Draco, Finished Piece

Stylist Pen, Watercolor and Watercolor Pencils. July 12th.
Super poor scan quality will not stop me from using my watercolors!
Did not bother correcting posture/pose. (Who holds a sword like that?!) This piece was mostly for reference in later art, should I decide to use him more in the future. I think I HAVE decided to use him more, at least for a little while. I like unpleasant people.

(c) Bombshellcat Studio/Colleen Rauch 2010. Do not use without permission.

Two WIPs

Mara and Riona. Pencil. July 11th.
Will be sending this one to the penpal for inking/completion. :)


Draco "Redesign." Pencil. July 11th.
Draco is an old, old RP character. He comes from before Toby, before Theo... roughly around the time of Shenlun. (Middle School.)
My first portly male protagonist! I always forget how far back this little trend of mine goes. The three (Toby, Theo and Draco) have little in common other than this. Draco was a disagreeable "firey tempered" shapeshifter. (I tried very hard to make him as disagreeable as possible, but he still ended up being the apple of everyone's eyes.) Yes, he turned into a dragon. Most of the other characters were shapeshifters "born of stardust" that came with the names of constellations. They were semi-immortal, only able to die by being slain. As such, they had a lot of duels. Another fun factoid from this universe: the starborns could still get sick, they would just have to live with it forever if it was not curable. There were humans in this universe too, always going further into the starborn lands and killing the "demons" if they were the superstitious sort.

Someday I will write a lovely set of childrens chap books about these guys... only I probably won't.

As always (c) Bombshellcat Studio 2010. Stealing is wrong.

Mermaid

 

Mermaids were one of my favorite things to draw as a child. Second only to flowers and princesses, I believe. I spent ages trying to figure out how to draw scales on them without it looking stupid because smooth mermaids just weren't realistic. I remembered that here, obviously, though I found scales are pretty easy to fake with watercolors.

Who knew mermaids were easiest in watercolor? It seems so obvious to me now...

Art Contest Entry

Entry

Wish me luck! I just barely made the dead line.

The Prompt: using a randomly generated shoujo title, create a summary and dust jacket for the story you imagine for it. I got, amazingly enough "Silent Whisper Library".

My inspiration came from the bad animes of my teen years, the romantic suspense novels of my even earlier years and my current love of steampunk, mad science, silent films and being a librarian. Enjoy!

The Princess

 

... she's in another castle. (And, no, this is not actually meant to be Peach. This is an original character.)

Annie is an Alchemist

 

A sketch that turned out very well. I didn't think this would go anywhere... but it did! Stay tuned for more info and a possible actual story!