a couple of more recent pics

Someday, I will remember to tape down my paper before I start painting. It doesn't make a huge difference for the physical painting itself, but whenever I go to scan these things in I get those ugly shadows. :P

MONSTER PARADE

I kinda wanna try making little clay figures of these guys. Painting for a friend's birthday card.

mini monster paintings

ULTRAVIOLET THUNDER

I love the incredibly weird covers for the books in the Choose Your Own Adventures series. (The books themselves always made me feel weirdly inadequate or stupid, like I was destined to die a horrible death no matter what I did!) And a recent story arc in Achewood featured a text adventure game starring Kim Jung Il. So this happened. I'm not really sure there's an adequate way to explain it.

princess tomato and the PEEPING TOM kingdom

Whoah hey it's NES fanart. I am entertaining the idea that this picture is a work in progress, even though in reality I have absolutely no idea when I'm going to finish it!

some more watercolor stuff!

Jeez! I keep forgetting to post here. ANYWAY: I've got quite a bit of a backlog of stuff to post here - mostly watercolors, since I've been making semi-regular posts at inspirimint.com about my work process* (okay, mostly WHINING about my work process, but that's what I do BEST) and that's where some of these are from.

After these I'll probably be using paper that's actually MEANT to be painted on, because this stuff, while some of it is nice, isn't cutting it anymore.

There is a story behind this one, sort of. Just aching to be told! You can pretend that in addition to being a cowboy mummy, he's also capable of turning invisible because that seems to be what's happening to his other hand there. Whoops!


This one is kind of old by now but I still like it! I like giving things irregular frames but euuuggh this would probably be better if I just cut it out of the surrounding paper and placed it on top of a darker piece of paper. (instead of simulating the effect in photoshop)
This is pretty new! From a couple of weekends ago, even. Both one of my best friends and my mom have the same birthday, so I cranked out a couple of cards featuring what else, dinosaurs and monsters. There's a bit of colored pencil on this sucker too.
Oh man. I really like how this one turned out, ignoring the atrociously shoddy text at the top of the card. Textured cardstock = THE BEST. Don't be sad, horrible chimera! YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL ON THE INSIDE (maybe)


*this is a subtle cue for you, the reader, to check out inspirimint dot com. There are a couple of other people who post there more regularly and are much better at writing about art than I am, so uh. Yeah. Go there?

watercolor moleskine doodles

I guess some of these technically aren't doodles! I try to alternate between doing tight detailed paintings and looser sketchy ones. (the latter usually don't work out that great)

moleskine scans part END

Some more moleskine pages and a little watercolored doodle I did based off a friend's description of her dungeons and dragons character! The drawing of the pool is from the hotel I stayed at for comiccon. Oh palm trees, how I miss you.

painting tests

Still trying to get into the swing of using watercolors. Eventually I'll get around to painting a bigger piece.

THE LOVE BUG

GET OUT WHILE YOU STILL CAN

more watercolor experiments

Getting red hues to look right with watercolors seems to be a bit trickier than colors on the cooler end of the spectrum.  One the fishy critter to the right they've gotten kind of muddy and gross... SOMEDAY I'll get this right!

O RLY????

YA RLY!!!!

ink and watercolor

Just a little painting (about 5"x3") of a character from an animation-in-progress (well, currently on hiatus, I guess)
Long-faced Woody Allen and a distressed cat head.
This is actually something I drew about a month ago and was sitting on - I originally wanted to paint it in full color, but decided last night it would look great in black and white.

eastern european sonic the hedgehog

Heehee. More experimenting with watercolors on handmade paper.