SUMMER COME BACK!

This winter break has been a bit of a productive ordeal. Mostly, it has been a lot of researching on how to make certain charms, get them to look the way I want them too, and practicing in Illustrator some more.
This little guy is from a small series I did of popsicles. I looked up the original flavors for Kool-Aid and based my colors off of that. This one is Lemonade. What I am trying to do here, take popsicles, think of what dreams I would have as a popsicle, and the nightmares...then translate them into mini illustrations Here, the lemonade is radioactive and glowing. XD

Truth be told, theses are vectors made from sketches for clay charms (Lemonade one is a mixture of yellow and glow in the dark clay since it holds a level of transparency). Their original intent was to accommodate packaging. But I am thinking of making stickers out of them as well. Or maybe people will have in their package the charm and a stick of the charm as well. hmmmm.

Trying to Get Goin'

So I haven't been drawing too much lately, which is a bad thing. Actually, I've been occupied with table tops and console RPG's. In fact, while I am writing this, my friends and I are doing a Harry Potter Marathon.

So my boyfriend has been doing a Serenity RPG for a couple months now. Right before leaving for AX, we finished the first 'book' of the adventure you could say. My character is a genius mechanic with a flare for explosives. At this point, everyone in the group is considered a Big Damn Hero. My girl here is the daughter of a Parliment Senator who is mysteriously high in the ranking. Murielle here was supposed to be a registered companion, and went through a majority of the training.



Portrait I drew of her from her Companion learning days. Unfortunately, towards the end of her learning, her curiousity in explosives turned deadly. The result was the explosion of an enitre wing of the companion school in Shinon where tea ceremony was taught and held. Murielle immediately fled, changed her name to Esther and had been a rogue mechanic until falling into the ship the Sierra. Her ability to speak to machines had brought on a keen interest to the little Sierra a Draongfly class ship.
Her father was none to pleased of any of this and promptly put a want out for her. Her story ended up playing a large role in the first book, as did the Captain's backstory and one of our fighters, Marcus. The next adventure get to focus on the other peopple in the crew, but 2 years after all of the incidents that brought us together in the first place.
Kevin is seriously the best DM I have ever had in a game.

Back to the arty thing.. It isn't much but the thing I am the most proud of is the textures that are used. They are all from my own original stock. This is something I have been doing my all to make giant and easy to find. Any have some good ideas of what to shoot for more stock textures? I know there are websites out there, but I think it adds a new level of drama when using your own, ya know?

Anime Expo The Returning.

Oooooooh boy.
So today was the final day at Anime Expo; the anime convention hold every 4th of July weekend in Los Angelos.

It was a fun convention, but very tiring and extremely expensive. I went down with my clay and some buttons. Very little sold in the way of figurines, but people could not get enough of the buttons! Especially the zodiac signs turned into button form.
Part of me still wants to get a larger button maker for those. So it is a 1~2" button.

The apple magnets went really well too. I am so happy that Aja told me about them and how to make them! On top of that, some people paid for them to be sent to them as stickers to boot. :3

And someone, for the first time EVER commissioned me for drawings. It was amazing and so much fun. Here is how one of the two turned out:

They had requested their own lolita dresses be turned into buttons for each of them. Aah.. I love the sweet loli look *^^*

Apples Magnets

Hello~

Alright, so I am just a few days away from Anime Expo, the largest N.American anime convention. This year, a table has been secured and I have absolutely nothing done for it. D: Well, I do have some things done for it, just not enough. It is never enough.
So in my wiles of making some nifty and somewhat large stickers, here is one of the apple variations.
He is obviously a zombie apple. I just love the eyes and the rotten spots. Included in the apple magnets is an eaten apple, sour apple, red delicious, golden apple, vampire apple and caramel apple. Each magnet will be about 4.5" large.