My best friend Cat is a brilliant musician, and I had the unusual opportunity to see her play drums for a band other than our own last Tuesday. I always tell her, “If you could see you the way I see you…” so sometimes i draw her when she’s in a candid moment to further illustrate (ba dum tish) my point.
Here is another non-Japanese Sailor Scout work in progress painting. Always had a bit of a fascination with the Nepalese traditions and beliefs surrounding Kumaris. Using the religious stylings involved in the real culture and traditions seems insensitive to the deep meaning, spiritual beliefs with their ability to change lives, and a culture I am not a part of. I instead tried to capture a vague approximation of the idea that first fascinated me when I learned of the Kumari Devis and her/their divine significance.
I also discovered Sailor Moon in middle school. Maybe my attraction to the Sailor Soldiers was looking for the same glimmer of something—of steel, of a symbol, of strength, or of the living goddess—that was common to all women, or all people, that I could find in myself and hold onto during the difficult times.
Paintsketch work in progress for Project Plastic. It’s a sci fi comic story I’ve worked on from time to time over the years.
I cannot begin to describe my last few days. So instead, here is a work in progress of Sailor Venus with Imperium Crystal Claymore and super cute complexion!
Got more ideas stockpiled for multi-ethnic Sailor Scouts with a variety of body types. This here Venus is supposed to have some Celt in her. Do you want to see more of them?
More wip times. Full sketchbook page with continuation of hag tub smokins and an ink sketch of my 3 legged pug Jade T Superstar making a gremlin face.
More works in progress! I also make jewelries and work with rubber, plastic, and lots of other 3Dish stuff. This here is an obsessively accurate “tree of life”-styled five string long-neck banjo in progress of being made into a bola tie for my dad. Have I mentioned he is the leader of our band, The Juggernaut Stringband? Yeah, I think I have.
The banjo neck is made of a sanded-down clothespin and the body is a 1” diameter circular mirror with pieces of broken mirror around it that showed up a lot better before I coated the front in clear enamel… but this is meant to be a piece worn for perfomances, and that means it’s gonna be worn hard so I couldn’t risk the strings or frets or other parts getting all damaged and *gasp* inaccurate!
It has been a pretty rough day, but seeing my work in progress painting of Kaia from Motorcity get a whole bunch of notes* while I was stressing over laptop things was a pretty cool way to end the day. Just gonna keep posting unfinished stuff until the lappy is confirmed to be either fixed or dead. Hopefully the former.
This is a thing from a science fiction comic that I’ve thumbnailed 20-odd pages for. The comic will be formatted to be read on tablet pcs or ereaders or whathaveyous, with double-page spreads displayed at a 3:4 ratio.
*—speaking of which, happy birthday Motorcity! I delayed watching the 2-part finale for about a month after it came out because I wanted to delay saying goodbye to the series for as long as possible. True fact.
It is impossible to stop loving Motorcity. Kaia pic is still being worked on. I miss my laptop already….
Mystery water was sitting on my laptop apparently most of the day. It has been taken apart and is drying nearby some dessicant in an airtight space. Every time I start to have fun getting back into the swing of digital drawins something comes up to stall for (hopefully just) a few days! And I just got it back from the last repair….
Other people’s pets part the third: Nessarose and her underbite belong to awesome lady Miz Cassie England.
