Those Darlins fanart (+ 100th post)

So when I did my hillbilly drawings post last month, Baby Pop alerted me to this really cool band!

Those Darlins are a three-girl band, Nikki, Kelley, and Jessi. Their songs are great and all three girls are extra cute and charismatic! I was inspired to draw and sing as soon as I saw their page.


I suppose anyone who reads my blog a lot knows what a huge old country music fan I am, so you can imagine how cool it was to find the music page of these gals.


I wanna do more drawings of these girls! Maybe I will post some more soon! I wonder if I should try and send some fanart their way. Too nerdy? What do you guy think? I'll probably do it anyhow.



Hooray for girls who sing country music!

Go visit them!!! They're awesome!!
DO IT!!!
P.S. 1ooth post! Yippee!

Playing with profiles

Whenever I go for long periods of time without thinking very hard about drawing or studying, I go back into generic mode. Lately, tons of profiles exactly like these have been showing up on post-it notes, shopping lists, etc.


BORING!
Time for me to do some weird drawings!


I know not everyone is into seeing study drawings, but I figured I ought to try and post more often, even if it's just stuff like this.

DURR!

The many faces of girls in love

IT IS VALENTINE'S DAY

I don't really care about this holiday. It is a nice excuse to draw love sick weirdos though.



I may or may not post some more love faces later

Stuff from work: El Tigre

So my job lately has been working at Nickelodeon, on the show "El Tigre: the Adventures of Manny Rivera," which was created by my pals Jorge Gutierrez and Sandra Equihua (congrats on your Annie awards, you guys!).

So far I've done storyboard revisions, specialty poses, animation layout, and even a couple title cards. I'd like to post some of my layout and animation, but all the episodes I've worked on haven't aired, so I could get in trouble for posting them.

INSTEAD! Here are some specialty poses!

OH!!! And don't forget, ALL these poses are based off of funny and original storyboard drawings done by these guys:

Luke Cormican
Ricky Garduno
Fred Gonzales
Brandon Kruse
Fred Osmond
Gabe Swarr
Sean Szeles
Dave Thomas
Eddie Trigueros







Rodolfo/White Pantera is actually my favorite to draw!








And of course, all these designs shown here were designed by Jorge and Sandra (duh)!

My hero Kristen

Wow wow wow wow wow!!!

Kristen drew me!!!

I am a HUGE fan of Kristen's drawings...she's pretty much good at everything! Great colors, creative designs, a totally unique and inimitable style, and she's funny too! These drawings of me leave me feeling very vain and flattered and content with life.



Here is me basking in the glow of Kristen's undeniable flair and finesse!

Please come to LA and hang out, Kristen!

More drawings of pals

Me and Kali (duh)
Songs coming soon I think!


Drawing for Christine's birthday


Kristen is fun to draw!



Old drawings from when Marlo, Kali, and I went to eat heavenly ramen at Daikokuya in Little Tokyo! That place is great but you have to wait forever to get a seat...too many hipsters types go there to eat!

We finally got our turn though.

The end

Hillbilly friends

I have always been obsessed with Hillbillies and southern culture! Something about it is fascinating as well as disturbing and scary. I love the myths, the look, the architecture, and especially the music.


The drawings of the men and animals are a bit feeble but as you guys probably know, I'm not real comfortable drawing things besides girls. But if I'm gonna do a hillbilly project one day, I can't just draw girls! I have a million ideas that I want to do. Maybe I'll post them soon and get your guys' opinions!

Other great hillbilly things that I love: Banjos, the Carter Family, murder ballads, the Blue Fugates of Kentucky, the word "Appalachia," coal miners, scary Jesus songs, fiddles, that weird kid from 'Deliverance', moonshine...the list goes on and on!

Good books and websites with stories and info on Appalachian culture are somewhat hard to find. Anyone know any good ones? This one is really cool: http://www.hillbillysavants.org/


Oh yeah, I have Rex Hackelberg to thank for these new doodles...I was looking at his site a lot that day and was super inspired to draw animals and funny weirdos. Thanks Rex! I had a momentary break from my awful rut!


I'd love to go on a tour of the Appalachian mountains someday, but I'm too chicken to really do it. Probably most of it is too modernized to be fun anymore, and if I go digging around in the woods I might get eaten by hillbilly cannibals or something.


P.S.

Speaking of hillbillies...Kali and I are planning on making our very own country/rock 'n roll CD soon! Kali is a really good guitar player, and we both love singing old songs so it'll be fun. Once in a while you gotta try doing new things instead of what yer used to!

Anyhow, some rough doodles I did of Kali and I singing in different country styles:

We will probably end up putting up songs online, if anyone would actually like to hear!
I'm sure Kali will say more on the matter at some point- she's the one who knows more about this stuff!