New Specimens

I'm very proud of myself this week. I already finished my taxes, completed the FAFSA, and am now just waiting for an answer...well, 7 answers actually... You probably don't care about my grad school ranting, but it is literally one of the only things I've been thinking about these last couple of months!

Here's Specimen # 92

I actually haven't drawn any new specimens in about 2 months. The ones I'm posting are old ones, well, over two months old. After I post this, I have a creature drawing session planned and many ideas! So stay tuned for new drawings!!

Clarification

I received a wonderful comment on one of my drawings (from my fellow blogger, drend) and it made me think about these creature a little more. I don't have more of the story, but I do have a better description of what I imagined these specimens to be.

These creatures are rather small, they fit in the palm of your hand. I always did imagine them as abandoned 'babies,' they're the young versions of grown creatures (as seen in many a video game or sci-fi movie), before they lost their innocence, before they became ...evil. They are either hatched from eggs and petrified or they are undeveloped/abandoned fetuses. There are a few specimens that are meant to be flora (and are rightfully named so). They grow where these creatures were found.

Well, I hope more to come soon.... I have to create a storyboard for one of my applications. Have been slacking off on that one. Well, not really, I've been thinking about it for months, but I 've just had horrible writer's block. I come up with plenty of ideas, but I just don't like any of them.

Anyway, here's specimen #32

Nothing new...

I don't really have anything new to say....

Here's specimen #28a (Eyelets)

I posted two others in the eyelets group previously. In case you didn't notice, eyelets are the specimens without eyes and either small or no arms and large heads. I tend to start theses specimen drawings with the eyes and go from there, with the head next, then body, then anything else. But these Eyelets in particular were different. I decided one day, hey, what if they had no eyes at all, and these are the result. Enjoy!!

Specimen #8a (Shells)

I just submitted three portfolios, only two more to go! And I found out one of the schools will have a response BY April 1st.... very nervous...

Specimen #8a (shells)

Week Off

I have my birthday week off. The rest of my applications are due by the end of the week. I'm horribly nervous!

Here's specimen #7

Birthday

Well, it's almost my birthday, and I'm almost 30. So, here's a birthday creature......

Specimen # 22

Happy New Year

Happy New Year!

Time to apply for financial aid.... :(

Specimen #6.

Belated Holidays

Hello and Happy Holidays!

Back to work tomorrow. :(

Specimen #22

I've been having horrible writer's block. I'm more concerned about my portfolio and the grad school applications. I have a few paragraphs of the story and the whole idea planned, but I'm just not writing it.... I feel that it will finally be done in February when I've sent off the last application and portfolio and I'll be done with the FAFSA and all that. I studied writing, but I'm more concerned about other things now, so this story will have to wait. And I don't like the protagonist's name, I keep changing it instead of writing the story...excuses, excuses....

Here's the first part though.....

The Mysterious Ones

Mr. Thomas Brown was a collector. He collected many things- jewelry, coins, rocks and shells, old fingernails of dead aristocrats, etc… He was a bit of an oddball character, always alone. Always observing with his monocle things no one else would notice - a speck of dust in the wind.

Portfolios

So I officially submitted one complete grad school application, portfolio and all! Am very excited and nervous. Am about to mail another tomorrow....

Clumsy Me

So I had an accident and almost broke my hand and scraped up two of my knees really badly. Was limping for a while. At lease I'm alive. :/

Just one thing after another with me....

Flora

Something a bit different:

Nothing new

I have nothing really to say today. I didn't really like the last drawing I posted, so here's a better one, a little sad, a little lonely perhaps...




Oh, also, I put sticker sheets in my etsy shop. They're cheaper than the original drawings, and you get 6. I'll put up custom ones soon, so you can pick and choose which 6 you want.

Sickness

I've been sick lately, so the story is yet again pushed back. I should stop mentioning it to not bring your hopes up... :) It'll be done I promise! I'll probably;y post bit by bit (Part 1, Part 2, etc...) because it's a bit long. I have added more drawing to it though.... Here's another sample... Not my favorite, The shell is a bit off. But I think the head it cute.

Getting there...

So the story is almost done... I kept being unsatisfied with the story and thought it was too cliche or that I've read it before, but now it's going somewhere, and I'll have it done by the end of the week.

The book should be done soon as well. I have the drawings laid out, so once the story is done and done, I'll order the book. I'm excited! I've never done anything like this before. kinda proud of myself, must say... :D