How I feel today.

How I feel today:

On the bright side though... I just managed to post this from my phone. Pardon the weird coloration... I took the picture with my phone, too. In a dark room. With obviously poor lighting. Is that an artist foul or something?

Being a grown up is tough.

So... I haven't used my art supplies in so long that they were covered in dust.

Works in progress...

So it's a new year, and my resolution should probably be to keep up with the artistic side of my life more, and it is... somewhat.  I'm currently working two jobs and attempting to maintain a fairly decent social life, but I will continue to mash in as much art stuff as I can.  I've got a couple of projects that are in progress (they may or may not have been in this state for a while...) but I figured I would post some of them to prove that I still do artwork, despite my currently very busy state.

I started this one traditional, just as a silly doodle.  But then something happened and I decided I rather liked it and wanted to push it a bit further.  I wasn't satisfied with how the traditional one was turning out, so I decided to start a digital version as well and let it turn into whatever it would turn into.  I might try to re-do the traditional one, too.

This next project is one that I'm pretty excited about, actually, but being that it's still in just a rather fancy color study state, it's got a while to go before I'm going to call this one complete.

Speaking of cupcakes...

So lately I've been doing this thing where I do multiple versions of the same idea.  It's actually kind of fun, and it relieves the pressure of doing things perfect the first time around... so I like it, heh.

These are posted in the order that I made them.... and I rather prefer the way it came out the second time around.  It's a little more time consuming, but I'm kinda like this multiple versions things.  :)

The time has come to talk of many things, of shoes, and ships, and sealing wax, of undersea monkeys and glittery things.

Oh boy… this post is long overdue.  Life has been a bit… overwhelming as of late.  But so it goes… and, at long last, another update!  And it's more birthday presents (really, really late ones…) this time, for my littlest sister (she's 6 now).  I like to call her a Sea Monkey.  I'm not quite sure where that one came from, but then again, I'm not quite sure where most of the things that pop into my head come from.

Anyway, I fashioned a brand new monster in her honor: ZeeZee the Sea Monkey Monster (it kind of has a ring to it… right? right???).  She is the princess of alllll the Sea Monkey Monsters (there are quite a few of them, if you didn't know).

I also decided to use this as a reason to embark on one of my many new adventures: learning how to sew felt plushies.  Overall, I think she came out pretty successfully.  My seams definitely need some work, but I'm attempting to transfer my loose, slightly messy line work into my sewing… I'll get there eventually.

And one last thing… another new monster is in the works!

This monster is super awesome.

Hello! Meet Tristan. All you really need to know about him is that he is super awesome.

(Also, he was drawn on an iPad using an app called Brushes).

Have I mentioned that Instagram is kinda fun?

Cause it is.

Octo-monster in-progress sculpture!

So I started sculpting a little octo-monster today out of Sculpy... its got a little ways to go before I'll say its good to go though.  Also, I've just discovered that Instagram is kinda cool.

Birthdays!

I really like making my friends things for their birthdays (well... also, just in general...), instead of just buying them something, because I feel like its more personal and hopefully it means something a little more to them (did I mention hopefully?).  Anyway, here are some of my more recent birthday creations...

A TigerKittyMonster (that's right, its a plushie!) for my dear roomie, Jess:

And a FancyMonster for Terran (who recently had a very fancy wine, cheese, and chocolate party in celebration!):

While I'm at it...

Here's the monster card I made for my dad this past Father's Day.  Uninteresting fact: this photo was taken with my iPhone waiting outside an airplane terminal.

Yay!!

So my dear friend and roommate, whose name also happens to be Jess (her parents named her well, I must say), recently ran a 5K and was the first girl to cross the finish line (I am so proud of my roomie!).  Annnd because of this... I made her a monster :)

 

 

My Antlers Are Never Quite Right...

Don't you hate it when that happens?

Pirate Box

This is a project I did at the end of last year. It made it into last semester's Illest of Ill show at Ringling... :)