Doodles on Newspapers - Epic Battles.

 

My husband and I enjoy playing Sudoku in the newspapers here. But sometimes we get a bit off track and start doodling all over.  My big fishie is saying: I am your dreaming.  Awaken!  Or something along those lines.  While his evil spider man with human head is saying something like: HOLY SHIT THAT'S A HUGE FISH!  And evolving into a hand with a gun to kill it.  So violent!

Yeah, we're dorks.  I love him.

I also just doodle fishies at random on newspapers.  It just happens.  I have a short attention span, haha.

Postcard 4 - Smoking Fishie

 

This is a postcard I made for my sister-in-law.  We hadn't been able to get a hold of her in ages, so we figured we'd send her a nice letter, just in case she was down.  And to let her know we loved her and were not forgetting her.   The letter was actually a little booklet made out of index cards cut up and glued together then stapled to make the booklet effect.

Reyna and I have a love for fishies.  Koi and goldfishies mostly.  So I thought it appropriate to send her a postcard with a fishie and her fave patter.  Pink and black checker board.  :)

 

I scanned it before I wrote anything on the bottom.  I've forgotten what I wrote, but here's the post card she received.

Just another:

Have a good day, we love you!  Post card for friends and family and loved ones all 'round.  :)

DnD- Kirai sketches.

 

I haven't played DnD in AGES.  But I miss my characters intensely.  I have no one to play DnD with while I'm on the island, so I just draw them out the kinda quench some of my need for geekiness. 

Kirai is a Tiefling Bard/Fighter. Most of the time she's being a little thief. She's a terrible tease and a wonderful seductress.  Her heart, though, belongs only to one man.  Although she will never admit it out loud.  Not to others anyway.

The top picture portrays Kirai as she is charmed by a benevolent fairy taking her away from the rest of the party and to parts unknown of the woods.

The picture bellow shows an image of Kirai hiding behind a corner, worried.  They're being attacked and, although it looks clear up ahead, she fears there are traps.  Or worse, and ambush.

 

I suck at Backgrounds.  But I'll have them done at some point in my life. I promise. These are still sketches.  So gotta ink, ink, ink!

Do the Chibi Dance!

I'm Hella Punk Rock.

So when I get bored and feel uninspired to draw anything grand (or at least attempt to) I draw chibis.  So here's a few chibis of me, my husband, and my sister.

 
 

Obviously not finished yet.  Inked them while I was waiting at the hospital doing pre-admissions crap.  But soon they shall be lovely and fully inked with colours!

Custom Shoes - Finished!

They are finally finished. This is the pair of shoes I've been working on for my mum for like a month now. I had one shoe left to finish and SMASH! Blocked. 'twas terrible.




But I got to finish them tonight. The pictures look atrocious because my camera sucks and they were taken at 2 am, but deal with me here, eh?


Prismacolor markers. Acrylics. Sharpies. Glitter Gel Pens. Cheap Shoes.

Postcard 3 - Steampunk Cube

Another postcard! This one for a friend very into the steam punk scene.

Just another: Have a Happy Day card.

Postcard 2 - GIANT SQUID!!!!

This postcard I made for another friend of mine. I just kinda went on a postcard making frenzy. I like thinking that people will expect bills in th email and suddenly: SURPRISE HAPPY COLORFUL LETTER MAKING YOUR DAY BRIGHTER!

I hope so at least. Just using index cards and ummm...stickers...yeaaaah.....stickers! Hahaha. But anyways. The whole 'Giant Squid' thing is totally a D&D thing from one of the campaigns we were in. Some dumbass in the group had to be all: OMG, we're gonna be in the open sea. Does this mean...GIANT SQUID?!


.......Note to all DnD players out there. Never give your DM ideas. EVER!!!!

But anyways, here's the giant squid. :)

Postcard 1- Chibi Eldar

Letter Front.

Letter Back.

I mentioned I've been making postcards lately. Well this is the first postcard received. I scanned them all before sending them, but I'll only be uploading them as they are received to not spoil the surprise for any of my friends.

Postcard.

Everyone always just gets junk in the mail, now-a-days. Or worse, bills. I hate bills, especially cellphone bills because you never know how bad that's gonna be. But anyways! I wanted to give all my friends something nice in the mail. So they could feel a bit better and uplifted during these difficult times for everyone.

This one I made for Hannah. It's supposed to be a chibi Eldar. She plays Eldar army in 40k so I figured this would be a cute gift. I tried my best to give it her army colours.

Something Something

Changing the blog Template for a second while I make it a new banner and change the colours. It'll just look funky for a bit. Maybe a day. Sorry 'bout that.


Meanwhile, here's some old art.

Return of Eve - An Oldie.

And what Eve had thought to be a balloon suddenly slowly rolled down towards her from the heavens above, apparently ignoring the helium within it.

Eve, would you not like that which Tommy has?

And Eve looked towards where the creature pointed, and saw Tommy, sitting with his mother and his father. Neither which Eve had ever had.

Yes, I would.

Then why not take it?

Well... would that not make Tommy unhappy?

But does he not care about your happiness enough to let you have what he has? Is he selfish? or is he ignorant to the pain you feel whenever you understand that you are different in being 'alone'?

And Eve was quiet as she watched Tommy play with his parents.

Wouldn't it be great to be all the things Tommy was with his parents?

When she turned back to the creature, she was hesitant, but the creature merely smiled. And very slowly, it crawled even further down from its floating stance, to crawl upon the earth with its four legs, tugging Eve along the way.

Soon, Eve would have whta Tommy had.. and her body shook with excitement...

***

This is very old work. I was browsing through my deviant art today trying to find some before and afters of character sketches and came upon this.

I had forgotten about this sketch. I had ESPECIALLY forgotten about what I had, on a whim, written underneath it as the description.

I felt very...happy. So I wanted to share it.

Guest Post - Ligriv's Pipe - Birthday Gift

My husband has gotten REALLY into carving and widdling wood. For three days straight that's all he did.



Now, this isn't the first pipe he's carved. The first one I won't post here because, of course, it's his work of art to post somewhere, not mine. But this one's special.



This pipe he made as a gift for my birthday! It's not too small, not too big. It's really only 3 inches in length. I love it.




All I asked was that it not be too big or too small and that somewhere on it it should have a mushroom. He designed the mushroom under the bowl of the pipe.






He really made it happen. I love this pipe and I'm so impressed by how well he can work wood.




This pipe was carved out of Guava tree wood we had outside of my parent's house.




Currently he's working on making more pipes. Some for fun, some custom designs for costumers.




I'm sure he'll have photos of the rest of the pipes he has carved on his page once he has a few he'd like to show case.

Magical Fish Kisses

Again, I fucking love fishies. I want this on a shirt or hoodie design. I don't care. I really need to finish it. I think I'll make it digital and put it on clothes. It's rather lovely. I've always liked it. Had it around for ages but only recently inked some of it. And only now thinking of finishing it and doign SOMETHING with it.

Practicing men and foreshortening.

Ok so I really suck at drawing men. REALLY REALLY sick at drawing the male figure. I guess I've gotten too used to drawing the female form and now all my men seem... girly. This was my attempt at practicing foreshortening (his arm stretching out). My attempt at drawing a dude (my husband says I still failed). And doing liberty spikes of some kind for the first time. Also, wanted to practice a different pose, so I figured, opening a door would be pretty cool.

3269 Belden St Crew For Life.

All done in pen. No pencil.

Self Portrait # 2

Back when I wanted to get back into DA I wanted to make a nice little self portrait of me to put on my page. You know, everyone draws their own so I wanted to do my own as well. I sketched this pretty out one night and have yet to finish it. I need to fix the breasts of course, and now I have dreads on one side and a shaved head on the other...but fuck it. I think it came out pretty fucking good.

I love mushrooms. I love suns. I love koi fish. You know this already. It's everywhere in my art. I'll get tired of it soon, I swear!

Progress on website!

So last night after posting the sketches and such I went ahead and found that piece of denim. Cutting it was a bitch because I couldn't find scissors for the life of me so I had to do it with a knife. But I managed. It was such an ordeal, putting modeling paste on it, mixing in the water, sprinkling a bit of tobacco here and there, adding some coffee to the mixture. And then I let it dry.

Today I actually sketched out the design on it, hopefully tomorrow I'll get to paint it and have it ALMOST ready.


Will have to fix certain coloration on photoshop. But otherwise it's looking good.

MUST remember I have to go shopping for art supplies. I need more sharpies, more pencil lead, more prismas, some ghesso and some modeling paste!

I'm thinking i might add some more coffee stains to this. Maybe? Possibly? Dunno yet, we'll see once I start colouring it.


Also, my uncle wants me to work some designs on this odd felt cowboy hat he has... well.... I'll see what I can do, haha. I'll take pictures later.

Oh! And my husband said I can show off some of the pipes he's carved lately, so I'll be doing that possibly tomorrow :)

Website Sketches for Portfolio and Writing

So I was writing on my personal blog, and after getting so much off my chest my muse came back. I wanted to do a lot of art, but after writing I remembered how much I loved doing it. And lately I've been writing a lot of snippets for stories and characters here and there. And I still want to practice making comics. So I figured instead of working on something I SHOULD finish soon, I decided to start on something I was supposed to do a long time ago for myself.

A portfolio website where I could keep my professional art, resume, and possibly some of my written work.

It was ingenious! Art and progress all at the same time! So I made some sketches.

The above one was the first sketch, but in the end I thought it looked too much like a website I had designed for a friend:



So, after that I went with the sketch below. The BKG is going to be hand drawn on a patch with modeling paste applied onto it. I'm excited about the outcome of this website. It's about time I worked on it.

I work on my websites in a mixture of hand drawn art, photoshop, XHTML, and Flash.




The names within what will be an 'iFrame' are the list of names I might chose from for the site. I've yet to decide if I want to make a Splash page for it.

'Accidental Voodoo' is one of them only if my friend, Marisa, would like to join the site. Her art blog is 'Accidental Artistry.'

Aren't my website sketches so childish looking? Haha, they're barely doodles.

Delirium- Failed attempt Sketch

I'm a total Sandman fan. I love the endless. I love Neil Gaiman, all his works. But of the Endless, my favorite has got to be Delirium. I wanted a Delirium tat on my shoulder some time back, and I was trying to make some designs for it. Of course I was at work and just had time to doodle something quick with a pen, but whatever.

My posts aren't very colorful, new or interesting lately, sorry. I've just been working on a million new projects and I've finished none of them yet. But I will very soon, I promise! In fact, I'm going to get to work on them right now.

Husband's been working very diligently on this pipe he's carving. It's the first thing he did when he woke up. Once he finishes it I'm going to make a post with some of his artwork on it ^.^ Including his wonderful looking pipe.

He totally promised me a mushroom shaped one. <3

P.S: Total coffee stain on her head, haha.