“Fight for all you know
when your back’s against the wall
stand against the liars!
Stronger than before
when your life becomes a war.
Set the world on fire!”
Set the World on Fire by Black Veil Brides.
_{{ listen to it here! }}

“Set the world on fire” is one of the first english songs to catch my interest in months. As soon as I heard it, I was like “…ERIK SONG.” and it inspired this picture. Which took like. Forever to do. lol.
I find it weird that Transformers songs often make it onto that playlist… hm…

ANYWAYS. These are my characters Erik (black/white hair), Lacey (purple hair, ONLY girl), and Tobias (long white/black hair).

I tried making it a tad more realistic than I usually do. _{AKA: I gave them noses.} I like the result, I can’t say for sure if I’ll keep doing this style though. I also tried making the line art thinner than normal~
On top of that, I toned Lacey’s outfit down and made it a little less futuristic looking, since the story isn’t futuristic in a sense. I mean, it is but everybody would still dress the same as they do now… OTL
ALSO their colours are still the same as before, the fire is just tinting it. c:

Since it looked horrible when zoomed out it’s bigger than normal. ENJOY.
Also, this is my 100th deviation on DeviantART. <333 My 50th was a quickpaint of Tobi here, so I figured these three would be perfect for such a milestone! Edit, July 25, 2012: changed some small details so it would look better as a print. c: You can find the old version here. Thank you!

More Copic art, my first finished one with original characters, to boot! 8D

These are my OC’s, Slade (white hair) and Caleb (red hair)~ They’re fiancees, from an arranged marriage (as they’re both royalty..), but they actually managed to love each other… Slade usually denies this fact, but I guess she’s having a good day or something. P:

I tried to dress them in a more.. Gothic Lolita/Prince style, rather than medieval.. which is what I usually dress Slade in anyways lol.

The flowers are carnations btw, I feel like they suit this couple~ I have no idea why they’re standing in a field of them, though

Alsooo I used different paper for this.. it’s some sort of European Bleedproof paper. o_O Not sure if I like it. It didn’t like blending really dark colours, and such… it also left it shiny under certain light…
..I.. think I might have been using the wrong side of it LOL;;
I will need to try it again before I decide if I like it or not..
It was certainly bleedproof, though.

Thanks for looking! <3 MATERIALS: Copic sketch markers,, Photoshop CS4 (colour adujustment), Transotype? Copic Bleedproof paper, ZIG Millennium pen

Whoa. Something ORIGINAL (in the sense that it isn’t fan art..), isn’t that amazing!? LOL.

Don’t know why I started drawing this theme really. I just remembered that when it came time to draw the dragon, I was inspired by the lolcats. I’m really glad people liked him! xD

Been a while since I drew Epic! :3
This picture came from a couple different things. I wanted to draw Epic for the convention, and I also wanted to draw something light, cute, colourful, and with texture for it too. So I decided to kill two birds with one stone. xD
And the pose came from me wanting to draw a close up of a shoe LOL. o_O

And yes, her outfit was a pain to colour. Like always. It’s hard making the colour composition look.. well, composed when she dresses like this. 8| But I think I managed it, somehow…
I’m lucky there aren’t more colours to the rainbow. xD;;

I pretty much finished this a couple days ago, but today I did some final touch ups. Oh, and sorry if her anatomy is wonky. @_@;; Aaaand I also gave her earrings. They aren’t permanent though.
..She hates permanent things. :c

Thanks for looking!

You can never have enough of it.

:3

A lot of thanks goes to my mom for helping me with this~

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Erik again! And it’s an actual painting, too~! 8D
…Of course he’s a bit bloody though… >_>
_{I’m so mean to my charactersss /sob}

I did this a couple days ago after watching some Fullmetal Alchemist AMVs, and then listening to some new music I bought (if you’re curious, they’re “Redesign me” by VersaEmerge, and “Bitter Sweet” by Entwine.. both great songs xD;; )

It’s a bit inspired by the FMA pictures done for Conquerer of Shamballa, and the Brotherhood commercial-spots. o3o I think Fruits Basket managed to work it’s way in too, but maybe I’m just paranoid.. OTL

Thanks for looking! 8D

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I had come to the conclusion that it had been a long time since I had drawn a fairy, and wanted to draw one.. and then I came up with this. :O I know fairies are normally drawn with butterfly/dragonfly wings, and that’s what I had planned to draw.. but I did this instead, and I think it turned out really cutely. <3
I’m also really happy with the background. I was worried that the nest would look too.. low quality or wouldn’t fit in with the picture, but it did! <333
Yay~

Something different for a change~
Cellshading (for the most part), more fantasy oriented, more roses than what I normally draw, and a couple pic. I kind of like how it turned out, but I’m thinking there’s problems with the anatomy and shading in some parts. asdjhsahgsagsda
But oh well.

…The scariest thing about this pic is that it was originally going to be of one of my neopets, lol. |D;;;

Thanks for looking! <3

I think I went a bit crazy with the background.. |D; What do you think?
Try to spot all the halloween/spooky things in it~

I love how her face turned out, and I’m surprised by her hair, I’m not usually good at drawing that style, and I think I’ve only coloured/shaded that style once before. So I’m really happy with this.. atleast for now. ^__^;;

This probably took just under 12 hours to do from start to finish. Whew! D:

Character and image © me/designsbysloan, do not use without permission.

ALSO, just for fun.. here’s some other witch/halloween pictures I’ve done in the past! 8D
(beware, most of them are really old, and may make your eyes bleed.. D: )
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What a shame we all became, such fragile broken things,
A memory remains.. just a tiny spark.
I give it all my oxygen, so let the flames begin, so let the flames begin..
~Paramore

I’ve been working on this on and off for four days. x_X I really like how it turned out.
I ended up using a LOT of layers D:

I decided that she should have black fur rather than skin. It fits her design better. o-o Though I might still give her skin in the future. Idk lol.

Sorry if there’s any anatomy problems. o.O I only used a reference for her one hand, so yeah..

Thanks for looking~