I enjoy crosshatching. I enjoy drawing cute ghosts. And guns. Here is an amalgamation of all those things.
I love all those floaty ghosties. Is he an assassin, and those are the ghosts of people he killed? Is he a vigilante, and those his little helpers? Is he in a post-apocalyptic world and they are his friends long dead? I don’t know. Those are all sad. I think they’re his little floaty friends:)
A speedpaint of this piece can be found here, on my youtube channel!
I often combine ink and watercolor. You know how much I love ink, but watercolor is really growing on me…
Look! He’s hanging all his armor on the line! Yes, I know they wouldn’t hang on twine. It’s magic, hush.
Look at the texture of that paper! Sure, this watercolor paper isn’t that good… but I love it when paper has a tooth that just grabs the paint. It makes me happy:)
The way you can use watercolor to show light and shine is fascinating. I think I could practice a hundred years and still not figure out everything that I can do with it! Here are twins. And a snake. And green fire.
This was inspired my a picture on pinterest. The wavy background, I believe, isn’t messed up even once! Perfectionism DOES pay off!!!
An early Poison Ivy redesign, except way more mystical and like a fantasy druid or something! I like the energy and floaty-ness of this piece.
Some of these are for sale in my etsy store!
A year ago, my husband asked me to marry him! Obviously, I said yes:)
This doesn’t capture how very handsome he is, or how fluffy his hair is in real life
We make a lot of stir fry. That’s what’s cooking on the stove:)
If I had a nickel for every time I animated a powerful woman with fire powers, I’d have two nickels… which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice, right?*
The first was Aubrey Little, everyone’s favorite pyromaniac/deity.
You can find the process video here :) I had so much fun drawing her boots!
The next time was a random little doodle that proved I do experiment with different brushes in photoshop.
Isn’t her hair awesome?? The full video is here :)
*if you can tell me what that quote is from, you get a million wishes:)
I couldn’t even BEGIN to tell you the joy and tears this wonderful, silly podcast brought me. For those who don’t know, The Adventure Zone is a podcast of three brothers (the internet famous McElroy family) and their dad playing D&D, some classic D&D, and some other systems. My favorite arc was Amnesty a story of cryptids and cyrptid hunters. It starred: Duck Newton, a park ranger who doesn’t want to fulfill his destiny; Aubrey Little, a stage magician who finds out her fire powers are suddenly real, and Ned Chicane, who runs the Cryptonomica, full of fake cryptids and local lore. Here they are:)
What do you call a cross between a knight, hair made of water, neon light, medieval illumination and crosshatching? This piece:)
I LOVE this piece. Definitely my favorite that I’ve made in a while:)
Basically, I started out drawing the border, then a knight within. He’s standing watch over something. Are the water spirits dangerous? I don’t know. Maybe they’re supposed to tempt him away from duty. Maybe I’ll delve back into this world later.
Look at the borders!!!! I love them! Medieval Illumination is awesome, and I fully intend to do more of it. You can’t stop me>:)
A triptych of Hijabis inspired by nature.
I love the soft colors of snow here. I had a lot of fun learning about shadows on snow, and way too much fun showering snow on all those pine trees. This is the doodle that inspired this series and I still really, really love it:)
I also varied my style in this series, which is unusual. I was kinda in an art style crisis (still am), and so I just carried out the concept with the art style that I felt like at the moment. The colors and the moss contrast were fun!
Thar she glows! Mushrooms are cool to draw, especially glowing ones. Are these an accessory? A growth? A snack? We may never know.
Do you ever get images stuck in your head? That’s how quite a few of my drawings start out:)
Here are a few of my pen and ink planning sketches! Who knows how long it will take me to go them…
Augh, I can’t WAIT to get my gold in the mail…. Can you imagine….me, armed with gilt…I’d be unstoppable
She’s in bed. It’s raining. At this stage, the idea is now on paper so that I don’t forget it!
I did a little version of this one in church. I’m excited to see it BIG
When I finish this, I’ll post all my photo references! When it comes to portraying indigenous peoples, I really, really want to use accurate refs and such. I’m looking forward to the sweeping scenery!
Divorced. Beheaded. Died. Divorced. Beheaded. Survived. You should listen to Six! the musical and also read Alison Weir’s book about the Six Wives of King Henry the Eighth!
This one is all ready to be inked! I just need to set up my phone, because I want to film this one >:)
The concept was HILARIOUS to me, and I was right, it’s just as funny on paper!
If you know me, you know Gravity Falls holds a special place in my heart. I don’t really do fan art? I don’t know why. This will be a practice watercolor piece because I…need the practice.
Do you enjoy pen and ink? It’s definitely one of my favorite mediums to work in!
To free her, you must travel through three other snowglobes and bust ‘em.
You can see the process video below
People keep telling me that character design is important. And, since I’ve left Marvel and frankly, never looked back, here are some actually interesting heroes and villains, redesigned by yours truly*
Process: Wow, Gal is pretty:) Sports outfit, well-read, match the color scheme, make her 75% more muscular. I wanted Diana to look like she could actually throw a man across a football field. (Her face is based on Gal Gadot’s)
One thing Batman villains get right is the aesthetic. Poison Ivy has an excellent one, but leotards aren’t really practical or comfortable and was so obviously designed by a man. Give her some good overalls and a sharp garden implement, and then come talk to me :) (Face based on Sandra Oh)
TBH Catwoman my least favorite one… I wanted her to be lean and look toned, but not muscular, like a pilates instructor. I LOVE her little cat handbag though:) (Face based on Halle Berry)
Supergirl! I love this one:) She has almost the exact color scheme of Diana, but upside down. Still, I wanted her to be strong as well, but super flexible and chill to the bone. Her hair is AMAZING. (Face based on Lupita Nyong’o)
And Harley Quinn. Wearing Crocs. They should have about 50 more charms on them. Yes, she IS playing Animal Crossing. I tried to combine her old outfit with her new one, with a little bit of scene kid thrown in. Thus, the Scrunchies on her wrists like her old cuffs, her hair like her Birds of Prey hair, and her belt like a checkerboard. (Face based on MAagot Robbie)
* I haven’t ever consumed DC media besides Wonder Woman, to my delight, and The Dark Knight, against my will.
I think Sleeping Beauty would have fared better if she had sister. She might not have been so lonely. I know I would go feral if someone tried to kiss my sister while she was unconscious. Here is Rose, already asleep, and Marigold and Iris, her sisters:)
Left is Marigold, middle is Rose, right is Iris.
Isn’t PInterest a wonderful, time-consuming, soul sucking place? Where you can scroll for hours and come out the end of it full of inspiration and a longing for baked goods?
Anyways. That’s how MY relationship with Pinterest works.
I have a whole board dedicated to color palettes and, like all my other boards, is just used for hoarding. Here are a couple of pieces that I actually used a palette for.
Love story:) I usually imagine little stories for the characters I draw… this man is a blacksmith and this is his bride, the baker
here is a priestess. My high school’s colors were purple and gold, so I’m slowly forgiving those colors and using them more.
This is a runaway from an orphanage, who’s about to start a magical adventure and bring the fellow children along with her.
This is a still from “Becoming Jane” with Anne Hathaway. LOOK at those blocky shapes!! I need to do this some more.
She has goo dnews for her son! This was based on an image I saw on pinterest, but can’t find any more, as well as traditional Russian clothing.
Oh, to be a Victorian lady on a wraparound porch looking at her roses.
The Spirit of Spring. I really, really like this piece! The textures are lovely and the colors I could eat with a spoon:)
Yet another grad school project. I chose to illustrate Ivanhoe, which was not as good as I wanted it to be. But, Pen and ink suits medieval novels very well.
Cedric makes his dog leave the table :( and Wamba makes a witty, probably insulting observation.
Bois Gilbert and Prior Aymer travel, hoping to find some shelter before the storm. Being struck by lightning is too good for them.
A convenient monk fresh from the HOly Land! Who could it be? Not the sworn enemy of Bois Gilbert:)
No really, it’s definitely the only Saxon knight who can defeat the Norman champions and it’s CERTAINLY not the estranged son of the lord whose mansion he’s pointing to.
Rowena, a beautiful and spirited heroine in love with Ivanhoe. Not to be confused with Rebecca, the beautiful and spirited woman in love with Ivanhoe.
You make a prayer, you stick it on the clothesline, the wind carries it off
I LOVE pen and ink. It’s been too long since I broke them out. Procreate and my ipad have spoilt me haha. These were from an illustration project my sophomore year, to illustrate a classic book. Dracula was the obvious choice:)
Mina looks for a sleepwalking Lucy and spies a dark figure crouched over the slumped form of her friend.
The Captain of the Demeter meets a horrible end…Easily one of the creepiest passages on the book is his memoir, clutched in his hand that describes the descending paranoia and madness of the crew, as one by one they are picked off by…something….
Oh, Lucy. What a terrible fate to meet, and what a horrifying visage to face. Your beloved is a creature with no morals or mercy, an unfeeling thing of the night. One of the saddest passages of the novel.
Dracula’s revenge. Turning the team mascot into the thing that they fight would be pretty sweet revenge.
“You will join us soon, sister! Come, come!” Also a very creepy part of the book. The brides (who earlier ATE A BABY) cokme down from the castle and taunt Mina with her impending, eternal doom.
The end. Quincy is sacrificed and Dracula is vanquished.
I posed for these very gladly and enthusiastically. I made my roommates pose for many of these as well. They were less glad and enthusiastic, to varying degrees.
Huevember was the most fun month-long challenge I’ve ever done (of like, three whole challenges…). It was a chance to experiment in chroma and value! Inktober is fun too, but it always feels like a chore by the end of the month.
I don’t know why this was such a successful period of art, but I think I sort of rediscovered my very stylized style. Not paying attention to colors allowed me to ignore rendering and stuff and embrace flat colors and shapes.
I LOVE this one, because a.) puppy, b.) indigo, and c.) the complicated dress pattern vs very very simple everything else.
you can track a lot more on my instagram if you scroll way down. I would love to do it again this year, but maybe pick color palettes or something:)
Stay safe, and have a wonderful day!