Moonlight-Seraph

Things I've been wanting to do… If anyone has any ideas for a challenge I could take on or something I should try to paint or draw, please feel free to suggest it to me! I love pushing myself (or I get bored lol).

1.) A color-palette challenge or five.

2.) BSSM characters in costumes and situations inspired by couture (a source of inspiration frequently used by Naoko herself!)

3.) Finish my series of Inner and Outer senshi--That means Mercury and Jupiter.



4.) Finish my series of Amazon Quartet drawings--just Cere Cere left. And perhaps give more representation to the villains of the series, especially the Ayakashi Sisters, of whom I've already painted Koan. 

                          




5.) Vintage-style postcards or pin-ups with characters from BSSM. And maybe also from Black Butler. 


What I'm Currently Working on:
1.) Queen Serenity
2.) Salome 
3.) Lilith OC
4.) Aurius OC

Out of excitement for the world-wide premier of the new Sailor Moon, I've been doing fan art pretty much non-stop. Having been pretty rusty at drawing manga, I'm really glad for the chance to hone that skill again and try new things, in addition to celebrating my all-time favorite show/manga!

                 



      

To honor my favorite character from Game of Thrones, Sandor Clegane (aka the Hound), I'm going to be doing a portrait in acrylics on canvas. Since I'm a little rusty at doing realism with acrylics, I'm warming up with an exercise I'm calling Seven Shades of Sandor--seven pencil and pen portraits of his face from all different angles, to get comfortable with his physiognomy. I've already finished and posted two of the seven--a profile featuring his unburnt side and a profile featuring the burnt side. 

If anyone has any tips or knows of any tutorials on doing burn scars either with pen, pencil, or paints, please let me know! I've just been winging it. 

I recently commissioned a needle felted doll of my Devon Rex, Pooka, from . It arrived yesterday, and I'm so enthused!! Apparently, so is Pooka, who was fascinated by the doll. I caught this picture of her: do you think did a good job or what? Thank you so much for your wonderful job, Charlotte!

Mood: Bittersweet
Listening to: My Moon My Man, by Fiest
Reading: Peter Beagle's The Last Unicorn


In the wake of Moon's death, I've been trying to paint and write to get my mind off of things. I'm re-reading Peter Beagle's The Last Unicorn, one of my favorite books and still one of my favorite films, and decided that I want to write a novel preceding the events of Last Unicorn following the character Mommy Fortuna, who I'm calling Eva (Fortuna is her stage name). All of this stemmed from rewatching the movie and being struck by how interesting Fortuna's relationship with the Harpy is. I wanted to envision the scene where a young Fortuna came upon the Harpy sleeping and saw both her fortune and her death in those sharp, shining feathers.

So my most recent painting depicts just that, and I'm trying to decide whether I want to post any of the writing here as well (I'm a compulsive editor). We'll see. At any rate, it feels good to be writing prose fiction again, and I am enjoying doing strings of themed paintings (I was doing Nemo before this). 

Oh, and as an update of how our other cats are doing now that Moon is gone. Pooka has taken over Moon's favorite chair (ever the opportunist), Max cries frequently for his brother, and Lunette doesn't seem to notice anything is different. I see and hear Moon every day as I move through the house, and have to remind myself that he isn't here and never will be. It's really hard to believe, when he was a part of my life for seven years, a constant, fat, fluffy, talkative presence. But we have our other cats, and we are making sure that we give them all the love and attention that they deserve. And I'm trying to honor Moon's living memory by recalling the good times we had, as well as doing more good in the world.