Caterpillar

I finished my piece for the sketcholic contest. I'm not sure how I feel about it. I fought with it a lot. I did things a few times and it's not exactly how I pictured it but hopefully it gets noticed. There's a lot of great pieces in the contest and a lot of diversity. We'll see what happens. Remember to vote for me on Thursday at 11:59 pm EST!






seriously.....vote for me

New Projects- In progress

Well I'm actually working on some art for once. Mainly personal pieces. In honor of Alice in Wonderland coming out there have been a lot of contests concerning the theme. I miss the one for the Cheshire cat (which is my favorite character) but I saw the one for the caterpillar and felt it was a good opportunity to do some art. I just have to make it to the studio to color it before the deadline tomorrow -.- Here's the line art for it:
I'm going to ad smoke and stuff from the sketch.
I'm also hoping to color another piece. It's basic theme is the tarot card Strength. I hope to one day illustrate a whole deck. So far I just have the Queen of Swords done. But there's also two other themes to it that I'm keeping a secret until I'm done. Here's the sketch and the line art:




















I'm not too thrilled with her face so I drew another version on tracing paper to add digitally. The left side of the boarder is going to be reflected onto the right side digitally as well.

I'm also hoping to finish the line on an "Adventure Time" piece. Every one on Autumn Society has been drawing one. I'm a member of Autumn Society II so I don't know if that theme is "for" us but I rarely participate in stuff on there so I thought I might for once anyway. I have a thumbnail of what I want to do so I think I'm going to go strait to final from there for time sake. We'll see how that turns out.
I really need to get working on some new comics, especially if I want to apply to SCAD for sequential art. I have two really good ones sketched out I should take to line soon but who knows with my tendency for distraction.

Recent Shenanigans

I've been into a lot of creative endeavors lately. I made a companion cube themed cake for my friend's birthday. I didn't have the best of equipment and I never worked with fondant before so I think it came out ok considering.

I also needed a new sketch book so I just made one instead as per the suggestion of Patrick Theaker. I've done minimal book binding. I made a little poetry book for a friend in the summer using a basic japanese stitch on the end, in the process getting a needle stuck throw a thimble and an inch into my thumb simultaneously. It was sweet. I painted raccoons on the cover. I made a little journal as a valentine's day present as well with the same binding stitch. I painted this girl with severed arms coming around her on it inspired by the National Song "Sons and Daughters of the SoHo Riots." I was kind of going for a screen print look. It kind of worked out I guess. And I could have just screen printed but I'm not really in touch with all my resources at the moment.

The sketch book I made I did a different technique that kind of mimicked normal everyday books. I put old sketch paper I had around, some tracing stuff, my inking paper and some lined paper to do journaling and story ideas in it. I put some extra fabric on the spine and some Mucha prints from a calendar on the front and back. I'm eager to start drawing some ideas in it. I have quite a bit. I'm a little overloaded on projects I want to do.
On top of that stuff I caught wind of a Harry Potter show to which I'm going to submit. I'm thinking like two pieces. I typically do a lot of character sketches when it comes to my fan art (which is some of my most popular stuff on deviant art). I don't know about just submitting just character designs, even though that is what interests me most. Also a lot of my favorite things about Harry Potter are stuff that only kind of exists in my head (like Luna and Neville as a couple) or like images of secondary characters, like the Quidditch team players or Pansy Parkinson. I don't know. I asked for some ideas of what to draw. All the stuff I already have is from a long while ago. It's been awhile since I really got to get down and draw some HP stuff. I need my computer situation up and running before I just forget everything I want to do.

Bakery Cake

So I really miss having a large format scanner. I took this picture of the final sketch for the bakery website which doesn't do the justice of a large format scanner. One day. one day... But each layer is going to be a link to someone's particular page. The top layer links to a bio about everyone involved and the house and then everyone else has something they're in charge of, like a cooking blog or a dating advice forum. Then there is communal elements, like a collection photos or web comic about cats or who is "swoll faced." There's also an idea of a web series if anyone ever writes the script. My boss/friend from my video editing job wants to shoot it, basically for something to do. I have the very bottom layer for my blog dedicated to one particular comic I'm trying to put out. If i had a better digital camera this also might work better. But alas I am using a cellphone. one day. But I'm getting to the point where I never want to look at a cake again though, between drawing icing so in detail on two projects and working as a pastry chef. I'm at cake capacity.