Bah

Been a bit under the weather lately, and haven't been drawing as much, which is no good.


Dive bar doodles coming soon. Hope everyone's having fun at the con! Wish I was there!

Feral forest girls

It's taken me a long time to update! I've been going through some pretty drastic life changes, so I haven't had much time to draw or be on the internet. Finding inspiration is a little difficult right now, so here are some sketchbook drawings from the beautiful and teeny leather bound journal that Brandy got me from the renaissance faire.


I mentioned this interesting journal earlier- the paper in it is so nice...the way my normal markers and pens react to it are surprising and different, and fun to play with.


This whole book is reserved for feral forest girl types. :)


I drew this one at the Huntington Gardens with friend Christine. That place is nice for drawing.



Puppy fat.

Here's a photo of my pretty journal:





A girl and a creature. The pose of the girl is inspired by a 70's photo of my pretty mom .




This last one is my favorite! I'm hoping to post more soon. I'm in a pretty bad rut again, but hopefully it'll go away soon. Hope everyone had a fun 4th! ^u^

LoTR nerdy fun time game

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Chloe was the first person to get all the characters right, so if you want to know who everyone is, check her comment! ^u^

Play my Lord of the Rings identification game, and win...the knowledge that you are a big nerd just like me! These are all drawn pretty fast, trying to get the faces down before the scene changes on the TV, so some are more recognizable than others I think.





And don't feel bad if you aren't familiar with the movies, you don't have to guess if you don't want to! ^u^





I left out a lot of main characters, just to confuse you. Actually that's a lie, I just didn't feel like drawing certain characters, and failed too hard at other ones. -__-;





I like this next one, but I bet no one gets it!







OK that's it!! But here's some of the full pages, since these ones above are all chopped up.




I realize I've been posting a lot of the same types of drawings lately, so I'm gonna try to change things up soon, and maybe try to do some more polished drawings, or who knows. I'm not gonna think about it right now! Thanks fer participatin'!

I have seen the light

I have a new inspiration for drawing lately...sketchbooks!

I used to hate sketchbooks. The idea of having all your drawings, good or bad, all bound together was intimidating. The few times I used them, I felt like every drawing had to be perfect, or the book would be ruined. Instead, I always drew on plain copy paper, allowing me to discard any crappy drawings, and keep only the ok ones. Then I'd organize them in giant binders and analyze them months later.

Lately though I've been drawing exclusively in sketchbooks, and actually enjoying the combination of drawings I like and drawings I totally failed at. Sketchbooks aren't for showing off, or being perfect, they're a tool so that you can draw whenever and where ever.



Here's my favorite type- Moleskine makes them, but they're thinner and flimsier. I've heard much more advanced artists than myself give them a bad review because of the way marker reacts to the paper, but personally I love them!

Sketchbooks are even something like diaries- they have weird notes written in them, phone numbers, drawings from friends, really bad drawings done while out drinking and being silly with buddies, etc. Each one has it's share of doodles, studies, successful experiments, and ridiculously silly art. Each one is dated and numbered, and I decorate them haphazardly with whatever is around in the house so I know which is which. Each one tells a personal and accurate story about what was important to me during that particular month.



Here's a random sketchbook page with an ink/brush experiment, an assortment of hillbillies and forest girls, my cannibal queen character, some cats, and a weird Gandalf/Frodo combo...the cluster of weird little hamburger type things at the top is me trying to figure out how to draw Sean Astin's weird lips (aka Sam from LoTR). Sometimes the least glamorous pages are my favorite ones.

I recommend giving sketchbooks a try to anyone who used to have the same phobia I had!

This is my favorite sketchbook right now, a gift from friend Brandy from the Renaissance Faire:


It's a handmade leather book that is filled with the strangest cotton paper. I think it will take me a long time to complete it, so I'm only drawing forest folk and elfin types in it, and using my dinkier sketchbooks for everything else.


The pens and markers I'm used to using react in strange and unpredictable new ways on this paper, and it's really cool. I'll probably do a post with better photos/scans of the drawings in here later.

This is kind of a weird and artless post, but I'm actually really excited about these things. I've been drawing more than usual, and having more fun. I did almost a whole book worth of Lord of the Rings drawings, so I'll probably post those later on, too.


Check back later! Sorry for the wordy post! ^u^

Freaks, geeks, and wizards

Sorry if you guys are getting sick of my sketchbook stuff! I'm hoping to post a better variety of stuff soon. U__U

For now, here's some fan art from one of my favorite shows ever, "Freaks and Geeks," and some super scribbly doodles done while watching the latest Harry Potter movie. I'll start with the F&G drawings to avoid turning off the less-nerdy readers here! :)


Kim Kelley is one of my favorite characters in this show! She's badass.



Some more Kims, a few weird Sams, and some unknown slack jawed female. I wanted to draw more of the guy characters from the show, but EVERY character has giant lips, and lips are the hardest things for me to draw on guys. It's just a weird thing, I gotta figure out how to do it.



Millie! I love Millie. That's all for Freaks and Geeks, at least for now.

Nerd-alert!! Nerd-alert!!

Luna, some Ginnys, a few Rons, and Hermione. Its harder to get good likenesses when you're watching a movie and the scenes go by fast, but I think you get weirder/funnier results.


Super simple Ginny


A bunch of Rons, a super lame Dumbledore, some Slughorns (I love that guy), the super hot black girl from the beginning of HP 6, a lovestruck Lavender, a teenage Tom Riddle, a stressed out Malfoy, and some weird Potters.


more Ron, Ginny, Malfoy, and Hermione. I wanted to draw Snape, but he's just to wonderful/hard to do justice.

That's all for now! Thanks for bearing with me! (^u^)/

I wish I was in a pretty and dark forest

I've been drawing a lot of forest girl-types lately.


I want to do a Skadi story that has a forest girl character...here are some sketchbook pages with doodles, trying to figure out a design.


I like the idea of her having nothing on except a poncho and legwarmers made out of moss, or something...



I think I kind of have a good idea for a story. I'll have to rework her design so she works in Skadi-land though, eventually.



I like this face and giant leaf hat!




One more...




Hey thanks for all the nice comments about my Conan drawings! I'm hoping to try my hand at drawing more men characters soon. And I know I keep saying it, but the "behind the scenes" Skadi post is coming. ^u^

Conan the Barbarian

I love Conan the barbarian!!



I love him so much, I even went into my no-comfort zone and tried drawing some manly men.



Poor Baby Conan! There is a lady who doesn't belong on the page with him. That's not why he's sad though.



Some of these pages have really crappy drawings on them, but I think they're kind of funny. I colored the ones I liked in an attempt to trick people into not noticing the really doofy ones.

A palette cleanser: Conan's super hot mom...



Another sketchbook page...this one has cultist girls with sexy diapers, and a lone Subotai as well.



Most of these were drawn while watching the movie, but a few are from images I found online. Drawing from the TV is really fun! I don't do it that much. I want to do it a lot more.

Some more really dumb Conan drawings, and some of Valeria too. She's hard to draw.



More Valerias and scary witch ladies.



Here's the last page of Conan movie doodles. Subotai is there too, as well as Thulsa Doom, and Thorgrim, who is one of my favorite guys in the movie (he's the blonde one with the cool bangs). I love that guy. I gotta watch this movie again and concentrate on all his scenes.



Luna is in there too! Appropriate.

Also, I've been thinking about pulling out some of my old comic roughs I did a while ago and finishing them up when I have time. I have a couple comic projects I want to get started for real, but the one that revolves around my highschool buddies is gonna come so natural to me to draw I think, that it'll be a good way to sharpen my comic-making claws.

The look of the characters in it changes all the time...here's how they look at present.



Here's one more of Christine:


What do you guys think? It seems a bit self-centered to do a semi-autobiographical comic to me, but since it is mostly making fun of how horrible we were back then, I'm not worrying too much.

If you like these designs, click on my "pals" label, or search "highschool" on my blog. I've got tons of drawings of these girls, as well as a couple comics.

Thanks for reading, as always! (^u^)/