[Akeyla]

ohman! I would so love one to study too!

and round here people are already grossed out if I say I like stuff and study stuff that isnt “Schnitzel” but still has bones in it or OMG is the whole thing.
and gnaaayyy! there’s noone here who would ever join me making such studies… xept Basil perhaps?

[Akeyla]

I’ve been doodling some more, although these days my wrists hurt; we had a big book sale here where you payed 3$ per inch of the books thickness and I bough like seventeen dollars worth which was helluva heavy tons of books which I all dragged home by hand. I are so sick 😉 lol

I hope to post informations to them soonis. Please say hello to the first plants of many to come

[Akeyla]

siberakh1 wrote:

Oh, I LOVE the Lungh! I’d love one of him in my yard (or on my desk… hehe). The Salticana are kewl too! 😀 I love your little world. 😀

I had one too (mostly anthropomorphic, with some oddities) but I think I destroyed all but one notebook… it was for stress getting through school and meant just for me…. Definitely not as detailed (it was quick sketches and stuff), but it did the trick.

thanks! 🙂
I dont get it, you destroyed your notebook with the works in it? why?

[Akeyla]

lovely stuff everyone 🙂
lol, my latest stuff would be a big pile of everything. If I had fish eyes on the side of my head rather than in the middle I’d even be simultaneously doing stuff with each hand…

[Akeyla]

thanks all for the comments 😉
I must admit that I was in serious selfdoubting phase the past months with my novel, I was afraid my ideas would not be taken for “real” “good” whatever. I believe that the fear of going to a real publisher and having someone else read it and perhaps reject it was very big. Is still big.
I did have an email exchange a while ago with Gensen (Ginsen) who did the sculptures for Khaosdog and KayFeda because I have been plotting with the idea to have a sculpture made for my novel (casted from my own sculpture) specifically for my beta readers and supporters, and the idea was to either have a cathuman on a LUngh horse (http://akeyla.deviantart.com/art/the-race-4609955) or one of Francesca (the girl beside the Lungh) and Gobo (the dragon)
If I had the funds I’d instantly do both. But alas I am stuck reading Focault for the next two years and going to school 😉 lol

[Akeyla]

ohman, this thread is EVIL!
must not look. Must cling to wallet. must! MUST!

[Akeyla]

wondering what un-earthly time that would be for Basil and me. 4 am? 5 am?
maybe if I cant sleep again I’ll stay up 🙂

[Akeyla]

(copy paste from my LJ caus I’m lazy 😉 )

Gobo, Gorgon muscle and body studies. If you know this creature more you will notice the subtle changes I made on him. I feel I am getting closer to the creature I actually picture, and most of all, to the very character behind it. Ok this isnt hard as in the narration he is the last of his kind.

Kiaren. This creature made its appearance in the novel in the very early 2000. It has hence been unchanged , its new design is basically the same but has some addings here and there. This creature is used as a mount for its extreme jaw that can bite… well, all. In the novel it has a chameleon skin that makes it close to invisible, its tongue and eye however glow white. In freedom this creature minds little to nothing about its surrounding, it eats plants and fruits and sukcs juices from trees and is fully harmless. Guards use the Kiaren to patrol the dense forrest. Their footstep is as unnoticeable as their chameleon hide.

Salticana, a canine creature used to travel up ground over the landscape. Salticans can jump and cling to nearly everything. No Saltican has ever fallen from the sky. They are valued for their jumping skills and their quick pace. In freedom they travel in little herds, their snowy hide blends with the sky. They eat Jackbirds and other avians and lizards and are sweet beings, despite their fierce appearance. It is often said that Salticans have the heart of a labrador.
They have two sets of eyes, the second one is more focused on heat. Salticans dont see color.

[Akeyla]

I stay with my statement from… two years ago?
“I’ll just go to the cinema to see the dragon (s)”
I have book two, I read 30 pages or such and got bored. I doubt I will get book 3, unless you all here go on swooning about it.
I’ve recently read ” Das Drachentor” by Jenny May-Nuyen (who published with 16 and so far has nine books), which is by far better than other dragon books I’ve so far flipped through, not just for the story but also for being different.
I know, I’m harsh, but I look at fantasy critically and twice because dahh… I cant exactly word it, but its the trash that hurts “us others”. (this means up to some point I understand my teachers, if I knew the average what gets famous only I’d also be sick of it)

ah, Basil? care to join me for the next movie? yes?
whenever it comes out 🙂

[Akeyla]

lol

I’ll be workin at it 🙂 (srsly, I already found a printer 🙂 but its still a loooong way)

anyhow, I arted some more.

First of all, these are concept artworks of architekture for my novel. Who would have ever thought I’d do something like this, me the least. But it was fun and I need it to visualize.
These are the architectures of the first nine chapters (with 1-4 still being maninly in “our” world)

interior of one of the room(or appartments)

overview of the main halls and the downworld, the place where the water is is also where these illustrations belong:

and where this one lives:

councels place, the inside of the “dome” can be more or less directly reached by boat from the ocean. or sea serpent back, whatever 😉
The mask is for the so called “Megas”, also known as lifeguardesses (lol) of the matriarch, they usually put them on when things turn bad, as in executions being done (which they do with that cutty spear thing).

the European “housing” of my cathumans. They live in your average more dense forest (the novel speaks of only one of these, more existing is possible but not likely). Encounters are rare, and if they happen often deadly.
The idea of burying a “human” house seemed adequate to me considering the position of humans in a cathumans way of thinking and their own culture.

and then something more entertaining:
ACEOS

bighead doe and her litter

goldchild

and the 3 golden corns, my first mouse after a loooooong time

the scanner hates me and my colors. All of these have subtle bright nuances of beautiful colors. To get the main colorations out I had to kick photoshop so hard he ruined some nice parts like the sky of the mouse aceo. darn.

anyhow, back to school
my god, i am still goin to school

edit: Lungh horses been added:

[Akeyla]

its simply horrifying how people can handle animals. I always say: as the animals so the humans. People doing this belong locked up.
I’m glad that around here this is forbidden and also controlled by law. We had cases of cat poisonings ten years ago in our town, the vet gave a call to the police and the literarley turned every brick in the region the cat was found. This and the fact that it was murmured over tea-tables and hence everyone eyeing and controlling one anothers actions has resulted that it never happened again.
I’d recommend that if the “law” does not play along well enough the best is to get the people into moving and being aware. If enough people pay attention to it “cat shooter” will no longer be taken with a shrug but with a glare of all surrounding neighbors. At least this is what worked here, people will think twice of their actions if neighbors talk bad about them. I dont know, it could be worth a try

[Akeyla]

geez!
we were in the blackforrest that sunday (Tannenmühle) and I was just wondering how traffic can be handled in those serpentine dead-cornered things called “roads”. And this comes from someone who has a holiday house in the alps. No seriously, that place is awful. I am so glad you are all right, thats the biggest relief.
Hopefully you can get out the best with finances, I can imagine how hard it is to sell them, they look so happy at your place 🙂 I wish I could help, but my finances are pretty tight. Anyhow, if there’s anything I can do, du weisch woni wohne u wie mi erreichsch.
*hugs*

[Akeyla]

just quickly updating, trying to do a split between school and freelance. I promised I’d list him, here he is:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=290264120986

glehhh… g-nite
*drops in bed*

[Akeyla]

hmmmm…. that would indeed be interesting to know.
I’m quite sure there should be at least one second life writing out there, published possibly?
maybe we dont know of them because they are very rare and not that obvious.

[Akeyla]

keeping my brains sane during school lessons. These were done in those 8 hours of sitting on a wood chair whilest balancing my papers on one knee. To give you the appropriate back-ache feeling when looking at them.
I feel totally dead now, but atleast looking at these makes me feel productive

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