Summer Art Exhibition

So I actually entered an art show, something I don't seem to do enough of. Since I primarily want to get into pet portraiture and animal-oriented children's books, I decided to do a nice outdoor portrait of my rescued canine, Dillan. I called it, Pick-A-Dilly - just one of his many nicknames :)

Unfortunately, I don't have a nice scan of this piece so please excuse my phone-camera-quality. It's going to be for sale too -- no more being crazy attached to every piece of art that I do!

Wish me luck :)

Philadelphia Comic Con

Well, it's finally over - Philly's Wizard World 2012 Comic Con. I went nuts trying to get everything done in preparation for the show and I still couldn't do it all. I'm pretty relieved now but man, this past weekend was so much fun! Between meeting new people, selling prints, talking art with fellow artists, and hanging out with my favorite ones all weekend, it allowed me to get "re-inspired" if you will. Here's some pics from the Con.

My favorite artist comrades!

Above are some new pieces I did for fun for the Con. Very different, some in subject matter and some in medium, but I had lots of fun with this and may continue to experiment!

UPDATES!

Hello! I've been having a pretty exciting Memorial Day week, after my much needed relaxing/art-filled weekend. I've been getting my Fan stuff ready for print to bring to our table at Philadelphia's Wizard World convention this weekend. Artist Alley there is always fun! If you're going, please stop by the Rough Sketch table and say hi!

My weekend at the studio/boyfriend's house.

Also I received the honor to come to Carson Elementary School this morning as the featured guest speaker "wow" and talk with the kids about how art can be taken out of the classroom and into real life & career paths! I walked them through the steps I took bringing Kippy's story to life that I had just finished and it was a really good time. The little ones were so interested and enthusiastic. I even got a little too into telling the story by using voices and jumping around :) Sometimes my inner child gets the best of me!

Hope you're enjoying the summer weather and get your butt out to the Philly Convention Center this weekend! It's always a good time!

Fan Art for Wizard World 2012

I've been having lots of fun doing something I haven't done since I was a teenager...FAN ART! I figured since the Comic Con in Philadelphia is coming up it would be the perfect excuse to do some fun artwork upon the completion of Kippy. Below are some suggestions I got via Facebook. Would love to do more.

Carnage is one of my FAVORITE anti-heroes of all time!

Maximum Carnage anyone?

Earth Worm Jim! He's such a groovy guy!

Remember him from Sega Genesis and the cartoon in the '90s?

Great suggestion!

 

Good News!

Kippy is finally complete!  I'm hoping to be able to snag a few copies for Philadelphia's Wizard World convention :) Regardless, I will be there with prints & my portfolio as usual. I'm just relaxing and doing "fan art" (something I haven't done since I was in high school nearly) to make prints for. I'm a big Xbox Dead or Alive fan and maybe I can throw some Halo in there too :) Gotta let the nerdy side come out sometime. Sketches/final art to come!

For now though, I thought I'd show a pet/portrait I cranked out pretty quickly last week. I unfortunately didn't have a chance to get a good scan of it. Here's how it came out...via Android.

Step by Step..

This is the first time in a LONG time that I decided to go back to wet media in my illustrations. Being I didn't quite know what I was going for or what I wanted it to look like, it freed my mind some more and let me just go with it. I blew the dust off of my watercolors and started experimenting. It did feel good to just let myself go and be loose. Although I can't say no to color pencils no matter what, I have to say I'm pretty happy with how this cover came out. It's different than what I usually come up with, but I don't mind it.

Final Cover

After some tweaking & editing.