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Daily Creativity: Eggplant Constrictor

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Daily Creativity: Eggplant ConstrictorDaily Creativity: Eggplant Constrictor

It’s Ash Wednesday so that means it’s time for Daily Creativity every day again. This has become a favorite time of the year, not just for me, but for a select few of my followers, and that’s awesome. This year Tek and I have decided to try something we have seen people posting about, the Lent purge. This year, every day we will each choose something to purge from our home. If it can be donated, it will be donated, if not, it will be trashed or recycled. We also will be donating the clothes we have been gathering for far too long and actually donate them. The goal is once a week to drop things off. I’m excited for this, stuff is a big stress, getting rid of it should help. And hey, in a few years we will have to down size for a year, so it’s a good time to start that.

Today’s Daily Creativity, The Eggplant Constrictor, is a spin on a drawing I’ve done before. It’s a character for a children’s book I’ll likely never write. Simon, the vegetarian snake. You’ll notice that this is a bad image, it’s a snap from my cell phone. I’ll scan it later, but I wanted to post tonight. I finished a commissioned piece today and sent it out, I can’t share that till the job is done. I hope they like it. When it is approved, there might be changes or redrafts, I’ll share. And there is another piece a while ago that I never scanned, I’ll post that later.

Markers on paper.

Daily Creativity: Celtic Circles

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Daily Creativity: Celtic CirclesDaily Creativity: Celtic Circles

I painted this back in December but couldn’t share it until later because it was part of an Epiphany present for my brother. He’s very connected to celtic imagery so I thought this would be a neat idea. When I was drawing this I was trying to get the two circles to look like they were orbiting each other. It’s a bit abstract, but to me this is my brother and his wife, they are perfect for each other, they share their celtic activities and I wanted to express that in a symbolic way. I highly doubt anyone would see that in this image, not even him. This is a watercolor mixed with a bit of ink outlining.

Penquinaut! A Penguin steampunk astronaut who knits is Not a Daily Creativity

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Penquinaut! This Penguin steampunk astronaut who knits is not a Daily CreativityPenquinaut! This Penguin steampunk astronaut who knits is not a Daily Creativity

This is a commission and so it wasn’t a Daily Creativity, meaning I spent less than a day on the piece, this piece I spent a lot more time on. I made this for someone who was part of a knitting team on ravelry. There were certain themes to follow, like their team name, and then adding knitting to it, and finally a touch of steampunk to reflect the personality of the person. I had a few sketches and ideas and ended up picking this design. I mixed media here, using masking, water color, ink, and pencil, to create the depth that I was looking for. My goal was rich colors to really flesh out this design. Also, if the planet the penguin is standing on looks familiar and you’re a fan of the Little Prince books, there is a reason for that. I placed the penguin on the Little Prince’s planet on purpose. It wasn’t part of the commission, that was just something that worked for me. By the time this posts the physical art will be in her hands, she’s had the digital for months.

Daily Creativity: Intro to Ghibli show art

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Daily Creativity: Intro to GhibliDaily Creativity: Intro to Ghibli show art

I made this for a new segment on Nutty Bites, Intro to Ghibli, where Jen, Jason, Tek, and myself explore the studio Ghibli movies. I drew the four of us with a Totoro surrounded by soot sprites. Because why not? The Totoro has become iconic of the studio and the soot sprites are everywhere. While I’m still unspoiled for most of the movies, I haven’t been living under a rock, so I know this, plus Totoro was the first movie we covered.

I drew this with blending markers on some really nice marker paper that doesn’t absorb and spread the ink. It really makes things pop. I love it. Wish I had it in more sizes. I’m pretty happy with how this came out. I used photos of us from various Balticons for reference. I think I did the worst on myself, I have a hard time capturing myself, but think I did amazingly well on Jen. Yet Tek says he thinks I did the best on myself, so what do I know. Tek was easy, if you remember the short lived web comic I did eons ago, Picnic Kids, he looks a lot like that. What do you think?

Daily Creativity: Rory Grock Spock

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Daily Creativity: Rory Grock SpockDaily Creativity: Rory Grock Spock

Yesterday I got a crayola marker kit with 100 different colored markers. Now these are cheap markers but they have so many colors!!! So what do I test them out on? Not my adult coloring book that I bought them for, nope, by drawing a picture of Rory as if he were at a con wearing an I Grock Spock shirt.  Because there are so many colors I could use a lot to create depth where I just don’t have enough marker colors to do with my really expensive markers.

Of course I also used the wrong paper, but it was fun. I have this note book with unbleached paper that is super textured and I end up using it a lot even though it’s not right for a lot of projects. I just like the book. I’m pretty happy with how this came out though, he’s so cute.