February 2013 Art Dump

February 2013 art dump:

Unfinished Turanga Leela pencil sketch.

 Colored pencil elephants!

 Shoe studies (giving myself an excuse to ogle DSW's website.)

Fashionable hatter-puppeteer.

 Figuring out how to make hats look like they're naturally resting on a character's head.

March 2013: Sailor Andromeda

To try to get back into the groove, I'm checking out my old sketchbooks. Upon doing so, I discovered some fan art I did, involving Sailor Moon-- characters from the show, and my own fan characters inspired by the show. I also discovered my sister's character-- a sailor senshi named Miyako-Jurai, aka Sailor Andromeda. The only references I could find of her character were that which she drew herself over a decade ago:

Thus, working from these references and my cloudy memories, I give you Sailor Andromeda:

Ink.

Digitally colored.

 Details.

Sailor Moon is owned by the beautiful and amazingly talented Naoko Takeuchi, all rights reserved, and all that.

New.. uh... Plans!

So I realize I haven't updated in over a month, and I have a large Santa Claus-like bag of excuses, but I'll skip over the boring stuff. In a pitiful attempt to make up for it, I've secretly put my old comic, Jack Hates You (2002), up on my main site. One of my currently project ideas is to revive it! (Oh boy!)

My current project (ideas):

• Inspiration Blog (Started!)
• Revive Miyako-Jurai, my sister's fan character (Started!)
• This year's "Other Easter" commission (Only in research phase..)
• Year-old doggie commission (I swear I still intend to draw your beautiful collie!)
• Revive Jack Hates You (Planning stages begun!)

This of course takes time, drive, energy, and focus. I find these are things more easily obtainable by having an audience, feedback, a back-and-forth, an occasional nagging "what have you drawn lately?", fans, artist buddies, etc. So, if you're here, leave a comment! Say hi! I take requests and all that!

... Whoo. ... Okay. ... Well hopefully more updates soon to follow. Thanks, folks!

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PS- I wanna take a moment to point out that all of my digital painting thus far has been on Photoshop, on a tablet and a monitor-- not a fancy Cintiq. I only recently found out the current price of those see-what-you're-drawing-where-you're-drawing-it (intuitive!) tablets, which is sadly still out of my price range. I did experiment with one for a day, and yeah, they're pretty awesome. End rant.

February 2013: Druid Complete

Finished version.

January 2013: WIP Druid

Working on a digital painting of a druid. Here's a progression between 40 minutes in to just about 2 hours in. Still a work in progress.

2013: Manticore

Welcome to 2013! Whoo! We made it!

First drawing assignment of the new year: a mythological creature. I wanted to choose something that isn't super well-known or traditionally "lovely". I chose the manticore and fell in love with the version drawn by Mr. Madrigal. I'm not sure why I opted out of a very cartoony style this time around; probably because I like the idea of the old-fashioned European drawing style, similar to the works of Fuseli. I thought about what kind of human head would be (proportionally) placed atop a lion's body. A lion is a man, so traditionally it would be a masculine head... Being a creature, it won't be getting haircuts or face waxing... and lions aren't usually known to be incredibly mild-tempered.

Anyway... Notebook brainstorming.

Final version: graphite.

2012 Notebook Doodles Pt. 2

More doodles to share from my spiral-bound notebook....

Piggie! (Piggie loves the Academy of Sciences.)

Creepy little girl and random spacey chick.

Futurama's Turanga Leela in a really uninspired pose. (I may try drawing her again at some point.)

And my personal favorite, Kitty in a dinosaur costume!