Manic Pixie Dream Girl

Whether it's Ramona Flowers or Clementine in Eternal Sunshine or Run Lola Run, we know we love them. So unapologetic! But on the inside, I bet she just wants to hug her vicious little chihuahua.

This piece has been in the works off and on for a bit, though in total it took somewhere between thirty and forty hours. There are always things I want to fix, but I figure if you work it to death you might get nothing rather than something out of it. Comments and especially critiques are very welcome, friends!

ttyl :)

When Anyone Could Be a Lord

Old rough of Stannis Baratheon

Recently, I've been having a lot of fun with Lord and artist Frederick Leighton's work. I found him on ArtRenewal.org (an undeniably highly recommended site), and I admit to love-love-loving the gorgeous oranges and glowing warms overflowing from within his beautiful figures.

link to this painting

I've tried making studies from these paintings using a similar technique to what would produce a glazed effect, but in general it seems to show the brush strokes too much, and just doesn't ring true with how I want to paint. Given fifteen minutes and a limited color palette, things stay much fresher and far more interesting than otherwise.

Copy of William Bouguereau's Biblis

I'm attempting now to see how these glassy glazed master works can be translated to quick, hour-long, fat-brush-stroke studies. The absolute depth of color Leighton achieves with the glazed oils will never be duplicated in a digital painting, but there is also so much opportunity for interaction between colors on a lighted pixel surface that I feel something good has to come out of it, even if it's just a better understanding of color.

An amazingly captivating portrait.. and glowing arm shadow galore.

Now with giant vulture!

Tonight

It's great to be back in SoCal. There's nothing like home, and no light that's the same. I'm just waiting for those beautiful summer harsh shadows to come back around, with their oranges and their edges. Who wants to go plein air painting? :)

Soda Popper

Maestro

Sometimes, if I draw nature enough, it feels like there might be a Totoro watching, a little bit.

I don't see how this could be a bad thing.

Agh, fashion zombies.

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Goodbye again :)

Sketchy Sketchy...

Perhaps a little Ramona has slipped in here....

I like sketching. I like sketching so much that I will do it for hours every day. It probably isn't healthy for the back. But.. am I really using that anyway? I can't think of anything better to do on a rainy day than sit down with a brand new sketchbook and that first blank page. I hope everyone is having a happy rainy day!

Pomp and Punkinstance? Punk and Pompudice?

Punk and Pompibility.

And a Poster. 

As Requested

It's great when people request art. Or unicorns. In fact, the two seem to have an eery closeness to my life, but I'm not looking a gift robot unicorn in the mouth. I'll just be over here drawing.

Mona-Lisa top-of-my-Christmas Request List

Watch out, they will burn you.

As Requested: ALVINBOT

As Requested: Find the Unicorns.

Wait. Something is nagging at me..

So I wasn't just hearing things when he said he'd be back.

Well anyway

Hasta la vista.

Painting and Other Things I Like

As I am on the digital painting tack of late, practice is my boyfriend; practice is my girlfriend. Practice is my hot hot love. This piece began as a short exercise, but as I worked I realized I wanted it to have at least some amount of finish. This is about 1.5 hours, and I'm happy with where it is now. Check out production below:







Please note I do not own the rights to the photo used, which is part of a gorgeous collection by Pierre dal Corso. His photography is very illustrative -- somewhat in mind of Sam Weber, etc. -- and very worth a peek for anyone interested.

Ahh I love digital painting so much. I'm sorry I don't have anything finished to show you yet. To be sure, I'm of a guilty conscience. In consolation, here are two camels.

ttfn, you all

Roto Visage Revisited

I have finished another piece for friend and astonishing talent Jason Popejoy, better known to the world of dark electronic music as Roto Visage. This design is for a new Roto t-shirt, one of which you all should buy because it would make us feel OH SO SPECIAL. Or because it would support us. We love support. Like piers.

Other things in the works include: new website, new calendar illustrations, painting extravaganza, chili, etc. Apparently, I have missed the contest to design a cover to a Murakami story. Maybe I'll be secretly participating anyway. CHECK BACK FOLKS.