edtertainer:

Good luck Abby, Katie, and Maki! Whoever wins, everyone wins!!

The first ever fan art of one of my TLH characters AAHHHH makes me so happy!

Here’s the finished piece I did while at the MtG tournament yesterday! I had so much fun just hanging out with the people at Face to Face. Everyone was so nice. And people asked me a bunch of questions and I love it when people ask me questions.

I wish Liliana wasn’t so stereotypical… she’s a necromancer! Make her scary! This whole “femme fatale spooky-ish gorgeous powerful lady who uses men” thing is one of the only ways we let women be powerful. I wish folks would be a little more creative.

I don’t really know what I’ll do with the piece now— any suggestions? Somebody want to own this baby?

ziggystarfox:

ah yes now it is framed and suitable for hanging up right above my battle station

patron saint of silly comics abby howard and sailor moon will watch over me while i do an art. bless us all

My art hangs in a Holy Place.

AS WELL IT SHOULD

Other fans, take a lesson from this

HEY THIS POTOO IS SAYING I WILL BE AT HEROES CON JUNE 7-9 AT BOOTH AA-1124

Heroes Con is in Charlotte, North Carolina, which is the city I am from. I will be having a lot of fun and all of you will have fun too because you will come and see me. Please come. I will be sad and lonely if no one shows up. I am already crying about you not coming.

I also have two new never-before-seen buttons… and prints of my elimination comics as well as a couple extra prints! You will love these things I have for you

And I will be doing sketches for people

biologizeable:

elegantbuffalo:

Earliest Bird Claim Ruffles Feathers

About 30 species of feathered dinosaurs have been discovered in the past dozen years or so, mostly from geological formations in China’s northeastern Liaoning province. But up until now, few paleontologists have argued that any of them qualified as the earliest known bird. That honor has been held for 150 years by Archaeopteryx, a 150-million-year-old creature discovered in Germany, several well-preserved specimens of which have been found over the past century and a half.

However, a new specimen described by a paleontologist at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels, could push Archaeopteryx off its perch as the earliest one known. The new fossil, which the team has named Aurornis xui ( Aurornis meaning “dawn bird,” and xui in honor of Xing Xu’s contributions to bird origins), was found in Liaoning province’s Tiaojishan Formation, in sediments dated about 160 million years ago.

The fossil (see photo) is so complete that paleontologists were able to compare nearly 1,000 different features of its skeleton with those of about 100 other dinosaurs and birds, resulting in a computer-generated evolutionary tree with Aurornis at the very bottom of the bird branch. The phylogenetic analysis also restored Archaeopteryx‘s avian status and reclassified some other feathered dinosaurs as early birds—including the 150-million- to 160-million-year-old Anchiornis, also from the Tiaojishan Formation and first identified by Xu in 2009.

YAY SCIENCE

Do you guys even know how cool and awesome this is DO YOU EVEN KNOW

Have you guys read today’s comic? Yes? Well READ IT AGAIN. 

Thanks, guys! You filled up all my slots in a little over 24 hours! High fives all around, I am very pleased. It is with help from viewers like you that I may continue my existence.

To those who didn’t get in on this sweet action, don’t worry, there will be plenty of opportunities to throw your money at me and get stuff in return.

My second Strip Search elimination comic! If you haven’t watched the episode go do that, apparently it is the most hilarious thing. I also found it quite amusing, even having lived it myself.

Do you want a print of this? OF COURSE YOU DO BUY IT HERE!

Story time: When I drew “cars” using my redraw ticket, I thought I’d dug my own grave. Tavis and I had just been talking about how shitty it is to draw cars, then voila, we are forced to draw CARS. At least it wasn’t “theatre”, or you guys would have seen a “Cats: The Musical” themed comic from me and that might have been even weirder.

COMMISSIONS PART 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO

Email me at abby.howard.art@gmail.com to get a spot!

Here’s a list with examples of what you’d be getting with each level: This is what a black and white social icon looks like, while this is one of the colored ones. This and this is what a black and white character drawing looks like, while this is a coloured one (sans background). This is a black and white piece, and this is close to what you’d be getting with a full colour piece, but you’d get something much larger.

When you get a commission, you get a printable digital copy. If you need a rush on your commission, I’m afraid I will have to charge a little extra, but by no more than $10.

Thanks in advance for funding my continued existence, future Abby is alive and well due to your patronage

Here’s one of the more adorable commissions I did! It’s of characters from Guild Wars 2, one of which is a player’s character and the other is a chubby quaggan. I was very excited about this one because the creatures were so cute. If I played GW2 I would want a quaggan, but I would want it to be adorable and happy like this one and be animated like a puppy.

I went a tiny bit nuts with this commission and decided to go all 19th-century-woodcut. I love doing stuff like this. It brings warmth to my cold, dead heart. Look at how pretty it isssss

Also keep your eyes peeled because I’m opening for commissions again soon and you can get one of these of your very own!

EDIT: To clarify, it is not a woodcut, I just used woodcuttish line technique. Woodcuts are very expensive and time consuming and last time I made one I wound up making more grooves in my thumbs than in the wood. Blood everywhere.

Another commission! This one is in glorious COLOUR. I am rather proud of this one, I consider both mechas and colour some of my weakest points, but this turned out pretty good so maybe I am okay at both of those things!