Evil Queen

A bit of Megamind fanart that I started sketching during slow times at Dragon*Con. Tried to emulate the strange proportions of Dreamworks' style here. Don't know how successful I was, but her curvy lady hips were a lot of fun to draw. :3

Roxanne Ritchi is from Megamind, by Dreamworks Entertainment. If you haven't seen it, RENT IT. I <3 this movie so much!

Serpents and Sealife

These are just some waiting room doodles, drawn over the course of several doctor/dentist visits. I think I've just about gotten my naga designs to a point I'm happy with enough to take on a more finished piece. I was hung up on the "hair" for the longest time before settling on a smooth scale to feather transition. I didn't want to do actual hair. Too mammalian.

Technically, she shouldn't have boobs either. Heh, oh well. ^^

Sea dragon

A friendly lookin' sea dragon, at that. :) I'd love to paint him up in some stripey Sail fish colors!

I apologize for the silence. My computer is hooked up in the living room and it's hard to work from there. So here's a sketchbook doodle in the mean time. :) 

Copernicus

I recently flew up to Savannah, GA to visit my best friend for her birthday. And thanks to procrastination and World of Warcraft I stayed up all night packing before my flight and went sleep deprived the whole first day of visiting.

Amazingly enough, I discovered that the secret to productivity is simply "not to sleep." And here I thought artists lost sleep because they were too busy being creative. It's actually the other way around. Silly me. ^^

So here's one of the things I scribbled out in my sketch book while chilling in the costume department at SCAD. 

This is a redesign of my character Copernicus. He was the second character I ever made and needed an overhaul from his early Pokemon-influenced design. His body structure is mostly based off of a goat.

Hugable gryphons are hugable.

I recently updated the website with a painting of a couple of cuddlefaced Wrennec gryphons. So to continue the darble trend, here's a commissioned sketch of a Sparrow/Bunny Gryph.

Bunny feets are so BAWWW!

Happy Holidays! :D

Even though I skipped a year this is turning into an annual thing. :) I like making paper ornaments that everyone can print and share. It means my Yule gifts aren't limited by my workload or the names on my card list.

2010 was a hard year for a lot of people. Here's hoping for a better 2011! :)

Prehistoric Jackalope: Part II

Here he is, all painted up and ready to go.

This little guy appears to be a smaller, stockier relative of the modern Pronghorn Jackalope of the North American plains. The species is new to the fossil record, so no further information is available at this time. He will be on display at the Jackalope Show.

Mixed media & Coffee

Prehistoric Jackalope

Trying to come up with an idea for the Jackalope Show. So far this is the best design I've come up with for a Prehistoric Jackalope without delving into silly stereotypical caveman imagery.

Maybe doing something silly wouldn't be such a bad idea. :p I like these antlers though.

Eurofurence 2010 Banner Project

My contribution to the Eurofurence 2010 banner project, the (Rothschild) Giraffe. She's wearing primarily beaded jewelry since the bead trade is an important source of income for Ugandan women, and Uganda is one of the few places this animal still lives in the wild.

This will be printed at a whopping 91.4 cm x 500 cm and hung in the main atrium of the hotel along with 10 others, to spell out the title of the convention. I'm incredibly thankful to have been included in such a grand undertaking. Even though it nearly killed my computer.

All eleven banners will be auctioned off for charity at the end of the convention.

Click to visit the Eurofurence website.


Title: 'She likes 'em tall'
Program used: Corel Painter

Velociraptor mongoliensis pair

Even though it's been finished and on-line for a while now I figured I'd post the final version of my velociraptor painting so I could explain it a bit further. :)

Description X-posted from Deviantart:
Male (background) and female (foreground) variations of Velociraptor mongoliensis. *waves her "artistic license" around*

I have been wanting to paint this since I read an article on feathers having possibly evolved for display, before flight. I liked the idea of a more fluffy crest plumage, rather than scraggly red sticks poking out of the head like they are commonly shown as having on TV. The male raptor would be able to hide his bright feathers and only flash them as a territorial display towards other males or a pick-up line with the ladies. I'm embarrassingly behind on my dinosaur learnin', so please don't beat me if I missed something. I wouldn't mind pointers however, so I don't make the same mistakes twice.

Photo reference of raptor skeletons were heavily utilized. I don't think I'll use this painting technique again. It took WAY too long and didn't leave me much control over the lighting. I kept zooming out and face-palming far too often.