I've gone mad, which means possible free art.

Yeah, pretty much that's what it comes down to.

I'm not reopening my commission shop anytime soon (I simply don't have the time or energy to keep up with that). Maybe in the future and with higher prices so I don't get so bogged down with requests. But not now.

However, I am itching to draw things. In particular, I want to practice with my markers and colored pencils (yay Prismacolor sets!). I've got a fair amount of practice with colored pencil and it's definitely my favorite traditional medium to work with, but I've never really bothered much with using my markers, until last week I went "Screw it, I'm learning how to use these".

Kinda need things to draw, though. Heh.

Now, I'm making no guarantees as to what I'm going to draw. It might just be a pencil sketch with some colored shading added on. It might wind up a fully inked and colored drawing. I might just go "screw it" and color it digitally (going to try and avoid that though!). I am only going to do portraits, though, and I prefer female characters as I'm more comfortable with drawing them. Just because a character gets posted here doesn't mean I'm going to draw them. I'll do the drawings/sketches as my whims take me.

So, post up a closeup of your character (the preview window from the appearance changer NPC is ideal but not necessary). Add in a bit of info about them if you wish. If they stand out to me, I'll start sketching, and see where it goes from there.

Some examples:
Marker - Rianna Xi quick sketch of my Star Wars RP character that I decided to color in marker. First time I've really used the things. I'm pretty pleased with the result, other than the fact that I started too dark on her hair so I couldn't add in highlights.
Colored pencil - haaaaand just a thing we did with class, quick sketch of our hand colored as accurately as possible. My skin is not that blue, but since the bristol was a lot larger than my scanner, it didn't scan properly.
Colored pencil - Dali replica class project. Had to crop out a section of a painting, trace it onto bristol, and then replicate the colors as faithfully as possible.
Colored pencil - Mucha replica same as above. I don't have a good scan of this since my teacher kept it as an example piece. The colors on the actual replica are much more vibrant and accurate than they appear here.
Pencil - compositional thumbnails just for the hell of it, sheets of thumbnail sketches from one of my classes.
Pencil - still life I KNOW THE PICTURE QUALITY IS CRAP. I don't have a scan of this one because it's frickin' huge and won't fit on my scanner. I need to take a picture of it with my nice camera. This was another class project.

So, yeah. Have fun ^^

I love Arizona Ice Tea. That stuff is the shiz.

EDIT: Fixed the links >.>. Sorry they were broken.

Well, here's pics of my main:
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She's a very smart girl who from an early age loved nature. She likes maths and using it to calculate interupts on her opponent. Her failing eye-sight started making her a bad shot, so she got prescriptions from some Asura's when she was 22. Now she is 24 and enjoys her days fighting in Random Arenas or at her home in Beetletun.