My other art & characters,

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My characters aren't the only artwork I draw of course. I also draw animals, cars and the occasional human. I haven't got the hang of drawing humans realistically yet but after a few years of pratice, I finally got my cartoon style for them down. I have been drawing animals all my life. Humans I only started drawing in a big way back in 1998. It was mainly because I always liked animals better and I was never happy with how my humans turned out. So on this page you will see examples of my realistic, stylised and cartoony artwork.

A picture I drew of my Rex cross guinea pig, Venus, back when I was taking commissions for the members of the Devon Cavy Club. This later became her memorial picture as well. The original is framed and hangs on the wall in our house. I think its my favourite guinea pig picture out of all the ones I've drawn.
Drawn in Derwent coloured pencils.

My Muse. This is a mixture of many things I hold dear such as antennaes, wings since I fly in my dreams, my red logo on its shoulder, long body and short legs, arrows, aspects of a few of my other characters and short muzzle, long ears since they are fun to draw.
Drawn in Crayola coloured pencils.

Another improvement with my art in terms of colouring. Remembering the success I had with Zorak and the bug, I tried again, also practising my stylised fur and being inspired by a couple of fellow artists. I found the more shades I used to colour, the better the picture looks. So I drew up a bunch of these fantasy creatures I call Dreikons and I'm very proud of them.

My beloved cats, Toby and Casper as angels because they are now. They inspired many comics and stories while I was growing up and I thank them for bringing joy into my life during all the hard times at school and for being my first real childhood pets. Rest in peace, guys.
Drawn in Crayola coloured pencils.

Riktus Rinktus the Meta Bug. He is one of my faves of my characters and he has an extensive bio. He flies a fighter jet and is the weapons expert on the starship, Paragon, a paranoid living ship who keeps trying to flee from battle. Riktus is a drug addicted badass bug and lethal with every type of gun imaginable.
Drawn in Crayola coloured pencils.

One of my favourite characters, Mr Snuggles the Caline. Calines are like a cross between a cat and a dog. A big hybrid cat thing that acts like a dog. So he'll chase a stick for example. He's also a fast runner and an excellent guard. His looks are enough to scare people away before they'd think about making friends with him though!
Drawn in HB pencil.

One of my older characters, Snarl the blue wolf. I created him in 2002 and this is his 2008 picture. He is slightly reptilian with some scales here and there and has a large purple mane and his design has remained the same through the years.
Drawn in Crayola coloured pencils.

Felieons
A band of characters I originally created in 2001 one day when I was bored in the library at college one lunchtime. I made 8 of them, Genki, Khetto, Basdeth, Sall, Cass, Lucus, Arashii and Jeph. Later I came to use them in THIS, a mini site about them I made as an IT project. I also used it in Media Studies for my final exam along with a slideshow presentation I did for them. The Felieons live in Delta City and go on many adventures. One day I hope to have it made into a TV series. So really the point I'm getting to is I used to draw me and my late boyfriend as Felieons and here are some pictures.
These mean a lot to me as he passed away sadly in April 2007. I'll always remember seeing his face light up when I drew picture like this of us together.

This is one of my favourites. Just a simple picture with "Unbreakable" underneath. I love Antony's sweet expression in this one. When I did Graphics at school we studied arrangement of lettering so I always enjoy doing bubble writing under a picture.
Drawn in Crayola coloured pencils.

Just a sweet sentimental cuddle picture. I wanted to recreate the closeness we had, cuddled up together. I always ink the characters and do the backgrounds in pencil because then the characters stand out better.
Drawn in Crayola coloued pencils.

This picture was hard to pull off with the glowing wings and actually it turned out not as I'd hoped. The wings belong to my Felieon but its hard to see whether they belong to my one or Antony's one in the picture. This is the first picture I drew of them without clothes and the glow was added on the computer.
Drawn in Crayola coloured pencils with a Photoshop glow.

Larval is a human character I created back in 2004. He's a creep who lurks on street corners taking advantage of passers by. He sucks up to people, gains their trust, uses them and disposes of them. He's also an expert at this. He lives in a grubby little apartment and has no money. Its because of this he takes advantage of everyone else. You think you've got the better of him when all along it was him who's got the better of you.
Drawn in Crayola coloured pencils.

An old example of my stylised work, this is what I would have if I got a tattoo. The Doom Kitties I created back in 2003. Oblivvion was the alpha and the others were his underlings. He was the only red one, the others were black with purple stripes. They were bringers of curses to people who angered me.
Drawn in Berol Broad felt tips.

Believe it or not, this guy is even older than Silvolf. I created him back in 2000 and he was originally some sort of Pokémon. Now he's my own character because he's equally able to stand alone. He breathes fire with a very high acidity level and if its put out with water, it turns to pure acid which isn't nice. Lovely imagination I have! He was also published in the October 2000 issue of the UK, Pojo's Pokémon magazine.
Drawn in Crayola coloured pencils for 2006.

Not my character, but I am so proud of this, I figured I should show it off here. This is my take on Zorak, a character from an old cartoon called Space Ghost. It took 3 1/2 hours to draw and colour and I had the idea hanging around my head for at least a week before getting round to putting it on paper. I tried to get a comic effect with 5 shading tones which makes a great effect. I wanted to make him look realistic because the character was very simple on the show really. I think I pulled it off very well!
Drawn in Crayola coloured pencils.

One of my older characters, although not in this form. AvistA has had a lot of remodelling. She was one of my first online personas and was a Mewtwo (Pokémon) you can still see her in her original form on my Mewtwo's Hideout site. She had a couple of new looks as my interests changed but this is her final design. Basically I wanted her to be entirely mine so I created this design for her.
Drawn in Crayola coloured pencils.

Have you ever had the feeling that all of a sudden you "level up" in the quality of your artwork? This and the two pictures below gave me that feeling. I drew this random dragon/Dachshund so I could use the fur technique I learned from a friend. The colours came as I coloured it and I'm very pleased with the final result. The fur technique is incredibly effective.
Drawn in Crayola coloured pencils.

After doing so well with the Zorak picture, I drew this bug. It was more experimenting with the colouring technique I used and I'm very proud of it. Colouring the pearlescent carapace of the bug was a challenge, I wanted it to resemble a beetle's shiny armor.
Drawn in Crayola coloured pencils.

This was the picture that started me out actually making the effort to hand draw backgrounds instead of stick on a computer made background. It's two cats, I call it surreal and various things about the picture mean things to me. Also I experimented with different shading and the folds in the satin too. I outlined the cats in colour to give it a more natural look.
Drawn in Crayola coloured pencils.

This was a little trip back in time for me. I created the Spottie Kitties, based on Ocelots, in college for an exam. I've sold pieces similar to this one and they are a lot of fun to draw. I made the spots different shapes and sizes to give the cat a 3D look.
Drawn in Crayola coloured pencils and ink pen.

A picture I drew dedicated to my dear sweetheart, Antony. I look to the heavens and see his spirit soar free. This took me three and a half hours and I'm very proud of it.I managed to draw something beautiful based on how I felt at the time. He was my friend, my sweetheart and an irreplacable part of my life.
Drawn in Crayola coloured pencils.

A portrait of my friend Kei's dog, Brandy. This is part of the diploma course in pet portraits I'm doing and was the first full colour portrait of a dog I did for the course. I'm very proud of it. It took around 7 hours and I used a photo of course for reference.
Drawn in Derwent coloured pencils.