Cuz Octopus is Weird

Christmas is over, which means my feverish knitting and crochet craze has also come to an end.

So it's time to make ART

For the last two months I have been thinking about two-tone drawings and how much I love looking at them. Even when they're terrible, they are AWESOME.

(For those who don't know, by "two-tone drawing" I'm referring to drawings in only white and black ink on toned/colored paper)

In the next few weeks, I'll be getting stuff like this out of my system:

Octopus Tentacles two-tone drawing

This drawing, by the way, can be printed on phone cases, notebooks, t-shirts and lots of other random things you might want to own. Check out the store links, it is now in TeePublic and Redbubble and will be appearing in DesignByHumans in a few days.

Thanks for watching! :)

Inktober Complete - Achievement Unlocked!

31 sketches later...

Day 25 - hastiest sketch EVER

Day 26 - Running Late

Day 27 - First Witchsona (the ideal)

Day 28 - Second Witchsona (the reality)

Day 29 - Raven and the Spider

Day 30 - Sketch at church...cuz I love kitties

Day 31 - the Final Inktober, Happy Halloween y'all!!

And just like that, Inktober is over and my sketchbook haz 31 awesome new sketches and looks WAY more legit (as far as sketchbooks go) than it did in September.
Thanks for watching ;)

Halloween Continues to Approach

My only regret this Inktober is that I didn't make more of an effort to get involved with other artists on it. The competition and inspiration from comparing to others' work is hard to replace.

But there's only one week left of this, and the rest of my life (you know, stuff like being a wife and a mom and keeping the house together...not-so-small stuff) is starting to catch up with me.

Getchya caught up on Inktober thus far:

Day 20 - Bats and a kitty

Day 21 - Witch's kitty

Day 22 - My kitty (this one is alarmingly accurate to real life)

Day 23 - The mask I wish I owned and would wear EVERY DAY

Day 24 - Haunted Forest

And there is a lovely Autumn storm brewing up outside. It's perfect: overcast skies, gusty winds, gold and yellow leaves whipping past my window. Aaaah. Life is good.

Another Spooky Scene Completed

It is finished.

Nevermore!

All it needed was a small book, but it REALLY makes the difference.

The design is all over Redbubble, TeePublic, and DesignByHumans.
I'm not sure which I like better: the straight white on black, or the cut-out placed on any color background. Do you have a preference?

White line art on black

It's probably better to have more variety than less, so I guess I'll be updating Redbubble tomorrow.

In the works right now: a graveyard scene, a grim reaper scene, and maybe (probably) some black cats. Lots of black cats. Black cats friggin' everywhere.

ALSO:
Inktober Day 5

Following the "witch in training" theme

Inktober Days #3 & #4

day 3 - Grim Reaper

day 4 - Witch in Training

No Sick Days Here

Been sick in bed with terrible phlegmy cough all week (tmi? Idk). Want to know what happens when you're stuck in bed for a week?

Not much.

But if you have a laptop and a Wacom tablet, between coughs you can make stuff like this:

w00t.

I would have more cool new stuff to show you, but I've been asleep a lot this week.

Like, srsly, a lot.

But the phlegmy cough is finally letting up a little bit, hopefully I will have a finished Lord of the Rings Puppet painting by next week.

Looking forward to it? I AM.

I also touched up on an old favorite of mine.

Why do I like skeleton keys in a tree? Why does that even make sense?

Doesn't matter IT'S STILL COOL AND I LOVE IT.

(like these pictures? Check it out on Redbubble, you can get them printed on clothing, posters, bags, notebooks, phone and laptop cases, and LOTS more awesome stuff. Click here.)

The Tree Addiction Begins

Once upon a time, not so long ago, I drew a tree.

This tree:

And I've been thinking about trees ever since.

I might be addicted to drawing trees.

Last night I drew this:

If there's a support group out there for tree-drawing addicts, send the info my way.