200 chickens

THAT is a lot of KFC.
Yes, that's true. However, I was eating feeding my neighbor's chickens for her while she was gone. The first day sucked, the second day was slightly better, and by the third day I finally had a routine down.
Today... today was different.
I entered the barn through the dairy. The lights were on.
"Huh," I thought to myself, "that's strange. But no biggie. Carrying on!"
So I wandered into the main part of the very dark barn, and tried to find the power strip that controls the lights. Well find it I did, much, much higher than I left it, and, being 5'2, it is not generally in my best interest to put things up where I can barely reach them! I pressed the button, voila, the lights go on. But so does the milk hose! 
I turned the freakin' thing off before something could have happened, which meant, of course, that the lights went off, too. I stood still to let my eyes adjust.
All was silent.
I turned.
She scared the hell out of me! ;-;
Apparently my neighbor had come home this morning, and my mom failed to inform me of her arrival. Anyone who knows me well knows that I can be a little jumpy sometimes. I'm just glad I don't have any super powers, because kid, I'm tellin' ya, she would have been toast before I'd even register who it was!


Okay, on to the pictures!

That horse is making me want to use versatile wax sticks crayons again.

Hippo-face and purple hair guy.

Accel and cool pose guy.

The left side creeps me out o.O  The right side is kind of cool, though!

Wall climbing to practice a bird's eye view.

Yarp.

Start of the mini book

This little sketchbook is maybe 3"x3" big. It had a life span of about 8 days, starting on December 11, 2007. It was just the right size to carry in my pencil case, so everywhere I went at school it was by my side.

Zero again. It doesn't show as nicely here, but the pencil lines are very nice and crisp. :)

Dragon-horse-thing, and a ... self-portrait? I remember exactly what hoodie that is, too. (Red McGill hoodie)

Green eyes (crayon) and funky highlighter page.

Cat and horse. They have a similar expression... wonder how I was feeling that day?

That cat is what I sign pictures with. Also, a scratchy X. YEAH!

Ohohoho! What's this? Doodle pages that aren't several years old? Man, I'm good to you guys o.o

Faces. Lots and lots of faces.

The only reason that I will miss my biology course is because it is very easy to creep on people for drawing practice. Yup.

A successful dinner!

Basically what the title says. The only downside to this evening would be the apple pie. Lawdy, I love me some apple pie. Sadly, this pie tastes horrible. Like burned zombie carcass or something not that I would know what that tastes like...
Anyway, this batch of pictures is the last of my second 2006 sketchbook. Huzzah!

Practice with charcoal. You'd think cats would be simple to draw, but they are quite difficult for me :/

I am American born and raised. I've never once celebrated the 4th of July, because we were always in Canada for July. Oops.

Accel at the beach. Skipping stones across the tiny waves has always been relaxing for me. *nostalgia*

I seriously wish this thing was real. Land chasers are awesome.

Still trying to develop my own style... This is nice and crisp, though. I might revisit this someday.

Hoss hoss hoss. Yup.

And that's-
Wait, what's this? A current picture? Are you kidding me?!

SWEET JEEBUS! NEW ART DOES EXIST!
This is Accelera. She's also a robot (look at the eyes...spooky), because I am creative like that. I might refine this a bit more, but who knows, I might just leave the picture the way it is!

T-minus 16 hours...

... Until we have American Thanksgiving! We've been cleaning and cooking all day in order to have a proper Thanksgiving with some of our Canadian friends. It will be quite a bit of fun!
I'm trying to get my chemistry and biology assignments done before the meal, but I seem to be suffering an acute art-attack. Every time I sit down in front of my computer to do some work, I end up moving it aside and pulling out my sketchbook instead. As a result, I have been abnormally productive art-wise, and sadly lacking in the science department. Can't say that's a bad thing, though!

Based on official MMX Command Mission art. Fun fact: the scarf in this picture glows in the dark!

Sorting out hairstyles from various sources.

My favorite part of this? Baby Signas. :3

Dynamo, Vile, and Lumine: the three coolest, baddest villains. Just sayin'.

Title of this was "English Pig-Dog." I'm quite fond of this odd creature.

Practice inking. Freehand from official MMX8 art.

More practice inking. Freehand based on official MMX art. I love how crisp the lines are!

So there's your update! Hope y'all have a good night, ya hear?!

It feels so late.

It is 10:01 on a Friday. I am WIPED OUT. Truly. If I wasn't afraid that I'd fall asleep with the brush in my hand, I'd work on my current painting some more. Alas, I am a tired, tired creature, and after I post this entry, I am going to bed.
Start of 2nd 2006 sketchbook (brown)! I started this one 6/3/06, only a few months after the previous book. Here we go:

First time drawing a dragon. This was done with sepia India ink and a quill.

Friendly neighborhood MegaMan X. For such a simple design, he is a horror to draw correctly -.-

Dragon #2. A big improvement over the first one!

I've mentioned this before, but my mom used to teach art lessons. This was supposed to be practice with textures.

I've always been a natural art critic!

Schnuuding

It snowed quite a bit last night. This, of course is not unusual for November on PEI. What was unusual was how nice the fall was up until this point. In fact, the beautiful weather is supposed to return this weekend. Very odd indeed.
Oh yes, I nearly forgot:
Happy Thanksgiving, Motherland! We're having our American-style turkey day on Sunday. Mm-hm.

I like the shading in this picture. Does having three swords count as overkill?

Axl and Zero, goofing around.

Can't exactly remember the story behind this one, but Accel adopts a kid somehow. >.>

This was pretty neat. I used a calligraphy set to ink this trio. I only wish their poses weren't so stiff!

Two of my favorite baddies, Sesshomaru and Itachi.

This is actually the end of my (yellow) 2006 sketchbook. There's no need to be all disappointed, though! I found another 2006 sketchbook (brown) in my cottage the other day.
Prepare yourselves!

It's Official.

I'm very tired. Still in a good mood, but the spectre of my "dropped" stopped showing up Calculus class is back to haunt me.
Screw Calculus D:<
On another note, I completed my final biology lab today. YUS. I never have to deal with that nonsense again... or at least until I regret my decision to switch into Arts, but hey.

Sesshomaru from InuYasha. He is a real pain to draw, even today :/

I guess I really liked the idea of black and white hair!

This horse has the worst conformation. EVER. Decent inking with a nib, though.

Trying to practice some kind of movement. Not too shabby!

Alia from MMX5, minus the toilet paper tube hair curler.

Take a nap? Sounds good to me! :D

Aw, yeah!

I've been having an excellent week so far. This is an amazing thing, because I had an amazing week last week, too. The Irish in me is going nuts because something has to happen to balance out the goodness. However, I would like to say a big "SCREW YOU!" to badness, and just enjoy my week. :)

On to the pictures~!

This captures the foreboding mood all children experience when facing a dark hallway. Too bad I forgot her own shadow.

X is looking a little downcast :(

Still life. My mom taught art lessons for awhile. I was the cheeky (read: unhelpful) assistant.

Another character o'mine. I never could get her face right, so I left it. HAH.

Above character's horse. I actually drew a background, which is something I could stand to do more often!

Share and enjoy.

Mmmmm... Chicken...

My chickens are pretty cool. Yup. When I go out in the morning and yell "CHICKENS! ASSEMBLE!" Bill and Ted bust out of the front door of the coop like deranged dinosaur ninjas.
Because they can.

Awesome.

Trying out new styles. It is perfectly okay to have style-ADD, even as an "established" artist. It keeps things interesting!

Slouchy guy. Yup.

Some MMX Command Mission fanart. Freehand.

Some MMX8 fanart. Notice that Lumine looks nowhere near as evil as he should...

Practice with crosshatching as a texture.

I love all of my awesome stats I had planned for Accel. I'm just SO glad I never wrote any fanfiction!

I have a tendency to keep my light source on the left. This picture always pops out to me because of that subtle difference!

 Yarp.