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!!!!

Alligator Running Shoes is a band over in The Netherlands! I created this logo for them as an initial online identity; hopefully they'll get to use it in an album design as well. :) Here's the initial logo:

The background above is all watercolor; here's the alligator skin layer:

I'm going to try to stay away from logo designs in the future, because most often the amount of interest they have for me vs. the amount of time they take up in revisions and nit-picking is just not worth it.  But these guys were great to work with. :)

Fanart Friday - KEVIN

If you follow me on twitter, you might know I wanted to try doing fanart drawings on Fridays to be sure I'm drawing regularly, inspired by my husband's daily drawings that he posts almost every day.  (he makes me jealous.)  I made a list of things I'd like to draw at the outset, but today I found out about Kevin Ray's birthday earlier this week. SUBJECT FOUND. :)

Photo of ink sketch:

colored photo:

YAY. that was really fun.  But it made me realize how terribly out of practice I am with drawing.

This blog's been long due for an update, and there are a couple things I've been wanting to post, but I guess I'm still learning how to juggle taking care of house and keeping things tidy and making the husband eat vegetables.  Thank you so much for being patient with me, if there's anyone still reading. :)

-the Winged Elf Girl

This is what I look like

I found this drawing from back in 2010 in one of my little sketchbooks.  Much hasn't changed... but it has.  :)