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.