Hey guys! So I've been pretty slack about making ATCs recently, but I'm going to try to churn a bunch more out soon! So here's what I've been working on. First of all, two cards for the Love/Hate Valentine swap:
This one was for phizzychick, called "I Give You My Heart"




And this was for craftydame, called "Too Much Candy"




And finally, I did this one just for fun. When he folds up, he's the normal ATC size and nice 'n' square.

I got my card from crafty_dame!



Thanks so much! I love the doily lacey kind of business and the little cupidy baby peeking up  And it arrived just in time for Valentine's Day, hurrah! I hope you get yours from me soon!

I got my card from the lovely and illustrious Phizzychick!



I think my picture may have jacked the color up a little (I tried!  ), but you can still see Phizzy's devious handiwork: two zombies fighting over a heart! So awesome! I love the anatomical heart and little blood drop (and Phizzy, I hope you like the card I sent you...it's "similarly themed"). She also sent me some BA goodies that were so awesome they couldn't be captured with a modern camera. Thanks Phizzy!

Hey gang! So I've always wanted to own one of those Chinese dragon masks that they make dragon trains with, so recently I decided to make one with a little of my own style mixed in. So here it is (thanks to my awesome roommate and her mannequin head for modeling for me  )

















Oh! And I wish I had a picture of this, but his teeth and two little pinpricks in his eyes are glow-in-the-dark and look pretty freaking horrifying, since all you can see in the dark are a big pair of jaws and beady little eyes.

Aaaanyway if you want to make your own dragonny friend, what I did was get a thrift store baseball helmet (only about $1.50) and make the basic form out of newspaper and masking tape. Then I took plaster bandages and plastered over the whole thing. I painted it with regular acrylic paint and added lots of detail with dyed/painted paper. The teeth and eye pinpricks are polymer clay. Whew!

Yay, I'm so glad you like it, spooks  Here's the amazing stuff I got from her and am now posting ruefully late  . But the package is AWESOME and I love it all! Here are the lovely items:

First off, some super nifty shrinky dink tags! I'm sorry to report that the one attached to my cellphone was taken out in the pouring rain and became a bit smudgy...learned my lesson for the other shrinkies 



And an AMAZING keychain that is currently travelling about with my keys:



A sparkly, extremely character-appropriate Vince shrine:



And an adorable Vince-the-human-coke-can plushie! 



Here's some detail of my favorite part, the fuzzy boots!



And obviously spookshowbaby did a little stalking, because she included a my little pony!  Yeah, I love them and am extremely dorky. But super appreciative!



Thank you SOOoooo much, I love everything and apologize for posting so late!

Yep, after the Zombie pony I decided to one sliiightly less creepy. This one's inspired by crazy Harajuku fashion.













Wooo! I am a dork.

Well, after seeing newagedoll's awesome clay/cloth dolls, I had to have a go. So here he is, Victor the lonely. Shunned as a child for his unnatural neon blue hair, Victor donned a pea coat, dark denim jeans, and some pointy platform boots and never looked back. He now spends his time picnicking in the rain and immersing himself in the world of miniature castles.













Aaaaand the scariest shadow I've ever seen in a picture:



Hope you guys like him...that hair was a pain in the ass 

Yes, well, I've decided that I've become a little too "into" zombie movies as of late, as it appears to have culminated in this, my first ever my little pony makeover:















Yep, a zombie my little pony. Completely rehaired, gore-sculpted, painted-and-sealed pony goodness.
Hope you guys like, or at least are able to stomach, him. 

EDIT:
OK, because I was lame and didn't take in process pictures, but still want to let you guys know how I did certain parts, I'm going to try to explain it. Here's what the pony looked like when I started:



Yeah. Quite the makeover. To do the basic stuff like getting the head off and putting hair back in, I used this tutorial:

http://members.aol.com/brandiwst/tutorials.html

If that's not enough, just google "custom my little pony tutorial" and you'll be set. I basically scrubbed all the paint off with pure acetone, took the head off and took the hair out, so I had a blank, bald pony. Then, I cut but gashes in the pony with an exacto knife, and, using the neck holes, used fimo clay (the kind you bake in the oven...yep, you can bake the plastic pony!) to sculpt the gory bits. I baked the whole thing (no glue, just clay smashed into pony) and then painted it with watery acrylic paint. You get the best coat by using those triangular makeup sponges from CVS. I sealed the whole thing with Delta Ceramcoat varnish, then used superglue to put the head back on and attach the eye with embroidery floss. Whew!

Hey guys! So I'm going to study abroad in Costa Rica tomorrow and the program gave us all black messenger bags with the Israeli paratrooper logo from army surplus (they basically looked like this: http://www.fatiguesarmynavy.com/images/items/odisraelibag77.gif but black). They're having a bag decorating contest, so here's what I came up with. Sorry there aren't before pictures, but it was just a black messenger bag:





Here's the inside pocket; the colors are a bit weird in this one, but the second one looks like it does in real life:





Aaaand here's the strap with my name on it (nobody stalk me  )





I based the bag on the band Gogol Bordello, a band I love that has a lot to do with traveling and having fun doing it. I freehanded both the pictures from these pictures:
http://www.gogolbordello.com/chronicles/tour/2/2-Images/20.jpg
http://nymag.com/images/2/daily/entertainment/07/06/11_bordello_lg.jpg
I'm thinking about doing more to it; I kinda just ran out of time. I'm thinking I'll put more lyrics on the strap or the inside. Hope you guys like!

So as I was packing to come home from college, I brought back with me approximately 4 million paintings etc. that I did on cardboard I found lying around downtown or that people gave to me. I was taking pictures for something else anyway, so I thought I'd post a few. My friend and I decided to go downtown and collect posters for bands' shows that had already past, then made collages out of them. Here's mine:



A purple curly-haired dude:



We decided that David Bowie was the patron saint of our dorm room, so I made this to go on the door:



And if you have an angel, you need a devil too, so Demon Sid Vicious got created to counterbalance Bowie's angelic charm:



David and Sid got put on the top and bottom of our door, respectively  . So there you go! Maybe sometime I'll get around to posting the other 3,999,996 paintings.