Snapshots

Just some snapshot peeks at what I've been doodling and enjoying lately when I get one of those rare moments of free time.

Mixed Media - doodles

I've got a bit of a cold, so my art is being pushed to the side in favor of kleenexes and sleep at the moment, but I thought I'd share a page or two I managed to doodle on this past week. I'm still feeling my way around with the whole mixed media idea, but I think I like where its taking me. :)

Sketches and doodles

Just some sketches and doodles.  Also drawn on photo paper with sharpie pens and markers.

Magic WIP mixed media page

Thought I'd share another glimpse at a new mixed media page.  Like most of these pages in my journal/sketchbook, this one is still a WIP, but I like the way it's coming along.  Hopefully I'll eventually finish a few of these pages and be able to share those with you all as well.  ;) 

Doodle from start to finish

Thought I'd share a little doodle from start to finish with you guys. This is on a printable photo sheet, a 4 x 6 I believe, with a tuxedo black Sharpie marker and pen.

Mixed Media pages

Still busy working on some projects, but in my moments away from those and my computer, I've rediscovered paint and have been playing around with some mixed media stuffs. I've been enjoying it immensely and I love that its allowed me to be more free in my creativity. Here's just a few of my pages so far I thought I'd share with you all.  They're still a bit of a WIP.

Scene studies

I've been working on a project that requires me to create full, detailed scenes, so I've been doodling a few scenes of my own when in between working on it to try to help me get better at it, since full detailed scenes aren't really my forte.  Thought I'd share them with you all.  I couldn't resist seeing what they looked like in other colors either. ;)

New Changes

Trying to do some new changes to my blog again.  A bit more colorful this round, I think.  Feel free to look around and see if you like it.  ;)  If you find any issues, broken links, etc, please let me know!  Trying to finish up a project currently, so might be a little bit before I get to work on or post any personal drawings, but hopefully once I'm done, I can finally show you what I've been working on.  :) 

Blogger acting buggy?

I just noticed that blogger seems to be having an issue with uploading some of my work.  The pieces are very bright, yet blogger shows them as dull, almost as if they have a dark overlay over them?  I can't figure out why or what's going on.  If you'd like to see the pieces at what they should look like, you can check them out on my Deviantart page or facebook page.  They should show up correctly at those places for now.  They seem to be anyway.  Not sure what's going on but hopefully it's just a temporary glitch.  I only just noticed it today.  :/ 

More vectors

 This piece started out as something completely different and somehow morphed into this.  I even started creating an extremely stupid, very silly story to go with it as I kept going with it.  Apologies if none of it makes any sense.  I really enjoyed working on this though, the picture part at least.  ;)  It's rare I ever pull together an entire piece like this, with a background and everything.

Another practice piece in this simple style.  Care for a cup of tea? :)  Be careful, the cups are ticklish.  ;D

Card designs, etc.

A simple design with some cake variations and practice with a new style of lettering.  Possible a birthday card design? 

 

 Just a silly design I was playing around with for a birthday card idea.

 

A monster birthday card idea?

 Some practice with a new style of lettering I've been trying out.  This one sort of became more of a logo type of thing then just plain text practice. 

I really really loved this piece I created a little while back.
So I recycled and redid some bits of it and created this, which I like even better!  LoL!  I really like creating in this style, if you can't tell.  It's absolutely delish.  ;D

Activity Sheets / layouts

I took a little time this weekend to try to get back into my creative groove and ended up creating a couple of 11 x 17 activity layout pages.  Some of the items I had already created and some were new.  I really enjoyed putting them together (although they're not quite complete).  It was fun trying to think of how to put the pages together and to find something fun to put on them, although I feel like I was being too repetitive on some things.  Still, I really liked how they turned out.  I wouldn't mind making an entire book of pages like this.  :)

Grandmother Willow

 

I've always loved Grandmother Willow from Disney's Pocahontas.  I thought it would be fun to see if I could replicate her a bit.  Didn't quite get there, but I still liked how it turned out. The top picture shows the original with my creation below and the very bottom picture is a larger single version, just if you're interested in seeing it as a stand alone picture? 

(Character and design is copyrighted to Disney.)

February 14th

Just some random things to share. Hope you have a great Valentine's Day! :)

Sketchbook pages - February 2014

Just a quick peek at a few of my sketchbook pages.  (Sorry for the terrible lighting.  Haven't had time to photograph anything properly.  :/ )