Sketchbook and art show

I am sick and goofy on DayQuil. I wanted to do a mini-comic about this weeks hair salon disaster, but I'm already distracted, so here's some random sketchbook stuff instead.


This background makes no sense, but I like the weird girl!



twirl twirl


Some weird animal drawings...




Also! There is an art show opening this Friday that I have a painting in. I'm hoping to make it, but I'm not sure if I'll be contagious then or not. We'll see! Here is more information:




Here's how my painting looks framed and sitting up on my mantle...I made a blog post with details here if you want to see it closer!


Thanks for reading, stay healthy and don't let sick people cough on you! I've been trying some new things lately when drawing, so let me know what you think.

I'm sleepy! -__-

zzzzzzzz

L.A.Noir Art Show

Gonna be in an art show this weekend!


October 3rd and 4th
3-pm to 9 pm
1918 Leymoyne St. Los Angeles, 90026

I'm hoping to make it one of those nights to hang out!

Here is what you'll find there:



Mint Chip Girl
$50
Nice frame, and mounted on pretty paper!

Here's a better scan of the actual drawing.



These will be there too...originally they were $200 on my Etsy store, but you can get them for $150 each from the show! If they don't sell, I'll put 'em back on Etsy. These are priced higher because they were a pain in the ass to make! Each ink is delicately cut out and mounted on pretty printed paper, but you can't tell they were cut out by hand at all.



Weirdo Friends
This one's got cool zipatone detailing!

I want to keep this but I need money...

Coy Nymphette



Also, a few of my signed prints will be there for sale! Here's how they'd all look framed an on your wall!



That's all for now! Thanks everyone who said nice things about my storyboard drawings. I'll be putting up more soon for sure, as well as some comic stuff and other weird drawings. So come back later! ^o^

Freeway *UPDATE!* Art show alert!

*Update!!*
I'm gonna be in the Fruits Go Go art show, along with Gabe Swarr, Sandra Equihua, and lots of other cool artists! It's at the Monkeyhouse Gallery in Silverlake. Click here for details!


This is an older drawing that I posted on here a while back, only it's huge now. I inked and colored it on this funny crinkly old paper that did really cool things to the marker ink. Also the design on her skirt is sewn on with embroidery thread. I wanted to do more with string but ran out of time!


Here's how big it is, although now that it's in a huge frame it looks even bigger! I'm not sure I'll be at the gallery opening on Saturday, but I might be. I hope some of you LA based bloggers will stop by and take a look at all the cool art!


OK! Enough about that.
My friend Ricky (my friend who does 1930 Nitemare Theatre on Dumm Comics) loaned me an awesome movie! It's called Freeway, and aside from just liking the movie, I also got really inspired to draw the main character.


The movie stars Reese Witherspoon...it's one of her earliest roles I think, as she looks super young. These drawings are not very good caricatures of Reese...instead I just kind of wanted to have fun trying to draw a simplified version of her character in the movie.


These first ones are pretty feeble. You can tell which drawings I liked though because I colored them!


Reese is really great in this movie. She plays a screwed up teenage girl in a modern "Little Red Riding Hood" story. She's angsty but goofy, and really likable. She makes great expressions too! Kiefer Sutherland plays the big bad wolf.


You know, Reese always gets crap for her prominent chin, but her chin wasn't the most interesting feature on her face for me. She's got this great big round cranium, flared, downward pointing nostrils, and a really cool mouth that I can't actually draw. Really very cute. I cheated on drawing her lips in these drawings. When I tried to draw them like real lips, they didn't look like hers. Now I have a new way of drawing mouths! Hooray! I couldn't figure out her eyes, though. They're kind of different in every drawing.


Her expressions are great! She makes a hundred expressions per monologue. If you want practice drawing real girl expressions, go rent this movie! And get "But I'm a Cheerleader" too!


I drew all these while watching the movie, but the bloody one was just made up.


Ok, that's it for now! Now it's time for more important business!! After years of begging my boyfriend, he finally caved and let me adopt a kitten! I won't talk too much about him now (there's already enough to read here), but you can expect a huge kitten post soon!

This is what Little Ricky has to say to you!


Remember to try and always adopt pets from shelters if you can! Lots of animals need loving homes! And be nice to your animals, or I'll kick your ass!

8-bit Show

Hi again!

Well, everyone's posting their paintings and drawings for the 8-bit show that's coming up...hopefully I won't get in trouble for posting these. I guess I can't if everyone else is doing it too!
Since I did Nintendo girls last year, this year I just did a few Links. These are really small, about 5 x 7. I think they turned out pretty cute!
I hope someone will praise me for drawing boys instead of girls? :)

Anyhow, I'm going to Nevada to visit my family for Easter, so I won't be posting any more drawings until I get back. OH YEAH! Don't forget to Visit the 8-bit opening! It's coming up next week...

Gallery 1988
Tuesday the 18th

If you guys are near Hollywood, then come see it! I might be there, but I'm not sure, since I'll be driving 8 hours that day to come home, and I may be tired and cranky. But hopefully some of you guys will go and have fun and see the cool art!

Disney art show stuff

I hope it's ok to post these! Thanks Jorge and Andrew!

Did anyone go see the "Remixing the Magic" show at Gallery 1988? I think it's still up, and there's a whole lot of beautiful art there. I figured I'd post the ones I'd turned in. The idea behind the show was for the artists involved to do their own versions of Disney characters, and I did Katrina from Sleepy Hollow and Slue Foot Sue from Pecos Bill. Pecos Bill is one of my favorite Disney cartoons. I'm actually a huge sucker for all the early Disney movies, like Bambi and Snow White. Pecos Bill has really good music though, so I think that's why it's my favorite...but I like the music in Bambi too...arrgh, I can't decide!
Poor Sue.
Here's a close-up. I scanned this before I finished the drawing...I fixed up the thicks and thins on her inking and made it a little nicer. So don't yell at me for the wimpy lines, ha!
I love the funny proportions Katrina has in the Sleepy Hollow short...I suppose most the Disney girls are pretty similar, but I always thought giving her thick arms and legs with that teeny waist was really cute. I did another drawing for the show of the "Ladies of Sleepy Hollow Choral Society," but the scan was so crappy I decided not to post it.

I also put up some more marker drawings on ebay today.
Here are the links, if anyone's interested!
bikini girl
tall girl in brown
pink girl

Thanks to Andy! for showing me how to do the link thing!