Weirdlet

Orc Mural by ~weirdlet on deviantART

Bit of a scribble for my larp character, Greshka.

Kyoshi Warrior Ozai by ~weirdlet on deviantART

First up-



For the lovely :iconbecky2112:, an ink-ed version of the scribble I did for her drabbles in the drow!Fire Family AU. 

Second up- I'm working on cleaning the house.  It is end-game, I have a month before ACen and my first house-guest in many years stays before and after the con.  I am GOING to DO THIS.  May God strike me down if I don't put in some substantial effort every day between now and the first week in May.

Third- melodramatic vows aside, I just made a deal with a local game store to sell my shiny dice bags.  We've got an initial price set while we see how popular they are and what designs move, and I can make more and bring 'em by and see what works.  And the prices, I think, are quite reasonable (even if I would balk at paying that kind of money, even for a shiny handmade satin-lined bag.  With pretty beads on the cords.  But I'm righteously paranoid with my budget, so who's to say).

4th- am working on random fantasy cheesecake, namely the ol' tiefling-rogue-and-paladin pairup I've had in my head forever.  I like odd couples.  Have a gander, see if anything looks off. 

5th- will get back to writing eventually.  It always goes this way- I get fits and spurts of something, periods of really intense productivity, then fzzt for a while.  It usually cycles back around, I'm just hoping for a shorter turnaround than the usual couple of years.

Little Soldier Girl by ~weirdlet on deviantART

Okay, so I'm a little too subtle when it comes to differentiating genderflipped versions of characters- but I like it^^

This is more on the order of a notes to self- have made the rough base for Ursa-doll's dress, am a little iffy about doing much more with this machine until it gets a thorough working-over at the fabric store. Still wavering back and forth on biting down and ordering doll hair to reroot the heads with, especially with duedates for school's blood-money coming up.

Need to practice and get comfortable with the Milliput and an exacto- need to build Ursa-doll's chin up, shave down Azula's nostrils a little (I think somehow she's an Olsen-twin doll), and overall figure out appropriate repainting techniques. Next up for her- perhaps start on some of her uniforms, at least the pants and shirt under them.

New shiny thing- first!  One of the nifty icons Suzukiblu made for me.  There are perhaps a dozen or more, and they are all fantastic.

Second- the picture done in trade, to do with her FirenationSoldier'sBastard!Jet drabble.

So I've got a gig where I do pro-bono concept art for a start-up videogame company.  If the project gets a backer, I get paid, but meanwhile, I get to practice keeping deadlines, working to descriptions, and building a portfolio.  So- I find this is good for my sanity, if not my wallet, but my wallet was going to be feeling poorly in any case.  This way, I get to have fun^^  It's like a weekly challenge with incentive to participate.

And they say they *like* what I'm doing, so far^^  I am a happy little bee.


Also- wig-making is oddly soothing.  I'm working hard on my costume and I may-just-may have it ready for Halloween.  Note to self- start wearing the damn contacts again to get used to them, otherwise you're going to be a young orc priestess stumbling around blind....  Oh, and the bodice, otherwise you're going around topless in Chicago fall weather and that's just not fun.

And now, Weirdlet Dream Theater presents- last night's oddly fitting weirdness.  I was dancing in a club or some kind of concert, and I got invited over to another party, an orc-themed one- I kept asking hey, can I get my gear? I need my costume, I haven't got it on-! but they said, nah, it was fine, just come on in and play!  I was surrounded by moshing (I think that's the right word?  Anyway, dancing and stomping) orcs that I knew were girls and guys like me under it, but we still got to put on our orc-faces for the night.  It was a hell of a lot of fun.

And then it seemed like we were next door to a baseball game beyond the screen that was one wall (screen/net/thing to climb and cling to), and at some point I was playing keep-away with Gollum.

Yeah.  Weird, but that's how my dreams go.  It was still fun, even after the main premise went away.

-Only shinier.  I have a shiny again- and this time it's meant as an advertising flier, selling my talents as a character-illustrator.  I'll get it printed up nicely and hopefully my friend will let me leave a few at his comic shop, and other geek hangouts will be similarly generous with their bulletin-board space.

And who knows, maybe someone will want me to do up a picture or two to their description.  I like creating faces, bodies, clothes according to neat descriptions, and if I can charge a little for the time spent in doing so, that's nothing to sneeze at.  I'm starting out small- I'm an amateur and have no following, plus art is a luxury and times are troubled- but Mom wants me to put a line in about 'prices good until Nov. 30,' at which point, for holiday rush, I should charge a little more.

I think I'll just wait and see if I get any bites in the first place, but I'll think about it.

Gene had mentioned surprise that I hadn't done up pics of the Champions characters' opposite numbers from our dimension-hop to Opposite World, where our heroes are the villainous, despotic rulers of the city-state of Chicago.  Here's the first up of the lot- my boy Devildog, werewolf superhero, as Devildog, wild hunter and eater of cowed citizenry.

Big version here- http://weirdlet.deviantart.com/art/Opposite-World-Devildog-135824094




Next up- Apple Macintosh, as Atom-Heart Mother.