Monster

This drawing is a couple years old, but I still love it. The bone details were inspired by a wolf's skeleton and the hair... a drowned rat maybe? I'm not sure.

8.5x11 inch paper and black lining markers.

Mermaid

This drawing started out as the fish in the bottom left hand corner. It then grew into a mermaid-like creature with sea life in her hair. The pattern on the fish was taken from the place-mat I was drawing on. I still have a long way to go... Colouring is proving to take a very long time. 

The drawing is 10x10 inches big, and with pencil, lining markers and pencil crayons. 

The Doctor's Office

This is a drawing I did in pen while waiting to see a doctor. It was a pretty long wait and the sketch itself is 8.5x11 inches large. 

Sketch Dump

All you lucky duckies get to be privy to my collection of silly drawings done in pencil and pen in my sketch book or random pieces of paper. 

The first bit of sketches are characters from the comic my bf and I want to write (providing I get a story line together). We're still working on the fourth character, so right now we only have Eve, Ryce and Jeik. 

Every other sketch was either done at work (me lurking customers and security) or waiting for a bus, or even on a bus waiting for it to leave. 

These are just some ideas/ designs that popped into my head. The first one (on the left) was supposed to be a girl drawing armor on herself to protect herself. The second I was going to draw stylized doodles in the streams coming from the eyes, but never got around to it. Then there's a random girl and a small sketch of a girl looking up at hanging keys (I think I'll re-draw that picture on a long piece of paper). Another random girl... and finally a girl with dandelions growing out of her side.

So many sketches

The first five sketches were done (in pen) while I was waiting with my brother in a jury duty waiting room. Despite what the (80's) informational video said, no one was happy about being there. 

The two gentle man on the left were drawn while I was sitting in a Coffee shop. On the right is a blind contour drawing of my boyfriend's face I while we were in Pickle Barrel waiting for our food, and below that is a drawing of a man waiting for the bus. These drawings were done in pencil. 

These are just some doodles I may turn into Illustrations later. The middle one is a self portrait of sorts made up of a giant Celtic knot and some Irises at the top, while the two on the ends were inspired by my best friend Sam (who is peachduck on blogger). Drawing done in pencil and black lining markers.

Self Portrait

This is my final drawing for my Life Drawing class. For this semester we had to pick a theme, mine was time. For our last project we had to do a layered drawing, so I did a surrealistic scattered time line self portrait . Gosh that's a mouth full. Anyways, I took some of the injuries that I have sustained over the years and exaggerated them... A lot. 

The oven mitt is from when I sustained a second degree burn to my hand. The hole in the side of my head is from when I was 2 and was hit in the side of the head by a baseball; the doctor's said I had a "y" fracture around my right eye. The trumpet looking tubes coming out of my left ear are from my six ear surgeries on that ear; I had tubes put in to drain the fluid behind my ear drum so I could hear. As for the hear in the glass, it represents two things; my heart surgery when I was 1 and from when I had an inflammation of the heart lining known as Pericarditis. 

This is the final result, I added a collage of coloured paper behind the skeleton to help it stand out more. I also added a layer of Mylar over top of the collage and drew a line drawing of myself in marker. 

Paper is 24x30 inches large

Mixed media: Pencil crayon, Mylar, Patterned scrapbook paper, charcoal, black lining markers, graphite pencil and a lot of spray glue.   

Five paintings

These are my final paintings for class done in acrylic on wood panels. We had to paint a series of five paintings that could be as a group or stand on their own. I ended up painting (non literal) portraits of my family in the form of books. 

In ancient times, instead of Gods some families would pray to their Ancestors instead of Gods (or in place of the Gods). This is still practiced today in some countries. Usually there would be busts or portraits made of the diseased family member that the living family would keep with them and pray to for good fortune. 

Instead of portraits I painted mini scenes inside each book that reminded me of the person. On the front of the book I stenciled the first initial of my family members' names. I painted portraits of my cousin, my aunt, my brother, my mom and my father.     

This is my father's portrait. He sometimes reminds me of a swarm of bees; he's a hard worker but when angered... well... let's just say bees are still an appropriate comparison. 

This is my mother, she's been through some hard times in her life and she's finally starting to get over them. I painted a dandelion for her because it's a superstition to be able to make a wish on the seeds and I'm always wishing for her to keep getting better. 

My cousin, even though she's only eight is very strong. She has been through so much, and still manages to help out her mom and brighten people's days. So for her I painted a sunflower. 

My aunt is a very important person in my life and she has always managed to weather the hellish storm she has been through. 

This last painting is for my brother. He's distant and cold to nearly everyone and really doesn't care about anyone other than his self.