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.

Kitchen Textiles

Thought these were cute patterns -
I am doing a project right now for one of my corporate clients and was happy with myself when I made these.
I have a million more to go - but at least it's looking good so far.

I got this for you

I have been thinking about the class I have to teach in the Fall and I've been thinking about how long it's been since I painted something that wasn't for work. So I decided I better get on it and start doing drawings & paintings in the mediums I plan on teaching - otherwise I will just be a lame poser, and noone wants to "learn" from one of those.

I worked on this one a couple hours last night and a little bit today.
Just for fun - (jeeze, it's been a long time since I've said that...)

Girls, Girls, Girls... .. and Remy...again.

I forgot to tell you about the show that's up right now:
A bunch of friends and I have work up at the St Paul Tea Garden - it's a show of whatever we wanted ... and some streetfighter characters. :)
Here are three girls that I did for the show, and the final version of Remy from Street Fighter 3, 3rd Strike.

I feel like I have no concept of making this blog have a decent layout, so bear with my technical ignorance and enjoy these (semi-)beauties.

... i don't really like the two bottom girls much , but I do love the dark haired one.