Happy Early Halloween!

October and Halloween are my favorite times of the year, but I haven't really got to enjoy it so far this year. :/ And I've had pretty much no time to draw anything for days or weeks now, but somehow I managed to create these little creatures during one small snippet of an afternoon. Thought I would share them with you guys. :) Happy Halloween to those who celebrate it and happy fall to those who don't. <3 br="">

 I wanted to add a background thing to the original set of these characters that I made, so I decided to make up a circular photo frame thingy. I really liked how it turned out. Hope you guys enjoy it, too.

 

A variation of the halloween square spider I created. Just playing around with layouts, color, etc.

Silly pumpkin

Just a silly pumpkin practice piece. ;)

Another new header!

Since fall is coming, I've decided to make another header. ;) Here's the sketch I drew out for it.

And here's the finished project, which I drew in photoshop, over the original sketch. ;)

Not sure I'm completely satisfied with it, but it will be a nice change anyway, so I'm going to try and put it up as the new header for awhile. Hope you guys like it! ;D

Pumpkin Abstract

This is another pumpkin I did with my tablet. Thought I'd make it a little more abstract and different.

Then I tried tweaking it in photoshop and came up with this one that's a little bit darker and a little more bolder. Not sure which one I like best yet. Probably the first one. ;)

Pumpkin patch fencerow

Phew, have been busy, but I'm finally getting somewhat back into the groove of making art, so thought I would post a new pic for you to celebrate the coming of autumn. ;) I know, it's still a ways off, but I just love autumn! ;D

So, here's a little pumpkin I did. ;) Hope you enjoy it! Drew it with my wacom tablet, which I haven't used in ages either. Definately felt good to have that pen back in my hand once again. :)

Mwahahahahahahahahahaha!

Okay, I've got an obsession with the Graffiti on Facebook. Just check out the new pics I created on my profile, and then some on my friends' profiles! :) Hope you enjoy them and have a very Happy and safe Halloween!

I junked my pumpkin!

I finally, after two weeks!, came up with an idea for my pumpkin! I just entered it today and now it's in the gallery, which you can check out here. Plus, you can see what the other artists have come up with as well. They're all so good! I feel sorry for the judges, because they're going to have a hard time choosing! :) If you'd like to join in the fun and 'junk your pumpkin', too, you can visit Holli Conger's new website and participate. It's so much fun and it's a great way to celebrate the fall season without being so scary! :) Here's my pumpkin. This is the pic from Holli's webpage, so you can see how it looks. :)

I want to junk my pumpkin!

Okay, this is the neatest thing. I came across this lady's blog when someone referred it to me, and I absolutely love it. Her name is Holli and she's an illustrator, of sorts. :) She constantly updates her blog, so there's always something to read there, unlike mine. :) She's started a new idea, though, called Pumpkin Junkin', where you 'junk' your pumpkin. You can go here to see an example of hers. Or here to participate and see what everyone else comes up with. I can't wait to junk my pumpkin now! I bought a baby one over the weekend, but I don't know what I'm going to do with him yet. The contest ends Oct. 31st, so hurry, and junk your pumpkins! :D

My Sketch book

I love looking at other peoples' sketch books because they always look as if the ideas just flow from their heads onto the paper. Mine hardly ever looks that good when I do sketches. Normally the rough draft I do becomes the final piece and there really isn't much sketching done in between. However, I got a new sketch book the other day and have been fiddling around on the first page for the past couple of nights, so I thought I would share my own page. I wrote several words on it as I tried out different styles of my handwriting, so don't pay any attention to some of the words. Some are labels and others are just doodles of the words of the songs I was listening to at the time. I really like my pictures on here though. Especially the elf and the crocodile hunter. :) The witch is an early idea for a poem I'm working on. This sketch actually gave me a new idea for the poem, so maybe sketching is more helpful to me than I think it is. :)