I'm pretty sure my own degeneration is just getting worse and worse

I ran across a meme on tumblr. "Draw yourself exactly as you are right now."

So I did.

Steampunk Commissions

Two commissions I did for my friend, writer Ruth Hartle, of her characters Gale, Finn, Ella, and Wednesday

Returning from the Dead

"It is a matter of physics, a scientific fact that the human body reacts in very similar ways when anticipating food and sex. Capillaries swell, lips and membranes become engorged, saliva thickens and the pulse rises. It's no accident that the two pleasures have become... confused."
— Anthony Bourdain

For my senior project, I chose to examine the idea of "food porn," how we watch Food Network or look at food magazines and the food is just as primped and shined as any pinup. And, as Mr. Bourdain points out, our reactions to food and sex can be similar. So I'm juxtaposing luscious food with equally luscious girls.

And continues...

Yeah. That's right. Pikachu.

Oh childhood.

And so the degeneration begins...

Yeah. Doctor Who fanart. I did it. And there's more to come. Prints for Anime Boston in April.

Revenge of the Skatepunk

She's baaaack.

Watch Me Burn

Uh...weird set of inspirations for this one.

I was thinking about Weimar Berlin, like I do, and had "Love the Way You Lie" stuck in my head.

It really doesn't go deeper than that.

In other news, I have only one week of school left before the semester ends and I have less to do than I originally anticipated but still more to do than I am necessarily comfortable with having in front of me. I'll manage, since I have to, but I'm tired.

I am also on the verge of delivering some Very Exciting News but I'm still afraid of counting chickens before they hatch and I'm holding back on it until I know that it is for sure and certain.

Sad Truths

Happened to me yesterday.

Skatepunk

Oh dear, I thought I'd already posted this. Oops.

It comes from a conversation that came up at one of the Steampunk panels at Another Anime Con in Nashua, NH. There was a comment that people tend to pick the same character types when creating steampunk personas: air pirates, mechanics, adventurers, etc. Where were the steampunk domestics, librarians, and stay-at-home dads?

Or in my case, where are the steampunk hipster skateboarders?

Fun fact, when the bicycle first became popular in Victorian England women couldn't ride them in skirts, but they wore wide, floppy bloomers. For Modesty.

Leave Your Troubles Outside

The Emcee from Cabaret. That's all.

I'll Be Your Server Tonight

So I said last night that I would post more art. Then I did a six hour shift, where I did nothing but talk on the phone. Then I came home and had frozen yogurt and talked with my roommate. Who is excellent.

Anyway, here's a piece I actually finished last week but I wanted some input from my classmates before posting.

Bitty Biters!

Hello everyone!

This is the first of some products I'm making this year. I present the Bitty Biters. They are one-inch tall acrylic charms of different creatures I designed. Starting tomorrow, they will be on sale, because tomorrow is the Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo (MICE). I'll have a table there, selling the Bitty Biters as well as some blank greeting cards of the Dapper Animals, the capybara and the platypus.

For more information please see: http://www.masscomics.com/

Anita Revisted

So remember that digital painting of Anita Berber about three entries down? This is the second version I did. For my Drawing for Illustration class, I tossed this sketch up on the wall with the ones I'd actually done with the assignment in mind. To my surprise, it was the one my teacher liked best. So I shaded it more thoroughly and put it into photoshop to resize it and clear out the blue pencil I'd used for the original sketch. After that, I printed it on a kind of paper called photo rag, which is almost like a thin hot press. I did the color with watercolors. And yes, I resized her bust. I forgot, in the original, that Anita Berber was supposed to be on the more androgynous side.

I want to do some more early 20th century stars at some point, like Marlene Dietrich and Hedy Lamarr. And Anita's sometime lover, Sebastian Droste.

On the job front update, I didn't get the job at the zoo. HOWEVER, I've found an internship! It's extremely exciting and I had my first day today. I'm on a team with other interns, helping create a public sculpture.

Anita Berber - NSFW

Anita Berber (June 10, 1899 – November 10, 1928) was a dancer/prostitute/artist of the Weimar Period. One of her acts was dipping roses in chloroform and ether and then eating them. She would often walk about wearing nothing but a fur stole, a silver brooch full of cocaine, and her pet monkey.

And the descent begins

It has been brought to my attention that I haven't updated my blag recently, so have some art from Obsessions and Phobias based on the idea of Compulsive Hoarding.



Frankly, it's starting to hit the end of the semester, where I begin a slow descent into madness. I more or less fall asleep if I'm stationary too long and I start forgetting my assignments and just generally...hanging by my nails.

I'll manage. I hope.

Evil Koalas

A drop bear is a fake animal made up by Australians to fool unsuspecting tourists, apparently. It's supposed to be a large, evil, carnivorous koala that attacks from the trees.

...I'm kinda fond of this guy