August 2015 ~ Abby and the Pens

Monday, August 31, 2015

Character Design: Walt and Jane

As many of you know I am a self-proclaimed writer of short fiction, a strange motley of poetry, and ominous un-finished novels.

Sometimes, what I do to "Get the creative juices flowing," (quoting my mother there) I draw the characters I'm working with.

Here is an example of sed-character-design.

This Walt and Jane.
They're both 11 at the moment.

Walt is probably insane. He is a fanatic artist who goes on many strange artistic escapades (such as building a sculpture out of crayons and melted cheese) and Jane is his temporary accomplice:)

Saturday, August 22, 2015

The Making of Movies

As the deadline for my animation project is coming faster than a speeding bullet (I'm kidding, but really....) I've been spending quite a bit of time in this exact place in my room.

I started out animating it all on the computer (After Effects cc 2015) but, alas, it was just looking wrong on the computer. The story line has a lot to do with the characters being "doodles" and when I would draw them on the computer, they just didn't look like doodles at all.

I switched to making it a chalk board animation, which is so so so much fun!!Now I get to work with my chalk board wall, rather than staring at the computer. So it all kinda works out:)

(P.S. the toilet paper roll is for erasing things...if you were wondering...which you probably weren't;P)

Friday, August 21, 2015

Blogger Fan-art: Lazy Obsession

At the moment, my biggest fashion inspiration would definitely be Miss Nasreen (Naz) Osman from http://www.lazyobsession.com/

Her style is very chill and laid back but also very put together and strictly fabulous. Definitely a style goal for Fall;P

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Blogger Fan-art: Skunkboy

One of my absolute favorite bloggers is Miss Katie from http://www.skunkboyblog.com/

I've been following her for a while, and if you asked me a year ago "what I wanted to be when I grow up?" I would have probably have said her:D We're both red-heads, we're both musicians, we're both etsy addicts...

Anyhoo... I thought it would be a ton of fun to illustrate her, and I was right!

You should giver her blog a look-see, you'll thank me:)

I couldn't stop at just illustrating Katie, so I also drew her two adorable kiddos:)

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Fine Art Stuffs and Practice

As a true artist, I have decided it is time to branch out of my normal cartooney illustrated style and dabble in more of the "fine arts" per say...

I have discovered I can draw feet rather well...which is so strange

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

A Fashion Illustrator?

Yes, yes lately I've been getting back into doing fashion illustrations.
I'm telling myself that this is NOT a relapse to my twelve-year-old-high-fashion-crazed self, but I'm still not sure if that's true;)

This was brought on by the recent discovery of an old sketchbook of mine with a motley of outfits I drew back in middle school, and -well- I've improved a lot since then...I might just do a post soon where I re-draw some of the real embarrassing ones:)

This is an illustration I just did of Alice Young for her blog.(http://www.thevelvetblack.co.uk/)

Friday, August 14, 2015

Hello London!

This is an illustration I did for Audrey White at http://www.whimsicalwanderingsblog.com/ to thank her for making over my blog!

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Blog Makeover!

Notice anything different?

Yes, yes my blog is now beautiful thanks to the creative genius, Miss Audrey White, from http://www.whimsicalwanderingsblog.com/

Please check out her blog, you'll thank me:)

And also a big thank you to my lovely friend Emmali who took my profile picture! She's very gifted and has a photography blog you should give a look-see:)
http://onceuponaword.weebly.com/photography