Memories of warmer weather.

Are You Undervaluing Your Talent and Knowledge

The spring time of our youth is over.

(I think that is a Gurren Lagann quote???)

I hope to have a online store going soon with prints and get some stuff up in a local bar or coffee shop. Any way, these are from spring at my old apartment complex, my parent's house, and Athene's Drive High School. That should be it for azalea pictures until next spring! :P

Minor Successes

After waiting the majority of my life I was finally able to claim my inheritance: a Minolta SRT 201 from my father. After a less than thirty minute lesson on the basics of 35mm photography he told me to go have fun and stop bothering him. Unfortunately the camera is significantly older than I am and the light seal has dried out and peeled away. The first roll of film I shot was completely useless, however after looking around on the internet for DIY repairs or light seals I discovered some vintage camera aficionados use yarn in their cameras. The yarn I bought was too thick so I decided to try embroidery thread. Assumed this wouldn't work, but it sure beat the hell out of $150 to send the camera off to get repaired or lurking on eBay to win a new camera body. Imagine how excited I was today to discover some of my pictures actually survived.
Except now it seems the shutter is giving me trouble. The majority of my pictures I took in the early morning light by Lake Johnson are black on the right side. For instance the one above.
OH WELL. I SHALL CONTINUE WITH MY TRIAL AND ERROR.
All the pictures are the "yard" behind my apartment turned out pretty freaking sweet if I say so myself.

petty and spiteful

:(

spring

block

drawn on the table waiting for my dining partner for lunch at the gourmet factory on Western Blvd

I've been in a funk. I think I'm coming out of it. It might be that spring air, which I will soon be missing. But I'll be skipping the splendors of spring for PAX East in Boston for the weekend so that's a fair trade.

sword

New postcard/sample/business card.

bison

conrad and drusilla

Max and Friends

"...and made him king of all wild things."

The Amazing Spider-Man

The amazing over-worked Spider-Man portrait. I got a new brush pack I wanted to work with in Photoshop and Spider-Man/Peter Parker became my first victim. :B I had to force myself to stop and I'll probably go back later and fiddle with him more just for kicks.

<3 I'm a closet Spider-Man fan. At least I think I was in the closet. Maybe everyone knew the whole time?

With love from the little red sketchbook.

Hey! My goal is to post something on here at least every two weeks!! Let's see if I can do it!

Last Saturday when I went to see Megafaun and Bowerbirds at The ArtsCenter. I keep a small sketchbook in my purse most of the time and at the show I started drawing the bands. It was really fun and I think I'll continue doing it in the future. I'll probably have to stand closer to the stage though. o_o;

This is Megafaun; they were wonderful on stage and I'm listening to their CD right now. They were also a lot of fun to draw I think this batch of sketches came out very nicely. I love to draw like this, but as you can tell they lack clarity.



These sketches are of Bowerbirds. They didn't come out as well as I had hoped. Maybe its because the room became crowded and I had a harder time seeing the stage or I was thinking about it too much.






Here are my favorites from the rest of the sketchbook. The first two are doodles of the main character of a story I'm plotting out in my head. Her name is Anatida or Anadtidae and she is the bodyguard to the Vermilion Princess of Tuonela.

I think I'm going crazy

My oh so serious response to an article in the Wall Street Journal about how nuclear power will generate more jobs and is in America's future. You can read it online here.





I was excited to have finally cooked my eggs the way I liked.

A dark knight.

Meh. I shall grace you with a drawing of my true love whilst I figure out what in the world is going on.

OMG have you seen Star Trek yet? Go, go now!

I went to Dr. Sketchy's last week with the model LiiLii Lipstick! It was very fun. They always have the sessions on Monday night when I've had classes so I've never been able to go, but classes were over so I was able to go. Unfortuantely now I'm leaving town! Bummer.

Here are my favorites from the night.




So Dr. Sketchy's has contests where you get a drawing prompt or challenge and compete for a prize. One of the challenges was for a munny doll and the challenge was to draw Captain Kirk hitting on the model (because the new Star Trek movie is awesome). Not only had a I seen the movie the Friday before (and last night too o_O) and totally loved Captain Kirk, but I really, really wanted a munny. So I said "Hells yes I am winning this." And I did.

I'm thinking of making the munny into Spock because Spock is awesome. Like I never had any idea that Spock was so awesome. Why didn't someone tell me this?



And I colored a sketch because I am cool like that.


The moral of the story is to go to Dr.Sketchy's.

And when he had to go there were roses growing in the snow.

Once upon a time a young girl went to art school dreaming of making comics. When she got there she discovered she really liked book illustration and forgot all about comics until one day she realized she was graduating and probably should get on that sequential art thing. No pressure.

So here's my comic Roses in the Snow inspired on a Nico song that was a bonus track on the CD release of the 1969 album The Marble Index. The song didn't have a narrative so I just made a song based on what came to mind with the lyrics... The sad, sad weird lyrics.