Gallery, Shoes, and Sketchz.

A recent sketch I did, just to start off this post. Deviation is Here.
AH School has started, and so that means I am probably gonna disappear off the face of the internetz for a while.

...or not? I have started a blog for our cartooning club, which can be found at http://cartoonistalliance.blogspot.com/. I will be updating there regularly with news and interesting things. ^__^

but anyway, on to my own blog business...

My gallery show was this week, the opening was last Friday. Now if you've read my previous post you'll know the trauma that took place so I'll skip that, but yeah here are just some pics from it.

I got a nice spot right in the beginning:

ew, a horrid picture, but we were still shaken from what happened to omi, so I had to put on my best face:
The Finished Paintings. The Deviation is Here. :D
some cool paintings from the show:
The hospital sign....now you KNOW a maintenance guy did this on purpose. regardless, it brightened our moods a bit.
My Pokémon High Heels! Deviation is here but also this:
My Princess Mononoke Vans! Unfortunately, they gave me blisters...ugh. The Deviation is Here!
Work was slow last night, so I doodled on a receipt paper. I don't know what to do for my latest assignment...:/
And lastly, this is how amazing my boyfriend is and I wanted to share it:
It was as delicious as it looks! :D <3

Ach, jest sketchinz.

I've been playing Arkham Asylum a bit too much...combine it with FT, and we got one crazed cyggie. UGH I need to like...remember how to draw before school starts next week. @___@;;


a random business chap:


UM so my gallery opening didn't go so smoothly...my omi broke her femur on an unmarked step at the entrance to the building, and we were in the ER all night. She had her surgery and she'll be fine, she's a tough as nails german woman. However, this will greatly effect how this school year goes for me...hopefully I will be able to achieve the goals I have, but now I'm not so sure. I'm just glad she'll be okay though...it could have been a lot worse. I'm grateful for that...I love her more than anyone, I don't know what would happen to our family if it was worse. It's so scary when something happens to the one who raised you...I just love her so much. Hopefully she can come home soon. <3

Marsyas Sketch

sketchysketchysketchyzzzz. Should I finish? I dunno. >___>;;


ugh I'm getting a cold. :(

Sketches, WiPs, & Jazz

Got quite a few things to show today so I'll cut the chit-chat short and just post the pics. :D

Couldn't sleep again after closing at work, so a 4am doodle of a BGal Lyra? O__o


Some concept sketches for my thesis I did while at a party for work...'cause I didn't want to dance. lol Oh, and Lyra snuck her way in there too. ^__^


I think I'm taking a liking to the story of Marsyas. I can turn him into a jazz sax player which will be good for my musical side, an added plus is I own a sax for reference. I miss performing. :(


Wanted to practice photography, and who better a target than my lovely Jazz? I wanted to show a play on Light/Dark:


OH MAN my new Acrylic paints just came in!!! *excited* More on that later, I'm gonna go play with my new toys now! :D

Captain: Lineart

So...this is probably the last thing I should be doing right now, but I was really starting to go crazy without hand inking something in so long, so I kinda had to? O___o;;

Also, I was itching to test out my media idea for my thesis. I want to do my pages on HardPress Watercolor paper instead of bristol, so I could watercolor the pages nicely. However, I have no idea how this technique would work and how the ink would flow on it. So I drew up Lyra real quick, which turned out to be a longer drawing, and inked it with my beloved W&N 2 kolinsky brush. I love that thing, and it was so nice to ink with it again. Damn I'm such an art supply geek. XD;;

Consequently, I also wanted to draw a sexy woman. hey, it's fun, but I always seem to have a hard time with it lol. :D Soo here's the somewhat sexy Captain Lyra:


Now to test how my Sennelier Watercolors will look on it! I've never really watercolored on HP paper yet so it should be a fun experiment. The biggest thing I'm worried about is weather or not the ink will bleed...here's crossing my fingers! >___<;; If not, then at least I can save this particular image and just digital color it. :p

I have some sketches to show to...that I forgot to scan and now don't feel like it...haha, what else is new. XD;;

WIPS Tigers

'cause I said I'd post some WIPs.

My studio area always looks like a tornado whenever I'm working on big projects like this. lol but it's actually pretty organized this time 'round. I'm kinda proud. XD


The most finished one so far, but the others are all sketched out n' such. I still need to touch up this guy still. there's just so much to do! XD


OH CRUD it's time for me to go to work, I haven't even realized...fun times. see ya later! :D

Announcing: FT [Rebirth]

This is my goal, let's hope I can reach it!


Exciting, huh? ^___^

More Doggies

These are just some more of my doggie sketches.

Salukis are hard to draw. O___o;;


I really want an Australian Shepherd or a Doberman. I love them!

Seriously, no one would ever mug me if I was walking a Dobie on the streets of NY late at night, even in the sketchier parts of the city. It's....for protection.....yeeah....so I can has? :D lol ^___^;;

003, and Oekakis

lalala...I did stuffs.

Here's the next commission in that series, I'm calling him the Grimace from hell rofl:


And I found a new home in Skylands Oekaki. apparently, it's where everyone from my old oekaki home moved to after it crashed. but me, being the genius I am, took many years to find it. I'm glad to have finally found it, it feels like the good ol' times drawing there. ^___^

First doodle:


Second doodle, practicing drawing tigers for my paintings:


I love Golden Tabbys. <3

Improvement

I just doodled up a digital painting of Lyra 'cause I couldn't sleep, and when I was done I searched for an old painting I did of her, and I was pretty surprised.

It's not as if the old one is bad or the new one is good, but it shows a significant change in how I do things and how my art has progressed. Interesting.

The Old, done in Sept 2006, took many painstaking hours and many refs I remember lol:
The New, took maybe 2 hrs at most with no reference at all:
again, I actually dislike both of these a lot. but the change is there...OH crud I forgot that Ly's hair changed color in the new one...oops. I also want to fix her nose and pinky when i get the chance...haha that's what I get for painting at 5am. XD;;; UGH I swear I have insomnia. O___o;;

APW Gallery Show

'ello, so an interesting thing has happened. I will be exhibiting my work at the APW Gallery in Long Island City as part of their "Small Works, Big Ideas" exhibit featuring artists from all over the world. I'm very excited about this, it will be my first gallery showing. I have to create paintings for it though, since I don't know if any of my works really fit the theme. I'm going to be painting 6 small 10X10 oil paintings by the end of August, hopefully surrounding a theme about conservation, since I feel very strongly about nature. I don't even drive, I ride my bike everywhere. I hate cars. So yeah, I'll be posting WIPs and such here for that. I'm very excited! ^___^

Random self-portrait doodle. 'cause I like wearing this outfit is all. XDD;;


I have man-legs!! rofl I used to never wear skirts/dresses 'cause I hated my legs so much, but nowadays I could care less. yay :p

The Eifuzu! He's so f*cking happy!!! :D


I'm surprised at how much I'm enjoying these commissions. They're SO weird!! The next one's like a sludge-monster thing...yay~! lol ^___^

New Intuos Tablet!

So with some of the money I made from Otakon I bought myself a sexy Intuos 4 Medium tablet! my old one was getting stupidly unresponsive and so old they don't make the brand anymore, which is one of the reasons I haven't done digital art in so long. This thing is FANTASTIC like omg. I love it so much words can't describe. When I use it, it really feels like I'm drawing. it's really changed how I see digital art! ^____^


First in a series of Commissions from this one guy, there will be 140 creatures in all:


I usually don't take long-term commissions, but this sounded interesting. also good practice for me, a nice thing to do in between stuff.

A work in progress of a picture I'm doing currently as a gift for one of my old dA friends:


I'm really liking how this is coming out. I'm trying more atmospheric stuff and pushing my limits of what I would normally do. It's a ton of fun, and because of my amazing tablet it felt SO natural doing the lineart and sketch digitally, whereas before I couldn't. I can't wait to make more images with this amazing thing. ^____^ <3

oh crap, I gotta go to work...see ya! >___>;;

Commissions from Otakon

Doing these were so much fun, and it was so incredibly rewarding to see the person's smiling face when they saw what I had done. It reminded me why I do what I do, and that's just priceless. The artists around me were wondering how I could constantly keep going even at the end of Saturday, but my hands weren't even a tad tired from them because I enjoyed it so much. It was mainly my stamina that was drained! lol but enough talk, here they are!

These were all edited from photos I had taken of them, but I tried my best to edit them nicely and stay true to how they originally looked.


A D&D character of someone who was staying in our hotel room:
Another commission from someone who was staying in our hotel room who was also a nurse who got a first aid kit for me for my poor feet which was super nice of him to do. It's of an upcoming convention he's putting together, of a mascot he wanted for it:
Gambit, from the movie but without his silly hat:
Original character, a magician's apprentice sketch for $5:
AxelXRoxas, because at every con at least one person commishes me to draw yaoi. It was a gift for his friend, at $30 due to its complexity:
The actors from Chuck. this one was difficult for me, since it was the last one I did on friday and was exhausted by that point. this is the second one I did, started on Sat morning, since I wasn't satisfied with the initial sketch from Friday. I'm glad I did it over:
Chu from YuYuHakusho, he apparently gets stronger the drunker he is. I had SO much fun with this one, I just love the YYH characters, they're so wacky:
Original characters, don't have much to say lol:
Original characters. why does everyone want me to draw people with guns in suits? these are color commisshes, why not take advantage of that...oh well! lol:
A gift for Dina Situ for being so awesome, I did this when I had a little bit of a lull in between commishes. It felt good to draw her characters again, I haven't for so long. lol



Near from Death Note, as fanservice. I had moral issues with drawing him normally since he's around 10 yrs, so I made him older. I had fun doing this, since I've wanted to draw Near for FOREVER because I love drawing fluffy hair. I love the DN charries:
James from Pokémon fanservice. I just lol'ed at this all the while drawing it, it definitely wins the award this year for strangest commission rofl:
3 Original charries for $30, this was one of my favorites. Mainly 'cause I really got to know the commissioner, she was so nice. Apparently she got laughed at by other artists when describing them, and I think that's really wrong to do to someone's creations that they care so much for. They reminded me a lot of my FT charries, and it was so much fun to draw, I had a lot of freedom with it too. I'm happy it was the last one I did and I finished it just on time:

And also, remember that story about the girl who I drew Blades of Glory yaoi for last year and did a comic about it? Well, she actually came by my table and I got to show her the comic. I'm REALLY glad she wasn't offended, she kept on bringing all her friends by to show it to them. LOL that made me happy. XDD <3

All in all it was a really fun experience, but now I'm entirely out of ALL my skintone copics! At least I have the money I made from this to buy refills! lol ^___^ <3

Otakon Pics

I didn't take many pictures 'cause I was busy drawing, but here are the 3 that were taken.

My booth!
It came out just how I pictured it, I'm so happy with it! :D


Casey as Spidey:
a marine stationed in baltimore, he was one of the people who was staying in the hotel with us. he reminded me a lot of my buddy, Triano. except less...Triano. lol everyone who was staying in our room was very nice, though. I was pleasantly surprised. ^__^


a Hisagi Shuuhei cosplayer:
The only random cosplay picture I took, because he actually looked and fitted the part well! I was impressed. He also bought a print of Kenpachi. rofl I found that really funny, I dunno why. XDD

I wish I took a picture of the Wolverine cosplayer who bought the original wolverine painting...I always forget to take pictures!! argh. >__<;;


I have all the pictures of the commissions I took edited, now I just have to convert them to jpegs and upload them. I'll do that in a separate entry though. ^___^ <3

Table L05

Hey, leaving tomorrow and not bringing laptop 'cause I don't trust people so I'll post this here now. :D

I am at table L05, near the back, so please come by~! I'll be giving away free japanese candy! :D


I will have 5 framed originals up at the art auction, so keep your eyes on that too! :D

see ya later, hope I'm still alive on sunday! O___o;;