Making Patterns Tonight:

Catching up on my pattern stuff:
here are some tiny previews of the patterns I made tonight.
(except for the burgundy butterfly and the "be good be green" ones.
I made those last month!)

I'll have to post what I made over the weekend, too.
soon!

Back-dating Bracelet making!

I had a bracelet making party while chris played videogames on Sat -
Here is a silly picture of my weird forearm and a cute picture of Jade, my cat.
She pretty much was the reason for this picture, but I guess I had to put some kind of art in this post!

Cup Paper Banner Project - Process

I Started a project on Friday the 24th - A bunch of friends were at the studio with me working on various projects - and (for some reason) earlier that day I bought an 11 dollar huge roll of red paper.
Here are a couple pics of what I'm doing with it so far.
The end result will soon look like a giant doily!

I haven't done some personal art in a while and it felt really good.
The end thing will be about 20" x 30" and a bright cherry red!
When it hangs on the wall it'll look really neat with the shadows behind it!

almost bought 70$ worth online...

I drew this tonight for no reason other than I was drinking one...

(extra bonus points if you can figure out what it is)
(super extra bonus if you can tell the flavor...)

New Kitties

I made a quick AI drawing of our new kitty, Jade!
We got her a couple weeks ago and she's adjusted to our zoo quite well!
She's about 6 lbs and really cuddly!
Her eyes don't look like normal roundy cat eyes, only half-open eyeballs for her!

EDIT: I ended up fixing her up a bit this morning because when I woke up she looked really weird!

Wedding invites, for reals!

Hey!
Here are the wedding invites we're working on!
They will fold up into a self-mailing tri-fold


Just ignore that mis-spelling of Mississippipiipsstps.
And any other ones you find. I'll fix it before the real deal goes up!
Dance party! Only 2 months away!!
Ha!

ITS FIXED!!!

Oh man!
This whole website thing has been ailing me for the last, like... what....forever!
I made this great new website and for some reason I wasn't able to direct anyone to paperbicycle.com - only www.paperbicycle.com!

For anyone who had to listen to me whine about it for the last month. thank you for putting up with it!

but no longer!
you can now enjoy www.paperbicycle.com AND paperbicycle.com
finally!

WOOOOOOOO!!!!

THANKS CHRIS!!!!
:)

My Studio! On Chris's Blog!

Hey look what this is!
I can't believe there is evidence of my new studio!
Take a look at a post from chris's blog showing my new work space!!


My Studio! On Chris's Blog!

Paper Bicycle is my job.

I am working on a new website.
Here it is in it's semi-working state!
I hope to add more to the capabilities portfolio & whatever soon!

Now you know what I do during my "working" hours!

www.PaperBicycle.com

I have quite a few things I need to fix on here, but it's a good start!

I am so clever....

Here is a mini preview of some work I did tonight for a client.
We're doing a pitch to a certain large retailer for easter.
so tonight i'm sitting here drawing fast and furiously -
making bunnies in the theme of "fast and furriest"...

uh....
is that applause i hear?
...

ANYWAY - if they don't go for that title, maybe they'll go for "fuzzy bunny"
which is option B.
Either way these bunnies will be covered in flocking - and will hopefully be rolled out into a giant packaging program.

this was a lot of fun.

crossposted - superawesomeartchallenge

i did this for adam's blog.
it's made out of the security insides of junk mail envelopes.
it was for the topic " inner sinner ".
the end.

not so secret tee designs...

aw man, i can't help it...
here are some other tee designs i'm doing for my not so mystery client.
don't tell anyone.
i just want you nice people to know im actually doing things when i'm sitting at home (or tea garden) all day...

sorry about them being micro and I apologize for the watermarks ... i am starting to get a little worried about where my images go sometimes :P
I guess that's what I get for putting them on the internet.

on that note,
thanks SO MUCH to everyone who sends me notes when they're interested in my work! I TOTALLY appreciate how you've taken the time to track me down :) it means a lot to me!
many thanks!

fountain of youth

i did one of these two drawings last night for a t-shirt for that client i like -
and had to go back and revise.
Can you tell which one is my revision?
:P

Tee Designs - Client Work!

hey, don't tell anyone, but I made these two designs for one of my clients today!!
I'm excited - i really like them & I really like working for those guys.
Small pics for extra precautions! :P

baby kitty

most people who read this blog probably know that we got a new kitty.
i wanted to try painter again - so here is this in-progress painting I did of her.
I shoddily burned and dodged the crap out of it, but this gives you an idea. I have to add more darks in select places.
but i'm happy i did some personal art today.

cute kitties!

uh.... what?

two nights in a row I'm doing western things.
last night it was cowboy bedding.
tonight it was making a weird boot?
i can't believe i made this boot.
.... ??

just so you know, i was asked to do this by a client. it's not something i thought up on my own.

Fat Birds - Tiny Show

I made some fat birds! I drew them at the beginning of the school year and now I finally finished them! Man, I am slow!

Becky gets credit for the sweet pun-phrase.... (is that a pun?...whatever - clever.)

ace bandage

i made a quick painting today because i really just wanted to paint something.
so this is what I made. and i was too lazy to capitalize my letters - or scan it properly.

give peace a change ... er, chance.

Working on a last minute project for the same T-shirt company.
Although I'm not a huge fan of this kind of shirt, (done over and over and over...)
I'm happy with my first draft of this one. I will probably tweak it before the deadline, but for now, here it is.

Girlie Pieces

I drew these today for a new project.
Sorry about the Crappy Photobooth pic.
Maybe I'll show you a good scan later?

finishing things & tributes

today i finished that gouache painting i started a long time ago - i rushed a little, but it doesn't matter. what matters is that i finished it.
i spent a couple hours painting tonight while chris crammer and chris played the little big planet beta - (which is fun, by the way)

as soon as I finished the "feel" painting, i did a little cutie girl for chris crammer (and am a dummy because i didn't scan it!!!) but trust me, it was cute!
maybe i will ask him to scan it for me (hint hint?)

and since i was on a roll, i finally got around to painting francesca a tiny painting of her boyfriend, leon. i will have to give it to her the next time i see her... but until then, i suppose i might be ruining the surprise. (surprise! ;P )

i have two birdie paintings (acrylic) that are small and i started them a while ago.... i should finish those up tomorrow so i can keep on a roll.

Kids tees for you and for meeees

I've got this new client whose main business is kids teeshirts. Tween Girls tees.
I am really proud of myself because I just finished a giant batch of 12 for these guys & went in for the meeting today. Overall, I'm excited! They're pretty good for only having worked an hour-to-three on each! (which was the budget)

So the meeting went well and they're taking all but one of them. ...
and sadly, it happened to be my favorite. I was actually sitting there hoping they'd make a sample of it and give it to me, i liked it so much.
I really like the seagull one (that was the only one that didn't make the cut & my favorite!!)

I think these are small enough I won't get in troubles showing them...
Makes me wish I was small enough to fit in the shirts they're making!
.... Wait.... I AM!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

meelius - smeelius (Spore)

We got spore yesterday! I guess I'm lucky that it runs on my computer, right?
Well, it's been super fun so far. Creating a character and going around making friends with other animals and watching my guy evolve as my brain gets bigger.
Here is a sketch of my creature! Meelius-Smeelius.

Named after my cat Miles. Though it looks more like a pig/chihuahua...

Collaborative Artwork

Today Chris Crammer and I spent a long time working on this awesome installation piece.
Genius!

Body Art (and some gory stuff, too)

As Many of my friends know, I look at a Body Mod Blog pretty regularly.
They're currently going through legal battles about the authenticity of their site and need some help. I'm posting a link for a couple reasons, but the art related reason is that there are a LOT of really great (and a lot of really bad, or really confusing) pieces of tattoo art on there.

Take a look if you'd like: there is a great blog, a TON of archives & a crazy amount of stories about all sorts of stuff.

Be warned that a bunch of it is not work safe, and some of it is scandalous.
(not like I look at any of that kind of stuff...)

Click on the button below if you're intrigued!

The part that I look at is under the "LEARN" Section, titled Modblog.BMEzine.com

First Sketches for FEEEEEEEELlllll

Here are some of the sketches in my Journal for that painting.
I did a little on it in class when i was doing a gouache demo.
I'll show you later!

Making Patterns

Here is a preview of some work i'm doing for a client!
Pattern Bird Excitement!!

Feel - Feelings - Felt

I am starting a group of paintings? Illustrator Drawings?
I have this idea to do these interesting pictures of kids...
and here is a really bad photobooth shot of a sketch i did.
I'll scan the real one later:

I think I might do each kid with a different theme.

Trying Painter

Okay - so Chris Crammer makes awesome stuff in painter and I am jealous of his skills.
I tried painter for the first time today and this is what happened.
Now, don't judge me- because I had a weird sketch to begin with, but I found out how to use a wacom tablet today as well as a couple brushes in the program.
I think I get how it works! Maybe one of these days I'll do something besides mess around. It could be awesome!!!

Here's some progress shots and the "final" (don't worry, i can take "sleez-mo" off of it. It's on another layer.

Lots of Art : Completed

I made lots of art today - and last week.
I am also too lazy to actually get good scans of these so I took some crappy photos with photobooth. These'll have to do until I get the energy to walk upstairs.
I guess I have an excuse: that it's late and I am sleepy.

All in all I feel pretty darn productive.
Here they are: Some for Dee's book
(inked & unfinished) and some other sketches from life.