This week's drawing is a contemporary-look Doric, the druidic tiefling from “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves,” which is a fantastic, fun movie you should check out if you already haven't.

There is no hell cruel enough for these people.

This year's Valentines couple is a contemporary version of Evangelina Sage and Trystan Maverine (aka The Villain) from the “Assistant to the Villain” series by Hannah Nicole Maehrer.

Ever since I read the slightly updated Archie series by Mark Waid and Fiona Staples a few years ago, I've had it in mind to take a crack at drawing Betty Cooper and Veronica Lodge.

@scalzi.com -- I just finished the Interdependency Series the other night. Cardenia and Kiva are going to live in my head for a long time as amazing characters, with Marce lingering quietly nearby. I love them all despite how much the ending gutted me in some ways. Just beautiful work on your part.

This week's post – Tabitha Smith, aka Boom Boom, who could make tiny bombs out of nothing during her stints on the X-Men, New Mutants, and, my personal favorite, the X-Terminators, among a few other teams as well. This look was inspired by her X-Terminators run. #xmen

I just finished reading "The Interdependency Series" by John Scalzi and I'm not sure I ever loved and hated the end of a trilogy so much (in a good way). This is going to take me a few days to process. But after reading them through the library, I ordered physical copies for my shelf.

Another request that didn't make the official sixfanarts cut is one Ms. Jubilation Lee, aka. Jubilee of the X-Men. Somehow she'd flown under my radar as a possible subject up until now. The lesson I learned with this one is that I'm not great at designing retro t-shirts.

Technically this suggestion was one too many for my #sixfanarts effort, but I liked the character suggestion so I drew her anyway – Elektra Ovirowa, from Cowboy Bebop.

Last but positively not least for the latest round of #sixfanarts, Ciri from The Witcher. I based this version off of her appearance in the video game, though I was aiming for more of a contemporary night out type look. I always get a kick out of drawing her, so I'm glad she was suggested.

Number 5 for the latest round of #sixfanarts, Theresa from the series “Minor Arcana.” I'll be honest and note that I'm not familiar with her at all, but I'm hoping I did her justice.

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Next up is my latest sixfanarts is Phantazia, aka Eileen Harsaw. I couldn't decide whether to draw her with the glasses or without, so you get both! So here's Eileen, and hopefully you get the Easter egg/joke. I fear I may just be showing my age, though.

Another round of Six Fanarts via followers on Instagram. First up was Captain Kate Pryde. It isn't my favorite era of Kate's by any means, nor my favorite costume, but I had fun trying to give her a bit of a different look that was recognizable as her captain style. I really like how it turned out.

The message I'm taking away from the past few days is that people need to do better when setting up their annual bingo cards.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Getting in one more before Christmas – here's my take on Jovie from the movie Elf. Happy holidays, everyone!

The 1997 movie Anastasia has always had a special place in my heart because I took my mom to see it, so I figured I'd give drawing her a try. I wanted to maintain a somewhat simple look for her since that's what she had for most of the movie, but without drawing directly from the movie itself.

It's been a while since I drew Vixen, aka Mari Jiwe McCabe, from DC Comics. As I worked on this one, it became pretty evident to me that my crush on 90s era Halle Berry is still holding on strong.

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The long birthday weekend gave me a chance to do more drawing than usual, so here's another I finished up – Contemporary Shadowheart. I absolutely love her in Baldur's Gate 3, but felt like giving her a bit more modern (and slightly goth?) style.

Just a quick rendition of Quorra from Tron: Legacy. There's not a whole lot to say about it – she's just someone I've wanted to draw from a while.

This week's project – A character illustration and icons for Mars on the DnD with dee discord. I put this together in exchange for a generous donation to The Trevor Project, and had a lot of fun doing it. The biggest challenge was making her hair floofy enough.

Corrected this week's project to hopefully have platinum blonde hair: Emma Frost, of X-Men fame. As much as I wanted to put Emma in colors other than white, I couldn't bring myself to do it.

How do people in the press pool keep from laughing?

tired: great gatsby parties wired: bastille day parties

This week's project: The interplanetary thief Ada Lamar, from Beth Revis's “Chaotic Orbits” series of novellas. I just have a weak spot for female protagonists and especially ones who are thieves, so Ada has become one of my favorite characters to follow.

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This Leloo from ”The Fifth Element” is the result of a reference pose that didn't quite work out – the placement of the reference's hands (clasped beneath her chin) just didn't translate to the drawing. So instead I gave her a chicken to hold. Because everyone knows Leloo loves her chicken.

An early posting this week — another cel shading piece, this time of Illyana Rasputin, aka Magick of the X-Men. For some reason I just couldn’t get her too not look like a teenager to me. I was aiming for mid-20s or so.

This week I opted for a slightly more formal than usual Laura Kinney. My original intention was to have a nightclub behind her, but it didn't quite work with how I want to do these backgrounds. So instead we get a convenient brick wall with just the tiniest bit of self-aggrandizing graffiti on it.

This week's post -- Major Motoko Kusanagi of Public Security Section 9 hanging out in Tokyo with some coffee to go.

I recently did a character-art-for-map trade, so here's the Drow druid Korelei owned by Kaylinn57 on the D&D with Dee discord. I love trying to bring people's characters to life, so I was all in on this one. And it's even better when they're adorable elves.

State of the world status: When the doctor's office asks if you've felt sad or depressed in the last month, you're not sure whether the correct answer is yes or no.

This week's piece is another revisit to Harley Quinn in something other than her usual jacket and shorts. I'm experimenting with adding more layers to some of the shading to see whether it adds more depth in a good way. #harleyquinn

I don't often do big expressions, but I found a reference I wanted to try recently and with Jester's simplified design for the upcoming “The Mighty Nein” series being released, I had to give my favorite tiefling another go.

Good.

Another summery Starfire for the collection. I started this one intending to only do cel shading, but couldn't resist going all the way. So, here we are. #digitalart

If you’re under any illusions about what an authoritarian personality cult the GOP has become, they’re not hiding it:

Even some DC yuppies are heckling the shit out of these federal occupiers walking the streets in DC. I asked one person why their presence pissed them off so much. “Because fuck them, that’s why.” It’s not “Do you hear the people sing” but it has a certain salty catchiness to it.

Well, this is one way to identify yourself as a very easy target for car thieves...

At some point the "futility against body armor" ratio should make a sandwich attack a form of free speech.

I'm back on my “Superheroes in Civvies” kick, so here's Ororo Munroe taking a summer stroll. I don't usually draw her with the ridiculously long hair, but it just kind of works. I mean, when you can conjure up your own breeze to blow it around dramatically, why wouldn't you wear it like that?

A bit of a follow up to the Jean Grey piece, this time focusing on Kate (Kitty) Pryde. Use cel shading practice as an excuse to use various references for poses and outfits that I've been saving. #xmen

One of the most amusing aspects of watching the Little League World Series is how some of the players are tiny little Hobbits and then others are larger than half the guys working at your average construction site.

Takes a certain kind of person to classify an invitation to a rape island as a "privilege"