Monster Tea Party revisited.

So lately I've been putting most of my time into a piece that I started quite a while ago, and then set aside for... oh, life, and all that grown-up stuff. It's coming along nicely, but I don't quite have a finished piece to post just yet, so instead I thought I would show a little of my process work.

It started with a little doodle in one of my sketchbooks (it was so long ago that I have no idea which one it is, so at this point, I won't be posting it) that I enlarged, topped with some tracing paper, and tightened up. Then I scanned it, dropped it in Photoshop, did some minor editing, came up with a couple of color studies, and picked the one I liked best.

The last time I posted about this piece (back in January.... yipes), I had just barely begun to lay down the color layers that would (will) become the finished work. It is much, much further along now and its neat for me to see the progress that I've made on it so far. The image I posted in January was this one:

But now, after picking the project back up and working on it off and on for the past couple of weeks, it looks like this:

It's almost there.

If I had a Unicorn...

If I had a Unicorn, I'd imagine that this is more or less how things would be. Also, Unicorn riders are more or less required to have super fancy dresses and crowns and other pretty things... thus the poofy dress and such. Random fact: I almost always have pink hair in my imagination. One day I'll make this a reality.

Pika~

So I recently bought myself a stylus for the iPad. This is me breaking it in and realizing how awesome an iPad equipped with FTP abilities is... :D  I think I've gots a ways to go before I'm used to it, but so it goes.

Also, more pokemon. It's probably because I play Pokemon White before bed and therefore fall asleep missing the old school pokemon...  Also, I got distracted before I got around to finishing this... :)

Dragonite

I've been wanting to do a Pokemon painting for a while now... but this is pretty much as far as I've gotten XD  <3 Dragonite/Dragonair/Dratini <3  I'll come back and finish this one one of these days...

♥

I submitted this design for the Threadless Sunrise t-shirt design challenge. It didn't make it, obviously, but I'm still pleased with how this design turned out overall. :)

Best of Ringling

My portrait of David Bowie was chosen to be in this year's Best of Ringling show! The show opens up April 9, 2010... I'm pretty excited. This year's show was judged by Irene Gallo and Gregory Manchess.

Society of Illustrators!

I suppose I will start this blog off with something fun. I know this is a bit of old news now, but my piece Office Romance (below) was accepted into the Society of Illustrator's Student Competition show! You can find the link here.