MADE OF WANT.

The List of WANT. Thanks to Amazon. Those bastards.


Lifestyle Illustration of the 60s by Rian Hughes
Rebus by James Jean
Vanishing Point: Perspective for Comics from the Ground Up by Jason Cheeseman-Meyer
Digital Painting Techniques: Volume 2: Practical Techniques of Digital Art Masters by Chee Ming Wong (Author), et al.
Layout and Composition for Animation by Ed Ghertner
Dream Worlds: Production Design for Animation by Hans Bacher
The Art of Doug Sneyd by Doug Sneyd
Figure Drawing for All It's Worth by Andrew Loomis
Setting the Scene: The Art & Evolution of Animation Layout by Fraser MacLean
The Art of Pixar: 25th Anniv.: The Complete Color Scripts and Select Art from 25 Years of Animation by Amid Amidi
The Art of Tangled by Jeff Kurtti
Papercraft: Design and Art With Paper by R. Klanten (Author), et al.
Walt Disney Animation Studios The Archive Series: Layout & Backgrou​nd
Directing the Story: Professional Storytelling and Storyboarding Techniques for Live Action and Animation by Francis Glebas
Force: Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators, Second Edition by Michael D. Mattesi
The ILLUSION OF LIFE: DISNEY ANIMATION by Ollie Johnston, Frank Thoma
The Art of Hercules: The Chaos of Creation by Stephen Rebello
The Art of The Incredibles by Mark Cotta Vaz
The Art of Bolt by Mark Cotta Vaz
The Art of Alice: Madness Returns by R.J. Berg
The Art of Kung Fu Panda 2 by Tracey Miller-Zarneke (Author), Dustin Hoffman (Foreword)
Fantasia 2000 : Visions of Hope by John Culhane
A Disney Sketchbook (Introduction by Ken Shue) by The Disney Animators
The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook by Alan Lee
Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes: Volume 1: The Walt Stanchfield Lectures
Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes: Volume 2: The Walt Stanchfield Lectures
Walt Disney Animation Studios The Archive Series: Story (Walt Disney Animation Archives) by Disney Editions
Walt Disney Animation Studios The Archive Series: Design (Walt Disney Animation Archives) by Disney Editions
Animation (Walt Disney Animation Studios: The Archive Series) by Inc. Disney Enterprises
The Art of Mulan by Jeff Kurtti
The Art of The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Stephen Rebello
The Art of The Lion King by Christopher Finch
Joe Chiodo's How To Draw And Paint Pin-Ups by Joe Chiodo
The Art & Illustratio​n of Walter Crane by Jeff A. Menges, Walter Crane
The Red Book of Animal Stories by Andrew Lang (Author), Henry Justice Ford (Author)
The Art of How to Train Your Dragon by Tracey Miller-Zarneke
Mucha by Sarah Mucha
Burlesque Poster Design: The Art of Tease by Yak El-Droubie
The Critic - The Complete Series DVD ~ Christine Cavanaugh

Papercrafting for my best friend.

AND HER CAT. Who liked to sleep on Cacti.

I tired to show more of the process, but I won't like...I get all in my head about the composition, and then I just RUN with it.

I did a preliminary drawing of this papercraft, and actually used my lightbox this time, so get it as close to my original plan as I possibly could! It turned out really well! (I even included on my notes that there had to be an adorable animal butthole!)

At first I was apprehensive to use markers, pens, or anything else besides paper to make these crafts. This time I was unafraid. I broke out my brown Copic pens, used my prismacolor markers, AND even stickers from the crafting stickers I got.

Then all I had to do was get her up! I use shadowbox frames from IKEA because they are just cheaper and easier. Sorry I'm not willing to pay 50 bucks for a "decent" framing. I think it looks pretty effing good, myself.

Papercrafting just turned into Scrapbooking.

I have made the jump! Thanks my sudden acquiring of scrapbook paper, I decided to make some fun little stationary cards.

This first one I made for Ru to use as stationary! The sandcastle is one of those awesome 3D stickers! It's like...babycraft!

This one is made with mostly sticker border and stickers, but by god, I threw it together! I thought these colors represented Breena nicely!

I needed to see if the dark colors would work for me too, so I did one for Hayley that has even darker colors. I'm pretty happy with it. Hell, at the very least, the colors are complimentary.


Finally, I did one for my mumzy. She loves bees. I know right, EFFING BEES. Why? Because they are cute, and they make honey. Not because they kill more people a year than most other "dangerous" animals. WTF ever, the card is cute.

P.S., Amykins, I am going to make one for you, but it will have to be frilly and REALLY over girled, so JUST YOU WAIT.

Next, PAPERCRAFTING FOR FUNZIEZ.

Mary Poppins?! Maid Marian?!

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH.

Papercraft, bitches.

Projects on hold.

WELL. I missed this week's post for the Paperlinks project, but that just means I'll have to double post next week, on Tuesday!

Check out the other posts!

I have been a busy bee though! I'm in the process of making 2 papercrafts, so that's really fun! They are really cool sizes, and are proving to be real pains in the ass, but I'm enjoying them greatly!

Over the past week, I had Amy with me for like...6 days. We watched Hoarders and I cleaned my apartment HARDCORE. In doing so, I got a great idea for the Umbra frames I had laying around.

I used the drawings I posted before, and I painstakingly x-actoed them out!


There's Breener...



Amykins...



and Ruthie poo!!

DOUBLE POST.

So, I got some new indie ink stuff! Watercolor paper, inks, watercolors, the works! SO I finally had a chance to play with that. WOOOP. I decided to have fun and draw whatever came to mind.

And then today was the start of a new monthly project Amy suggested!! 30 days of drawing your original characters. It's amazing how many of them you can create. So I'm going to start this shit off with a character from the comic Amy and I are doing!
Colienne

Colienne was created as the female protagonist in the collaborative comic, Jebediah. She was lured by her brother into the wilderness, where she was attacked by a cougar and left to die. She survived it, but lost everything important to her because of the incident. Now that her past has caught up with her, she must face her brother, and let her life truly begin.

Ruth is going to be doing this, as well as Amy, and Breena. We will update Paperlinks weekly with our works, or you can continue to check them out here on the blogs as the days go by!

Amy's Blog!
Breena's Blog!
Ruth's Blog!
Paperlinks!

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Haha, this was fun. My coworker Tesha and I were talking about Halloween when I first starting working with her 2 years ago.

I've learned since then that I can perform the PERFECT Ursula laugh, so I may have to redraw this image properly.

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This was for my old comic Mug. It was a wordless comic about a wolf cub that had jut jaw. He would eventually hook up with a Doberman. LOOK AT THEIR LITTLE FACES.

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MORE OF MY MONSTER GIRLS! I did Genie a long time ago, and I don't honestly remember if it was ever posted here. I'll repost it just so you can see the difference between the old one, and the new one.

NEW ONE


OLD ONE

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YAY PROCESS POST.
So, I spend alot of time redoing artwork. This character of mine has been through SO MUCH CHANGE. She would have schizophrenia if she was a real person. Anyway, this is the linework.

And the colored version.

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THIS ONE TIME. AN OWLSTRICH.

art dump 1

Time to mega post and make up for DAYS of not posting. I won't lie, alot of what's going up today is work in progress stuff, but it's been a very busy week, full of fail. For the 11 of you that watch me, thanks for being so patient!

Without further ado, this is Suri.

Suri is a demon with hands that come together to make a tarantula. I got the idea rereading Parasite Eve and playing WAAAAAY too much Dead Space. I think she's pretty damn cool.

work of the day!

I did two things today, if you can believe it! I did a dapper snake enjoying tea time,

and Edward from Full Metal Alchemist in the style of Jim Hawkins from Treasure Planet. It really seemed to fit nicely. Same body structure, and almost same attitude.

Man, I'm going to make 100 posts in no time with this once a day blog nonsense!

Jebediah!?

I decided today's doodle would be for the comic that Amy and I are working on. It is so fun to say, "HELL WITH THE BACKGROUND", but I sure do go for that approach too often. I think the next post may have to be a background study. YAY EXCUSE TO WATCH WESTERNS!

Anyway, here are James and Colienne, being adorable together.

Beach Comic

This happened today. I didn't forget AMY. <3

The interviews.

I'm going to start doing interviews for Paperlinks, so I decided to draw a self portrait icon for the banner! I will call them Paperviews. Like Pay Per View. Yes it's cute. You know you love it. Hopefully I'll be able to get some really good questions together to ask! Stay tuned to Paperlinks for more detail. Ruth has brought more culture with her museum visit post! Check it out!

MONSTER GIRLS.

YES. I'm still working on my monster girl prints. Took WAY too long a break from that. Here's the progress on the Yeti girl! I'm enjoying her!
I've decided to use Sai again, since I get pretty good color out of it, and just do accents and gouache brushes in Photoshop.

So far, so good!

A month of blog fodder...

is SO not going to be easy or fun. Amy and I have decided to really push ourselves artistically, and have something to post in the blog every day. I'm going to use commission style works for this post!

A little while ago, I drew a bunch of little drawings for the Customer Servants blog background. It was really cute, and I thought it would be cool to make a bunch another set of tiny drawings. This time, it would be something a little more organic.

I showed my mother, and of course, she wanted me to do bigger ones for our dining room area. Ok, fine. I'm not like...against drawing adorable fruit, and I got to work in watercolor, which I need more practice with anyway, especially mixing colors, and blending. I may *GASP* read a chapter in a book about it. I hear that people really can LEARN from those things. Anyway, it was a really fun little side project, and I finally had use for those 3x5 watercolor postcards.


The frames are definitely my favorite part. Since my mom has a bunch of kitchy Mexican crap, like a creepy Diego Rivera print, I was thrilled to find frames that looked very missiony. Nice hinges attached with teeny rivets really work with it.

The last thing is "PROFOLIO FODDER", really. I had to do a charicature of my boss, and...I did a pretty good job! I had alot of fun making his itty bitty little body. It was TOTES my favorite part.


And that has been what I've been up to in the past few days. The rest of this month will be about art made same day...HOPEFULLY, but at the very least, it will be a cataloged progression of works.

The big Seven Oh.

70 blog posts. Jesus, that's incredible. I can't even remember to write down my schedule all the time, let alone keep journals or take notes. It really does seem like eons ago since I first posted her in blogbert.
That being said, alot in my life has changed for the better. I'm learning to do new things all the time, and becoming more comfortable with my craft, so to speak. I used to think that I didn't have any natural ability in art, but my grandmother had always been pretty damn crafty.

I recently had to put up curtains and photos on our bright green focus wall at the family home. I picked the green, which of course, can be very garish. for about 6 months it has been just a blank green wall, no pictures, no window coverings, no nothing. When we finally had everything we needed, I went to work, and put up beautiful espresso curtains, and every picture in the house that was framed. The end result was truly awesome. Hell, maybe my gift is more natural than I thought.

The other epiphany was with prismacolor markers. Since I use them often at work, I've become reacquainted with how to layer them, and also how to wait for them to completely soak into the paper before you add more color.

So when Breena was over last night, I did mini drawings of her and Ru. (These drawings are only about 3-4 inches long in person. V. Cute.

Also working on other people's comics, like 6th Circle, really makes me fall back in love with art. Sometimes I need a little reminder that what I do is special, and other people like what I do. So...


DEAL WITH IT.

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!