Overnight prints

Just put in an order for my very first set of bookmarks....hopefully they'll come out alright, but hey, even if they don't, it wasn't terribly expensive and is good practice for the future!  I used my new image "Firefly" as the first sample for my bookmark set.  Once I get it in, i'll update about the quality of the prints and turn over =D  I went with general shipping as I wasn't into dropping a lot of cash at the moment.

I also placed an order for some postcards today so we'll see how that goes once I get them in.  I've got a few more designs that i'll spend tomorrow working on as well to turn into Valentines to update on my etsy site with!  They're super cute and retarded, so i'm excited about that progress.  I'd like to continue to build up my stock, so I can go to a craft fair some time soon.  MMMMMMM so yeah! There we go!

Kuranosuke Koibuchi

So I will be cosplaying at this next con in ATL in September as Kuranosuke.  I'm thinking one of these two looks (above or below.)  Personally the top one is cuter to me but I think the second may be more recognizable.  My friend Chrissy Powell with be Tsukimi!

Hey hey hey

Well its been a while but i'm finally fully inspired now!  Cranking out some cute valentines postcards that I will hopefully have up on Etsy very soon, which, btw, has been reactivated but only has my previous valentines postcards listed at the moment. But hey! Progress is progress!

This december has been AH-Mazing. That probably helped with the inspiration.  It's just been so long since I drew for ME!  So I'm excited and gonna get back to my groove, but just thought I should post in here again as well.  Anyway! Here are some photos from these past few weeks though!

These top two are of me and fellow friend/blogger/artist extrodinare, Chrissy Powell, who blogs sporatically at robosuplex.blogspot.com =D

These last two are of me with my cousins Stefani and Melani, as well as Aliana, new friend from there.

Whole group, Tim, Melani, Alaina, Jonel, Me, Stefani, and Jorel =D



I haven't been drawin' but i've been photoshoppin' some MONTAGES!!

So both of these images are of me for my class project.

So, again, its been forever

I've had a very long bout of inspiration, but finally have some of it back.  Well, lacking inspiration as far as DRAWING goes.  All things in time though, eh?  I do need to find some good tutorials on video editing and programs and such...any suggestions to be made?

Anyway, for the first piece done in quite a while i'm happy.  Just have to scan it in and do some tweaking.  Will scan in tomorrow after my Nihon-go lesson.

As a side note :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JOwxnVoG6Q

Results of the Tea Party

Haven't posted in a while

And probably still won't until my freakin' work can get scanned!!  I can't find any scanners that do high enough quality or are large enough format...but i'm about to dish out the money and just let FedEx scan it in back behind the counter...gonna hurt, but I need to get these moving!!

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

I'm feeling inspired...

So I got an appointment today to do a tattoo for someone!

I'm excited because its the first tattoo that i'll be doing for someone outside of my family, as well as its actually a barter tattoo. That's right! I'm going old school and trading my services for theirs, lolz. So i'll be uploading a surprise picture later this evening ~.^ Keep an eye out for it.

Town house decor!

Okay so! its been quite a while but i've thought of something to post about that i'm currently really excited for =D

This upcoming thursday i'm going to be signing the papers for our new town house! I've been looking forward to this for quite a while now and can't wait to get us all moved in and ready for the house warming party.

Now, i've been thinking about this for a while now, and FINALLY realized what the perfect idea for decorating the town house is....

I want to...decorate it like....Alice in Wonderland!

Now, I don't mean flat out buying things with the Disney (or even original) Alice images on it so much as I mean just sort of creating that feel about the place. That way it can still be appealing to other people without being "holy crap" at the same time. In that respect, I dont want to lose what it is that makes us in the hopes of appeasing other peoples taste.

So this is the idea...

I laid out in my head the general thought for all this and it is as such:

1. For the Kitchen, I think the Mad Hatter's Tea Party.
2. For the living room, the forest where Alice wanders in search of the way out.
3. For the hallway, I want to decorate in the manner of the Rabbit Hole (pictures in strange frames, etc.)
4. Studio room = Cheshire's lair
5. Bedroom would be Red Queen.

Now there are two bathrooms that I'm not sure what to do with but honestly I think i'll just leave those be so that theres a resting spot. I don't want to make it very busy. I plan on achieving most of this through wall decals...such as a tree decal in the living room (maybe butterflies to tie in the Catepillar?) Its still in the works.

Anyway!

Ciao!

Oh, she's gotta go.

SO LONG!!

Man! Its been years!

Or months, whtaever...

I'm currently in Napa Valley, in California...

Just finished breaking myself back into the art world by doing some good ole fashion FAN ART!

Lee Hyori's comeback album 2010

The woman has changed...a LOT, but I really like this song for some reason. It was weird for me at first because this album appears to be SOOOO different from what she did before, but at the same time...I just really like this.

Man..

I have not posted in forever!

But, i've been having a lot of computer failures over the past month or two so I guess thats life (or my life anyway.)

Been creatively inspired but not necessarily in the illustration field. Got a lot going on right now...

Just thought i'd give ya'll a little update...

Heres a lil peak at what i'm currently working on. The line work has actually been done for a while now, I just can't bring myself to touch the paper with paint for some reason! I think i'm afraid of messing it up xD

But the concept is something of calling down the stars.

Spring Tiiimmeee

So the other day I was able to visit a Thomas Kinkade gallery with my friend in Savannah and was reminded of just how awesome this painter is. And on top of just mad skill, he also had a series of paintings done for Disney featuring various characters! They were amazing to say the least...and while this picture featured below is not an example of this, he had quite a few paintings of spring/summer time settings and it just reminded me of how nice such a season can be.

It even made me excited for this summer, so in leau of that, here are some spring/summer inspired paintings I found via net! Enjoy~

Way down yonder --

Its the start of spring! And with that, comes awesome spring/summer celebrations, and we're already planning a great one...camping trip in June! It'll be mostly family, its looking, and maybe a friend or two...even with just family its a group of nine! But it'll be excellent cause most of these people were already planning on being here in FL at that time frame anyway.

So far we got:

Me

Matthew

Brian

Jessica

Adrian

Stefani

Jorel

Wesley

I actually haven't told Wesley yet but I dont think he'd say no? Theres a maybe on Vlad but thats a hopefully.

I'm sorry but this just hurts my heart.

So, I've already had to drop $1400 into my car this past Wednesday just to get it to where I should've been able to drive the car to Savannah this upcoming Thursday, which means I put off things like the air filter and such as they don't really effect the safety and ability of the car to drive. There were a few various other things that I was told would need to be fixed but that they weren't imminent and that I should be able to pay for those check by check from the up coming race events, and that the car was completely able to drive to Savannah and back now.

But then, on Monday, while driving in it for probably the 4th time since I had gotten it back out of the shop, the car started bouncing and shaking and the check engine light came on (yeah no shit). SO! I called the Mercedes place, took it back in, and just found out that apparently a bunch of wires and coils or something have fallen off, down, out, I don't know exactly, but that its going to take roughly $1700 more to fix that.

This will bring my total of fixing that car to roughly $4500.

I looked it up. I can purchase a brand new 2010 model of my car for $45,700.

WHAT THE HELL PEOPLE COME ON!?

This fucker better fly when I get it back after all this, or heads will roll.

Hallo

Live



Video

Falling Stars

Finally have an idea for a drawing! look out for it!

Whats the deal with Sea Foam?

So, went down to the beach this morning...blessedly there were far fewer bikes out there than have been for the past few days (Bike Week = total and complete hell for residents here in Daytona Beach) but I noticed a lot of sea foam. Saw a bird get attacked by sea foam as well, which was amusing. Came home and looked up what sea foam is exactly, and it turns out its bits of dead fish, seaweed, basic impurties in the water, and salt all mixed up...

Knew I was wise to avoid it.

Aside from that though, it was a pretty nice day out there,

if not a little cold due to the wind.

Mm...so its been a busy past week working the event but its finally over. Come this thursday i'll be leaving FL and heading up to Savannah to pick up Vlad on friday (Or will I?) then the fun begins!

Maybe i'll get something drawn while up there? I haven't drawn in weeks it feels like!

In art related news though, I did get my sticker book in that I ordered from Moo.com. I'll do a post on that soon. Ah...whats the point of this update? Just to update? I think so.

Ciao!

Yesterday's adventures...

Spent yesterday at grandma and grandpa's house in Palm coast (or at least the evening.) My brothers Brian and Bradley, as well as my Uncle Todd, were out on the dock fishing for a while. Didn't expect to catch anything cause it was pretty cold due to wind chill, but they caught two sting rays and an eel (all of which they threw back.) The sting rays were pretty cool looking, because they'd try to swim but were on land. I felt bad they got caught for nothing though (cause they bit the hook regardless, ya know?) but they did get thrown back out so that was good at least. Totally made me think of Family Outing though man.

Then I was walking back up to house and saw an armadillo run across neighbors yard towards the one I was in, so I ran up over to him and was able to get really close for a picture. He looked all sleepy and stuff. He was pretty cute :3

Then he got really scared though when I stood up to leave and took back off across other yard.

Heres fun thing though...I mentioned to Todd how i'd love to take canoe or something out to the islands on the intercoastal and just spend day looking around (cause there are all sorts of things out there like horse shoe crabs, rays, regular crabs, etc.) and he mentioned how he has a canoe and could easily go out there one day (check the tides) and camp on one of those islands.

me, " DUDE LETS DO IT!" lolz.

Think about how neat that would be? To go out there, spend day just searching small island and then setting up camp there. Man i'd be all over there. Cause you can fish and catch own food and stuff! Todd knows how to prepare all that, I don't, but i'd watch! and learn! I'm all for it man. It'd be sooooo fun! Just got to wait for this weather to warm up a little...

All sorts of things out there though. Todd's seen bob cats even, but I dont think they'd be on the islands we're talking bout since they're in middle of Intercoastal. Lots of horse shoe crabs, fishys, and such though, which will be fun. I can't wait!

(Random Outing adventure, per haps?)

Ah, then on way off island (my grandparents house) I had to stop and let a bunch of deer cross road in front of me, lolz. It was a neat trip.

Because it'd be a hassle to add these in on other one...

So these are all photos taken at Tybee. The ones with the grey wall are over next to the light house. Its actually this little back area of the fort that was just there and really cute so we took some pictures for our project. The one of the bench is just so you what kind of thing I was talking about (because wooden swing bench on beach isn't clear? lolz.)