Rising with the sun, she wept tears of sadness, joy, and anger. A past she tried each day to forget, but a past she tried each day to forgive...

This took me a long while to complete not because it was hard or challenging, but because it was emotionally trying.
There has come a time in my life that I must face my fears and wear them on my sleeves. For if I do not, I shall never find the release I am waiting for, when everything in life satisfies the perfectionist in me.

OpenCanvas 1.1 and Photoshop CS2
Artwork © 2009 Elizabeth Dlouhy

Remember her? Viki, my leopardess character that was of the first characters I created. She just turned 3 years old on October 5th.

Although it may not look like it, this really took a lot out of me; I had to take several breaks from working on it. Viki is based off of a friend of mine whose friendship with me got really rocky and plummetted to the ground and ended for a while. She still remains close to me and so does her presence in the character, so it is hard to look at Viki in the same way I did before and not see the real figure behind her. But I love her too much to let something like that get in the way.

Lines in Open Canvas, coloring in PS CS2
(Please take the time to full-view for the appreciation and detail put into the artwork.)

Happy Birthday, Viki.
Artwork © 2009 Elizabeth Dlouhy

One of those expressions where you want to scream in real life but you know that no matter how loud you scream, it will still be stifled. So artistically it is more satisfying to express how you feel through yourself.

Not too many people know this side of me unless they read my words on my LJ, but I hate to be belittled or made to feel inferior when I know and feel that I am actually the one superior in intellectual capacity. But what can you do? People will always crush you under their heels if they know they are in a more powerful position than you.

I'm really happy with how this came out though, the clouds took the most time, but they came out nice as well I think. I wanted to portray Scully in a somewhat powerful stance to show her amazing quantity of intellectual intelligence and the anger she feels when people try to overcome it, because that's how I feel sometimes, even though I may not look it from the outside wearing my everything's-okay-I'm-always-happy-go-lucky mask.

Lines done in pchat, coloring in photoshop 6.0

Artwork © 2005 Elizabeth Dlouhy
Additional Credits: Scully is (C) Elizabeth Dlouhy

A quick GIF of Scully's sister, Laeurin.

Done in paintchat months ago.

Artwork © 2005 Elizabeth Dlouhy
Additional Credits: Laeurin is (C) to Elizabeth Dlouhy

Viki is such a temptress. But it's so ironic how she doesn't even know she's doing it sometimes when Scully is clearly used to it.

As you can see, I went back to my 'roots' with Scully. I've always felt how I originally created her was how she was supposed to be, but when she started getting ripped off I felt like I had to change her. But I realized I was only kidding myself. She is as she.

Artwork © 2005 Elizabeth Dlouhy
Additional Credits: Viki and Scully are both (C) Elizabeth Dlouhy

Original desc.) Viki-vik. Haven't drawn this leopard beauty in a while so I whipped up a quick sketch in 3 days of math classes. Did you miss her? Raise your paw if you did. ;)
An old drawing of Viki from my junior year in HS (I am in college now). I was going to add a background but I lost interest in it as I moved on to other things. I still really like it though. (

Artwork © 2005 Elizabeth Dlouhy
Additional Credits: Viki is (c) Elizabeth Dlouhy

Viki was the first character I ever created, but I didn't get around to exposing her out here until much later. (I think this is from 2003 as well; I'm uploading all of my artwork by ascending date so some more oldies of mine will be coming up shortly.) Viki means a lot to me as she's based on an old good friend of mine and is also the best friend of my fursona and her sister in my comic. Say hello to Viki the leopardess.

Artwork © 2005 Elizabeth Dlouhy
Additional Credits: Viki is © Elizabeth Dlouhy