Bottled Sky

I am PMSing in the worst possible way. This means for the past several days I have been jumping from one of the following moods to another:

1. cranky, as in becoming irritated by the most random and trivial things, such as people walking too loudly (I’m not kidding);
2. hungry, as in eating the entire contents of our refrigerator every two hours; and
3. horny, as in wanting to pounce on every hot (or even not-so-hot) guy that I see.

Even more interesting is when I experience two or all of those moods at once:

1. cranky & hungry, as in becoming irritated by the fact that I’m eating my third bag of chips for the day;
2. hungry & horny, as in wanting to pour melted chocolate over every hot (or even not-so-hot) guy that I see;
3. horny & cranky, as in BDSM; or
4. all three, as in BDSM (melted-chocolate edition).

As much as I love being female, I can’t help but wish I didn’t have to go through this hormonal yo-yo every single month. Le sigh.

Several people — Sara being the most recent — have e-mailed to ask how I go about creating my mixed media illustrations. I tried my best to write a coherent reply every time, all the while thinking to myself, “I really should blog about this one of these days.” After Skye asked how I colored yesterday’s tiger-in-a-suit drawing and then gave me a shout-out and some imaginary strangulation on her blog, I finally went ahead and wrote this little how-to article.

I suppose you can call this a tutorial, even though it’s not as detailed as the better tutorials you’ll see around the Internet. Just for kicks I used the previously posted tiger’s decapitated head for visual aids.

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This little fella is my interpretation of this week’s Illustration Friday topic, suit. Tigers are such handsome animals, and I thought a cartoon tiger would look cute in a suit. It was partially inspired by a Calvin & Hobbes comic strip where Hobbes dressed up in a tie for Susie — but mostly I just wanted to draw a tiger in a suit

As usual I drew the outline on paper then did the coloring on Photoshop. The original sketch was a full-body picture, but I had to stop inking because the pen dried out, and the only other pen I had was twice as thick. Methinks I need to buy more pens