My hand is DEAD

The past two days....  Day 8 (writing home) and Day 9 (New Camp Friends) had.. just DONE it. Well.. Actually Day 9 was really bad... I really shouldn't have done so many bodies in a picture...  Did so many i forgot to draw in Vee's arm panel too... Oh well.. maybe I'll fix that... Heh!

I really loved how Day 8 Came out.. The letter in the background, I thought just added to the icing on the cake. Added in some comic references to Dinah, Arrow and Charlie there.. just because I couldn't resist. hehe. After all, Vee IS Oracle's little creation. It would only be right that she's aware of the other BoP members.... ;)

Her full letter and everything else can be viewed on Vee's Tumblr. I don't feel like copy/pasting here.. there's really no need. :|

Considering my hand has just about gone and fallen off, I've also come to the realization that... I won't be participating in every challenge... and I will try to keep things a bit more simple if I do... I'm not really looking for the top prize of a Skull Shores Ghoulia doll (I already have one).. but rather.. to better myself and have fun with it. And if I'm burning myself out and creating lots of firey pain in my wrist...? It's not really worth it...  I'll probably only participate on the days left that I really wish to or have the desire for.

I'm totally resting tomorrow... And yeah. Not going to work on anything...

Watch that backfire...

Scary Camp Day 6 & 7-- Paintball & Drama

Sparta and Vee playing Paintball! The choice here was between archery and paintball. Heh.. For me... considering I can't draw a bow... (the reason why I never draw any Green Arrow or Arrow-dom fan pieces....) Paintball worked well! 

I had a lot of fun with the background with this one...I must say-- those are some of the purdiest trees I've ever painted. *giggles*  My hands are slowly starting to betray me with each one of these pieces... I know I'm not going to do every day of this challenege... but at least for the days.. I'm getting a kick out of it!

I really went out on a limp for this one. The choice was between drama or tennis for this one... I chose drama.. just because it was an excuse for me to practice some extreme posing and... just add some dynamic qualities to my array of entries. So i choose Cats! One of my favorite musicals. I have to say I am *incredibly* proud of the way this one came out. The HANDS, the poses.. the way they're... just... POSED in general... I probably could have made this way more spectacular if I had more than a day to work on this... 

Not to mention I SO sick.... I had to do this in pieces, in between naps throughout the day...

I dressed Vee as Mr. Mistoffelees (my fav!), Athene as Macavity, and Sparta as Rum Tum Tugger.

Scary Camp Day 5-- Scary Camp Meal!

I've started keeping a bit of a journal for Vee as of late! I kind of did a mass of entries to get her caught up and what have you to keep things all correlated with the days of Scary Camp. I figure with this.. I can have a random character outlet to RP with and everything else. Kinda makes me miss my character LiveJournal RPs that I had going on way back when...

Vee Iris Mitnick's Tumblr

I figured I'd probably just start cross posting entries between here and there but.. Meh... I'll just continue to pimp it out. Heh!

So... today when I woke up, I logged onto check onto the contest and I realized that someone had the NERVE to steal a piece of my art! A background, to be specific. it was from a late contestant that decided to enter the Scary Camp Contest. granted they mentioned that they "stole" it and had a link to me.... I *never* recieved any kind of note or anything from the person saying "Oh hey--! I used your backgournd HERE. I hope that's okay!" or anything like that.

I'm generally a pretty easy going person and I don't mind helping others out from time to time, but you do NOT go and do that! I don't care WHO you are. You *ASK* permission first!!

I figured that the person who did it was SMALL and I recognized the name too.. So I tried to be polite about it and told them: "I'm usually pretty okay with others using certain elements of my art. And I don't mind at all! But next time can you but like... drop me a note just saying "Hey I used your background (here) I hope you don't mind!" or asking next time please? :3 That way I don't freak out or something."

This person responded to all other comments that I wrote on their stuff.... but didn't even bother responding to that particular message.

>.>

I'm pretty pissed off..... I should report the image...

Anyway.. Today's entry was Sparta and Vee eating something yummy... well.. at least for them ^^;

  Update: I don't know WHY this one didn't place 1st, 2nd, or 3rd for the day. I mean.. COME ON!!!! It was way better than some entries. >.<

Scary Camp Day 4-- Swimming!

Data Stream

This one took me WAY longer than i anticipated.. ALL because of her hair!! OH my GOSH what a pain! I think I tried fixing her hair for.. like 3 or 4 hours.. just trying to figure a good way to ink it...  Tried a really intruicate method that didn't work and looked sloppy, tried something else that didn't work, and finally I just settled on this... Not really what i wanted, but I was running out of time.

Considering Vee doesn't really work too well with water (it's not in her programming just yet. I'm working on it!) she couldn't exactly "swim." But she can float and "air swim" or.. something to that effect.

*giggles*

I really got to stop making these images way harder than what they need to be.. I need to do my quick and dirty methods of inking and coloring..  especially on certain days I have too much going on.. I'm finding that 1 picture a day is very tiring.. and my hand is hurting so bad. :|

Tomorrow's image will be simple... little or no background...

When i checked my messages this morning, I was greeted with a surprise!

It's Sparta and Vee!! (Vee's MH OC friend!) Siobhan was sooo kind enough to draw Vee and Sparta together in today's entry. Which was sooo sweet of her! i seriously LOVE this!!

Eee! And she was the very first person ever to draw my Vee! *giggles* how exciting!! :D

I'm workin' on another image of Sparta and Vee myself... hopefully i can get it done... time permitting. 

Hmm.. so apparently one of my submissions to a MH OC club on DA got declined. It wasn't in the wrong folder, it was't a main MH character. it was my OC... Posted to a GROUP for OCs.. and it was declined--!

WTF!??

Okay considering I've uploaded my pictures there once a day for the past few days shouldn't mean anything. That's why the club is there...  Lots of people submit things to the main MonsterHigh club on DA all the time... Stuff goes through there easily.

Kinda annoys me in that right...  You decline one of my pretty pictures I worked hard on.... and give me no reason why it was declined? :|


Bleh....


Oy... 

I need sleep... Prolly only going to get a nap today :|

YAAAAAY!! Firework daaaay! *dances!* 

Scary Camp Day 3-- Biking

When Vee entered the Great Hall she took notice that the day's activity sheet gave the campers a choice! The choices? Horseback riding or biking!

Take a guess at what was chosen... 

Considering she wasn't able to aquire access to her Light Cycle (yes I'm crossing fandoms here. So!? xD), she had to construct a bike to her liking that she could ride around on the trails for the day.

Now.. on the construction of this picture, i have to say that for as simple as the background is... it took me forever to do.. *faints!* Only because I couldn't figure out how to make it work for this one.

Anyway...

Ended up going doll hunting today as well. I found a I <3 Fashion Abbey!! *bounces all kinds of excited*

I should have taken a picture of the box before I extracted her...  I'll have to take a picture of her later...

Upon Rudy's return trip from Anime Expo this year, he gifted me with an adorable Rarity hoodie from My Little Pony. And i just ADOOOORE it so much! I am soo going to be wearing the crap out of it when it gets cooler. Rarity is so one of my favorite ponies too! Well Pinkie Pie first, and then Rarity. ♥ 

Scary Camp Day 2-- Talent Fright

Day 2 of the activities down at Scary Camp are going incredibly well!

Today was the Talent Fright competetion... and Vee rocked it out with her amazing gymnastic routine.

 She apparently was such a hit that she made some new friends and gained quite a bit of a following.

Something that i really wasn't expecting.

At least 150 views, 18 favs....

And it hasn't even been up 24 hours. Which is niiice! I usually never watch the view counts on anything, I tend to just pop things up for my own amusement.. but I've been getting a *lot* of positive feedback about my entries, thus far... So.... yay!

But yes! Vee has her first MH OC friend... her name is Sparta and she's a robot. *giggles* I have a feeling between the two of them some epic little adventures will totally come about.

Sparta Mun and I have already decided to do some kind of collab or.. some kind of something together we thought would be fun. Though with this contest, I'm having to be careful to split my time... Gotta make sure I get these entries done.. Today's really kicked my ass... and I woke up really early today to attempt to get a better headstart on things....  Man.. tomorrow's image-- the base-- was pretty challenging. I think tomorrow and the 4th might be a little rough... but.. they don't call this a challenge for nothin'!

Hmm...

Interesting to watch blind manipulation and greed overcome someone. It's actually kind of sad...

And yet it ticks me off inside...

Meh...

*eats popcorn*