The wi-fi on the bus crapped out about halfway through the trip. These are all drawings done during the ride either to or from NYC.

( Exalted doodles and Prince Zuko makin' JAZZ HANDS )


And these ones weren't done during the trip, but I haven't posted them up yet.

( Pinup Girl )



AND TOTALLY NSFW BELOW







( Seriously, there be sex here )

http://www.lamacchinabellica.com/comics/PDF/Macchinav1ch1-5.zip

HUGE zip - 194M. If you have problems downloading it, let me know. NEVER DONE THIS BEFORE.

Feel free to distribute, this version is now out of print.

Three finished character designs for my Exalted group's mortals game, as well as the original sketches where I was toying with their looks!

( Psyche, Moros, and Alpha )

TOTALLY OBSESSED WITH OUR NEW MORTAL EXALTED GAME LIKE WTF

So here is a lot of art. A LOT. Our characters are all part of a circus!

( al'Darik's Pandemonium )

Sup, LJ? It's been a while.. but I've gone through and privatized my old entries (I've had this LJ since 1999, how crazy is THAT?) and pruned out my old art posts of stuff that TOTALLY sucks (not just kind of sucks).

I'm hoping to use this more as a sketchblog, less as an actual personal journal (ie bitching about my life).

I hid all my old Macchina posts because I decided I'll be making a post within the next few days where I'm going to zip each chapter for easy download, then go back to actually posting an update in the journal.

Anyways, here are some of the more recent things I've been working on:


I'm linocutting stamps for bookmarks! Not all of these made the cut, but .. well, most of them did! XD

( Dragon Age Fanart )

( Exalted Art )

( Commissions and Charles Darwin )

I've had tons of downtime at work, so I've been sketching.

Here is some work I've done this week.

( This week, in sketches! )


And here is some older, but more polished work (IMHO).

( Derpdederp- EXALTED NERDERY )

I couldn't participate in 24 hour comic day, but I was inspired by beatonna 's journal comics.

Ohhhh Saturday.

( Page-Stretching Goodness )

I thought I would update the LJ to my DISASTROUS progress on my futa doll.

I realized, as I pulled my first casts, WHY these dolls are not sculpted originally in oil clay. I might have had more success if I hadn't made the mistake during the initial mold making to NOT spray mold release on the mold. That one mistake at the start has totally ruined the doll. @_____@

Because it was so hard to get the strips of metal off the rubber (it was stuck and in some places had to be cut off), I unintentionally warped the clay pieces. So when I repaired them, they were no longer symetrical.

Unfortunately, this was particularly bad in the most important place- the face. The mold is a good 1/4 off on one side.

Casting hollow is also very difficult. @_@ We ran into numerous problems and had to recast so many times just to get the first untinted resin doll. It was so difficult, in fact, that I scrapped the idea of doing dolls for my senior project. Instead, I'm gluing all the pieces together and making her a "Birth of Venus" sculpture (I'm building a giant nautilus shell for her to be falling out of).

I still have the first hollow cast, which I am going to sand and finish for my personal collection (I went through all the trouble of making this damn doll I'm at least going to keep one).

She is 26" tall from top of head to heel. I took a few disasterous pictures to share, and I'll have more once I complete the sculpture and then my personal doll.

( DISASTROUS PHOTOS )


So.. yeah. I'm not happy with the results, but I'm trying to make it work considering I've invested over 60 hours between sculpting and molds. :\

I've been working on the mold. I'm about 1/3 of the way through. >:|

( Photos )

( Progress on Moira- NSFW )

Foot is too small, but I'm going to work on it more Sunday.