Psst Psst

I realize thats a really stupid title.

But you must realize that I am also really stupid. So thus, we all put two and two together and we get Super Fail! *wears her Fail Cape as it flutters in the wind, but because it's a Fail Cape is somehow blows around her, and then strangles her, and then makes her fall down and roll all around failing about.*

Anyway.

I've been wanting to work on facial expressions too, because, well its good too, and well, my characters smiling all the time gets a little creepy. I'm pretty sure they are plotting my death, but they must remember that I have the power to destroy them first. I can just as easily draw a car running over one of them, or have one of them have an unfortunate accident in which they are in the wrong place at the wrong time. They will fear me.

See? Isn't it good to have characters who don't have super powers? They're so easy to destroy.

Anyway. So I was looking around the internets for some references, and then I got an idea for a picture when I saw this one picture of two girls huddled together telling each other a secret. I thought it would be cute to draw something like that, so off I went, using my epic skillz of fail to draw two characters all huddled giggling about.

Well not exactly giggling, but whatever.

So anyway, because Melanie and Clarice are like BESTEST FRIENDS OMG LIKE FOREVER and tell each other everything (well, most everything. Clarice happens to tell Melanie EVERYTHING about EVERYTHING, while Melanie likes to keep things a secret. Some things. Nothing in particular. *large grin on her face )

Melanie: I DON'T @#$!#$!#$!$!@ LIKE MAC!!!

*ignores her* So cute. *pinches her cheeks*

Anyway, so here we have Clarice, apparently telling Melanie a secret in which she looks either disgusted or confused or really just surprised. She could be a) telling her something that she thinks is too much info about Ricky, or b) telling her something about Mac that she found out that secretly Melanie probably wanted to know.

Melanie: I don't want to know anything about him.

*ignores her* Secrets are always fun, aren't they? I'm one of those people tho who never tell secrets to anyone, altho if I ever did I tended to tell them to my guy friends over my girl friends, because in my opinion guys are better at keeping their mouths shut. But I just think its better to keep things to myself. And never post super personal stuff on the web. I'm sure one too many people find out peoples secrets and feelings by going to their social sites. XD

Anyway, just really practicing facial expressions. I love how Melanie came out, she's so cute and bug eyed. I hope she's not scarred for life. For those of you who are wondering why Clarices hand appears to have been eaten away by Melanie, its really that Mel's hair covered her hand, but you can't really tell because of how I drew it. And, its confusing because Melanie's hair and Clarice are actually the same colour so everything blends in too much.

For the background, I didn't want to do anything too extravagant. Just took a random colour and coloured about. I realize that once again, I sorta didn't....finish the picture, and never cut it off at the right time (you can see some white underneath Melanie, and some white in the corner over there). Because I'm psychotic, that drives me insane. This picture is actually pretty small, I just scanned it in big.

Speaking of scan, I have NO FREAKIN IDEA why this one scanned in so miserable. My only reason is that my scanner is a @#$#!$!$#@ asslicker and didn't know what it was doing. Seriously! It's a HORRIBLE scan, and it doesn't even make sense why it looks all wobbly like my pictures do when I've coloured the backgrounds with watercolour pencils. I've become immune, now, I think, to my scanner and its tendencies to ruin everything it touches. I'm convinced that if I actually touch it it would warp my hand, quite possibly eat it up with some sort of Scanner acidic goo.

Do scanner companies realize that thier scanners are doing this to one too many artists? I'm really starting to believe there is a conspiracy out there. I don't know what the conspiracy is, but it has something to do with scanners being assholes and ruining out pictures. It just might have something to do with ManBearPig too.

I'll figure it out sooner or later.

Anyway, its always fun drawing expressions...I usually keep expression doodles as just sketches, but sometimes like this one, they turn out (despite what my scanner tells you) so I like to finish them, adding once more five bajillion pictures to my cue which will take me five bajillion years to post.


I'm actually really curious as to what they are talking about. I don't even know what they are. I just drew it. My characters are creepy and have minds of their own. I can no longer control them. That worries me.

D'awww I like Melanies hair for some reason. Her little white headband makes me smile. I don't know why, but it does. Probably because Clarice is telling Melanie that she knows her secret and we all know what that secret is.

Melanie: You don't know any of my secrets.

So you're implying you have some, then.

Melanie: No. I didn't imply anything.



Melanie: I DON'T @#!#$$!#$!#$@ LIKE MAC!!!

I never said anything about like Mac. *Melanie flails about*

Anyway, so just a cute picture to practice facial expressions. They haz a secret, and you no can haz.

Clarice and Melanie here are © to Jess Ratte