You are the only light there is

So today I finished all the priliminary paint work to my halloween series. I hope to have it scanned it and begin the computer editing either tonight or tomorrow. FINALLY got the adobe suite back on my laptop so...

I already have a feel for what I want my next series to be but I wish I could combine photos in with it...except I don't really have access to the areas I would need to get the right photos. Who knows though. Anyway...I'd love to do some sort of travel series.

Maybe i'll doodle on that at the vet...

Christi

Rejoice!

So after a long period of slacking, I have developed a working concept for a new set of postcards! ( It's seeming more and more like i'm going to have an abundance of postcards?) But I was thinking that I really need to turn out more product for my etsy shop as I've more or less turned a blind eye to it as of late. So in celebration of the upcoming holiday (Halloween!) i've sketched a bunch of wonderful doodles for some postcard designs! Also possibly bookmarks or buttons, but for sure postcards... I actually can't wait to get home and start working on them with my paint and pens!

Because it was funny conversation

Me
You. You're spose to be swabbin' the deck on my new ship.

Bradley
haha its mine and brians your just a deck hand

Me
just the captain?

that's coo'

I can deal with that.

After all I have sailed the seven seas and two large lakes.

Bradley

brian says the captain pays for what repairs the boats needs so you pay for the repairs and you can hve the captains role.

Me
The captain is the one who deals with important things like spinning the wheel and being awesome.

Both of which I can handle quite well.

Brian's seen my resume, he knows.

Bradley

hey we watch deadliest cacht and those aren"t the rules

Me
yeah? And this is what happens to people on those shows -

http://www.techbanyan.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/whale1_604x500.jpg

know why? Cause I told that whale too do that. Cause they wouldn't let me be captain.

Bradley

and thats why we don't wan't you to steer

Me

Only thing I was steering was that Whale.

Right into that boat.

Bradley
or was it the other way around

Me
I guess you'll be finding out pretty soon.

Bradley
ok

A very merry unbirthday...

So! In a couple of weeks I will be hosting my own Unbirthday Party. We've already had a little outting dressed in character in VA (should probably post photos from that in the near future if I haven't already.) Anyway! This little get together is going to be something of a 'thank you' for the girls for coming all the way down from VA and GA for our house warming party the following day. Anyway! I've been looking up inspiration outside of my own mad ideas...

Would certainly be fun to perhaps do an official photo shoot with this theme?

Einlee on D.A.

While scanning Deviant Art I came across this wonderful artist by the handle Einlee. I really like the color contrast in this particular drawing, as well as the monkey, lolz. Look at that face!.

Look at the way she did the stomach and arm/neck definition on Ariel, as well as the shimmers on her tail. I think this particular piece is absolutely amazing and am completely in love with it. I also really like the way she did the fins on the tail, because that area can get messed up really fast if you're not careful.

I think I will allow her to inspire some pieces for my manga in the works.

To see more of her work, visit her page at :

www.einlee.deviantart.com

She has several amazing pieces.

Big Bend National Park, Texas

So...lately ive been feeling so restless with life. I want to go out and see things, places, people...One of the main places that I really want to go to is Texas. Seems strange, right? But theres a national park there called

Big Bend.

But oh, I wanna go there. It's so big that it has rapids (el rio grande), desert, mountains, canyons...you can literally spend like a month (or more) going through this place. That's actually what Vlad and I said today, just go out there for like one month and hike through it. I bet it'd be amazing. I also bet you would learn a lot about yourselves.

I spent four days hiking in Peru and felt absolutely amazing (although I did zone sometimes, but even then I was looking around and just amazed by the things around me.) I think a car, a tent, and a canoe (along with basic needs stuff) would be absolutely amazing. I think a group of two or four would be just about right. Not really enough to piss you off, and just enough to have fun with and enjoy things. Plus then you can share cooking duties.

I want to do this.

[HD] After School - BANG! MV / 애프터스쿨 - 뱅! 뮤직비디오

Yes, I am learning this dance. Starting at :40 to the end of the "you'll never catch me oh no - " or the ending version at 2 something, where they do the arm thing, lolz.

[M/V]Wondergirls Irony

This video is interesting to me because it has 4minutes Hyuna in it from back in the day =P

Cause everybodys changing and I dont feel the same.

Ah...i've been thinking about the people I want to get back together with lately, and also the people that i'm feeling more and more ready to let go from my life. There are three main people that i'm not seeing enough any more, and those are

• Chrissy Powell
  
  

• Vlad Makarov



• Chantal Hayes
  
  

Sweet Tattoos, yo.

So today before work I bought myself some sweet tattoos.

Get it? Sweet?

Ahahahaha, I know, my brilliance is blinding.

Anyway, these lil babies shall be worn with force tomorrow for the full days worth of work. I have to say its very tempting to put them on right now though!

Maybe i'll put it on anyway and buy some new ones for each day of the week...seems like a good use of 50 cents to me.

I really like the lollipop (lolli-lolli-lollipop time - *does dance*) cause it looks like a magical wand. Makes me want to draw my Sailor Moon segment in my manga right now, lolz.

Well I guess for right now i'll be going!

*twirls, flips, does back bend with toe pointed*

SAY-RAH....MOOOOOOOONNNN

Sneak preview?

So as most of you do not know...I have slowly started to work on my own

MANGA!

AHHHH!!!

so yeah, that's what i've been up to here lately, and today while wasting away in Ohio I sketched this little beauty out, lolz. The idea behind this is that the main character, Alice, has lost her mother due to some sort of illness and is looking back on a photo of her and her mom...

Originally it was a sweet photo of the two of them laughing and embracing, but somehow this is what I came out with today. I dont know why but I think it suits the direction i'll be heading much better, lmao.

It's supposed to be one of those photos taken at a kid's birthday party ( in this case, Alice's) where instead of being happy they're having a tantrum over something and can't really appreciate the moment. So in the photo here i'll have her mom, this beautiful lady, all, " Smiiillleeee!" *stretches her daughter's face into a smile for camera--*

Lolz. Originally I was thinking maybe she'd be a super sweet, loving, all knowing mother, but I think that (while still having these characteristics) that she's gonna be the type of mother who would send that picture out as a thank you card to those who attended the party, lmao. Awesome, right?

Anyway, hope you enjoyed the preview! In my attempt not to fail as a blogger any more, I will update every day at the least again, surely! .....surely!

Preview:

EDIT: Here it is painted. I've been working hard! I still intend to add things to it via photoshop (small effects here and there) as well as smooth it out but over all, this is the general idea....The corner up by the Red Queen needs some filling, dont you think? Probably gonna add something there as a background element with photoshop, but yeah...sorry about the poor photo quality at the moment!

Have I let you down lately?

I feel that my responsibility of keeping up with my blog has taken a major down fall lately! I've had things to blog about as well, but it just hasn't happened? Anyway...lots of new things going on over here...

• Finally got moved in (though still not completely) in our town house. The decor is looking great.



• Been busy practicing tattoos



• Started painting again...

These are my total fan arts of Chrissy Powell's Sugar Ninjas, I believe it was. Drew them up a looonnnggg time ago and finally water colored them last night to get back into things. Had a very definite idea for Sweet but for some reason I was very lost on Spicy, lolz. Strange, yeah? I intend to put photoshop skillzorz on them as soon as I reinstall those programs on my laptop but until I have chance to do that, this is how they shall look. I'd like to take better photos for you soon. Hope you like them! You can find Chrissy's original character designs here :

http://robosuplex.blogspot.com/2010/05/sugar-ninjas-sweet-and-spicy.html

Its funny to me to look at because even though they're the same personas, the entire thing feel's sooooo different with our drawing styles! lolz. Her's are super cute, and like, the thighs on my Sweet are like BAM, lmao. But I like them regardless :3