http://ursulav.gfxartist.com/profile Copyright 2000-2008 GFXartist network / Brothersinart http://www.gfxartist.com http://images.gfxartist.com/gfx/GFXartist_64.png support@gfxartist.com en-us GFXartist Engine 1.0 0 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:32:25 EST UrsulaV Painting / Figure "Apples, feh!" the crone said. "Apples are nothing. A blind badger could enchant an apple. Like puppies and pomegranates, they're so eager to please. Now, kumquats--kumquats are something. Takes a lot of willpower to get a spell to take on a kumquat. I don't... http://ursulav.gfxartist.com/artworks/123595 UrsulaV Painting / Figure The title of this one should probably have been "Because you made me paint My Little Dinosaurs, you tyrant, so I'm going to do this and not explain any of it, and maybe I'll even write the description in free verse, too, the last bastion of the pretentious artist, and you... http://ursulav.gfxartist.com/artworks/123300 UrsulaV Painting / Figure There was totally something I was supposed to be working on today. Unfortunately, my brain decided that it was havin' none of it, and instead, I was going to spend all day hammering at a weird digital textury, Boulet-inspired kinda...thingy. Featuring an owl saint. Whatever that is.... http://ursulav.gfxartist.com/artworks/123016 UrsulaV Painting / Uncategorized A popular tourist attraction of the region, the biting pear lives off low-flying birds, hand-outs, and the occasional unwary sightseer. ---- Don't look at me. I was reading up on pop surrealism before bed, and this is the sort of thing that happens. Even for me, that's a little... http://ursulav.gfxartist.com/artworks/114119 UrsulaV Painting / Figure So I got this idea to do an orc in the style of the JOB cigarette ad by Mucha. It failed due to some color scheme problems. But I liked the idea of "orc nouveau" so much, I had to try again, and came up with Celadon Toadstool, orc poet, famed for such works as "Ode to a... http://ursulav.gfxartist.com/artworks/106139 UrsulaV Painting / Figure Sings-to-Trees was the sort of elf that the other elves find a little embarassing in their dedication to nature. He loved all earth's creatures, even the stinky and vicious ones. He could wax eloquent about the majestic buzzard, the worthy slime mold, the noble carrion fly. He used every... http://ursulav.gfxartist.com/artworks/97742 UrsulaV Painting / Figure Figures in Gearworld paintings are hard. The painting rebels. Sometimes it's just tricky, sometimes it's like riding a greased weasel bareback, and my usual technique of plunking in a small, vaguely-archetypal mammal just fails utterly in Gearworld. Gearworld does not LIKE small... http://ursulav.gfxartist.com/artworks/94634 UrsulaV Painting / Figure Mice are, let's face it, the McNuggets of the animal kingdom. Everything eats them. They form the greater part of the diet of any number of carnivores, and only their exceptional fecundity allows them to thrive and continue leaving unpleasant gifts in my kitchen cupboards. Being, of... http://ursulav.gfxartist.com/artworks/88262 UrsulaV Painting / Figure About a thousand years ago--give or take 993 years--in '98, I did a painting entitled "Cold Sun." It was a fairly unremarkably little piece of a chick with a facial tattoo and a staff with a skull on it, part of my "I Want To Be Larry Elmore When I Grow... http://ursulav.gfxartist.com/artworks/87163 UrsulaV Painting / Figure Ruby Elfgutter was a famous orcish beauty in her youth, and one of the great heroes of the Battle of Brazenskull, where she killed many of the enemy and bit a knight's hand off, gauntlet and all. She eventually retired and became the beloved Grandma Ruby to generations of orc children. She... http://ursulav.gfxartist.com/artworks/82985 UrsulaV Painting / Figure Bob had a sinking feeling that his correspondance course, "Learn Ancient Enochian Summoning Rituals By Mail!" had left out a few important bits. That, or the Easter Bunny had gone REALLY goth... ------------------------------- (Be sure to check out the link to the... http://ursulav.gfxartist.com/artworks/82383 UrsulaV Painting / Figure The naked mole rat knew that he was dreaming. For one thing, he wasn't in the tunnels any more, and there weren't any other mole rats around, and he could have sworn that he hadn't been bipedal earlier in the evening. But all that was immaterial. He knew he had to be dreaming,... http://ursulav.gfxartist.com/artworks/80140 UrsulaV Painting / Figure Common unicorns are not what they're cracked up to be. Leaving aside that they're nasty, foul tempered scavengers, most commonly found lurking around dumps, even leaving aside the smell and the parasites (sure, they look all pretty and sleek, but so do pigeons) and the tendency of the... http://ursulav.gfxartist.com/artworks/74407 UrsulaV Painting / Figure Been doing a lot of cute traditional stuff lately, so of course there was a backlash, and I wound up in digital weirdness. A monster in that classic Brom-esque fantasy vein--black leather, white mist, squishy monster. It kills me how fast and clean digital is compared to traditional media. On the... http://ursulav.gfxartist.com/artworks/74024 UrsulaV Painting / Figure A follow-up to the Air Mouse! More Art Nouveau kinda elements, and a koi. A very small koi. My stepmother used to keep koi, and claimed they had distinct personalities. I can't say she was wrong, I've never hung around with koi long enough to make any judgements as to the personableness... http://ursulav.gfxartist.com/artworks/73616