hi friends!

i'm taking a short break and working on another fun piece! i know i should probably be patient and wait until it's finished, but i was too excited and wanted to go ahead and post - so, here's part of the work in progress.

happy halloween in march!

hi everyone!

so today in my culture class we talked about halloween (we've been learning about random chinese holidays - i guess they wanted to included a foreign one to seem...more globally informed). it was cute - they even included an english halloween poem (albeit written incorrectly: "trick or treat, trick or treat. give me something good to eat. if you don't, i won't care. i will drag off your underwear" :P close enough i suppose) hahaha

so i drew a ghost! and a very sad, lonely halloween monster (yes, howard, he's a HALLOWEEN monster). look, he's waving, he just wants to be friends.

more old stuff

sorry guys, been too tired/busy to draw stuff lately, so i'm gonna post another old one. not that you would be able to really tell, since it's just another sketch in my textbook like all my other sketches in textbooks :P but you know what? i want to be honest! so here it goes - i haven't drawn anything new recently and this is an old sketch! there :P

as you can probably surmise, this was another reaction to watching "where the wild things are" meditation piece. by "meditation" i actually mean...i was thinking about the movie in class and drew monsters ^_^ monsters that actually look nothing like monsters in the movie. actually, they look kind of like muppets, which is okay too because i like muppets.

oh man, i'm rambling today. need to go outside and study some - it's finally getting warmer! oh joyous day!

hello peoples~
so this picture isn't from my textbook doodling, but i wanted to break things up a bit - thought the blog needed a little more color. here's a little creeper i drew back in....i guess it was final semester senior year. kind of a baby chick monster - looks like he's fleeing the scene of a crime :P

sketchbook: speaking class notes

hullo hullo!
well, it looks like it is cute animal day (i guess most days are like that - i'll try to mix it up with some monster/people drawings :P) as you can see, i was trying to stay awake in my speaking class (give me a break - the classes are so earrrrrrrly) i must have been in a good mood or something when i drew that happy llama though. my poor, earless gorilla-bear is another matter - don't remember what my teacher said right then to make me feel like that :P j/k - my teachers were all fantabulous. on another note, my roommate finally heard back from her parents! :)

here it is....

greetings all~

it's finished it's finished it's finally finished! i'm sending the superhero piece to my client tomorrow. finished just in time too, as i'm leaving the country for another semester day after tomorrow. i think i've realized that i like art again - which is a great feeling after being in such a slump for the past.....while.

anyway, of course i hope to continue posting, but just in case i disappear for a while, sorry. after all i'm going to you-know-where where blogs are....a little more difficult to access. i will try my best. i would appreciate your prayers for safe travel! and i will see you again from the other side of the world :) gotta sleep now and get ready for a day of freaking out, packing, and freaking out some more. g'nite!

commission images

hello all~
i'm back in town and the commission is coming along nicely :P still not done yet, but hopefully it won't be too long now. i've posted some of the detail shots. as you can see, above is the daughter aka the superhero. the following image (which would technically be above her in the actual painting) is a monster she turns into. that lamprey mouth was a pain to do, but i'm liking how it turned out. i'm thinking about adding more dripping blood >:) (the father specifically requested the blood, btw) this kid has a great imagination - i think we'd get along well.
and.....here is another bad image of the ghost story painting. i've worked a little more on it...obviously not done, but whatev. i had to mutilate it some more with photoshop increased contrast/sharpening/etc. because i just can't seem to get a good initial photo (you can really tell which chunks were altered when you blow up the image :P i was too lazy to spend too much time photoshopping)

anyway you all hit the jackpot today - 3 images, woooooo :)

good morning/afternoon/evening wherever you are in the world. so i've made a lot of progress on the superhero piece :D i am now quite confident i can finish before i leave forever to go back to china, and i am feeling much friendlier towards watercolors. unfortunately i was too busy painting (and going to my friend's house to play wii sports XD) to scan any of the recent happenings, so i'm gonna have to tide you over with some old pastel drawings (sorry if you've seen these before, but i need to post something - my blog is looking sad and lonely).


random fact of the day: the sea serpent and this portrait were drawn only using blue, orange (and occasionally white) pastels. i think. if i remember correctly. well, i'm going out of town this weekend so i'll be out of commission a few days. ttyl!