2 birthdays

 

A niece turned 8, a goblin sword man turned 30. Happy birthdays!

Hop up, jump in!

The time I thought really hard about Handy Manny. Please don't sue me, Disney.

Kitty + sandwich

 

Oh Kitty, your mouth can not accommodate that sandwich!

Hey, Pear!

Late at night I had an idea involving fruit. I think it might be funny!

 

Watercolor

Ok, so after years of sort of aimlessly messing around I am trying to get hip to watercolor in a more serious way. I have swapped out all the semi-opaques and opaque colours in my palette for transparent ones, and I'm finding the results a lot more luminous! This was a gift for a friend and my first painting with the new colours. If you have any watercolor tips or tricks, send them my way why don't you!

I know you must be growing tired of these kinds of questions, but how on earth am I meant to get a watercolour to look good on the computer?! Scanning seems pretty hit or miss, and then even when I save for web all the colours look muddy once I get the image into my browser. Why why why? Help me, internet!

Humans!

 

Other people doing stuff in public.

Words and Picutres at Meghan and Dee's blog

Guess what! Dee has made a new blog for his stories and my pictures are on it too! You can see all the good stuff at deeandmeghan.tumblr.com 

As I'm sure you can imagine I am really really jazzed!

 

As an aside, the most recent drawing I did for Dee's new story is my very first one with Derivan Liquid Pencil, which I talked about not so long ago here.  I got a lot of nice texture and it is so much more forgiving than ink! It was such a pleasure to work on and try something new.

Handtype

When I get blocked or frustrated with a drawing I like to draw words or letters. I really like doing type by hand, for projects or for fun, even if I am not a very wordy person.

I usually do it while I'm listening to something else, like a podcast or a video. That's how I end up with winners like "your blood controls everything."

It's Valentime!

Drawing block