Late Night Posts are the Best

Well, hello there Internet! It's late at night for me, and I want to be in bed, but I felt it was necessary to post something online, since it's been a while. I'm working on a secret project right now, and I can't share it with you lot just yet, but I'll post it on here eventually.
For now, little crow-monsters, be appeased by this concept are for Skeleton Key, a character of mine with a few unusual features. This is a late night post, so it's a rough work. Nothing fancy, but I like the colour scheme, and the clothing, which I've never been able to get right before.
The emblem on her skirt, which may give something away, given her hands, is the symbol for Hades, or Hell.
I've never decided on hair for her before, but the mix of casual and professional that the ponytail offers struck me as the right fit for my fighting girl, who also has a mission that must be completed at all cost.

Here's the introduction, scripted, for the animation I'm doing for her. This is a draft as well:

It is said that somewhere in the Middle Worlds, there lies a clock, and the closer the clock gets to midnight, the closer the world comes to being plunged into chaos. I suppose, by way of introduction, I could say I am defined by when the clock struck twelve. 

That's all for now, see you soon with Sketchbook posts!

Signing off, 

Dancing with the Devil

Well hello there internet! ((Hello Skittles!)) I'm back with an UPDATE, how amazing. Not really, but I do my best to convey some enthusiasm here, don't I?Welcome to a new section based on poetry, shorts, stories and things like that called ART IN WORDS- I have a short piece for you, based on the experience's of someone I know who at the moment is trying to cope with a lot of stress. It's entitled 'Vertigo'
Enjoy, or, well, appreciate? I don't know.

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She stands in the rain, dark hair plastered against her pale skin, but beyond that, she is completely and utterly forgettable.  She’s a creature of the corner of your eye, the jump-scare lurker that misses your gaze the first time around. However, whilst she has your attention, she commands your fear like a master of the mind. She is wholly without remorse, or pity.
She’ll call out your inner most fear and whisper it so closely in your ear that it sounds like your own mind is telling you how you’ll fail, fall and inevitably die alone and so awfully empty that it will be like a release.
Try as you might to ignore her, the winter days are short, and the darkness comes so fast that she sweeps in with it, a wraith of your most troubled mindset, the being of a thousand horrified what ifs. She is all that you’ll never admit to, embodied in this twisted sick girl who waits for your guard to go down, for the lights to dim, and then strikes with her whispers.
The worst part is when you start to believe her. When you think she may be right, and I swear she gets louder for it. When you think- am I crazy? And she answers ‘of course’. When you fret and toss and turn in the darkness, and she just laughs.
Insanity laughs and the devil gets angry. Karma kicks you in the teeth- everything that can fail will, because hey, this is you, and she’s laughing at you, not with you- because this girl is a sick, sick, sick embodiment of your worst side, your darkness, your insane and depraved maybes.
She’s the spinning, the falling out of your skull, the long pauses where so much happens, the lapses, the tight headaches and the buzzing and the oh-god-please-don’t-be-s.
She’s Vertigo.

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And that's my depressing little segment for the day. I've got lots of posts in the wings, since I got all my GCSE Art stuff back and can start some regular posting of sketchbook pages and the like, so, yay!

Signing off with all my usual cheer!

Big Bad WolfBat?

Okay, so I'm a fan of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Also, I love Legend of Korra, its sequel series. Enough that I spent my half term on MS Paint making my own little OC, set after the Earth Avatar that follows Korra. She's a firebender, because who wouldn't want to be able to shoot fire out of their hands and feet and mouth and stuff.
And fly, because I've seen firebenders fly.
However, she's not a goody-two-shoes, because (ha-ha!) she's a member of the Agni-Kai gang, and a descendant of Lighting Bolt Zolt, with a mean habit of setting herself on fire. Enough that she's earned the name 'Ni' which means Salamander.
The huge wolfy steed is Tahno, the wolfbat, named after the waterbender from the Whitefall Wolfbats with the epic hairbending abilities. Because, secretly, I wish Tahno were in season 2 (I haven't noticed him yet, shame) since he and his strange pronunciation of avatar - uhvatar?- was simply brilliant.
Such sass!
So that's what I've been up to for the past couple of months. Since September, or something.
School started up, and AS Levels are tough cookies, dang it.
On the bright side, I'll get my GCSE artwork back soon, so expect a post on that in the near future!