Simply Potterific #22

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I'd never really found the name "Hogwarts" to be at all odd until I read the Goblet of Fire. Here you had the Durmstrang school show up, full of strong, serious young men, then the Beauxbaton school, with it's lovely gifted ladies... both school names reflecting its students......then there's "Hogwarts"... like... hosting what, smelly fat kids with skin bumps? Geeze! Not an entirely flattering name! Which is how me and Shagster came about this lil' comic. I don't know if the British system calls its elementary school system "elementary school" or something else, but I figure this way keeps it clear for most people. Also, the bgs and uniform designs I stole shamelessly from google, so if they look familiar (or if you happened to wear one as a child) it's no strange coincidence.

Pencil Crayon Pinup #2

This is Buttercup from The Princess Bride. I hadn't seen the movie in so long, but I watched it again today and just loved it all over. She wears this dress when she's moping around the castle pining for her beloved, I love this scene because it manages to be both heartbreaking and also kinda funny...
I still have a long way to go in pencil crayon colour theory.

Simply Potterific 21

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I'm pretty sleepy so I don't have anything clever to say... blah... I need to seriously work on putting effort into backgrounds...
But, still, fun, fun, FUN! ^____^

Beach Bettys

Some doodles I did at work today inbetween scenes. Man I wanna go to the beeeach...

charicatures #2

More celebrated bees!

Round eyed pigs

At work we've started putting up a "Whales and Rails" wall of incredibly fat and ridiculously skinny cartoons... here's some of my piggy contributions... never mind the anatomy I know it's painful, when I move back to Toronto at the end of this month I'm gonna hit the zoo as often as I can... or wherever you find piggies...

charicatures #1

Trying my hand at charicatures here folks, if you can recognize these celebrity faces than you're awesome because this is my first attempt at doing this. I got the reference from one of those $3 off the rack gossip mags, and I felt so filthy buying it...

Lefty Sketchy 2

Some concept sketches for a comic I'm working on...

Shrub Monkeys #24

When I went to see Ice Age 2, like a couple months ago, I tried to be open and enjoy it, but my honest emotional response was both frusteration and anger, but the kiddies still loved it! Maybe I'm just getting jaded in my old age...
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Lefty Sketchy

I did this last night with my alternate hand which I neeeeever draw with... and I'm rather pleeeeased with the result, it seems to me there's a lil' bit more thought process involved when working with a non-dominant hand, while your normal drawing hand will sometimes act on its own and do whatever it feels like in doodle mode.

Sketch Dump #1

Gerry drew my attention to this animator's wonderful sketch postings http://blackwingsketch.blogspot.com/ as well as her blog on animation theories and peoples and all that good stuff. But her sketch blog inspired me to share pieces from my own sketchbooks with you guys every now and then (as I tend to hide them like I would a secret diary and only post relatively polished pieces.)

Below: I was working on some character designs for a western me and Shagster are working on... and I ended up drawing two of my favourite Sheridan gals instead.

I don't sketch people nearly as much as I should...

Shag Potterific

The Potter kids and myself ala the style of Shag (www.shag.com).

Shrub Monkeys

A Jamie Hewlett (Gorillaz) inspired version of my siblings Shagster, H.E.S, and I.

Shagster's b-day filler.

Steven "Shagster" Shanahan has just turned 21, (has the world gone mad???) Anyhoo, I promised him a super cool card, but as I'm battling deadlines and working on commissions (and it took over 20 minutes to search for reference material for the real card) I gave up for now and instead submitted this filler card! Just something to hold him over til I get the REAL card out.
I'm such a good sister :)

Treva

Ehehe... yeaaaah. Just a quicky I put together for a contest on Deviantart... though lord knows there's so many more crucial things I should be doing right now. It's pinup artist Joe Chiodo's Treva and her love for furs...
I'm only gonna post the thumbnail here for people offended by humans in their natural (albiet ridiculously over endowed) state of nekid-ness, but to see the full view click on the title link.

H.e.s n' Zell

A quicky for my adorable lil sis who's totally in luuuuuurv with the gollum/shaman/swordsman Zelgadis from the Slayers anime. Man, Slayers is one of my absolute favs, it is sooooo dang funny (though it can switch to deadly serious within the span of an episode)... but that's also why I love it! Keeps you on yer toes...

Oh such colourful hair!

My brother and creative partner Shagster hosted a voice acting panel at Anime North recently, and one of the activities was to have the audience participate in voice acting for various character architypes found in anime (like the school bully who has big hair and looks like he's 30, the b*tch aunt who begrudgingly takes care of the main character after their "good for nothing parents passed away", the pretty boy villain, the annoying magic side kick, the sexy villainess, etc etc). So it was of course my job to design all 20 characters (and I'm getting a Nintendo DS as payment, muahahaha!)My absolute favourite design is the wizard... I wanna use him for something...

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It is your destiny...

A marriage gift for my uncle Christopher and his wife Rebecca, who both love Star Wars and camping.

...I definetly need to keep practicing with characatures...

Lum-oo!

Man, this was a spur of the moment thing, and there's probalby a million things I should've done instead (ie/ work, or commissions) but as soon as I sat at my art desk, this sassy bikini-clad alien babe popped into my brain and I couldn't sleep till I got her outta there.
Lum, or Uretsi... Ureetsi... forget it I can't remember how it's spelled, LUM was one of the first anime me, my dad and Shagster got into back in the mid 90s when anime was starting to break out big into North America. And even though I saw many more various anime afterwards, none can beat this one for its pure wacky zany-ness. She kind of brings to mind Betty Page now that I look at the final piece... I can't wait to see that movie.

..... and YEAH I gave her a big bum, DEAL WITH IT!

p.s. Argh... I just realised she has a weird man neck... and no real pelvis just a butt coming off her waste... and a broken shoulder... AAAAAUGH I need to go back to life drawing!!!!!!!!!

Sweet Home Ottawa

I've got to admit, I'm in love with Ottawa. It got a little harsh over the winter but now that green is in abundance, and the honey smell of (a certain tree that I have no idea what its called) is in the air, and the tulips are poppin' up like daisys... well I'm in love all over again. Especially with where I live. The appartment is okaaay and the street is kinda grubby, and there's aLOT of chain-smoking teen moms and creepy street guys, but I love it all the same. Especially if you walk down the side streets and see the more established old neighbourhoods, the houses have so much character. That kind of brings me to the point I'm getting at:
I've a huge passion for houses, I love all the different shapes and colours, nicknacks and pattywacks, even when they're falling apart they hold so much asthetic appeal to me! What I really wanted to do was spend time sketching the ones I like most, but I can't really capture what I see on paper too well yet, and a snap shot is much faster than if I sit on the side walk and doodle (where the home owner is BOUND to spot me). So I'm collecting photo reference (I also want to base a comic I'm writing here) but I'm hitting a kind of questionable area here where I'm wondering if taking pictures of people's homes is a kind of violation of privacy. Though it's not like I'm looking in the windows or hassling their pets. I keep the photos for my own record, (but if I were to show them I'd blot out the number and street sign). It doesn't seem any worse to me than sketching people on the bus, but even then I get nervous (if the person spots me I get all worried I'm going to be confronted... but most of my artistic friends do it all the time).
Ah well, I'll cross that bridge if and when I get jumped by a home owner, til' then I'll just keep appreciating the best source material out there: real life.