Neato! My art is in a book...

Take a look! I did a pin up for Craig Yoe's new Jetta book (Craig Yoe is the guy who brought us the Arf Museum art books, as well as the Milt Gross book everyone is raving about). I haven't gotten my copy of the book yet, but I've had a chance to see what's inside, and it looks amazing. In case you don't know about Jetta already, it's a Dan DeCarlo comic about a super cute spacegirl. Here's my pin up...




...and here's the cover of the book. If you want to see more from the book, this blog has tons of art and info!



There's tons of comics in it, as well as some extra Dan DeCarlo art, and lots of beautiful pin ups from guest artists. There were a lot I really loved, so it was hard to choose just a few to show off here, but here are a few of my favorites:

Jenny Lerew

Becky Dreistadt

Bill Pressing

Here's a couple of close ups from my submission...




These were drawn in my favorite way to draw- straight pen to paper, then loose marker coloring over it. Then I scanned in the individual poses and arranged them in Photoshop, adding tons of weird effects to it.



Shake yer space booty...arrg...I lost the sketchbook that has the originals for these, and the color comps. If I find it I'll post those too!

Thanks for taking a look! Go get this book, it's a must for anyone who likes cute space chicks and funny comics!

P.S. Upcoming posts include "how we make Skadi" and weird man drawings! For all you guys out there who get on my back for not drawing men, I DO draw them, I'm just not proud of them. But I'll post them just for you. Harrumph!

Thanks for reading! (^u^)/

Battlestar Galactica poster!

As a fan of the new Battlestar Galactica, I was excited when Jason Anders of the Fulle Circle Productions blog asked me to do an illustration of two of the actresses in the show. He recently interviewed Katee Sackhoff and Nicki Clyne, so that's the two of them there in the drawing below as their BSG characters, Starbuck and Cally.



I did some quick and dirty sketches of the girls before I tried simplifying their looks for the poster:

Katee...




...and Nicki





Also, if you like it, you can get a 11 x 17 poster of it from Jason's Fulle Circle Store!



And now it's time to take a break from everything! Hopefully I'll have some new drawings to post after I visit family and spend some much-needed time with friends this week, so come back soon! (^u^)/

Painting from March

I found this today in my bookshelf and had completely forgotten it. I like it, but after just reading Jolies Tenebres (thanks Brandy for finding it for me!), my attempt at cute pixie types feels a bit lacking. Ah well! I'm pretty happy I actually completed it.



I'm not sure what to do with this. I could sell it on Etsy, but I don't think many people are buying art nowadays because of the crappy economy. Maybe I'll get it framed and put it up for sale anyhow.

Here are some closeups of the little boxes:

(the actual paintings are a lot smaller than the images here, so forgive the sloppy parts!)

Oh in case people ask, this is me painting on top of a piece of scrapbook paper that I found.

Well, my last board for the Mighty B is due Wednesday, so I gotta get back to work now. Happy things are gonna happen soon though, so actual new art will be up in a bit.

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I share with you!

Today at the swap meet, Luke and I found these amazing magazine covers by Arthur Szyk! I heard about this wonderful artist from Jim Smith. I think they're really exciting, so please enjoy them too!


Oh, the scans aren't perfect, sorry! Collier's magazines are a lot bigger than my scanner (just got a new one!), so I had to put them together in photoshop.

Also, I bought watercolors yesterday, so I'll be posting some experiments soon! Kali's gonna give me tips! People have been suggesting that if I'm gonna try to sell an art book, then I had better try to make regular updates. I think that's smart advice! I'm going to do my best to post a lot of drawings (but saving a lot for the book too)!