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bon voyage

By: tiamat

05-07-2012

black and white, color, completed, photoshop

Well folks, I’m out of the country again for a solid month starting tonight. So these two pictures may be the last updates for a few weeks. I’m bringing a baby sketchbook and pencils, but tablet stays at home, so expect very little updates unless they’re instagram’d photos of art or something. If you want to know more of my shenanigans, I’m always updating my flickr, twitter, and tumblr.

Here are some neurotic ducks for you. And angry Canadian geese. Scary, they are.

Two friends who wanted a drawing to put up in their home. Now they can stare at themselves.

war for the oaks (willy silver)

By: tiamat

22-06-2012

black and white, color, photoshop

Another book fanart illustrationÂ catastrophe! Exciting.

Willy Silver, the guitarist (and a little more) from War for the Oaks (Emma Bull). He’s meant to have a streak of white hair, green eyes, and be dressed head to toe in leather when we first see him. Aka HELLOOO NURSE, etc. I happen to be fairly adept at drawing pretty-boys, so this drawing was definitely in my comfort zone.

(Done in photoshop using these neat brushes that really mimic pencil/graphite quite well.)

animals

By: tiamat

18-06-2012

black and white, color, photoshop

I thought I said I’d update all the time! What the heck is wrong with me! I’m going to post DAILY this week to compensate.

Here are some doodles that were created based on my prompting friends on facebook as to what I should draw. For whatever reason the thought of drawing animals, specifically penguins and owls and Sheriff Frog riding a piglet, appealed to me the most.

Roshana and School

By: tiamat

14-01-2012

black and white, pen & ink

Hi world! I’m starting medical school this week so I can’t promise updates any more until May. I have a few options but I hope you understand my radio silence! Here’s some doodles of an original character I created with my brush pen.

Peace.

â€œItâ€™s a name, not a poem,â€

By: tiamat

22-11-2011

black and white, pen & ink

I almost forgot to post today. Here’s Delara. She is 30% anxious, 30% annoyed, and 40% curious most of the time. She also wears shawls. A lot. This doodle is texture’d to spice it up a bit.

Sass-brows.

By: tiamat

21-11-2011

black and white, pen & ink

Sass-brows. That’s the unofficial name I’m giving you, girl. I mean, seriously, I was just minding my own business when you leapt out of the end of my brush pen and decided you and your smirky ways would take over the page.

This is Roshana again – same character as the one holding the sword a few entries prior to this. I was just testing out a pen I bought for fun (it’s a Pentel Pocket Brush Pen and yes, it’s as fun as everyone says it is). Unlike computer doodles, this has no date because I don’t date my sketchbooks…though I’m beginning to think I should.

Does the Walker choose the Path, or the Path the Walker?

By: tiamat

19-11-2011

black and white, color, photoshop

Lirael, Daughter of the Clayr.
I read Lirael while on a plane ride to Australia from New York. A fitting idea: Garth Nix, the author of the book, is Australian. Reader, I loved it immensely. It made the long, long flight so, so short. Anyway, she is a female character that is brilliant and I love her for her ability to be emotional and practical in just the right amounts. It’s an achievement how much growing she does in just one book. Highly recommended! Anyway, this is just a doodle I did one night in May.

some doodles of ice and fire

By: tiamat

17-11-2011

black and white, color, completed, painter, photoshop

I’m so serious about that updating thing. See! Here I am! Posting things! These were done in August. They are characters from George R R Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire series. I was probably reading Storm of Swords or Clash of Kings at that point. I mix up the book titles a heck of a lot, for someone who has actually read them. Shh, don’t tell.

Lord Snow. I wish I got Ghost in, but I kind of just wanted to see how I’d draw his face. Next time! This one was done with Photoshop in about an hour or so.

Daenerys Targaryen. Giving a total bitchface, but hey, she’s Khaleesi, gosh darn it, and she has to suspect your motives if she wants to ~survive~. It is known, yo. Next time I draw her there will be more braids and a dragon. Sketched in Painter.

And just as a silly thing, here’s a doll maker I was playing around with — rather than make my own Princess I made Dany for fun. Beware, for you too may spend the rest of your day on that website making them.

I am gonna update the heck out of this blog.

By: tiamat

16-11-2011

black and white, completed, photoshop

I mean it. I’m going to update it every day for a week. A WEEK! STARTING TODAY! With stuff I’ve drawn since my last update, which was painfully long ago.

Here’s the first one. I drew my friend Ronnie in April. He’s immensely talented and kept leaving fun songs on our friends’ facebook walls for their birthdays, so I figured I’d make him something using my own “skills” (ha). I bet he can rock a skinny tie in real life, too.

— disastrous strokes

bon voyage

war for the oaks (willy silver)

animals

Roshana and School

â€œItâ€™s a name, not a poem,â€

Sass-brows.

Does the Walker choose the Path, or the Path the Walker?

some doodles of ice and fire

I am gonna update the heck out of this blog.

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