No biggie here. I just want to see which blogging software will work better for me – Blog Jet or Zoundry Raven. This post was done with Blog Jet.
Here’s a test image to see if this works:
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Category: Art
Cartoons, webcomics, sketches, 3D art and other artwork.
Saturday Art – Summoned and Bound
There’s something very naughty and very pretty over at my erotica blog today. It’s a bit of artwork I did yesterday, a male nude. You can find it here. Enjoy!
Just Doodling
I’m schlepping Princess to camp at a local museum all week. The place is just far enough away, and her time at camp just short enough, that there’s no point in me coming back home to do anything. So Pixie and I are spending the day hitting ALL the local museums and parks in that area. There are quite a few.
Yesterday, while Pixie ran amok in the Virginia Living Museum (where Princess’ camp is being held), I squeezed in a little doodle time, experimenting with a new tool in my art kit – a mechanical pencil with red lead. I just can’t drag myself to the computer anymore in the evenings to cartoon, so I am once again switching to doing things the old fashioned way, by hand. A friend suggested I use a mechanical pencil with red leads to do my sketching, then after inking and scanning in the artwork, I can just drop the red channel from the image, and voila! No erasing to do to clean up my artwork. This page has both red and blue pencil in it, and I can’t get rid of both (it doesn’t work that way), but I was able to experiment in Photoshop long enough to confirm that I can do what I want with the red pencil. So without further ado, here’s my random doodles with the fancy new mechanical red pencil!
When you click on the image above, you’ll get it in full size, which will be HUGE, but then you can see all the nifty detail. Yeah, I know, whatever. And yes, that is a talking toilet in the lower left corner. That was Princess’ suggestion to draw.
Homemade Holidays
I’ve had a lousy week do to work issues, and I’m so fed up and frustrated that I can’t seem to stop snapping at my kids. I hate being the Grinch, so I decided to take a little time off from my obsessing about stuff that I can do absolutely nothing to fix and spend an evening just enjoying my girls instead. Cassie needed to make a Christmas ornament for her bus driver and Sam was in a pissy mood because Cass has all the good play jewelry and she wanted something new. So I broke out all my old beading stuff and this is what we made.
Cassie’s holiday ornament. She did most of this herself. I helped by bending the wires after she beaded them and then finishing things off by making the final loop for the hook. Otherwise, everything else is all her work.
Sam’s new necklace. I used memory wire, which holds its shape forever. That way I didn’t have to add a clasp to the ends or tie anything off. She can just slip it around her neck, but it still has an opening so the necklace will come off if it gets caught on anything. Sam picked out the beads and handed them to me. I did the stringing and finished off the ends with some needlenose pliers.
There was a lot of fussing and fighting over beads and who got Mommy’s help when, but all of that taught me a very important lesson. Doing any sort of craft thing with kids can be frustrating and stressful, but not nearly as frustrating and stressful as what some adults (who should know better) do to others. I’ll take my girls over most adults any day of the week.
Deep Fried – A Holiday Self-Portrait
Yep, this is me. All frazzled and fried, just in time for the holidays. And from what I hear, I ain’t the only one feeling like this.
It’s December 5th, and I have managed to buy a grand total of one, yes one, Christmas present. That’s it! Even though I put a little reminder in my calendar to start shopping waaaay back in October. See, that’s how organized I am!
So the plan now is to drug— er, occupy the Pixie with some TV and then spend the morning knocking out a few blog posts. After that, I’ll hit the online shops and do the Santa Mommy thing. The Cynical Woman cartoon gets the rest of the day. Tomorrow and Sunday are dedicated to my erotica podcast — I’ve got a story to finish for next month, plus recording to do for the next week’s episode. Oh, and I did I mention I’ve invited the Princess’ little playmates over for an evening of pizza and mini-chick flicks?
No wonder I look like this!
From my sketchebook – Sirena
From one of the sketchbooks I carry around with me. This was drawn with a mechanical pencil then inked with the Faber Castel manga pen set I bought recently. I love working in shades of grey, especially with pen and ink. I’m going to have to stock up on those pens since I think I may use them up pretty quickly.
I actually started drawing this one over a year ago, but then set that sketch book aside for a while and didn’t come back to it until recently. I think the original inspiration may have come from “Bizenghast” but I don’t really recall now. I just know I like drawing weird, creepy, flowing things, and I think this one certainly qualifies. My five-year-old likes this one a lot.
Artwork For Writing Website
I have to put together a writing website now that I’ve sold a book. Here’s a sample of the artwork I’ve been putting together. This is going to be the side bar. The red roses will be the navigation buttons, with pop up text explaining what each one is for.
Book Babe Day 3 & 4
I gave up on inking this drawing in Corel Photopaint. I thought I could get away with doing it, but when I hit the long lines in the dress, I had to quit. The digital tablet just isn’t steady enough to handle that kind of line work, at least not in my hands. Here’s as far as I got in Corel Photopaint.
The Book Babe, Day 3
This morning I brought the sketch (originally done in Corel Photopaint) into Macromedia Flash and started inking it there. The process is a little different, but the lines come out much smoother and I can do the accents better. Here’s the results so far.
The Book Babe, Day 4
You won’t really be able to see the difference until I’ve got the inking done and I delete the digital pencil layer.
Book Babe Day 2
More work on this image in Corel Photopaint. I took the pencil sketch layer, changed it to blue and began digitially inking over it with Corel’s felt tip pen setting for the paint brush. So far, so good.
Book Babe
This is a rough sketch of something I’m working on right now. The cool thing about this is that it wasn’t done with pencil and paper, but done digitally in Corel Photopaint instead. I’m starting to figure out how to get Photopaint to work as a sketching program, which will go a long way towards helping me do more digital artwork.
The Book Babe