Madi's WIP's

That looks lovely. Really subtle and delicate with all that cross-hatched shading. Reminds me of a classical etching or silverpoint.
I was gonna say that I can't see any problems with the neck but then I realised you meant your neck!
My reading comprehension is very poor today.

Thanks, Valence! I always felt like I was horrible at etching, so I take that as a high compliment!

Haha, yeah! My neck is very messed up. I'm not sure how I upset it, but it's really inflamed and painful. Not sure what else to do.

In other news, I'm working on some more sketch cards.

I also got a new scanner, so bear with me while I figure it out!

majQa' (I think? )
I may be a nerd but not quite enough of a nerd to be confident of my made-up-language skills.
However I instantly recognised the ship as the Delta Flyer so that's still pretty high on the nerd scale.
And that's a terrific Guinan!

Qapla'

The first one is a full-Klingon Torres, she's only featured once in all of Star Trek: Voyager, so that's a tough one anyway. xD

Yup, the Delta Flyer! And Guinan! I cannot get a decent scan of Guinan. I can assure it looks better in reality. I tried about ten times at all sorts of different DPI levels and settings. Nothing helped. xD

Yes, the face does look like B'Elanna, that's a pretty good likeness, but the longer hair also made me think of K'Ehleyr. Uh-oh, I'm going full nerd now.

Good scan or not, the Guinan still looks lovely, it has a wonderful sense of light, which is tough to do with that media. (Coloured pencil or pastel? I wish I could use either. )

And for non-nerds (or normal people!) majQa' means "Well done." It wasn't Charlotte's cat on my keyboard.

If only everyone had nice, normal names like ...erm... Whoopi?!
At least that doesn't have an apostrophe.
Why is sci-fi so obsessed with apostrophes?

Valence: All coloured pencil for these! I'm sure I'd like to get into some other media, but I need to be able to afford them first. xD And thanks! I figure she's a pretty easily recognizable character because of the headpiece she wears as well!

And I don't know why an apostrophe makes things suddenly sound alien or exotic, but we surely do it a lot! All you have to do is change your name to Val'Ence and wa-la, you are a super exotic alien!

Charlotte: Haha, yup, it's Whoopi! Not a huge Trekkie then I take it?

He's probably (NOT) drawing alien hands.