One of my paperdoll commissions. This one is for Aadra of his blood-red husky character. Pretty fun. I think I'm getting the hang of drawing males!

Aadra©his creator
Image©Melissa O'Brien 2007

A commission done for Safaiak of DA of her tabby feather-winged feline who has a sapphire jewel on her forehead.

I dug doing the hair. Then again, always do. Cats are difficult, but I'm mostly pleased that Saf' liked her commission.

Thank you Saf!

Safaia©Safaiak of DA
Image©Melissa O'Brien 2007

I found another one of my phone scribbles I did last week.

Notice the lopsided head/face? This is what happens when you draw at an angle. It looks -great- when it's laying down and in an angle. Eh. Not so much head on.


Image©Melissa O'Brien 2006

Little phone doodle I did of Candy's character, Candy Cat.

Candy has one of her pet ratties on her shoulder to boot :) Adore Candy. She lives just down the road :D

Time: 30 minutes total.

Candy©Candy Palmer
Image©Melissa O'Brien 2007

Because I'm a geek.

I'm a big geek.

Yes. This disproves the myth there are no girl gamers (hell. Candy is the one who bought me my World of Warcraft!)

Never the less. I'm unable to play WoW until I get a new computer (which'll be sometime soon.)

This is NOT the Draenei I play. Mine is Amethysta. Anyway. Just some scribble I did while at work on the phones. The doodle took about 10 minutes and coloring about 20

Lanterra©Melissa O'Brien 2007
Draenei©World of Warcraft

The second Paperdoll Commission I was to do for Seribaba

This time, of her hell hound character, Ankara. Frankly I dug drawing her horns. Horns are fun :)

Enjoy, gal!

Ankara© Seribaba
Image©Melissa O'Brien 2007

Surprisingly, I don't have a lot to say about this.

It was speed-colored. I did it in about 15 minutes.

The doodle itself was a phone doodle. I was stuck at work making phone calls all day so I doodled a happy little bronze dragon.

I shall name him Phil.

Dragon©Melissa O'Brien

Seribaba's Paperdoll Commission. She wanted an image of her werewolf character, Sheba.

She wanted a nice showing of her prosthetic/mechanic legs. I don't draw mechanical things very often, but I think they came out nice.

Enjoy, Seribaba!

Sheba©Seribaba
Image©Melissa O'Brien 2007

Paperdoll Commission I did for Steelhelix of his nogisune (dark kitsune) Darkso.

Hope you enjoy hon :)

Image©Melissa O'Brien 2007
Darkso©SteelHelix

Kanashimi (aka Jenna) is a good friend of mine. I designed up the twins a while back in collaboration with her.

She saw my paperdoll of Sutra and liked it. I did up a paperdoll of her twin, Kanashimi, so she could play with her own outfits.

I'm debating on doing limited run of paperdoll commissions for people. Dunno.


Image©Melissa O'Brien 2007
Kanashimi©Jenna DaQuanno

Used my paperdoll to try and hash out an Egyptian styled High Priestess outfit for Sutra.

I like it, but I feel a bit guilty since I took influence from several hieroglyphics and the like. Though, it does have my own twists to it, too.

I dislike the head dress and unsure if I want Sutra's hair down or not. Open to costume suggestions.


Sutra©Melissa O'Brien 2006

Paperdoll Reference.

One thing I love to do is to design clothing for various characters. But often, it's difficult if you sketch it all out and then try and ink and erase, only to find portions of the outfit aren't right, and no way to test colors.

So I made a paperdoll out of one of my old sketches of Sutra (The original sketch was done in 2005, hence a bit of wonky anatomy on the chest) But never the less, it also shows a good pose, her hair down, and allows me to play with costume design readily and easy.


Sutra©Melissa O'Brien 2005/2006

Scanned on a computer not my own.
The colors are dulled down considerably and scanned blurry due to paper warp.

White is also (FYI) a difficult color to scan. You lose a lot of dimension :P

I'll try and get better scans sometime later.

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Gift image to my Grandma. It's of my dog, Pepper, who recently passed away.

I did it for them as a Christmas gift. Originally these small paintings were to be cut out (as there is a pair of them) to be mounted and arranged as ornaments. However, they wanted a frameable image. I provided.



Image©Melissa O'Brien 2006

Scanned on a computer not my own.
The colors are dulled down considerably and scanned blurry due to paper warp.

White is also (FYI) a difficult color to scan. You lose a lot of dimension :P

I'll try and get better scans sometime later.

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Gift image to my Mom and her boyfriend. It's of my dog, Pepper, who recently passed away.

I did it for them as a Christmas gift. Originally these small paintings were to be cut out (as there is a pair of them) to be mounted and arranged as ornaments. However, they wanted a frameable image. I provided.



Image©Melissa O'Brien 2006

A little character I designed up. I dig vanner gypsy drafts, and unicorns. Combined them.

The coloring job is weak, I know. Coloring black or/and white is a challenge for me. I tried. It didn't work out to my expectations.

Never the less, this is Wintermint. Set of two female vanner unicorns. Yes. I drew her primarily so I could draw a bell harness.

Wintermint©Melissa O'Brien 2006

3 of 3 Lineart commissions for Farellemoon of DA

She wanted her alternative version of Farelle drawn (named Mnema) and her boyfriend's character, Jay :)

Hope you like it gal.

Characters©Jennifer Rae Allen
Image©Melissa O'Brien

Starr's Sundae

An image I did at a friend's house. Liz Carlson (aureath of DA) digitally inked the piece for me.

Tried to force myself to do a BG. Yay. Starr was one of my first characters back when I first got on the net. She got reamped, though. (and even a star tattoo on her ankle)

Anyway.

Starr©Melissa O'Brien 2006

I did this for Scappo at Midwest FurFest 06. He was kind enough to scan it for me.

I'm tempted to color it. I may. It's of his bounty hunter character, Tsenaya, who is a blue jackal. Seems like a nifty character.


Tsenaya©Scappo
Image©Melissa O'Brien 2006

I was playing Pokemon Mystery Dungeon (red) and had to draw pokemon again. I decided to create an abnormally colored Vulpix vixen -- leader of Team Amethyst. (geek mode). Other friends are designing their own pokemon for Team Amethyst. It's a goofy-fun project. Yay.

Her name is Chemistry. Her coloration is based on Bath and Bodyworks' body cream bottle: Candy Apple. I reverted back to inks instead of pencils, that's why the lines appear thick. Don't dig anime style so I did it in mine.

The image itself was practice. I've not colored anything in a while :/

Chemistry©Melissa O'Brien 2006
Pokemon/Vulpix Species©Nintendo

Image I did for India of her character. I might go back and color it, but I'm just unsure as to when. I decided to upload the old linework. The linework was done several months ago.

India©Shawna Simpson
Image©Melissa O'Brien 2006

Princess and the Pea - BW

This is something I'm doubting I'll finish. The linework was done back in the summer.

Yes. The Fox Princess has a Chicken stuffed animal. :)


Image©Melissa O'Brien 2006

I wanted to create a 'literal' maned wolf. They're called a 'stilted fox' due to their colorations being similiar to a red fox, and of their abnormally long legs. I took a few artistic liberties. I'm aware that they are a South American (Brazilian type) animal. So while she is Brazilian in origin, I wanted to play with the Aztec themes -- hence the necklace of turquoise and skull beads (traditional Aztec-like jewelry). In Aztecian (?), Tiegan means: "Little Princess in the Big Valley" .... frankly it was the -only- Aztec female name I could find.

This line art is actually fairly old (several weeks old to be exact) and just now laid colors on it to keep my mind off stress.
Anyway. Yay for mindless canine art :D

Tiegan©Melissa O'Brien 2006

A badge I did for Kana.

Image©Melissa O'Brien
Kanashimi©Jenna Daquanno

A badge I did for Xian Jaguar.

Image©Melissa O'Brien
Character©XianJaguar

A badge I did for Latin Vixen.

Image©Melissa O'Brien
Character©LatinVixen

A group of watercolor badges I worked on for a variety of friends. As usual, some of the badges (due to them being shot through lamination and just general problems) are both... not accurate in color on some of the badges.

Please keep in mind that my badge slots are now open. Information can be found on my LJ page.


Image©Melissa O'Brien
Characters©Respected owners.

I can't say I'm overly happy with the image. But frankly? It's as done as it's going to get.

I had to do an image pertaining to Halloween. It's not only my favorite time of the month (Autumn), Halloween is near, and it always means another year tacked onto the end of my age (yay birthday on Oct 29th) But most of all? It gives me a happy excuse to draw my candy-corn inspired vixen who was last seen in 2004

Happy Howloween

Hex©Melissa O'Brien 2006

Well a friend of mine, Astolpho of DA, was sweet enough to want to color one of my sketches of my little vulpix character, Chemistry.

I had doodled the picture a week or so ago to sate a need to draw something stupidly cute... And thus, Chemistry chewing on a pecha berry, was born... or drawn.

I had it up as linework, and it'd probably of rotted if Astolpho hadn't come along and rescued it and splashed it with color :D

Thank you Astolpho!

Image and Chemistry©Melissa O'Brien
Pokemon/Vulpix/pecha©Nintendo
Coloring©Astolpho of DA

Due to a lot of kids wanting to use my art and my characters for RP Boards and the like, I figured a good way to let them use my art (and not my characters like Sutra or Frisket, who I do NOT want to see being used) was to create a template.

This way you can take this linework and color it how you want! There is a catch though.. Rules persay for using this template:

1) No claiming the linework.
2) Post a link back to me/credit on the image stating the linework isn't yours.

That's it. It's a matter of respect. We'll see how this goes. If it goes well, there might be more templates for people. However, if people cannot show respect, then I will remove and revoke template usage rights. So show me you guys can play nice. :)

Image©Melissa O'Brien 2006

Due to a lot of kids wanting to use my art and my characters for RP Boards and the like, I figured a good way to let them use my art (and not my characters like Sutra or Frisket, who I do NOT want to see being used) was to create a template.

This way you can take this linework and color it how you want! There is a catch though.. Rules persay for using this template:

1) No claiming the linework.
2) Post a link back to me/credit on the image stating the linework isn't yours.

That's it. It's a matter of respect. We'll see how this goes. If it goes well, there might be more templates for people. However, if people cannot show respect, then I will remove and revoke template usage rights. So show me you guys can play nice. :)

Image©Melissa O'Brien 2006