new book cover

Just finished a new book cover and set of website additions for Gray Wings Press. Check out this wonderful book!!

www.graywingspress.com

the fun continues

Fun with the Cintiq! Top is an image I did for my friend Angelina (I'm making custom art nouveau profile pictures a thing) and the bottom is a painting I did off a picture I took of my brother and sister in-law (and a detail shot). Good times.

Wacom love

Thanks to the best husband EVER (in all the world) I am now in possession of a Cintiq 21UX, the very latest model of the very coolest digital art tool EVER (in all the world) and am thus the happiest person EVER (etc).

Oh yeah. That's the one.

Said best husband EVER (etc) had to go and buy a seperate cord to connect it to my laptop (mini DVI to regular DVI in case anyone cares) and then we had to figure out how the heck a two-monitor setup works (with a panic moment on my part when we mirrored the displays and then thought we couldn't undo it....turns out we had to just run the mouse over to the second screen) and then there was a brief flirtation with despair when I realized that the damn thing is just enormous and I have nowhere to put it - but after all that, I did a quick speedpaint and was super happy with the results.

I have no excuse not to art every day now. Like, none. On the other hand, I have to retrain my body to work using my entire arm - also a good thing, but might be harder than I thought.

But on the whole,

SQUEE!

animation backgrounds

So...the reason I haven't posted for a long time is because one of my friends from college, a hugely talented guy named Tim, asked me to help him out with these backgrounds for an animation. I had a blast working on these and happily Tim has given his permission for me to post some for people to see!

All of these backgrounds were drawn by other (obviously very talented) people on Tim's team, and in a few cases inked by them. I colored all of them and inked most of them as well.

These three represent the seedy school where the main characters go. I referenced Invader Zim!

This is the interior of an alien ship. I used a photo of a lava lamp for the ceiling.

These three represent a dark alien world. Blade Runner was the main inspiration here.

I wish I could tell you guys more about the story - it's awesome! But you'll just have to wait and see if the show gets made. ^_^ Working on these was a lot of fun and really helped me out in terms of realizing my potential - I had always seen coloring as a weak point of mine so it was amazing to see that I could do stuff like this!! Many thanks to Tim at WackyandZany for the opportunity and hopefully the animation will be a huge success!

upcoming vacation

Take a look at the picture 'cuz that's where I'm going!!

That's right - a delayed honeymoon and first vacation in years! My husband and I are going to Hawaii with my in-laws, and it's going to be fantastic. So I'll be out of town and not posting for two weeks, starting Monday. Right after the Hawaii trip we're hitting Emerald City Comic-Con, so I'll have pictures to post after we come back.

Really looking forward to it!!!