I'm more or less going to say this blog is dead

If it wasn't obvious I've shifted over to my tumblr as my main art blog. You can find a link to it up on the top bar if you haven't shifted over there and still would like to follow my work. Thanks for coming by over the last few years.

Daily Draw best of days 12-20

I finally caught up on my daily draw. I drew them wildly out of order since I wanted to wait until the 14th for incubus/succubus and also because I was really behind on them so order stopped having any meaning. I was just finally almost caught up last week when I had two 10 hour shifts this past weekend. I did five of them in the past 27 hours and two in a few hours on Tuesday so I'm pretty frazzled.

From top to bottom: day 19 - dullahan, day 18 - cyclops, day 16 - alien, day 17 - ghost, day 13 - reptile, day 15 - true monster, and day 14 - incubus/succubus

Daily Draw February days 2-11

Days 3 and 6 were bust so they're not being posted here.
From top to bottom: day 2 - centaur, day 4 - naga, day 5 - mermaid, day 7 - plant, day 8 - zombie, day 9 - insect, day 10 - demon, day 11 - robots

Daily Draw February and 30 Day Monster Girl Challenge

I'm doing Daily Draw and a 30 day challenge over on my tumblr. I'll be posting recaps here at the end of each week but if you'd like to follow along as I go click the "daily draw" button at the top of my blog spot.

For now, here's the start, a raven harpy.

Postcards

Liz from my webcomic for promotional postcards I'll be sending out over the next few weeks in hopes of getting some freelance illustration gigs.

One of my biggest pet peeves in any narrative including robots/androids/AIs is the whole SYNTHETIC LIFE WANTS ONLY TO DESTROY ORGANIC LIFE that is pretty much the biggest mainstay of the genre. Liz, as a result is pretty fond of plants and a large portion of her character arc is trying to connect to organic life and further her own consciousness via her continued interaction with others.

More ink guys

 More ink from last week's drawing night. My beloved roommate gave me a pair of moleskins for Christmas and man, it's like drawing on silk but without the guilt.

Another attempt at Samara

Samara's been on this blog before. She's one of my favourite Mass Effect characters - which is saying something because the series is one of my most beloved things in the entire world. But I have a lot of trouble with her character model; she's basically everything I've ever wanted in a badass lady, beauty, ferocity, determination that would make a Terminator blush. and untold wisdom of a thousand year life span. She had so much potential to be perfect but her model makes her look like a sexy strawberry and does absolutely nothing to convey her complexities. I wanted to try another redesign this time playing  around with the styles worn by Asari in game and made them more battle-monk-ish to suit her. I really wish she had have looked something more like this rather than blatant fanservice for the male segments of the audience.

Oh look, colour!

I realized I hadn't drawn anything in colour since September so I rectified that. Tried a different, faster method of colouring and am quite happy.

2013 in review

It's time for the annual round up! Here's a monthly summary of art I did for my tumblr.

And here are some of my faves from this last year:

Annnddd, last but not least, I've officially started a webcomic, Making of an Android. You can find it over on Smackjeeves. A link will be added to the top bar shortly. It will update on a weekly basis every Tuesday at 6PM EST.

More mask people

Person really, not plural.

Buckram hat

Photos of my fourth, and most complex hat from my millinery class (one and two are for my parents and they check this blog frequently; three is ugly and won't be posted). The crown and upper brim are turquoise silk layered with black organza, the underside and hatband are black silk, and the hat is lined with warm purple with matching grosgrain. Roughly 30 hours went into this hat and it fits a 24" head (I have a massive head).

Fun fact: buckram, the base material, loses its shape when wet so this hat can never be caught in the rain or else it will be ruined. Yet somehow these are the hats worn by the English at garden parties. I will never understand that.

Final assignment

My final assignment! I got some really great feed back, so I'll make those changes for when these pages are actually in proper use... which brings me to exciting news. I'll be starting up a weekly webcomic called Making of an Android in the new year. These pages take place near the end of the first chapter after lots of character development leading up to Liz's breakdown. I chose to do these for my assignment as I felt they worked best for what was asked, and frankly, it was lots of fun to get into the meat of the comic.

I'll post a link for anyone interested once the site is up and running with the first page.

Mask people

I forgot to post these guys over here! I really liked drawing that little guy that I'm using as my icon everywhere so I did more. I'm thinking I might do a whole bunch and make them into a zine. I'm planning on doing some shows in the new year like Canzine and maybe Fanexpo if I can get a table ahahahahaha I just looked up how much Fan Expo tables are. Nope.

Medieval drawing night

The theme for this week's drawing night was "Medieval" so I drew a more modern take on one of my favourite garments, the chaperon (a headdress with long swaths of fabric circling the neck or hanging from the headdress in a elaborate style).

Sorry about the lack of posting over here. I've been working on hats and my final pages for my comics class; the first two hats are on tumblr. I won't be posting them here until after Christmas as they're for my parents and they actually check this blog somewhat regularly. I'm also a bit hesitant to post here because I've been getting a lot of hits from spam/virus sites every time I post that are wrecking my stats.