Mermaid and a 'Borg

So, turns out one of my essays was pushed back a week. To celebrate, I drew this:



this was a gift to my friend who requested it :)

Amethyst

So it's my sister's birthday today, and her being a February birthday made me think of her birthstone, amethyst. The fish is completely unrelated to her birthday.

I haven't painted in a while and I've really really really been dying to, so in this brief eye of the storm with my ok. About 2.5 hours in photoshop (probably woulda been less if my computer weren't so glitchy right now XP)

I know I need serious work on my values and stuff T___T
critique appreciated!

(it's supposed to be a fantastical serpent in a fish bowl on a dude's desk)

enjoy!

on another note, as awesome as erasable gel pens are, beware placing them near anything hot. I now have a blank spot in the middle of about 10 pages because something hot was set on my sketchbook. It's in the freezer now recouping. At least it's only sketches, BUT STILL >.<

FEBRUARY?!

Happy V-day, y'all! Well I know I've been crap about updating (it basically comes down to an unwillingness to take photos, edit them, and upload them XP) so here's a giant sketchdump and a sketch I drew for my boyfriend. I have been drawing a lot, though (No, Mom, it's not distracting from my homework :P ), but last week I didn't draw, well, pretty much at all because I had a theory paper, poetry paper (sounds oddly redundant) and a Russian midterm. So far, I only know that I aced my Russian midterm. YES. As for the essays, crap who knows. ANYWAYS not like you want to hear about my UCLA junk so here's some art!!!

I usually don't draw cartoony, but I wanted to draw this in the style of Adventure Time because it's my boyfriend's favorite show. Under my arm is (one of) my sketchbook, and he's holding onto his Pathfinder Core Rulebook book. (He's the one who usually suggests I draw high fantasy stuff because of that XD)