Category Archives: Mash up

Steamy love #steampunk #lovebirds #art #motorcityfurcon

I’ll be in the dealers room at motor city fur con 2016 and their theme is steampunk. I did these little birdies with that in mind. They’re two different colorations of lovebird and if you look close you’ll notice they’re blinged out in theme.

  
I used copic markers and liners on this piece. It’s in 500 series Bristol Vellum. 

Can’t you just feel the love? 😉

Friday sketch dump 

What if bullfighting was bulls fighting? 

  
day of the dead roughs

   
 
I had some sketches and figured since they were all a bit rough I’d give you a few this Friday post. 

There isn’t anything particularly technique wise or product to talk about with these. You could do this work with a #2 pencil and some blank paper. I always carry a mechanical pencil (ok I do buy special soft lead for it), sketch paper, and an eraser with me. I’ve been known to sketch over diner, in the car, basically anywhere I go. This way, when I need to squeeze a second of work in, I can. 

I guess the lesson with random sketches say is that all my stuff starts with sketches. It’s the bones of everything I do. These may go no further than sketches. Maybe, eventually, I’ll revisit these and decide they are good or maybe just the idea was good but I wasn’t good enough yet. I’ve revisited many ideas I wasn’t good enough to draw and turned the. Into fun pieces. It’s all practice and determination. 

(I think I may be watching to much pokemon since this sounds a bit voice over moral ;)) 

We want you… To staff cons!

Do you enjoy going to cons? Ever wonder what you can do for your favorite cons? Volunteer of course. You to can volunteer and maybe even staff for your favorite cons.

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This was done with a technique I’ve never tried before and a new color of paper. An x-acto blade was used to scrape red off the paper that would not come off with an eraser. The paper is from a set of cream color papers I got for my birthday.