassandra Cain please!) The Ravagers (because the new Teen-Titans is great so far) Earth-2 (Justice Society, YAY!) and most importantly, World's Finest, which focuses on Earth-2's Power-Girl and Huntress who are two of my all time favourite comic-ladies.

So once again, I have drawn Power-Girl, I tried to make her a little chunky, because lets face it, now DC have shrunk Amanda Waller and Etta Candy, its significantly lacking in women who aren't stick-thin.
 

Ghosts In The Bed

So earlier today I was sort of mopey, thinking about nothing in particular and a thought crept into my mind about memories. But not your own memories, sort of like the memories of those you know. How you're not the first person to lie in someone's bed or maybe you're not the first person whose been phoned at three in the morning to calm someone down between drunken sobs.

So I got to thinking about ghosts, the memories of other people who sort of occupy where you are in the mind of someone else and you can't guarantee that when you aren't being compared to the ghosts and you sort of have to accept that the ghosts re there no matter how much it bothers you, and then I got really mopey and did the washing up and hoovered.

End insecure rantings.

Also I'm working on a new layout. Exciting stuff.

SURPRISE!

Hey there blog-heads, surprised to see me blogging? Me too!

Personally I think the sheer shock might kill me dead.

So, I'm going to justify my extended absence with the good ol' excuse that my laptop decided it would stop working. It has been a traumatic month I must admit, I've been unable to troll Facebook and Twitter without a mobile device, and let me tell you, when you type 1000 words into your iPod you get THE CRAMPS!

BAM!
Picture!

(see if you can make it original size, the textures look amazing)

So yeah, it is a little known fact that I take my art lessons in a textiles room and therefore know my way around a sewing machine, it rounds out my domestic goddess persona, cooking, sewing and being capable of abstract thoughts.

Once again, its Sarah, I swear I'm not obsessed, I just love her deeply and from inside her wardrobe.

The piece was done as part of the experimentation portion of my Fine Art Project People & Portraits and also because I genuinley enjoy working with embroidery because the stitching always looks really flow-y and magical. I do believe I coloured it with fabric dyes and a little bleach, difficult because if you want strong colours you have to use alot of dye, which means it's gonna spread like Nutella.

I shall Blog again on Monday (REALLY) as I'm off to do what we Brits do best. Drink.

First World Pains

My dearest, darlingest sole reader,
 My frickin laptop is dead. DEE EE DEE, DEAD!
Therefore uploding is going to be eeither incredibly few and far between or just may not happen til it returns. AWFUL! AWFUL AWFUL

Witty Post Title

I fail to see why I keep trying digital stuff but whatevs bro.

I've decided I don't like the way the line work looks, I need a reyt* good brush or sly way of inking in photoshop cause there's not enough friction on my tablet for my taste. Anyway here it is, my DCUO character.

Now, I don't play games as often as I'd like to because;

A) I like to pretend I don't have time and

B) My money is better spent on comics and shoes.

BUT, DC Universe Online recently decided it would be free, and so I quickly downloaded it (and it took  like 30 hours) and am now really into it, I made like 4 heroes before I ended up with one I liked using, a Gadget powered Gal in the Tech field who uses a pole, her name however sucks: Rockette. 

But I used my good names on the previous 3 heroes who sucked.

Anyway, great game, highly recommended.

*really

Corey used a Phoenix Down, nerd.

Well, I just published a post from my iPod and it seems to have vanished into the ether of the internet, a mysterious land populated with emails that never reached their target, IM messages deleted before you hit enter and those proverbial 'lost texts' which you claim to have sent but everyone secretly knows you didn't.

I'm swamped with coursework at the moment to the point where I no longer seem to think I need sleep, three days and counting, I'm like a zombie basically, but less glamorous and with a more ferocious appetite for human brains. Anyway coursework means I've had very little time t do any personal work, and what I have been drawing has been turning out really awful, which of course put me in worse moods than I usually am, and I'm pretty damn grumpy. So I'm gonna fish something from the depths of my hard-drive to show you... are you ready?...

BAM!

Marvel in it's awfulness, according to its properties, I drew this in May. Meaning I have no idea what inspired it or why I drew it. So I invite you to come up with you own theories as to why I drew Mr.Zombie.

Anyway, I would like to say that I AM currently working on my first ongoing comic, I have all the ideas planned out, the only thing to do now is put it down on paper (once I've decided how I'll ink the bugger, I hate inking anything)