Who needs April? I'm already a fool!

Managed to throw this together for the new O&A YouTube Channel;

Officer, I was in my kitchen, cleaning a dish . . .

I've got lots of art to post! I've also got company on the way in about half an hour and a sink full of dishes to wash! Hence, a quick bit of news, for now;

Otto and Anna is given a bit of spotlight on Simply Modern Mom! CHECK IT OUT
(Thanks out to Lisa and to SimplyModernMom.com for the feature)

There's also a contest, should anyone like to enter ^_^

Artses to be posted in a day or two. Till then, I'm off to scrub the dishes!

Just a wee bit

A very quick little mini-comic created as a placeholder for the new Otto and Anna webpage I am building;



These are the first three panels of a much longer story. Otto and Anna is going to be a webcomic! I'm excited!

Ruffling your feathers, again

Further assorted flavours, today;

Final design for the grandmother character in the last post;



I keep forgetting to post this . . . It was gift I made for my parents to put up in their new kitchen;


I made the tea pots out of sculpey and the liquid out of hot glue, then painted over the lot.

Last week's challenge for Fiery-Coloured was "Blue." Here's my entry.



And three illustrations from a children's book project;

Makes you want to stretch out your arms toward a green light across the water

A commission I just finished;

Twenty four hours of being twenty four

Well, it's midnight on the 9th of March and I've been twenty four years old all day. Er, horray? Possibly?

More importantly, I've got a backlog of arts to be posted. Here we go!

Sketches for a grandmother character in an upcoming Otto and Anna venture;



A speed-painting of my gator-hunting Cajun, Zekiel Arcenaux;


Remember that big bowl of paper cranes a few posts back? I made them into Valentines. I made a tonne and sent out . . . just under a tonne. Here are the last three stragglers of the bunch;





Here's the last two pieces I did for Fiery Coloured;

For the 'Cute and Terrifying' challenge, in which we were to pick something and draw it as simperingly cute as possible, then take the same thing and draw it as nasty and grotesque as possible;





And for the "X" challenge, I designed a tic tac toe board . . . With X-Men playing pieces. Anyone who knows me saw that coming from lightyears away, he he.







The pieces are made of shrinkydink plastic with felt X's and O's glued to the back. 'X' pieces are X-Men, naturally, and the 'O' pieces are members of the Brotherhood team. My printer was low on every ink but magenta, so the final colours were a bit of an accident, but I think they actually match the board rather nicely as is.

Here are the original marker drawings I did for them;







Good night, all!

Now, we just need to make jackets . . .

Hallo, petals. I realise you lot are positively SPARKING with concern, so I shall begin by saying that I did, in fact, NOT die. The trip back from Kentucky was snowy, but otherwise, smooth sailing. We are on the proverbial roll, people.

New graphic for the club website:



And some itty bitty icons (again, for the website)



Aaand because I can not POSSIBLY allow this post to be entirely brightly-coloured, adorable and cheerful, have something wholly monochromatic, angst-steeped and depressing:



My entry for the Silent Films challenge, over at One Fiery Coloured Moment. Be sure to stop by over there so you can see Sara's entry as well!

Inks gone Wilde

Greetings from the Chicken State! Indeed, we have, at last, made in to Kentucky. The drive was long and the snow, relentless. But it has been nothing if not productive. Wish me luck on surviving the trip home, won't you?

In the mean time, I have things I can post . . .

I started up a joint blog with Sara, in which we will take turns giving each other weekly challenges to be answered in art form. Since I am on such an Oscar Wilde kick as of late, I declared that our very first challenge be . . . Oscar Wilde (fancy that).

Here's what I came up with;



Anyone who knows anything about Mr. Wilde, himself, will find this picture pretty self-explanatory. For those unfamiliar, I shall supply these Wildean maxims;

"In life, there are only two tragedies: One is not getting what you want. The other is getting it."

"It's perfectly monstrous how people say things about a man behind his back, which are absolutely true."

. . . And some preliminary sketchbookstuffs which lead up to the above illustration;











. . .

Go check out One Fiery-Coloured Moment to see Sara's contributions, as well as to see what we produce for future challenges!

Can't have any soggy origami . . .

. . . Why yes, that is a colander full of paper cranes. And what are they for? Well, before I answer that, allow me to pose a question of my own . . .

WHO WANTS A FALA VALENTINE?

If you'd like a valentine from me, either email me and tell me so (email address is at the top of the page), comment here, or just generally let me know. They might be a wee bit late on account of the snow (we got another foot of it today), but I'd love to send them out, either way.

We can rough it

More more more!

Rough pencils for Page One of the newest Otto and Anna comic:



I sent the above drawing to be finalised and it was well-recieved, but she thought that the contest ought to look more like an event than a street scene.

So, I brainstormed . . .



. . . and revised!