The Science of Cute

Sketched while reading a post on cute things on CA.

Little Monsters

Some little monster designs, mostly based on the same shape. I was trying to make a lead character for a kids' comic:

Fashion Plate

Man, it feels like I've done nothing but comics for the past month. Oh wait, that's because except for a few greeting card designs I HAVE done nothing but comics. SO MANY COMICS.

Today I just needed to do something different.

Textures from random free-texture sites on the web. I'm not sure I'm any good with collage but this was reasonably fun. Next time I'll have to do the old-fashioned kind with glue sticks and little bits of paper everywhere.

Cats

Cats with personalities!

I Don't Even Know

Some days I just get... bored.

Arr!

Guardian of Atlantis

CHOW T-Shirt Rough

Found a rough sketch for the t-shirt design at the bottom of my bag. I like this version better, it's got a certain rakish hair-band rocker look to it.

Comeek

I'll probably be launching a webcomic strip by the end of May and (if I manage to make 30 strips by then) it's going to look like theees:

Comic comic comic comic! Comic? Comic!

All right. Back to work now.

Work Proceeding

Worked on this a bit more. It's looking a bit better.

In Progress

An illo I'm working on right now. I'm hoping to get some input on the lighting and whatnot.

Badass Squirrel

More sketchbook squirrels.

Skwirl

A dumb squirrel from the ol' sketchbook.

Tweaked CHOW T-shirt

Removed the earrings and added shoulders:

CHOW T-shirt Design

Chow is running a t-shirt contest and since I came up with something quick and easy I decided to toss it in the pot.

Currently working on a couple illustrations and the usual suspects.

CAers

Some portrait-type objects of people from CA.

Creepy

Sketchbook Page

I've been sketching. Really I have. I've just been absolutely awful about scanning any of it in.

Bunulon the Second

So this is the Bunulon I made out of Sculpey. The first one was just made out of clay-like plasticine stuff. Sculpey is way more workable! Two things: it picks up little bits of dust and fiber like crazy, and the instructions on the package are total bullshit -- hence the toasted ears.

The toasted ears look oddly charming but I wanted to customize its appearance (and cover up all the little greeblies stuck in the Sculpey) so I painted it with acrylic paint this weekend:

It was surprisingly difficult to paint. I'm going to try sanding Bunulon the Third and see whether that helps any. (There is a Bunulon the Third in the works. These guys are addictive and I want to have them in a variety of poses and finishes. I hope future Bunulons are a little less lumpy and lopsided.)

I don't know why I call them Bunulons. Probably because they look a little blank and robot-like before they're painted up.

Anyway.  If I get a good process going I might put some up on Etsy.

Two Cats

Cleaned-up doodles!