Upcoming project

Some intermittent work has been taking place on a project I haven't said much about. Have a character sheet.

Buttons: Finished

Was a bit busy between the last couple of button sets, so here's a big update for all of them.

As per usual, process work under the cut.

Halfway point

Had to let my arm recover from helping out with some prop stuff on a film set, but now the third set of buttons is done:

As usual, process work under the break.

30%

This year's Desert Bus buttons are now one third of the way complete.

Process work under the cut.

It's time to kick my own butt

Yeesh, it's been a while since I dusted this poor thing off. Retail work really drains everything out of you. I suppose there's some good news there: I've moved! Quite a ways. Saved and saved, and now it's time to find a career rather than a job. Exciting.

It's also time once again for the Desert Bus Craft-Along! You know what that means.

It means buttons, that's what it means.

 Process pics under the cut.

Desert Bus Buttons 2014

It certainly seems like I should post again.

Have I mentioned I did some buttons for Desert Bus for Hope's Craft-Along again?

The rest under the cut.

Catch-up Time

You know, I was doing so well at updating regularly last year before work really started dropping on me like piles of bricks. Here's some updates on that thing I was drawing.

Color to another character.

Reduced the size of the troll, corrections to a pose, a few touch-ups on colors.

Costuming!

Lines.

Colors.

Costuming. Removed a figure for the preview; the wing covers a chunk of the troll.

Color! Also some line for the critter, with some changes to the tail.

I need to get back in the habit of updating more again.

Cintiq!

After a long, long time saving up for it, I finally have a Cintiq. And it is wonderful.

Everything feels so much more natural, and I've been playing with the new hardware with that character height chart when I'm not working. My hours have gone back up lately, so it's been a good chunk of my time.

Time for some progress images, then.

 Before the Cintiq arrived.

Costume change.

Cintiq arrived; started playing around with it by doing some finished lines.

Next, explored some sketching ability while trying to fix the pose of the troll.

Removed two figures to work on the elf. Also noticed some mistakes on the troll and put down a note. Whoops.

Fixed some pretty glaring problems on the elf, sketched on the troll's arm (still have fixes to make there) and played around with some flat colors. Excited to get to rendering, it should be a lot of fun on this monster of a tablet monitor.

I am so glad I decided to buy this thing. It's a fantastic tool for digital work.

Superb Owl

So the superbowl was this past Sunday.

This happened.

Happy New Year, 2014

So.

Now that the long stretch of holidays is over (as is my short vacation with the boyfriend), it's time to get some activity going here again.

First, some color was added to a sketch from the last post some time ago. Nice to be able to get around to posting it.

 And now, a height chart for some characters.

That's all for now. 'Til next time.