Merry Christmas to ME!

Joe and I had our own Christmas celebration this weekend since we usually have our own quiet gift exchange before we go home to family madness. Joe always tries to outdo me in the present department with some last minute surprise, and I was pretty determined this year to get him some great stuff.

Well, he trumped everything again this year by bringing out a brand-new Cintiq monitor. I almost cried I was so happy, and also mad that he spent so much. But mostly happy. Sketching on it is incredible. I haven't had much time to do any really detailed drawings, but this is the first thing I drew on it, a quick sketch of holiday-Sierra.

Merry Christmas!

Sierra dressed up for drawergeeks this week, since she's an elf. I'm getting excited about going home for Christmas and seeing my family again!

Star belly (?)

The topic for drawergeeks this week was star belly....completely open to interpretation. I couldn't think of anything super-creative for it, so I made a girl with a star on her belly. GENIUS!!!!!

I actually have a star tattooed on my hip. I lived with 3 other girls in an apartment in college, and we not only got along, but still we're best of friends. We met up a few years ago for a reunion weekend, and got star tattoos to mark the occasion. It's in white ink, which I got partially because I thought the subtlety of a white tattoo was cool and also because I wussed out at the last minute and wasn't sure I wanted a tattoo. Now I really love it and i want it filled in with a darker ink so it shows up better.

Cleo in color

Did a quick and ugly coloring job on this in photoshop today....I cropped it because the rest of it was bothering me. I must be out of practice!

More quick sketches

Here's another sketch I did yesterday at work of a tall skinny girl. It's not a great drawing by any means, but I kind of like the shapes I got in this.

I hope to get some colored drawings up this week while I have some time off.

Vacation time!

This month has been crazy. I haven't been drawing or painting anything. BUT....I have the whole week of Thanksgiving off! I'll be giving thanks for that!

In celebration (and because I was distractedly sketching at work today while thinking of vacation) here's a fast doodle that I did on some note paper. A few people came by and commented that they liked it, so I'll post it.

Cleo

Yikes, it's been a long time since I posted anything. Work has exploded in craziness once again and we've had visitors. This was a drawing of Cleopatra that I was supposed to do for drawergeeks about a month ago and never painted. Here's the rough drawing, hopefully I'll get the colored version up sometime this week. Joe said that he really liked the roughness of this scan so I didn't clean it up at all for this post. ;)

sketches

Stupid wacom tablet isn't working again. I think it's high time for a new one.

Here's another quick sketch I did between playblasts at work. I think she came out looking a bit like Moongirl.

New blog!

Started a new blog for my pictures, so if anyone is interested in seeing pictures from my recent adventures in Vancouver with Sarah, take a look!

http://michellegorski.blogspot.com/

Clowns...but not scary clowns

I finally got around to doing a drawergeeks drawing for this week. The subject was clowns, but I didn't want to draw a traditional clown cause they're kinda....wierd. I always liked Harley Quinn from the batman series, so I decided to draw her instead. It helped that work was pretty slow today, so that I could do a few!

Shy Sierra

I was going to color something tonight, but my wacom tablet pooped out again. And I'm feeling sick and lazy. And I'm feeling like making up excuses for not doing anything worth posting. So here's a quick pen drawing I did at work that a co-worker said was cute. Sierra looks hopeful, yet shy in this drawing and I kinda like that.

That's all the creativity I have in me today.

I've been busy...

August was "hey everyone, come and visit us in Oregon!" month. So we had a block of guests for about 2 and a half weeks. I haven't found time to color anything. Hopefully I can get some of that done this week. Until then, here's a silly anime-ish looking drawing that I did at work.

Another Mermaid?

I drew this a few days ago and still haven't gotten around to coloring it yet. Then, I clicked on over to the lovely and talented Sarah Mensinga's page and noticed she'd posted a mermaid recently too! Coincidence?!??!? Um....I'd have to say yeah, probably.

In other silliness....

Ha ha....this is what I'd look like as a Simpson's character!

Wild-life

We came home tonight and Jingle was standing up at the screen door by the back porch so we decided to let her out for a bit. Joe noticed that she was just sitting at the edge of the porch with a poofy tail and big eyes, so we took at look outside to see what she was looking at.


What the....hey, there's a deer in our yard!


He was right below the porch, chomping away on the clover down there. As soon as we started sneaking out to take pictures, he decided to mosey on to the back of the yard to destroy our blueberry bushes instead.

Sierra in a hat.

A very sullen-looking Sierra all tomboy'ed out.

Ginny

Went to see the new Harry Potter movie this past weekend. It was pretty good, probably my favorite so far.

I'm not a huge Harry Potter fan...I don't own any of the books or the movies, and whatever I read (or listened to books on tape) was borrowed from friends. But I think the stories are engaging and the characters are likable. My favorite character in the books is Ginny Weasley. She seems to mostly play a bit part in most of the movies, but I like that in this latest one they show her getting more and more powerful as a wizard as her character in the book does. That and I think the girl who plays Ginny in the movies is as cute as a button.

Rabbits

For Drawergeeks this week. He's quite the gentleman.

Seals!

This Sunday we went to the Oregon coast for the day. When it's pretty warm here it's at least 15 degrees cooler on the coast, and since we've been getting warmer than normal temperatures we decided to go where the water is icy cold and the cheese is always free for the sampling. We usually hit Cape Lookout near delicious Tillamook, so that we can go to the dairy factory and get ice cream afterwards.

Of course we never remember our camera when we go out and do fun stuff, but I never missed it more than yesterday. Lo and behold, right by the beach was a playful little seal swimming around in the ocean! It was coming pretty close to the shore to look at what all the people were doing. I think it was confused as to why we weren't joining him for a swim. (No really, that water was COLD.) I think I threw an excited girly squealing fit for a while.

cindy in color

finally finshed her! i decided that i liked brunette cinderella better than blonde.