Merry Christmas!

I was THIS (you can's see my hand, but I'm holding my thumb and finger about half and inch apart) close to doing my own Christmas cards this year.  But then I got busy with work and the weekends this month flew by filled with travel, shopping or visiting.  So instead I did some original art cards to enclose with a card.  The combo of my camera who didn't think a flash was needed and I couldn't convince it otherwise, and the light on my desk, the cards look more yellow than they are in real life but you get the point, I think.

Thanks to everyone who bought something from my Etsy store and my Cafepress store.  Boy, that sugar skull I did is really popular!

Thanks to everyone who started to follow my blog, my tumblr and my twitter.  I know I'm not terribly interesting by it makes me feel that way to know a few people want to know what I'm up to.

Thanks to those people who commissioned me this year.  I hope you still like what I've done for you!

And thanks to everyone (and everything) who has inspired my this year do to fanart or try out a new-ish medium to art in.  Yes, I use "art" as a verb.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Artbook for sale at Etsy

I have some leftover copies of my artbook from the FanExpo last month.  I thought I'd try selling them on Etsy so I can offer a sketch inside each book.

So!  I'm selling my artbook at Etsy and am offering a sketch inside each book with purchase!  I have 12  left so it would be pretty amazing to have them sold by the end of this year.

I'm also including with every order, a freshly drawn sketch card.

Here he is again!

Almost there...

Here, have a skull

One Week to Halloween!

Halloween's A-Comin'!

Casual Jason

I can't remember how this one came about exactly.  I think I was watching the first movie on tv again and something struck me funny about a casual Jason just strolling on the grass.

Pumpkin!

This one is for all us Canadians enjoying Thanksgiving this weekend with pumpkin pie for dessert!

It's a watercolour trading card.  Very rough paper and I totally forgot how to paint with real paints.  But some of my schooling came back to me and I tried applying some things I've learned colouring with vectors.

Side note:  One of my top 5 pet peeves is people who say "Punkin".

Halloween Art Trading Cards

After trying out these art trading cards at the FanExpo in August I found I really liked them so I bought a bunch more.  I like them because they're small so it's just sketch-sketch-ink-BOOM-you're done.  Nice.  I have some that are bristol board and some that are watercolour paper.  This one is bristol and I pulled out some old ink bottles to try out some ink washes.  I used to do those ALL the time!  What happened!?  Oh yeah, Adobe Illustrator came into my life.

Illustration Friday: Swell

This week's word is "Swell".  All I could picture was some kid from the 40's saying "Ah, gee!  That's swell!"

I bought some small art trading cards to draw on at the convention.  I've never tried them before and I also have some new grey pens so I tried out both with this drawing.  I also got a sweet silver pen to sign any prints people buy so I tried that out too.  They're swell!  Sorry, couldn't help it.