Underwater Tower

Here's my next piece in the series. It was basically an excuse to draw submersibles.

Even more pencil

Here's the next installment for my series. I haven't settled on a name for it yet, but I'll be showing them all together and selling prints at the Alternative Press Expo in SF in october. I'm working like crazy trying to get them done!

Hopefully I'll be able to post some of my new professional work too. But, as usual, the game is taking forever!

more pencil

For the last couple of months, Rosie and I have been cranking away on a project for WonderHill that has required most of our time, even on the weekends. We're very close to launch, so I can't post anything yet. In the meantime, I have squeaked out a couple of drawings. This one I drew on the plane to Vancouver.

More to come in a couple of weeks. Get ready for something different!

Fairy Rescue BGs

More backgrounds (that are copyright WonderHill 2010 all rights reserved.) These are from another game I art directed, Fairy Rescue, (playable on facebook here. Warning. ADDICTIVE.) It makes me feel better to post these since I totally overestimated the amount of space that would be visible in the game, so all those flowers got cut out.

Harmony Mahjong BGs

These are of course totally Copyright WonderHill 2010, all rights reserved.

Yay! I have permission to post these too - these are for Harmony Mahjong, a facebook game I art directed.
Click here to play!

Enchanted Gardens BGs

*copyright 2010 WonderHill All rights reserved
Here's enchanted gardens on Facebook!

March is almost over and I haven't posted anything! Here are some backgrounds from enchanted gardens.

Pencils W.I.P.

I'm still working on this one. It's almost there.

Anybody remember pencils?

Some time in December, I realized that I miss pencils. I decided to make a series of drawings painstakingly rendered, millimeter by millimeter, with a 2B mechanical pencil.

Nerd-ish Nite

Last night I gave a talk at Nerd-type-Nite - an event where bay area nerds talk to other nerds about what they do for a living. I mentioned a couple of things that people wanted to know more about. Specifically, the tablet I work on (digitally) is called a cintiq. This is NOT affiliated with www.nerdnite.com, which I don't think I would qualify for anyway since I am so intimidatingly cool.

http://www.wacom.com/cintiq/index.php?gclid=CJ2C58je4J8CFRFbagodHWj7Ww - You can find more about it here.
and the nifty color tool to which i referred can be downloaded somwhere around here for free.
http://www.adobe.com/products/kuler/
Also, if you want to paint at home, Artrage is great, and at 80 dollars, totally cheap.
http://www.artrage.com/

Purrcasso!

This is my submission, for the Purrcasso Charity Art Auction benefitting the Berkeley Humane society. I'll be updating this post later with a frame - free image. It will be for sale on Saturday! For more information,
http://purrcasso.wordpress.com/posts/ Go here!

real paint - TYE 2

I figured I should actually post this since I actually made an attempt to paint it with real live paint. I had to use an old set of gouache I had from years ago which has long since dried out. I'm not sure I totally love this piece now, but I tried.

WIP - new technique

I'm trying some new painting techniques. This is a quick sketch I did yesterday that I think I'll keep working on - maybe make it into something.

Doodle Sunday

With the husband out of town at an ultimate tournament, I had plenty of time to doodle gross-looking things, thereby ensuring that I felt at least slightly productive.

New background!

Aaah, bricks. Bricks bricks bricks bricks bricks. And... more grass!!! I think I spend more time painting grass than anyone.

self portrait # 7778

Aaaah yes. The self portrait. One of the advantages of the virtual world is that it provides many opportunities for profile pictures - and therefore, a socially sanctioned reason to draw self portraits.