hey everyone!

hope you all had a wonderful christmas! i'm looking forward to the new year (not really, haha...to me it just signifies the end of the holiday and the return to the real world...blah) but in the meantime i'm enjoying time home with the fam :)

i finally got to do a digital painting for fun! here's a christmas present i made for a friend. i think it's the best photoshop work i've done, and while i wouldn't count myself with the digital painting experts yet i think i've come a long way :P the character is "hinata" from the manga series "naruto." she's usually a very timid character, but i chose to portray her in her fighting stance - she can be very fierce when she's protecting someone she cares about.

merry christmas, everyboday! i realized that i never put the last two pictures from the book up :P here you go:





also - i designed a tshirt for my old high school band's annual trip! this year they're going to new york (no fair, we never got to go there haha). here's my first design - waiting to hear from the director to see what he thinks....

so many new pictures!

in a construction site....

what do you use in a city street? a car of course!

here it is! the poor guys are so confused



now they're not! they have a bike!



and this is a box i painted. gonna try to market it in a local boutique (once it's done - i still need to treat the wood) christmas gifts anyone?

what i did at work today

so i started substitute teaching recently. i was kind of nervous at first - i'm not really the most experienced (or successful) at controlling little kids. if they all suddenly decide to pull together and mutiny against the sub, what can you really do? hopefully they will never realize there are more of them than me..... anyway today i subbed for an art class, which sounds exciting and all but was actually quite boring. at least today it was :P i guess teachers often don't trust the sub to be able to teach the material, so the teacher left a bunch of busy work for people to do. i just handed out packets for them to read and watched them do homework. needless to say i got bored.
which means...dun dun dun!!! today is your lucky day! because i spent most of it drawing fun pictures. oh pen drawings of animals, how i missed you.

this is what i felt like in the morning when i first got to school:



and this is what i felt like after the elementary school class:



iiiii'm just kidding - it wasn't bad, really :P but it was good to just draw for fun again - i was worried i'd forgotten how. i hope you enjoy the rest of my artistic vomit:







this is what i would look like as an alien! you know, if i had curly hair and wore polka-dot dresses and stuff. but it has a weird neck bump just like me, so...we could be twins