color, and lilies

colored the sketches a bit, and I finished a painting I was working on for my Tante Inge's 80th birthday tomorrow.

This has gone through numerous phases of one mistake after another, but in the end I think it turned out allright.


and just quickly colored these guys, nothing special.



lalala...I got nothing much else to say. I need to start working on new prints and paintings to sell at Otakon. gah! crunchtime is comin' up.

Forced Out

I haven't drawn and inked something since school ended, nor have I had any desire to for a long time to come. It's probably been my biggest art block to date, and I knew it was time to force myself out. So I just made myself draw without thinking or worrying, and these came out of that.

Somehow, when I don't think about what I'm drawing, it always turns into Zila.


again, not really thinking, but I guess this shows just how much I want a puppy! lol (it's a mini Australian Shepherd, though in reality it'll most likely be a Corgi lol) <3


This definitely made me feel a little bit better about...drawing. I'm gonna try to color these...maybe I'll also CG the last one, who knows. I probably won't have that kind of ambition though! ^___^;;; lol

All-American

The All-American Girl. (done while listening to today's pop music LOLZ yay) XD;;


Another Oekaki, done at Cimetery. I like drawing weird figures. I got nothin' else to show, I haven't really been drawing at all. :(

I hate to say it, but I think I need to find a new oekaki board. Cimetery was where I first did digital work and learned most of the skills I have now. However, ever since it's been revived, none of the old artists have come back and no one comments. It's very banal. I miss it, but I think it may be time to find another home. I just don't know where...all my other boards are now non-existent, Cimetery is all I know that's still around! :(

digitize it

I've been doing more oekakis and digital sketches recently, really just trying to get my hand drawing again even if it's just a little bit. I've been in quite the artistic rut recently.

so let's start it off with one of my guilty pleasures lol! XD;;


can't wait to follow his career, it's gonna be awesome. :D <3

another guilty pleasure of mine! An un-moe Germany, from Hetalia. (the style of the series makes me sad, but I like the idea of it enough.) :p


I may be biased since it's my nationality, but Germany is awesome. haha


A big reason why I haven't done anything is that my computer was running at a snail's pace. I bought another gig of ram, and now it's like a whole new machine!! <3 I just wanted to test out Photoshop's improved performance, so I doodled Lyra. ^___^


lol I dunno, maybe she caught Cygnus peeping on her bathing. XD;; <3

none of these took more than an hour...I don't really have a high attention span in the summer. I want to do paintings and illustrations, but I just can't bring myself to do more than silly sketches of dogs and fanart. ugh, not good when Otakon is right around the corner! o___O;;

doggies

I'm new to drawing dogs, but they're easily becoming one of my favorite subjects. They're a huge challenge for me to get right, but that's what makes it so much fun. Dogs are beautiful and unique, and I just can't get enough of 'em!

I love my new sketchbook. It takes watercolor washes beautifully, and what better way to break in a new sketchbook than go to the local dog run and do some sketches? <3


Drawing them from life was proving to be difficult, so I took pictures and did most of these that way, still referencing the running guys all the while. These were the practice sketches I did for my Corgi comic. I had never seriously drawn a dog prior to this, save maybe once or so.



My dog books just came today, it's filled with so much information and beautiful pictures! I'm happy I purchased them. My favorite hobby is studying the different dog breeds, and now I have two great resources at my disposal to learn even more! <3


An oekaki I did just now over at Cimetery:

I love the Saluki, they're always so beautiful and elegant!

ah, how I want a dog so bad...oh well, that won't be for a few years! Until then, I'm content with studying them and learning much about these awesome animals. :D

TOUCH sketches

The sketches for my Touch allegory project.

First one, I tried to do a literal translation. I quickly realized that wasn't gonna work for me.


...so I went nuts. still, there was something off. (I may turn this sketch into a digital piece, I still kinda like it.)


and here's the winning sketch:


Tom made me change the whale, or rather said to make more 'sense' out of it. so I made him a pterodactyl. I still like the sketch better than the final, though.

the final:
In the end, it's okay. I made a TON of mistakes along the way, but I'll take it for what it is. I wish I had taken progress shots of it, because the ink b&w was WAY better. it had a cool drybrush thing goin' on. but what's done is done, and this project was a HUGE learning experience.

the dA link, with the original allegorical text.

...so my class with the feared Tom Woodruff is at an end. It was one of the most challenging experiences I've had, but I learned so much about myself and my art, and about appreciating other art forms. The chair of our department is feared by most in the cartooning department, but it's really unjustified. Tom's class was the most fun I've had working so hard in a really long time. I'd love to take it again if I had the chance, I'm gonna miss having a class with him so much. <3

Unapproving Jazz

FAIL.

but...umm...anyway, I've been posting some of my art from Tom Woodruff's Drawing class on my dA, so you can check that out if you want. <3

firecloud.deviantart.com

prep work

I would like to upload stuff here more often. I have tons of pages from my sketchbooks to scan in, I just haven't gotten to it yet.

I like to draw on regular printer paper a lot more now. gives more freedom to just do whatever without having to worry about people seeing it. usually comes out better if I have that mindset.

so here's some prep work of an Okami fanart illustration I'm working on. I start off with warm-up doodles of whatever (in this case cygnus, lyra, and an aussie shep puppy <3 ), then go on to little thumbs, bigger thumbs, gesture study, etc, etc...


lolz doggie butt. <3 I'm debating whether the final should have that or not. XDD

summertime means job hunting, but the market's so dry it's proving to be incredibly difficult for me. here's hoping I can at least make a buck this summer! ^__^;;

Houndoom WIP

Finally done with my schoolwork, so I continued a picture I've wanted to do for SO long now!

here's a work-in-progress:


Houndoom, use Fire Fang!

still got a long way to go on it, but just thought I'd show the rough. wanted to do an actual painting...a charchoal + acrylic, but I think I'll save it for another time. :p

aaand here's another WIP:


pretty much finished with the main Houndoom, but for the BG I'm planning on making a whole pack of 'em among a rockface and grass, as if you encountered them in the wild. haha, I'd hate to be camping and bump into a pack of these guys. XD;;

hahaaaa....Dobermans = LOVE. they're so...sleek and badass. <3 I've really been on a dog kick lately. XD

wheeee here's the finish:


lalala....the deviation link is here: http://firecloud.deviantart.com/art/Houndoom-Fire-Fang-121359026

this was fun to do. I'm glad I have time to do things I want to now! ^___^ <3

sequence

bumping down the other post with a sequence that I like from Kakapo.

Only one page left and I'm done with it! ^____^

I'm not worried about getting it done in time, just about printing it. Everyone's freaking out with printing their comics, and I don't know how the quality will be tomorrow due to overuse. Here's hoping they'll come out okay!

real pokemans

bored in class LOL these are so horrible. I could do a better job, but I'm in one of those moods where I just don't want to do anything. XD;;;


kept the watermarks on, no need to lie as to where they came from. lol I dun care...and sooper-husky = love. LOLZ

awesome, class is over...perfect timing! XD;; <3

Corgi Comic B&W

My professor said I didn't know perspective and I got mad at him, so I did this on my own incentive to show him I damn well could.

I want a Corgi soooo bad!!! <3

For only two days' work, I'm pretty happy with how it came out. Actually, I think it's my favorite comic I've ever done! :D I'm gonna put some sepia tones on it and upload it to dA. ^__^

Prints will be available at cons. <3

Colored: http://firecloud.deviantart.com/art/WHEN-CORGIS-ATTACK-119852974

cover lineart: ISOIS

The lineart for the cover of "In Sunshine or in Shadow." I am debating on wheather I should color it digitally or in copics like I originally thought...hmm.


While I am not happy with how the 21 page comic came out, it would be nice to get SOMETHING out of all the hard work I put into it, so I will be selling copies at Otakon, along with Kakapo. Oh, and Fresh Meat and MOCCA and SPX too, and whatever other cons I attend if there are copies left, or depending on how it sells. I would like more of a highlight put on Kakapo, though. :p

Colored: http://firecloud.deviantart.com/art/ISOS-Cover-119862140

Techniques

I need to start posting stuff on here more...^^; After school's done with I'll probably have more time for it, I've just been so swamped.

Anyway, here's a project from my inking class using 4 different methods of shading: Zippitone, coquille board, scratchboard, and duo-shade. it's not really done yet I dun think, but when it is I'll post it on dA or something. I dunno.

Trivia: this is the only school project I've done that features my FT characters. :p

old water studies

Sorry for not updating a lot, don't have much to show...but here are some old watercolor studies I've done. None of the newer ones have been much good...^^;;


The first two are my favorite, I'm thinking about submitting them to dA, but I'm not so sure. meh. I'm gonna go post the first 3 pages of Kakapo to dA, I think. ^__^;;