Very nice! I particularly like the cactus flowers and the multiple rings of visual flow in this. The eagle-on-the-cactus motif as hair is also sweetly handled.

I'd say your coloration is steadily improving.

Thanks!

That's really neat.

CACTUS WOMAN

Awesome!

Also as Zjonni says, need colouring, nice muted tones.

Thank you! Ugh, I wish I'd scanned this one better. Last night, when I wasn't awake and on a different computer, it seemed like a great scan.

But hey, how many cactus-women does this archive have?

Not enough, clearly.

wow , just cool! =3 where do you get the inspiration for these drawings anyway? =3

I love your art so much ^__^ More cactus women!

Thank you!

You're very welcome!

Wowowow. Wtf has gotten into you lately? Whatever it is, continue to boil/distill/smoke/bask in it!

It's a long story, tell ya more sometime in person.

Two questions:

1. What are the symbols encircling her face?
2. How does she see through them?

1. The sigils don't mean anything that I know of. I think they'd probably talk about the sheer eternity of desert.

2. She doesn't, not in this world anyway.

Actually, I think there are probably at least a handful of cacti femmes. There's a cactus-based Pokemon, and the fandom seems to have turned each Pokemon into a female anthro at least once. I do know that there's a pinecone-anthro (yes, a pinecone), so anything's possible.

Also, I totally adore those animal/sigils-rings. I fell in love with them when I saw Guilty Gear's Dizzy, but quickly realized that they're all but impossible to represent in a static image. You've done an excellent job; I can really feel a sense of ring-ness about them.

Oh my goodness! We just made up a cactus-woman monster for our game of How We Came To Live Here!

She's called Her-Skin-Is-Thorns and she brews liquor from the cacti in the hopes of luring a young man to be her husband...they don't survive her embrace for long, though!

I'll have to ask the other players if this picture works for her XD

Oh, how cool! I had no idea there was a game like that - how does it play out?

So far, good! The first session we spend on character creation, which includes making up the village and the people in it, and tying them all together. It was a blast; at the end we had four good characters, all with aspirations, plans, and secrets; a nifty setting; and a roster of interesting NPCs, all with relationships to the PCs, caught up in their various goals and ambitions. And it was all collaboratively created, so we all feel invested in the result. Every game should start off so well.

The game mechanic is simple and fun, and supports player narration of conflict while still pinning it to a definite resolution system. Two players share the GM's duties of playing NPCs, which is kind of cool as it reduces the pressure a bit. But scene-framing is shared in rotation among all the players, so everyone gets to contribute. I'm definitely looking forward to the next session on Sunday!