I can ALMOST share everything I've been working on...

but not quite ;)

Still can't show the character (or where you'll be seeing him) just yet, but the backgrounds for the different main pieces are a different story, you've seen some peppered here an there, but here they are all together! (they'll be in order from first "ordered" to last):

(the shadows are a bit dodgy in the chuck-wagon one, due to character placement and not wanting it any more "busy" behind him to be distracting)

So there we are! I honestly can't wait to show you guys everything and let you know where/what it's for (hopefully I'll be able to hop on the next project here within the next week and get that done soon too!)

thanks for dropping by! :D

Short Commissions are OPEN!!

Hey everybody!

I've got a 2 month window between [W2 type] jobs, and figured it's the perfect time to work on personal projects, and supplement my income with… COMMISSIONS!!

I'm opening up smaller $20-$25 commissions to try and not over-extend myself just before the Sawdust Festival. Here's the info :

These'll really help me out guys, but if you can't order any, please signal boost the info to help an artist out with rent, gas, and food money.

take care everyone! :)

Getting close to that Deadline!

my deadline is the 15th and I'm gonna make it (come hell or high-water, I'm going to make it!)

Two of the last three BG's are done (besides the signage and color adjustments once I put in the character):

and the other is getting there (I should be finished it by tonight):

So my lack of updates here was due to me posting my WIP progress on Fb rather than here (whoops)

I will probably be starting up commissions here soon, so there's that too...

Summer is almost here guys (in the Northern Hemisphere)! And I'm hoping to get a good head-start on some personal projects that were set on the "back burner" before the Sawdust Festival starts again, and then it's back to teaching! :D

Take care everyone, and thanks for dropping by

"redraw it!"

you know those "redraw it" memes?
I'm applying that to some old animated projects
one is my 30 second scene, and the other is my first dialogue scene.
here's an example:

the one on the left being the older version (frame #17)

and the right being the re-work

I'd like to get this done before the semester ends, but we'll see - I've still got other projects that take precedence, but I just wanted to give an update on my little side-projects :)

take care, everybody! and thanks for dropping by :D

My hand works again, therefore I can work again

I seriously did not know what to do with myself yesterday when I couldn't work. And I was starting to feel incredibly down.
But thanks to some wonderfully kind words on another piece I had done, as well as my hand no longer being in pain, I am back to work with gusto today!

have I mentioned how much I adore the Blob Brush in Illustrator? Because I do! and the Eraser Brush along with it. They allow me to 'sketch' a rough silhouette and then go back and adjust later :3

of course, drawing a desert scene makes me incredibly homesick…

I may not have it quite as graphically styles, but Maurice Noble is my touchstone for this BG in progress (which I think is fitting since the character I designed is heavily Chuck Jones/Looney Tunes inspired - but I can't show him till the entire project is revealed :/ )

keep moving forward guys, even in your 'deserts' you can find some life! :)

I just wanted to see this 'Bot happy...

seriously, the last issue Rung was in, he looked so pensive (in "our" timeline at least). And in the latest issue we get to learn about the doom… er... SUPER HAPPY FUNTIMES heading towards the Lost Light crew.

ended up using this piece to practice shading with gradients and using textures. Coloring cues come from Alex Milne's (who is a god of Perspective, and you can't convince me otherwise) character sheets and Josh Perez's (Dyemooch - his coloring always makes me feel like I've walked into a candy store •OwO• ) cover art color pallets. (the free space bg is also Perez's, btw)

think I'm finally getting comfortable at drawing robots… :3

okay done with fun/fan art for awhile. back to art that will get me paid. *kicks at ground*

hope your day is going well everybody, and thanks for dropping by! :)

So we threw a Faculty Appreciation Day -

for our Animation Professors yesterday (because they honestly don't get enough appreciation).
I didn't get to take too many pics, but I got to do one of the caricatures! 8D!

I got our Figure Drawing for Animator's Prof. Larissa (who also happens to be my boss for OC Art Studios)

If all of the caricatures get posted, I'm going to add the link, because there were seriously awesome ones!

Everyone did a great job helping (thanks for putting up with my anal-side when it comes to serving food guys - it's hard to purge that part of you when you worked in food service for years). Decorations looked great. We…kinda... might of… tripped a breaker when we plugged one too many electric griddles into one line - we were in a completely different space than last time, so I didn't realize there wasn't the same ampage going into this other room. There were also gifts for each professor and we had a Piñata. I'm so happy with how it turned out!

let those teachers that have helped you along the way, know how much you care guys! they honestly don't hear it enough, and they deserve to.

(EDIT: SHE LIKED IT! I'M SO HAPPY! - do you have any idea how frightening it is to do a drawing for a figure drawing teacher, while you're trying to make sure you get the anatomy right, but still push the caricature?!)