for where we are is hell

Markers! I've been trying to learn how to use them.



First, a quick self-portrait I did to commemorate my 20th birthday! L-LOOKIN' GOOD .__.;; The lights in this room heat it up really quickly so I am usually in varying states of undress when working. Also I just prefer not wearing clothes to wearing clothes, screw clothes, I don't have time for that shit.

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The hat I got to wear with my plague doctor mask/Anime North costume--it's like wearing a small black hole on your head! Good for keeping the sun out of your eyes, though.



Then I learned that it is VERY VERY IMPORTANT to use the right kind of paper with markers or else everything will go heart-breakingly wrong.



This I did on paper that was thick and soft and fibrous and it ruined two of my markers and turned out blotchy and horrible. Experienced XTREME!! frustration trying to make the sky not be all streaky (as you can see I did no succeed).

OH AND DID SOMEONE SAY "DIMENSION HOPPING DEMON LADIES"?? No? Oh well.



Clearly the best way to acquaint oneself with a new medium is with FIVE ZILLION LEAVES, yeah?

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Outfit for Anime North (and whereever else I feel like going dressed as an anachronistic-magpie-nightmare) involves wings that will hopefully look and function rather like this (but more magpie-ish), so I've been making feathers and... making more feathers. SO MANY FEATHERS. I must keep telling myself it is worth it, haha.

Some of the iridescent secondary feathers:



aaand I need to get my ass back into gear and PAINT MORE FEATHERS. You guys it is not a very stimulating or fulfulling task. WINGS WILL BE AWESOME, WINGS WILL BE AWESOME, KEEP TELLING MYSELF THIS....

EDIT: OH ALSO, not that I haven't mentioned this before, but this is my tumblr, I post a lot of nonsense.

guys the henna people weren't lying, it's darkening like crazy. I'm very close to my original desire of stop sign red and this is enough to warrant another terrifying picture.



deeeeeeeeeeeeerp

also if you ever feel the need to turn your head orange I've made this helpful chart comparing some of the effects of henna vs standard hair dye:



of course this was done before I went out at all so there's one extremely important henna side-effect it neglects to mention, and that is that I now SPARKLE IN THE SUN LIKE A MOTHERFUCKING CULLEN.

seriously I think I almost blinded a couple people on my walk today.