on the 4th bowl of fruity pebbles

The sassy, gender ambiguous evil henchman- Diamond Dalmation. Luscious wit. Impenetrable nipples.

BOSS STORIES

this one's for elaine.

pillowcouture II

Actually katie, jess and I were totally thinking about the same thing.

My notes at work

We finally got a scanner at my job!! So this is actually from like... June or so. Maybe even July.

I reflected upon very important matters during meetings:

PARTY HATS.

snowflakes? dandruff?

how do people draw on the computer? how do you use the ink brush tool? how do you draw??

i remember keeping the turkey and apple cider in the snow outside, since there wasn't enough room in the fridge.
it feels like there used to always be snow by thanksgiving. if it doesn't hit by this thursday, here's hoping for a white christmas.

hot pot kitty

don't worry. it's only a tofu kitty.

AUGH

I keep trying to draw a cute and naive young heroine, but it keeps coming out like this.

Updating with a cleaned up version of a drawing from an earlier post. Needs better editing, and re-doing the ribbon with vectors was a bad idea. But overall pretty satisfied.

alice and the OMGF GIANT CAT

Texture overload! I dunno what she's doing- ran out of shrooms perhaps? Anyway.

zoozoozoo

zoo drawing is fun. it's mostly sketching the rear ends of animals that are trying to ignore you. you can also tell which animals are more animated since their drawings are shittier. we should totally go to the natural history museum where all the animals are dead (unmoving), smell nice, and are forever locked into dynamic poses.

pillowcat goes to the office!

i brought my adorable pillowcat to my office! hooray!! thanks elaine. maybe i should stop trying to sabotage your work now. hehe.

screwing up elaine's job (continued)

since kT posted some animalmalmalmals, here is one. with a bonus pumpkin!

while not a halloween costume, it might as well be one.

a sketch for an outfit i ended up not making, used to practice color coordination in painter.

it's actually pretty nerve-wracking to post to a blog. i dislike the idea of leaving evidence of shortcomings and faults, let alone having it be so easily accessible and immortalized by the internet. the uncolored bow at the hem is killing me. on one hand, it's just a sketch for color practice, so why worry? on the other, it's evidence of absentmindedness *and* laziness if left uncorrected. then again, public opinion has never been a very heavy chain. nor would evidence of such character faults really affect the campaign of any associates potentially running for office. finally, i *am* absentminded and lazy. so why pretend otherwise?

and while i'm at it, there needs to be less knee-jerk pigeonholing of asian girls with any sort of individual awareness of style into "harajuku girl/FRUiTS/japanese street kid." because believe it or not, some asian people really can dress themselves, and are not from the pages of a "wacky japan" coffee table book or the latest neo-orientalist pop music act. i mean, goddamn. i just want to wear polka dot pants.

okay, going to go back to convalescing.

ha HA

I was trying to defeat you, jess... too bad I fucked up my actual work in the process and accidentally saved this over a work file. That'll show me. FUCK.

my goal is to make 10 updates before anyone else can post

A rough from a side project in progress. A modified, slightly feminized version of the World of Warcraft Alliance crest. (You guys can probably guess who this is for. . .)

thought of the day

From Demeulemeester's SP09 collection. It's theme-relevant because it's. . .orange. . .like a pumpkin?

first post!

bankrupt jewish ninjas go trick or treating

OK. so - i think it's time we break this dry spell& get everyone re-involved... with a TOPIC!! yay. i had some exciting& somewhat cliche ideas for some themes to get people pumped ab drawing& posting:

1. financial crisis
2. halloween
3. yom kippur
4. ninja's& (see 1-3)

thoughts ?

oatmeal in the morning

so - i know you are probably sick of my consecutive posts--sorry!! but i went to the columbus art league open figure drawing session on Sunday and i thought i'd share.  ^^enjoy

edit> i love the "batter up" pose! hahah. when he did that i was like "really?.... brilliant." ..and yes - he has no man parts. haha.

inspiration

some cool images from tsumori chisato.

not sure which collection - but hilarious illustrations. (not mine... unfortunately.)

drawn by adam, colored by me

sketches.

went to the park on sunday. it was awesome. got in some drawing. i miss it. it always puts me in a better mood afterward too. i need to do it more....

also - some boys at the bottom (not from the park.) i will def. be posting a real boy soon!!

enjoy

Yes.

roommates..... no more.

the rape of the cupcake.

Hahahha. This is what I did on my lunch break today. Hahaha. I just had this thought yesterday as I was eating a cupcake from someone's birthday party -- I was licking off the icing and then putting it back on my desk for later (than 10am) - and I looked at the half eaten cupcake by my phone and felt kind of sad.

Hahha.

amnimals

So, here are some sketches (finally) from my trip to the zoo -- which was really fun& interesting. I got to see a different part of (outer) Columbus. It was really big& new and also next to a water park (a little tacky) and a golf course--all part of the zoo. Parking& admission were cheap, hooray. And I got to drive through some rural areas that reminded me a lot of Fresno due to their massive developments& brand new shopping centers. But there were also cute main streets that looked some what old (from atleast the 70s.)

My day at the zoo was a very chill experience. I dropped my ipod in the rhino pit. Other than that - super chill. I would like to do this again - evidently they have a jazz night at the zoo regularly. The thought of sketching while listening to live jazz just sounds awesome. Yes, zoo again soon (preferably without dropping ipod into animal cage). Cheesy as it sounds - I'd really like to bring Adam or perhaps ELAINE my sketching buddy^^

tuxedo rabbit

You know what else I like in tuxedos (aside from cats, penguins and now bunnies)?

James Bond.

I actually got this idea from one of our first OC's- Grace made a character with bunny ears I believe, and I think I did some goat boy... Ah, memories.

Okay, next time for real I will draw a girl. Maybe. We'll see.

Also, katie- why do your sketches keep disappearing? Keep them posted!

Ninja! ... related.

Next topic? Can't think of any constraints right now to narrow it down, except maybe it can't be like... really stereotypical or something.

Even though I didn't do my second animal costume one, which I'm still... thinking about, at least. It's been really hard for me to sit down and draw on the computer, being that it's super hot over here and all, and with the whole no scanner thing (still), and not even a digital camera to bootleg it (oh wait... I have my phone...) it might be a while. But at least my sketchbook's been getting a lot of play :D

-E

(to make up for lack of sketches on my half, I kinda thought of the next possible topic: skeletons? Yes, no? Oh well, ninjas first.)

cute commercial

Mitsubishi Lancer, "Safer in a Wild World" from PRA on Vimeo.

It's animal costume related!

In other news, it's really hard to get things onto the computer without a scanner.... The one I have access to at work isn't really... working... and we've been bugging them for a new one, but I don't really see that happening until after we move to the newer office.

Also, my monitor at home is really messed up, color wise. I used to think that it was okay until I would draw at home, and then view it here on a mac, and notice just how off it was... Any suggestions on how I could fix it? It might not even be just my monitor but the actual hardware... Argh.

old skool

found this while browsing old files. haha.

moose& kt

So - this is my 2nd animal costume. More like, animal hat. I thought of this yesterday because I'm starting to feel really consumed by the a&f culture. optimistic! aspirational! sexy! effortless cool! independent! and so it goes. haha. (so i guess this can be kind of a a&f-ified self portrait. (cos - no way am I that cute/skinny/sexy/independent/aspirat--ugh.)

Also - I've always liked the idea of having fashion models with gigantic animal heads. I had an awesome vision of the models outside the a&f flagship in nyc wearing huge moose masks. how cool would that be ? hollister could have seagull masks that are just giant birds. kekeke.

Off to the gym... to attain that effortlessly cool look (which takes a lot of effort, i imagine.)

Animal Costumes

Just because I'm anal and really into organizing to the point of ridiculousness....:

Until people catch up/ come up with something,  the topic's (still) 'Animal Costumes.'  And yeah, post sketches too of random stuff- the only constraint for that is it has to be done during work, hahaha. Or... whenever. Okay, so there is no constraint. 

YES.

-E.

bloody kangarooooooo

Yay! I actually did this in one sitting (yeah, I was that excited)- so I bet I'm gonna notice a lot of mistakes tomorrow... I haven't had the incentive to draw (aside from work related stuff- ugh) so this has been very nice indeed.

Mmm, you can't really see it here, but the whole idea of this was backed by this incident (which I don't remember now) in which I noticed that when blood gets in your mouth, it gets into the cracks of your teeth and makes you look like a psycho- awesomeeee.

And yes, kt, I still only draw boys. And I type too much.

Any ideas for our next 'topic?'

Broccosaurus!

So wait, is this more of a, 'this is what we do during work,' sort of thing now? Just wondering. Also don't want to overdo it with a million posts with nothing (for me at least), haha.

landmark.

so i guess this is going to be our little home. woot woot. i can't wait to get started. today at work we all received fancy wacom tablets. hot. i'm gonna be doing some damage with those. and once i get around to finding a scanner somewhere - i'll be posting some hand-drawn sketches i've been doing. i've been trying to do some drawings every night--whether from photo, memory or life.

and i'm trying to do some fashion drawings as well.

looking for that life drawing open session---
*sigh*

anyone in columbus who knows - lemme know.

-kt.

__edit. i found the open drawing. thx for the sarcasm elaine. also - first sketch! animal costumes. hehe. hooray for anime dorkiness.