The Ice Storm

Wrecked porch

So today was a bit hectic. We had a huge ice storm sweep through the area overnight. Everything was mostly okay till around 2 pm today when our power went out. Shortly after we lost power a large branch fell from the tree in our backyard. It smashed a corner of our roof and wrecked our small back porch. I have more images but unfortunately I’m having trouble uploading them to my site. I’ll edit this post when I get it working!

I’m away for a bit!

Just letting everyone know that I’ll be up in Kanata for the next two weeks! I don’t really have any of my digital tools up here but I’ll be more than likely working on traditional paintings while I’m up here. I’ll be back sometime on the weekend of the 1st of December! See ya then!

Updating!

I’m currently updating my site! I just have to change the header image to something more personal and I should be done.

-edit- Turns out there’s more I want to do! I’m going to be creating thumbnails for all my images so they look better on their respective pages. I also have yet to decide on a new header. So we shall see how long this takes! I apologize for any mess that may come as a result of my fiddling!

Sketches!

I’ve been busy applying for jobs and playing video games for the past while!

I dove into Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn and the just released update for Terraria. I’ve also been dabbling around in Minecraft! In other words I haven’t done too much art (bad Michelle, you should do more art *slaps wrist*). I do however have a few sketches and ideas I’ve been playing around with.

Digital Doodles

We’ve got an alien species/weird creature on the left. I figured there would be variations in body types and lengths of limbs. Also the taller the crest on the individual the more intelligence it focused on. (I’m not sure I’ll keep that, I might turn it into a decorative head dress or just a cosmetic thing) Then there are some little doodles on the right that started as scribbles and turned into a bird with headphones, a bird with a fancy helmet, and another odd creature. There’s also a very sad creature in the bottom left that I drew when I wasn’t feeling so great about job hunting. I’m keeping a more positive attitude about it now, I’ll find something that fits me eventually!

MonsterDoodles

Here are a few sketches of monster heads from my sketchbook. I used the same method of throwing down a scribble and seeing what I could make of it.

The Result!

The result of my 2.5 hour live stream! A concept for the cover of a children’s book based around my salamander character Pawg. Do I have anything figured out for this? No not really. But writing a book about Pawg is one of my projects! I figured since Pawg has been with me throughout college and has become a character I fall back on that I should write about him.

I have two cover concepts that vary in composition. I plan on finishing one of these two, once I figure out which composition works better.
I’ll be glad to hear any advice or pointers.

Variation 2 Variation 1