About Nuchtchas

Self proclaimed Artist, Dreamer, RolePlayer, The Podcast NINJA!, Gamer, Klingon, Walking Corruption and Geek Queen, Nuchtchas is the owner and operator of NIMLAS Studios with the life goal of highlighting the awesome and good in the world and to spread the love of all things geek!

Daily Creativity: Angel in my Centerfold – also, even though it’s march, check yourself

Angel for Breast Cancer?
So today’s creation for March, Art Month is this.  I was working on my proportions of a figure but also trying to keep it PGish so I covered the naughty bits so to say (I’m not against nudity, actually most of my best paintings are nudes but for the purpose of promoting Art Month I want to make sure people see my work as Art and I don’t have to deal with the “Why are all your paintings naked ladies” issue) but due to the post of covering up my friend Liz said it looked like it was promoted ladies checking themselves for breast cancer.  Which made me giggle a little and say, well then yeah!  That’s what I meant to do :) Because after all, no matter what month it is, we ladies (and men) need to check ourselves for cancer.  At least monthly check ups are needed.  So remember to do that.

Other then that?  This is a pencil sketch, I added the wings after getting the figure done and worked a little on shading but I really liked the idea of the figure being bright on a shaded background.

How’s your Art Month coming along?

Daily Creativity: March is Art Month! (Gamer Dice Still Life)

Gamer Dice abstract sketch

This morning I was asked “What the heck is Art Month?”  It’s something I started, yeah I thought of an idea and decided to promote it like it was real.  If November is National (now International) Novel Writing Month then there NEEDS to be an International Art Month.

The rules are simple, create something every day.  Painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, cross stitch, whatever it is that you do that you consider art.  Create it, then post it online somewhere.  Twitpic it, blog it, posturus it, facebook it, tweet it, LJ it, something, anything.  Make it and let people see it.

Art Month, the month of march create and post something daily, tell your friends.

I was inspired by the topic of the Digger Chat I recorded this morning. I did a pencil sketch of my some of gaming dice

It’s a good kick off to Art Month.

 

Nutty Bites Promo 02

Out with a new episode, and a new promo.  Please feel free to post this in your own podcast and please feel free to email me at nuttybites[at]nimlas[dot]org with a promo of your own or pretty much any feedback or content and I will air it on the show.

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Nutty Bites Episode 02

Me and my niece
Just under the wire, Episode 2 is up.

Basically I scheduled the last two weeks of February to work on a piece of short fiction I wrote during NaNoWriMo, unfortunately I came down with pneumonia and could record at all.  Luckily I had a Nutty Debate saved and ready to go, and my voice and health cleared up just in time to record a show :)

Please, keep the feedback coming, send me audio to add to the show and anyone that wants to leave me an iTunes review go right ahead, I will give you a special shout out :)

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Zombie Love

Valentines day was always a drag.  If you were with someone there was the pressure to get it right, to make them happy and to just not fuck it up.  If you were alone you spent the night alone at home wondering why you were such a loser.  This year Neil had planned to be different.  He met a girl on new years, she was sweet, cute, fun to be around, but what he thought was a drunken one night stand ended up having more of a last impression.

See that was the night Neil died.

His one night stand had brought him back to her place and they had a great time.  He had never been with anyone as adventurous as she.  When he woke up with nail marks across his back and bite marks on his neck he thought they were cool badges of sexual prowess.  What he found out later, when he puked up his big mac and started craving raw meat that he had gotten more then an STD.

Yep, Neil was a Zombie now, he wanted to eat human flesh, he craved brains and still was only making minimum wage.

Having just a month and a half to his new life as an Undead American Neil was still trying to figure out the nuances of zombie life, and he never understood women to begin with.  Still, he was trying and try he would.

He knocked on her door, smiled a yellow smile back at her when she opened the door and held up the skull of a person he killed earlier.  The top of the scull was carefully cut out in the shape of a heart to expose the brain for easy eating access.

A soft blush of green crossed her gray cheeks and she swung the door open wider to let him in.

Thanks to @scarredsoul for prompting me to do this