I need a haircut.

Yeah. This is a self-portrait. I just put Photoshop on my computer today so I was excited to try it out. However, uninspired and so what's easiest when you're uninspired? Draw yourself! Woo!

Lady Sings the Blues

I can't even begin to say how much I adore her.

So I drew a picture instead.






"There's snowflakes in the sky, and geese are flying high, but it's April in my heart again..."

I couldn't have said it better myself. Thank you Billie.

In-Progress/Scary Street

Yep. Just threw a quick background on an unfinished character clean-up. Partly because I'm lazy but mostly because I don't know Corel Painter that well and my Photoshop 7 wouldn't install on my computer... so... damnit. I need CS... *sigh*... Oh well.

Working re-design for Persephone for The Lamp Post at Fillmore and Pine.

WHOO!

First sketch with my new tablet!!!!!!!!!!

It's nothing special, but I"m excited. So, yeehaw.

Little Woman.

It's almost a month late - but I did the inked illustration on the plane flight to Spokane on her birthday last month. I can't believe you're 21 already. Way to make me feel old!! <3

Pin-up!

So yeah, I did this really fun pin-up illustration for my buddy Matt's comic (well he's the artist) - Wonderdog, Inc. It'll be debuting at Comic-Con this summer so if you're going... you should pick one up! And I'll love you forever! Or at least until one of us gets too clingy and then the little differences in opinions lead to huge fights where we're screaming at each other in the middle of a restaurant about how 'someone' forgot to ask for ketchup and we end up breaking up right then and there and so one of us throws the other's belongings out the fourth story window of our lovely apartment and the other has to move back home to Wisconsin to live with their parents. I'll love you until then.

XO

Glasses Chic

Sometimes I wish I could wear glasses... but not really. I look terrible in glasses.

Sure bert/Sherbet.

For the longest time I thought it was pro-nounced "sher-bert". I've come to realize that I wasn't the only one. Anyways these colors remind me of the rainbow-flavored kind (is rainbow a flavor?). And so do these hot days.

I don't know if I like the real gradient or the blocky gradient better. Hmmm...

Prettier than I intended it to be.

Bohemia.

I dunno about the colors :-/

Plaid.

I [heart] plaid.

Pin Stripes!

Yeaaaah. I think I should make some prints, of these, what do you think??

hello again. it's been a while.

nothing special. but something.

props! (please?)

Yay! Viz dev props for my Holy Grail artwork. Wheeeeeeee!

et voila!

c'est finis! click to see it all big 'n stuff!

Holy Grail!

Yay! Finished exactly half of the character designs for Monty Python inspired characters! Gonna do a props page too! Whoo! The other three will be done by tonight!

Rollin'

It's almost 6am... we'll make this brief.

Villainess....




How disgustingly adorable.





Finally a new story idea I came up with last night while passing off into slumberland with little Nemo... about a girl who lives in a little hut on a giant lillypad in a lake tucked away in a high mountain valley. She can't remember how she got there, or where she is, but she remembers everything from her life in a small desert village, before waking up suddenly in this strange green place. Someone left a baby in the village, a strange light-skinned baby who was obviously not from the village, and when elders declared the baby was a gift from the gods for a sacrifice, the girl ran away with the infant. Only her older sister has been looking for her as the village deemed her banished. The first night she ran off with the infant, they were ambushed by masked figures and then she only remembered waking up on the shore of the crystalline lake. The only safe place for her was out in the middle of the lake on one of the lilypads because of poisonous snakes and nocternal predators at night were a threat.

And so here is the first page of visual development! Whooooo!!!!!!!!ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.....

HMMM.

I've been thinking. For someone who went to school for animation I sure don't do a whole heck-of-a-lot of animating. I'll be working on new animations this weekend for sure. I'll post my progress soon enough. The last time I did that though, my not-even-half-finished progress video of my wolf run has garnered 2,000+ views on YouTube.com. Ugh. It's not like I don't want people seeing my work, but seeing something that is just a crappy progress video isn't exactly the kind of attention I want. Oh well. Any press is good press as they say, right? HMMM.

Anyways, I'll leave ya with thumbnail sketches of some character designs I'm going to do of the Monty Python boys from the Holy Grail.

sheesh!

I can't believe that I haven't posted in over a month! How careless of me! Well here we go - late night drawing that I had to get out or I was going to s'plode!!



Basically, if I wasn't so fickle, I would totally have all these piercings and the Sagittarius archer tattoo - and that awesome hair cut. But since I'm totally lame and indecisive I get stuck at boring, normal me. Oh well.

Les Filles #3

Undercover.





Oooh double meaning! I'm so clever.

Les Filles #2

The Great Outdoors.





Oh how great it is.

Les Filles #1

I've decided to go forward with a project I started in September. I'm calling it Les Filles, french for The Girls. It's a style and medium that I don't use as much as I'd like. The first in the series that I have finished is Lizze Borden.

We'll see how the next few go from here. I've added a showcase of some studies of other characters I'll be doing soon hopefully.

Who says Crumple-Horned Snorkacks aren't real??

Luna is such a fun character. I love her because she never really cares about what is logical, because sometimes logic is just someone's opinion backed up by the fact that they never found anything. She might take it too far sometimes, but that's what makes her character so funny. Here's to the weird girls who will always believe in the unbelievable!

Mr. Longbottom.

Neville is another of my favorite characters. Now, as it might look, in my drawing he doesn't seem to be the fat little kid that most people picture. So first, I should have probably digressed this earlier, that these are portraits of the characters as I see them in the 7th book. It's the image in my mind that is most clear to me. They've grown with me as I've read their stories and now picturing them as 11 year-olds is very strange. So in my mind, as Neville grew older, he may not have grown a whole lot taller, but he grew enough to lose his baby fat, which I would think would attribute to some of his newfound confidence as well.

The only strange part about Neville that I didn't really think about was his hair color; I had always pictured him with medium brown hair. While researching the appearancs of all the characters I'm working on (remember, this is an excercise in creating other people's character ideas) I found that JK had him as a short, tubby, blonde boy! Well... I suppose Neville could have blonde hair, and well, if she says so, then that's what I gots to make it.

Ginny for Ginerva!

Ginny is probably my favorite female character in the whole Harry Potter world. Though there are tons of fantastic females in the stories, I always thought there was something extra poignant about Ginny. She had to stand up for herself a lot because she was the only girl in a family of boys, and it definitely made her a tough cookie. While I love her name, I had the misfortune of knowing someone who went by the name "Ginny" and her egocentric, obsessive, and often snobby attitude sort of gave a taint to the name "Ginny"... until I realized that her name was short for "Virginia" and the other was short for nothing even close - Ginerva.

A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet. The same goes for rotten cabbage.

My favorite ginger lad.

No, not Prince Harry, but Ronald Weasley. Even though I don't think he and Hermione were the best match, I still think that they are cute together.

Potted.

I'm finally getting my arse back to working - honestly, I'm not taking the piss! I did some character drawings of Harry Potter and his mates and I just started today with Hermione. As always these copyrights belong to JK Rowling. And just like Ally, she doesn't really have a middle name, so she stole the "K" from her grandmother.

Kitty.

So, I'm allowed to post awesome photos I take, right? That's still considered art, right?? This kitten is just friggin' ridiculously adorably adorable, right???

Not David Bowie.

It's nearly impossible to mention an owl to a twentysomething and not have them reminded of David Bowie in Labyrinth.

Alas, this has nothing to do with David Bowie. But I still thought of him.

Sagitta is turquoise for a reason.

Turquoise is a bittersweet color. It's not quite blue, but it's still sort of sad. There's a hint of yellow in the tint that brings a small sparkle of joy.

Dance for Cupcakes!

At Dolores Park today there were people who had a big sign that said "Dance for Cupcakes" and there were a bunch of cupcakes on a table about ten people dancing around with music from a stereo somewhere. It was super rad. Yay for dancing and cupcakes!

Scarlet's Walk

Inspired by Tori Amos's 'A Sorta Fairytale'.

Nirvana through pencil and paper.

You know when out of no where, when it's super late at night, and you just get this crazy urge and you HAVE to draw. The gods will not allow another moment to pass without your creativity venturing out through your pencil and you must concede to their will.

Yeah, it was kinda like that. And this is why I prefer, and will always prefer, drawing with paper and pencil, to drawing with a wacom.

someone's got a CRUU-USH!

That sounds a lot nerdlier than I meant it to. But either way - just some character idea sketches for a school of monstery-kids. He's a vampire and she's a witch - a match made in hell! (that's a perfect match in this case!)

color study sketch

Just a color sketch I'm working on, it's not finished, but ya know, I think it's important to show progress sometimes. I need to get me an Intuos soon... probably tomorrow if anything at all. I've got lots of work to do!

So noir...

"She was pretty, for a dame, but there was something sad about the way she sat at the bar. It was the way she stared across at her reflection in the mirror not even taking one sip of the mahogany glass of guinness before her that caught my intrigue..."

sketchin'

whoo

So here's a character design sketch I did yesterday at The Grove and colored today. I just really need to build up my portfolio. Anyways, not really much to say about this girl - she's an archaeologist and she's on a dig in Peru. Whoo.

in the background

So I've been doing a lot of concept and pre-production work for my short and it's going pretty well. I took some old sketches and I'm working on rendering them into colored backgrounds. I'm doing them in shades of color first so I can de-saturate them later. I want the whole thing to be black and white or very, very muted colors. Anyways, this is what I've worked on recently. More to come soon... very soon. Like so soon you won't even have time to take a bathroom break. Okay maybe not that soon.

peter pan or super man?

Wow, I hadn't realized it was a month since I last posted something. Time goes by much too quickly when you're busy every day.

Today I took some time to get accustomed to drawing and coloring in photoshop with a tablet. I think I'm getting pretty good :)

New sketches, concept art.

I'm usually very creative with blog titles, but when it comes to art posts, I really fall flat - sorry guys.

Anyways, I've been working on filling up the new sketchbook and decided to post a few things from it. The first is just something I drew last night because I wanted to work on more coloring in photoshop, so this is a rough coloring, basically just alying down the colors and shadows. Hopefully this will finish into a nice illustration.



The next is some sketching I did trying to work on more backgrounds for The Lamp Post story. Just brown ink pen.



And last but not least, I am trying to work on my charicatures, so I drew a picture of Simon Pegg from Shaun of the Dead. It's the picture that's on my desktop, so that made it easier hehe.



I love you Simon Pegg.