Monday, January 18, 2010

Nothing big, bu- WAIT. IS THAT A TEE SHIRT?!

http://www.redbubble.com/people/infinitycat/t-shirts/4497368-1-im-too-cute-to-be-slain

Inifnitycat is the official name that I design shirts under-

Bu-
eh, the thing that bugs me about redbubble is that I cannot put something on the back of the shirt.
I would liek to put the infinitycat logo on th eback of the shirt.
very much so I would like this.

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Tablet +fix'd!

. . . for now.
DUN DUN DUUUNNN!

8D

anywho.
just two pic updates atm, because I am a lazy bastard.

some more wip on Gabrielle. . .

and revised bottom graphic for the bitter endings site :

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

well, shit.

my tablet pen appears to have died.

before, when it cceased working properly, it was just having hiccups. i could flip it over and still sort of use it with the eraser side.

Now it's not registering with my tablet at all, from either side, on either of my computers-
it's been doing this since this morning.

I'm wondering if I should simply buy a new pen, or go full-out and just get a brand-new tablet.
as it is, I got this one second-hand, in great condition, and I've gotten a stellar two years out of it,e specially given how much abuse it's taken from the dog and I(pup got a hold of the pen once :/ poor thang hasn't been quite the same since D:)

Anyway, until this either resolves itself or I can get a new pen/tablet/etc. . . I'm more or less fucked, digitally speaking- I'll be letting my commissioners know individually, if perchance they're getting digital art.. and personal stuff that can't be done with markers is on hold- there are a few things that I can still do with a mouse, though, so a bit of progress will still be made, mostly in the area of flat colors.

I'm sort of worried about setting off another false alarm, is the thing, since it's resolved itself within the day in the past, and my cry for help ended up being much ado about nothing =P

anyway- there's the update. do with it what you will.

Monday, January 4, 2010

Mostly Commissions

fwoosh.
Before I spam ya with pics, I wanna note that the thing in Paris ended yesterday :3
If i get any pics or thangs like that, I'll show them to you.

This is one for M'buddy Kyle, of his girl gabrielle-

it hasn't changed too much since I showed it here last (see here)- but a few important elements of the picture have changed, so there's that.
I accidentally saved it in b/w, so it's harder to tell what i meant to be water/bridge/buildings. But oh well >>.
I'm trying to find a good way to balance the view that i want to have of her, while maintaining the bridge/water/skyline background. Suggestions much appreciated.

and next up is the revised sketch for What Cool People Listen To;

Added is a band in the BG. . . the sketch in for the artist name on the bar. . .
a bit more detail in the bg in general, and I de-poofed the cat's tail :3 I just sent Shade the current sketch, waiting for a response.

And here's somethin' I finished today-

"Underground"-
It.. it took awhile, but i finally made the cave look like a cave, so I am happy enough with it.
Prints of it are available, and will be present at FC in a few weeks.

In addition, there's 12 days left in my auction, The Slave Drive!
http://www.furbuy.com/auctions/1013729.html

Saturday, January 2, 2010

HOLY SHIT IT'S HUGE

Some things for another website-

This is related to (but might not actually be, as my handwriting is horrible) the Kanji for "Suffering-" A Primary symbol in the Bitter Endings trilogy that Zach has been scripting for the last few years.


And this is the WIP for the image at the bottom of the page- it is an array of primary characters from the stories, from left to right-
Raixen, Sirus, Artemis, Kyo, Amanda, Skylar, and Dr. Fillask.
I probably won't finish this for awhile, but that's perfectly alright- it's not too terribly important, compared to other things.

Ehm. There is a large number of sketches, now.
like, a shit lot.


These are all sketches concerning Porta Custodis (working title)-
There's a medley of Stephen, Lucifer, the Kids, Ol' Shuck, and prototypes of the damned as they appear in the story :3
If you can read the handwriting, then maybe you can see that I'm posing a different take on lucifer-
Going sort of on the idea that, well-
He rebelled when God's creations were still but young. I sort of imagine him as being something like a teenager- He has a natural bit of rebellion in him, and he understands that what he did was wrong- but has no fuckign clue how to fix it, and part of him resents the idea of doing so-
Once i figure out how to draw the wings right, they'll be clipped-
An angel who can't fly :3

as for the dog, Ol' Shuck, he's sort of more of a minor player (though an actual dog- not sapient) and is intended to be drawn as a mix of Boxer and Leonberger.
He's very loosely based on The Grimm dog, tough his existane leans more toward Cŵn Annwn, with the exception that he does reside in the northernmost area of Storia's graveyard. . . :3 He helps lost souls find their way to the terminal, where they take the appropriate train to whichever place they're meant to head for.

I don't have too much to say about the kids, other than that they die, and that one of them (Aaron) is Stephen's son- They're meant to play a major role in the story, but I haven't worked it out yet.

As for Stephen himself- I describe what he is most basically as Hell's Security Guard, but that's not exactly it- I'll try to geher my thoughts and post more on it later :

The DJinn (i said Genie up there, but decided that it sounded cheesy, and went with the original Djinn) and the cat-demon--thing are residents of hell-
I'm aware of the usual myths on the DJinn, and am somewhat familliar with their status as a real entity (within some cultures :3) however, here, they're mostly as a particular punishment for a particular series of crimes-
plus, the idea of a person being made out of smokeless fire is just damn cool- but otherwise I don't have much of a backstory for their involvement, or if it will be at all major.

as for the cat-like-things-
those are souls that reside in hell. I was toying with the idea of-
what's one of the worst things ?
well-
I sort of thought- Being dehumanized. No longer being yourself.
I've heard that people who get face transplants usually end up going nuts and killing themselves-
because that's not them in the mirror anymore. I sort of ran with that-
They're emaciated, and originally were supposed to to just have shriveled faces, but I ended up extending that a bit further into a more feral side, and the fact that they ended up feline is purely coincidental. it's.. sort of the standard punishment, and the severity depends on why you're in hell to begin with;
it is implemented in addition to other, more specific punishments.

and. Yes. there's.. that.
Next up. . .


this is actually really old, a few months, but I just now finally scanned it ^_^;
It's Error and Gwen-
I suppose that, if I made it more of a memory or dream-scape, I could alternatively title it "when she loved me."- I'd include more, but I feel like I've already wasted your time with my .. ranting right above there.


this is a sketch-wtf-thang for Infinity Cat,- which is what I name all my clothing designs after- it's the DWP "line," if you will.
this was an idea suggested o me by a friend, and I rathe rliked it-
plus, well.
baby dragon.
D'aww.
when I digitally ink it, I'll be trying to adapt away from what it looks like now-
looks more.. spyro-y than I'd intended.

small update to website!

http://desertwindproductions.webs.com/tradgal.html
added three pics to the traditional gallery today;
Plan on getting the Projects page back up within the next week or so.. we'll see how THAT goes.

In the meantime, here's Artemis, Looking Sexy on a couch-

I finished this one on New Year's Eve =D
He's a character that belongs to my boyfriend, Zach- and he's a major player in two out of three books in a trilogy he's working on-
Golden Boy (the first book) and Bitter Endings (tentative title- second book)-
He's a gay serial killer/asshole :3

And this next one is a WIP for an Album cover fer a friend of mine; called "What Cool People Listen To"

it's already gotten quite a ways since I began to sketch it earlier today, and I've already re-sketched it and am ready to send it to Ryan to see if the updated version is good :3

And, the last one for today,

This is Svetlana :3 SHe's a rescue worker in RUSSIIAAAAA 8D
She's an outstanding charity commission I've owed for MONTHS, finally finished her up yesterday or the day before or this morning or something x3