Fan Art Mash-up

Sailor Moon x Utena

Draw What You Love

Current mood board, really feeling Catwoman ever since I watched Batman Returns a few weeks back. Loveloveloved Michelle Pfeiffer. On a related note, I finally saw Beetlejuice, and I was equally smitten. As a kid I saw bits of it and never understood it, but having seen it in its entirety, I enjoyed it thoroughly. Tim Burton knows how to style a movie.

The cover of my new sketch pad. Could NOT resist the pink shiny paper.

Katy Perry, Felix the Cat, Gala Darling, and leopard hearts.

Betsey inspired collage, Betsey Johnson, Eloise, Dala horse.

Dala-corn (dala horse+unicorn), bunting and Nikki Minaj.

My "theme" or idea (theme sounds too grand) behind this newest sketch pad is to Draw What I Love. I was doing the 30 Day Project and I liked doing the sketches, but at a certain point (day ten to be exact: favorite candy) I decided, I just didn't care enough about the prompts to draw them. And I was never sure how to approach them, quick sketchs or fully resolved images? Quick sketches didn't feel long enough, but full images seemed like too much for topics that I wasn't completely invested in. I know myself enough to know that I need to draw something everyday if I'm to improve. BUT I am also a terrible procrastinator and spend waaaay too much time trawling the internet. Then it dawned on me, if I'm going to fritter away time absorbing beautiful images on the internet, why not try drawing them? Turn a bad habit into a good one. And that has turned into doing portraits of women who inspire me along with other random doodles.

What do you love to draw?

30 Day Drawing Challenge- Day 3

Favorite food- I wracked my brain and realized I don't have a favorite food. I love food/eating/cooking/baking. Therefore I'm going with the food of the moment: beer batter bread. It's a cooler day today (as far as summer goes) so my brother and I baked some bread today and the smell is overwhelmingly good. Butter, yeast and warmth. Think I'm gonna get me a slice. Yum.

30 Day Drawing Challenge- Day 2

Favorite animal

"It's ok if our first kids are dogs"-N.

He wants a husky, I would be happy of these three (from left to right: beagle, husky, boston terrier).

30 Day Drawing Challenge- Day 1

Source: d3uwin5q170wpc.cloudfront.net via Claire on Pinterest

I found this challenge on Pinterest a while ago. I had started it in my paper journal right around the time when life picked up, and my art effectively shut down, so I'm starting over and using Gimp as my medium. Gimp for those who don't know is an open source drawing program, along the lines of Adobe Photoshop.

#1 Self Portait


I think I am starting to get a feel for the drawing tool. This image is a sketch of a sketch, drawn from real life. This morning I was fiddling around and trying to draw from my imagination, but everything I came up with looked wrong. Then I used my sketch pad as a reference and viola! It doesn't look like me per se, but it was useful for practice. It speaks to the importance of drawing from life to get proportions/shadows figured out. From there, you can play with style.

Who wants to take the challenge with me?

Doodle 1

I've been on a total Sailor Moon kick lately. It was my favorite cartoon of all time growing up and is the reason that I got into art at all. Drawn in Gimp. Still getting used to the new program. I can't seem to get the pressure sensitivity to work. It makes me miss Photoshop. But hooray for doodles!