valentine

I might be four months early. Though to be fair I am contemplating possible illustrative styles for my save-the-dates. I'd like to do cute illustrations without them feeling too forced.

sketches and patterns

Just some random things from my sketchbook.

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!

Options

Half a year ago I had no idea of the various wedding "silhouettes". I know differently now.

Hearts & Tetris

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.

Superhero Princesses

Presenting Superhero Princesses! Wonder Snow White, Aquamaid, Sleeping Bat Beauty, Teenage Mutant Ninja Jasmine, Super Alice, and Wolverine Belle are ready to take you down, evildoers of the world.

Rydia

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.

Valkyrie

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.

Flowers, Lake, and a Groomba

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.

hello tangles

Another sketchbook spread. Stringy tangly hair is fun to doodle.

friends and cupcakes

Some more spreads from my sketchbook. Two awesome people from my undergrad studio (plus notes and reflections about studio... and printer hate) and some toxic looking cupcakes.

Fishies!

A spread from my sketchbook. I love fish!

Going to Canada soon, so I hope to have some sketches from that trip!

copics and things

I got some copic markers for Christmas, so I needed to play with them... I only have about 16 right now, cause the bigger set I got wasn't the sketch... so I don't have any gray right now, so there is some shading missing still. These are my friends' and my Ragnarok Online characters. (Mine is the green haired one.) The little emotes are from the game...

Various sketches trying to see how the miller girl from Rumpelstiltzkin might look... and pumpkins. Pumpkins are fun.

My friend requested a purple kitty with copics...

Another friend I haven't seen in a year or two with a stuffed horse that has epic legs. Epic legs terrify said friend, though she is not terrified here...

decade in reflection

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.

Ugh, the old stuff is so hard to look at... shiny kawaii anime eye desu!! I've gotten over it, I promise.

I still have a lot of improvement to make, let's go 2010!

muse of music?

I was at a friend's, who was showing off some awesome music he had written, and that made me pull out my sketchbook, since music tends to make me want to draw. And since the book was out, my friends made some requests...

My friend Katie asked for a fairy...

This is just what came to mind listening to my friend Brennan's song. It made me think of running and the wind... also of rain, but I didn't put that in.

I doodled this one today. Does anyone else feel like this when they can't seem to draw anything?

I've found that if I feel down, drawing it helps. You should try it too.

I have more doodles from the past week or two, it's been my goal to draw something every day during winter break. I'll try to put some more up soon.

doodles

Finally at home for winter break. Was hanging out with my brother's kids, and my niece Rachael (who is five) and I decided to draw each other. She was so enamored that I included the flowers on her dress that she insisted on giving me a huge flower on my shirt.

Gestures

Gesture drawings! Going to do this 10 or so minutes every day. Yay practice!