THE BUSINESS OF THE RACHEL

I'm such a bad poster

2010-06-17T14:11:00.003-05:00

Have a crappy Shimama as token of my appriciation to those of you who still follow me.

Expect big, over stuffed posts in the near future. For summer is SKETCHDUMP AND MEME SEASON.

UBF ROUND 3

2010-06-10T00:13:00.004-05:00

So Round 3, the "Trial of Fire", had everyone collaborate. I was paired with a wonderful artist named SpriteOcarina. I'm proud of the work the two of us put forth. The first image is the final product, and the bottom is the lineless coloring I did.

Story and General Concept: SpriteOcarina

Composition Sketch: Me

Sketch Editing: SpriteOcarina

Lineless Coloring: Me

Lineart: SpriteOcarina

Further description and links can be found on my DA.

Kitten Khronicles

2010-05-08T19:55:00.002-05:00

I got a little orange calico, blue eyed 8 week old kitten earlier this afternoon. He was so cute and named Macaroni Napoleon. Seriously, words cannot describe how adorable this kitten is. I wish I had taken pictures to show you. Buuuuut upon bringing little Macaroni home, I came home to a shell-shocked mother and a very angry father over the phone. In short, I didn't get to keep the kitten.
And I'm heart broken over it.
And since I know you enjoy stalking my blog, you're a douchebag, dad.

Giraferig!

2010-05-07T00:11:00.005-05:00

I'm rather proud of this little doodle. Fancy. But it got rejected by a "quality pokemon fanart" group. Oh well, maybe I'll remake a better, cleaner version and submit it. Even I can admit that it's not the greatest piece ever, you know? And it's actually a good group and I certainly recommend it. So don't hold a vendetta against the group just because I was rejected! I'm not holding one, so why should you? But then again that's your choice. And right over hurrr, we have a very crappy, stupid looking, utterly terriable drawing of some overly happy-go-lucky pokemon. "Yayyy we're skipping around in a green empty space!"...I really need to teach myself to do digital backgrounds.

Rodger: Some Updates

2010-05-06T23:50:00.008-05:00

I'm sorry about the leave, guys. But I'm back what with the end of the school year right around the corner! And with current updates and more to come! Everyone say yaaaaaaaaay!

Well, to start off with the updates, I'll do Rodger. Round 2 has been over for about a month now. The good news is: Rodger survived! I've made it to Round 3!

The process for Round 2 was to create 5 images themed around a scenario created by GB. You can view all of these pieces put together here.

The current event going on with UBF is the Night of a Thousand Chimecho. That meaning a collaboration with a prom theme. I'm collaborating with the wonderful pixelated1. Let's hope Julia and Rodger can make it work -- despite a 10 year age difference.

GOOD BYE FOR NOW, MY 4+ FOLLOWERS

2010-03-19T23:59:00.003-05:00

I'm leaving this blog. I don't know how long I will be gone. And I don't know if I will come back. And due to a certain unwanted montage of readers, I will not say why I'm leaving.
Regards, Featherlox

What I've Been Doing, Foo

2010-03-05T23:23:00.007-06:00

I have stuff from my Round 2 entries for the OCT on my DA. But if you just can't wait, go there. But here is some doodles, I suppose. I'm about to finish up a sketchbook (TWO PAGESSSS). So once that is finished, expect a massive sketch upload. I mean it too. Massive. Okay so, the first image is in- spired by a very amazing animal. This animal is a Polish Chicken. Amazing, right? Yes. Don't even deny it. And the second image there to the right is more Rodger buisness. I was up at 1 in the morning and I really wanted to draw something. Thank you, Ke$ha, for inspiring this very strange color combination. And as a side note, yes, I do like Ke$ha. Enjoy!

Char, Char, Char Go!

2010-02-21T16:04:00.003-06:00

Yes, more of it.

Bulba, Ivy, Venu Go! Saurs Attack!

2010-02-21T12:48:00.007-06:00

I'm crazy, I know. But I've decided to draw some pokemans, in order too. This is just a big excuse to teach myself a new painting style with photoshop.

More Pokemanz Buisness

2010-02-20T22:13:00.005-06:00

Where's Vaporeon?! Not here. Didn't fit in the picture. Darn you, Rachel, for drawing this in pen. And No freaking Leafeon or Glacion either. Those are stupid pokemon.

If I didn't have too many projects as it is, I would so work on a story for Eevee-lutions. Maybe someday.

On another note, Here I present another comic. Unlike the one page animal comic, this is not very cool. Gotta work on my speech bubble skills. Biiig file, damn. Don't point out my mistakes, I know it's full of them.

Here's more of Rodger. His sister joined Team Rocket just to show him up. And it worked. Maybe I'll make a character sheet for her. Need to get in the habit of that anyways.

Speaking of the matter of this OCT, I made it to the next round! Oh man, I can't wait for this tornumant to actually start.

Boyfriendisms

2010-02-14T00:29:00.003-06:00

One side: "A wild Charazard appears! What do you do?"
Another side: "Catch that ho hahaha mmm...I magically appear on your bed. What do you do?"
One side: "Cuddle? 8D"
Another side: "Wrong anwser."
One side: "But I'm tiiiiiiiiiired."

PKMN Battle Frontier Entry

2010-02-04T15:06:00.004-06:00

I'm entering in an OCT called PKMN Ultimate Battle Frontier on DA. Alas, DA is being stupid and not uploading my profile entry.

I revamped an old chracter I wasn't using for the sake of this contest. To be honest, and to toot my own horn here, I think I did pretty good job with the writing of his character.

Name: Rodger
Age: 27
Bio: Rodger is the middle child of three. Growing up, his parents didn't embrace his individual talents like his siblings. So as a teenager, he became some stinky hippie under the influence of his friends and marajuana. Reaching adulthood, Rodger attempted to join several gyms, but none would accept him due to his drug use and being a smelly hippie. Rodger went on to join Team Rocket, learning how to steal, cheat, and lie easily. After several years, the evil gig turned out not to be Rodger's "thing". Rodger quit, angering Team Rocket greatly and venegance was had upon him. Team Rocket ensured that he would never find a job beyond of dead end and worthless. As a result, Rodger is very, very poor. Bathing is a luxery he doesn't enjoy often, so he keeps his hair in his disgusting and badly done dreads.
Rodger doesn't name his pokemon for several reasons. The first being lazyness and he's bad at naming. The second reason is Rodger's belief the pokemon should name themselves. Nicknames seem too possesive for his taste. He doesn't call other trainer's pokemon by their nicknames either.

Parasect:
Parasect is Rodger's best friend. Rodger would jump off a mountain for swim across an ocean for her. She is the only pokemon Rodger doesn't refer to as "his pokemon" but rather his companion and equal. She is the first pokemon Rodger caught and raised since a mere level 3. He is very proud of having her by his side.
Parasect's battle tactics involve stunning and poisoning her enemy before it gets the chance to attack. Parasect also likes to Giga Drain her enemies to fainting rather than doing the dirty work of hitting her enemy.

Tauros:
Tauros is Rodger's favorite pokemon amoung those he has stolen. The reason for this is because Tauros is the most obedient of Rodger's team. Tauros is also very silly when he is not enraged. Carrots cause Tauros to go nuts and jolly.
The battle tactice Tauros usually uses is Tail Whipping the enemy constantly until the enemy is so injured that one tackle will cause it to faint.

Poliwrath:
Poliwrath is another one of the pokemon Rodger stole and kept during his time with Team Rocket. Despite his name, Poliwrath is very calm and patient. But Poliwrath is also extremely determined and has been known to defy Rodger's commands to not attack and attack an enemy anyways. Poliwrath tries to act like a role model to the rest of the team, which is much to Rodger's appriciation.
Poliwrath's battle tactics include using many Counter's. He likes to wait for the enemy to make the first move inorder to do this.

Ivysaur:
Ivysaur is the only pokemon Rodger has caught himself besides Parasect. Ivysaur seems to be having trouble evolving into a Venasuar. He acts more like a puppy instead of a fighter. Much to Rodger's frustration, Ivysaur falls for traps easily.
Ivysaur doesn't have much of a battle tactic besides what Rodger tells him what to do.

Girafirag:
Girafirag is mostly independant from Rodger. Being just another stolen pokemon, she doesn't accept Rodger's guidence.

Nidorino:
Nidorino is the hardest pokemon for Rodger to train. Nidorino doesn't accept Rodger as his trainer and keeps an angry and rebelious attitude towards Rodger. Sometimes, Nidorino will turn and actually attack Rodger.
Nidorino's tacic is a hit and run idea.

Floating Aminals

2010-02-01T01:17:00.004-06:00

I made up this weird gryphon-mage-thing-character the other day. Heron\Jaguar\Leopard, yeah! The other picture is reminiscent of the time when I used to talk on Misticpets a lot. Misticpets is like Neopets, only 10x cooler. I don't know why I'm so reluctant to go back. The community was really awesome back in the daaay.

I hate drawing other peoples characters. Mostly because I feel like a total attention whore that's all, "oh oh if I draws yer chara then everbodie will think I'm teh shit and wanna talk to me." Especially when I get the itch to draw someone's character that's as epic as Vanimute.<

But browsing through her stuff, I saw her chracter designs and just /lurved all over the place. So instead of doing something silly like steal her chracter and rape the design, I just drew him. Here's Dallas, everybody. Although I make his design look not as epic as it actually is.

ON THE UP SIDE! Tegaki Spam #1

2010-01-22T23:08:00.000-06:00

I posted a nasty one last time. Anger and frustration plagues us all. So to make up for it. I would like to display some Tegaki spam. To start, I give you a character of mine, Mia, the High Magi of the Fallen Blackwings. And don't expect to get that either, but she's part of a comic I'm currently developing. I guess I could make a seperate post about the comic. Look for AGDWC.

This next piece of sillyness on the left is a trade I did with Dahaka. This is her kickass feraligatr ginjika...and a guest crocodile! Buh, I did his hair no justice. :(

The piece to the right is my character, Ennith, a primape ginjika. Although you can't quite tell, seeing as this is a more abstract piece. If you want a real reference, go here.

Now here's a horsie! My sister was chewing me out for whatever the subject was of the day. Yeah, she does that. Between missing the trash can when I throw away a razor blade, not replacing the tiolet paper, moving the towel on the bathroom floor, to the bathroom just smelling bad. It's always my fault. But I will not rant. Enjoy the horsie.

Some couple action now, yay. To the left is Mammoth and Syn, two more of my characters. Guess why his name's Mammoth! And to the right is an oldie but a goodie.
Wolves are awesome. Werewolves are even better.

The trippy ass piece to the left was a trade with a guy named Feif. He wanted chess pieces. I gave him chess pieces. And to the right, is fanart. Gross, fanart, right? Don't worry, I'm not into drawing fanart much :). It's Ace from One Piece and...a...phoenix, I guess. If I made the phoenix, would that count as a fan character? AcexPhoenix! It's the next anime pairing craze! >:)

I'll update with more later, enjoy!

Ker-Poopsies.

2010-01-22T20:54:00.001-06:00

My computer shut down on me Saturday. And I got it back this afternoon. Now, I understand that there were three computers before mine to be fixed, but COME ON. 6 days? 6 freaking days? And my computer got wiped of all it's programs...irritating...And the worst of it is, THEY FUCKED UP MY SPEAKERS. Seriously, it's like someone picked up my laptop shook it like a christmas present.

This has been a bad week. And I'm not looking forward to this weekend.

I'm just so pissed right now. In fact, I could spit on life. Karma had better cure cancer after I get through all of the crap I'm putting up with right now.

Some Animal Comic

2010-01-17T02:32:00.000-06:00

Well, this was a real pain and it was also a labor of love. Seriously. A labor of love. This spawned in my mind mostly because I've been playing waaaaaay too much Zoo Tycoon (both of them). Finding a sudden love of gemsbok, I wanted to draw one. Then it turned into a want to draw animal print. A note: Animal print is a royal pain to draw.

One would think the coloring/shading process would take up the most time. No. Inking this sucker was a nightmare and took up 2 1/2 of the days spent. Once I got to the background part, I was like, "no no no, what's happening? Oh crap, I don't know how to do backgrounds. Ahhhh, texture!"

But I make it sound like I'm not proud of this, because I am. This was a test to see how well I would fair in the webcomic world. Not well. Oh Der Shing, I sympathize with you so hard now.

Time taken: 5-6 days

My Policies Regarding Requests, Trades, Commisions, and Usage of My Artwork (F.A.Q.)

2010-01-17T00:55:00.000-06:00

CAN I USE YOUR ARTWORK (MANIPULATE, COPY, REDISTRIBUTE)?
If you wish to use my art in any way, please email me at Featherlox@yahoo.com and tell me what you want to do with it. Chances are, I'm going to say no, but it never hurts to ask.

I FOUND YOUR ARTWORK BEING USED ON ANOTHER WEBSITE THAT ISN'T UNDER YOUR LINKS LIST, WHAT SHOULD I DO?
Tell me about it. Email me and link to where my artwork is being used. Let me handle the situation.

DO YOU TAKE REQUESTS?
Unlike 90% of artists you'll find out there, I actually take requests under certain circumstances. If you think you have a cool idea, email me about it, and if I like your request I might do it. Keep in mind that requests are on the bottem of my list of priorities, so don't expect me to immediately do your request. Also keep in mind that even if I do say yes to your request, I am not obligated in any way to do said request.

DO YOU DO TRADES? WHAT KIND OF TRADES?
Yes, I do take trades. I not only do art trades, but I will also trade jewelry, games, or any other object of interest. Email me. I don't take every trade request I get.

DO YOU TAKE COMMISIONS?
Unfortunately, no. I do not have a source of being paid over the internet. But if you really want a piece of artwork from me, I can be paid in mailed items instead of money.

WHAT ARTISTS INSPIRE YOU THE MOST?
Lora Zombie, Van Arno, Egon Schiele, Jakub Kujawa, Contraomnes, Abigail Larson, Beth C. Stichter, Sam Mckenzie...oh, but before the list gets long...

Have another question? Comment below or Email me at Featherlox@yahoo.com

Well, I'm new. Hi.

2010-01-17T00:24:00.000-06:00

Ana wanted me to join so tadaaaaa~! Here I am! Less devientART maybe? Maybe. If I stick to this, that is.

Seriously though, I'm so tired of DA.

I plan to post art, actually blog, and maybe rant a little. Here's a treat to bribe you into following me: