| two lights to guide her by |
[Jul. 11th, 2009|12:16 pm] |
"two lights to guide her by"
2009
pilot rollerball, micron pigma, copics, jellyroll pes, and opaque white ink in a moleskine journal.
drawn earlier this year, began inking about a month ago-with tweaks all along the way. these are characters from my on-very-long-hiatus webcomic, but i had an itch to draw them that day.
i didn't erase my pencil lines. if you look around ferdinand, you can still see some of it by his wings.
another difference is that i did not pencil in much of the background. i just had the moon and path roughly lined out. the rest i sketched in with the rollerball.
why is it purple? because that was the one i had that day, i.e. it was the first one i grabbed. it was the first time i drew with a rollerball, freehand, and didn't make any major mistakes.
yes, the bird is glowing in the dark. that's something i've always had in mind for his character and never had a chance to illustrate (or the skills to properly show it.)
x-posted to dw & dA
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| art from MegaCon 2008 |
[May. 14th, 2009|08:48 pm] |
 "Atomic Robo is Not Afraid to Use a Buick"
private collection of by Scott Wegener, artist of Atomic Robo.
4x6" art card copic markers and white opaque ink (for highlights)
Atomic Robo © 2008 Brian Clevinger and Scott Wegener
i know, took me forever to post these.
since this was created at a con and i lacked access to a scanner, a crappy digital camera pic was the only way i could record my art, since they now belong in the private collection of others. i've done some editing to try to get it looking right, but my apologies if it looks crappy.
i was initially disappointed by how blurry the looked, it discouraged me from posting them in the first place. hopefully, photoshop has fixed that, or at least made it tolerable.
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| my external HD is dead, so have some fanart. |
[Apr. 12th, 2009|09:28 pm] |
copics & ink on 3" x 5" notecard
2008
Makar plays a tun in the Forest Haven's mists.
Makar from "Legend of Zelda: The WindWaker", created and © Nintendo.
art is © 2008 kathryn "kit" white
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my external HD is dead and a lot of art i hadn't gotten around to posting, not to mention all my webcomic files, etc, is gone; unless it can be retrieved off the drive.
this is one of several pieces that i neglected to move to my external. yay for files that have survived!
i didn't make too many art cards, originally planning to have them for cons this year, but it looks like i won't be able to go to any. there is always next year.
( 2 more fanart-y cards after the jump! )copics & ink on 3" x 5" notecard
2008
Link waits to make his move.
(not a scene from WindWaker, just drawn in that style.)
Link from "Legend of Zelda" & related characters, created and © Nintendo.
art is © 2008 kathryn "kit" white
copics & ink on 3" x 5" notecard
2008
Kero-chan loves his sweets!
Kero-chan from "CardCaptor Sakura", created and © Clamp.
art is © 2008 kathryn "kit" white</div></div>( 2 more fanart-y cards after the jump! ) |
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| pandora's box (inner doubt, fear & demons) |
[Feb. 26th, 2009|11:48 am] |
"Pandora's Box (inner doubt, fear & demons)"
pencil on paper (work in progress)
drawn 2-15-2009
i think this one speaks for itself. welcome to my creative block.
before this, i hadn't drawn since finishing my pages for the GFT book, Seeds.
this thing kinda snuck up on me and...bleh. feel like i'm whining, so i'll stop. |
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| Prints Available! |
[Jan. 20th, 2009|07:13 pm] |
I'm now selling prints of "Not Frightened or Running" in my Etsy Store! I plan on selling more art in the future.
All prints are shipping USPS Priority Mail and are shipped in clear poly sleeves.
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| Grim Furry Tales-preview pages |
[Jan. 19th, 2009|09:16 pm] |
page 1
ink, digital graytones
story by mavlock, who will be doing the lettering for this story.
it's been awhile since my last post-it's getting very annoying to scan on my old computer. i can barely see the screen due to the lines of dead pixels and my scanner's drivers will not work with vista. 9.9
( Page 2 behind cut )
page 2</div>
Here we have a story within a story. Laurel, with Tummel the bear, gets read a story by her Nanny, Bella. In the story, a new mother's baby is carried away by the elves and replaced with a changeling! The tale shows how the mom recovers her baby.</div>
To read the full story and see the contributions by the other artists (all the things i've seen have been wonderful!) you'll have to buy the book.
Grim Furry Tales Main Site
x-posted to my dA account.
special thanks to mavlock for letting me be part of this project-best of luck on the book!
and to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) mattdocmartin for giving me the heads up about this in the first place. 8^)
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[Oct. 14th, 2008|08:58 pm] |
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alice, girlwithoutfear here on lj, has always been an inspiration to me. heck, she still is.
i enjoy hanging out with someone so creative! she's taught me tons of cool things and we've had plenty of fun just sitting around working in altered books or other artistic projects as we visit. she has a great eye for art and an excellent sense of design.
she's as big a geek as i am, too. her fandom is Daredevil. (that link may have spoilers, btw)
you should see her daredevil quilts! can't find any current links to them, but they are sooo beautiful!
no, these aren't your grandmother's type quilt. they're gorgeous examples of thread paintings and fabric collage with hand beaded fringe on some of the pieces.
it's even approved by the joe quesada, the current editor-in-chief over at marvel and david mack, both of whom have seen her work. mack even signed several of the pieces featuring his art.
last year, alice began getting active in a regional chapter for the Foundation for Fighting Blindness. you see, alice has been diagnosed with early onset macular degeneration. that's right, the most creative person i know, with one of the best eyes for visual art i've seen, will lose her sight.
this is a devasting thing, but here's another reason alice is an inspiration to me. she's still going and not letting it stop her.
she has started a new business making braille tshirts. no, it's not screenprinted where only the sighted can see it, but she used metallic studs or swarovski crystals to make actual text that the blind can read!
she can do custom phrases, too.
i have a few of these shirts and they are truly nifty.
she is also planning on going back to school to learn to become a braille transcriber.
truly amazing, isn't she?
the primary event for a FFB chapter is a VisionWalk, to raise money for research for denegerative eye diseases such as Macular Degeneration, Stargart Disease, Usher Syndrome, Rentintis Pigmentosa, etc., and find cures. This weekend is Memphis' first VisionWalk and alice has a team. If you can be in Memphis, please come join the team!
Can't be in memphis? You can donate to the cause. Don't have much? hey, they'll accept $5 donations! I believe alice is making tshirts (the design is one her VisionWalk page and giving them to those who make a donation of $25 or higher...correct me if i wrong, alice.
i have volunteered to do face painting at the event, but i plan on walking, too, if time permits.
Please support girlwithoutfear and the FFB!
Thanks! |
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[Oct. 4th, 2008|08:05 pm] |
"Mending"
Blue Sharpie on bryancreech 's Laptop case.
"Love & Gears"
Blue Sharpie on hillarygayle 's laptop case
Last night, a group of my friends and I gathered for a night of fun, justing hanging around in pajamas, eating breakfast type food and talking. Yeah, we're a real wild bunch. 8^)
hillarygayle had kindly requested that I draw on her laptop cover. asqmh also wanted art on her laptop cover as did Hillary's husband, bryancreech .
The theme Hillary gave me was robots.
I don't have my usual watermark here. Having to reload everything on my laptop after a corrupted os. yeah, i had to send it to toshiba again. just got it back and i'm reloading everything.
been busy and lazy alternately. i have lots to upload, just not doing it. expect more soon.
x-posted to my dA account. |
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| Not Frightened or Running |
[Jul. 11th, 2008|07:38 pm] |
drawn 2008
copic markers on paper
it's finished! this is the next print i will be selling. will post link when i have it up on my etsy store. |
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| leslie fairy |
[Jul. 10th, 2008|06:35 pm] |
drawn 2008
copics on paper
drew this as a baby shower present for my friend, lkemp.
her request was an image of her then pregnant self as a fairy, with pink and purple wings. i finished the sketch at the shower, but i didn't get it done, however until a few weeks ago, as the gang got together for a cabin trip on the river. for awhile, i had though i had ruined the image when i started inking (outlines wwaaaayyyyy too thick).
leslie, if you want to use the art to make an lj icon, etc, consider this permission to do so. thanks again for scanning it for me. i hope you and macphile enjoy the art and the baby is adorable! much <3s to you both.
wow, i've been MIA! have tons of frakking stuff to post. will do so a little at a time.
and for those of you who are interested, photos from CAPE 4.0 live art night. |
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| CAPE!2008 (report to follow later) |
[May. 5th, 2008|10:58 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | cape | ] |
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thanks to mattdocmartin for the photo! it was awesome seeing you and all the YABSters!
pastel, marker and crayon on matte board
art from the Live Art Night benefit
will be posting a full con report later, with art. still recovering from CAPE.
i didn't get many photos, too busy drawing and seeing stuff. will post links to other's photos so you who didn't go can see what you missed and why you need to go next year!
it was great seeing everyone again. thanks again to all who came by my table and bought a sketch!
special thanks to wayfarersgirl for coming out, visiting and being a super nifty booth bunny for girlwithoutfear and me! i'm sooo happy i gots to see you again! |
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| tshirt art! |
[May. 1st, 2008|07:41 pm] |
tshirt design from work, back imprint
pen and ink line art, scanned and vectorized, corel draw
just a quick note while i scramble to get things finished up for CAPE.
this was for a rush job at work and i'm so tickled on how it turned out that i'm posting it here.
boss, if you have a problem with it being here, let me know and i'll take it down with no hard feelings.
still trying to finish up the miss muffet print for CAPE. *crosses fingers* it's down to the wire.
stupid local kinko's, closin' at 11pm. *shakes fist at stupid local kinko's*
girlwithoutfear and i leave early tomorrow morning. expect a con report when i get home.
i'll try not to hit any deer this time on the way home. 9.9 |
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| getting ready for CAPE |
[Apr. 29th, 2008|06:34 pm] |
mixed media (digital art, drawings inked and color with copics.)
reduced to fit the web a bit better.
original size=24" x 63"
this is my banner for my table at CAPE. it should be in my hands on Thursday. can't wait for it to be back from the printer. the colors are a little off here...sorry about that. the colors were in CMYK and when it got converted to RGB, it just made things look funny.
had a minor adventure getting the art to the priner. thanks to JT over at nightgig for giving me a place to upload it.
so, i'm excited about CAPE! i hope it's even more fun than last year's. i'll be sitting by girlwithoutfear again and my dear friend wayfarersgirl will be on hand to assist us, *cough cough be our booth bunny cough cough* so that's all kinds of awesome right there.
just look for the banner and you should find me. i will once again be doing commissions, selling ashcans/mini comics and i will have art cards of superheroes/anime & manga characters to sell. plus, since they are going slow in my etsy store, i'll be selling copies of the "Save Yourself" print, and i'm finishing up a new print.
also, looking forward to the fun that is the live art night. this year, it's to benefit the ronald mcdonald house. making sure i pack extra art supplies for that. watching all these talented people create art in front of you...there's nothing like it!
i'm sad that kotasworld will not be able to attend CAPE this year, but that's the way things go, especially since he's starting school. there is always next year.
oy. just reminded myself that he and i are more than likely going to get teased mercilessly by the entire nightgig crew at next year's megacon. *facepalm* |
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| work in progress - new print |
[Mar. 26th, 2008|11:45 pm] |
no title as of yet
work in progress
pencil on paper
jtpokie suggested at MegaCon that i do more art like the "Save Yourself" for prints. broadening the topic to include nursery rhymes, i came up with this. this will be the new print.
still working on the background, gotta flesh the trees out. very proud of that cottage in there. 8^)
gotta fix some anatomy flaws on miss muffet, but otherwise, i'm likin' it.
miss muffet's legs will be breaking the panel, dangling off the edge.
debating on whether to color with my copics or to use watercolors. *ponders*
will have the "Save Yourself" print for sale at CAPE. sales are slow right now in the etsy store. |
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| MegaCon 2008 report |
[Mar. 22nd, 2008|06:00 pm] |
drawn March 2008
MegaCon Commission for mattdocmartin
copics, brush pen, and white opaque ink
i managed to sell quite a few of the custom art cards this time. 8^) real happy about that.
i got photos of all, but i think the lighting wasn't so hot and some of the photos blurred.
will post them later.
MegaCon this year was so much cooler than last year and quite a lot has happened. This was a big one for me.
( u can haz con reprot! )
Photos from the con, courtesy of myself and my fellow nightgig members:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32424945@N00/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jtpokie/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kotaotan/
i think there's more, but i don't have the links yet. will edit post when i do.
and there is a little more to the report but that's friends only. 8^D
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in other news, my laptop is fubar. 8^(
i'm borrowing becca's for the moment.
and yay! wayfarersgirl is going to get to go to CAPE! woot! |
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| Work In Progress |
[Mar. 7th, 2008|08:53 pm] |
oil pastel
work in progress
been meaning to post this, just haven't. *shrugs*
still working on it.
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first day at megacon has gone well. it was slow, but i sold an ashcan, an art card, 2 custom art cards and a black and white sketch.
girlwithoutfear, i haven't sold any buttons... yet!
i'm taking photos of the commissions since i have no scanner here. the quality will be crappy, but it's better than nothing. i'll prolly post them here.
very excited about tomorrow, should be more people then. 8^D
hey, tanukitsune! i'll be working on your sketch for the Nightgig Sampler this weekend! |
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| Altered Clock: It's Running Out! |
[Jan. 27th, 2008|01:03 pm] |
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"It's Running Out!"
altered clock, collage, mixed media
26 January, 2008
ok, everything i just typed went bye-bye. *shakes fist at lj!* i do not like the insert media tag. why? why won't you do right? grrr. and if i try to edit those extra html tags to where they won't show...then it tells me "invaid video url." 9.9
my boss gave me an old clock. she has tons of them in the office as display samples to show our clients. this was an extra she didn't need. i decided to cover up the old imprint by altering it. the theme is dealing with my constant running late/procrastination problem. i'm pleased with the results. can't wait to get it working and on my wall.
i'll need to get new works. the current ones will get caught on the paper crane or scrabble tiles.
the photos were taken outside. couldn't get the lighting right inside. either washed out by the flash or too yellow by incandescent bulbs. my skills in color correction in photoshop are woefully lacking. need to work on that.
x-posted to my dA account. i won't be posting that art from dA to lj live i was. the images are just too small!
if i have to make two separate posts to make it look better, then so be it. |
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| Commission: Lyn |
[Jan. 20th, 2008|10:04 pm] |
Commission: Lyn by ~bluecanarykit on deviantART
portrait of just_lyn, commissioned by apexofgrace.
copics and brush pens.
8^D yay! it's complete!
wished the marker lines didn't show up so much in the background, but what can you do? *shrugs* the colorless blender wasn't much help here.
originally, i was going to have her flip the viewer the bird, but the hand refused to be drawn. I compromised and now she flips us off, British style.
Edit: accidently posted twice, oops. |
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| Blue Canary: Caffeine Fix |
[Jan. 15th, 2008|09:38 pm] |
Blue Canary: Caffeine Fix by ~bluecanarykit on deviantART
First page of a 6 page story originally drawn for my ashcan comic for last year's cons. Polished it up with a splash of color and it will be in this year's Nightgig Sampler. Wish this DA things weren't so small on my lj, though. i'd like for the preview to be bigger. *shrugs*
Apologies to Tim & madscott for my delays. sorry to be the last to turn her pages in. *hides head in shame* Blame all printing delays and some such on me.
Now, i have to draw a new 6 page story to replace this one (can't sell the black and white right by the color verison!) and, if i want another ashcan, 2 more stories. I better get crackin'!
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| chasing snow faeries |
[Jan. 5th, 2008|10:49 pm] |
Chasing Snow Faeries by ~bluecanarykit on deviantART
first art of the new year.
i bought a wacom tablet last night. 8^) enjoying it muchly.
drawn this morning using Corel Painter Essentials 3.0.
also, notice the DA account? that's where i'll put finished works. i'll prolly crosspost it here, too. sketches will still remain here. i'm not going to put sketches up at DA unless it's of a fannish nature.
still have some stuff i'm gifting to people to finish. lots to draw. lots to do.
apexofgrace, still working on the drawings of you and lyn. |
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