Fanart for a deviant

I decided to do some fanart to brush up on my coloring, and was happy with the result. I have alot of other projects to do, but I need some practice. Hopefully the deviant artist I did it for likes it! Gonna work on my Paperlinks article now! <3 YAY!

Helping friends is fun!

It looks like I finally got to do my 6th Circle guest comic!! WOOOOO! It looks like the boys liked it, so maybe I'll be on their "breaker" team more often! Check out what I did here!!

http://www.6thcirclecomic.com/comic.html

No hyperlinks, people. It's like...2:42 in the morning. Momma's tired. Also....I'm so counting the strip as an art post, so yeeeeeeah. LAAAAAAZZZZY.

ART FUNK DEFEATED.

OK. Well it appears that I am not dead, nor without skill. There has been so much going on lately, that I've been a bit overwhelmed. I'm finally finished writing my last paper for this semester, so I can put free time back into arting. Amy and I are onto inking the first few pages of Jebediah, which is exciting news! I may post some pictures of that, or just let you go see her blog here!! (I may have to FORCE her to update, so keep in touch! As far as comics go for me, the next pages of XL Gal are being completed, so it looks like that will be up and running soon too. I may have to make a wordpress for that too. Good lord, so much internets. I really should take a basic HTML class. SOOOOO LAAAAAAZY.
That and my pet project, Customer Servitude, is in the works. I'm going to get as many crazy work stories as I can together, and draw them. Many of them will be mine, but I'm going to look for input from other people I work with, have worked with, or barely know! I'm also going to invite other artists to be a part of it, so if you do see this, and are interested, just drop me a line at melloxellos@aol.com!
Here's the first one!


Thank you Ru, for forcing me to do it! More later kids, Mama's back!

Comics with friends; Collaboration talks.

As I have stated before, there are quite a few in progress works I have going at this point.

Kith and Kin, XtraLargeGal (revamping), Jerkwater Drones, little one shots, written stuff, all that.
I had a chance to hang out with my friend Amy, and we sat around for HOURS, playing Red Dead Redemption and drawing panels for a Western comic, back and forth. The concept is actually pretty damn amazing. We hammered out quite a few pages worth, and it's going to be something we will put together soon! I even did a decent drawing of Colienne, (Colleen variation of Amy's) the main female.


More work? SOUNDS GREAT. I'M JUST SO HAPPY TO DO MORE. MORE MORE MORE.

WOO. It's been a while!

SO MUCH. I'm still slowly gathering Wondercon images and info for my article on PL. Also, LOS ANGELES. More accurately, Ontario, La Puente, and Claremont. But hell, it was fun. I did some doots while I was there, but it was nice to have a vacation from the internet and drawing, to be honest. It made me want to come home and produce some quality work.

I'll do a detailed thing about that later, but for now, the LONG awaited KANE LYNCH, DISNEY PRINCE.

First, let's look at Kane. This attractive, talented fella, who I thought really could be a Disney prince.

Just LOOK AT HIM. HOW CUTE IS HE!!!!??

I said at Wonder-Con that I would do a drawing of this. SO. I DID.


Check him out at kanelynch.com!

BBWW post!

So, there is a blog called Big Beautiful Wonder Woman. If you scroll down on blogs I watch, you'll find it. I decided to do my own, with a special guest! Xtra Large Gal gets to be with her favorite heroine! Super fun to draw, if I do say so myself. Needless to say, I have been enjoying my fanart break!

Nickolodeon Fanart? Whaaaaat?

So Netflix is like, the greatest thing since sliced bread. I've been rewatching all my old favorites, including The Wild Thornberrys. I always liked the show, even though it was created and done by the same people who brought us Rugrats. I just...HATE some of the character designs. Just ugly. But that's ok, because I made the style work for me, in this, my rendition of Eliza Thornberry, all growed up.

That was fun. I feel a HUGE fanart session starting here. If anyone can think of someone I should draw, let me know!!

PROGRESS IS MADE!

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFINALLY.
Jerkwater Drones has more than just character profiles and a short sentence about the plot!
CHECK IT OUT, PAGES UPLOADED, YEEEEAAAAAHHH!! So proud of myself. I can't believe that actual planning and storyboarding made it so easy to do work digitally. WHO KNEW! I may get a comic off the ground yet! My god...things are happening, wheels are turning!



Also this duck. While I was watching THE THING with Kurt Russell. SO gorgeous in that movie. I don't get how, but he just is.

6th Circle fanart!

I am practicing for my chance to do a guest comic for 6th Circle, so here is a cast group drawing! SO fun!

http://www.6thcirclecomic.com/comic.html

Check um out!

To an old friend.

I was at Borders today in the kids section, looking for a copy of The Island of the Blue Dolphins, and came across an Alexandra Day book. For those of you who are not aware of who she is, Alexandra Day is well known for her Carl books. Carl is a rottweiler.
The Rottweiler has been the family dog of the Millar family for over 40 years, as I may or may not have stated in my previous post about the Rottweiler papercraft. I didn't even know she was still writing/illustrating these books, and I left the store with it. I sat down to read it tonight, and wept. It made me miss my Heidi, my rottie, my first best friend. I scribbled this picture of her after looking though the book.

It was really exciting for me to be able to write her an email, thanking her for a lifetime of laughs and love with those books. She has truly captured the spirit of man's best friend in Carl, and rekindled the memory of my ol' girl.

Welp, better get out the James Herriot books now. Time for more doggie times and tears.

Pictures!

Well, this is going to be a fun update! I am enjoying hearing the storm shake my apartment's crappy windows. I am also still enjoying the forever cold. But hell, let's just move on to the fun part, which is the pictures!

Last week I headed to Neon Monster, one of my favorite comic shops in town, and saw that someone had painted koi on the ground outside. SUPER cool! I just thought It was the neatest thing ever, so I took a picture of it near my foot, so ya'll could get the scale.

I also had a chance to finally give my friend Kyle his Christmas present, which was this adorable little Bob-omb~! Made by Nerd JERK (My friend and amazing crafter, Stephanie Cortes! Find her on etsy!)Just ADORBS. I am seriously thinking about a pink bob-omb commish for her.
AND NOW, A DUMP OF JERKWATER SKETCHES!
Disclaimer: I'm lazy as HELL and just took pictures of my sketchbook, so I wouldn't have to tear the drawing out, or spend eternity scanning them.
Ok, this first on is Ana, and Christine. Spanish teen, Chinese teen. Both adorable, both fun to draw!

Then there is George and Ana, being adorable together. Long live 90s looking boys with curly hair! (I've been watching SOOO MUCH ROSEANNE.)

Finally, here is a picture of Ana and Lucia, the darling twins! They just looooooooove eachother. I didn't see how much they really looked alike until this picture. So different, with really only minor things about their designs change them into who they are. I'm really enjoying the style I'm developing, and hopefully, it will help me pump out more pages quicker! Here's hoping!

Jerkwater Drones Update

Just posting the finished picture for this! SO much fun. Yellow is such an awful school color. Poor Goth kids.

filler post, while the desk is in disarrray!

My poor workspace is a battlezone right now. Cans, shower gel, markers, pens, plates, bowls, utensils, papers of all colors and sizes...you get the idea. Anyway, the post! My coworker Clint and I were working on an idea which he later decided to opt out of, but hell, I may do something with the girls anyway, since I love their designs!

They weren't really giving names, besides Swamp Thang and Vampire Secretary. Swamp Thang is pretty self explanatory. She would have a deep south feel to her, probably old Creole running through her sludge.
Vampire Secretary is just that. One of many basic vampires. In this adaptation, they would have red in the whites of their eyes, pale skin with blue veins REALLY obvious at the wrists, jugular, and inner thighs.
That's all for now kids! I'll hopefully have progress on my comic with Breena for Paperlinks this week! DON'T forget to keep on the Paperlinks blog now, since it gets updated throughout the month!

www.Paperlinks.org~~~!!!

silly mini hiatus.

I won't lie to any of you. I'm pretty durn tired! Thankfully I'm still taking the time to work on my cover for that contest, and my written works. (Don't laugh, I can write good.) I always had this silly notion that writing was way easier than drawing. EL OH EL, HELL NO. Thanks to my lovely Kindle, I've been reading more, which has a very positive impact on me as a writer. That being said, I'm going to have a written story for April's Paperlinks!
Breener and I are also working on a collab comic. The theme is "This house is not a home.", so it was a really fun idea. I actually thought that I might be able to get Jerkwater Drones out of the old noggin and into 4 more pages so I could post that. Silly Rachel, ambition's for kids. Oh well, the month is still young, Damnit! As far as what I've been up to, well. PlayingRedDeadRedemption...instead of, I dunno, drawing. It's a fun game. I loving call it Oregon Trail 3, or Oregon Trail 3D. I was also playing a bit of Left4Dead, and tried to imagine Resident Evil with melee weapons.

This is what came of that thought, haha. I always know that I'm procrastinating on shit when I decide that It's time to do fanart. I make a promise bros, that I will have more stuff up soon! Keep faith until then!

Progress!

I'm painstakingly illustrating an awesome cover for a contest, and it's going well. Since I have until March 15, I'm really trying to take my time and incorporate all the new things I learned with Photoshop.

The original drawing is unfinished, and much larger, since it is on a sequential art sized bristol pad. I am really happy I was finally able to play with the brushes to find the right one for realistic hair, even though I am still keeping it whimsical and playful. All in all, the time I'm taking is really starting to show in this work.

Hopefully more progress is to come. I'm so bad about taking progress pictures...But I've been doing alot of little doots along the way! Ru, Breena and I had an amazing sleep over weekend, and did some works together.

Breena and I drew our characters from Kith and Kin together! It was fun. STILL gonna bring furries back, ya'll.

Fun times with the Cousin!

On Saturday after work, I went over to my Aunt's to hang with my cousin and have delicious dinner times. While the adults were cooking and speaking inappropriately in a child's presence, (my 9, soon to be 10 year old cousin's words, not mine) We watercolored.

She opted to paint the Queen of Demons, and her serpent like husband, the King of Trolls. I really enjoyed how her hair ended up being similar to the green she used to color with.

I decided to paint a frowl. A little creature I came up with with Owl and Frog characteristics. They are very cute.


Here is the finished product. I'm really glad it did it on very nice Archival watercolor paper, because I am SO framing it. S...Someday. Along with...ALL...the other prints that need to be framed. Ha...HA HA.

GUNHAVER.

As a person who claims to be working on a zombie comic, I felt that I should be a little more proactive in getting some reference material that's not just me pausing horror movies.
Thankfully, my dad is of the "Guns don't kill people, people kill people" persuasion. With his help, I was able to collect some of the coolest photos ever.


Keep in mind that I love weapons. I do. But the honest truth is that I am a huge girl when it comes to names or knowing the stats. I mean, for years I've played zombie survival games. It wasn't until I was holding it in my hands, that I realized what I had. An honest to god, brain salad making, zombie swiss cheesing, UZI.


If that wasn't enough, there was also the spider killer 3000, or Magnum. I'm going to do a painting of Jill Valentine for the gallery show I'm trying to put together, so I think that this images will be very useful reference.

And finally, there is the beautiful heirloom shotgun. I do have a full shot of this beauty, but this up close image really shows you the kind of intricate detail that went into a well crafted weapon. It's truly a masterpiece. This is really special, since it belonged to the Uncle that my father was named after. I'll mount it on my wall one day.

REDO!

This is actually not current art, but I threw in this little Video Game Comic so there was something to look at.I'm doing that thing I do every once in a great while, where I go through some old drawings, and then redraw them. This is always very fun, but a little depressing too.
This one is from my story "One Child Dies", which has since been renamed "One Child".

My main Character's original drawing was painfully Anime. PAINFULLY. And the redo, while fast, is so much better. It's going to be fun finding the one that will get the makeover now.

PAPERCRAFT AGAIN? I know, shut up!

Well. Here I go again. Sadly, I neglected to do in progress photos, but hell, it turned out well, so I don't care.

I did this paper craft for my dear friend Amy, who's family has had Corgi's as long as I've known them. The dog I'm replicating here is little Rosie, the younger rascal!
I started the head in Vallejo, while I was hanging out with my mother, and used graphite to do some the the shading on the face.

I did my best to use marker and layer on what looks like floor boards under the doggy bed, and then added a Kong, which for those who do not know, is a pretty popular dog toy. It is stored in a Ribba Ikea frame, and I feel like it framed up nicely indeed! I will have to use these frames for more papercrafts in the future!

I would say all in all, the work took me about 7 hours. The head still takes alot of planning, and took about 3 all by itself. I am getting quicker, but when I am trying my best to use a reference, the planning tends to impede my process. Either way, I'm moving on to a bigger and better paper project, so wish me massive amounts of luck!

The strangest moment in fan art.

A dear friend of mine had nightmares about zombies eating her cat. After a LONG debate with one of her facebook friends about the possibility of a cat being a viable target, he suggested lasers and chainsaw legs.

I had to consent to such a marvelous idea. That is the greatest thing I have ever seen.