Eats, Shoots, and Leaves

Art blog for Amanda Lien. Occasional silly-ness or serious-ness may occur. I like cute things and explosions. Not necessarily together.
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Hey all! I’m going to start tagging all my art posts with this:

alienfirst arts

I’ll also be going back and adding that tag to all previous art posts. So, if you don’t want to necessarily follow my Tumblr, you can at least track the art tag!

Inking her by hand for realsies. Will scan and color I think. Was gonna use Copics to color, but a little terrified of ruining her.

huevos-rancheros:

fuckyeahblackwidow:

The Avengers storyboards by Jane Wu.

what i want to do with my life

Oh man. I think storyboarding is the number one thing I wish I could do for a living. This is amazing.

jonesydraws:

Wind down doodle. Kinda like her. Thinking about Ai as a name.

Get it.

Ai.

Eye.

I’ll shut up now.

Ah! Love her design!

eatshootleaf:

alienfirst:

“Mostly harmless.”

Finished off the other three characters last night! Kind of a mix between movie, tv, and head versions.

Meant to reblog this here, not my old tumblr url. Oops.

“Mostly harmless.”

ayame134:

alienfirst:

“I like the cover. ‘Don’t Panic.’ It’s the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody’s said to me all day.”

Happy Towel Day everyone. Too bad work will get in the way of me doing the whole cast. :(

AMANDA WHAT DID I JUST FIND HERE WHAT WHAT oh gosh I totally didn’t even recognize your art at first oh my god this style ahahaha I love the Adventure Time-ish faces so cute so cuuuute

Adventure Time has been my go-to “I want to draw something quick but nice and clean” style lately. Well, and Secret of Kells sort of.

Augh I keep going between wanting to do Ford, Zaphod, and Marvin tonight and not wanting to. SO MANY THINGS TO DO.

Do you guys realize how excited I am for a new Men in Black movie? Probably not. You see, one of the characters I’ve had in my head the longest, Samantha, got inserted in to MIB when the first movie came out. It was beautiful and lovely and started me on the dark path of adoring crossovers.

Samantha still hasn’t formed in to her own bubble inside my head, and I think I’m finally content with that. She’s my playground. My over the top character. The one that I really don’t give a crap about because she’s just for fun.

In other words, goddammit MIB3 is gonna make me do art of my stupid crossover story again. I started that shit in ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. A part of me just can’t let it go man. Well, that and Aron is an enabler. I WOULDN’T HAVE IT ANY OTHER WAY.

AS FOR ART: These four pieces are done between 2005 and 2010. I have art of Samantha from back in 1995 somewhere, but it’s such a far cry from what she is now. Top picture has Samantha in her dragon form (haha yes she has a dragon form, and you’ll notice her eyes are supposed to be slitted like a snakes while she’s human) with Aron’s two MIB characters Delia and Dade. Second is just a full body of Samantha in her usual clothing. Third is Samantha with Delia and Dade and an enemy type in a sort of poster fashion. And last is Samantha with a bunch of key characters in that silly crossover I’m so attached to.

Ahhhhhh. I’m gonna have to appease my inner younger self with some Samantha art sometime soon.

“I like the cover. ‘Don’t Panic.’ It’s the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody’s said to me all day.”

Happy Towel Day everyone. Too bad work will get in the way of me doing the whole cast. :(

When I said I wouldn’t draw, I of course meant I would draw because what the hell else do I do with my time in the evenings? Stupid drawing, you’re too much like breathing.

I didn’t have the mental energy to think up clothing that would work with her wing and tail membranes, so I just left the clothing out. Do it right or not at all. Maybe I’ll clothe her sometime.

I don’t usually draw anthros, so this is a little outside my usual subjects.