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commissions

i'm currently open for commissions (you can e-mail me at tigermassacre@gmail.com if interested!). here's a few i've done recently.

a client's oc. he kept telling me she was a "tsundere" to explain to me how to convey her personality; i had no idea what that was and had to look it up, haha.

this was a commission for Kelly Thompson, who is a fellow sometimes-guest on the Audioshocker's A Podcast With Ross and Nick. it's the two main characters Bonnie and Lola from her amazing upcoming YA novel The Girl Who Would Be King, which just enjoyed a very successful Kickstarter campaign.

and finally, this was for a client who wanted to incorporate some elements from my comic Dinogeddon, but with more of a Frazetta type of feeling. i got the feeling he wanted something more realistic than my style, but i think it still turned out pretty well. i really liked his idea of the gender role reversal for the fantasy trope.

roar

finally finished another page. i know i'm super slow, but at this point it means a lot to me that i'm able to keep making comics at all. this page was quite a triumph for me with the mood i've been in lately.

this is probably my favorite page so far in terms of coloring :) and i actually simplified my coloring techniques a lot so i can be faster, but i actually like the speedier look better. i'm learning so much all the time, but there's always more to learn! it's exciting.

also i'm getting pretty tired of hand writing the words, and i worry that it's too sloppy and hard to read :/ anyone know of any good free comic-y fonts that would kinda fit the Dinogeddon aesthetic (if you know what i mean)?

servitude

there is a light

 carnotaurus studies

Audrey Hepburn

raptor studies

Tropes vs. Women video series from Bitch Magazine on Feminist Frequency - a lot of this stuff probably isn't new to a lot of people, but i think it's presented in a really entertaining, accessible, concise and still informative way.   highly recommended whether you're a feminist or a fangirl/boy, or just want to be more knowledgeable and informed about the media you take in.

another nail for my heart

why do my friends always end up abandoning me??

unpopular

I hope someday I will be good at drawing dinosaurs!

Nowhere to Hide

woke up before sunrise this morning and couldn't get back to sleep, so i got up to finish this.

I need a laptop so I can draw in bed, heh.

I tried to really push myself to finish this yesterday, but i wussed out. I really need to draw better and faster. Nothing's going to hold me back except my own laziness. really gotta start pushing it to the limit.

Coming close to finishing my cast lineups, i can almost taste it, mmmm....

Oh, I forgot to mention, but finally watched the new Star Trek movie the other night. I'm not even all that into Star Trek and I'm sure some of the stuff went over my head, but man, it was really fucking cool. And I was so psyched Leonard Nimoy was in it!! XD I have such a big, weird crush on him, haha. Young Spock was pretty hot, and i love how big of a dick Kirk was. actually, my favorite characters were probably the more minor ones, like scotty and bones. i can't help it; i love characters that take everything in stride and remain optimistic (like scotty) and also the surly, cynical, but always-comes-through-for-you characters, a la bones. oh, and how cute was Chekov?? And I loved that they let sulu be awesome! and the romulans were sweet too.

pretty much the only thing i wasn't happy with was the stupid, pointless romance between uhura and spock. seriously, wtf?? do writers and directors know how to fit a female main character into a movie without having to make her swooning over one of the other characters? every other character had some cool scene or multiple scenes showcasing their talents and how badass they are, whereas uhura just gets crappy, dewy-eyed romance scenes, and one where she's like "i can hear really, really good!" and their attraction to one another is never really explained in any satisfactory fashion; it's just like boom! THEY'RE IN LOVE! deal with it! bleh. the only way it could be worse is if it did the typical movie thing where it's like "oh, these two hate each other, but wait! through a series of whacky events they realize they dislike each other because they're so similar and now they're in love!" although i guess the kirk/spock dynamic fulfilled that type of relationship, haha.

Sometimes I wonder if something's wrong with me because i hate romance in movies so much. all other girls i've ever seen don't seem to mind it, and some even eat it up. it's not that i hate all romance; i appreciate it if it has something to do with the plot, or if it adds something meaningful to a character. but other than that, i feel like the majority of it is just a bunch of hollywood garbage they just throw into movies because it's part of the formula or something, like throwing in totally pointless, annoying sidekicks. and sometimes it personally offends me as a woman when they throw a crappy romance into a typically male-oriented type of movie, like an action movie or something, like "here you go girls! something for your little minds to focus on while the men watch those boring explosions and fight sequences!" and the female that is the focus of said romance is always ripped straight out of male fantasy, anyway; the scantily-clad, super model-looking young girl who looks like a "bad girl," but deep down is a soft and shy "girl next door" who is unaware of her beauty and sexuality, so therefore the dorky lead (and vicariously all the guys in the audience) have a chance with her.

blah, anyway, sorry, didn't mean to go off on a big rant. but yeah. overall, star trek = movie i like. oh god, and last night the "trouble with tribbles" episode was on tv!! XD

Not Extinct

 

My laser guns keep getting more and more outlandish and Lost In Space-looking XD

Let's Live Forever

Boy Crisis "Fountain of Youth" - YouTube
I'm so in love with this video (and this song) right now. It makes me want to do a futuristic 80's-styled space story, haha!

I'm just getting over having probably the worst head cold I've ever had. :( Still feel yucky, but much better!

Drawing raptors is a lot harder than drawing t-rex to me. Maybe it's just because I don't look at them as much. T-rex, you're still number 1 in my heart, baby!!

I like the second, cartoony one, even though I'm not sure it would work for Dinogeddon. XD

Can I Change Your Mind?

I REALLY WANT TO SEE THIS MOVIE haha oh god it looks terrible!!!
A NYMPHOID BARBARIAN IN DINOSAUR HELL - YouTube

Although I'm kinda grossed out by how much they keep playing up "pre-pubescent," like it's sexy or something. ick.

I'm also super-interested in seeing this movie, even though I didn't think I would be!
Babies trailer - YouTube

It looks soooo beautiful! And really interesting. Plus the babies are so cute! XD haha, omg, the babies so seriously grinding those rocks or whatever at the beginning!<3 I'm really interested in seeing the Namibian and the Mongolian babies. Their homes look so amazing! It kinda reminds me of when I was little and I spent a big chunk of my childhood on my grandparents' farm, and back then they had a log cabin with no running water or anything. So we had to drink from a well and stuff. It's kinda weird to think about, but I might be one of the last people in my generation in the U.S. to use an outhouse!

Anyway, way to get off track, but um...this is so fucking cool! A hermit crab tucked up in a see-through shell! :) I wish I could just carry around everything I'd ever need with me on my back....

I'll Fight

In doing research for Dinogeddon! I've come across a bunch of really interesting articles about feathered dinosaurs, or dinosaurs with primitive feathers. I find it pretty fascinating because I never knew there were so many specimens out there, and possibly even more we might not know about. Here's some articles if you're interested in that: Feathered dinosaurs on Wiki  Evidence of feathers on early dinosaurs - Nat Geo news

Things to come.

  Don't really like the second girl's outfit...probably fix that later.

Haha...I was thinking about putting a scene like this in the comic, but I don't know if it would be in bad taste. Or maybe that's a good thing. :p Not sure what Ronnie's raving about, but she's really shaking that tea cup around!

more sketches

sketch party!

punk girls, lasers and dinosaurs...

Oh yeah, I forgot...I took a break from drawing things I should have been working on and decided to just draw something fun for myself, something full of my favorite things...and this happened.

Strangely enough, everybody seems to like it, and of course it was really fun for me to draw, and my mind kinda ran with it...so long story short, a silly post-apocalyptic, laser-toting, half-naked punk girls riding dinosaurs comic is in the works. ;p