It's almost that time. We always get a ton of kids for Halloween, because the farmers get a flatbed trailer, line it with lights, and round up all the farm kids and drive them to the neighborhoods. So we'll get 40 kids at a time. It's an adventure!
I love Iron Chef. Battle Truffle!
Illustrated based on a poem someone I know wrote.
Hanging out with a dear friend watching Where the Wild Things Are.
Pattern!
Odd face, odd, vaguely Alice-inspired character, and tetriminos. Otherwise known as Tetris blocks. I love Tetris.
Inspired by some fabric I saw in the basement of the woman who owns Southern Pursenality. I don't think the particular swatch is on the website, but she makes amazing purses.
I've been meaning to be in the kitchen more often, but I usually don't get a chance to- my Mom rules there. But I found a box of funfetti cake mix in the store and I swear it called to me. Funfetti is kind of magical.
Baking lessons learned: Don't overfill cupcake liners, or you wind up with weird mushroom cupcakes.
Another fun, quick photoshop sketch today. I was listening to the Final Fantasy IV soundtrack and so here is Rydia, who was always my favorite character from that game. FFIV came out in 1991, and my cousins and I basically grew up with it. I swear the stars are part of her design.
Alice was a part of John Hendrix's Narrative Sketchbook class. We had to redesign a character from a given list, and after we had created the character, we had to recreate our design out of Sculpey (+various other materials). The trick was, we didn't know ahead of time we would be translating our characters into the third dimension. It was tricky, but fun!
I spontaneously felt like doing a digital painting/sketch today. This is a quickish portrait of the valkyrie Gwendolyn of the game Odin Sphere. (The art for that game is pretty fantastic, by the way. You can check some of it out here.) Normally I start with a line sketch, but for this I focused on blocking out big sections of color instead. I wound up having a lot of fun with this, it got my brain thinking in different ways.
Another spread from my sketchbook. Silly grooms cake ideas and orchids. I think this was also part of an assignment, what foods did I eat over spring break, but I always wanted to eat my food, not draw it... so I usually drew what was on the table, or what I didn't eat.
I have returned from vacation, so here is a photo I took while in Minnesota! There is a beaver dam somewhere back there. I love this lake.
A spread from my sketchbook. I love fish!
I am officially done with my senior seminar thesis presentation!
The first of one of my images for my senior thesis project. The colors, especially the lilac background came out so dingy in the scan, I'll keep having to mess with them in photoshop.
Art decade memes are big right now. I found this one on deviantart... it starts at 2003, but that's fine with me, I don't have much art older than that and it's... well, it's better stuffed in the back of the closet anyway. 2009 was really hard for me to find pictures for, especially for the last 4 months or so, because the way I was drawing was changing every 2-3 weeks. I'm still in an epic transitional period. 
