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Gonna be anywhere near Austin, TX this March? Well I’ll be exhibiting at STAPLE! at Marchesa Hall and Theatre, March 7th and 8th. Check out the site for more info and pass prices! There’ll be tons of really awesome creators there, so don’t miss out!

I’ll be selling some new humor and horror collections (which include some stories I’ve never published online!) and giving out some free goodies as well. Feel free to stop by and say hi!

The first page of my new science fiction webcomic, The Last Cowboy, is now up.

www.thelastcowboycomic.com/

It will be updated every Monday and Friday, at least until I finish school, after which I will decide whether to keep the schedule or increase the frequency of posts to M-W-F.

Just making a list to keep track of all the art challenges I'm doing now.

Warning: enormous journal is enormous.

muura's 100 Technique Challenge
Status: In Progress

1. Draw an image, copy it three times and colour each differently/with different colours. Bonus!: use different media for each. koshou.deviantart.com/art/The-…
2. Draw something with a stereotypically feminine theme or style. (Flowers, pastel colours, beautiful subjects?) koshou.deviantart.com/art/The-…
3. Draw something with a stereotypically masculine theme or style. (Action, explosions, rough lines and angles?) koshou.deviantart.com/art/SHAR…
4. Draw something that is supposed to arouse positive emotion from the viewer (amusement, joy, sympathy). you can use both technique and the subject of the drawing to achieve this.
5. Draw something with no same colour used twice.
6. Draw a short comic of 3-7 panels.
7. Drawing using only two colours.
8. Cg a drawing, colouring it with three depths of shades and three depths of lighting.
9. Cg a drawing in black and white.
10. Draw an imaginary object.
11. Cg. Scetch, lineart, colour. Use an hour or more for every step.
12. Traditional. Scetch, lineart, colour. Use an hour or more for every step.
13. Cg a drawing using tools that mimic brushes and tools in traditional media.
14. Cg/traditional draw a face, male or female. Design a decorative makeup/tattoo to decorate the face.
15. Traditional inks. Colour with colour pencils.
16. Scetch a dynamic pose of a human. Feets can't touch ground and hands can't be on sides of the waist. No matter if you finish or not.
17. Draw something with not your usual style. Be it a mock or not.
18. A 10-frame animation. (Flash, Flash Player. Adobe Imageready, etc) fav.me/d2yo5py
19. Do a pencil-drawing with pencil/charcoal and eraser only, and finish it with proper shading and such. koshou.deviantart.com/art/MAKE…
20. Draw something very detailed.
21. Work out a traditional work that has 3d elements added to it, like fabrics and plants and etc
22. Draw something very simple.
23. Draw something very small. (for example; A5/500 x 500) koshou.deviantart.com/art/Nour…
24. Draw something very big. (for example; A3/2000 x 2000)
25. Draw something that is supposed to arouse negative emotion from the viewer (sadness, nausea, anger). you can use both technique and subject of the drawing to achieve this.
26. Draw anything with animals. If you usually draw these often, draw an animal you have never EVER drawn before.
27. A traditional painting using ONLY acrylic/watercolour/oil-colours, et cetera.
28. Draw something you've never drawn before, not even scetched.
29. Do several scetches of the object/organism you have the most trouble drawing.
30. Traditional draw something using colourpencils only
31. Draw a zoomed in image of a bodypart of a human, something from neck down.
32. A traditional inked lineart, coloured with one or two colours only.
33. Draw something from the bird-eye view.
34. Paint something with coffee, strong tea or any other food-substances. Go crazy!
35. Draw something surreal.
36. Draw a battle.
37. A traditional pencil-scetch coloured with watercolours.
38. Draw a nude human. No exaggerated tits or penises.
39. Take two photos of ordinary everylife objects. Try and combine the two by drawing them into a whole new object.
40. A pixel-drawing with pixels only. Atleast 100px x 100px big. koshou.deviantart.com/art/Pixe…
41. Draw a bird flying.
42. Do a cg using magic-wand and fill-tool only.
43. Draw a vehicle.
44. Do a collage. Of magazine-clippings, fabrics, buttons, pins, etc + you can use an ink-pen to create effects or details.
45. Cg a drawing without a scetch or a lineart. Begin with the colours and continue with the colours only. fav.me/d3i25ou
46. Draw a portrait of a live human of your choice. Caricature or realistic.
47. Design a decorative outfit of your liking.
48. Do a small sculpture, no more 20 cm or less than 10 cm in height. You can use clay or even play-doh. koshou.deviantart.com/art/Blac…
49. Draw a drawing and colour it with three shades of one colour only.
50. Draw an animal with surrealism added to it.
51. Draw an imaginary/existing landscape.
52. Draw something with foreshortening.
53. Pick two characters (your own or someone elses), male and female. Genderbender them.
54. Take a photo, and cg a drawing on it, like the character or the drawings belongs into the photograph.
55. Draw something using only one line aka not lifting your pencil off the paper. You can do this with tablet too but it might be harder seeing how the work-space is limited?
56. Draw someone chubby.
57. Draw an imaginary/existing building.
58. Draw a character doing two things at once. Standing/breathing et cetera not allowed, something dynamic and lively please.
59. Draw a character doing four things at once. Same notes as above.
60. Draw something traditionally and Photoshop it so it looks digital.
61. Draw an anthromorphic character.
62. Oekaki, 500 x 500
63. Draw someone thin.
64. Draw your least favourite thing, presentable, not a mockery.
65. Copy a famous painting and change things to your liking but not so much it's not recognisable anymore.
66. Draw a picture copying famous styles, art noveau, children's illustrations, church paintings, et cetera
67. Open a book near you and draw what's happening on the page.
68. Listen to a song, and illustrate what it reminds you of or what visuals it brings to your mind. fav.me/d2u66kz
69. Close your eyes and draw five scribbles on a piece of paper. Then, try to make a drawing or character out of each scribble. You can add on to each as much as you like, but you can't erase any part of the scribble.
70. Do a drawing using your feet.
71. Do a drawing using your non-primary hand.
72. Do a fingerpainting.
73. Put tiny splotches of watercolour on paper and wait for them to dry. Add lines to the splotches with a pen and see if you can make them something else than just drops of colour. Here is a fantastic example of what I mean.
74. Draw a person with one exaggerated bodypart
75. Draw a diarylike comic-illustration of your day.
76. Illustrate a person's change of expression through a comic (3-5 panels)
77. Draw a character (yours or someone elses) in a style of another series or person. (Not your own style.)
78. Create a wallpaper for your desktop. (Preferably from your own drawing)
79. Draw something beautiful and ugly. Use your imagination!
80. Draw an image, copy it three times and colour each with a different light-source and/or type of lighting
81. Choose a character or subject and draw it in a single or three different compositions three times, experimenting with a different line type/weight/dynamic in each one.
82. Choose three different media and three distinct textures and create a triptych composition in which you experiment with rendering each texture in some way: realistically, abstractly, etc.
83. Take a sheet of paper and fill it by drawing objects and people from life. Make it a pile of sketches rather than a controlled piece. Try and colour the finished result.
84. Draw a picture without erasing anything, including the scetches and mistakes
85. Draw a huge insect with all the details visible.
86. Design five different underwear in five different materials.
87. Draw something seasonal.
88. Draw something using shading only. (Black on white, etc)
89. Draw something using lighting only. (White on black, etc)
90. Have a friend you haven't gift-arted yet? Surprise them.
91. Take three or four pieces of traditional media and make an image using only those tools. (Like for example a piece of coal, a red colouring pencil and a normal pencil. ) Eraser doesn't count!
92. Draw something that deciphers an emotion with technique and colours. Avoid drawing the face, if you must add a person in it as well. Extremes are very good, like misery, anxiousness and joy.
93. Draw character-interaction, preferably something you don't usually do (like if you normally do "boylovs" then hetero-pairings would be a nice change? same applies to people who always draw girls and boys together.) also if you usually do erotica, try friendship, and if you've never tried anything steamy, now's the chance.
94. Draw an image that supports something against your beliefs. A presentable one.
95. Draw an image that has a message you support.
96. Hit "random deviant" button until you find a deviant with an original character. Draw it, and no skipping! (Show it to the person too!)
97. Put your playlist on random, pick a song, find the lyrics for it and choose a random line or two which you will illustrate.
98. Draw one of your human-characters as an animal/one of your animal-characters as a human.
99. Pick one of your old, old drawings, and redraw it.
100. Congratulate yourself for a work well done and do an appropriate image of CELEBRATION. This is obviously the final task. I hope you had fun.

moon-hotel's Tarot Challenge
Status: In Progress

0. THE FOOL - Do a series of loose, dynamic, sketches. Using a strict (eg. 30 second) time limit may help. koshou.deviantart.com/art/The-…
I. THE MAGICIAN - Take an unfinished image and complete it. koshou.deviantart.com/art/The-…
II. THE HIGH PRIESTESS - Create an image using a technique or a medium you've never used before. koshou.deviantart.com/art/Non-…
III. THE EMPRESS - Make an illustration with many small elements. koshou.deviantart.com/art/Game…
IV. THE EMPEROR - Make an illustration with one central element. fav.me/d2tnilj
V. THE HIEROPHANT - Create an image inspired by the assignments of a current or past teacher, art or otherwise. koshou.deviantart.com/art/The-…
VI. THE LOVERS - Draw two or more characters together in an unusual or complex pose. fav.me/d3igzo6
VII. THE CHARIOT - Draw a subject in motion.
VIII. STRENGTH - Create an image using only black on white or white on black.
IX. THE HERMIT - Draw a subject in a quiet, isolated moment. Place yourself in quiet and solitude too.
X. THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE - Make a list of possible elements for a drawing, such as characters, colors or media. Using dice, cards, random number generator or other things, decide what you will draw by chance.
XI. JUSTICE - Look through your gallery and see what you tend to draw most of. Now draw the opposite of that.
XII. THE HANGED MAN - Draw an image upside down.
XIII. DEATH - Look through your artwork and find an old picture, the older the better. Redraw it.
XIV. TEMPERANCE - Create an image involving the harmony of opposites: conflicting colors, emotions, etc. fav.me/d3jd9y0
XV. THE DEVIL - Draw something that you've always wanted to draw, even if it's taboo or controversial.
XVI. THE TOWER - Make an illustration on paper, then erase it, cut it, burn it, or otherwise deface it in some way.
XVII. THE STAR - Find an artist you're inspired by and create an image modeled after their work or style.
XVIII. THE MOON - Draw an image based around a central negative emotion such as fear or sadness.
XIX. THE SUN - Draw an image based around a central positive emotion such as adoration or happiness.
XX. JUDGMENT - Look through your gallery and find something you need to improve upon. Locate a tutorial dealing with that topic, then create an image based off of the advice from it.
XXI. THE WORLD - Congratulations, you've reached the end of your journey! Go back and look at the loose sketches you made for 0, The Fool. Select one of them and turn it into a complete drawing.

The 100 Themes Challenge (redo)
Status: On Hold

1. Introduction
2. Love
3. Light
4. Dark
5. Seeking Solace
6. Break Away
7. Heaven
8. Innocence
9. Drive
10. Breathe Again
11. Memory
12. Insanity
13. Misfortune
14. Smile
15. Silence
16. Questioning
17. Blood
18. Rainbow
19. Gray
20. Fortitude
21. Vacation
22. Mother Nature
23. Cat
24. No Time
25. Trouble Lurking
26. Tears
27. Foreign
28. Sorrow
29. Happiness
30. Under the Rain
31. Flowers
32. Night
33. Expectations
34. Stars
35. Hold My Hand
36. Precious Treasure
37. Eyes
38. Abandoned
39. Dreams
40. Rated
41. Teamwork
42. Standing Still
43. Dying
44. Two Roads
45. Illusion
46. Family
47. Creation
48. Childhood
49. Stripes
50. Breaking the Rules
51. Sport
52. Deep in Thought
53. Keeping a Secret
54. Tower
55. Waiting
56. Danger Ahead
57. Sacrifice
58. Kick in the Head
59. No Way Out
60. Rejection
61. Fairy Tale
62. Magic
63. Do Not Disturb
64. Multitasking
65. Horror
66. Traps
67. Playing the Melody
68. Hero
69. Annoyance
70. 67%
71. Obsession
72. Mischief Managed
73. I Can't
74. Are You Challenging Me?
75. Mirror
76. Broken Pieces
77. Test
78. Drink
79. Starvation
80. Words
81. Pen and Paper
82. Can You Hear Me?
83. Heal
84. Out Cold
85. Spiral
86. Seeing Red
87. Food
88. Pain
89. Through the Fire
90. Triangle
91. Drowning
92. All That I Have
93. Give Up
94. Last Hope
95. Advertisement
96. In the Storm
97. Safety First
98. Puzzle
99. Solitude
100. Relaxation