Mythical Creature of the Day: Halcyon

The Halcyon is a type of kingfisher that lays its eggs on the beach in winter. During this time when they are laying and hatching their eggs, they charm the winds to make the seas calm and the weather pleasant. This period of unusual calm and pleasant weather is referred to as the "Halcyon Days" and is where the phrase originated.

Mythical Creature of the Day: Musimon

The musimon is a goat that also has ram horns, for a total of four horns. In heraldry it is used to symbolize an authority who leads with strength. Sometimes it is called a "tityrus" or "tytron". I think it looks like the Loughton Ram from Matthew Barney's Cremaster 4. But of course, I usually associate everything with at least one of the Cremaster cycles, so this is not surprising. You know what's hard to find on the internet? An image of the Loughton Ram from Cremaster 4. No foolin.

Mythical Creature of the Day

The Mantygre, also called the Man Tiger, Lympago, Satyral, or Montegre, had the body of a tiger and the face of an old man with horns. Easily confused with the Manticore, this animal was used mostly in medieval heraldry.

I found a new mythical creatures website that boasts many of those cool old engravings of mythical creatures that i love so very much. I may do a Critter of the Day post to illustrate my favorite obscure critters.

Updates!

I've been pretty bad at keeping this blog up-to-date. I'm going to try to fix that. I have a livejournal for my more personal day-to-day crap, but I'd like to use this more for public musings, music reviews, movie reviews, etc etc. So let's get started!


That's right, Patrick Stewart! My wonderful boyfriend Benjamin proposed a few days ago! I'm engaged now! I know! Holy crap! Want to see the ring?

It's a blue sapphire set next to two antique diamonds in a platinum art deco band. Does this boy know me or what? It's a good thing I said yes, amirite? Man I love this ring. LOOK AT IT. Seriously. Man. Just don't ask me when the wedding is. I do not want to think about that yet, hah.

On the Art Front: I've changed the way I draw Skin Deep, and now it's almost entirely digital. I still sketch the pages onto paper and scan them in, but now I'm inking digitally as well as coloring digitally. Does this not look great? I was thinking of maybe making a tutorial or something, since so many people ask me how I color Skin deep.

Inspired by my mother's issues of Readymade and Craft magazines, I bought some Russian Nesting Dolls, which I'm planning to paint as various mythical creatures. WILL THAT NOT BE FUN? That will be lots of fun.

Internet Crap
I just joined Twitter, since that's what all the cool kids are doing. So if you want to know all the minutia of my life well then check it out!.

I'm also super addicted to www.ffffound.com. Have you guys seen this? Oh my god it is amazing. You can find things like this:

Sesame Street is Too Hardcore

Apparently Sesame Street isn't for children anymore

Now this is just dumb.

Paprika and Oedipus

As you may or may not know, I have a fondness for the Grecian Sphinx, so much so that one is the main character of my webcomic. I've fought with drawing her for years because of her bizarre anatomy, and recently I've had trouble trying to draw her in flight because I felt that I draw her wings too small to support her. So when my boyfriend Ben and I decided to rent the weird anime Paprika last night imagine my surprise when this scene popped up in the movie.