Thursday, December 5, 2013

Frozen

A friend of mine checked in on our animals while we were away for the extended Thanksgiving weekend. He has two 8-ish-year-old girls who have become fans of the blog. So these are "thanks" bags. Which works out good for his girls, because they didn't even have to come check on the animals.

Elsa and Anna

Mr. Procrastinator and Little Miss Exhausted

I was so dead tired the night I drew these, I didn't even have the energy to find my phone to photograph them (hence the back from school wrinkles).

Little Miss Fun and Mr. Tickle

Monsters University

Mike and Sully were a little rushed. That seemed to be the trend for most of a lot of the following week or two.

Mike and Sully



Sunday, December 1, 2013

Gobble gobble

I thought it would be fun for Wolfboy to make a second holiday appearance. I didn't reference his last appearance; I'm still playing around with character design for him. Apparently, I haven't settled on a color either (probably because I wanted him to contrast from the turkey, which is the color I would have otherwise chosen).

I hope everyone out there (all seven of you) got enough turkey for Thanksgiving.


Hawkgirl

Just because we watched some Justice League this weekend.

Hawkgirl

Smart car

It had been a while since I gave my little motor-head a car bag. And I was hoping to to force myself back into a higher degree of quality (the industrial design precision of things like cars forces me into that. The real challenge is for me to stay loose while working on something that demands I stay tight).


Aquaman and She-Hulk. Limited and limiting resources.

I took my markers to work, hoping to get some bag-time at lunch. I did not. Then I forgot to bring them home. So my marker supply on hand consisted of old, mostly dried out orange, green and black markers. Sure, I could have been innovative and done something with water color or colored pencil or just scrounged up a sharpie and gone black and white, but I just wasn't feeling it.

I decided to use this as a opportunity try to get back into the groove of loosening up and pushing for speed rather than detail. This shows up in a negative way in Aquaman's face, which I didn't pencil sketch (and thus pencil-erase and correct) upfront. On the plus side, I think it worked quite to my advantage by the time I was warmed up and moved on to She-Hulk.  I think that I also managed to make the drying green marker to work to my advantage there.

But just to keep me from getting too proud of myself, my daughter expressed disappointment that there was an angry green man on her bag.

Aquaman

She-Hulk