Lune Draws

Check it out, I did this piece for the XCX fanzine Wir Fliegen! If you like kind of weird, overlooked RPGs, aliens, distant planets, giant robots, or anything in that vein feel free to take a look at the rest of the zine too, and make a donation if you’re able. Everyone did a fantastic job making this project happen!

Like all good cats, Aisha is out sticking her nose in places she doesn’t belong, and in this case she’s prowling around the Whale’s Weeper, keeping an eye on the tyrants that hang out there every night.

On May 22nd, I got an email from the people at Animazement about Artist’s Alley tables being available at the last minute. This came completely out of left field, as I’d applied to the convention back in January but didn’t get in because they’d hit capacity. But you know what, I took the plunge and bought a table anyway!

My thoughts on the con:

I honestly thought I was going to do a lot worse than I actually did, but you guys surprised me! For a display that was mostly cobbled together in 3 days, save for the charms which were printed beforehand and the stickers which were designed beforehand (but printed in those 3 days), I’m happy it did as well as it did.

Everything was kind of a blur to me, because I’d traveled about 8 hours from my home just a little south of Atlanta to get to Raleigh, but in a way it was pretty exciting. I never expected to be able to do my first Artist’s Alley so soon!

The guy at the table next to mine was SUPER sweet and I hope I get to see him again at another con. We even did a charm swap at the end of the con - one of my Espeons for one of his Latias+Latios ones.

The watercolor card commissions were a BIG hit, so my Spyro watercolor I did at the last minute did a good job of drawing in customers. I actually spent about as much time on that Spyro as I spent on the actual commissions anyway, so it was good practice!

Even though I offered commissions on my 9x12″ bristol paper, people were more interested in the smaller sketchbook pages for their pencil, ink, and/or marker commissions. Therefore, I picked up a new mixed media pad today that was roughly the same size as the sketchbook pages for the next convention (Anime Weekend Atlanta, hopefully?).

My print selection was very limited, as I had barely any time to prepare as it was and I had very little photo paper at home to make prints with, so I settled for a few mini prints in the end. Thankfully, the table did well enough without a big focus on prints, but I hope to offer some at my next con!

Many apologies to the people who wanted to pay with their credit card! I hope to offer card payments next Artist’s Alley, now that I have more time to prepare.

To everyone who picked up a business card and decided to check out this blog: hi there and welcome! Pardon the dust; I’ve been pretty busy lately and haven’t posted much art in a while. I have a couple of digital commissions I have yet to post here, as well as all of the on-the-spot commissions I took at the con.

To everyone who commissioned me: thank you SO much! Your characters/your faves were all so fun to draw and paint, and you kept me busy but in a good way!

To those who expressed interest in charms of the remainder of the Eevee family: I may open preorders for Set B soon. Keep an eye out!

Animazement had some last minute table cancellations and I needed to do a watercolor commission example for my table! This is going to be my first ever Artist’s Alley and it caught me so off guard (like, 3 days’ notice) that I mostly only have stickers, charms, commissions, and a scant few prints to offer, but I hope things go okay regardless!

Colored sketch commission for @sheephat, of his character Kaidris and a Shiba Inu!

Commission me here!

Simple illustration commission for my friend Delta, of his character, Esmeralda!

What’s this? A commission sheet? With this I can say that commissions are officially open!

Payment is to be done via Paypal. Either email me or contact me on Discord (or heck, even Skype - I’m aerbornelobster on there) with details on what you want, including reference pictures. Alternately, fill out this Google form here that does most of the work for you: https://goo.gl/forms/sAXbwcEq3CTC6K7p1

Do NOT try to commission me through Tumblr asks! I request that you either fill out the Google form or contact me through the above methods instead.

I also filled my competitive Pokemon quota for the year while I was working on the impromptu commission I got! The Johto Classics were really fun, and I think this may have been one of the most fun competitions I’ve ever entered. So I did some colored sketches of my personal favorite couple of party members!

Astraios the Clefable flaunted his bulk quite nicely, and dealt good damage with Moonblast and the occasional Psyshock, and served as a healer to his teammates when necessary - he was bred with one of the leftovers from my shiny Togepi breeding project from way back when to get Wish on him! His most notable achievement was stopping a blatantly hacked shiny Wish Blissey in her tracks in a thrilling stall war, and utterly destroying the Zapdos that followed.

I figure I might as well post some rougher sketches and doodles on this blog too, to get it a bit more active.

I sketched this out around the time AGDQ 2016 ended in January when I was talking to some of my friends about how ridiculous some things about Final Fantasy IV are, including how there’s this one mob of three Red Dragons in the final dungeon that looks like it’s really one dragon. No wonder they always got the better of 13-year-old me. So we came to a conclusion that the dragons were always stacked on top of each other, and the mental image was so silly I had to draw it.

Suddenly... Homestuck!? Is this 2011-2013 all over again? I’m as surprised as you no doubt are.

One of my closest friends who has done music for what I like to call this totally bizarre internet creation myth comic about kids and aliens and living chess pieces approached me all of a sudden and asked me if I wanted to do some art for Volume 10, so I got on board for one wild ride of an impromptu art gig! He essentially gave me free reign over what I got to draw based on what came to mind while I listened to the WIP of the track he sent me (it’s quite nice), and one of the first characters that came to mind was Rose.

I had sketched out a few concepts in one of the tiny sketchbooks I have, and one of them would have been fun but it also would have been much too detailed for me to finish in less than a week. So I went for something a little simpler and more feasible for me to draw in such a short amount of time. The song’s title, Starfall, made me think of meteors, so I eventually settled on a throwback to the part in Act 2 where Rose is making her way towards Jaspers’ mausoleum, with a nice view of the meteors.

It has been an honor being on board with the Volume 10 team, even on such short notice, and I’m glad I got to live one of my dreams from when I used to draw Homestuck fanart more actively! And special thanks to my friend Jeremy for making Starfall in the first place and for helping me regain my artistic momentum and getting me to finish up a piece in less than a month; that’s been a big problem I’ve had lately. Hopefully from this point forward I’ll be finishing up pieces as quickly as I used to 3 years ago!

*fun fact: what I drew was basically the polar opposite of what Jeremy expected it to be; we had a good laugh over it but he really liked the outcome regardless!

*other fun fact: a tiny warmup doodle I found in the project file’s layers under the rough sketch may have made it into the commentary book, along with the rough sketch + initial colors.