The Horse and His Boy, pt. 1

I've decided to do a series based on C.S. Lewis' The Horse and His Boy. It's my favorite of the Narnia books and unfortunately, I feel, the least popular. At least in the media. Here's a buncha thumbnails for the book. Some will disappear as I finalize the flow I want to take the series in.

A Middle Earth situation.

Hello folks! Sorry it's been awhile since my last update. I got a job at Harkins Theatres a bit before Christmas, and since then I've been working steadily. It's rather fun! I am of course still eager to get a job in my field, after all, but one of the perks of working in a movie theater is that I get to see movies for free. If you know me, you know I LOVE movies, so that's pretty important! Lol. I've seen The Hobbit a total of 3 times now, in all formats but IMAX, and I really really love it. It's so different from The Lord of the Rings--much more of a road-trip adventure story, much less bleak also. I really love all of the dwarves, too! I will eventually draw all 13 of them, as one of my favorite things is how the people at WETA took great care to make all of their designs and personalities distinct from one another. Of course, I am partial to Bofur because he's a sweetie. And Thorin and his nephews, because I have many feelings about the remaining line of Durin. :( It's an interesting thing about this series, both books and movies...I feel very inspired to get back into traditional art. There's a very organic feel to The Hobbit. I don't know if that even makes sense to me, but here's some quick pieces I've done recently. More to come!

I've revamped my character, Max, who is the primary protagonists for my story Enigma (soon to be webcomic!).

Needless to say, it's great to have something that I can finally show people for commissions, art trades, etc as well as something for my own use!

Here are some sketches for things I'm working on lately... Designing a bomber jacket emblem for a family friend.

And a character design for a blog header, commissioned by one of my mom's friends.

I also finished another pet portrait--got to draw bunnies for the first time! Also for a family friend.

Moral of the story is, I laugh at those who say your family can't help your career. (Because I've gotten so, so many commissions from people who know my parents!)
Lastly, here's something I just started today to work on in between job hunting, commissions, and video games. It's one of those Artist With Their Original Characters pieces. I have too many characters to name, but these guys could probably be considered like, different aspects of my own self. Calypso is from the Dragon Raiders Project, Max is from Enigma, and Skye is from Enigma: Viridian.

Sketch Dump #1

Howdy folks. Can I just say that I'm super envious of all y'all at SDCC this year? There I said it. I've yet to go to a California con, and I've been dying to for years but sadly, I'm in a constant state of broke-ness. Last week I went up north for a few days to escape the heat and sketched a fair bit. I have a new Moleskine, and I love it. You can draw on both sides of the page and it won't smudge. *3*

Mix of fanart and original characters. I've been sort of addicted to MTV's Teen Wolf lately--because of the excellency that is Stiles. So I drew his face a couple times. Doodled a Pitch from DreamWorks' Rise of the Guardians, Legacy-era Tron, as well as a couple Julie heads from Motorcity (which is one of the best animated shows out right now).

D&D Art Order Challenge

Recently I decided to enter the D&D Challenge on The Art Order. I only found out about the event a week before the deadline, so I didn't have much time to come up with something, but I really wanted to try something new. My entry is for Creatures, and I chose to do a tribe cook based on pre-done character references. Creatures are somewhat out of my comfort zone, but it wasn't as hard to do as I'd thought. In fact, I really had fun. I'm going to definitely enter more of the challenges on The Art Order. :)

Animation Studio character designs

A couple of very simple characters for my 2D studio class. The flying pig was my first choice, but it didn't match the audio I'd chosen so I'll probably use it for my second project.

second cousins

My mom usually calls on me around this time of year to draw portraits as gifts for our relatives. This year, the gifts are for two of her nieces/my cousins. The first is Reyne, my first cousin's daughter, and the other is of Gage and Riley, my cousin's sister's kids.
I hope they don't see this before they're supposed to! ;) (They need to be colored, but still.)

In other news, babies are really hard to draw. Forget trying to convey "boy" or "girl", try "human" and not "alien" or "blob-thing".

Saboten Con sketch commissions

This is all of the sketch commissions I did this past weekend at the 2011 Saboten Con (excluding one).