T-shirt design for FurtherConfusion. Jonas Silver vector traced the original sketch and then colored it in Illustrator. It'll probably go through some more tweaking before it's finally printed.

Byrd. Bird. Berd. Brrd. Baaaird. Studies of the largest species of falcon, the gyrfalcon (jer-falcon). Ever had the need to occupy your brain with somethin'?

A half-inked sketch of a lion noble with a shoulder bag o' surprises. Look s like it might be bad news for the unicorn lady perched on the water fountain. Oo, water ! The essence of life. Wait, no, that's sobe... Nevermind. Contents copyrighted to me. Hey look, it even has a background!

When innocent maidens go bad. Ugh, she needs to wash her feet and give the unicorn a break. I have a drawing in progress where she gets hers though. Drawn with markers, with a bit o' color pencil (mostly her prissy pink dress).

Look! The anime vixen has a biiiiiig sword! What, were you expecting something else? Haha, showed you. Possible t-shirt design for FurtherConfusion is © to me. And yeah, it says fox or something on the bottom. That's not a blatant attempt at a watermark. it's just a bunch of letters covering some of the image.

Anime-style! Feline in a traditional kimono. Somehow kitty in a kimono sounds too cute. Draw in prismacolor markers with a bit of pencil. It's also up for bid on ebay, so stop on by! http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item%eq 1654894

A typical 'school puts you to sleep pic'. This bored cougar kid was drawn last year in my AP Bio class. © MJ Lai

Rough sketch of a soon to be markered and inked pic.

Babysitter Duties! Wait.. con's tomorrow, so why the heck are all these images still in their inked stage? Apparently it has become a tradition for me to complete art show pics the night before I go, which usually results in frazzled nerves and a few episodes where I go berzerk and try not to destroy anything within a 3 ft. radius. I've been way too busy with school and other misc. tasks. In addition, I got a terrible scare the other day. Thought my art got stolen. x.x I cried when I got 'em back. Buh. Ok, I'm done babbling.

here's a print for FC.. yah I'm alive, but only barely so.. watercolory pencilish!

Yay, I finished it. :) Thanks a bunch to those who gave me chick references and suggestions for the belly 'scales'. For those who were wondering, I do what the arboretum calls 'interpretive' work. The plaques they set out in the garden with my illustrations on 'em are to help educate the young and ignorant. ;>

Cat bird-sits for Girl-of-his-dreams. Bird escapes. Cat sees Evil Cat about to devour Bird. Cat redefines breaking the sound barrier while Bird looks comotose.

Cat practices punting technique. Evil Cat is hurled into the infinite beyond.

Cat realizes Evil Cat belonged to Girl-of-his-dreams. Cat's train of thought derails and bursts into a ball of flames.

The lemmings are coming, the lemmings are coming! Well, not really.. Pencil pic for Sanguine Ltd., which produces the Ironclaw rpg books. It shows the horse race, the Avordupois, with their lizard/dino-like mounts charging across the dusty battlefields. This drawing will most likely be up for auction at FurtherConfusion. D'you think I should ink it?

'A World With One Last Cup of Coffee' and a coffeefox who won't give it up. <g> This was a sketch I did in Kehza's sketchbook at CF9. Kitsumi is © by me, and Kehza, is © his player.

Don't you hate it when that happens? Charcoal's one of the more messier mediums you can use when doing sketches. Drawn with prismacolor markers and brush pen inked.

Housing for the new school year is tough to find, esp. when you're bringing a runt lovebird with you. :P You'd think people in Santa Cruz would *like* having animals around. Anyone want to help out here?

Here's the finished pic of sweater.jpg, which I posted awhile ago. The original was sold at FC, but prints will be available at the upcoming ConFurence. Drawn in Prismacolor markers, with a little bit of color pencil overlay.

Doodled at FC 2001 at 3am with Hedgy and Phil.. :D I like cro-quill.. And yes, sorry about email.. my inbox is inundated.. >_< I'll start replying in a week or too, please sit tight as the most psychotic remaining two weeks of Winter quarter drives me nutsoid..

My first try at really focusing on blending (markers, then color pencils). I'm pretty happy with how it came out. Don't know about the rest of you, but I'm really sick of the cold and wet. Lucky bunny. :) She's taking a walk amongst the thawing snow and crocuses, probably to a farmer's market. And no, she's not going to eat that rose.

Part I of my 4th comic for a school paper.. it was a two pager this time. =p Too many hours spent in the computer labs...

And here's Part II.. As for the second half of this one, I've been having some troubles with getting into the art major. I was just going to leave it out (eh, I worry the art faculty will get offended.. then there goes my appeal) but layout was already finalized. Bah. Oh btw, that's a sketch by Da Vinci.. I don't quite remember the name.

Getting out of the art rut.. Dingbat © to Erin. ;)

Haven't uploaded in awhile.. never been this busy in school before.. :P anywho, doodled this in my sci. illustration class. We're working on scratchboard assignments but I wanted to practice inking techniques a little bit. Croquill is your friend. It is cheap. Tech pens are not your friend, they're a pain in the butt. =D ink on bristol~

Dragons are one of my favorites to draw- same with horses and mythical creatures. Weird how I don't post too many if at all. Anyway, just a pencil sketch.

Call the presses, he doesn't like pumpkin pie!

School's finally over... eesh. I kinda wish I was still there, I've only been home for a day and my family is already driving my blood pressure up to senior citizen levels. Anyway, here's my stab at the school's annual mug design competition. The discolory yellow is supposed to be the neon shade of a highlighter- it didn't win. ;P Ah well.

It's a contest. Who can think of a DBA? 'Winner' gets a free colored commish. Head to http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Gallery/3400/ for details. In the meantime, this is a sketch of a future web graphic for my re-formatted page.

I drew this awhile back in high school. I think I was feeling more cynical than usual, and then something pisssed me off... it's raspberry jam, I swear. :D (eBay # 400772526)

When a Russian cat like Nina gets that look in her eyes, trouble's gotta be brewin'. Nina Ilyanovic is copyyrighted to Jonas Silver. He might have to bust out the 9-iron on your kneecaps if you think of ripping her off.

When the farmer goes away, the foxes come out on the old farm fence to play.. sold last year at FC, reappearing in print form at my table this year. *vanishes again*

It was one of those 'You had to be there' episodes.

Beware the beady-eyed, big-lipped FEEESH!!! :D Marker, inks, and a bit' o' color pencil (which you can't really see...)

I've been researching fancy goldfish online (for a final painting in my oil painting class)- man, fancy goldfish sure are deformed. :P I wonder how they feel... "Who hears the fish cry?" - Thoreau

A rough pencil-sketch/semi-inked pic of a commission, of a skunk and rabbit making flower garlands out in the meadow while catching up on old times. That's a flower bracelet/garland thingy around the bunny's wrist if you're wondering. :P Any comments/critiques welcome, send 'em to kitsumi@geocities.com Thanks!

*gasp* A color pic by Kitsumi!! It must be a blue moon or something... Anyways, this marker/color pencil commission is of (and <c>) Mystee and Darkfox, friends in RL. Alter or use the pic w/out permission and... well... I'll get mad and sic evil lawyers after you.

A semi-inked pic that will be displayed at the ConFurence Art Show. Originally it was a commission but then I realized the patron was asking for a bunny and a skunk, not a fox and a skunk. ;)

He's fuzzy. Blue pencil, color pencil, and brushpen.

I have never had such a busy school year before.. talk abought anxiety.. >_< I can feel the ulcers gnawing away at my innards. :p Birds not quite of.. a feather? Markered from last year too.

Some more studies, this time of snow leopard markings.

Alooooha!

Sir Giles of Redfeather! :D No, just Giles will do for now.. He's a griff from a collaborative project. And yeah, males don't have wings.. Color version mayhaps in the future. And on a side note.. NO MORE SCHOOL! WHEEE! And now.. I find a job and finish commissions..

A sketch of a fox ranger with her gryphon and some miniature marsh dragons. Somehow that sounds too much like marshmallow... Anyway, image is © to me

Another finished pic, to replace the inked version I had on the archive before. It's titled 'Frequent Flyers', and depicts a lynxess with her gyrfalcon-feather-patterned gryphon. Prints will also be offered (Just so I don't sound like a broken record, any pics I upload with the bold red 'watermark' shown here means prints are available)

Guy ssure can suck, esp. after they dump you for some other girl and was a big liar the whole time... um.. anyway.. this pic was drawn for the Bet I was in way back, which I bombe dout of as ungracefully as a small passenger plane with its wings lopped off. I'll get you yet Jonas, and your little dog Toto too! Cro-quill's neat, makes the letters all splatterey. My friends also think I'm weird, I'm so proud. ^-^

After listening to some peaceful piano music and thinking about sunsets (I go nuts over a good sunset.. especially the ones over Monterey Bay), I came up with this. I used Prismacolor markers as a base, then went over that with color pencil. The majority of the sky and grass is color pencil though. I'm hoping to improve on my sunset depictions. Confound this super dreary weather.

When I came back from class today I realized my roomie was gone for the weekend, and that it was Friday. If that didn't can my cynical mood I don't know what did. 8) Oh, and um, those threads at the corner of the pic are from the edge of my wuf throw.. :P

You'd have issues too if red shorts got mixed in with your white shirts.

"My Janitor Is A Werewolf." Well, not MY janitor. Just relieving some stress from midterms. Happy.. Tuesday everyone! :) I tried to keep myself awake so I could study last night by consuming large bars of chocolate and pepsi. Needless to say it didn't work, but sure tasted good.