Random Collection of Art-like Things

Oh blog how I neglect you sometimes.

Well I have been very active when it comes to art lately. I'm still sans computer and things so I'm still hurting for that. I finished a few "pieces" recently. The quotations are necessary as they are kind of odd ball projects.

A lot has been happening with me avid followers. Things are all starting a new with new love, new living, new directions. My tattoo set up is nearly complete so I will be back on my game and hopefully making money again, I'll be off at a summer camp in a months time teaching younglings how to be creative via photoshop, I need to get a piece together to submit to a show by the end of this month (eek!) and I want to submit a piece for the 90's Show the Autumn Society is putting on -if- I'm actually welcome to do so. Now to follow: lots of pictures.

Let's start with my latest commission. A guy contacted me to get a tattoo design for a grim reaper chasing uncle sam. Not something I'm super thrilled on but I think I made it look cool. I gave it up really cheap because I knew it was going to be in marker since my computer situation is a bit askew. He was really happy and it felt nice to get kind of art directed again. Enjoy the sideways picture from my phone. It's awesome I know but no scanner=crap.


My next piece is a bit of an installation piece done for the game SF0. If you don't know it look it up, it's incredibly fun to play. I made some shoes to throw over a power line. I put 'don't quit' on the bottom to somehow being inspiring. I saw a sign that said 'you are beautiful' and wanted to do something in that vein. I drew an owl, lady gaga, an octopus and fairy tale princess on respective side of each shoe and threw them up in an alley in front of the front door of a possible new apartment I might be living in later on in life.



My wonderful boyfriend recently turned 21 and I made him a cake. It was rainbow and vegan and delicious. I painted the top in a very "starry theme" He loved it






I made him a gift as well. I feel that a flask is a very appropriate gift for someone who just turned 21. I painted the outside. I've never painted stainless steel before so it was an interesting endeavor and I have no idea how its going to hold up. I used gesso initially then a mix of acrylic, water color, ink and marker then covered it in clear nail polish.



And just to show how in love we are:

Ironman Cake

so....I know I just posted an entry but I just remembered I should post this as well. I made an ironman cake for a friend of mine, which is awesome. Cakes and icing will forever haunt me it seems. It was short notice and if i had better supplies it would have come out better but he was still really happy. We put this sparkly stuff on it to try and make ironman shine. The cake was just a white cake made from scratch. Not really the most common of easter festivities but I guess that's my style








so that's the ironman cake. enjoy it

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.

Artwork Tattooed

My friend Angela has been getting a lot of tattoo work done on her leg inspired by Joanna Newsome. Her latest addition was a tree house, unfortunately she had no drawing ready. She asked me to draw her the tree house so I of course did because Angela is a good friend for mine, as you may know since I mention her a lot. I'm pursuing tattooing myself right now and this is one of the few items I have pictures of that is my work translated into tattoo. I had more photos of work I actually did as tattoos, though none of it my design (mostly flash), but they were lost in rocky separations and a lost camera phone. I'm currently designing a cupcake tattoo that's coming out pretty well. I'll post pictures soon of that one soon, including the actual finish. (hurray!) The artist that did the tree house finish added wood grain to the house proper, which I felt made it too busy originally in my head but it looks good in the finished design. She had to change the hands because they were too small when the design was shrunk to be put on effectively but I'm not really sure I like the solution she came up with. The hands are large enough to take up the whole window and I don't think that makes as much sense or has the effect I think it needs. It looks good in the context none the less. So here it is, my tree house as tattooed by Cindy Vega at No Ka Oi in Philadelphia:

Progress

I haven't been very active recently so I decided to post some progress on a painting I'm working on. It's a traditional piece and its starting to be about loneliness I think. It hasn't really had much of a meaning, just something to keep me busy. She has some flowers in her hair I think I might change to a blue or a pink. i was trying to keep everything as white as possible but I think I need to depart a bit from that so it's not too overwhelming. I'm hoping to finish soon.

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.