Maria Ochoa

CDN Art: 2019

This year melded with the issues I had the previous year. While I was waiting on whether I would be needed for the big plot or not, I was working on ideas I had formy other characters. Lydia and Zoar had their own personal stories, and Infrastruct and I worked on mending Dwick and Lydia's realtionship ;u; I wanted to do wacky...

CDN Art: 2018

I apologize for these posts because they feel sadder than the first two years. But I wanted to be honest with the experiences I had, both good and bad! So here we go!

I feel like this was the year where I started to really get burnt out. There was a big plot several people were doing but it was slow going because there ...

CDN Art: 2017

Another day another post!

This year I struggled. I was recovering from that incident last year and finding my stride with my art and dealing with that paranoia. A lot of people who were around when I first joined eventually left so the activity was a little slow, and I wasn't creating as much art as the previous years.<...

CDN Art: 2016

Here are a few images done in 2016. There wasn't as much as my 2015 folder but it still numbered 200+ SO IM GOOD

I did a little more that year in terms of stories. The paranoia that I was doing something wrong always loomed over me but when you start posting it goes away, even if only for a bit. You're having too much f...

CDN Art: Branka Doodles Edition

One of the few things I brought from Branka's adventure on tumblr was her kid drawings she made. I was very glad they were a hit with the forum members. There used to be a lot of requests to see their characters in Branka's style and it was fun and surprisingly challenging to keep that goofy and simplified look! I laughed a l...

CDN Art: 2015

Recently I made the decision to quit the Cerberus Daily News forum and it hurt way more than I expected it to. I've spent time reading old threads and looking at old art to help it but the feeling goes back and forth. So trying to keep this positive <3

When I first joined I was in this art slump because I left devart...

Small absence

Hey all just wanted to give a heads up on my lack of posting. Last weekend I went to Planet Comic Con with a group of friends, and spent this week resting after catching the flu. We were masked and were careful at the con and our tests for covid came back negative so theres that at least 👍 We're all on the mend but I didn'...

Nibai Kids Everywhere!

March is kind of a nostalgic time for me because that's when my friend Dan, and I created this group of characters and dove into the Naruto fandom. But looking back on things, I never really "dive" into fandoms, more like travel the outskirts and meet people doing the same. And I've made some lifelong friends that way <3 2023-03-15 20:43:48 +0000 UTC View Post

Nomi and Kaori colors

I have a hard time visualizing certain things and when done traditionally it can get tiring drawing one thing over and over. So here is some rough digital pieces to help figure out if I should change Nomi and Kaori's colors. Their original hair color was strawberry blonde, maybe it needs more strawberry! A second idea I playe...

Sketch pages of various characters

I was gonna write a long commentary with this because I've been in a weird head space lately. Mostly worrying about the aesthetic look of my art, be it sketch or digital form. I had to take a break from social media apps because the whole grind and "create finished work" daily was getting to me. I didn't wanna go back into th...

A little sprucing up

A few days ago I updated my "about me" and membership stuff with some new images. I've had capybaras as my theme for a while now and wanted to keep it and do more. So here are some of the images I made! They've always been such chill critters and I aspire to have those kinds of vibes like they do C:

Blast from the Past: Bleach

It's been YEARS since I was into Bleach. I think I uploaded the colored piece before, but  found this WIP process! I get so happy when I manage to save them. Back then, I used to pick out a colored piece from a manga artist to test out my marker skills. I tell myself I should do it again, but I'd have to find a piece tha...

My creative cycle

Back in 2012 I joined the Mass Effect community on tumblr, but it didn't last very long and after I left I was feeling very conflicted and unsure of how to voice those feelings. Eventually I made this comic, trying to visualize how roleplaying is like a give and take process. You give out ideas, you take your partners ideas a...

Branka fight studies

I've been in a weird funk when it comes to making new art so in the meantime there will be uploads of older art. Plus, seeing my old stuff also helps against bad vibes I start to get about my current progress.

Around this time I was gearing up to use Branka on my old RP blog on tumblr. Never got to use her much in actio...

Chibi Valentines

Some valentines of old I did for my friends! Shino and Nomi didn't get one because I had this habit of not treating myself to my oc/canon couples because people were very anti OcxCanon.  I found a chibi image of Shino and Nomi to share but Kaori and Kankuro didn't even get one D: 

It's been sixteen years since...

A boy and his horse

Looking back on my old Naruto and Horses of the Sand stuff, I used to draw and write a friendship between Sham and Gaara. Gaara's character development in Naruto was one of my favorites but in canon and filler it was never elaborated on too much. What's funny is this friendship was kind of just an accident. I was RP chatting ...

Saiyan Flirting

This was for a flirt meme challenge and it had things like "a hug from behind, carry bridal style" So here is a DBZ ship, Bardock and my girl, Sarazade! Since I used these two I turned it into a fight sequence >:3c It still makes me laugh!

The Gold Mare

I uploaded this on my insta account but I'm not fond of the image restrictions there but at least here you can see the larger pieces! Continuing my Horses of the Sand fixation, here is one of the main leaders; the Gold Mare! Truth is way back when I couldn't pick a name for her so I left it as is, and it made her sound myster...

Anchor Chart

I did one for Sham a while ago here is one for his big brother, Anchor!

Comic - Stories in the Stars

Kind of testing the waters by dabbling with comics again. Part of me wants to do like full blown inked and colored pages but I never have enough energy, and I have four cats who make that difficult XD So here is something done in ball point pen which I'm happy with! Actually I'm just happy I wrote a coherent scene C: Hope you...

Spirit OC test run (literally!)

So after uploading the template base I immediately started working on coloring it in using a character belonging to an artist named JunoFoxx! This is their Spirit/Rain offspring, Eagle! What a handsome dude!

Redoing old animations

I found a way to play my old flash animation files again and luckily saved some of my told templates. My new laptop can't use the flash program anymore so I'm redoing some of these via photoshop. This is a tweaked version of an old horse animation I did based off someone else's template. Their base and account is gone so all ...

Naruto Mock ups

Time for another art dump for old art!

I managed to save all my work I once uploaded to photobucket onto my computer and its been a nostalgia trip seeing stuff I never thought I would see again. As I was browsing my Naruto art I was surprised how many pieces I did that were mock ups of the various anime openings and end...

Comic - Horses of the Sand

Here was the comic I mentioned in the last post! This was uploaded on my old Dev page once upon a time, though I never uploaded the fifth page anywhere. It ended up remaining incomplete ;n;

In Naruto canon, ninjas usually set up a contract with warrior animal clans who were summoned by drawing blood (usually the ninja b...

Breaking in the new sketchbook

I have a new sketchbook Ive been trying to doodle in but with the gloomy weather it's been hard to do much. A part of me wishes I had the energy to commit to a huge project like a comic or something. I've made a few personal art goals for improving my art so lets see if that comes to fruition as the year progresses!

For...

Varren adoptables

Here are some samples of the varren adoptables I want to sell. I based these off horse colors because they seem cool and alien enough for alien fish dogs! I ended up writing a little story for each color gene and will probably make something up for each individual varren too for fun! But enjoy these lovelies, it was a blast c...

More perlers (for charity!)

I was determined to do a prize submission for this years AGDQ and I found some templates for FF7 sprites! These will be presented as one of the many prizes for Awesome Games Done Quick which started today and will be airing all week! I'm gonna keep a look out and see if I can spot them on GDQ's prize roster 👀

Last pieces of 2022

I haven't had much time to do anything since November. A few pieces here and there, but after my Spirit Halloween challenge I figured it was a good time as any to take a break. After doing my horse adopts I thought about doing adopts for Mass Effect related things like varren, maybe moxie and stuff later. And for Christmas I ...

More horse adoptables

I made another set of Spirit x Rain children. Here's hoping I'll be able to sell them all off. Two have already been bought so YAY! I find myself having too much fun with paint horses. The possibilities in coat patterns are endless!

A stroll through Konoha

A birthday gift for my lovely friend, Shan! Her OC Shinka taking a walk with my OC, Kogoro! Drawing them again made me feel nostalgic and I hope to draw more of them along with other characters we played as. Shan has her own patreon and goes by S.J. Slays...