Sketchdump number whatever...

Two styles - quintessential fifties scratchiness (still trying to nail a good drybrush/rough pastel in Photoshop) and a method completely aping Tracy Butler, because her art is like crack.


Fiddling around with some shading techniques:


Cheesecake of the day:

Morgan

This is Morgs. He's one of my parents' two Australian terriers. He's also a very sick little guy.
On Saturday, he woke up with his legs paralysed and unable to walk. My parents immediately suspected the curse of Eastern Australian dog-lovers - the paralysis tick. Sure enough, a 3-day tick was found on his leg that had been missed and its neurotoxin had hit him big time. He's now in his forth day of veterinary intensive care, completely physically paralysed and suffering aspiration pneumonia (the big side-effect killer). He can't even close his eyes from the paralysis. Luckily, he has around-the-clock care by some amazing vets, without whom he'd surely have died. He's not out of the woods yet by a long way, but I've been worrying about him constantly and felt like sketching him in his normal, ball-of-energy way. Maybe some healing karma will reach him.

Drink n Drawage

Fruits of a Drink n Draw last Sat. night. I had ice cream sundae :)




There was rodeo playing on the bar TV...


Lady watching the NAIL-BITING game of pool in progress.

Oh, and also...

In stores now, the conclusion to Tina's story. I confess it's hard to get excited about it knowing that this is basically it for Divalicious! for the forseeable future. I have some other smaller stories in progress for various Tokyopop anthologies, but to be honest, I'm totally refocusing back on animation, thanks to my fledgling new freelance(for now!) job - Assistant Animator at LAIKA/house's 2D dept.
Small, multi-talented and packed with pet weimeraners, I'm loving it. Maybe if I work hard enough I'll get a desk :)

Postits, let me show you them

Mishmash of some I've had lying around for a while and some I did tonight.
Doodling to whatever is on the radio/ipod is fun :)

Happy New Sketch Dump.

Nothing like starting the new year in yet ANOTHER holding pattern ;)

Waiting for work to start on two separate directions... one of which I REALLY WANT more than the other, but it's all work. Over on my deviantart account, you'll find what's kept me busy thus far - commissions.

But here, have some sketchbook pages!

Went to Portland Library and flipped through a book on extinct/endangered birds. One skill I want to improve on is animal caricature. Can't character-design without it!
I'm pretty happy with the duck, that seems to be in the right direction...


Entry needs more girlz


I've been knitting a lot of socks lately and a diversion of mine is to check out my local yarn stores (or LYS as they're known among knitterati). Mmm, therapeutic...


Just another afternoon at the cafe.

Merry Christmas!

...and a Happy Good Beer.


...what?

Art Jumble

The Light-headed Shallow-maid. Attracted to low-surf beaches with lots of bronzer.

Enchanted

Still haven't seen it yet, but felt like slapping a pencil around, throwing open Photoshop and doing those two new crazy kids...


I finished this a few weeks ago. I've had this image in my head for a while and really wanted a proper retro look. It's kinda me and my younger sister, not based on any actual event or anything.

Summer of '57

Went antiquing at Sellwood today and found a couple more old cookbooks with nice illustrations. I decided to take a leaf from them and do the Bishop women all relaxing on a nice day.

House-cleaning

I'm going through all my archives looking for material for a craft project I'm working on (more on that in a future entry) and thought I'd post a few things from the Dead End pile.


A good friend of ours loves birds. A LOT. His children consist of a flock of Gouldian finches, six cockatiels(sketches here) and a cranky but hilarious African Grey called Grumbles(sketches here). Dogs and cats are represented left right and centre in comics, but where's the parrot humour? They're very entertaining when they're just being parrots.... at least I think so :/




Concept art for a Tokyopop/Harper-Collins title ("The Faerie Path") that I 'auditioned' for - I didn't get it, but probably for the best - I like doing girly stuff, but this audition came RIGHT when I'd just found out that Diva was cancelled. I wasn't in the best mood that week, so the art probably wasn't as good as it might have been in my usual gung-ho attitude.


I was asked back in Feb if I was interested in drawing Tokyopop's Princess Ai comic strip. Although I was bucking to get my OWN title, Divalicious!, into the funnies, I though what the hey. I did some concept art and sample strips, talked to people at New York Con and decided there and then to bail amicably.
Let's just call it artistic differences and leave it at that.

I'm ready to go back to animation. I had lunch with the lovely Ward Jenkins and the shagadelic Eric Weise the other day. But more on that, later, too ;)

Ninety-five, good lord...

I'm posting this across all my art outlets because Ollie is WORTH IT. :)

Boffo Socko Sketcho Dumporama

Ugh.. I'm so tired of having all this stuff lying around in sketchbooks. Some of it I'm wanting to save for a proper published sketchbook, but when I saw how MUCH of it I had, I figured I can't be precious about EVERYTHING I draw.

So here we go, 4 pages from my current sketch journal:


Last night I started fiddling around with that Tenth Doctor sketch I posted yesterday.
I went to bed at 1am after kinda sorta turning it into this:

Fantasy Lust Day

Because the Doctor is YUMMY, that's why.
As an Old-Who fan, I CAN at least agree with the New Who teenybop fangirl crowd on that one ;)


The She-ra gag I posted the other day was accompanied by several pages of conceptual She-Ra redesign sketches. I think a slick Bruce Timm-style treatment would work well for She-Ra :)
So here they are... along with a random Dalek.



Incidentally, I just opened a Flickr account to bundle some of my art together. The whole Pinup Disney Girls series is there, along with a sketchbook folder as well.
Also.. look, you arty people, come on over to ChannelFrederator! It's very new(only 200 members so far) and is kinda like Myspace/Facebook for artists. I just posted *gasp* my Disney demo reel over there.
*hides behind couch*

Omgs 80's warrior fanart!

All the times she called him 'Brother dear', I don't think she was being entirely sincere ;)

My first Illustration Friday

Skank-ho Day!

I officially declare this Sketch-a-Ho day.




Swimsuits up till the early 60's were a hundred times sexier than the shoelaces that pass today. And the models SMILED.
I've seen at least 3 female celebrities on tv this week with that... it's not pectus excavatum, but that freakish bony hollow between their boobs. It looks fricking revolting, and I'm not sure if it's a result of aging, malnutrition, too much exercise or botched boob jobs.

Practice and Post-its

Practiced some inking this afternoon on Rosie and Edie... this is after my usual daily task of two completed strips.


Another page from the archive of post-its. I've slacked off these a bit lately, I might do some more this week... now that my new ipod Nani is digesting 17.5 gigs of music, I have plenty of material.
And I haven't even started uploading my Eurovision collections yet. >:)



And now, your daily Inspiration from Rosie:

Red Blues

I was just watching this clip from 'Silk Stockings' on Youtube.
I saw it on tv over a year ago and Cyd Charisse just blew me away, so I had to find her again and sketch her.

Happy Fun Retro Day

Another fish for the Disney fan-seagulls - Retro Elastigirl



I've been toying with designing a bunch of characters that so far have defied efforts to visualise them - BBC's Goons.

Maybe SOME time I'll bend Flash to my will enough to animate them :/



One of Diva 2's chapter bumpers, with some colour thrown on.

Your daily Awwwww

My ipod keeps playing this song to me..



(totally not fishing here, 'peer' just rhymed well ;))