funnel cake

More things I draw when I don't know what else to draw; me stuffing my face!

another wip

Just part of a WIP that I've been working on for a few days. I keep going back to it and changing it stylistically. Still got a ways to go on this one.

Happy Memorial Day!

Blue City

Hey dudes!

This is a pattern I created for the launch of Repeat-X Repeat-Y, a repeating patterns site! It has some really great stuff if you're into such things. I really love making these patterns so I jumped right on that. Thanks Matt!!

The site launches tomorrow so be sure to check it out!

Stubs

Just a snippet of some client work.

STUBBY!

WIP

A WIP for a mini-illo. Kind of having a love/hate affair with the orange.

House Pattern WIP

Another WIP of a pattern, this time featuring cute little houses.

I also want to mention that my site is down so I can redesign it and fix it up a little. The blog will probably be updated a little bit too. Someday I'll be able to code flawlessly but until then it's just me, a glass of limeade, a long night and an undo button.

Pattern WIP

A quick WIP that I'm working on; my first repeating pattern! Still color tweaking a bit but I am going to start working on details.

Samurai

Quickie experiment with a limited palette (which I didn't stick to anyway haha)

Bags

I have some cute fabric so I threw together some quick little bag designs so that I might have a new bag for the spring. :)

I love designing things like this.

Mini Me

Playing around some more in digital. 

Kabuki

Testing some watercolor PS brushes I found. They're a lot like regular watercolor brushes, i.e. can't go over with white, colors will get muddy if you layer too much. I just miss the happy accidents you get with water flow and regular watercolor paper!

MyMoth

Moth Fanart for Shay.
Experimenting in Illustrator.


Been in a bit of a rut; the last couple of weeks have been messy. Lots of family in town and painting walls and moving. Today I'm going up north to visit family for the weekend. I'm bringing my paints with me so hopefully I can get some plein air paintings done and just unwind a bit before the school rush begins again.
:)

Veta

An old photoshop sketch that really didn't want to go on any further.



ME!

Delerium

Summer Fun!

Omikuji

Just some practice with Photoshop.

Also trying out a new signature- I originally made a chop stamp but after finishing it I realized I'd done it backwards. * v*

Childish

About 1/3 of the way done with my illustration.
My favorite place to play was inside a lilac bush at my parent's old place. C:

102

Some 6 am musings:
As human beings we are gluttons for punishment. Happiness is a journey, not a destination. This means we have to create it for ourselves but in the same sense it can always be absent as well. Alfred D Souza's quote claims that it is life itself that is the obstacle of being happy. It's a difficult concept to grasp because ultimately we still climb for it as a goal- oh, later. Exactly. Even as I type I still have things to do- and maybe THEN I will feel happy.
But I shouldn't wait. There is no better time than now.
"Work like you don't need money, Love like you've never been hurt, and dance like no one's watching."

I don't want to lose your faith
I don't want to let you down
My ultimate downfall is always wanting the best for everyone and in short stifling myself, but I am working on this.
I can't afford not to.
If I don't, I don't know how I will be able to live with myself.
If I lose what I've worked so hard to obtain, I don't think I could live with myself.
Take out the skeletons in your closet and dance with them, but don't let them kill you.

cool artist: Jared Shear

And for a little humor!

hizzacked: dude where do you get an eel anyway
baneofaxel: bait shop sells em cheap
hizzacked: hey look an eel store lets get some and funnel them into your colon
baneofaxel: NORMAL PEOPLE USE THEM FOR FISHING

101

"What are you wearing right at this moment"
I might do this every day...but i wear the same thing pretty much every day :'(

Is it dorky if I call my first Moleskine sighting...? Well. I spotted a squared one today on a show about the chupacabra. I'm proud of myself.

I go back to work in 5 days, and as usual my creativity surges as an escapism to my more important duties like cleaning and tying up loose ends.

100

Yay for 100 posts!
Why is blogger so hard to customize.

You know what is cute? Chow chow puppies are cute.
I miss lot of things.
It's cold in here.

Some things

I don't know when I thought of it, but awhile back I made a list of all the random characters I made for some reason or another, and it topped at about 20- and those are just the ones I can remember. So I decided to go through and see if I could draw them all. This was the earliest character I can remember entirely- Angela. She actually had chartreuse bangs at first creation, which makes these nasty purple bangs a bit more tolerable.

Some interesting things;

Ultimate Rejection Letter
Oil Painting Demo
Ultimate Flash Face holy shit this one is a lot of fun.
ansiform - an ambient music netlabel
Transparent Image Tape Transfer I picked this one especially for all my fellow majors since we were discussing it a few weeks ago.
Darkcopy- full screen text editing. Write with no distractions.
Play NES games online for free!!
HOLY SHIT BATTLETOADS.

I would easily kill someone for a bit of watermelon, right now.

Also there is this current stink about Orphan Works legislation. I don't know exactly what is going on here, but according to this interview with Brad Holland, if this legistlation passes, we are going to lose our copyrights, and will have to pay out the ass for other people not to lose it. I know tons of people will be like "psh, artists, who cares what happens to their stuff" but this applies to people's photos and videos of their family. You don't even have to be an artist to affected by this law. Anything you do can be just taken and used by someone else and used for their own profit. You get no rights on that photo of your baby or the picture of your late cat. Booyah!
I remember hearing about this before, and I don't know what caused this to flare up again, but I hope it doesn't pass, not purely for my own gain (hey, I guess I'm ok with having a part time job and just painting in my basement, unbeknownst to anybody but me or my cat), but because that's not cool to just have anything of yours be used by anybody, LEGALLY hands free. I can see companies and businesses failing on a country wide scale. Our economy is already in the shitter, why on earth is this even coming up as an issue. Why BOTHER?

ETA: I found a helpful article that debunks a lot of the scary myths surrounding this thing.