New Sketchbook from China

With brown pages! Joy!

Masquerade

Playboy Bunny

Trying to get caught up after a looong lapse in drawing uploads!

This is way back from october when we went to Mondolounge at the Palms and went to the Playboy Club...

Marie Antoinette

AMOS Showtime

I saw over on my friend Eliza's blog that she had done this amazing piece for a group show being organized by the German musician, Amos, and dropped them an email asking if they were still looking for artists.

Here's a link to the project

I was -just- under the deadline- they shipped me a blank album cover, and I got to create a design for it! I sent it off today; a day late, but then again, I just got the cover on Saturday!

It was a pretty fun project- the album covers will tour around different galleries across Europe and be available for sale in person and online.

I'll definitely post more details once they receive it and post it on their site! : D

Here are some Work In Progress shots:

end or our Parisian adventure!

Damon and I managed to find a mask store (which, btw, was PACKED) and get some simple costume supplies- I got a cat mask and ears, and he got a super hero mask, and we went out and made our own fun by staging a photo shoot by some of the old art nouveau Metro stations.  SO much fun!!

PIRATES!!!

Our figure drawing model tonight at Film Roman was dressed as a pirate, and he had tons of props! (and a musical score to boot! we drew to music from Hook, Treasure Island, and probably a few of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies).

 It was, in one word, awesome.

Chinese Princess and some sketches

Here's a rough concept sketch for a larger painting (just trying out costuming ideas mostly and facial designs), and me trying to figure out why I'm so in love with Camilla d'Errico's work right now (figuring out the way she draws her eyes and what makes them look so neat).

Sleepy zombie bride!

Had a fantastic Halloween party and a great couples costume with my fiance (shotgun wedding zombie bride and groom), but man, I'm one tired zombie bride! (drawn at 6am- hence not being posted til now when I've had some time to sleep in and recover!)

Gentlemen prefer... Brains?

Damon and I did a test run of some of our zombie makeup for next week tonight at our art opening (THANK YOU to everybody who came out!), so we went as zombie Marilyn Monroe and Elvis. Afterwards, we went over to Hollywood to shoot some goofy zombie themed photos at Graumann's Chinese Theatre. Too much fun!!

Saturday, July 26, 2008

"Breakfast with the Bush"

So, this morning at breakfast in the gaslight district, Damon and I were watching all sorts of costumed folk making their way down to the convention center, when all of a sudden we see this man in full sniper/jungle camouflage gear walk up across the street and into the pub where we're sitting outside having breakfast.

We're trying to figure out what character he could possibly be, when he comes back out and grabs a seat next to us, so we start talking- and we find out he's actually a real-life navy seal who had to walk around the con in full recon garb to pass out cards (which I can't say he was super thrilled about- it also looked like it was 100 degrees under all that burlap!!). He was such an interesting guy- he majored in photography, and now does recon photos for the navy of "things that never happened in places that don't exist," and overall, really great person to talk to.

He kept referring himself as "the bush," since he did look like a large walking shrubbery, and he told this hilarious story of how he scared the bejesus out of some people at the Comic-con by mistake when he blended in next to a potted palm tree then got up to move.

Anyway, if you're out there, this one's for you, bush!

Renaissance Woman

Inspired from my Taschen book of costumes- a 16/17th century German woman's outfit. Enjoy!