Well, in about a minute or so I do believe that I will no longer be a subscribing member of DeviantArt. I'm pretty apathetic about it simply because of my declining presence on this site. Ah well. So it goes.

Anyway, I just wanted to post the free art from my last journal and wish all of the Americans out there a pleasant Independence Day. Mine will not be so as every year some idiot decides to light fireworks near my window. I'm not partial to being woken up at 2am to flashing colors and explosions...my pets share this sentiment in the form of claws digging into my side. Joy.

Ah, free art! I want to apologize for the sizing beforehand. I'm not quite sure why some are larger than others.

First one goes to *Teela-B of her lovely octopus lady:
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This was a really fun and challenging character to do (I can't place arms naturally to save my life D: ) and I just adore the colors of the blue ringed octopus, so she's in color. Her skin scanned a little too dark and pink, but I think she turned out pretty well.

Second goes to `GH-MoNGo of his walrus character Sforzando:
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Walrus! I've never done one before. Before this I had also never really drawn anything muscly, so two firsts for me. Fun and unusual character. I'm most pleased with his disapproving expression.

Third goes to =UnbrokenKarma of her horse character Achai:
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I still love drawing horses, even though I don't do it very much any more, so this was a nice character for me to do. I just wish the paper I did these pieces on scanned better because my pencil and pen work just didn't show up. Sigh.

And last we have *mordormaster277's character Jikken:
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More humanoid practice. I had trouble deciding what exactly to do with this character, and in the end I think he turned out looking way more juvenile than I was going for. Ah well, live and learn. I like the scarf, though.

Thanks to all who responded. This was quite fun, and I will have to do this again in the future. For now, I will pray for rain to dampen the firework activity and try to sleep.