Horsies!

Doodle.

Some more pixel art!

Mae'houn and a few of her friends, complete with thumb-sucking little children. Again, I tell myself it's for fun, but I would love to have a classic 8/16-bit RPG of it. One glorious day, perhaps.

30 minute life drawing.

Cat toys.

Scrap fleece, wool, and fluffy winter sock. Large seed beads (or small pony beads) for the mouse's eyes, a leather scrap for the tail, and embroidery floss for the whiskers. One toy is filled with catnip and the other with dried beans.

Let's hear it for kittens!

An exercise.

I have been filled with self-doubt lately - about my drawing technique, what it is I want to do during the day, if getting out of bed is really a step up. So I turned to my good friend Willem, who sent me a piece from a film score. From there I wove a pretty simple little story and hope to design the characters, settings, and so forth for Don't Call Me Candy, as a running strip. Just something to take the pressure off Something-New-Every-Day-OMG. Here's something entirely Wacom'd.

Bathing beauty.

Just a little warm-up. Yeah, static poses are boring and don't require a heckuva lotta skill - but when I can do them well, I feel good about myself.

Knox on fox in socks in box.

Another Christmas project that I can now post about! Yes, I made some people things for Christmas. For this scheme, I picked up one of those little wooden boxes from the craft store and decided that I was going to paint it like a grown-up and gift it like a grown-up.

India ink does nicely on wood - fast-drying, bright colors, no raised anything, and the wood grain shows through. So I recommend that. Then, finely sand to give a distressed look and really bring out the natural grain. Then lacquer. (My husband used to work for a paint company, so we have tons of this second-quality lacquer-like stuff that's used for oil paints. It's fabulously glossy.)

The 4-drops-blue, 1-drop-green combo I mixed was questionable at first, but I chose to roll with it. Turns out - after the gloss darkens - to be a classic-looking, aged hue. I then hemmed and glued some leftover bookbag fabric (thanks Stacey!) in the bottom. And it's a nice little trinket box.

Bookbags.

Assorted doodlings.

Things I sketch a lot of:

1) women in general;

2) eyes;

3) profile views;

4) clichéd fantasy babes