toasted

These marshmallows were illustrated for the topic "Burn" as part of the The Creative Collective's synchroblogging project.

100 snowmen

floating, flooded, abandoned

Reference: Geert Goiris - website and photo

anatomy in coral

A patch of coral that conveniently resembles the human thorax and brain.

Harajuku Panda

A fashionable and colorful panda.

mer-bear

Polar bear / fish / mermaid mash up.  It's a merbear? Panatee? Polar fish?

iced tea

A cool cup of iced tea, preferably a mix of half unsweet and half sweet.

Juicy Jejunum in Jar

Today's topic was the letter J, I went with the obvious: a juicy jejunum in a jar.

(the jejunum is part of the small intestine)

all the Libbys

Today's sketch topic was self portraits, so here's me today.  And then a few older self portraits that I found from school:

mixed media - second year of college

watercolor - second year of college

digital - freshman year of college

oil paints - high school

oil paints - high school

oil paints - high school

colored pencil - high school

graphite - high school

markers - preschool?

orange

A close up of an orange slice for today's topic of orange.

gobble gobble

Getting ready for Thanksgiving with this turkey.

violin

November 10th sketch - musical instrument

In the shop

candy!

November 8th - Kitchen appliances.  I'm not sure that a candy dispenser technically counts as an appliance, but I would still like to have one in my kitchen.

Cleaned this one up and then put it up - In the shop

penguin for president '12

November 6th - Vote for more cute penguins in 2012, it's the only logical choice.

caterpillar playground

November 4th - a trip to the playground

wine, grapes, and cheese, yum!

November 3rd - wine.  I had a lot of fun with this one, I tried to use Photoshop like I was painting traditionally with oils.  So no paths and no fuzzy erasers.

moose skull

November 2nd - moose skull

In the shop

coffee mustache

November 1st sketch daily part 2 (part 1)

In the shop

your coffee loves you very much

November 1st sketch daily part 1 (part 2)

In the shop

happy halloween

October 31st - Trick or treat!

And a bonus picture of Brandon and me as Ash and Pikachu for Halloween :)

unfinished

Sometimes I don't finish things.  Sometimes I take on too much, coming up with an idea that would take days too render when I have hours.  So I simply never start, knowing I will never finish.  As proof, here is the lovely file I saved over the weekend, titled "unfinished business.psd".  I didn't finish (or technically start) this one, but I wanted to.  All those scratch marks don't look like much, but are plans for a couple different drawings:

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Here are a few more unfinished pieces from the past year.  Some things that I ran out of time for, some I lost interest in, and some were just sketches never meant to be finished:

I am finishing that squirrel though.

These sketches were compiled for the topic "Unfinished Business" as part of the The Creative Collective's synchroblogging project.

pumpkin, three ways

October 27th

pumpkin spice latte • pumpkin • pumpkin pie

bleat bleat

October 20th - Quick sketch of a goat.

frames

October 9th  Wall with wallpaper and an eclectic grouping of art.

bubble octopus

Cute octopus made of bubbles!

In the shop

kitty vs yarn

October 2nd - World War III - In the future cats will rule the world and one brave kitten will face off with the evil ball of yarn.  The showdown will be long.

29 balloons

Falcon with 29 balloons for Brandon's birthday :)

poor leaf

Two leaves battle winds, birds, and the ever evil feet:

Another oldie from college. Poor leaf...


These falling leaves were posted for the topic "Seasons" as part of the The Creative Collective's synchroblogging project.

office assistants

September 23rd - Mascots  Reinterpreted the Microsoft Office Assistants for sketch daily.

Penguin tower

September 22 - Tower Time

what if people had pasta for hair

One of my favorite illustrations from college was this one, called "What if People had Pasta for Hair."  It was done originally for my first digital illustration class in Illustrator.  I always loved the concept, but due to time and my skill level at the time, it never really felt done.  So I'm glad now to have the excuse to go back to it and add some more rendering and depth.

These pasta heads were illustrated for the topic "Hair" as part of the The Creative Collective's synchroblogging project.

hummingbird

Hummingbird for sketch daily.

In the shop

steampunk hedgehog

September 13th Today's prompt was to take a weapon and draw a steampunk version of it. I drew a hedgehog because hedgehogs make excellent weapons. Right? Right.



Update:

Making some refinements to the sketch from this week.  Still in progress...

love is a battlefield

September 10th - Ultimate Showdown  Today's sketch assignment was to draw a showdown/battle.  I'm not much for action battle scenes, so I drew this porcupine and cactus sizing each other up.  

But I think they look like they could be in love.  Either way I think the porcupine is a little confused.