New Design

I really wish I had my scanner and stuff but I have to deal with my camera phone for a minute. So excuse the overall shittiness of all my posts. So this is a design for a tattoo a friend of mine is getting. She wanted a cupcake with a spatula and whisk crossbones effect and then while drawing we decided to add the banner. When inking it in my sketchbook i accidentally made the "F" into an "E" but that's why planning is important. We also decided to change the black stars to the hallow drawn style star for some and others just to the asterisk twinkle shape. This the first time i really used markers. I did some character sketches once but the paper I used didn't take it that well and I wasn't too familiar with the colors. This time I had more control and I used my inking paper which took the color very well. In the final we want to go a little bit more pastel-y but it gets the point across. My technology situation kind of sucks right now but it will either be resolved sooner or later than expected, but never on time. Just so all of you know though, being struck by a car as a pedestrian really sucks.

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.

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.