2007 Mother's Day card. She liked it. On the front it says, "I have something to tell you..." and inside it says a bunch of important stuff that needed to be said.

Pencil on bristol paper.

Mephis/Dawn (original)

I added the furry texture by painting in between the spots and slightly overlapping the strokes and the spots. Were the cat larger I would have brushed the spots and spaces back and forth more thoroughly but it didn't really need it here. Highlights were Yellow Ochre and white for the golden areas and Parchment and Titanium White for the underbelly area. Shadows were deepened with Hookers Green Deep.

"Though rare, some werewolves have resorted to living in high altitudes to avoid human encroachment. These Werewolves, often several generations old, have become well adept to the freezing and dangerous living conditions experienced on rocky mountain terrains. Adept climbers, these werewolves can easily bound after mountain goats and other mountain dwelling prey, with the ease of agility that does not often come naturally to species of canids. Using their strong upper body arms and opposable thumbs, werewolves pose as great a threat to large mountain ungulates as the keenly graceful snow leopards of the Himalayas. Expanded lung capacity needed to process and ingest the low levels of oxygen at high altitudes make mountain dwelling werewolves formidably strong. This combined with the incredibly athletic build as a result of the constant physical exertion of balancing and leaping from rocky face to rocky face make this werewolf among the strongest of his ilk. Thick coats insulate these graceful hunters from the sapping cold and attack of fellow predators. "

My contribution to the Werewolf Calendar

The Calendar is currently available for pre-order until November 18th after which time a limited supply will be available for direct purchase. So if you would like one, it is always best to pre-order your copy now! You may order it here: Purchase!.

Thank you to all that have bought a copy, this year and in previous years. This is now the 5th anniversary of the calendar and we are eager to see it into it's 10th! Thank you all for making it what it is and bringing into it your enthusiasm and sharing your love of the werewolf with us. You make this calendar what it is and what it will become!

Personal Note:
Recently I have been fascinated with the Tibetan culture and history. A great deal of beauty and pain is evident in the people and though their struggle persists there is a resilient hopefulness in them. The use of vibrant colors in their artistic heritage seems almost at odds with the reality of their world. With this piece I wanted to depict my werewolves living high in the Himalayas in the plunging cold and upon the precipice. The lighting was struck upon accidentally but it seemed to click. I hope you folks enjoy.

Lastly, It has been sometime since my last upload, and that seems to be what I say every time I upload these days! Thank you again to all you patient folks and all the lovely comments asking when I would update again. Truth be told I have a lot of things in the works behind the scenes but my day job and a recent trip has eaten into my time quite a fair amount as tends to happen and it has just kept me from being active online. I hope I will find a balance again soon as I used to get so much from sharing my work and it was a great motivator in and of itself! Thank you all C:

For =ShePaintsWithBlood because she is awesome! She is so kind, intelligent, and talented it's just darn shocking. This is actually my second attempt at a gift art for her; the first was a months-long digital painting that unfortunately destroyed itself. A moment of silence please, for the lost painting. Thank you. As my journal revealed, I went through a period of misery over this, but I was determined to give =ShePaintsWithBlood a gift. So after wallowing for a while, I started this yesterday. And finished it today! I surprise myself sometimes. I hardly had a plan for this (very rare for me); my only guidance was the feeling of =ShePaintsWithBlood--just anything that reminded me of her.

I hope you like it, ! If you can think of a cool title, please tell it to me!

Pencil, 9x12 in.
References: The flower is a pretty good likeness for a dried specimen my brother gave to me recently. It's a very dark purple and its stem is a pale gold, very beautiful. My cat, Tiger, was a reference for the cat but I took a lot of artistic liberties with him. I looked at a few clock towers just to get the feel right.

[Displayed in with my permission.]

a dog eating cake!

this was a birthday card

Mephis&Dawn

The uppermost images are samplings of new art I'm preparing for an overhaul of the existing character page on the Lackadaisy web site.

There are two Mitzi cards because one of them is a throw-away. After painting the first, I decided I wanted something with a more art nouveau look for her instead. The string of images in the middle is just an example of my general approach to painting these pieces.

The rest is rough pencil art for upcoming comic pages and a little "photograph" originally done for the forum users.
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He's working for werewolves.

Various things originally posted to tumblr. Everything up top is artwork from upcoming comic pages. The human drawings are Abelard (who's design, whether feline or otherwise, was rather Peter Cushing-inspired) and Zib (in the lower right). The comics are responses to reader questions.

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