Merrrmaid

Oy. So I needed to do some art for myself tonight...but now I think I'm done with that for a while.

Photoshop, with my trusty lasso tool yet again :)

Where have all my words gone?

 

Ever since I got an iphone I've been trying to catch up with the rest of the world by gettin' my Words with Friends on. So far I've played a lot of games and won...well...very few. It's starting to make me worry a little....

But if you want to play, find me on facebook! Or search my username: Missliao (...someone stole my blog name already! D:)

Qpop Thailand Benefit Show

This Saturday (Jan 14th) at Qpop there will be a benefit show for the Thailand flooding. Terrible flooding during the 2011 monsoon season affected millions and caused billions in damage. If you are in the LA area this weekend, please come and support this cause!

I'll be donating this piece for the show:

gouache on colored paper, 5"x7"

 

rough 

framed

 

my messy workspace :)

Hope to see you there on Saturday!

Here are some other artists' contributions!:

Chris Battle

Megan Dong

Stu Livingston 

Fawn & Ryan

What If...

 

I am super excited to be participating in this year's Micro Gallery Show--titled "What If...?"--at Nucleus. Tons of amazing artists will be exhibiting delightfully tiny art, and you should definitely check out the opening on Saturday! It also opens the same night as the Jim Henson Tribute Gallery, so that's double the arty fun!

I did two pieces for the show. It was actually surprisingly hard to think of a good "what if..?" idea, and in the end I just went with "what if everyone could get along?" which of course equals a salmon tea party. They're both in watercolor, which scans notoriously poorly so sorry for the cruddy image/color quality!

My roommate Megan and I spent a couple of late nights painting, check out her awesome pieces!

Also I finally added a 'recent blogs' list so I can stop snooping on other people's lists :I

Daaa-lek

Ever since Rad and I started watching Dr. Who, I've constantly gotten the Daleks' Favorite Catchphrase--"Exterminate! Exterminaaaate!"--stuck in my head. We started thinking that maybe they could expand their vocabulary a little, and try saying some other things. Rad thought up most of these :)

You have to imagine these in that charming mechanical Dalek sound, it works better that way!

 

Celebraaate! Celebraaaaaaaate!!

 

Percolaaate

 

Caffeinate...Caffeinaaaaaaate

 

Furminaate! Fuuuurrminaaate!!

Morning Pup

 

 

quick little update...I did this for a friend's birthday. I need to catch up on my gift art backlog. The next few weeks will be super busy at work but hopefully I can get a few more done.

PS It was really great seeing everyone at CTN! I got to say hi to a lot of old friends and meet twice as many new ones. I also spent way too much money haha :(

CTN-X & giveaway!!!

So... the CTN-Expo in Burbank is coming up really quickly, and lately all I've seen are expo posts on all the blogs. There also seem to be a lot of people doing some very cool CTN-X giveaways...which inspired me to do a giveaway of my own!

Now obviously this is very last minute so it's not going to be nearly as neat as some of the other awesome giveaways out there...but here goes.

To celebrate the arrival of CTN-X, I'll be giving away ONE HUG.  That's right, ONE HUG. Here's a preview:

 

You can enter to win by leaving a comment on this post.

If you win you can get your hug at the CTN expo! I've provided a map in case you have trouble finding me:

 

 The red dots mark where I am! I could (possibly) be at any of the locations at any given time.  

(By the way, does 'Opportunity Alley' sound kind of sketchy to anyone else...?)

Now, I know that a hug doesn't sound like much...so to boost the credibility of my giveaway I offer some testimonials:

"OMG it was amazing!...I almost cried" -- Tiffany

 

"The special-effects were awesome!" -- Chester

 

"Wait.....What...?" -- Kevin

"MrrrrroooowwRRRRRrrrrr" -- Chaos

 There you have it! Don't wait, you still have three days to enter and WIN!

(Forgot to add: If you win the hug and cannot make it to CTN-X, you can absolutely raincheck the hug. However, the hug is not redeemable in cash (pft, like I have a million dollars just lying around. Hahaha!....I'm just kidding.)
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Seriously, though...I'd love to meet people at the expo! Are you going to be there? If the answer is yes then let's find each other and say hi! :)

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And the hug winner is....Aminder!!!  I will deliver your hug when I next see you! I like everyone, though, so I will be giving consolation hugs to all the people who didn't win (if they care to receive them, that is...). But I'll make them way tinier than the Winner Hug in order to validate this contest. It's only fair.

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!

Chaos

I realize I'm dangerously close to joining the Crazy Cat-Lady Club with this, but bah, I say...bah!

This is Chaos. He is chubby and adorable, and he likes lying on his side and showing off his moobs.

I never realized how truly nice it is to have a cat around the house, until he came to stay with us. Now I think all houses should have cats (except birdhouses)!

He likes galloping up and down the hall for no particular reason, which is puzzling (though Megan and I have speculated that he is celebrating how light he feels after he visits the litterbox).

He also likes being slapped on the butt repeatedly. I think he's a fan of the tough love.