sketch dump.

This was a quick tablet sketch that I did the other night while I should have been getting ready for bed. Sometimes doodle bears are just more important than getting to sleep on time.

Here's another quickie from back in March that I never shared. When posed with the question of what to do for my first attempt at watercolor in well over a decade, a good friend commanded, "Fennec me, baby." And it was so.

That just reminded me, I really need to get back to learning watercolors!

a late recap.

Just a little update with some drawings I did for a project that didn't quite pan out. Lucky for me (I guess) that means I get to share it. These are four sketches for a poster that I designed last year:

Only three of which made it to the final stage (sorry music man):

hooray for gold lamé!

2013 has already proven to be a very busy year indeed. I'm positive that I have done more to put myself and my art "out there" these last few weeks than I have done at all in the last few years. (And it's still only January!) As exhausting as it can be, I find that I'm enjoying the frenetic pace and I hope that it will lead me to a place where I can create full-time. Mmm, dreamy ruminations. But for now: arts!

I recently embarked on a collaboration with Matt Barry to illustrate his critical essays exploring the films of John Waters. The first in this series focuses on MONDO TRASHO (1969). This is a difficult film to pull a "defining scene" to illustrate because it's really more a string of bizarre vignettes rather than a cohesive narrative.  So, I decided to do a simple side-by-side of the film's two leading...er...ladies, Mary Vivian Pearce and Divine. Two things about this decision that made it a bit of a challenge: 1. caricatures are not necessarily my forte (they're, like, hard 'n stuff) and 2. Divine is not nearly as "Divine" in this film as she becomes later in her career. That said, I think it turned out to be a pretty successful experiment.  Here's the sketch:

And after some digital bedazzling:

Hooray for gold lamé! Stay tuned for the next installment.

the end. again.

Like so many millions of people on this big blue marble in July of 2007, I was busy preparing myself to embark on the final chapter of a seven book journey.  Though I was quite excited to find out the fate of the Wizarding World (and to finally learn the answers to some rather burning questions *fingers crossed*), it was a bittersweet sort of exhilaration to know that this was it.  The end.  Almost.

Four years later, I find myself preparing to say goodbye once again as the film series for Harry Potter premieres its grand finale and I thought it might be fun to take a look back at how I bid adieu to the books.  This little sketch of Harry, Ron, and Hermione in "battle/Charlie's Angels mode" was done right before the release of the final book.  Enhanced with some digital painting, it was my little well-wish for the trio, whatever the outcome.

Good luck, yes, but I hear they're doing just fine.

Media: "Doc Pomus"- Ben Folds

sleep is for people with time to kill.

If there is one thing I have learned in my life it's that insomnia yields some strange crops - and looky what I just harvested:

Ladies and gentlemen I present to you, his effeteness, Lord Dandy-Fop!


Yeah, I have no idea either. All I can say is that he's an improvement over Sir Slouchy from the start of the evening . . . I think.

Well, it's 7:24 am, the sun is up and the trucks and buses are rumbling along their route outside my window. My day is done. Good night day all.

Media: "Bitch" - The Rolling Stones

late night scribbles (cont'd)

CUT TO: 7 months later

...and finally, I got the inspiration to revisit my revisiting of a previous sketch. Confused? It happens.

I just changed the hue of pencil lines and laid down some very simple blocks of color that will serve as a base for the many layers of colors and textures to come. Hopefully they will come sooner than December, but I make no promises.



Media: "Levon" - Elton John

not another effing cat.

I swear, I do draw subjects other than orange cats, but Modern Tee put out a call for "girly designs" and what girl doesn't like kittens and bees? Okay, don't answer that. Instead, help me out by voting for my design. All you need to do is create an account (it's quick and free) then you can vote on all of the designs on the site.

VOTE FOR ME!


Also, if you wanted to check out the original image sans shirt, viola!


Thanks!

here kitty-kitty.

I was a bit bored today and instead of being a functional human being and going outside to enjoy the beautiful weather, I figured I'd better stay in my pajamas, watch hulu, and diddle around with photoshop. Making fine life decisions left and right.