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.

Justice Geisha

So, yeah, justice is blind. I was a bit drunk when I drew this. It's a tad old and a tad washed out. Just a sketch. I was planing to make her background a nice swirlie garden thingie. Maybe someday. Just posting right now while I brew some coffee. Husband passed out on our plans to go to the beach. So hopefully the coffee will help. Did you know that there's some show on TV with a bunch of faerie barbies? What happened to TV....?

Anyways soon enough will make a blog for stories/comics/etc for all my characters.

One of my first post card ideas I had. I've yet to finish it but I think it's looking pretty good. This is an old piece, just posting some old stuff on here while I finish the other shoe and the postcard/stickers I'm working on. <3

Postcards + stickers = Awesome

A fried of mine gave me a bunch of these. So I decided to make postcards. These were my first attempts. Now I'm working on postcards for friends and family members.

Postcards that turn into stickers, hell yes!

What is Steampunk?

I say steampunk a lot on this blog. And, although to me it's something common and widely known in my friend group, I realize that not everyone knows about it.

So I went into the all-knowing and sometimes lying 'Wikipedia' to get you guys a definition and some sort of history on it, so here it is: Steampunk Wiki

Here's an excerpt from the article:

Steampunk is a sub-genre of fantasy and speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or real technological developments like the computer occurring at an earlier date.

Enjoy.

Hand doodles.

Seriously, who hasn't doodled on their hands when they get bored or have nothing better to do? Well regardless if you answered 'I don't', well I do, alright? So bear with me. Haha. Wow, in the picture above you can totally see our ashtray shock full of cigarette butts. We're gross.


These pics are a bit older. Maybe from a month or two ago. More like two months I'd say. I took them with my phone so sorry for the bad quality. I really hate Rzrs.

I think I might love fishies way too much...fishies and suns and runes.... yeah....way too much... I need new things to doodle....

Things I've learned #2

For Smokers.

If you're a smoker (such as I) you'll find cigarettes are gloriously satisfying during art. There's no point in trying to save them, no matter how broke you are. Smoking a fag while doing art is like a tiny pseudo 'break' where you don't actually stop.

And when you do stop doing art for a few minutes to have a cigarette, you can use that time to silently inspect your work. Decide if what you've done so far is satisfactory and decide what's going to happen next. Or if the whole idea sucked balls int he first place and you need to start over anew.

There's been many a time when I stop for a cigarette to stare at my work after I've reached my goal and my husband looks up from what he's doing.

"What ya up to?" he asks.

"Oh, you know, just doing my thing. Staring at my piece while smokin' a cig." I reply a lot.

"Word, word." He almost always says back to me before becoming intent on his own piece or taking a cig break himself.


Yes, I'm an addict.

No, don't smoke. It's a bad habit. And man is it costly now-a-days.

Patches!

So my husband was making a patch for his new back pack. He cut up some denim into sort of an explosion shape bubble thing. So I asked him for the little pieces left over to use for myself.

So, here are some patches I made for my belt purse. I'll take pics of them on the belt pouch once I get them on there.


Also, started working on the last shoe! Yay!

Things I've learned #1

Since starting to work on different mediums (since I used to only do character sketches and digital art) I've learned a few things.

One of those things is Ghesso+ Canvas.

Choosing your canvas for a new piece of work is part of getting to know your work space. But not as much as readying the canvas. Applying ghesso on your canvas to prep it for a new painting is very therapeutic. You can zone out and just concentrate on painting every inch of it white with the ghesso and you can get aquainted with the space you have, every corner, what will go where.

All in all, always prep your canvas. Remember to ghesso it. And, as a bonus, you'll get to know the space your using much better.

Also. Music + Art= Glorious

P.S: Modeling paste is awesome to use too. The textures it leaves behind after dryign are fantastic! If you're into using textures, of course.

One shoe down, one to go and a dozen or so pairs to start!

So doing shoes has resulted in quite a success. I really enjoy myself decorating and playing around. And people seem to like my designs. I've been getting a few requests but I've no idea what to charge. I'm running out of markers so I guess I should prolly include those in the price. I use prismacolors and copic markers. They seem to work the best on shoes. I'm also thinking on using some acrylics, like what I did with the soles in orange and yellow.


I'd really like some suggestions on prices. I mean, will people want nice looking expensive shoes like the mcbeth's? Or will they be alright with cheap ass shoes like the ones I made for my mom? The difference isn't that great, unless you're looking deeo into the details and fibers but....charging prices, right. Any ideas?





I was thinking of having people buy their own shoes and send them to me for decorating. Or ask them their shoe size and what type of shoe they'd like. According to those outlines, give them a price for the shoes and est. work time and material costs..... Anyone have suggestions?



P.s: Marisa, what shall we call our shoe business?

Work in Progress- Mums shoes

So after I finished my husband's McBeths my mother wanted a pair of her own. So she went out and bought these plain white canvas shoes. They're basic edition brand, so they're pretty cheap. They only cost her ten USD + tax.


I'm still working on them, I started just last night and worked till the sun came up. I've had them sitting by my bed for about a week now. It's always hard to start on a new project. That white canvas always feel so daunting. So I let them sit. I doodled on paper what I might do on the shoes. I was so afraid to do something wrong or something my mother wouldn't like. But eventually I picked them up and just went for it. So far, I'm liking the results.


So far I have learned that painting on cheap shoes is much harder than on expensive shoes. Seeing as expensive shoes have a tighter knit, it is much easier for the pen/marker to roll on them without having any in between white dots. But on cheap shoes the fabric is thick and woven loosely. Making it hard for ink to stick. It leaves a lot of blank dots in between.


On the up side, the ink bleeds a lot more on the cheaper shoes than on the expensive shoes, making color blending much easier.

Web Design Sketches

A lot of times when I'm bored and just doodling I think up website ideas. I've yet to make my own website where I'd have my portfolio and my written work. I constantly sketch out ideas for my future web site. Of course I've never sat down and started to construct it, but it's always nice to have a preliminary sketch of anything you're going to do in the future. And, of course, as you build it digitally the idea evolves and changes depending on materials, space, technique, skill, etc. But it always turns out great.

This sketch was for my Mad Messiah website I was planing on making. Maybe someday I'll finish it. And by finish I mean at the very least, start it.

Walking on Dreams

While I was still in California living on Belden street I really missed the island. I'm originally from Puerto Rico. The island is beautiful. A mixture urban ghetto with rain forest. The beach sand is a light tan and the waters are a crystal clear blue. Truly beautiful.

I was very nostalgic all four years of my stay in California. I missed my family and the beaches, just the wonderful meditative feeling of sitting on the sand, listening to the waves crash, the breeze caressing your face.

Then I came to the island and realized that, although it was still full of natural beauty the people sucked. The beaches had become dirty, the people were all devolving into primitive creatures of violence and anger. Complete disregard for the terrible things they are doing to such a beautiful island.

I feel the island crying. I feel sadness whenever I go to a beach or any natural area. How my people have gone about living their lives here is disgusting. I know it's the same everywhere you go, but Puertorricans are such a proud people. Always bragging about how they're awesome and their island is the best.

And yet, look at the state it's in. Look at what they're doing to it. Sucking the life out of it. They've even closed down most agriculture here to concentrate on turism.

I feel a great sadness for my island and its people, I can no longer live here and be proud. I cannot smile at the beauty anymore. I just wish people would open their eyes and see. They're killing Puerto Rico slowly. Under the towers of concrete and seas of trash....

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MacBeth's- Playing with shoes.

My husband got these MacBeth's from his brother-in-law a few months ago. They were plain white canvas with black. A few nights ago while I was finishing up my mother's present, he started painting on the area around the tongues in orange with yellow. He did one and then stopped.


I had always wanted to paint of shoes. But I had never owned white canvas shoes. And was always afraid they wouldn't turn out great. Well, my husband gave me the courage. So after asking his permission and after his 'Go to town.' I grabbed all the markers I could find in the house, starting with sharpie outlines, and went crazy. Later on he got the idea to add the studs over the lace holes. I love that man. :)


I wish I had a before and after pictures. Oh well.

Heart Bushes

Got pretty bored one day and decided to put my prisma markers and sharpies to good use. Made this cute little thing for the husband. Not done yet, but pretty close. All marker and Prisma colours.

Fused Glass

Took a class with the husband on how to make mosaics and stained glass. So we decided to go the rest of the way and do fused glass too. These are the pieces before the fuse. Pieces are still in the kiln, I'll show the results once they're ready. The mushroom piece is to put into a frame, whilst the koi is meant for an ashtray.