ATA: Bionic Boyd

Did I post this one already? If not, I’m posting it now because I need to reference it for a joke on tumblr. Click on it to go fullscreen.

Behind a cut for MAJOR FADE SPOILER

ATA: Boyd’s (Bad) Advice #4.5: Naming the Boyds

The votes are in! By popular demand, Hot Mess won out over Under Covers… but to thank the people who gave feedback (and to say sorry to the Under Cover voters) I made this.

 

ATA: Boyd’s (Bad) Advice #4: Seducing your lover

 

 

 

I kept having problems with the really long pictures I used to do not showing up properly so I split this one into 3 pages. Hopefully that helps.

Study Date Boyd should probably stop trying to get Hot Mess and Forever Emo to ever do anything, tbh…

PS: Help me decide–I still need names! Right now it’s:

• Study Date Boyd
• Hot Mess Boyd (or Undercovers Boyd or Under Covers Boyd)
• Forever Emo Boyd (or Kill Me Now Boyd, Suicide Alley Boyd, Mo’ Emo Boyd, or…??)
• NO IDEA on our Fade friend. I just call him Srsface for now but he needs a legit name. I’m also trying to decide if I should have the black line show or not on him, because that’s technically a spoiler for people who aren’t through the series. That’s why one page he has it and the other he doesn’t… I wanted to see which looked better. Thoughts?

Sugar Skull (WIP Files 11/1/14)

I got done with my NaNo quota for the day early (actually, I went over what I needed), so I took a break and ended up deciding to draw a sugar skull with my watercolor pencils.

A close up so you can see a few more details:

I used Prismacolor watercolor pencils and a watercolor brush with a tip to do this.

WIP Files: 10/26/14, ART: “Loss” – Vivienne

I’ve been useless again this weekend as far as getting anything done in writing. I was watching a video (Girl by the Ocean by ThePortraitArt on youtube) and stopped at 0:38 when I had inspiration. I wanted to draw Vivienne looking at a candle lit in Cedrick’s memory, with the darkness pooling in around her. I didn’t want to lose the idea so I did a lot of things wrong–used the wrong kind of paper, didn’t realize at first that the pencils I had were watercolor, had very limited color options so I accidentally made her skin too close to the color of her hair, made her lips bleed out, couldn’t decide on an angle for the table so I let it just disappear, plus her proportions are all wonky– but that’s what WIP Files are for, right? Not care about all the things wrong and just DO something.

So, here’s Vivienne, mourning her loss. The songs that were in my head while drawing it were Safe & Sound by Taylor Swift, and Castle Walls by Christina Aguilera.

ATA: Boyd’s (Bad) Advice #3: Body image

An anon asked on tumblr:

Boyd’s answer:

ATA: Boyd’s (Bad) Advice #2: Baking

Another Boyd’s (Bad) Advice column. Camry said she wanted advice from Boyd on baking, so I made her this. (Camry, you probably shouldn’t follow any of the Boyds’ recommendations…)