Kid-Friendly Comics

I made the "Kid-Friendly Comics" sign for this year's SPACE!  Was thinking of a couple kids I know who enjoy reading while I was drawing. :)

Inktober 2016 Round-up

I actually finished Inktober this year.  3rd time's the charm.  ;)

Below are my favorites from the month.  Many of my Inktober subjects were characters from favorite webcomics - the links are below by the character drawings; consider it a recommendation list!  Happy reading! :D

The tree in our new front yard. :) 

Street and Imogen from Blindsprings by Kadi Fedoruk 

Some doodles amongst my notes taken at CXC "Comics Canon" lectures. 

Maggie from Ava's Demon by Michelle Czajkowski

Afia from Balderdash! by Victoria Grace Elliot 

Marigold and Dale from Questionable Content by Jeph Jacques 

 Bali from Bird Boy by Annie Szabla

Subira from Little Guardians by Ed Cho and Lee Cherolis

HAPPY 2016!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Thank you to everyone I have met and spoken to at conventions, online and other events in 2015 - here's to continuing in 2016! May it be full of creation and good discoveries.

A lot is coming up quickly... my husband Matthew Sparks will release two independent comics in the first half of the year, and hopefully in the next couple months we will be moving to a new home that better serves our love of creating comics and illustrations. It's going to be... INTERESTING, if nothing else. HERE WE GOOOOO ~

Every nice elf should have a nice squirrel pet, I think. :D (created in Manga Studio and Photoshop)

Simeck Entertainment- character concepts

Character concepts for an animated TV show pitch for Simeck Entertainment!  She may or may not be totally evil.

Drawing faces

A collection of ballpoint pen sketches for practice, from photos. Continuing to collect faces. :)

Here, have a couple of Tennants!

Both are watercolor and pencil. :)

Self-Portrait 2014

It's good to do a new one every 5 years or so!

Inktober 2014

Well, this is pretty self-explanatory. :)

anywayican

The first week I bought Walk the Moon's Tightrope EP, the song "anywayican" got quite well stuck in my head. I got bored during a break at work, and made a quick doodle on a post-it note. Colored it this evening:

Hooray for dancing blue alien chicks! OR, how about this version:

Do we prefer more common colors? ....Eh. No preference here. :)
The original doodle!

Gorgeous, Perfect Ella

I didn't get her face *quite* right, but I think it's still pretty obvious who this is. :)

Brush pen and graphite.

My husband said I'm not allowed to have a crush on her because "that would be weird".  So I supposed it'll have to be a secret crush (add her to my list of dead people I have crushes on). Because seriously... Ella Fitzgerald is just beautiful. She's the original Queen.

Goodbye American Elf

Sigh.  Today's "Fanart Friday" isn't altogether cheerful - more bittersweet.  American Elf has been a part of my comics-reading life for 5 or 6 years now, and a great inspiration.  James Kochalka, if you happen to come around, Here's a message for you:

For fun, here's the sketch of James (also on Instagram):

Fun fact - the funky circle was made by drawing around a funny bowl I got for 50 cents at a thrift shop.  Useful thing.

Adventure Time

Graph paper Adventure Time doodles!!  Marceline, Princess Bubblegum and Finn.  (And some acorns.  Acorns are ADORABLE!!)  Was fun ti figure out some hairstyles that would be possible with sticky gum.  Drawn with ballpoint pen.

Drawing this way reminds me a little of this older project.  :)

Dr. Sketchy and Post-it drawings

Dr. Sketchy's Drink n' Draw was this week! my first time going. Twas fun; wished I didn't have to leave early for work the next day. Next week is "Cincinnati Pilseners and Pencils"; will hopefully be fun also. Here's my favorite sketches of our sexy astronaut:

And here are a few logo design ideas and post-it sketches for some other projects. :D

An American in Paris

some sketches from the titular "American in Paris Ballet/Dream Sequence" from that movie. for Professor Webber's sketchbook. :)

Elf slightly goth

warmup of the day.

Animation for The Story Ship going swimmingly! I hope I can keep up something like this pace once school starts next week. o___o

ARM

Animation is in full swing for The Story Ship! on a break, I felt like drawing an arm. so here you get a Blanche doodle. GOODBYE!

I looked up a little bit of Jazz Maynard earlier today (though not much) so that was the beginnings of inspiration for this cel-shaded monochrome goodness.



I get the weirdest draw-cravings sometimes...

By the bye, I've been listening to the SEQAlab Podcast while doing cleanup animation - it's really entertaining and informative. They won't be recording new shows until fall quarter so I've actually been re-listening to some of my favorite shows, and re-listening is good because I'm exquisitely talented at forgetting things. And it's also where I heard about Jazz Maynard. YAY!

nature girl 01

used photos of ornamental grass for the fill. (I think I took those photos at the Cincinnati Flower Show.)

Walk the Moon Christmas

for the guys of Walk the Moon. Merry Christmas. :)