16

May
I've been working on a new piece for June's Patreon. I have a lil preview for you below, but I've had a request, a very hopeful one I might add, for a mermaid and I had done some sketching previously but couldn't come up with anything that inspired me to keep going. But I finally did...  This is still in the sketch phase, the pics here, but the official inking of it is complete...

25

Jan
Art is always an evolution and lately I've been playing around in my Ballpoint Pen Sketchbook, seeing if I could get something part way between my realistic style and my Odd style. Here's what I came up with... What do you think?An need smish of both worlds. Kaylee and her crew look nothing like, at 6 years old, that they did in year one, and while I don't foresee them having any...

30

Jan
Today for Artsy Friday I have this pic I shared on IG on Wednesday of some warm up sketching I did. I was playing around with a few expressions on the girls faces... the bottom right is my fav!!! lol! I know I've made that face a time or two... or a million. It kinda reminded me of a comment that was made about eyelids. Yes, eyelids. Someone mentioned that when my Some Odd Girl images have...

12

Sep
I drew up this guys for October this week and while you're not seeing all of it I'm pretty in love with him. I'm not usually a big seasonal person but Fall *is* my favorite. I'm happy its Friday but next week I need to get started on some more digis, CHA goods AND Some Odd Girl's next paper release. AHHHHHH! I'm going to start some behind the scenes on CHA planning and our next release :)...

18

Jul
I have quite a few pieces from my "pencil only" days that I'd love to see in color but cringe at the thought of coloring the original. This past weekend I needed some calm zen time (why is a whole other story) so I had the idea to trace the basic outline of a piece I did in 2009 that fell into the color-cringe category and had at it with my copics, so we have a new coloring of a throwback...

06

Jun
Its Artsy Friday: Friendship edition. Summer vacation for the kiddos started Tuesday so I'm hoping they look just ashappy by September as Tia and Tobie do here. I will be in the fetal position in the corner with my wine... jk. Mostly. Maybe I can use my mental powers to project this on to my kids and in the process save my sanity. heh. Its been a really looooong week where it feels...

30

May
One of the things I found when I moved my office was an empty (but giant) sketch pad that I put a lot of my older pieces into. I remember doing this piece while watching TV a couple years ago, it's a sketch usingCopic Markers over pencil.In my mind she was balancing on a log, hence the pose, but I never did draw the log lol. The addition of copic markers was added mostly as an after...

29

Apr
Last week, I totally got kicked on my butt by a really horrible bout of bronchitis and sinus infection and other crud. So that's why you didn't hear from me all last week because I spent the entire week either in bed or on the couch, which when I'm sick is typically not what I'm doing. Oh my, did that feel lame... but there was nothing else I could do. When it got to be about...

14

Mar
Happy Friday everyone! This week I've been making a really big push on getting a lot of images stockpiled for either the coming couple months of Digital releases or for upcoming clear stamp releases. I've been going with kind of a spring summer outdoorsy theme. I really gotten back in the groove after being sick for almost a week and then not being able to draw for another. That's always...

07

Mar
Wow, this is been quite a week. With all the time I spent in bed sick, all my carefully laid blog plans we're for naught. But that doesn't stop me from having a little sketch for you for Artsy Friday! Typically I'm continually drawing, if its not a full image then just a doodle or a quick sketch, but in the times when I can't, sometimes it can be really slow to get back into. This is one of...