Neurotic Owl

flapping vaguely downward through clouds of uncertainty on wings of existential dread

Author Archives: naralesser

Trigger warning?

So usually this is where, if you haven’t read the book, I say to do so, but there’s a caveat this time.  Robin McKinley’s Deerskin is an amazing and wonderful … Continue reading

August 26, 2015 · Leave a comment

Aaaand back to books you may or may not have read.

 Because I assume everybody’s read ‘A Wrinkle in Time’, and OF COURSE Meg Murray’s on my list, but I don’t know how many people have read the other books, especially … Continue reading

August 25, 2015 · Leave a comment

Ze paper dolls, zey are done!

I’m afraid the toy piano and the bells are just props, but everything else is holdable, if slightly awkwardly engineered.

August 24, 2015 · Leave a comment

The rest of the outfits! Maybe. Probably. I don’t know.

  I’m not done yet, because I have a whole bunch of leetle instruments to draw, and the autoharp alone is going to take time.  There might be one more … Continue reading

August 21, 2015 · Leave a comment

Moar outfits!

 And more to come tomorrow!

August 20, 2015 · Leave a comment

Paper dolls! But unusually specific ones.

I told some friends I would do this AGES ago, but I was wrapped up in Tarot cards at the time and it’s taken me this long to circle back … Continue reading

August 19, 2015 · Leave a comment

Aerin-sol!

 I think one of the things I especially love about Aerin is that, when she realizes (spoiler) she’s in love with two different men, she doesn’t agonize over it.  She … Continue reading

August 18, 2015 · Leave a comment

One more black and white, just because.

I feel more confident that lots of you have read The Hero and the Crown, because I read it in school, and because it’s probably McKinley’s best-known book.  Yerigs!  Folstza! … Continue reading

August 17, 2015 · Leave a comment

Oh, all right. Have some colour! Have ALL the colours!

Again, ‘Spindle’s End’, Robin McKinley.  READ IT.

August 15, 2015 · Leave a comment

Colour is overrated, right?

You get black & white today, both because this one kind of got away from me and the colouring is INTENSIVE, and because look how pretty!  Did that sound conceited?  … Continue reading

August 13, 2015 · Leave a comment