Copperbane Studio R. Brost

The Future of this Blog

2012-01-13T14:46:00.000-08:00

Hey guys! Well, as you may know, I've ran out of image space for blogger. This is okay for my writing blog, where I only post the odd image, but it's not so great for this sketch blog. Some of the problems and things I haven't liked about this blog are all the sketchy crap (probably a lot more easily hidden in my deviantART scraps) and the scheme. Well, to get to the point, I've started a tumblr. This blog may stay in operation, but it might not. As a writer, I don't have a lot of time on my hands for internet stuff, but I'll do my best to keep this place updated with sketchy stuff. :)

Run, Run, Run!

2012-01-12T22:10:00.000-08:00

Commentary here. Click the thumbnail to see this picture BIGGER! :D

First Sketch Dump of 2012!

2012-01-12T14:27:00.000-08:00

AND the first one in MONTHS! (Fail.) Click on them to see them all larger.

This one is to be a colour test, since I want to update Eqaetz's (the horses) colouring to be more realistic. It was also a test to try to draw an Sloveniskan Elven Horse that looked like I want them too, so this is also concept art.

Here's a concept of another race/breed off elven horse from the country of Silaine. Silaine's rainforests were long ago razed and it's a very flat place, so its horses have evolved to be lighter bodied and longer legged and in some areas, they must where fabric dustmasks as shown to protect their lungs. Despite their swifter anatomy (I went for 'arabesque') these guys aren't actually faster than Sloveniskan Elven Horses as they have lost their ability to use magic, a side effect of inbreeding.

Concept art for a long established species of animal on the Sloveniskan/drakoon continent. They're used for meat, leather and carrying goods and they are described as being approximately the size of a house. They make horse-sized as-dragon drakoon look tiny!

Concept art for long established character (but rarely drawn) Vera of Daru. She's rarely drawn because she likes being difficult.

Concept art for 'The Prayer Fulfilled.' To be coloured. On a side note, kiri look stupid when I draw their heads from the side.

Rough thumbnail storyboard for a personal comic or animation sequence titled 'Sugar Pony.'

The inky beginnings of a gift piece for a friend. :)

Hope you enjoyed!

CM Pila Roman Cavalier - Preview Photos

2012-01-11T00:14:00.000-08:00

SOMEDAY, I'LL TAKE BETTER PHOTOS.

Click to see a full body shot.

But for now, here you go!

Also, I've at last discovered the beauty of photobucket .html codes, so posts will start happenin' again. (FINALLY!)

For now, enjoy the hoss. :) (She was done months ago... )

Pila was customized from a Breyer Ruffian who was kind of scuffed.

I gave her extensive leg feathering, 'mare bits' and a partial resculpt of the underside of her head. She was painted in many, many layers of transparent acrylic paint into a nice shade of bay. Hopefully I do more customs like her! I'm pretty fond of her with her nice cute face and fluffy legs! She has the attitude of a horse who tries really, really hard for her master and I like that. She's a sweetie.

Click to see a full body shot.

Until next time! (Hopefully with better pictures....)

Saffron WIP

2011-10-28T21:56:00.000-07:00

Animal species in need of an official name... may just be called a saffron....

These guys appear as falcons in my book AOH, but in the rework, they'll look like this. 'Saffron' for some of their feathers, which are bright red.

A Life's Gamble

2011-10-23T20:51:00.000-07:00

Percy Jackson & Blackjack the pegasi belong to the excellent author Rick Riordan. This is fanart, and an experiment in painting without lines.

God of War

2011-10-23T01:14:00.000-07:00

Dedicated to my buddy Ski-Machine, who loves Kazik and his species.

Inspired by a very cool part that is in the last version of my manuscript Emperor's Blood.

My Brother is Weird (New page 1 WIP)

2011-10-08T01:30:00.000-07:00

Posted for one of my best friends, Andrea Caroll.

Ki looks much better on this page. In the words of my other best friend Rachel Stolberg, he's 'shrimpy.' Shrimpy is a much more flattering descriptive word than what I tend to use for Ki - 'girly.' He's also very 'haunted baby wild animal' on this page which is definitely what I was going for.

I'm redoing the first page of MBiW and making it into 2 to make it sync better with the rest of the comic. This may mean redrawing all the Ki panels on the current page 2, which is baaaaah...

Cold Mountains Rough Velocity Comic Idea

2011-09-09T00:26:00.000-07:00

The swiftclaw have an attitude of 'It's better to be a coward than die stupidly.' They don't tempt fate.

Velocity Rough Idea Comic

2011-09-08T21:12:00.001-07:00

This is actually the very first rough comic I did exploring the story of Velocity and in this, we meet Tyanar's emaciated father Versuva, who is dying. Now, I'm not actually very sure about how this story is going to go yet except that it's going to be a multi-issue adventure story but right now the main pretext is reminding me a tiny bit too much of one of my manuscripts already in production so I'm going to have to change that. (Though since Velocity came from games that I played as a child with my plastic dinosaurs - yep, I was epic - Velocity really came first!) Anyway, enough of that! I hope you enjoy the short. I really like how Versuva looks in this and if you compare him (and Tya) to how she looks in the previous post, there's a lot of improvement. She looks less wolfy and more unique, which is important considering that she's supposed to be closer related to a modern hyena, not a wolf!

What's interesting is that this started as just concept art for Versuva, then I started writing and then I had to draw the scene that was in my head! It was mad.

*In case it's missed because of the cut off corner in the fourth page when Versuva falls down and he's talking to the swiftclaw, he's offering a bargain to them of his life for Tyanar's - aka, he's saying that he'll die quietly and be the swiftclaw's food if they save his daughter. Hmmmmm Versuva... personally I wouldn't trust a pack of raptors not to eat my daughter, but whatever floats your boat, half dead guy....

Sketch Dump of the Unscanned

2011-09-08T20:53:00.001-07:00

Old sketches from WAY back! Some may be repeats (I was trying to be thorough) but in any case, here we have concept drawings for:

- Cat the Border Collie
- Emperor's Blood
- The Copperbane Series (in general)
- The Prayer Fulfilled
- Velocity

Also, a few things are random. Like the bucking bull and the creepy ass monkeys. Monkeys scare me!

Matriarch & Sunny

2011-09-08T17:12:00.002-07:00

My first post today is a sad one. If you read my writing blog, you probably know that my dear cat Sunny passed away August 19th of this year, 2011. The pain is still very fresh and drawing this was an excersize in agony, but it's done and so here Sunny is, in all his cuddly, adorable, splendiferous glory.

Rest in peace buddy.

I realized today that I didn't upload my picture of Matriarch (the alpha female of the swiftclaw pack) to explain yesterday's speedpaint post. She's Moki and Tyanar's mother in my graphic novel idea Velocity. She's not a huge character, but she's a very strong female personality and she doesn't take shit from anybody. This is a raptor who is extremely smart who is more likely to outsmart you than you are to outsmart her. She might not be a big dinosaur as a swiftclaw, but she makes up with that with pure ass-kicking badassery.

Raptor's Oasis Speedie

2011-09-07T23:48:00.000-07:00

Yep, it's raptor season again. Here's a 10 minute speedpaint using only one brush of a concept for where these guys live, featuring a lake populated by crocodile things and a bunch of annoying hadrosaurs which like to thwart the swiftclaws. "See? You COULD get us, but you're too afraid of the croc-things so you won't and they won't eat us because we're too big! Haha!" The swiftclaws might reply to their prey with "Sooner or later, you shall have to poo and if you have any decency, you won't do it in that lake where everybody else you know is grazing."

The raptors live in a big random oasis thing following a river maybe which I don't really quite understand yet but it's pretty awesome and there's this huge BIG angry dinosaur named Baro who lives there too. He's pretty much the raptor's t-rex without him actually being a t-rex.

Moki and Tya totally try to get Shakka eaten by him.

Ki and Keel Have a Serious Discussion

2011-09-06T23:12:00.001-07:00

Lamina Chartan Layout - FINISHED & COLOURED!

2011-09-06T14:36:00.000-07:00

After two years and some tweaks - colour!

Shakka Kidnaps Tyanar Rough Concept

2011-09-04T01:03:00.000-07:00

Short, rough bad quality concept comic for my perhaps-someday graphic novel which is currently called Velocity (working title) and which is set in a world where dinosaurs never went extinct (at least not fully) where there's large mammals but no humans and everything is prehistoric and awesome. It's like cave man land without the cave men and with velociraptors and prehistoric chasmaporthetes (running hyena.) Hell yeah.

In this we have Shakka (the smilodon thing which Moki calls ugly) kidnap Tyanar (otherwise known as Tya, the running hyena) while Moki the velociraptor-thing goes to take a look see up a giant tree. In case it was missed in this VERY rough general idea (which is much more of a thought), Shakka knocks Tya out by smacking her in the head with his ginormous paw. Moki comes down, finds them both gone and (though it isn't drawn) he gets come help from a pack of wily coelophysis who feel like helping him because either he or Tya spared one before this scene and the little bastards are grateful, so they point Moki in the right direction. (Much like that poor dumbass in Jurassic Park II who gets swarmed and eaten by the tiny buggers, Moki is at first sort of unnerved by them, until he realizes that they're not going to have their way with him ala-Jurassic Park II.) Meanwhile, Shakka thinks he's immensely clever and drags Tya up a tree, hanging her there like a leopard stashes a gazelle, only unfortunately, as wussy as Moki may sometimes seem, he's underestimated the little velociraptor's tenacity as well apparently forgetting what Tya said, that Moki's the best climber in their pack...

Also, Shakka might have foot long fangs, but Moki's got frigging claws just as big and he's a little better at using them!

*Correction: The puny vicious dinosaurs in JPII are compsognathus, not coelophysis.

Colour!

2011-08-30T23:47:00.000-07:00

Havin' One of Them Days

2011-08-27T21:22:00.000-07:00

Meow. :(

Badass Stuff

2011-08-24T08:02:00.000-07:00

Sweets for the people who come here from dA! No write ups on either yet!

Sketheringss

2011-08-23T20:50:00.001-07:00

Starting with a weird disjointed Ki and a cute wolf~!

Gods I Missed You So Much...

2011-08-21T23:37:00.001-07:00

I'd feel awkward too if a pair of creepers like Sukra and Alkane were prowling around me while some desperate guy was giving me a hug.

Sukra and Alkane have come a loooong, long way from my first initial thought during the first write of EB of Dude, let's give this emperor guy some bodyguards! Now they're not just bodyguards, they're creepy stalker-control-freak-bipolar-psychopaths.

Yet somehow I love them....

First art from scratch on this new computer with tablet! Concept art from my manuscript, 3rd pass.

Them Tech Issues Which Were Keepin' Me from Drawin'?

2011-08-18T01:15:00.001-07:00

Them GONE. I have a computer which can run photoshop now, which means I can build my portfolio and get a REAL JOB. (Aka, a job I was trained for in university!)

This is exciting. Expect new art from me any day now. IT WILL HAPPEN.

Also, check out my newly refurbished writing blog. There's not really any new content, but the layout's changed and I promise I'll have some fresh writing up soon. (Yes, I write WORDS!)

My new laptop is just a temporary thing until I get my dream desktop setup which shall come complete with:

1. Freakishly overpowered computer.
2. Freakishly huge scanner (for my traditional art, which does not fit on normal scanners which are crappy and puny.)
3. Dual monitor system... one monitor for movies/youtube, one monitor a CINTIQ.

My Wacom Bamboo tablet (which is still pretty damn new) and MountainHorse (my new lappy) will work fine for now for art! (Once I get photoshop on MountainHorse anyway!)

The 2013 Capilano Commercial Animation class get cintiqs included in their tuition, it's not fair....

Vinintakji Sxyarne Crest

2011-08-13T20:49:00.000-07:00

Working on a colour character design for my character Ykaren right now... so since he wears an armband with his sxyarne (unit) crest on it, I needed to design that unit crest! Here it is; Ykaren's twisted water horse. Messed up anatomy is all a part of hippocampus as well as heraldry, so I'm quite proud to say that this is indeed messed up.

Cleaned Ink Illustrations

2011-07-18T22:43:00.000-07:00

Sketch Dump of Springness

2011-07-18T21:51:00.001-07:00

These are ALL (except for a few) of my sketches since April 12th 2011 to July 14th 2011 from my sketchbook. Enjoy!

Sorry For the Lack of Art!

2011-07-06T17:02:00.000-07:00

I promise, I have art to post, I just can't post anything right now! I've been hobbled by crappy technology, halp! Silliness aside, I should have a new computer this month, which means art will once again grace this page instead of text walls. Hurray!

Sculpting Help Website

2011-06-29T09:50:00.001-07:00

The website was made for model horse crazies who want to make their own horses, but this same information applies to making character model maquettes, so I wanted to plug it here, because it's a very detailed little article. Hope it helps! I know I'll be studying it in more depth! I still need to start a 2011 sculpture!

Also, sorry for the lack of art. Technical difficulties should be resolved completely (or almost completely) next month. Needless to say, I miss drawing on computer! There's a whole wad of traditional art waiting to be scanned too!

Shivra ai Sloveniska CUSTOM from Ruffian Model Breyer

2011-06-21T17:10:00.000-07:00

No WIP photos available, but the custom breyer I've been working on now has three fully feathered legs (only one left!) and a partially resculpted head! She also features proper anatomically correct genitalia and there's a chance I might chop off her tail and sculpt her a new one as the one she's got really messes with her line of action... if I'm insane enough to do that. Anyway, so far, so good - she's really starting to look like an elven horse and I'm enjoying this project. I can't wait until I can prime her and start adding some colour!

The image is what the model originally looked like. Ruffian herself was a real horse with a very tragic story. She lived in a time of civil unrest due to the female fight for equality and when she started beating all of her races, people started thinking of her as something of a heroine and a bannerman for the cause of gender equality. Ruffian was undefeated in 10 career starts and things came to a head when she entered an unofficial match race with North America's top colt in 1975, Foolish Pleasure. Famously, Ruffian's jockey was a regular rider for both horses, but when he was asked to choose between them for a race, he chose not the big strong colt, but the filly Ruffian, saying she was the fastest of the two. With their match race billed as a battle of the sexes by the USA, Ruffian and Foolish Pleasure entered the starting gate. The bell went and they were off, Ruffian eventually gaining a half-length lead over Foolish Pleasure but she never got any further than that, her right foreleg giving beneath her. So great was the filly's will to win that even with her right fore flopping uselessly and only three good legs she was still trying to win. She was taken into surgery and her leg was repaired, but tragically, she had to be euthanized when she would not stop trying to get up. Ruffian was buried with her nose pointed at the finish line at Belmont Park. She was only three years old.

Shivra's story is a great deal different from Ruffian's; she's not a race horse but an elven one and she's rather neurotic, not truly brave at all, but like Ruffian, Shivra is a horse with a lot of heart. Though she's a nervous horse she's unwaveringly loyal and when she puts her mind into what she is doing, she can be quite powerful despite herself. Fast, enduringly sure-footed and with great stamina, Shiv would be the ideal war horse - if she was brave.

In the real world, the closest approximation to what the elven horses in mine look like would be friesians.

The plan is to make Shivra pure black with slight dappling and dark blue eyes as per her species.

Vincent

2011-06-20T08:57:00.000-07:00

I am never, ever doing an ink portrait of somebody's tabby ever again. Seriously - figuring out this cat's stripes took me like three freakin' hours and they're probably still inaccurate! Also, cats are for some reason diabolically hard for me to do in ink, even without ink. (I have NEVER ink illustrated a kitty that I liked! Never!) Oh well. Hopefully they like it. They waited a long time for this portrait of their little fellow. Glad to finally get this up - Vincent's been waiting to be uploaded for WEEKS!

Let's Visually Develop that Shit!

2011-06-06T15:41:00.000-07:00

Just a heads-up, I plan on visually developing the pee out of my book Emperor's Blood for my portfolio. Get ready for shitloads of speedpaints of layouts and everything in between until you can look at alla that and freakin' see what's in my head when I'm thinking about all that!

Definitely a first for authors - an author visually developing her world on a par reserved for animated films and video games.

I hope!

Mamma Kitty's Day

2011-06-02T08:56:00.001-07:00

I don’t ask for sympathy, no, not today,
It’s been two years now since she died and I just want to say -
Today is Mamma Kitty’s day.
A day to remember that she was the best gift that spring ever gave;
She came to our back door, belly full of kittens one February,
Looking for a home and yes, we gave it to her, that little farm cat.

She had a craggy meow, a Sherlock-marked tabby coat of rainbow,
She was fierce and courageous, a warrior queen to be sure -
Yet also she was loving, a queen that way too.
I’m not good at poetry, I’m sure you can tell, but this cat didn’t just raise Smokey;
She raised us as well.

She’s passed on now, her loving presence gone, but I will always remember her
And the paw prints she left upon my heart.
Though now she roams across the bridge in her garden, the garden of her youth,
I still remember how she used to bump her head against my hand,
Nipping it painfully with her teeth if I wasn’t paying attention enough, as if to say -
“Hey, you’re not petting me enough.”

I regret sometimes now that I ever suggested renaming her ‘Grunge,’
For her love of rolling in the dirt but it never stuck and
Mamma Kitty will always be Mamma Kitty and her paw prints?
They will always be on my heart.

Smokey grows old now and yes, Sunny too and I worry for their deaths,
But I know, that at least Mamma Kitty is waiting for them, as she waits for all of us;
But… if she is not… if she has passed on from that too… I won’t fault her for it.

But Mamma Kitty, I miss you and you are the warrior of my heart.
Today is your day girl and I at least, remember you.

Rest in Peace, brave killer of pheasants and lover of dirt baths.
I love you.

1996 - June 2nd 2009

Fudging Weird Ass Comic that Turned into a Storyboard

2011-04-18T23:20:00.000-07:00

MAYBE I'LL FIX THIS.
(Warning: It's fucking huge.)

Lyka Goldflit Reject Sketch from Page 5

2011-04-10T18:52:00.001-07:00

I wanted to explore the use of different languages on this page, but somehow I don't think it's going to happen... maybe next page.

A young Mattie (Hunter's mother) shows up though!

My Brother is Weird 4

2011-04-05T19:49:00.000-07:00

Shiiiiiny.

Teaser for Page 4

2011-04-03T23:33:00.001-07:00

Enjoysss. Solidifying express rider design!

My Brother is Weird 3

2011-03-29T23:46:00.001-07:00

*implodes from self-fanservice*

My Brother is Weird 3 Teaser

2011-03-28T00:30:00.000-07:00

Yep.... it's already sketched and ready for ink! Looks like we get to see some drakoon as-dragon finally!

My Brother is Weird 2

2011-03-27T18:40:00.001-07:00

The second page of my practice comic. I'm uploading the general page art too, because I don't trust computers any more and some of the art on this page is quite nice I think. :)

Oh dear, the shit just hit the fan didn't it? What'll happen next?! *fangirls retardedly at her own story* Yep, I've been obsessing over this nonsense for years.

I miss my manuscript. I got a new (used) computer yesterday, but I have yet to transfer any files onto it because I'm lacking certain equipment as well as er, tech support.

SLOVENISKAAAAAAA.

Creepy Baby Syndrome

2011-03-22T20:10:00.000-07:00

Something to disturb you as you go about your day. Obviously the ugly Jabba the Hutt relative is Hunter while the cute one (who is ever so subtly trying to escape) is Ki. Preview from my practice comic!

Three Horsies of Imperial Sloveniska

2011-03-22T00:17:00.000-07:00

Speedpaint of three of Sloveniska's finest horses; Mystaya, Eqaetz and Relyk.

Viradechtus (colour concept)

2011-03-21T21:41:00.000-07:00

Fan concept for the Konigenwolf Viradechtus, who is a character in A Companion to Wolves by Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette, an excellent book in the animal telepathy genre and one of the best wolf fiction books I have ever read. (I like very few fiction books about wolves - so many authors get them so wrong.)

I don't think I really like this, though I had good ideas (mixing brindle with typical wolf colouration and giving Viradechtus quite contrasting markings because of her pack status which is essentially alpha) but this doesn't really fit how I see her in my head. Aw well. I might try again in the future.

HORSIES!

2011-03-15T23:06:00.000-07:00

WITNESS MY HORSE PROWESS! J/K

My Brother is Weird....

2011-03-10T00:02:00.000-08:00

Who gave Ki a knife? Jeez, he's only like 10!

Practice comic, also, I wanted to do this because there is a disturbing lack of humans in my galleries (YES I CAN DRAW THEM!) and I've only really gotten good at kids in the last year... plus, I'm going f***ing insane from not having a computer. Mine committed suicide by leaping off the end of my bed and now I can't write my manuscript (which is murderrrr), so thus, comic inspired by it. Hopefully I'll do more. This really feels like good practice to me. :)

(Plus I have a really funny image of Ki and Hunter as babies which demands to be drawn and could go on a second page!)

EB Concept Art in Ink

2011-02-27T20:35:00.001-08:00

My computer died today... it committed suicide. EB concept art dump. There's more on the page containing the picture of Ki and Kelveniska sitting together on the mat (Ki as-dragon) but it's very spoilery, so just suffice to say I can't post it even though it's a great page of concept art. (Layout!)

Baaah. I can't write! :(

Northwind's Epic Struggle for Eternal Abstinance

2011-02-14T00:56:00.000-08:00

Read the previous comic here.

Every year for Valentine's Day, (except last year) I draw a comic with my god characters Northwind and Westwind. In the old days, these were cute pictures, but this year and the last year I did a picture, I've made fun of poor Northwind's dilemma instead. You see, Westwind has amnesia. She doesn't remember stuff Northwind tells her, such as when they're supposed to do things and how they're not allowed to have pups or a psychotic immortal bird (the one that gave them their immortality) will rip Northwind's respective reproductive organs from his body if they do. (Or kill them.) So, every year, come Valentine's Day (which is basically mating season for real wild wolves) Northwind pretty much has to run for his life from his mate, who chases him fanatically.

In this comic, Kayoss and Kazik, two other gods, try decide to help him out.

Special thanks to Wei Li and Akeli Juliani for their help and tutorials.

Something cuter and more innocent with my kitten Copernicus:

Reference Gallop for 1st Year Cap Students

2011-02-13T12:19:00.001-08:00

Rough Reference Gallop Cycle from Rosanna Brost on Vimeo.

Working files are on the network.

Here's my opinions of the gallop:
-They should usually be on ones, with a solid looking head and body. The eye is usually more drawn to the head and body, so make these look nice, but make some nice legs too so the whole package is good to look at!
-If they're on twos, it's a slower gallop.
-There's a great potential for squash and stretch in the gallop! Take advantage of this! A great example of beautiful gallop animation is the game Okami.
-Galloping can be quite pushy and edgy if you know what you're doing. This is just a rough one though, so I was really only focusing on getting all the parts right.
-There are two points when all four feet are completely off the ground and the body is in midair.
-Remember what the fetlocks (wrists) do. (Shock absorbers.)
-ALWAYS use references. Different animals move differently!
-Have fun!

Recommended Reading: 'The Art of Animal Drawing' by Ken Hultgren

Practice Comic WIP - Cleaned Lines

2011-02-11T21:18:00.000-08:00

Practice comic! Special thanks to Wei Li, for showing me how to make text panels and speech bubbles! (OMG I fiiiiiiinally know how! This alone will make TPF so much better...)

#871 Bein' Badass

2011-02-10T23:34:00.001-08:00

More art for my friend Wren of her awesome character (who is a protagonist from her comic) #871.

Ashitaka's Yakul

2011-02-10T19:15:00.002-08:00

Watch this puppy get like 5,000 comments and page views on deviantART just 'cus it's from Princess Mononoke.

Ashitaka

2011-02-10T19:15:00.001-08:00

King Julius Manfred the 2nd

2011-02-04T19:05:00.001-08:00

Y'know it's sad when a $80 dollar tablet kicks a $2000 Cintiq's ass, but today one definitely did. Something was off with the calibration or something and it made drawing not-so-fun. Anyway, this is dedicated to the awesome Samantha Wheeldon for always being so nice and happy to see me. Cheers a girl up to meet somebody so gosh darn friendly! Samantha named this guy, so here you go, hope he cheers her up like she did for me. :)

Inspired by the London Museum episode of 'Museum Secrets' on History Television where they explored the idea that the extinct Barbary Lion may in fact be still alive in zoos as the Moroccan Royal Lion, which are so gosh darn dopey looking and cute that I needed to draw one!

This be mah first time colouring a lion. Went for realish colours as usual.

Awesome! This got featured on Museum Secret's facebook page as fan art - how awesome is that?! :D

Ki Chard (As-Dragon) EMPEROR'S BLOOD Production Art

2011-02-03T01:30:00.000-08:00

Vininiska ai Sloveniska as-dragon for your delectation! This will be added to the Ki Chard chalk talk post as well, to keep that post accurate. (Here's hoping for a Keel or Hunter post soon too!) Making production art for my trilogy Emperor's Blood is one thing I can never get tired of. I've been drawing the stuff for years, yet I'm still not sick of it and in fact I want to draw moar, moar, moar! Well, that and write, write, write! EB's so fun to work on, I'm sure I'll be sad when I finally finish it, but gratified to to see it eventually in published form. Enjoy this people - this is one piece that is not going to get any more public than this seldom visited little blog.

YAY! I did it! I did a colour as-dragon reference! (I want to dance I'm so happy. Yeeeee!)

Also, check out this amazing first ever for Emperor's Blood - art of as-elf Ki - drawn by the amazing Winkymouse of DeviantART who got his typical expression of confused disquiet down absolutely perfectly.

Computer can handle low-res stuff like this and my writing it turns out (though only with the big fan pointed at it).

Don't mind the cryptic Sloveniskan wot! This is mainly a reference for me!

P.S. Forgive grammar mistake on 'vertebra.' This has been fixed to the proper 'vertebrae' on master copy, but it will not be changed here.

Technical Difficulties Advisory

2011-01-23T17:39:00.000-08:00

Dear Watchers,

Due to extreme technical difficulties, there will likely be no new art here for a while. My laptop just isn't working. Until it's fixed, the only way I will be submitting anything new (much less creating anything new) for a while will by by using other people's computers. My computer has shown that it can barely handle the most simple of processes, so using programs like Word Processor and Photoshop are out of the question.

Thank you for understanding,

Rosanna P. Brost
Copperbane Studio

Full Wolf Moon

2011-01-20T01:11:00.001-08:00

A tribute picture for Full Wolf Moon which is very lucky to exist because my laptop, which has been having horrible technical difficulties, malfunctioned and restarted during the course of making this a total of SIX times, despite having a big external fan less than a foot away pointed directly at its vents. It sounds like a helicopter. There's definitely something wrong with its internal fan!

I'm SO lucky that this saved. My computer gave a warning halfway through exporting into .png format that it was about to restart, but then just a second before it did photoshop finished saving the file, so I didn't have to try saving it again! Thank goodness! I'm so relieved that this is done now and that my client likes it. Now I can sit back and watch history television while contemplating the icky feeling in my throat. (Joy. Sickness. It's so fun.) Currently unemployed, hoping to be hired soon. I took my 7 month old kitten for a walk for the first time today! (January 19th) He was brave enough to come out of his carrier into the great outside about five or six times, which brings me to the fact that there seems to be a lot of sixes in my life today - six restarts with Lappy, six hours producing this picture and six times Coper ventured out into the great outdoors! Hope that's a good thing. My favourite number was always six.

The moon in this piece was reused from that awful TV bumper I made last year in university. A smart artist makes things like that reusable - it was a really gorgeous moon.

Oh! One more thing in afterthought - my art's gotten a bit rebellious since university I've noticed. You can see that here in the sketchy lines on the wolf; before I would have put a lot of great care into my lines and coloured them, but now I don't. I still put a lot of effort sometimes, but a lot of the time I just like the rougher, more human look. I rebel these days against conformity. I want my art to look like a human being drew it, not a machine.

Wolf Sketch

2011-01-19T19:32:00.001-08:00

A reject sketch for a piece I'm working on, which was nice but just didn't have what I was looking for.

Forcing Myself to Draw 1

2011-01-07T18:36:00.000-08:00

Dansen & Manuska - Colour Experiment for TPF

2011-01-05T18:24:00.000-08:00

In this new life of my graphic novel The Prayer Fulfilled, things are a tiny bit different. The colouring has been simplified, the art improved and the shading also simplified. In this we see very simple dark blue shading with Gaussian Blur applied to it, simplistic colouring with nothing over done and just a little bit of sparkle to the elven kitties' eyes to make them seem alive. Since the backgrounds depend so much on lineart in my style, so shall the characters, with colouring being less of a focus. A gradient 'mood' layer of butter yellow and blue-black has been added over top, set to multiply and adjusted in opacity. Because it is so dark, hard painterly shadows which are easy to do help the background. Here is some WIPs:

Help credit & inspiration: Andrea Caroll, Samantha Wheeldon - thank you!

Ki - On Model (Rimarian Chalk Talk XD)

2011-01-05T14:53:00.000-08:00

A referential post for anyone who might want to ever attempt to drew my drakoon protagonist Ki, which will also serve as a compiled reference for me too! There's lots of pictures of Ki hanging around, but very few of him just being on model, so here's a few which ARE on model! First, a reference to his face, alongside another protagonist of Emperor's Blood, Kelveniska.

For me, Ki's can be a bit of a hard little jerk to draw. He's got some fairly weird proportions in both his forms, but particularly in his human form he gives me grief. Here's some key points I use when drawing him and remember to click on images to view them bigger:

- Ki is SHORT and SMALL. In the story I list him as being about 5"4, but I'm not really that great at figuring out to-scale heights, so I pretty much draw him as always being a head shorter than everyone else. Growing up, he suffered from human negligence causing him to live in a constant state of starvation, which is why he has not grown to his would-be full height of around 6 foot, despite his strong drakoon DNA. In short, Ki is STUNTED.

- Ki is SCRAWNY. As before said, the guy was literally starved growing up. It's not that his human caretakers meant to almost kill him, it's just that they were too oblivious to realize that he was not their species, despite some fairly obvious signs. Brainwashed and oblivious himself, Ki couldn't help himself although he knew something was wrong. Though Ki is also scrawny just because he's a drakoon, most drakoon are a bit better put together than him. Without his clothes you can count his ribs and he's one of those guys whose elbows are like razer blades because they're so BONY. To show his scrawniness, I typically draw a slight line pointing off from the bridge of his nose to show his hallowed eyes and another line to show his cheekbones. Before the drakoon got a hold of him, if we think in terms of the Ki in the story, he was probably one ugly sunovabitch.

- Ki's hair is short and sticks straight up, kind of in a military way but better looking. This should be easily seen in all these references.

- Ki is kind of girly or effeminate. This means he has nice thin eyebrows and stuff. When I draw him, I think of him of being refined in his features even though he is scrawny. He should look young. If I could draw hands, his would be lovely, pianist's hands.

- Ki rides horses, so he is almost never seen out of riding or paddock boots. He absolutely does not wear shoes. Clothing wise, while in Escavia he's usually seen in either his university uniform, his polo uniform, or a wool sweater with a sarong over his pants. (Sarongs being popular items around his time in Escavia.) In Sloveniska he is typically either wearing his full formal regalia, his military kit without full formalities (gaiters) or his ceremonial garb of white dress-like tunic thing, cloth belt and pants with no foot wear. When wearing his Sloveniskan military kit he should always look kind of stiff in the neck, as he's wearing around four layers of armour around that area, so he can't really bend it very far.

- Ki's eye colour varies from pale amber to bright gold. Gold is usually seen when he is anxious or afraid, while amber is when he is calm. This change in colour is actually due to shifting in the cells of his irises from his elven form to his dragon form and as a result, when his irises are gold, his pupils should be slitted. (Think CAT!) Eyes are rounder when he is calmer and in elven form, they actually look quite human, which contributed to Ki never being found by his kind until he was eighteen.

- For expressions, Ki's fun. He's got large, expressive golden eyes (pupils are slits when he's anxious - think cat eyes) and because of his personality, he's easily outraged, particularly when met by his cousin Keel. He's scared easily, angered easily and is touchy about his height. In EB, there's even a passage where he sees the Emperor Kelveniska shirtless and feels inferior. In fact, he spends a lot of time feeling inferior, when actually he's not. Ki does not like his position in life and will do everything he can to change it. He's selfish, but he also really loves his foster brother Hunter (who is a human.) Ki is nearly always suspicious of things around him and is extremely slow to trust. He is insecure. From the start of Emperor's Blood to the end in Imperial Spirit, Ki will change dramatically as a character.

Ki as-dragon is where things get tough for this reference, because I recently redesigned dragon-form drakoon, so I am no longer sure of what his markings are as-dragon. This is not a subject I have much explored, but here are a few things to remember:

- Ki is an IMPERIAL. They're like another breed of drakoon. This means that instead of being a great big ugly brute, he's a little on the pretty side with an arabesque sort of face. His legs are long and his body is sleek, built for speed. His wings are angled like a falcon's, meant for quick dives and aerial stunts. In dragon form, he's even more effeminate than in his elven form, but don't tell him that.

- HOWEVER because Ki is stunted, he's still a bony little bastard and as such, his fetlocks and hocks are thick. His knees stick out. He should look a bit like a puppy in proportions as he is not filled out. He is scrawny. I have a drawing of this somewhere, but I probably have yet to scan it. Just like in his elven form, he's smaller than everyone else!

- Ki always wears a leather halter on his face as well as a chain loop over his nose which serves as a muzzle, which is there so that people may control him (keep him from running away.) This is often accompanied by a leather lead rope, all of which Ki hates.

- Ki wears gaiters on his legs. These will be explained if I ever get around to drawing his (*&^!! as-dragon reference. (UPDATE: Look up the page for his colour ref! it exists now!)

- Ki has a tattoo under his upper lip on the right side of his head of the Sloveniskan crest.

- There is slight grey banding along the end of his tail.

- Eventually, Ki has tattoos on the insides of his hindquarters and along the underside of his wings. Throughout EB, the first book of the trilogy his identification is mainly in the form of blue paint on his wings and tail.

Ki as a kid looks something like this:

There will hopefully be updates to this post in the future. As it stands there are at least two pictures I would like to add which need to be scanned (Ki in ceremonial garb and Ki with Ykaren) but I have not the time for that right now. Hopefully in the future there will also be a complete reference of his draconic form, in colour. I leave you with the Sloveniskan crest which Ki wears on a chain around his neck!

Just Because!

2010-12-20T01:26:00.001-08:00

Season's Greetings!

Also, changed the logo design today. Hopefully it looks better! Kudos to anyone who recognizes where the dragon crest is from! (Yes I drew it - a very long time ago and its lacking quality adds to the authenticity of what it was made for.)

Another thing - total score on what I found searching through my files today - the original ink work for my Lamina, Chartan layout from the Amsterdam layout project last year, all ready to go for digital colour! Yahoo! I know what I'll be playing with!! It's like finding an unexpected gift! High quality layout ink for colour!! Whenever I extracted these lines I was thinking like a genius, that's for sure.

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2010-11-27T21:14:00.000-08:00

Sexy, Sexy Till Tape! A Halloween Special!

2010-10-31T23:42:00.000-07:00

You know you're fail when the only method you have for drawing concept art for your work is by drawing on till tape when it's slow at work! Here's a compilation of about two months of till tape - enjoy and Happy Halloween!

I uploaded STUFF!

2010-10-16T19:45:00.001-07:00

Look! Stuff! Yay! Just some scans from my current sketchbook, I have a million more where these came from. Special thanks to Capilano U' for the scanner usage. :D

Enviro Concept for TPF - Escavian Farm

2010-09-09T21:18:00.000-07:00

Most of TPF takes place in the capital city of Serenity, but since much of Escavia is for me the countryside, I figured that that was a pretty good place to start for conceptualizing the civilized (human) world of Rimer. (I'm also very inspired by classical farm life.) I think from here I can work up to ideas for the city, as well as for other places on the world map. Rimer's an interesting place because I can't base its buildings off of just one place or point in history. I can't just rip ideas from Amsterdam like we did in uni. Rimer's different, because it's in the future, yet it's not high tech, so I must take ideas from our modern day for the architecture. I can't do weird sci-fi stuff like in Star Wars. For me, Rimer's buildings are a combination of now, the 1800 to early 1900s and London. Expect it to look old, grungy and yet flavoured with the present. That's what I'm trying to convey in all of the human stuff. I hope it works.

Drawn on a Cintiq at Capilano University.

What? A Post?!

2010-08-09T23:14:00.000-07:00

Yes, and I have a new tablet too! Just be thankful I didn't use my original announcement pic to tell you guys that, as genius as that picture undoubtably is. If any of you guys know me on Facebook you can see the brilliance there. It's infinitely one of my best pieces ever. (J/K. It's a smiley face with cheap bg colouring that I did in approximately ten minutes, but it was a great practice!)

Coincidentally, this pic is a practice too. Gettin' the feel of my new Wacom Bamboo!

Any parallels between this and other graphic designs is probably just coincidental. Probably. I was just drawing whatever the hell I felt like drawing. I had a bad day, so I drew my arctic wolf character Brost in sorta cheap Okami style for shitz. Enjoy.

Actually, I like this style so go away if you don't. It's fun to draw in. I did a huge propaganda piece in this once. SHUDDER AT MY AWESOME SKILLS!

How to Buy My Book - Updated

2010-06-08T17:08:00.000-07:00

Here's a simplified low down on how to buy the paperback book.

1. Lulu $23.19 US + $6.99 shipping = $30.19
^{I get $7 Royalty}

2. Unsigned via me $15 US + $7 shipping + $1 paypal service fee = $23 US
^{I recommend this. If you live in Vancouver, Canada and you're willing to meet I can sell you a signed copy for this price, but ONLY if you are in Vancouver! You pay ALL shipping! Keep in mind Vancouverites - I might be moving soon.}

3. Signed $23 US + shipping (which includes secure packing) to wherever you are.

CANADA - $12.28
US - $18.28
WORLDWIDE - $34.29
^{As much as I want to give out signed copies, I can't recommend this third option. It's just plain expensive. If you want a signed copy enter my contests - you can get a free one from there.}

To buy books through me, simply send me a note or an email (planetrimer@gmail.com) to tell me that you want it. I WILL NOT SELL YOU A BOOK VIA COMMENTS. For obvious reasons you must supply me an address to ship the book to. I take paypal, cheque or money order. :)

I apologize for the service fee, but I can't handle even paying a dollar for you guys (that's my royalty!). I didn't know about the fee, but I do now. I hope everyone who buys the book enjoys it. :)

Sketchbook Stuff.......

2010-06-04T21:45:00.001-07:00

Just some random ink and sketches I've done in the past week. There's more but my stupid scanner is too small for some of them and a lot of them are concepts for Emperor's Blood.

In Loving Memory of a Warrior Queen

2010-06-02T00:22:00.001-07:00

Mamma Kitty Brost
May 1996 - June 2nd 2009

A year has past since you last pressed nose and teeth to my hand, but your paw prints remain upon my heart forevermore. You who caught pheasants and cared for your babies, noble queen of all cats, rest peacefully in your garden. Know that you are missed, but sleep peacefully dear heart, for you of all creatures deserve love everlasting. You transcended the boundaries of species and it is from you that I learned what true love is.

Sleep easy forever in your garden Mamma Kitty. Someday I'll join you there.

I love you.

In dedication to all good pets who leave us too soon. Amen.

Commander Snick is Ready for Battle!

2010-05-31T17:39:00.001-07:00

Concept art for my novel series!

Cat the Border Collie PITCH PARTY

2010-05-31T17:08:00.000-07:00

Here's my pitch for Animation Magazine! Hellyeah!

Robin Hood Napkin Doodles! Wee!

2010-05-30T21:53:00.000-07:00

So, finally getting off my lazy ass to post something for you guys! (Well, not lazy really. I've been working hard on my books and finding a job, which is pretty vital, considering y'know, survival and whatnot. I feel sort of sick right now actually because I haven't really been eating. I ate Mr. Noodle and toast today. MR.NOODLE AND TOAST. THAT IS NOT HEALTHY. Oh and cookies. For some reason I made cookies. They were good. They made me feel more sick.

-1 cup white sugar
-1 cup icing sugar
-2 eggs
-1 tbsp of milk/soy milk/calcium-like liquid substance
-2 cups white flour
-Splash of Vanilla
-Chocolate Chips
Mix well, yadda yadda, place on cookie sheet thing, back at 350 for 20 minutes. YUMMY DIABETES COOKIES!

This concludes my random made up recipe for the day.)

Win a Free Copy of Ashes of Hope!

2010-05-20T01:38:00.001-07:00

That's right! If you're a dA artist you can win a free copy of my book Ashes of Hope! Contest rules here.

This is the lineart I'm providing for the contest.

Missed Sketches from Lifedrawing

2010-05-13T17:07:00.000-07:00

Found these while I was cleaning out my desk at Capilano, enjoy. Born of Fire and Wild Fire concept art with a few random extras. The creepy oocca was drawn by Rachel Stolberg.

The Elven Stalk

2010-04-30T22:33:00.000-07:00

An illustration for Encyclopaedia Rimaria of the elven mare Vera performing a fictional stalking gait. About an hour of work total.

Ki Does Not Approve (of Capes)

2010-04-27T21:24:00.001-07:00

Final (?) concept for Ki's formal regalia in Emperor's Blood.

Kayoss - Pt 1

2010-04-25T18:41:00.000-07:00

More gratuitous sock theft. This time with stripes! Yes, there's a pt 2. I haven't started it yet. I'm going home now to do some last minute character design.

Anyway, enjoy!

Also, here's a very old WIP of that Jeka and Djinn scene. It's been improved greatly since this.

...and here's an animation I did called 'Fetch!' Cat the border collie is above fetching balls. He fetches sheep.

Kayoss Animation WIP - Just poses on twos

2010-04-24T19:02:00.001-07:00

Just poses on twos. THIS HAS NOT BEEN TIMED OUT YET. Posted because it's sort of funny. I'm further than this already. Enjoy.

Emperor's Blood - Concept Art

2010-04-24T18:37:00.000-07:00

People probably wonder why I draw concept art for my books, but the reason is, is that it helps me visualize them. It puts my thoughts on paper, so that instead of me going back to read boring notes, I can simply look upon my concept art, which can be of anything from future scenes, to the characters themselves and sometimes even their environments. My library of concept art for EB will likely never be equalled, as the book as been in production nearly as long as AOH has been in editing (about four years) but its libary is important to me. Through it I have a window into how I used to draw and I look upon scenes which no longer exist within the canon story. I can look at these and dream of new ones inspired by them, taking from what was old. I never completely scrap an idea. The cast of Emperor's Blood, while a bunch of guys with some pretty bad problems, are very dear to me and have taught me more about art than any of my other characters. These guys taught me to draw humans (even though they themselves are not.) They taught me everything as I have struggled through the years to draw a good face, or a good body in general. I'm only now beginning to draw good human poses and as my anatomy improves, I'm looking forwards to finishing my goal of making model packs for the entire cast of EB.

Why is this such a delicious porject for me? Because nearly all the guys in EB are the same species and racially, look much the same. I get to work with their anatomical guidelines, finding ways to make them individuals while still sticking to my rules. For instance, Ki's really scrawny and he's shorter than the rest of the cast by about a head. In EB, he's described as being about 4"5. He's got a bit of a Napolean complex. (Napolean was freaking awesome.) His hair is short and clean; he's like a well groomed horse, only drakoon. He's refined and a bit girly, just a little. In dragon form Ki's the same and his teeth do not overlap his bottom jaw. In contrast, Alkane is a literal tank of a guy. He's barrel chested, brawny and he's got mean little eyes like a stereotypical drill sergeant. He could whoop your ass and not break a sweat. He's also really hard to draw, because he's the exact opposite of catty little Ki. It's like putting a draft horse next to a pony. It's fun. Then there's Kelveniska, who looks like Ki because they're related, but who is taller, stronger - he's what Ki should look like, even though he doesn't. This project is teaching me more about character design than anything else ever has, especially since these characters aren't just characters to me. They're my buddies, my friends. I want to do them justice. That's what being a writer and also an artist means.

I hope you guys like today's dump of concept art. :)

Eqaetz

2010-04-23T13:56:00.000-07:00

Another horse... I'm hoping to do a huge sort of breed model pack for elven horses soon, so this is part of it.

A Rather Large Dump Hurrurur

2010-04-21T12:35:00.001-07:00

Craploads of EB and some lifedrawing - note, there's more stupid concept sketches for EB than there is actually decent lifedrawings lol. I like lifedrawing, but whenever I do it it just makes me want to draw other stuff. The last thing is something I forgot to post. The topmost sketch is Kelveniska leaning over Ki, being kind of creepy.

This is Me

2010-04-19T14:52:00.001-07:00

Personal art for gradshow.

AOH Propaganda!

2010-04-16T18:43:00.001-07:00

AOH Drakoon Comic

2010-04-16T15:13:00.000-07:00

The drakoon are excited about the upcoming release of my book. XD

Hunteriska

2010-04-12T18:52:00.001-07:00

Heheheh... shirtless Hunter I drew in lifedrawing and slapped some colour too. This is during a portion of my manuscript Emperor's Blood that I like to call 'Sketzine Training Camp' or 'Fort Nowhere Arc.' In any case, there's some gratuitous shirtlessness in it, because Hunter and Keel go all wild n' free... you know, like wild horses, only weirder. XD Hunter's actually wearing his full tunic here, (the tails are his sleeves) but the focus was on his eh... upper half. So yeah! XD Enjoy!

FINALLY solidifying Hunter's design after like four years.

Speedtastical forest bg FTW. Flat colour version for ref.

Lamina, Chartan Layout

2010-04-10T16:58:00.001-07:00

This is from way back when, but I never scanned it, so here it is now! This is my Amsterdam layout, which through my usual obsessiveness with my Copperbane Series was not-so-magically transformed into a part of the capital city of Chartan, Lamina. I should colour this one sometime; I actually like it!

Halt

2010-04-09T15:03:00.000-07:00

Finished it! Here you go guys. Born of Fire concept art.

WAAAH HORSIES

2010-04-01T15:18:00.000-07:00

If I have time I'll totally shade and slap these two with a background. (I'm think'n cheesy horses running through water scene FTW.) Also, sketch of moar awesomeness to come! The lineart for Shivra (the black horse) appears on this year's Capilano Animation Gradbook. Hellzyeah!

The Very Long Awaited Velociraptor Post!

2010-03-31T12:45:00.001-07:00

Finally! Last autumn I got into a mad craze about velociraptors and for a good few weeks, they were all I was willing to draw. They're all one particular specimen, my little man Moki, who wants to be a dominant raptor someday. He tries hard, he's cute, he has teeth and a killer claw - what more is there to love? I adore drawing raptors because of their powerful hindquarters, ramrod tail and intelligence. Freakin' amazing animals. Sort of sad they don't survive to this day!

I want to animate one!

The last post is an example of what happens when your lifedrawing professor - who likely does not know a lick of raptor anatomy - decides to critique your work for no reason. I think he was bored. It was pretty annoying in any case, because all I had meant to do was show him the sketch as one artist shows another to say "look what I drew for fun!" Anyway, everyone got a good laugh out of it after he was gone. (Also, the best part is that his notes made absolutely no sense to me.) Anyway, don't let your fanatic life drawing teacher near stuff you want to keep!

Polo!

2010-03-31T12:39:00.000-07:00

Some great sketches of my character Ki practicing polo on his horse Griffin which I drew last October and for some reason forgot about (Travesty! These are excellent!) Anyway, enjoy!

Massively Massive Sketch Dump

2010-03-31T10:19:00.000-07:00

A helluva lot of Emperor's Blood and Born of Fire concept art, as well as some more drawings of Cat. I've been trying to figure out the anatomy of my scrawny drakoon character Ki Chard so that I can draw him better, so forgive the anatomical drawing. Also, kudos if you can spot Spirit! #871 belongs to Wren.

Life Drawing!

2010-03-31T10:06:00.001-07:00

Trying to pick which ones I'll use for my gradshow page.

An Extra Special WIP...

2010-03-26T16:32:00.000-07:00

Just working on the back cover now. :)

Lotsa Kayoss

2010-03-24T16:13:00.000-07:00

Moarrr portfolio stuff....

Kayli on Wing

2010-03-23T18:40:00.000-07:00

For gradshow and promoting my book.

Kudos to anyone who mentally splices this picture with the one in the last post.

Lac Leviathan WIP

2010-03-22T16:19:00.000-07:00

FINALLY, I am able to post a new work in progress pic! Not sure if this is done or not layout-wise, but shit's gonna fly scene wise. (This is an illustration, not something I designed for animation.) It's taken many hours already to get to this point. But now it's time for lifedrawing, so I'm gonna leave off the insanity for now. Used a nice ref of Bow Lake in the Rockies for the colours.

So Not for the Portfolio

2010-03-19T14:41:00.000-07:00

A sign of a good creator of mystical worlds is when they can make fun of their own stuff. Drakoon like to kill each other. What's really funny? The two blokes talking in the 1st three panels are ALLIES. Yeah. I could go into a very long explaination of why they like war so much and how the heck drakoon control their own countrymen, but I have no time for that right now sooooo enjoy the weird random comic!

Lac Leviathan (Shading)

2010-03-19T13:09:00.001-07:00

Sketzine Luvre

2010-03-19T10:07:00.001-07:00

For my portfolio.

Lac Leviathan Layout (Lines)

2010-03-17T14:34:00.001-07:00

Lineart for a final project sorta thing I'm doing. It has to do with gradbook. I also really, REALLY wanted another layout. Obviously it's tilted on purpose.

MANGOS

2010-03-10T15:05:00.001-08:00

They are delicious.

Some Colourrr Stuff!

2010-03-10T12:05:00.000-08:00

MEOW check me out! XD