I finished the back sprite for Smogon and made some updates on the female version

Wow...
Sorry, I forgot to post something earlier...
here

O.K.

so... I got some feedback from the Smogon community and i worked some more on my sprite
As you can see, I did a lighter colour for the whole thing, I lengthened the beak, and I redid the legs

Well, well...
it has been far to long...
Wow! our last post was in November... :P
Anyways I hope to start blogging more frequently and start to post more of our artwork.
Today's blog is for a sprite contest for Smogon (I'm a Pokemon nerd)
Smogon is doing their "Create a Pokemon" project again. I am trying to do the sprites for the new Pokemon.
This is my first time trying to do a sprite or any kind of pixel art.
Anyways here is the first sprite.

-A

Pumpkins

One got hit with spray paint, another is being consumed. Oh the horror...

The Bone Tree Project

A made a tree of bones for a school project. Years ago he broke his arm - the inspiration for this project. It was more work than expected but turned out well. Here's the final result (click for a big picture):

There were many steps. First step, find butchers that actually have large bones that haven't been cut up. A was lucky to have a few generous butchers supply bones from veal, beef, pork, lamb and venison. Plus A had some chicken bones:

Step 2: Remove all meat, fat, tendons, etc from bones. About 4 hours of boiling in pots with borax and lots of scraping (Mom and dad helped with the scraping):
Then on to assembly. Some problems here: glue didn't hold the bones together, and couldn't figure out a to create a wire structure. But some experiments with wood screws seemed to work OK on the big bones. Then reverse for the small bones - screws split the small bones but glue seemed to work for them.

Un Jour Dans la Vie de Petit Nicolas

Hi, this is a new comic A. did for a school book report. The book is called "le Petit Nicolas a des ennuis" and is about a young french school boy who is always getting in trouble (the book is in french due to the fact H. and A. are in french imersion). This comic has no french writing (excluding the title page) so you can understand. Enjoy!!!