C'est fini!

Finally finished it! Now onto the next project!

Under the Sea

I've been working on this piece for 4 days straight. Been experimenting with some new techniques, not liking them, starting over, and trying something else again lol
I stare at that pearl earring a lot though, I'll tell you that.

I really like where it's heading but I'm also excited to be finished with it soon so that I can start a new project! :)

Last night I was listening to Ravi Shankar on Pandora while drawing, which really fueled the creative juices and kept me going. I'll have to listen to him more often while drawing lol

pimp my blog

Wooooooooo! FINALLY re-modeled this blog to what I'd like it to look like. Thank you The Cutest Blog on the block! No longer do I weep tears of sorry when I see my blog. Huzzah.

Aaaaaaand some new work! That just so happens to match my blog theme. Snap.

I'm pretty excited about this project and can't wait to see how it's gonna turn out when I'm done!

On a side note: I happen to have the palest of the pale genes [German + Irish ftw] plus small genes from my mothers side [ugh]. So, there are times where I need to use my own hands for photo reference when doing illustrations. These two genetic traits combined make it VERY hard to do that. On the upside, it makes me very observant/aware of how "normal" hands are supposed to look and makes me double check size relations carefully.
So, I guess on the whole, it's more of a pro than a con haha

 

Here are some sketches and a logo I did recently! I really had fun doing that green and blue hair, let me tell you. I wish there was a machine that allowed you to change your hairstyle everyday without damaging it. If there was, I'd totally rock that 'do from time to time.

It feels like January is chuggin’ through slowly, yet the weeks seem to be going by too quickly at the same time.
I could do without the cold… Even though I was born in the winter, I'm more of a summer kind of person :P

Coloring some things here and there and also doing some fun coloring sketches to just relax and play around :)
I forgot how much fun it is to draw kids.
Also…you know what I haven’t drawn in a while? Animals. I should draw some animals….yea….

I’m really looking forward to this year!

Still kickin!

Holy Moly. December is crazy. What with the holidays and making Christmas gifts and working full time I have been so busy and tired! But it had been two weeks since I’d posted something so I forced myself to get some doodles done.

I’m not sure if any of you have ever watched Midsomer Murders before, but I have recently finished watching all the seasons of it on Netflix. I’m kinda sad about that. I hope they make some new episode’s some time in the near future once all the money troubles get situated over in England [or rather the world, really]. Anyway, thought I’d do a little simple drawing of them in memory of their sheer awesomeness.
For some reason I had a hard time drawing Jones [on the left][I think I may have accidentally given him a lazy eye….sorry Jones].
Maybe one day I will master drawing his eyebrows.

And in addition to M.M, I played around with character and color since I felt this Blog didn’t have enough color in it!!!
Pluuuuus a little bit of the colored version of the character I posted earlier in the month. ALMOST done coloring it...so....close.....

Oddly, while drawing the last 4 images, they kept making me think of embroidery....

A Pretty Kind of Creepy

A new character design!
I love characters that are both good looking and kind of creepy. Where you can’t quite make out if they’re a good guy or a bad guy, and it gets to a point where you don’t care either way, just so long as you can continue to hear their witty, semi-sarcastic comments.

While drawing this character I imagine her to be in a puzzle/Murder Mystery/Suspense kind of game. She is the person you go to when you need some back history knowledge to help crack the case, or the person you ask when your stumped over a certain puzzle in the game. Throughout the game the player would have suspicions about whether she is really there to help or just to confuse, and whether she is in fact dead, alive, or just a figment of their imagination.
You wouldn’t discover that she was a ghost till the very end.
I’m contemplating making a simple flash of her turning into ghost form…..

As for the dress, there is something that isn’t sitting right about it with me…can’t figure out what it is exactly yet though….
and at first I thought “dark blue dress”, then “red striped dress”, now I’m contemplating green…..we shall see….
Also, I got into drawing the bodice only to remember that I’d be covering it with a book…good times.

Also…I wish I had more picture layout options…these are cut oddly….
oh Tumblr, you and your mysterious ways….

To add onto my ramblings: I saw Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows tonight.
I can’t wait till it comes out on DVD so that I may watch Watson’s/Jude Law’s hysterical/laughing drunk face over and over again.
That and Robert Downey Jr. in drag.