Battlestar Galactica poster!

As a fan of the new Battlestar Galactica, I was excited when Jason Anders of the Fulle Circle Productions blog asked me to do an illustration of two of the actresses in the show. He recently interviewed Katee Sackhoff and Nicki Clyne, so that's the two of them there in the drawing below as their BSG characters, Starbuck and Cally.



I did some quick and dirty sketches of the girls before I tried simplifying their looks for the poster:

Katee...




...and Nicki





Also, if you like it, you can get a 11 x 17 poster of it from Jason's Fulle Circle Store!



And now it's time to take a break from everything! Hopefully I'll have some new drawings to post after I visit family and spend some much-needed time with friends this week, so come back soon! (^u^)/

doodling for happiness

This week has been kinda rough, and I'm anticipating more stress coming my way. -__-
I'm not sure if I'll be able to draw much in the coming week or so, which makes me sad. But here are some sketchbook drawings done before icky times began.



I like this one above. I stole the colors from something pretty I saw online and can't find now.



More girls as usual...haven't felt like pushing myself to draw men and backgrounds and stuff. I'll do that in...February. Or maybe March. BLEEEHHHAararrrghgg



Playing the ukulele makes her snarly. I make this same face when I eat cornflakes, even though I really like them.




sketch sketch doodle doodle barf



I kind of like how the big booty blue hair girl came out. And the girl under her has the hair I wish I could pull off!

I hope everyone's first month of the new year is going good. T u T

Sketchbook and art show

I am sick and goofy on DayQuil. I wanted to do a mini-comic about this weeks hair salon disaster, but I'm already distracted, so here's some random sketchbook stuff instead.


This background makes no sense, but I like the weird girl!



twirl twirl


Some weird animal drawings...




Also! There is an art show opening this Friday that I have a painting in. I'm hoping to make it, but I'm not sure if I'll be contagious then or not. We'll see! Here is more information:




Here's how my painting looks framed and sitting up on my mantle...I made a blog post with details here if you want to see it closer!


Thanks for reading, stay healthy and don't let sick people cough on you! I've been trying some new things lately when drawing, so let me know what you think.

I'm sleepy! -__-

zzzzzzzz

a decade of doodles

First drawing of 2010! It's my friend Sibylle, in a very Ai Yazawa influenced style. :)


A lot has changed in a decade! I decided to post up a few drawings from the last 10 years, and say a little about what was going on with each year. Kind of a cheesy idea, but personally, I like seeing other people's older drawings! Everyone with a blog should post their weirdest drawings from 2000!

2000

In 2000, my favorite artists were Ai Yazawa and Shane Glines. I'm still super influenced by them today. I made tons of those weird paper dolls!

2001

Lets get by 2001 quickly. This was my year for super weird Photoshop monstrocities.

2002

2002 is when I worked for Spumco doing layout, so construction became really important to learn. This whole year was full of drawings that were labored over and are sort of stiff. It also shaped how I would draw for years and years. I'm not sure I'll ever shake the Spumco influence completely.

2003

2003 is another weird year- I was really into mutant girls with elongated heads, topless people, and forest creatures.

2004

I kind of consider 2004 to be the year I had a drawing breakthrough. I suddenly started drawing fast and loose and making happy accidents instead of stiff, laborious looking drawings. These look a bit primitive to me now, but I remember how happy I was to be drawing back then, and kind of feel envious of those times. 2004 is also when I started getting back into coloring with markers.

2005

This year was the most productive ever!! I did tons and tons of drawings. I had a total obsession with teeth, weird hairdos, and Japanese fashion in 2005. 2005 is also when I started this blog, and when I worked on designing and doing layout for a video, which meant having to practice construction again.

2006

I got back into anime and manga in 2006. All my drawings are really weird and wiggly from this year! I like a lot of them more than what I am drawing now, though.

2007

2007 was all about vampires, and hand inking.

2008

In 2008 I started my hillbilly project, abandoned ballpoints for new types of pens, got a cintiq, inked and colored half the drawings I did on the cintiq, and started web-publishing my weekly comic "Skadi" with Luke. I liked 2008.

2009

2009 was all post-its and cats! I also tried hard this year to draw things other than girls, and to draw less cutesy. 2009 was a great year because I got into lots of new artists, including all the people who make comics in France.

Anyhow, happy new year, guys!! I hope 2009 was fun for everyone, and that 2010 is even better!

It's holiday time!!

I love winter, gift giving, cold weather, warm coats, snow...this time of December is a guaranteed happy time for me because I go to the mountains to see family. I hope it is happy for everyone else this year too!


I don't know if I'll be able to post again before the new year, so if not, I want to be cheesy and say THANK YOU to everyone who has ever given up 5 seconds of their lives to look at this blog and say something nice to me, and THANK YOU to all the amazing artists, young and old, who have been kicking ass and feeding candy to my eyes all year 'round. Also, thanks to everyone who supported my etsy store!


Winter time elf friends



I have been in a weird mood lately, hence random doodles like this one. Luke thinks we should put this elfy ice queen in a Skadi story. What do you think?


I'm feeling silly today, so here is something extra stupid for you.


The doodles above are idea sketches for a future (maybe) Skadi story, and some super dumb Luna and Baby Cat "observations."


Also, here is one of my characters, Everlovin', hanging out with some fox guy. Expect to see more of her in the new year!



Have a nice holiday, everyone! (UuU)

P.S. In case anyone is curious as the where the last two blog posts went- I deleted them since there is no longer any original art left on my Etsy, so there was no need to be plugging them.

Sketchbook stuff

Nothin' too special! I don't like to go too long without posting, so here's some sketchbook pages from around Thanksgiving.


My Aunt Ruth as a little girl...but the likeness isn't very good. I tried drawing like how I did as a younger kid, when I had more focus and patience to get good a likenesses. It turns out I no longer have that attention span. :)



weird


Some Rose McGowan types and Dakota Fanning types.





OK!!!! Time for some retarded stuff. Drawings of cats!! I have a soap opera in my mind about the cats in the neighborhood. Here are the players.


Try to find Luna!





Ok, that's it! I'm in a rut agian, but hopefully I'll have new stuff soon.