steady rollin'

So I started this for a Thassarian/Koltira pic and then Loki happened and I couldn't get a singleglove made from ice out of my head. I shall finish up the Death Knight porn later this week! :3



( Thor/Loki, not explicit but NSFW anyway. )

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Avengers Big Bang!

Title: Makeouts in the Modern World
Author: audrey1nd
Artist: ponderosa
Characters/Pairings: fem!Steve Rogers/Darcy Lewis
Warnings: None



( For a story in which Darcy takes it upon herself to help acclimate Cap to her new time. )

Story link!

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Centre Mass. Better than a love letter. (NSFWish for blood painted on the body.)

Linked goes to fan_flashworks. Had this in mind already for the latest challenge (communication) and ariadneelda's request for Daken got me to commit.

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BUT WHO CARES, 'CAUSE I WENT TO THE 9AM SHOWING OF AVENGERS.

I have listed myself on artondemand so I figured I would do the same here as well. No guarantees, since I've got anciently overdue commissions I'm also working on this weekend, but feel free to prompt for anything in the following!

Avengers/Marvel: Steve/Tony, Thor/Loki, Tony/Pepper, Billy/Teddy, Daken
Sherlock (BBC): John/Sherlock, Sherlock/Mycroft
X-men: Gambit/Rogue, Wolverine/Gambit, Charles/Erik, Wolverine/Sabretooth
WoW: Koltira/Thassarian, Malfurion/Illidan, Horde races or Worgen being badass
Stargate: John/Rodney, Teal'c

(Older fandoms/ships also fair game, but the above are the most likely to get my pencil actually to paper. ...I'd list Burn Notice too since I've been catching up, but I don't think I can draw for it.)

I've finished some arts recently, so I'm feeling nicely back in the groove. They're both fest artworks though so can't post or link to them yet. Still, I'm back, baby. >:D

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Been struggling to draw for MONTHS and then boom, things started flowing again. I completely started over on my LATE piece (one of many, oh god) and this time the painting is progressing nicely and is on track for a quick finish tomorrow. On top of that I managed to actually get a solid base down for my cover art for the avengers big bang. I can only hope this holds up.

My favorite sketching pencil is out of lead though. Excuse to go to the art store tomorrow!

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So I own the full set of signed prints of Jody Lee's cover art from the herald mage books. I also have nowhere to put them. I haven't hung them since we moved to Berkeley really, but even if I will probably never read those books ever again, I'm not sure I want to let the prints go. They're really lovely and they're also very dark in colour scheme. With my trio of Metcalf's Avengers prints already making one bedroom wall nothing but dark frames and dark backgrounds, I don't know if I want to claim another wall and pack it full of dark prints with black mats. ...maybe I should just hang one and rotate it out every so often. ...or consider attempting a white mat again even if I don't think that worked well before.

Maybe also I should get back to editing alt tags and tweaking keywords.

SEO sucks and is boring, btw.

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Doodled for Porn Battle.



( Just a bit of kissing...and blushing. )

I am not prepared to go back to work tomorrow.

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I am not in cycling shape, oh my god. It turned sunny and beautiful so I got my bike out and rode over to Emeryville to meet J for lunch. 3 relatively flat miles just should not make my legs go wobbly as much as they did! I'm hanging out in a cafe now and screwing around with getting some more older stuff up on AO3 while trying to coordinate VIP client shipments with my assistant. Late orders are such a hassle, but my department is kicking ass on its budget YTD so I'm extra motivated to continue that trend. Since I'll be telecommuting one day a week starting next week, this is good practice.

Did some more housework today and have a good two boxes of random stuff to get rid off. I also finally got all my comic trades shelved on the skinny bookshelf we moved from the bedroom to the living room. I'm stuck now with a pile of singles I'm not sure what I want to do with. The rest of my to-do list for the day includes dying my hair since I've been procrastinating it since the last bleach job and doing a bit more drawing. As I was cleaning up the Steve/Tony I started yesterday I noticed how boring the angles are, but I firmly reminded myself today that the point of it was just to warm up on drawing, so I really shouldn't kick myself over doing the same old thing, heh.

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It is day two of my week of time off. I'm already going a little stir crazy since it's sort of crap weather out and I can't be bothered to put on a scarf and find an umbrella to go take a walk to get settled.

Instead I've already cleaned out all the cabinets and put down cute flowery shelf paper (organizing all the remaining stuff back in them is another project). I've caught up on blogs and tumblr and newsposts and such. I may actually sit down and attempt to draw, although I'm feeling like I have no idea where to start. My life, so hard. *facepalm*

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No more crazy holidays and no more crazy working on my department budget and I'm starting to feel like an actual human again. Despite some ridiculousness with the phone lines going down, work has been good. I'm officially set to have all of next week OFF, which turns out to coincide with Porn Battle XIII. After my vacation time, I get to come back to reduced hours which is so awesome! I can't wait. I've been hoping to get on a schedule like this, with reduced hours in the off-season, and then back to full-time when spring/summer comes around. I'm very much looking forward to only commuting three times a week and using the extra two days for art projects! EXCITEMENT.

Now I am going to tidy the kitchen and make myself some dinner, screw around for a bit with video games, and maybe laze around for the rest of the evening in front of the TV with my laptop and consider doing that WIP meme that's floating around.

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ante_up_losers went live and omg. omgomgomg.

Staring Down the Barrel (24601 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Losers (2010)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Franklin Clay/William Roque, Carlos "Cougar" Alvarez/Jake Jensen
Characters: Franklin Clay, Aisha al-Fadhil, William Roque, Carlos "Cougar" Alvarez, Jake Jensen, Linwood "Pooch" Porteous, Max (The Losers)
Summary:

In which there are unexpected reunions, a plot to end the world, a certain amount of gunfire, and a great many questions.

Not every question has an answer.

But then, not every question needs one.

So much awesome in this. SO MUCH. Long and plotty and amazing characterization. Cougar gets to be badass, Jensen gets all the best lines, and Clay and Roque have all the So Completely Married squabbles. I cannot even....

I AM DEAD OF JOY.

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Yesterday I could finally say I made it past my second cold of the winter season. Thank goodness. I am done with being sick for quite a while, I hope. Usually I don't sleep in much anymore since I tend to be up so early during the week, but clearly I was catching up on sleep since I made it nearly all the way to eleven. Rest of the day was packed with needed errands and other things, and after a few more necessary bits of going out today and dealing with paperwork for upcoming year-in-review meetings, I managed to sit down and READ THINGS.

I have almost managed to comment on all the lovely extra goodies that came my way this Yuletide. Hopefully I'll also have time to respond to the feedback I got from folks on my own story as well. Still planning on making rec posts, as I've continued to keep a zillion tabs open, and I'm already feeling the slowdown at work. So relieved.

( yammering about my yuletide fic )

Now I shall return to commenting, and then see about finishing my other wintry fic exchange obligation!

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I went home from work early on Thursday. I stayed home today. Mini vacay? If only! I have a cold. Again. The week prior being rather hellish and then spending the holiday with three young kids plus the brother-in-law who'd been working at a toystore and I was somewhat asking for it but I really, really did not want to spend this weekend with a stuffy head and general blah. I also hate that I'm completely whiny and useless when I have a cold.

I'm hoping tomorrow will have me relatively vertical rather than noodly and only capable of draping myself over padded furniture and absorbing 10th Doctor episodes. In a bit, if I'm feeling bold, I may switch to watching Sneakers and flop on the other end of the couch.

So very whiny, omg.

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Each and every year, Yuletide continues to be amazing. Behold, recs for my very own awesome goodies! Share button, you so handy!

Frosty the Snow Manager - Some Like It Hot - Gen (Sugar and Daphne) - Sweet Sue and Society Syncopators Snowbound! Manager has flu! Sugar steps in to save the day! Extra, extra, read all about it!

( snippet )

First person can be so tough to pull off, but I can't imagine this any other way. Daphne's voice is perfect and this fic is too adorable for words. My request was for Sugar to have to dress as a man for some reason, and imagining her in Beinstock's suit and bossing around a booking agent is just TOO FUN. This is my absolute most favorite movie and I was iffy about requesting it since I love the canon so much, but getting this fic I am so very glad I put it on the list!

Low Life - X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) - Gen (Remy and Logan) - Remy trips over an old man he met once, under fairly memorable circumstances.

( snippet )

Everything Remy should've been in the movie, and everything I love about him all in a single fic. Set post-film wherein Remy trips over an unconscious Logan and brings him home. It's a basic premise and yet it gives such a fantastic peek into Remy's life and the way he thinks. Beautifully written with nods towards greater canon that made me all kinds of flaily.

Talent Mastery - World of Warcraft - Slashy (Thassarian and Koltira) - Orbaz Bloodbane threatens Koltira. Thassarian intervenes.

( snippet )

OMG this fic! I didn't expect humour for the pairing when I requested it, and this is as fun as punching Deathwing in the face. For reals. There's a little bit of adorableness that's practically all "will you stay in my alcove with me, circle one, y/n" and some badass fighting, and a whole of Thassarian has epic feels for Koltira sprinkled with bantery flirting. Next time I raise a Bone Shield, I'm pretty sure I'm going to LOL.

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One guess as to what I finally got around to watching.

Screwing around on my day off feels pretty marvelous. Sketched some linework yesterday, then came back to it today. Overworked this and should've saved it out about twenty minutes ago, but pleased to be painting again. Think I'll work on something more linebased next!



( Sherlock (BBC) )

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J got the job he's been trying for! It's for a great company, doing something in his field that's more on the education end (versus actually animating) so I know he's going to love it. He'll have time to pursue his own projects and painting on the side too. :D I'm so excited.

Since he pulled in some nice checks this month from freelance gigs, the ridiculous injection of money into the economy begins shortly. Firstly, new clothes so he looks presentable and maybe some goodies to decorate his cube. Then new phones for the both of us. Then my tattoo since I can finally conscience spending money on it. Then simultaneously paying off our student loans and saving for a proper trip somewhere. zomg wee!

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ponderosa121@tumblr

Dumping all my scrawly things over there. Kickin' it off with some marauder era Sirius/Snape.

p.s. feel free to tell me who I should totally follow :D

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Work project done! Next week begins a period of actually having evenings and weekends again! J has a job interview coming up (second interview! woot!) which I hope goes well enough that I might be able to at least attend y-con for one day so I can cruise the artist alley, but otherwise this'll be the first year I haven't attended since year one. Madness.

I cooked things today. And also I worked on my little Daken sculpture. I may be getting a set of colour shapers for my b-day for which I am completely excited. I miss doing sculpture more than I thought, although I think I need to do some creature sculpts or something a little more free form than humanoids to experiment with texturing.

I also am sitting here considering starting a tumblr to easily post all the random shit I have sketched today.

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I have an unrealistic deadline for a project at work that is completely draining me of all energy. The day-to-day tasks have fallen off so that's at least one thing, but ugh. I'm a pretty stupidly workaholic employee in the first place, so it says a lot that I'm really hitting my limit here. I'm going to take my two weeks before my assistant leaves for uni and I need to worry about looking for someone to replace her. I'm also going to take a couple days in the coming week since I've been putting in so much OT. If things go splodey, it will not be my fault as I've already voiced my severe apprehension about rushing the timeline on this whole thing.

I tried working on some commission stuff today and got some linework done. I need to step back from it a bit though, especially since I'm completely unfamiliar with the subjects. Taking a break from that I skimmed the feed for the art blogs I follow, and I found a piece by Joshua Middleton that I liked a lot. I wanted to try and emulate the colouring style (quasi master copy, woot). I ended up redrawing a super old bit of fanart that I'd sketched out in like 2003 so I wouldn't have to think a lot about subject/pose. Of course I ended up having to since the original is so wonky, but well it saved me a lot of preliminary work. :3 But man, can I possibly do something other than profile pieces? Apparently not.



( Gundam Wing - Duo/Heero - Reminisce! )

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I actually have a three day weekend (well 2.5 day weekend since there's a crapload of emails I need to respond to) so I'm hoping to get more drawing done so I stop feeling so f'ing rusty. After next week the day job starts getting slower and slower, plus I've got 2 weeks vacay to take at some point in October or November.

To celebrate all this miraculous free time, I bring arts! msilverstar posted a bunch of lovely Viggo pics so I did a quick sketchpaint off the profile one.



( Aragorn sketchpaint portrait )

So very rusty!

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