Gratitude~

6 months since I posted on here! The supergirls didn't get very far since we had to ship a base game. And life happens, as it always does.

Anyway, this is today's experiment in inking a sketch in illustrator. I now have a post buddy, which means that whenever she posts I have to post, and vice versa. So here is my post, eeked out for the few peeps that visit my site. :) Done completely in Illustrator.

SuperGirls #1, pt.2

Day 2, back in photoshop. Lost some of her cartoony spunk and expression, but I'm going to keep going just to have fun and see what comes out of it.

SuperGirls #1

Back in my middle school years, my parents used to go to a lot of Taiwanese Association dinner parties. All of the kids would hang out while the parents were doing their thing. Most of the them would hang out in the den watching movies. As often as I could, I remember ditching the other girls and running upstairs to shut myself in with the high school boys (so cool.) These sweet guys were nerdy before it was cool. They were awesome enough to introduce me to inking, lend me some of their pricey prismacolor pencils, and let me rifle through their Jim Lee comics (oh so many trenchcoats!) They did a lot to encourage me through those years, and I really looked up to them.

Only one of those guys is still actively drawing (http://daystorm.deviantart.com/) but they are the inspiration behind my new sketchdump series of SuperGirls. Only this first one is literally Super Girl. The goal here is to get in the habit of posting again, doing thumbnails and rough poses. I'll post the one I like best out of each exercise.

Monster #31

Working from home today because I woke up feeling cruddy. I feel like I could sleep for another twelve hours, but instead am going through emails and doing my annual self-review. Oh, and this guy.

Monster #30

Back to the watercolor. I like this much better than the digital, because I can carry them around in my purse and feel motivated to do more. Finally, a month's worth of daily monsters! Happy Fat Tuesday, y'all.

edit: I walked into the bathroom at work this morning and swear this is what i saw in the mirror. same expression. 

Monster #29

Yeesh, rusty. Breaking out the cintiq again in order to postpone doing my taxes. Accountant bunny is not impressed.

Monster #28

translation: "SIGN UP FOR THE SUNSET PARK URBAN FORAGING CLASS"

Monster #27

(uploading from work, so descriptions will come later.)

Monster #26

Monster #26 yawned luxuriously, sharpening her fangs against her long, sandpaper-like tongue with anticipation. Earlier in the day she had eaten an early dinner and crawled out of the boiling sea to pluck her eyebrows and paint her spots a ceremonial shade of sulphur yellow. She hoped her guest would be impressed when they finally met! After all, no other monster she knew had ever been able to get a real, published writer to come in as a guest to put together their biography. She would be the first!

Now, where could he be?

Monster #25

Hot headed Harold
ran out for nasty fun.
Stole a case of fuel cells,
jacked an antimatter gun.

He flew straight out to Jupiter
now with some bad guy cred
But found there was no oxygen
to fuel his flaming head.

Monster #24

Ten pronged Herbert
Outran a flood of pink sherbert.
Upon hearing a bell,
He tripped and then fell!
And now he is blue but not hurt. :P

Monster #23

Tiredly trampling twigs thrice, today's tongue tied terrestrial terror teases tumultuous tomorrows toward therapeutic thoughts.

Monster #22

Due to having 4 eyes, the giant blue hamrus has excellent depth perception, much better than their earthling relatives the fancy hamster. Large tusks protruding from the fluffy little hamcheeks of both male and female adult specimens serve them well for digging up seeds from last season's stash and fighting off horned owls from attacking their young. Much like the front incisors of other rodents, the tusks never stop growing, so the hamrus must constantly wear them down against rocks and stumps. The resulting distinctive beat (always in 6/8 time) is known locally as the hamdiggity rompadoodle.

Monster #21

Enough with the spikes and toothy maws,
Oversized feet and vicious claws.
This monster's soft, fluffy and lazy
plopped in a field, burping up daisies.

Monster #20

One can tell Monster #20 is still in its infancy by the bright red thorns adorning its spine. This armor embedded into a flinty hide discourages larger creatures from munching it as a snack and punishes anything careless enough to trod upon it. At night, one can easily spot sparks created as they cavort and bounce around on the rocky hillside habitat.

Monster #19

There once was a bad-tempered antelope,
Who harnessed an unstable isotope.
It mutated him pink,
and grumpier, I think.
with eyes as big as a cantaloupe.

Monster #18

Monster #18 tries so hard to be a proper rabbit, even though he can't hippity hop nearly as well as he climbs trees and catches birds. Nevertheless, he twitches his nose quietly and pretends to enjoy strawberries and alfalfa just to fit in, all while wondering why the other bunnies never quite seem to warm up to him. He's never thought of eating them, not even once. (Really!)

Monster #17

Monster #17 perches silently in jungle canopies, always keeping its ears open and eyes peeled for food and predators. Masters of stealth and surprise, they will hide, then suddenly roar loudly enough to cause temporary hearing loss and disorientation. The offending creature will usually then lose their balance and often fall out of the tree, thus allowing this monster to escape enemies, dodge criticism or gleefully scoop up their prey off the forest floor.

Monster #16

PSA from Monster #16: Better to have posted in shame, than to have never posted at all.

Huh?

Translation: It's better to post a shitty monster at the start of the year, than to have glared at it disparagingly for 2 months until procrastination lead to stopping entirely.

In my defense, the Stephen Silver class + moving + the holidays really kicked my ass. Anyways, Happy New Year! Have a monster with mustaches for eyebrows.