Hotcha

Darn. I think I know what the theme of my next artbook is going to be..

Su-wheeet!

A little showgirl expresses her love of cherry pie.

Same planet, different species

I just got back from a 2-week roadtrip with friends to San Diego, Flagstaff and Vegas via as many brewpubs as we could find. I had never been to any of them before, which was cool - I don't count ComicCOn because you never venture more than half a mile from the con centre ;p. I took MOUNTAINS of animal photos in San Diego and we roasted our butts off walking the Strip.
Las Vegas was an experience. You expect it to be kitschy and hot and tacky and overpriced, so that wasn't a surprise. But holy cow, the people it attracts.
These are all actual people I mentally stored from our wanderings.

End of an Era

Bye Michael. The last true superstar.

Yuki 7

Kevin Dart's Yuki 7

I've preordered my book, I can't wait to get it :)

Shutter the barn, boys.

Quickie before bed.

Jus' a li'l ole cornfed gal.

DAMMIT, Jim

Okay, that's out of my system now.
Ack.. Kelley and his craggy middle-agedness!
Shatner's slightly doughy leading-man face is surprisingly hard to capture. I still think it's not quite right. Ah well.

In other news, Monsters Inc! and Muppet Peter Pan comics are now soliciting!. These are my babies, so order now!
Check my devart page or my Flickr account for all the cover artwork, I'm not posting that lot again, I'm tiiiiired.

Uhuralove

I should be working, but I'm enjoying this series too much.

Pretty yeomen in huge blonde wigs may come and go, it's all about Uhura.

Friday dump

For those who missed it on devart or Flickr - another Boom! variant.
More Muppet and Nemo stuff coming soon!


An hour in a Mazda waiting room while McQueen was having an engine light examined.

Brown bookery

Some recents odds and sods from the nearly-full brown book.





Anyone in the Portland area, listen up! Powell's currently has 50-75% off a whole bunch of the Taschen art books, including the all-American Ads series. So GET IN NOW!
I picked up a mini-Taschen of Dian Hanson's Girly Mag History and was inspired to sketch the last one.

Of Muppets and Fish

Phew. FINALLY figured out which of my Boom covers has hit Previews, so here's samples!
Covers for Nemo 2 & 3 and my B cover for Muppet Robin Hood #4.
I think the Muppets look awesome in digital watercolour, but it's a little too labour-intensive for interior art. Covers are okay, though.

Classy Cozzie

We don't call it a swimsuit where I come from. It's a cozzie.
We also wear thongs on our feet and no amount of sniggering from Americans is going to make us call them anything else. Nyeh.

Started off in Painter 9 until I got pissed off with the program(as usual). Finished in Photoshop, which knows how to behave.

..this thing on?

*ahem*
OMG,I'MWORKINGONPIXARCOMICSYOUGUYS!!!!!


What have I been doing the last several months? Only the first, licensed, ORIGINAL Pixar comic stories with Boom! Studios.
Along with a bunch of other great writers and artists, we're all hard at work getting the first wave of stories going. Cars, Incredibles and the Muppet Show will be hitting stands very soon, followed by Finding Nemo, Muppet Show fairytales, Monsters Inc, Toy Story, Wall*E, the whole ball of glorious Pixar wax!

Needless to say, I can't show everything, but now that I have some release dates, look forward to seeing more of my covers and maybe some sample pages of my own titles - the first one involves monsters and doors.

This is variant cover A of Finding Nemo #1 - the interior artist is Erica Leigh Currey, but we're sharing cover duties. (they have to correct the above link to credit me properly, but it IS my art!)

I am thrilled to microscopic bits to be a part of this new series. It's a great plan to bring comics back to children again with characters we all know and love.

Eeeeh, it's a Pixar fan artist's dream job!! :)

Badcrumble

crumblin' down the road...

Kingdom of Slackola

You know what's annoying apart from not being able to post real work?
Filling up a moly and then trying to decide what to post now and what to keep for the next sketchbook collection.

Anywho, here are some potted highlights, practising human and animal caricaturing!

Not dead, just sketching...

So while I am STILL waiting for approval to post my real work, let's crack open the moly diary...

Verbatim conversation from a few weeks ago:




I haven't seen them in a little while, I hope they're all okay :(

Happy 2009

I swear, ONE of these years I'll get it together to actually post a cute little Christmas graphic like all the other blogs actually BEFORE Christmas :/

As it is, I was rushing to finish several art presents and part of the Project I Still Cannot Name before the husband and I left for Christmas in San Jose with the family.

So woohoo, here's some of what I was working that I only have a chance to show now!


I was invited to do the cover of Falalalala's ADVENTures in Carols compilation. We decided to go with a vintage children's book look.


Our Christmas in San Jose included meeting a new member of the family - my very first nephew! Christopher George. This is the illo for his birth announcement.
They love ducks in that family ;)

"On Air" out now!

Yaaay, I finally did it! My first self-published sketchbook/artbook is now available at lulu.com.

It's 32 pages - not huge, but I packed them chock-full of 2008 art and sketches, most of which have NOT been shown online.

Sketch

I've had Sketchbook Pro on my computer for yonks, but I rarely use it. It seems to be one of those programs used by people who actually HAVE a staff job in animation and get to work on a Cintiq all day. Lucky ratbags ;p

I has an Etsy.

Amy's getting off her arse and selling ORIGINAL art, whoda thunk?
All right, original art AND some OOAK Pixar pics, shut up ;p

I did these Pixar chibis ages ago and rather than just let them gather dust, I put them in some frames and hope they'll find good homes.