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Arrrrrrttttttt (and a comic and some writing. But mostly art)

Tue, 18 Nov 2014 14:46:42 GMT

I was boggling that I hadn't done one of these since June then looked at my post titles for the last few months and remembered how sick I was for a while there. But I managed to draw some stuff anyway through the fog :) Also I got a copy of Manga Studio 5, which does some lovely lines and painting...that make my computer cry :(

All art has transcripts/descriptions at the link.

Prettiest:

Snow White and Red Riding Hood

Most interesting:
News From The Sea: A little fantasy comic adapted from this short story I wrote. Created for a Comic Books and Graphic Novels course. Transcripts in chapter 2.

As far as I can tell I got...120% for this comic? And that's getting less than half of the available extra credit. lol coursera. But it was fun!

( Person of Interest, Avatar: The Legend of Korra/The Last Airbender, Guild Wars 2, Dragon Age Origins, Mass Effect 2, Red Dwarf, Bastion, Dr Who, Original, Game of Thrones, The Hobbit, Fresh Pretty Cure )

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Ladystuck!

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 05:25:25 GMT

Ladystuck 2012 is live!

I got an ACTUAL HONEST TO GOODNESS MOSAIC. Isn't it pretty?:
Mirrors are Windows (156 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Homestuck
Rating: General Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Aradia Megido, Aradiabot, The Handmaid (Homestuck)
Summary: Time loops and symmetry and the nature of self.

I have looked at all the art and am going to look at the fic when I have more mental energy. I think my favourite so far is the simple but beautifully drawn Terezi/Kanaya picture A Taste for Color.

As always, no points for guessing which is mine. Though you may be amused when you see what I drew as a treat...

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Original Art: Monster Girls!

Sun, 15 Jul 2012 05:16:54 GMT

I decided in would be fun to do this 30 challenge to draw monster girls. I got a whole seven days in before running out of steam, I mean to get back to it when I feel inspired again but for now here's what I've drawn.

I also wrote some meta on the subject and got some interesting and inspiring replies I should respond to.

There's some mild nudity and gore in some of these, nothing extreme. Also a spider and a snake, but they're friendly :)

Centaur on deviantART Centaur at tumblr

( Image descriptions at either link )

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Fic and games: Robots and lesbians

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 06:15:33 GMT

Like a lot of people I had some issues with the end of Mass Effect 3, but not the sort that can be fixed with fic: it wasn't that I really disliked the ending I got, it's that I want more endings.

So here is a very short and rather slapdash visual novel that has some more varied endings depending on what choices you make: Mass Effect 3: Endings Edition

And now some fic (one illustrated) for Dragon Age and Mass Effect. I'm trying to write more by typing things up without overthinking and posting them as I go. Whether it's helped my quality is another question but I've decided not to worry about that as long as I feel like the basic gist of what I wanted to say has come across.
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A guide to my video game fanworks

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:06:23 GMT

(For my EX Mode remixer, and anyone else who's interested)

sqbr has all my fanfic and some of my art. Here's my Dragon Age fic and here's my Mass Effect fic. Some of these are parts of series with art and comics and other fic, but you can ignore that if you want!

All my art is at DeviantArt. The relevant fandoms: Dragon Age, Mass Effect, and miscellaneous fandoms including Portal, Final Fantasy 12, Final Fantasy 13, and Magical Diary.

Have fun :)

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Ladystuck Reveals!

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:10:08 GMT

Reveals are up for Ladystuck, the Homestuck female characters fanworks exchange. And what a great exchange it was! There's still promising looking stuff I haven't had a chance to look at yet. And 88 pieces of femslash!

I was 99% sure that my fic was written by biichan, but didn't want to say so in case there was some other Homestuck fan who also liked my Pride and Prejudice fic who'd be upset by my assumption :) Anyway, if you haven't read An Injured Body yet you should go do so.

I did three pictures: 2 gifts and a treat. All links go to the AO3, where there are descriptions, but the images are at tumblr and deviantArt too.
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Pain, ladies and the occupation

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:02:51 GMT

First, two sensible links: A set of posts about a chronic pain class, a lot of this matched stuff I've learned from chronic illness myself, though some didn't.

A nice perspective tutorial from astridv.

And now unabashed fannishess.

If there were Barryaran political RPF fanvids, they would look like this: Russian vids to a Vorkosigan fan rock opera.

All the Ladystuck works are out, and many of them are fantastic. Again, no real points for guessing which ones are mine, though one is slightly harder than usual. Here's the Ladystuck works I've bookmarked. There are MULTIPLE femslash fancomics, and THREE Rose/Terezi fics. This makes me happy.

And just as my dance card was looking empty…dragonagewomen, a female-character centric challenge for my other main fandom. Plus newgameplus is probably going to be running a computer game fandom remix challenge including art, which should be super fun.

I started watching the anime Gintama and it is VERY SILLY. It's about a Japan colonised by aliens in the Edo era, and seems to basically be samurai + pop culture references + scifi + random shenanigans. Also the main character Gin looks like a white haired version of Shin from the anime of Gokusen, it's disconcerting.

I also started watching Capital Scandal, A Korean live action comedy/romance tv show set in Japanese occupied 1930s Korea. It seems to be a mix of fun 30s shenanigans with fighting-against-the-evil-occupier war drama, I'm quite enjoying it so far but it's an interesting contrast to Gintama!

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Achievement unlocked: fanart

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 13:09:03 GMT

I have finally finished every single artistic goal I'd set myself in the last little while. Now I just have to wait for Ladystuck to start posting in January.

Fandoms: Good Omens, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Wicked, Portal, Mass Effect 2.

( Erasureathon )
( Last two prompts from before )
( Kink Bingo…sort of. Not actually very kinky )

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Original art: Dragons and women with tentacles

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 14:13:25 GMT

Three of these are for junetide, an original art/writing exchange I did recently. All pictures have descriptions. (I should post about the awesome gift I got, too. Maybe later!)

This was my main piece, a gift for badgerbag, who gave the prompt "Dragons don’t need to breathe. Somehow, humans are able to use them for space travel". I spent a while trying to come up with a backstory and lifecycle and consistent physics before deciding to just have fun with the idea.

Dragons! In! Space! on DA, Dragons! In! Space! on Tumblr

( Three more pictures. One mildly nsfw )

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Various fannish and creative things

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 05:08:24 GMT

junetide original art and writing prompts are up! They look awesome, and if you're not signed up you can do them as treats.

remix_goes_wild is open for business! Anyone can offer their fic (or comics, yay) for remixing, and the challenge is a bunch of low key zero obligation prompts like "rewrite from a different POV". My fanworks are all open for remixing if anyone's interested (for the challenge or otherwise)

AO3 has subscriptions! Only to usernames, not stories. Yet another reason to check out sqbr :D I intend on uploading something this afternoon and all.

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Dear Junetide Creator Letter

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:23:45 GMT

An information post for my junetide creator.
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Junetide: Original art and writing exchange

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:24:32 GMT

pippin is starting an original writing (and hopefully also art) exchange over at junetide. She's not sure of numbers and interest etc, and it seemed like something some of you guys might be interested in, so go check it out!

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Misc fannish things

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 09:17:10 GMT

My white Lotus fic, huzzah! Beloved Ice, a cute little Zuko/Mai/Katara fic. Zuko/Mai and femslash, yay! Plus general happy friendshippiness ^_^

Around Us, a really good general Avatar fanvid and just the burst of happy I needed.

Why you should all watch Press Gang. I remember season 3 being really annoying so stopped my rewatch in Season 2, but maybe I should give it a shot.

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Hairspray fanart: Tracy dances (Fat Person Art Week)

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 03:26:06 GMT

Hairspray: Tracy dances on Tumblr

When I drew the first draft it looked totally wrong and when I put it over the reference photo to compare the proportions they were way off. Clearly I need more practice drawing larger people!

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Inspirations for Fat People Art Week

Sat, 05 Feb 2011 06:25:26 GMT

Via Tumblr I came across Fat People Art Week and I'm going to try to draw something for it (possibly getting around to it sometime this month, knowing me :D) since I really don't draw many fat people which is particularly silly since I could just look in a mirror or draw Cam. (And I may well do both of those things!)

But! It's hard to think of what to draw. So, who are your favourite overweight(*) characters?

My attempts to draw the Vorkosigan brothers have all failed miserably, but I do like Mark from Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan series.
While she's only Hollywood fat I am pondering using this as an excuse to draw Sarah Rue, who was Penny in Eastwick and the doctor girlfriend in Big Bang Theory.
Iroh from Avatar the Last Airbender is pretty cool though he stops being fat once he decides to be really truly badass, plus I already drew him a bunch.

That's who comes to mind after a very brief think but there are of course lots of others. *ponders*

(*)Which is of course an incredibly subjective term. I like the "not thin" definition on the fat art blog, I guess.

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Misc Art

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 02:17:08 GMT

I finally finished the colour meme!

The two new pictures are a sketch of my cat Kira (just in DA since it's pretty crap) and this :

Avatar: Katara colour meme at Deviantart, Katara at Tumblr

Also! A discussion about human versions of the Homestuck exiles inspired me to draw:

Homestuck: White Queen at Deviantart, The White Queen at tumblr.

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Fancomic: An ordinary afternoon (Gokusen)

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:13:23 GMT

Gokusen: "An ordinary afternoon" page 1 of 3 by ~sqbr on deviantART

Crossposted with a transcript at AO3.

Drawn for a gokusen_love context which it won by default as the only entrant. Woohoo! I won! :D

I drew this not long after my Skip Beat comic, I think it turned out a lot better. I still find manga style art and layout quite challenging but it was good to try something a bit different.

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Drawing Life, Jar of Octopus (original art)

Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:35:49 GMT

tedprior and tiny_monster started up drawing_life, where they post and draw an interesting looking picture every day and encourage other people (so afar, afaict, only me :D) to draw it to. It was EXACTLY what I was looking for, and came just as a conversation with pippin inspired me to install the tablet on the laptop making it easier to do quick digital sketches while checking my email etc.

Most of the pictures I've done have been pretty crap (but good practice!), but I thought this one turned out ok:

Jar of Octopus (No description beyond "It's a jar of octopus tentacles")

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Mundane bingo

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:36:04 GMT

The squares for mundane_bingo. I have no idea if I'll end up doing any of these but I thought it might be fun and lacks the pressure of exchanges etc (also it's due next year. I think I can manage at least one by then). Posted here because it's pretty much unreadable in my inbox.

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Fic! Art! Recs! Racebending Revenge (Spiderman) and Doctor Who

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:12:39 GMT

Title:Standing on a bridge
Creator: alias_sqbr
Fandom: Spiderman Movieverse
Summary: Little comic where Spiderman is Latino, drawn for Racebending Revenge challenge.

Title: Chapter 3 of "The Time Traveller's Guide to Creative Anachronism"
Creator: alias_sqbr
Fandom: Doctor Who
Summary: River/Amy, retroactively places the fic after "Cold Blood" and ties things up a bit more. Comes with art at the end! (Which I'm not linking since it spoils the fic)

Phew. Every now and then I try a different sort of engagement with fanworks fandom to see if it suits me, and based on Racebending Revenge plus another I tried I'd say that AUs definitely don't and challenges might not. Anyway, two recs:

Sam and Dean Winchestgopal: glockgirl continues her awesome "Sam and Dean are desi" Supernatural AU. She manages to sneak in some extra female characters too :)

Five Things People Might Have Read On The Psychic Paper (If Things Were Slightly Different) by Grey_Bard: Imagine, if you will, that the Eleventh Doctor was played by Paterson Joseph but otherwise identical. What might people see on his psychic paper?

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Fanart and fic rec: Star Trek Reverse Bang

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 11:12:16 GMT

First I made this picture of Amanda Grayson and Winona Kirk shaking hands:

And then I got this awesome trekreversebang fic written about it:

Title: Dexterity
Artist: alias_sqbr
Author: leupagus, screamlet, waldorph
Rating (both art/fic): PG
Genre/Pairing: gen, some Winona Kirk/Amanda Grayson, Winona Kirk/George Kirk and Amanda Grayson/Sarek subtext
Word Count: 7938
Warnings: None
Fic Summary: Detailing one of Amanda Grayson's first diplomatic assignments, which happens to be on the USS Kelvin.
Link to Fic: At AO3

My first writer dropped out and my second, leupagus, had Stuff come up but she went the extra mile and found people to cover and between the three of them they did an AMAZING job. I love this fic, it's everything I wanted and more. Femslashiness! Snark! Linguistics! Awesometacular female characters! I was there going "This reminds me of that great George Kirk/Winona Kirk fic "What to expect when you're expecting"...and it turns out that's because screamlet and waldorph wrote that too.

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Fancomics: Dragon Age and ATLA. Plus a Giraffe

Mon, 31 May 2010 03:52:48 GMT

Flying Giraffe for One Million Giraffes.

DAO: Master and Apprentice also at AO3 This is all jakia's fault(*).

Also, since the server is down I posted a bunch of my old fancomics to DeviantArt. They've all been posted here before, but I got around to colouring my Avatar The Last Airbender AU comic and I think it turned out pretty well for my first real attempt at action scenes.

(*)We got into a discussion about Anders/Nathaniel which got me really thinking about how the dynamic would work. This is the first m/m slash I've made that wasn't secretly all about the female characters :)

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