gonna give Inktober a try

I keep meaning to do it every year, and always forget, but this year I'm gonna do it!

for more info here's a good link:
http://mrjakeparker.com/inktober

I may not use the exact ink pens they recommend, but they will be some form of ink (especially since I found this fantastic Big Brush Faber-Castell brush pen at Hobby Lobby… I love it so much!)

And I'm going to be dipping my feet into comic making this month, so be looking for that.

Anyhoo, thanks for dropping by!
till later :)

drabble, doodles and practice

most of my friends know I'm a Transformers fan, and that I am currently following the IDW G1 comics More Than Meets the Eye and Robots in Disguise (mostly MTMTE, though) and to be honest, I don't think I've read a ongoing comic that has affected me so greatly.  I got into it [MTMTE] thinking, "oh good, this looks like it will be a fun adventures and mishaps in space!" I was thinking Red Dwarf or Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy... you know? Oh how quickly that changed. But by the time it did, it was too late, I was invested in these characters and their stories. It's not a bad thing…it just HURTS… that's all... (Abandon all hope, ye who enter here…)
anyways, I drew a mini narrative of my reaction to the last issue (#32), and it's been a month so I don't have to worry about spoiling the story or anything now:

We'll see what heartache Roberts has for us fans in #33, when it comes out next week…

and been practicing expressions. here's one of my favorite pages so far (along with notes to cover up a not-so-good sketch):

woop woop … yep, there it is.  Hopefully I'll be back in the habit of posting more art soon.  Thanks for dropping by!

And there goes the Summer

been awhile since I posted, and while I didn't get all of my summer goals met, I did meet some.
One being to have a job that revolved around art, and I got to live it while working at the Laguna Beach Sawdust Art Festival.
I was a dunce, however, and didn't really take pics…just kinda got wrapped up in the whole thing. But, oh! I had the opportunity to take over what was called Kids Art Alley on Local's Nights, which involved having various artists come in for a couple of hours those nights to teach the kids some of their art skills, as well as having other side projects lined up to do those nights. It was really fun, exausting, but really fun. And I let my manager know that if they did this again next year, I'd be up to doing it again :)
Here are some art projects I was able to do along the way:


oooh the Nature Prints! this one was done during training, and was the first time I had used a press.

Wet Chalk Painting: this project easily became one of my favorites. All I kept thinking was: why was I never introduced to this as a kid!?

and more printing! This time etching the design on plexiglass and then using water-soluble crayons…Have I mentioned I'm a Transformers fan? I bet I have, but in case you didn't know, now you do *awkwardly laughs*

Watercolors! Not exactly the project I was hoping to do to fulfill my watercolor goal for the summer, but it will do, and it was fun doing something more abstract. Though, during the class, some folk kept getting frustrated, then I told them to think of what they were doing as painting space nebula, and then people started having fun :)

Mixed Media: haven't really done something like this is a loooooooong time…we did smaller ones too, which I have yet to find where I put mine (and I'll post that when I find it), but there were these pics of goldfish, and Curiosity pics/articles…and then this pic of James Cameron (please please please, forgive me by the way!!!) and my cartoon brain went and took over. And well, you see what happened…

Abstract Acrylic: abstract in watercolors is one thing. I'm use to that media letting it have it's own way as I paint. I'm much more inclined to be a control freak with oils or acrylics, so this was a good lesson in letting the media have its own way (the teacher was local artist Hugo Rivera who taught the class). I think this is the first time I was able to accomplish something truly abstract in acrylics…so there's another media goal tick :) however, my scanner is juuuuuust a little too small, so I'm afraid this will be blurry. I'll try and get a better scan on school campus.

And another Wet Chalk Painting: this one from the Kids Art Alley, while waiting for kiddos to show up (most of the schools had started by now). And this particular project was titled Imagine and headed up by artist Joni Cresci. The title is based off the Beatles song and the project was thought up for Beatles Day…and I just happen to have a favorite Transformer that has been referenced to John Lennon once or twice……I'm such a hopeless geek…

And that's about it.  Like I said, I kinda just got caught up with work (but it was fun work!), and I'm going to miss it. But there's always the Winter Fest, and next Summer!

thanks for stopping by :D