Being all arty and stuff

[summer_jackel]

Some arts! Watercolor of of an octopus I did for a dear friend's birthday, and a shot of my messy drafting table.



I love, love, love me cephalopods. Squids used to be my favorite, but now I think Octopodes are leading by a tentacle. I've drawn so many of them over the last couple months, with more on the way. Now that I up and grudgingly bought a watercolor pad (I hate the texture of watercolor paper and my pens hate it too, but I have to admit that it DOES work well with watercolor...this painting is on bristol) I have another okkie in the works.



Aaaand, my workspace. Note big acrylic painting in process of two vixens, with the underpainting on the white one looking really crappy, sketched poster for Morphicon, a nude of Danielle and the first couple messy pages of the Danielle/Shard comic I'm working on. Also note that it is situated nicely by the fire. Hey, I don't chop all that wood for nothing.



By the by, I am SO spring fevered right now. I can hardly sit still. Being completely in love (with more than one person, yay polyamory) makes it all that much more fun, too. I need to go roll around in the dirt, hug trees and splash around delightedly in the ocean for a few hours. Oh, wait. Well, I can always do it some more.

After work, which is where I need to go now.

Comments

[dustmeat.livejournal.com]

Ooo, that is NICE. I like.

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D

[snebold.livejournal.com]

The colouring's amazing!

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Heh, I need to paint more cephalopods.

[genmaicha.livejournal.com]

Octopus are <3. Did you meet TAKO when I was at FC? He's my awesome Pacific Octopus plush.

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Cepphies are <3!!! I didn't see TAKO at FC, but I did when I visited your house on the base! (speaking of visits, what are you doing, wekend after next?)
I have a really sweet Okkie plush that Corpsefairy gave me. :)

[genmaicha.livejournal.com]

Weekend after next? What dates? We've got a bunch of crazy coming up.

[agoutirex.livejournal.com]

That should be called an AWESOMEpus because it is awesome. Nice work!

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Thankyou thankyou! :D

[tinygalaxies.livejournal.com]

Holy Octopua! That's really good!

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

YAY octopus happiness. ;) Glad you like.

[doppleganger55.livejournal.com]

I love that Octopus you did, you do lovely Octopii (even if this [B]is[/B] the first one I think I've seen you do). It looks so strangely alien and exotic. Love the way the tentacles kind of flow with the current. That thing looks [B]sooo[/B] creepy yet beautiful at the same time.

[corpsefairy.livejournal.com]

Octopodes. -pus is Greek for foot, so -podes is the plural.

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Heh, I always thought it was Octopii too, until you let me in on it. Having a liguist type as a friend is a good thing. ;)

[doppleganger55.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the heads up. I always thought it was Octopus for singular and Octopii for plural. So you're telling me that when most people say Octopus, they are saying it wrong?

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Not that you need backup on this, my favorite walking dictionary/thesarus/lingustics text, but

http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutgrammar/plurals?view=uk

<3 grammar fun.

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

You can convince me that octopuses (my spilling Czech says that's the write spilling) are stately for pictures... but you can never convince me that they're tastier than squid.

Speaking about cephalopods, have you ever been introduced to cuttlefish? They're waaaay too smart for a sea-critter, waaay too social, and too good at communicating.

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

hehehe...actually, I only tasted octopus once, and yuck. I think squid are as delicious as they are cute and fascinating.

(Although Corpsefairy always mournfully compares it to eating a bowl of fried puppies whenever I order the calimari in her presence).

I looooove little cuttles. So sweet and smart! And yes, cephs in general are just...unsettlingly smart. They behave and communicate in ways that we tend to think are exclusive to mammals. ;D