Happy Birthday to Nick and Eli!!!

Late, as all of my birthday greetings are recently, and late for Fanart Friday... BUT.

I drew Kevin awhile ago, so I figured I'd better draw the rest of Walk the Moon! These past two weeks, both Nick and Eli have had birthdays, so here are their BIRTHDAY PORTRAITS!  HAPPY BIRTHDAY NICK AND ELIIII!!!!!

Nick is attempting to be an anthropomorphic fox, and Eli is looking the way he does every darn time I see him:

I got the chance to use some of the textures I've been hoarding the last week!! Does that ever happen to you?  You find a bunch of sweet royalty-free textures up for the taking and end up downloading like 50 of them? No?... (Diana gets the credit for inventing the phrase "texture hoarding", by the by.)

*AHEM*  The texture on Nick's portrait came from this guy, and the texture on Eli's from this guy. SHARING IS CARING!!

Original sketchbook page (used the green ink as a key for color manipulation):

*deep breath*
HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY, FROM ALL OF US TO YOUUUU, WE WISH IT WAS OUR BIRTHDAY, SO WE COULD PARTY TOO!!!

-From your elf

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!

THE FLU

I don't have the flu (probably), but I do have other things I need to work on so no official Fanart Friday this week. Instead, here's a perfectly charming germ (drawn for a goofy story; Germ to be printed and handed out)

I hope you enjoy it muchly. Happy Friday!! :)

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.

Fanart Friday: Link in the Forest Temple

Because the last Link was less-than-dignified, I decided to do a cool one (EDIT: The aforementioned less-than-dignified Link).  Legend of Zelda is such a fun thing to fall back on when getting back in the swing of things and toying with what to draw.  Does anyone else fall back on fanart when warming up?

At any rate, here's that Link!:

I've been resorting to a lot of greyscale/watercolor washes lately, and decided to go with just stark blacks on this one for a change.  granted, I colored it, so that might've cancelled out whatever my subconscious was trying to do.
And the sketch:

A reminder that you can find me on twitter and instagram!  I'm doing my best to slowly get my work out on a lot of platforms.  Oh internet, you have so many ways about you. The only one I haven't really tackled is tumblr.  Not sure what to think of that one, when I've already got a blog here.

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.

Annnnd 2013 NOW

Many notable things happened in 2012, but there were many things I wanted to get done that I did not.  I hope that I'll be able to finish more things up and begin others in 2013! 

HERE'S A HAPPY NEW YEAR CARD AND SKETCH FOR YOU:

LET'S MAKE 2013 GOOD!!!!