Moleskin AND THEN DRAGONS

As part of the drawing foundation class I'm taking, everyone has been given a fancy moleskine sketchbook. Here's what I've done so far today.

Handy Studies

I've kind of let myself go this summer, artistically. Here are some sharpie hands I drew this afternoon

Adventure, and More

I haven't posted in a while.

Right now I'm at school, soon to begin my illustration degree! I am really excited about this!!! The reason I got back into blogger was so that I'd have a place to put up assignment work for class (studies and stuff), so there should be a little more activity around here than before.

So far things are great, and the campus is absolutely gorgeous. For now, here is a photo of my new desk (it's kind of a mess already):


I also did more comics since I've last posted. Here are the first three pages of a collaborative comic project called "Fortuneatly" (pun intended) that I masterminded with some other artists. It's about a Talentless Bard and an Amateur Dragonkiller going on Adventures, and we have a blog (there are more pages there)


And then a wip of something I've been working on. I don't have much in the way of plans for this, I just wanted to make a good-looking comic page digitally.

Pessimistic Swallow Stuff

Test of the first page. I think I'm going to do these in black and white with a grey.

Paintings and Bunnies

Here are some pieces from this weekend so far:


My friend had a graduation party, so I made her a card. With a sleeping bunny on it. She likes cute things, you see. Markers n' brushpen

This is an illustration I started and finished last night. I haven't done any pen/ink watercolors seriously in months, and little things not since a week or two ago, so I made this for practice. I used a DK Environment/Science book for reference on the forest plants. Moss and ferns everywhere!

Making involved environments (or environments at all) is a thing that I never put much effort into until maybe the last year or so. It's actually pretty fun, I enjoy it. Perspective can be kind of a challenge, but the shapes are mostly organic and this was shallow enough that I didn't need to worry about it too much. I need to get out and plein-air paint more so I can have better references.

The character is Daisy Snarlbear, a fantasy hero who has spent the last seven years of her life in the Rainbow Dimension, where she fought monsters, saved tiny rainbow citizens and annoyed the unicorn aristocracy.

Well

I'm in kind of a comics slump right now and didn't end up making the silly dragons comic I had in mind when I wrote my last post. So, instead, here is a picture of me pretending to be a wizard in a stupid awesome hat that I made.

NaNoMangO: Compromise

I'm stuck on a character design for Pessimistic Swallow, so I'm trading the ten sketch pages I have left to complete for five-seven (haven't thumbnailed yet) inked pages for an unrelated short piece. It's going to be high fantasy, because I am in the mood for dragons right now.