APE is here! [cross-posted to the Pissed Off Pinups blog]

And in all my earnest preparation and other busy things, I neglected updating my blogs! Shame on me!

I'm here in San Francisco, though, staying in a really cool hostel. Would definitely recommend it to friends.

I'm just working on getting everything ready for tomorrow! I've got three mini prints (4"x6", the farting girl, superhero girl, and the farting unicorn [which I forgot to post the final version of! I'll have to do that when I get home... he is my favorite]) and a mini poster (about 12"x10.5" of the Devil Girl drawing from the Pissed Off Pinups title bar). Plus I have a portfolio of sketches for people to look through, and some fun little business cards that have my info at the bottom and a blank thought bubble at the top that I can draw different little things in... so every card will be different).

It should be a really fun time!

So if you're in San Francisco, head down to the Concourse (620 7th Street) this weekend and check it out! It's only 10 bucks for one day and 15 for both. And there's a lot of other cool people going, like Rachel and Mikey of Poseur Ink, Meredith Gran of Octopus Pie, and Jennie Breeden of The Devil's Panties, among others. Yay!

A whole month without an update?!

I've been busy again! APE is fast approaching, and I'm drawing up a storm to make sure I have a bunch of stuff for the table. I posted a few things over at the Pissed Off Pinups blog, but I'm also going to have some non-pinup things as well... This sketch of a unicorn farting will become a full drawing and a print shortly. The fart cloud will be all rainbow colors and sparkles and things.
And here's a couple of doodles I did a while back. The guy on the left may or may not be Jim (John Krasinski) from The Office... I thought it kinda looked like him though.It looks like 24 hour comic book day (check out the website here) is on the 18th this year, and I'm going to participate. If I do in fact come up with a finished product, I'll make some ashcan copies of that to sell at APE as well!

A small sketch dump...

Sorry for the lack of updates in the past week or so. I've been letting life stuff get in the way.

Here's a gal and two lions:
And another gal with a zombie:
A pig in the mud:
And a stegosaurus, drawn from memory:In other news, I got confirmation that I officially have a table at the Alternative Press Expo. YAY!

A few more drawings

An androgynous elven person.
Twiggy lashes are fun to draw.
I'm going to have to draw Snooty McHorse again. I like him.

Ah, marine life.

Whoa. It's been almost a week since I updated. Bad me. I would have put something up last night, but I decided to window shop for bicycles first and got distracted.

I have here, for your amusement, a paranoid whale, a sarcastic dolphin, and a farting hermit crab.

More people...

Two different gals with scarves.
I think this one's my favorite... she's got the most life to me out of this bunch. I think she's probably going to be a character in that future project. I think her name is Penny, and she runs a small thrift store/curiosity shop.
Not sure what her name is... but she thinks she's the bees knees among the local music scene.

Another character sketch

This is Ashby's pal Sophie. She's a dancer. Next time I'm going to make her head a tad smaller, I think, but I like her overall look.

I've been kicking around sketches of these guys for a while.

This is Nic and Ashby. They're part of a new project I have planned, for after I'm done with the Pissed Off Pinups calendar. I threw some color in for fun, as I've never colored these guys before... so hair colors and such might change. And I think I might give Ashby a haircut.

Today I fooled around a little with the tablet PC and a demo copy of Manga Studio

I sketched a tarantula.I really want to experiment a little more with the program... I think I might actually end up buying it. I really like the way the tools work.

Spam emails have been a source of amusement lately.

The text in this is taken from some spam I got at my work email address, with the subject line "gothic sniff." Reading it made me imagine some "wiccan" high school kid coming up with their own "spell."

On the weekend... [cross-posted to the Pissed Off Pinups Blog]

I took a little bit of a break this weekend to chill out after Comic Con and being sick pretty much all last week (this nasty cold is almost gone...yay). I do have a couple of drawings to post, but I want to take some time and color them. So they'll go up tomorrow night.

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Rodents, rodents, rodents...

I love drawing animals. That was one of my favorite things about drawing caricatures at the zoo... I got a LOT of practice drawing animals. I seem to really love rodents and reptiles the best for some reason... so today I ended up with a rat and the cutest armadillo I've ever drawn... I don't think they really run that fast, but I like the feeling of the drawing.One of these days I'd LOVE to do a children's book with a bunch of animals in it... but that's on the back burner while I work on the pinup stuff for now.

I've been reading a book set in the 1890s.

So I ended up drawing this guy:Yeah, if I ever decide to hand letter anything, I'm going to need a lot of practice.

For the curious, I'm in the middle of Devil in the White City by Erik Larson. It's really well-written creative non-fiction about the Chicago World's Fair and some mysterious murders that happened around that time. I highly recommend it.

SNOT MONSTER!!

My headcold exploded after Con. I feel like a snot monster.

I drew these guys last night. Good to know I can still draw with a pen without sketching first sometimes.


Booked my room for APE today. I'm getting really excited.

A couple of sketches from Comic Con

I drew these during one of the times I snuck away to the industry lounge to get away from the crowd on the floor.

This guy kind of reminds me of some of John Allison's drawings in Scary Go Round.
I just wanted an excuse to draw large glasses from 25/30 years ago. So I drew this pair:

Comic Con 2008, among other things... (cross posted from the Pissed Off Pinups Blog)

I've once again let other life stuff get in the way of pursuing my artistic goals... What's up with me not updating since December, anyway?

I'm going to be at the Alternative Press Expo, come hell or high water. And I'm planning on having a Pissed Off Pinups 2009 Calendar with me.

I've already got a few sketches done, but will have to wait until after the Convention is over to post them. It's been pretty exhausting so far... there are just SO MANY people this year! But I've gotten to see a lot of old friends, make some new ones, and meet a couple of people I've admired for a long time... all of which are evidence of a good Con.

See you again in a few days!

[Side note on my regular sketchblog: I've got some drawings to post that I've done in the last few months, as well as a few sketches I've been doing during my escapes to the industry lounge at Con this year... I'll be posting a few of those after Con is over. Yay!]