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.

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.