Pretty Girl

...for Rad.
I asked Rad what my first drawing on my new cintiq should be. I ended up NOT using my cintiq for this, but here it is anyway.

I guess it's the princess and the frog, before she met the frog. That's for another drawing!

08 Shark week! -- Great hammerhead

Huzzah! It's shark week!! So...every year when this blessed event happens, artists unite to draw these magnificent creatures all week. First up is the Great Hammerhead!

I tried doing some watercolor sharks first, but they turned out so awfully that I gave up and did the rest in photoshop. The paper just didn't agree with me, but I put them up anyway.




If you want to be part of the shark-drawing party, check out the shark of the day at:
http://sharkweeksketchjam.deviantart.com/
Share your sharks! :)

Other Shark Bloggies! (if you did a shark, let me know so I link your beautiful art):

Megan Nicole Dong
Mike Nassar
Eric Wu
Nate Villanueva
Tiffany Ford
Ian Abando
Alejandra

05 witchy

I stopped liking this one halfway through and kind of gave up on it, but here it is anyway. eeeehhh.

I think "eating fingers" is in the official Witch Job Description.

PS. shoutout to kyle and beth, my boot-color designers :P

04 triple crown winner

always bet on the unicorn!
prize steed, indeed.

02 our gnoments together

inspired by chenny's awesome girl-gnome drawings ;)

01

okay, with some encouragement, I'm going to try the daily sketch thing*. Hopefully it'll force me to draw more! :)

I never could get the hang of hacky sack.


*except i might take some breaks for longer posts

the woman wonder

a little something I drew for Rad, since he seems to have been on a bit of a Wonder Woman kick

Monkeys, our friends

Nickelodeon has a gallery space with a new show every month. February was the "studio gallery". I had no idea what to submit, and somehow I just ended up with monkeys.





It was an awesome show. Everyone here is insanely talented!

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...and here are some observational monkey sketches. I find that they behave in a more natural manner when they think no one is watching. Monkeys are funny things.

Happy New Year!

Heeey I haven't updated in forever heeeyyy

the last of the group of illustrations I posted earlier:

I need to get workin' on more personal art!

and, I saw this on ew.com today:

where the wild things are! I'm excited!

More Illos

This is probably as finished as it'll get:




...and I kind of got sick of this one and just gave up on it:


haaha can you tell?? Got a little too texture-happy.

It's finals! There's no time!

oh, yes...any feedback/crits would be appreciated!

Illo Progress

UM YES.

I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving!

I want to put mint eye drops on my eyes. If only such a thing existed...

Beast concepts

Some concept work for the same group film mentioned here:

Photoshop. I think I'm getting more efficient? I felt like this took me less time than usual.
If their bodies look strange, I say BLAME THE HYENAS! I referenced each one of those from hyena photos. Those kooky animals.

This one is just for my own amusement:

Concept

Some concept art for a group film. Mainly more experimenting in photoshop though.

Loosely followed this tutorial
and I guess it came out okay. I really liked playing around with the textures, but I can't get his method of applying color. Tried to add some red and green here but it's really flat:

and the little girl is hard to see/doesn't quite match. eep.
oh well.

Detail:

Progression:

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!

hee, i got lazy toward the end.

FRUSTRATION

Learning to color in photoshop is hard.

Doodle of the Day

Inspiration from life:



A can of Cafe Hag coffee found on my roommate's shelf.


2 min, photoshop. (thanks Ray)

practice

mouse doodles in class.
Photoshop