Sharpie and the Sad News about Persephone.

What is this, my 40586th time drawing Sharpie? More or less? She just seems to draw herself into my pictures. Rather annoying, after a while--I'm not good at drawing her bob, and think I'll probably cut it back the way it was, once it's grown out again. It's cute, but not for an always-haircut. She's blushing--that's why her face looks like that. Sharpie's face is kind of easy to read. If she's mad, you can tell. If she's happy, you don't get to see her face before she knocks you over with a giant hug. But if you COULD see her face, it'd be radiant.

So today our cat died. Percy, (Short for Persephone), was found by my three year old sister. She came inside saying, "Mommy! I fink Percy's dead!" and later she was heard to say, "I was petting her, but she wasn't moving."
She cried a little, and kept saying, "Percy's dead," over and over. But soon the words lost their meaning to her, as they are wont to do for little three year olds, and she talked on and on about other things, with the occasional, "Percy's dead," stuck in here and there.
It hit my two other sisters really hard, though. They cried for hours.
I didn't cry. I don't know wether that's a good thing or a bad thing--She was our cat, but she wasn't MY cat. I was FOND of her, I thought she was an amazing animal. I miss her, but I'm not getting teary over it. Does that make me unfeeling? I hope not. I was really sad, but it was mostly for what my family was feeling, not for what I felt.

Hopefully I'm a good person,
Found

Captain Castle

So this is Captain Kailey Castle. Captain Castle is 18 and is currently training her elite team of Jacks. I'm still working on it, but the basic idea is that Jacks are these insane super soldiers who get sent on these top secret missions. Usually ten in a team, etc. Anyway, the Captain is having some difficulty establishing leadership over her Jacks, as she's kind of small for a supersoldier...
Oops, gotta go.

~Found

Jordan King.

I had frgotten to mention, in my last two posts, the recent addition to my drawing stuff horde: Sketchbook Pro 6. It's so cool. I'm in love.
I got it off of Amazon, so if anybody'slooking around to get it, I'll have you know that it's half the price if you buy it on there. At least, if you have Amazon Prime, it is. But anyway. Super cool program, lotsa options and brushes, and a bunch of effects.
(I should get paid for advertising all the stuff I talk about...)

Anyway, I was thinking about baseball this morning. I personally don't care for it at all--I mean, I like hitting baseballs, but my hand-eye coordination isn't very wonderful. But as I was saying, I absolutely loathe watching baseball. It's so tedious and insipid. I see why boys like to play it--It's really satisfactory when you hit the ball with a good solid THUNK, but watching it puts my brain to sleep.
THAT BEING SAID.

This is Jordan King. She's 15 and 1/2, and she enjoys baseball because A), she likes hitting things, B), she's really fast and light on her toes, so running is easy, and C), it allows her to carry around a goodsized club without anyone raising any eyebrows. Many a lunchbag has been saved by the expertise of Jordan King. And of course, many a bully has had reason to purchase ice-packs at the local grocery store.
Jordan likes her bat.

~Found

Wind.

This is what happens when I've been drawing too much, am tired, and want tea. Let it be a warning to you: When you START a drawing and it looks odd, chances are it'll still look odd when you're done with it.
In all truthfulness, I wasn't really trying, so its looking strange doesn't really matter. I just thought I'd post it, too, since I went through the trouble of doodling it...

~Found.

Mandy. (Or is it Maggie?)

So here in sunny California I enjoyed a lovely walk up the hill to my friend's house, in beautiful, clear weather, while the sun was shining on the hill. A glorious day.
And then I got sad, thinking of al those poor people living on the east coast. Those sad, deprived little souls, alone and freezing in the snow and ice and rain.
So I drew this girl here, to cheer myself up. Her name is either Mandy or Maggie, but I don't know which. She's currently in New York, getting some work done with her publisher. She likes writing, hot cocoa, cats, and cozing in warm pajamas. She also likes cold weather and firesides.

So here's my tribute to my deprived east coast friends. I hope you're all well, keeping warm, and drinking lots of cocoa.
Yours affectionately,
Found.

Goodnight, world.

So, yeah, I dn't really get this gal here. She started out really boring. And then I was like, "Oh, I'll make all the lines really thick and swoopy!" and then she became a cartoon. And then I was like, "Hey, it's Eponine!" and then I zoned out in a Drawing Daze and didn't think of anything else until I finished and had to turn my music off so I could concentrate on posting.

I really should start drawing more than just their heads. But it's hard for me to figure out what I want to draw beforehand, and I'm better at doing just the head and shoulders. (Knees and toes, knees and toes.)

Well, all's quiet in the house and I think that means thatall the other kiddos are in bed. I should probably follow suit, so I bid you a cordial farewell and proceed to the harbor, where my passage to the land of dreams awaits me.
(I just thought of about two other topics I wanted to touch on. Aren't you proud of me for not adding them in here?)

~Found

Raven and Sir Faust

So here's Raven Calyr and Sir Darryl Faust.
I don't really have that much to say about these two.. But I bet I can FIND stuff to say...
Let's see. I posted Raven once before--she was the girl with the black hair and the background with the grass and the water. I've never drawn Faust before, and... Oh right.
Have you spotted my disastrous mistake yet? Yes.
See, I have this thing where I like all the couples I draw to have different hair colors. Yes. I know, it's totally a weird quirk that I have. But see, these two are characters from a story I'm doing, and when I wrote them I didn't realize that their hair AND EYE COLOR were the same. Well, Raven's hair is black and Faust's is "black with a reddish tint to it." But still. I have failed in my mission. People are going to think that they're siblings or something! WHY?????
Anyway, the yellow behind them was because I was lazy and didn't wanna do a whole background. It's not like they're glowing or anything.

~Found