Neurotic Owl

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

Author Archives: naralesser

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

Willow! The female one, not the one who saved Elora Danaan.

Although in my head, Willow Rosenberg is the very distant descendant of Elora Danaan, and the name got passed down in the family in honor of her hero.  Red headed, … Continue reading

August 11, 2015 · Leave a comment

I started to type out the Buffy theme, but it just looked like I was screwing up the Batman theme.

Oooh, Buffy meets Batman!  I think she would have deeply limited patience for him, deity her taste for brooding dudes.   If you want to own it, check out Redbubble … Continue reading

August 10, 2015 · Leave a comment

She can’t be a witch. She weighs more than a duck.

Who else loves ‘The Witch of Blackbird Pond’?  Kit is just so delightful and strong minded and feisty and ok, super wrongheaded about at least one very important issue, but … Continue reading

August 7, 2015 · 1 Comment