New Year!

It's 2011! This is my first post of the year. I have a lot planned for this year and so many changes are already happening! I'm working on new projects and hope to have something to share soon!

I'd like to post a picture of the super cute necklace my husband got me for x-mas! <3


Also, one of the last crochet things I made of 2010 was a cute little Korilakkuma pouch for my friend!


I compiled some art to represent each month in 2010, to recap some of the things I've made. I mostly wanted to focus on drawing but I didn't always have a drawing to show. I really hope to draw as much as possible again this year.

Digital Drawing.

I've been busy working on my digital drawing/painting skills. Here is the latest!



It's a Kappa! I got all excited because I'm getting a cute Kappa Kigurumi(one piece animal pajamas) in the mail! A Kappa is a Japanese water sprite.

Working on Illustrations

I've been doing some exercises from the Preston Blair book: http://www.animationarchive.org/2006/05/media-preston-blairs-animation-first.html
and John K.'s Cartoon College as reading: http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/


I started with this doodle, then I realized that I really should keep trying this technique of copying from that book. I did another little doodle of a zombie girl and that turned into this....

I'm pretty proud of how she turned out, I still am developing my drawing and digital skills.

Here are some more lesson/sketches:


Here I decided to do some different dogs from a picture after doing two of the one from Preston Blair's book.


These are some cute sketches I did. The first girl is a cute version of Catgirl NukuNuku, I might just make that one a digital drawing too.

Drawing...

In order to get more used to the tablet and back to drawing in general after graduation '07. I kind of got lost after graduation and I've found myself back with illustrating. I really want to become better and it just takes a lot of work. I found a list online and tweaked it a bit. 30 days of drawings. I am just going to do mini exercises, like cute doodles for these to keep me drawing something everyday. I will start Aug. 1st! It's exciting ^_^


30 Days of drawings…

1. Self Portrait
2. Fairy Tale
3. Most Recent Dream
4. Favorite Game
5. Childhood Memory
6. Whats in Your Bag?
7. Hybrid Animal
8. Favorite TV Show
9. Drawn in the style of _____.
10. Super Hero
11. Super Villain
12. Something you did today
13. Someone you love
14. Portrait of a Pet
15. A Dinosaur
16. Draw Something with Your Eyes Closed
17. A Delicious Food
18. ZOMBIES!!
19. Sea Creature
20. Your Dream Job
21. A Guilty Pleasure
22. Favourite Cartoon Character
23. Actor/Actress
24. A Hobby
25. Best Friend
26. Favorite Place
27. Something with Sentimental Value
28. Your Zodiac Sign
29. Out your window
30. Favourite Outfit.

Sketch time!

Etsy and Digital drawing

I made a cute little hamster doodle in painter. I'm trying to sketch everyday digitally until I can really get some cute things going ^_^

My Etsy shop is back open! 
New items coming this week and new things in the works! I'm pretty excited!!!

Doodle

Trying to doodle on the tablet. I used Corel Painter, I like it tons better than Photoshop for drawing. I'm still learning and it's going to take some work. I am pretty pleased with my doodles though for never drawing much anymore or even doing anything digitally. ^_^

Illustrations

I've decided to start participating in Illustration Friday! Every Friday they will post a topic and I will try to illustrate something for it. I'm going to start out small with my illustrations at first. I'm also going to try to post sketches and then eventually more finished sketches for wearable designs (fashion illustrations). So I will have two topics each Friday. One "official" topic from IF and one that I randomly select to have a theme for sketching. I'm pretty excited about it and I'm going to try to regularly post.

Lately I've also been trying to finish up personal crochet projects and will be posting pictures soon of those!

Wacom Sketch

Wow I haven't drawn in a long time...since I graduated in 2007. I'm not really counting my doodles and designs though. This was sketched using Painter and my Wacom tablet. I really want to start getting used to drawing with it. Scott bought it for me forever ago and I've only used it for a couple of projects. I've been so afraid to doodle with it. I need to get over my freak fear of digital drawing, it's kinda stupid since it's soooo forgiving!!! ^.^;