Hello everyone! The Enchanted Visions Project had its first theme after a few month's break: Dias de los Muertos. Mine isn't up yet, I finished it a day after the deadline. I had quite a busy month!
Friday, October 7, 2011
"Dias de los Muertos" Theme at EV
Hello everyone! The Enchanted Visions Project had its first theme after a few month's break: Dias de los Muertos. Mine isn't up yet, I finished it a day after the deadline. I had quite a busy month!
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
A preview of February...
I am now completely finished with 6 of the 12 months, the 6 remaining months are completely drawn and waiting for color. I had to re-draw February onto a new piece of paper to get the positioning better, and here he is!:
February is turning out to be my new favorite. The background will be much easier to complete than the repetitive motions of the trees in January. I still have more to add to the background and must fix his hand, but that won't take long. I would love to have this one completed by Sunday, but we'll see how that turns out :P
February is turning out to be my new favorite. The background will be much easier to complete than the repetitive motions of the trees in January. I still have more to add to the background and must fix his hand, but that won't take long. I would love to have this one completed by Sunday, but we'll see how that turns out :P
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
January
Many late nights were spent on him, but he is finally finished! This was a challenge for it was the first time drawing a horse in over 5 years (A friend drew a Conquistador moustache on the last one as a joke, and it never fully erased!), and as I didn't want a complete side-profile of the horse or a full-frontal (both positions would hide the man-tastic torso), I chose the difficult route of slightly diagonal. January's kilt also took quite a huge chunk of time (but I do love the result!).
January will be making his debut at the Sherwood Forest Faire Celtic Festival this weekend! I hope the ladies and gents out there take a liking to him ;)
As last year was too hectic, I aim to have the calendar ready by early November. 50% are completed, and the remaining 6 are fully drawn and ready to color. I shall post WIPs soon!
8.5x11 inch prints available here!
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Apollocon Preparations, Great News and Art!!
Real quick--I got accepted to sell my art at Sherwood Forest Faire!!! I am extremely stoked!!
It is one and a half days until Apollocon begins, and with it my first ever table selling my artwork! As I am just testing the waters, I have tried to save on what I take out there. I don't think I will have spent more than $150 to be out there, so I hope I at least make *that* much back by Sunday evening. Apollocon preparations have been steady as I was sick for a few weeks, then had to crunch on finishing up some sewing commissions, then last weekend I attended bellydance superstar Ansuya's workshop (I *had* to!!), which put things off again...and so just today I got around to running to OfficeMax for printing my bookmarks and prints. I needed to scan/photograph two more pieces, which I will print tomorrow. Also, their printer was effy and on certain pieces printed one faded line on the artwork 1/2 inch towards the left side! I will need to re-print those babies too. Vistaprint has been amazing. I was able to get 3 different sets of 25 magnets for $2.50 per 25-pack!! I also printed off postcards with my commission information and prices, and I was able to get a full color banner for free!! I love their sales so hard. For packaging, I purchased 32x40 inch sheets of 2-ply cardboard from Texas Art Supply, and cut the ten sheets down to 100+ boards for backing my prints (WAY cheaper than buying them pre-cut!!). From Clearbags.com I was able to get plastic print and bookmark sheets for very reasonable prices, and as I forgot to order my retail bags there, I quickly ordered a box of 500 retail bags (in pretty blue!!) from Nashvillewraps.com for $30. The quantity at that price was WAY cheaper than Clearbags in the long run, as the shipping was half of what Clearbags was charging. I know I won't use all 500 this weekend at Apollocon, but they will last me through Sherwood Forest Faire in the spring!
I plan on selling the prints for $10, Bookmarks for $3, and Magnets for $2. Yes, I've taken my expenses into account, and I think I should price myself low this first time to try and get lots of sales!
Anywho...on to the new art!!
It is one and a half days until Apollocon begins, and with it my first ever table selling my artwork! As I am just testing the waters, I have tried to save on what I take out there. I don't think I will have spent more than $150 to be out there, so I hope I at least make *that* much back by Sunday evening. Apollocon preparations have been steady as I was sick for a few weeks, then had to crunch on finishing up some sewing commissions, then last weekend I attended bellydance superstar Ansuya's workshop (I *had* to!!), which put things off again...and so just today I got around to running to OfficeMax for printing my bookmarks and prints. I needed to scan/photograph two more pieces, which I will print tomorrow. Also, their printer was effy and on certain pieces printed one faded line on the artwork 1/2 inch towards the left side! I will need to re-print those babies too. Vistaprint has been amazing. I was able to get 3 different sets of 25 magnets for $2.50 per 25-pack!! I also printed off postcards with my commission information and prices, and I was able to get a full color banner for free!! I love their sales so hard. For packaging, I purchased 32x40 inch sheets of 2-ply cardboard from Texas Art Supply, and cut the ten sheets down to 100+ boards for backing my prints (WAY cheaper than buying them pre-cut!!). From Clearbags.com I was able to get plastic print and bookmark sheets for very reasonable prices, and as I forgot to order my retail bags there, I quickly ordered a box of 500 retail bags (in pretty blue!!) from Nashvillewraps.com for $30. The quantity at that price was WAY cheaper than Clearbags in the long run, as the shipping was half of what Clearbags was charging. I know I won't use all 500 this weekend at Apollocon, but they will last me through Sherwood Forest Faire in the spring!
I plan on selling the prints for $10, Bookmarks for $3, and Magnets for $2. Yes, I've taken my expenses into account, and I think I should price myself low this first time to try and get lots of sales!
Anywho...on to the new art!!
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
The Ruby Slipper
The April challenge for Enchanted Visions. It took such a long time to come up with something, and I like this result. It reminds me of a few pieces I did back in high school. If you can't tell, I miss winter. (Our winters are brown and dead, no snow) I was going to turn the bark of the tree into something different, but she ended up to have the appearance of crepe myrtle--which is one of my favorite tree surfaces--so I decided to leave her be. Also, I'm going to defend my simple background. Sometimes there is a necessity for simplicity, and I feel lately I've been going too busy in my backgrounds.
May 2011. 25 hrs. Prismacolor marker and colored pencil.
Monday, May 2, 2011
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Stardancer
My submission for a recent Enchanted Visions Project challenge. Entitled "Stardancer". This took me the better part of 20 hours.
Available in my Zazzle Store!!
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