More Life drawing....

Got some better gestures this week.

Life drawing

I was really excited about lunch-time life drawing sessions until I realized how rusty I'd gotten....here are a few drawings that didn't come out as total embarrassments.

Kitten pile!

Started this for drawergeeks but didn't have time to finish it properly. I've been turning in a bunch of half-assed things lately and I didn't want this to fall into that category.

Another Samurai

Did a better one tonight...this time with color!

Random sketches

Wow, has it been almost a month since I last posted? I feel like a slacker. Did a quick samurai sketch for drawergeeks this week...he looks a little lopsided or something to me. I'm going to try to color something nicer to post if I get the time.


And here's a tree I did when i felt inspired my Mary Blair.

Tarzan

The latest for drawergeeks.com - had to do this one really fast so I'm not too excited about the color on it.

Snowboarder

We went skiing again this weekend, it was a very snowy and windy day. But fun...I think I'm slowly getting better on the greens as Joe tackles the black diamonds.

Hey, that's me....

I'm featured on the front page of the Parable comic webpage. Before you start thinking that's super-special...they're doing it with all the artists who contributed. But it was still kind of fun to click on the page and see Sierra smiling at me.

Parable 2

I've been working out the story and rough layouts for my short comic in Parable 2, which I'll be working on this year. The first edition of Parable will be published and in stores at some point this year, very exciting!


While I'm not saying much about the new story, I will say that it'll star Sierra...which is why I've been drawing so much of her lately. It'll be fun to finally have the character I've been drawing the longest in print!

Legolas

Drawergeeks topic this week was Lord of the Rings. So more drawings of pointy-eared people from me. I started to give this some color but didn't like what was coming out, so I scrapped it and kept it a sketch for now. I'll have to work on the coloring later on this weekend.

...and now with 100% more color!

Tried coloring this in Sketchbook Pro....I think I'm gonna have to give it a try with Painter next, since I got a free copy with the new monitor.

Angry Pixie

Since Jingle won't let me draw her, I drew an angry pixie instead.

Jingle

Jingle laid still in the studio only long enough for me to get one sketch out of her this morning. She likes to roll around on the carpet and do these really funny poses while laying on her back...I think she knows we think it's super cute.

Sierra...again!

More Sierra sketches!

Back from traveling

Had a great Christmas with family, but I'll be glad not to fly anywhere in the near future. The only thing I don't like about the holidays is all the traveling that's required to get us anywhere near our loved ones.

The new monitor is inspiring a lot of Sierra sketches lately. Did a quickie again today and got lazy on the colors. I still kinda like the way it came out.

Off for the holidays

Taking off for the craziness that is Christmas travel tonight! Have a safe and happy Holidays, everyone!

Trek girl?

This girl is all ready to adventure in space! Or maybe brave a convention...I don't know.

Scared Sierra

Here's a quick sketch of Sierra as done with Sketchbook Pro on the new Cintiq.

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.

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.