Cows, cows everywhere!

First and foremost: I refuse to call cows cattle, end of discussion.

These cows are color-tryouts for a huge-ass (75 cm by 115 cm) painting for my cousin. She's a vet, hence the cows, and asked if I could paint something with livestock and lots of color for her new home. Since I rarely draw for other people, much less even as a decoration for their living rooms, I've been fretting over the color palette ever since... Anyway, I'm still working on it right now, and I might or might not post some crappy phone pictures of the progress later.

In case you're wondering, no, I haven't been drawing the same cow four times. I've drawn it once, taken a picture (because of non-working scanner) and printed it four times. And learned two things: printer ink bleeds and people like tetraptychs*.

*Tetraptych apparently isn't an English word. English artists seemingly never went above three pictures in one... picture... painting... whatever. The English are silly. If you happen to know the correct word, please tell me!
*edit: it is an English word, or at least recognized as such by Wikipedia. It just doesn't feature in my dictionary. 

Midsummer Stormclouds

Troy and Joyce from Midsummer Murders, a show I've definitely seen enough of for a while. I can practically whistle the tune and I can't even whistle!
Therefore, some of Loki for a bit of diversity :)

 Paper texture is blah blah...
Who can get me a nice scanner? 0:)

More fanart

Because playing Kingdom Hearts means seeing Cloud, and seeing Cloud means thinking: "Zack!". Because Zack is much cooler, and a lot less depressive.
Off to rewatch Advent Children now, since I haven't seen that one in quite a while.

What shall I say about that texture? Yup, my scanner still sucks.

Manus

Waiting until the birds fly into it's mouth. Ain't gonna happen boy.

Again, paper texture is paper texture.

The Flurry of Dancing Flames

Would you agree with me if I say I find that an incredibly stupid, un-menacing name? It might just be me, but flurry makes me think of bunnies ('furry') and icecream ('mcflurry').

More to the point: I finished playing Kingdom Hearts II, again. Can't help but to love Axel, no?

Paper texture all mine. Why? Because the stupid thing wouldn't let itself be removed from the image. Hurrah for over-textured paper 8)

Drawing me

This is a selfportrait without mirror. And I can tell you: that's really hard.
So while not very correct, it was very much fun to do. But in the end it doesn't really look like me at all. Or so I think ;).

The unadapted

There is a kind of moth, the peppered moth, which favorite tree is the birch. And while a birch is usually white, exhaust fumes and other black nastiness caused trees around factories to become dark. Which can be quite a problem if you're a white moth.

I thought the image of the unadapted moth against the dark bark was quite striking. 

On account of the technique behind this picture: it's not a cut out. It's also not made with masking fluid, because I don't own that (I would have loved to though while making this, would've saved me some headaches). It's just made by extreme carefulness.