Wow...

I have drawn 2 of these little chibis a month for Powerpets Players since May 2007. These are the September 2011 stuffies. (Which means a total of 106 I think?) And this doesn't include the ones I've done for Powerpets staff; which is about 100, give or take 1-2, which means I've done over 200 of these little things!

Which probably explains why I'm sick to death of them, because the average request is "Hoody/Tshirt and Jeans with my Cat/Dog". So most of these that I've drawn are little people in boring pants, with a boring shirt, and a tiny little cat/dog.

Then every now and then somebody says "Make mine a mermaid" And I am totally inspired and just love it so much! I really enjoyed making the mermaid one.

A couple of my favorites are...

Whats this? A new environment?

So Powerpets has a brand new environment... It's my favorite yet, normally I do pretty landscapes... For the Sheep I thought I'd change it up!

;) Wool Socks!

Yellow Wallpaper Painting

It's really hard to work in time for a big project that you are going to work on continuously, I've been slipping in practice animation in flash to continue my Thesis project animation, and quicker doodles for fun. Than there is always Powerpets. There is never be nothing to do for Powerpets I think! I don't see an end!! LOL Not that that's a bad thing.

Anyway I've been slipping in little bits of work on The Yellow Wallpaper digital painting in my spare time. Here's a Work In Progress so far.

I really want her to appear as she does in the beginning of the story. She is bored, lonely, and sad, and she is trying to deal with that horrible yellow wallpaper that she hates so much.

Mermaid

The little mermaid is a top favorite of mine, so I thought I'd do my own mermaid slightly in the style on it :D

It was seriously a lot of fun, I really enjoyed it ^_^ Every now and than you have to take a break from commissions and serious projects and just draw something for the love of drawing.

Art Test

I just completed two images for an art test for a job in San Francisco. I hope they like it! Worked my butt off on um :D

The first image was a splash page mock up in the style of the Angry Birds, except a penguin game LOL I had a blast with this. I always knew seagulls were evil, every since I was a little (extremely perceptive) child. Lol!

The second image is done in illustrator, it's Justin Bieber in the style of Ameba Pigg. LOL It was so fun. I felt like such a little fan girl googling tons of pictures of Justin Bieber.

<3 I loved doing this art test.

Powerpets Before & After

So for those who don't know, Powerpets kind of looked... well... I'll just show you. Here's what Powerpets looked like *before* I got to redo the layout.

*ahem* So here is Powerpets layout before. This was a template, we would changed a couple of the colors every month and the character in the top left corner. Honestly, I hated the whole thing, I especially hated that berry blue background!

So when I got the opportunity to team up with the programmer and make a new, much more appealing look for Powerpets, I created a base design and *finally* we got the site looking like this.

What a huge difference huh? There were a couple things we fought a bit on. It took a little convincing to get them to give up the icons on the top bar ;) But I finally convinced them it was really better to use words. It was more direct and user-friendly.

With PAW I faced a totally new challenge, since the site seeks to raise money through ads for animal shelters, the challenge is created a layout that looks cute and modern, while pulling in ads, without it looking a mess. Here was the base we started with.

This really wasn't so bad, it was just boring. And a little over-cluttered.

So with a little dedicated hard work, we reached this. :) Which included all necessary information while looking a little more fun, and a little less cluttered.

Waiter Dan

I wanted to show my process from sketch to fully rendered drawing. So I created a quick character, meet Waiter Dan. He loves his job. I'm thinking of making him the presketch for Emma's Dad (Emma from my WIP Project Monster Hunt that I've mentioned in other posts like this one showing Emma with her older sister Ada.

Dan just wants things to run smoothly at the upscale restaurant he works at. He's happily content in his position. With such a precise personality, you have to know he has a comic foil... I'm thinking of designing this character for him. Maybe a short little guy who (while he means well) screws everything up and wreaks havoc where ever he goes.