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Horrible dream. Dreamed that a woman's body was pulled out of freezing cold water, wrapped in chains, lifted out by a crane. Her skin was grey-blue and water sluiced out of her yellow hair. Suddenly, her body began to jerk and spasm -- she was still alive. The crane dunked her back into the freezing water. The chains shook as she struggled under the water. But they went still eventually. Dreamed that I had started a relationship with a man that I met online. We were texting eachother. It started out flirty and kinky but it got darker and scarier until he was threatening and abusing me. Someone tells me that I should have known better. Dreamed that a fox was napping on a turbine on the roof. The turbine spun around slowly, revealing the fox. It blinked sleepily before getting up and walking across the roof. Dreamed that I had long, fine, bright yellow hair with red-pink ends. My hair was pulled into pigtails with elastic bands that had big red plastic balls on them. I looked like an anime magical girl.

Screenshot study of Claudia from IWTV, done with Posca and Molotow paint pens

playing around with a more stylized approach

The text in this image is from the song "Pirate Jenny" by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, from the musical "The Threepenny Opera."

My favorite version is this one, by Shilpa Ray, Nick Cave, and Warren Ellis.

(This song is on the Claudia playlist that I have created. I might have created playlists for all the main characters in IWTV.)

Pretty Alien

Ok, so this is going to be the first in a series of pieces. And it has a backstory.

I was working the night shift and it was totally dead and I was super bored and I got to thinking... technically speaking, Sailor Moon is an alien. She's from the moon. So why does she look like a human?

And then I thought, maybe her Sailor Scout uniform is actually what she looks like, but in attempting to describe Sailor Moon's alien physiology, eye-witness accounts were mistaken for a description of a costume, not an actual body.

So, Sailor Moon's pigtails, bangs, and the little whiskers that I've given her, aren't hair. They're sensory organs, like antennae. The red "gems" described in her uniform are actually poison glands, which are brightly colored to gain the attention of predators. When subject to pressure, they secrete a poisonous liquid, kinda like Cane Toads. The "collar" of the costume is actually a wattle that Usagi's species uses in mating displays. It's inflatable!

Kinda like this:

As for the bunny nose and upper lip... Well... her name is Usagi.

The kanji at the top of the image is bi (pretty) uchuu (extraterrestrial) jin (person) and the katakana at the bottom is the phonetic spelling of Sailor Moon.

I'm sure that Kyozuka sensei would be pleased to see that I'm keeping up my calligraphy skills, all these years after her classes.

If anyone with a better grasp of japanese than me has any corrections, I'm happy to hear them.

Nerd rant over.

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Thank you to all the awesome people who came by my table at Short Run and to the mega sweeties who gifted or traded their work.

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roycevomit said: this looks finished to me, it’s really beautiful regardless.

Awh! Thank you.

That's one of the things that I really like about your art -- you seem to know exactly when to stop. Your pieces aren't overworked or fussy, they feel straightforward.

I have a hard time stopping on my pieces. I keep working them until I look at them and go "Shit, I should have stopped, like, 8 changes ago." I've been trying to work on that, giving myself "assignments" or guidelines designed to limit my obsessiveness.

For instance, in the painting that I'm working on right now, I'm not allowing myself to use brown or black. That means I can only get a certain level of shadows and depth in the image, so that's one thing that I'm not stressing about.

i'm really curious about the story behind "tattooed his ashes onto my ankle"

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT ENCOURAGE/ADVISE ANYONE TO DO AS I HAVE DONENemo died like no other cat I’ve ever had. Usually, if cats are getting old and/or sick, they run off and hole up somewhere. Nemo hopped off my dad’s lap and was heading to the food bowl when he just fell over. Must have had a heart attack or a stroke or something. He was an awesome cat (Thus the title “The Cat by Which All Other Cats are Judged and Found Wanting”) and my friend for 13 years.When we got his ashes back from the vet, I took a pinch of them, mixed them in with some tattoo ink, and gave myself a stick n’ poke of the alchemical symbol for ash.

Howdy! I’m still alive.

I’m fortunate, in that my day job is being done remotely, but it’s a very difficult change and I really don’t like it, so the stress has been getting to me. I was invited to be part of a really cool thing but it may have completely fallen through due to the stay at home order, I have no idea, so that kind of kneecapped my motivation, art-wise.

Hard copy version of my comics aren’t in my etsy store at the moment, as I’d been sneakily printing them on the printers at my office and I don’t have a printer at home. PDF versions are still up for sale.

At this time, I struggle to see the point of making art that doesn’t “do something.” Here are two tapestries I’ve made (I’m working on getting the edges even and reducing the amount of hour-glassing before I go totally nuts and invest in a rigid heddle loom) and some socks I darned for my boyfriend.

I regret to inform you that I have begun scripting and thumbnailing another Simpson’s comic. Not directly/explicitly related to my previous comics. No idea on how long it will take to complete. So, y‘know, watch this space.