New sketchbook drawings…this one is my favorite:
I’ve hardly been drawing at all lately, which is really weird for me. I find doodling as fun and relaxing as taking a long bath or having a good nap, so I feel weird and bad when I go a long time without drawing.
Bzzt bzzt bzzt.
I draw sloppily when I am in a strange mood
The weird thing is, I felt happier finally getting some drawings done, but at the same time I feel bad because I want to do less sketchbook drawings and more productive drawings- like on my comics and stuff. Hopefully if I continue drawing and posting less frequently, it’ll be because I’m spending more time doing actual projects.
RAR RAR I was mad and tired when I drew this:
Something I’ll never finish- drawings of Genie, a really beautiful little girl with a terrible history. She’s one of the more well-known “feral children.” Her story is interesting, but don’t look her up unless you can handle a really tragic story. I was going to try to render these with pencil but I kept getting sad trying to work on it.
These are happier! Bzzt bzzt
Lastly, some snippets of drawings from secret projects.
I’ll post the real things eventually. Happy to you! (^o^)/
Here’s some panels from a storyboard I did for Mighty B, called “Awww-esome”, which was the 3rd out of 4 storyboards I did. This was a really fun episode to board, because it had a lot of scenes with Bessie getting really frustrated and behaving strangely, and I love that sort of thing.
Basically Bessie is trying desperately to catch a glimpse of newborn puppies on the website “Puppynet” (just like puppy cam! Look it up if you don’t know what it is!), but she keeps missing them and gets more and more irritated. Meanwhile her puppy obsession deeply offends her dog Happy, and ultimately leads to a scary ending. Actually, I haven’t seen the episode yet, so they may have changed some stuff from the storyboard. By accident I changed an important part of the ending, making it a lot less child-friendly, but no one said anything at the time! I wonder if they kept it? Here are Bessie’s fellow honeybee scouts reacting to the puppies:
Eddie Trigueros did the beat boards for this episode, and his cool and cartoony style was a huge help and inspiration when I was drawing!
I should probably add that these are just bits and pieces from the story- it’s probably not gonna make a whole lot of sense looking at these. I just chose the ones with drawings I liked! You’ll have to watch the episode to see what’s actually going on! 
The gag above is that Bessie can’t manage to get to the hot dog vendor because people keep butting ahead of her in line. I couldn’t for the life of me manage to come up with a smart way to stage it so that what was happening would be clear, so Eddie helped me come up with this totally silly solution of having them just drop randomly out of the sky.
Really weird incidental cop guys. I hope the designers on the show made these cooler! 
I love drawing extreme frustration! Below is how I look when I’m mad.
Bessie is now determined to see the puppies on the screen, but every time they appear she somehow misses them.
The rest of this post is stuff from the ending of the episode, so if you plan on watching it and want to be surprised, better quit now!
Bessie watches in helpless horror as bad things are about to happen to cute things.
I like the description for the above panel
Hooray! Happy ending! I’m glad I got assigned this story because I got to draw lots of puppies. If you liked these, I posted some more storyboards from my first episode here.
That’s all for now! If anyone’s seen this episode, please let me know how it turned out. I hope to post new drawings soon. Thanks for looking!
Hey, check out this commission I just got from Shawn Dickinson!
I love this guy’s drawings, and since he is one of the best when it comes to funny cats, I had to get one of Luna and Babycat. This thing is huge in real life, too! Shawn draws all sorts of cool stuff, and he’s taking commissions right now, so take a look at his blog!
Also, Andy Ristaino nominated me for a Kreativ Blogger Award! Thank you Andy!
Here are the “rules” for the Kreativ Blogger Award:
1. You must thank the person who has given you the award.
2. Copy the logo and place it on your blog.
3. Link the person who has nominated you for the award.
4. Name 7 things about yourself that people might find interesting. (I skipped this one)
5. Nominate 7 other Kreativ Bloggers.
6. Post links to the 7 blogs you nominate.
7. Leave a comment on which of the blogs to let them know they have been nominated.
Like Andy said, it’s a bit of a chain-letter type thing, but since it’s a nice way to tell people you like their blogs and get links passed around, I say it’s a-ok! There are tons of amazing blogs that I check all the time, so it was hard to only choose 7, but here they are:
Rebecca Dart- She draws everything I love…kitties, barbarians, illustrations for scary country songs…and she’s truly amazing at it.
Pedro Vargas- One of my all time favorite blogs! I love everything this guy draws. And he animates too!
Kristen McCabe- So good…Kristen is super creative and funny, and her drawings are beautiful and always interesting.
Miss Withers- She’s doing these crazy fashion-y paper cut out dolls right now that I love…and her paintings are really cool and haunting!
Brie Hermanson- This girl is talented and funny and weird and awesome. I’m excited every time she updates!
Kristy Gordon- Kristy’s paintings are breathtaking and beautiful and really stick in your head for a long time and make you keep thinking about them. O__O
Seo Kim- Seo has a lovely style that’s really unique. She can draw amazingly well, and also has an eye for beautiful color and design.
Wow, I nominated almost all girls! Sorry guys!
I’ll probably be putting up some Mighty B stuff soon, unless I somehow manage to do some new art. I’ve been stuck in another terrible rut, and the only things I’ve drawn are for projects or work that I’m not allowed to show. Thanks everyone who left me feedback on my last post! I think I’ll post some more close up drawings from Skadi again at a later time!
Coming soon:
A few people expressed an interest in the side characters in today’s Skadi comic, so I thought I’d post some higher quality images so you can see them better. The backgrounds aren’t included because Luke does them on his computer- we work separately on our different parts.
***EDIT***
Out of curiosity, which of the 3 girls is the cutest design? I’m betting my favorite is the one no one else likes.
These girls aren’t based on anyone in particular, just made-up designs.
Sometimes when I’m drawing the characters for the Skadi comic, I put way too much detail into the drawings, even though they will be tiny on the screen. It’s kind of bad, because it looks icky on the computer, but if Luke and I ever print these, it’ll hopefully look real nice. I should probably simplify when I can, but I really like doing side characters, so it’s hard not to put some love into the drawings.
Goddess girls from “Theology 2“This succubus girl/girls got a pretty good response from Skadi readers, so here are some bigger images.
There are a bunch of extra inbred guys for the “Skadi and the Hill People” series we did- they were really fun to draw!
extra retarded!
Two peasant girls based off of my friends Christine and Sibylle, from “Knobinski“.
Lastly here are some close ups of the Amazon girls from “The Red Menace” story. I really liked drawing these girls a lot, so I want to come up with an excuse to bring them back into the comic!
That’s all for now! If you liked these, check out the actual comic sometime, as these are just blown up tiny drawings.
OH also, I was going to do a post sometime with more storyboard drawings from the Mighty B, but I’ve heard people say that work related posts aren’t as interesting. I’m happy with them though. What do you guys think?
A little self portrait…
…and a drawing of a really neat looking girl I saw in an old photograph. She had a loppy mouth and strange eyes.
A old friend told me never to draw like this, but I suppose I’m not listening. I’m super tired all the time lately. More energetic drawings coming eventually, I hope!
As a fan of the new Battlestar Galactica, I was excited when Jason Anders of the Fulle Circle Productions blog asked me to do an illustration of two of the actresses in the show. He recently interviewed Katee Sackhoff and Nicki Clyne, so that’s the two of them there in the drawing below as their BSG characters, Starbuck and Cally.
I did some quick and dirty sketches of the girls before I tried simplifying their looks for the poster:
Katee…
…and Nicki
Also, if you like it, you can get a 11 x 17 poster of it from Jason’s Fulle Circle Store!
And now it’s time to take a break from everything! Hopefully I’ll have some new drawings to post after I visit family and spend some much-needed time with friends this week, so come back soon! (^u^)/
This week has been kinda rough, and I’m anticipating more stress coming my way. -__-
I’m not sure if I’ll be able to draw much in the coming week or so, which makes me sad. But here are some sketchbook drawings done before icky times began.
I like this one above. I stole the colors from something pretty I saw online and can’t find now.
More girls as usual…haven’t felt like pushing myself to draw men and backgrounds and stuff. I’ll do that in…February. Or maybe March. BLEEEHHHAararrrghgg
Playing the ukulele makes her snarly. I make this same face when I eat cornflakes, even though I really like them.
sketch sketch doodle doodle barf
I kind of like how the big booty blue hair girl came out. And the girl under her has the hair I wish I could pull off!
I hope everyone’s first month of the new year is going good. T u T
This week has been kinda rough, and I’m anticipating more stress coming my way. -__-
I’m not sure if I’ll be able to draw much in the coming week or so, which makes me sad. But here are some sketchbook drawings done before icky times began.
I like this one above. I stole the colors from something pretty I saw online and can’t find now.
More girls as usual…haven’t felt like pushing myself to draw men and backgrounds and stuff. I’ll do that in…February. Or maybe March. BLEEEHHHAararrrghgg
Playing the ukulele makes her snarly. I make this same face when I eat cornflakes, even though I really like them.
sketch sketch doodle doodle barf
I kind of like how the big booty blue hair girl came out. And the girl under her has the hair I wish I could pull off!
I hope everyone’s first month of the new year is going good. T u T
I am sick and goofy on DayQuil. I wanted to do a mini-comic about this weeks hair salon disaster, but I’m already distracted, so here’s some random sketchbook stuff instead.
This background makes no sense, but I like the weird girl!
twirl twirl
Some weird animal drawings…
Also! There is an art show opening this Friday that I have a painting in. I’m hoping to make it, but I’m not sure if I’ll be contagious then or not. We’ll see! Here is more information:
Here’s how my painting looks framed and sitting up on my mantle…I made a blog post with details here if you want to see it closer!
Thanks for reading, stay healthy and don’t let sick people cough on you! I’ve been trying some new things lately when drawing, so let me know what you think.
I’m sleepy! -__-
zzzzzzzz
I am sick and goofy on DayQuil. I wanted to do a mini-comic about this weeks hair salon disaster, but I’m already distracted, so here’s some random sketchbook stuff instead.
This background makes no sense, but I like the weird girl!
twirl twirl
Some weird animal drawings…
Also! There is an art show opening this Friday that I have a painting in. I’m hoping to make it, but I’m not sure if I’ll be contagious then or not. We’ll see! Here is more information:
Here’s how my painting looks framed and sitting up on my mantle…I made a blog post with details here if you want to see it closer!
Thanks for reading, stay healthy and don’t let sick people cough on you! I’ve been trying some new things lately when drawing, so let me know what you think.
I’m sleepy! -__-
zzzzzzzz
