More random faces

Just a quick lil' something I drew today, because I couldn't concentrate at work. My summer vacation has officially started! Yippeeee!

Bunnies in love

The next drawergeeks assignment is rabbits....that's really open to some wild interpretation. So while the network was down today at work, I drew this silly samurai bunny and his secret bunny love. I guess it's a little like Usagi Yojimbo.

one more Cindy

here's a fast sketch i did the other week while i was coming up with ideas for the Cinderella week on drawergeeks. i still like how this one came out...very un-disney-esque....if that's a word. i might try to clean it up and color sometime when my wacom tablet decides to cooperate with me.

i've been slacking on the drawing-front lately. i blame overtime and house work. owning a home takes a lot more work than i thought it would! next week i'm off on vacation, and that's going to consist of a lot of painting, i think. i'll try to do some digital painting as well!

Ratatouille

I was lucky enough to get tickets to a sneak preview of Pixar's new movie "Ratatouille" this past weekend. I got to see it 2 weeks before it even opened! I was pretty much in love with this sweet little movie from beginning to end. The character designs were completely appealing, the story was engaging, the art was beautiful. I can't even begin to tell you how mind-bogglingly good the animation was...Pixar animators are in a league of their own. If I ever live up to the talent that goes into whatever they considered to be the WORST shot on that film, I would die believing I was a truly talented animator. And the rat, Remy, was so darn cute I couldn't stand it. I want a pet rat now! I'm sure Jingle would love that too.

Cinderella, Cinderella....

For this week's drawergeeks! I figured if I didn't do these early I would end up not getting them done, as usual. Cinderella was my FAVORITE movie when I was a kid, so I really wanted to do something super-pretty for this week. I also didn't really want to copy the idea of the Disney version, even though the first one ended up pretty close to it.

Parable...done!

I officially handed in my short comic for Parable last night. I feel like it could have looked better, but I did the best I could considering the big move and all. It was a really fun project to work on and the finished book is going to look great! Here's the 'final' designs for the main characters of the girl and bird...and even the cat thrown in there. (I put the 'final' in quotes because I rushed along and she kinda got all off model in most of the panels anyway. Oops!)

Roses in the Rose City!

Portland is known as the Rose City. The weather conditions are great for growing roses, and they grow everywhere! There's even an amazing rose garden in Washington Park that is definitely worth checking out if you're ever in the area.

Well, we were really excited to find all kinds of different roses growing on our new property! Thank you, previous owners, for planting all kinds of rosy goodness! So far we have some pink ones, gorgeous orange ones, and HUGE red ones that smell really nice. There's also a few miniature white ones in the back just popping out. We cut one of the red ones and brought it indoors so we could enjoy the smell. :)

hey, i drawed something!

Uh...yeah....I haven't posted anything in a long time. But now we're finally getting settled into our new place, my work hours are slowing down a bit, the comic book is pretty much done, so I feel much less stressed! Here's some silly elf-heads I drew the other day in celebration. Just some minor secondary characters from my story that have never been fully designed.

Princess Leia

These are for this week's Drawergeeks submission. I couldn't pass up such a fun subject!

hiking!

haven't posted in a while...between work and comics and house-closing stuff we've been pretty busy. but we DID find time this weekend to take an awesome hike up at cape lookout. it was a gorgeous 50 degree day and the waves coming into the coast were amazing. i won the prize at the end of the day for the muddiest....it had rained a lot the night before and the trail was pretty muddy. i slipped and fell within the first mile. but then, i'm a big klutz.

color version...

Here's the color concept of the girl...gonna keep it simple. i'm a little panicked about having to do a whole comic in a month, even if it's only going to be about 6-8 pages. especially since we just bought our first house and are going to be moving soon. so i've been coming home and drawing madly every night! sooooo....tired....

Parable!

i'm going to have a short comic published in the upcoming anthology "Parable", provided that i can actually finish it by may first! i'm very excited about this, as there are a ton of incredibly talented people contributing to it.....and to be counted as good enough to even submit work with them is a huge honor! here are some sketches i did for the main characters this morning. a little girl living on the streets and her friend, a little sparrow.

lonely elf

more elf drawings...

sandman in color!

had a little bit of time to color him tonight!

Sandman

The next drawergeeks subject. Getting ready for the new Spiderman movie! I sketched this early...let's see if I actually find time to color it.

weekend in Seattle

spent last weekend in Seattle, where strange men toss fish at each other and yell silly things!

we went up to visit a bunch of friends that we used to work with in Texas, and it was a blast! we went downtown to the market and saw the fish-tossers, had a BBQ at the Burke's place, and finished off Saturday night with a drunken karaoke contest. i will only get up and sing in front of people if I've had a few drinks...or if my sister asks me to do it for her wedding. those are the only times. here's a sketch of me making a fool of myself.

i think there's some incriminating video of me singing out there somewhere too. shameful what wine can do to a person.

Robo friends

a couple of quick, silly sketches i did today for drawergeeks. robots are fun! i think the square guy used to be a refridgerator or a dishwasher or something.

Snow again

it's snowing again in Portland! but not much of it is really staying on the ground. i guess that's good for driving anyway.

Lots of new things....

lots of new stuff going on. i'm being transferred off of the project i'm currently on and going to be going to work on Laika's stop-motion feature currently in production, Coraline. It's based off of the very popular book and from everything i've heard of it, it's going to make a fantastic movie.

the bad thing about this move is that they're already in a full production swing and working 50 hours a week, plus i'll have a longer commute. the good news is that it'll be something new for me, since i've never worked in a stop-motion environment. (even tho all the work i'll be doing is still in the computer) and i'll be working with director Henry Selick, who directed one of my favorite movies of all time, 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'. so i think that's pretty exciting!

Rainbow!

When you live somewhere where it sporadically rains a lot, you get a lot of really pretty rainbows! Here's the one that we saw yesterday. This picture was taken right off of our front porch. you can see the delicious Sweet Ambrosia bakery to your left. They make really good scones.