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This is WhiteMantis' ( http://www.furaffinity.net/user/whitemantis/ ) lovely orchid mantis lady, Nae. I just love her character design; I hope I did it justice. She's sitting in a persimmon tree, next to a patch of toad lilies. (If you had a hard shell, there would be a lot more positions that would be comfortable to sit or lie in, don't you think?)

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These are Marlin's characters Caden and Bajar, who are part of the same universe/story as her characters Lorn and Noah, whom I've drawn before ( here ) She asked me to draw them together in a frozen landscape; I thought I'd make it a frozen lake with a boat. Lots of fun drawing wings and feather cloaks and characters with interesting scars; I really like Bajar's character design. :)

And you can read more about and see more of all four characters over here.

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I had so much fun drawing this. :) These are May's character Yvannale and Ottery's character Kojituu, in their human/gijinka forms. There are lots of adorable pictures of them here and my picture owes a lot in particular to this lovely sketch of them here. And Koji is a librarian for the purposes of this picture, because I've seen the Music Man too many times and thought it would be cute.

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Hey, who else was traumatized by the last episode of Game of Thrones? Or the corresponding scene in the books, I guess. I haven't yet read the books. (Though I'd probably have been better off reading GRRMs pile of doorstops than Robert Jordan's pile of doorstops as a kid--I believe they kicked off around the same time?)

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And it's all fun and games until out of the blue you draw Labyrinth p.... fanart for no good reason, and everyone has to unwatch you out of sheer embarrassment. (I kid. I think.)

Er. Sarah and Jareth from the goofy old 80s movie, f.... hanging out on a pile of that eyeball moss and Sarah's fluffy dress. Don't ask why. I don't know why.

Oh, and assume everyone's of age.

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So yeah, I drew more Rise of the Guardians...stuff, of a Pitch/Sandy variety. My hand slipped. Again. Mea culpa.

And since I got just really carried away with adding a whole sand pet shop worth of little sand creatures (but don't worry--those poor little nightmare piranhas have nothing to fear from all those vicious dream goldfish) so that if this picture was ever self explanatory it sure isn't now:

I figure that if anyone who gave Sandy a kiss would always get knocked out like they'd been chloroformed, that would just be sad. But if you were working with, like, a one in ten chance, or something (depending on whether Sandy had washed his face since the last city he put to sleep, I suppose), that would be hilarious.

And maybe deserving of a 'Things I will not do if I am ever the evil overlord' entry, down at the very bottom of the list: 'I will not be a wiseass and give my nemesis a parting smooch before twirling my mustaches and riding off into the sunset. Especially if my nemesis is made entirely out of sleeping powder'.

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I seem to have finally watched Rise of the Guardians and felt compelled to draw Sandy/Pitch porn. I have no idea how this happened and I refuse to take responsibility for it. (How this happened: Sandy is the cutest little whip wielding tentacle monster ever, and Pitch spent half the movie on his back (more or less). Good old cringing and slightly pitiful villains. I’m very fond of them. Also, that old compulsion to ship the good guy with the bad guy every time. (I watch magical girl shows for a reason. That reason being, about 75 percent of the time, the good magical girl ends up befriending the bad magical girl. The other 25 percent of the time, of course, you get something like Heartcatch Pretty Cure and I never get over it.))

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P.S. It sure does make things easier when every character you’re drawing can fly or effectively fly.

So, the latest SSBB issue is out! An issue entitled "Weasels Ripped My Flesh" (http://bb-shousetsu.livejournal.com/76860.html) (based on old men's magazines from the 50s :D) ...and the illustration I did this time is for an awesome story entitled "Deadly Scorpions ate my Shirt" -- which is over here: http://s2b2.livejournal.com/218314.html

(I freaked out a bit over drawing that little bit of a Stearman biplane. I'd considered even trying to model the thing in AutoCAD alongside some stick figures first, but in the end, I just wound up eyeballing it.)

So, there’s this old 1940s noir (?) film called “Gilda”. You may remember I mentioned it before! And I made some porn of it. (Or almost-porn. If it weren’t for the limited nudity thar I’d probably have submitted this to DA and claimed that Johnny just finished eating a really drippy popsicle.)

If you haven’t seen it, the movie is mostly about Rita Hayworth being sexy. And about the old film code thwarting me, as far as how I wanted the movie to end. I mostly hate love triangle plots (Goddammit, Hunger Games, I like you, but I stopped caring which of those dudes Katniss was gonna end up with about halfway through the first book), except when they seem to be leading to a threesome, in which case I *love* love triangle plots.

So, anyhow. My personal canon for the movie ‘Gilda’ is either that the movie tells the story that Gilda, Johnny, and Ballin concocted for the cops before running away together, or that Gilda and Ballin were secretly trolling Johnny the whole time. (He’d have richly deserved it.)

( NSFW because of moderate nudity and also people pretttty clearly either having sex or having just had sex )

This is fanart for the old 90’s anime OVA (and, I understand, series of games—though I’m not familiar with them) Galaxy Fraulein Yuna. Enormous hair, giant robots, schoolgirls saving the world with their army of space girlfriends, that sort of thing. The first two episode OVA was goofy fun. The second was really pretty good, even if it did break my heart, since GF Yuna is one of those series that left me hanging on a “Wrath of Khan” without ever giving me a “Search for Spock” to make everything okay again. As far as my favorite character and favorite couple go.

So speaking of my favorite couple from the show, I just had to draw some Yuna/Ayako. Ayako’s the little tragic android from the second three episode OVA of Galaxy Fraulein Yuna and of course Yuna’s the titular magical girl…or I guess mecha girl who befriends her ferociously until she turns over to the good side. (my favorite trope of all time)

I also had to throw in Polylina, Yuna’s lady version of Tuxedo Mask (yes, Yuna has a lady version of Tuxedo Mask).

And just to explain exactly what I’ve drawn here—Ayako is an android, after all, and she detaches different parts of herself throughout the show, and occasionally needs to be repaired. Also she can walk through walls, hence the semi-transparency, and the little glowing sphere there is equivalent to her hard drive. And you’ve just got to pass the time while waiting for your arms to be reattached somehow (and if you temporarily have no arms, that rules out at least one way of passing the time without a buddy, so.).

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