bee & puppycat

This cute and charming show is becoming a series! I am excited! :)

spirited away

tumblr link / You'll never find another love like my love.

(A tribute to one of my favorite films of all time. You can download the brush set that I used to paint this piece here!)

Adventure Time

Had a great time meeting artists and other nice folks at Sakura-con last weekend, now I'm itching to do more shows! So far I've got my eye on Emerald City, but I'm up for any suggestions.

And now for some schmoopy Adventure Time art. This show makes my artist-heart grow ten sizes!

elusive mini totoros

a quick mini-print for Youmacon, featuring those adorable mini-totoros... I used to look for them in the woods when I was little! :>

sketched with a pentel pocket brush pen on Canson bristol (my fave inking surface)

brush pen sketch

Girlfriends vs. the World

finally decided to see what this convention biz was all about, so I got a artist table at Youmacon!  I'll be there this weekend from Nov 4-6, selling prints and sketch commissions.  If you're heading down, do stop by my table and say hello!

I'll have a bunch of Sequence prints for sale, as well as some prints for various games/movies/comics that I dig.  speaking of which, here's a Scott Pilgrim print that I'll be selling, featuring the super-boss girlfriends :P

finished line art

painter oldies

some ace attorney painter studies from late '09... these served as a fun, no-pressure means of learning corel painter, color theory, and lighting~

and HOLY COW, i got the topic of the week for Illustration Friday!  the topic i suggested was "caged."  it's my hope that people will aim for an emotional interpretation of the word, rather than a literal image of a caged animal or something.  go crazy and be creative!! :)

if you came here via the IF link, i'd like to thank you for visiting my blog! now i want to draw a nice piece for this topic since i'm the one who suggested it! :>

family fluff

this blog needs some color and variation; too many 'figure study' posts on the front page.  so here's some less rigid junk that i forgot to post from last year. :S characters are from capcom's ace attorney, some of you may be familiar with this game as one of their best!

these were sketched w/ pencil, brush pen ("pentel pocket"), and corel calligraphy tools... it's important to shake things up! ;)

these guys are my favorite fictional family ever, so cute ♥

study buddies

ack, i've been so busy drawing but i still can't show anything yet... @_@ so here's something quick and sweet for now... drawn with corel's calligraphy tools, which i love to pieces~ i really like how deliberate you have to make your lines, i find it takes a bit more thought than just regular pencil!

Painter practice

here are some older head/color studies from when i was learning corel painter~ i really love working with this kind of simple brushwork! most of these are from capcom's ace attorney, the top one is from disney's mulan.

this last one was made in oekaki shipainter, not painter... but i like the colors enough to post it :)

Samurai Champloo fanart

oops, it's been too long once again since my last post... I've got some commission art in the works that I'm not quite ready to show yet, but for now here's a fanart for one of my favorite shows ever:i have a lot of awe for extremely well-animated action sequences, so this show really hit the spot the first time i watched it. then once i got into it, there was the amazing characters, story, music--the whole shebang!  This took a lot longer than usual (usually fanarts are pretty quick for me), but I learned a neat coloring trick while making this, so... things balance out. :)

for the love of Batman

I *finally* saw "the dark knight" today in an IMAX theater, and i'm struggling to avoid just gushing praise and sounding like a fangirl. so i made this real quick, just had to get it out of my system! (also got a chance to try out a couple new custom brushes, wanted to keep it rough & painterly)

i can't get over how amazing this film was... this movie had my #1 favorite incarnation of Batman ever, save for that incredible animated TV series back in the 90s, which i LOVED as a kid and would watch everyday after school.  point is,  i don't think i'll ever get sick of Batman.  :p

more sketches

got some more art to post, 'cause I really wanna fill up this blog! here's a quick fanart I made when i was taking a break from original art:

my friend jeremy recommended "Kung Fu Panda" as one of those super-cool movies that one needs to check out...  i haven't had a chance to go see it yet unfortunately, but i did watch every clip i could find of it and it looks AMAZING!! very authentic scenery, and the character expressions/designs are top notch!

and there's also this kinda sad excuse for concept art:it's an wip for my adaptation of a famous Chinese fairytale, but I accidentally lost a ton of progress on it (stupid laptop ran out of batteries). it's just as well since it looks like crap anyway... composition/scale is totally off. I wanted the dragons to look HUGE, but the composition just doesn't work for that purpose.  oh well, I'll start anew and see if i can do better~