Greetings and Salutations!

Hi there, reader! If you have stumbled across my blog recently, you may not know a whole lot about me. So, here is a small introduction to help with that!

I recently guest illustrated a good friend of mine's blog, Jodee Rose. You may know her from her humorous "I'd Like Cheese On My Entire Family" humor blarg (or "The Cheeseblarg" as fellow blarg followers will often call it). If you are just a random passer by, and you haven't read that blarg, I highly suggest you check her out, you won't regret it (and you also might learn exactly why I refer to it as a "blarg" instead of a "blog").

Moving on... I am a professional artist with two part-time jobs as a retail slave and a call center monkey. As anyone who has tried to make it in the art world can attest, it's hard to pay "teh billz" when the economy is so bad, and art patrons are few and far between.

As such, I have started dabbling in areas of art that I did not have time (nor the balls to even attempt) to try out during my art student years. I have recently developed a love for watercolor, polymer clay, and all that is steampunk. I have a very macabre sense of humor, and you will find references to that theme in a lot of my artwork. Recently, I dove into the world of "OOAK Art Dolls," as they are commonly referred to in crafting circles (That's "Original, One-of-a-Kind Dolls" to us regular folk).

I would like to share my most recent nightmare, and have decided to lock him in the closet at night so that I can get some sleep (thanks for the idea, Mom). He is a bit on the terrifying side.

Please don't mind his incomplete feel. I am not finished with his fur, nor adding his accessories, but I wanted to give you all a small taste of what I am about, and what I find interesting and/or entertaining.

Anywho, without further ado, I give you a progress shot of Sir Harpy Ferruginous, the Buzzard Witchdoctor.

He will only slightly eat your soul. Even my cat won't touch him, he's THAT disturbing to look at. He's a little over a foot in length, and will be eventually adorned in feathers, beads, and bird bones. He will also have his own staff with a bird skull atop it. He's going to be pretty rad, not gonna' lie. You can fully pose his arms, legs, and neck, and he is balanced with a large amount of sand in his bottom so he sits proudly upon any flat surface.

So, feel free to follow me, I promise I won't send any of my evil little minions after you in your sleep. :)

OooOO, New Post!

Sooooooooooo, my computer recently died. His reincarnation is eleventy-billion times better, thanks to my personal tech (Thank you, bb). Because of this, I have been trying out NEW things (gasp) and one of them is uber womanly - knitting! I had hoped to post today about that, however last night, I went all "Hulk hands" on my knitting needles(read: I snapped my needles in half) and ruined the respectable beginning to a cute blanket I was starting to become proud of. If anyone says wooden knitting needles are good for people whose hands go dumb for no reason whatsoever, they are a dirty, dirty liar! So, I have metal needles, and have spent a half hour unraveling my poor blanket and rolling it back into a ball of yarn that my cat has been eyeballing with lust.

So, point of post, right.... I just got my photoshops back, and was able to edit this rather large watercolor Satyr girl for your viewing pleasure... and it's a (semi)progress post! Bonus!

Here is the initial pencil drawing (mostly cleaned up already). You might notice another project in the top left corner (nope, not the Pepsi throwback, which I have a recently developed addiction for). I am talkin' bout that sweet steampunk-esque looking contraption! (It's a preliminary start to a steampunk bubble machine gun I have been working on intermittently for the past month or so, just waiting on some sweet clock parts and stuff to finish it up). I like it, because it's going to end up being steampunk AND feminine...how else would you describe a gun that makes laser noises, lights, and produces neo-victorian bubbles of doom?! :P : ahem : Moving on...

So here she is all inked up, and some early shading starting to happen. I am still enjoying the hell out of watercolor pencils. They are super easy to use, and not NEARLY as messy as regular watercolor in tubes (which my bf is probably very happy about, because large bowls of water are not safe from my "Hulk Hands").

And here is the Satyr girl all colored up and lookin' smexy. PLEASE, click on it to view her in full. There are a lot of details that just get lost and I wish I could show you all (in person) the shiny, metallic colors that are scattered and accented through out her nails, horns, jewelry, and fur. She looks baa-aa-aad! (Did you think I would get thru this whole post without a goat joke? Come on!)