Various updates

So, I've been with Davison for nearly a month now -- I take that back:  Exactly a month today.  It's my anniversary and I didn't even know it!  Anyway, I continue to love my work.  Nerf battles and Luaus (that, due to my crippling social anxiety, I do not attend) aside, I get paid to draw stuff, to come up with packaging that is new, interesting and atypical.  How great is that?  No, not everything is a picknic, and not every product is exciting...but honestly, I find it a really fun challenging to come up with interesting and eye-catching packaging for boring or weird things.  

I'm still (slowly) working on my Moth Rider -- I didn't get anything done on her last weekend, so its still been just what I can do on my lunchbreaks, but here's the work I've done so far: 

I like how her hair turned out...not the fluffy cloud I had originally envisioned, but the whorls and piles of ridiculous strawberry blonde curls please me greatly.  

In other non-work art news...today I heard back from the studio that comissioned the illustration for the Irish fest.  I knew that giving in and posting it would be the lucky charm.  They say that, due to the work I put in, they'd like to pay me to finish it regardless, and are sure the client will want to use it on a poster or some-such.  So, that is cool.  I suppose I will probably be working on that this weekend.  So...not on the moth girl.  That just going to be a slow personal project. 

I also got contacted by my once dean at The Art Institute regarding another bit of illustration freelance --what the client is looking for is not a style I have specifically done before, but I told him I am super adaptable and sent him some samples of a few things that sort of fit sideways into what he wants, so we will see.  

Not a lot else is shiny and new, and I have other web-tasks to fulfill this evening (yes, I need to check my facebook) so I will bid you a fond adeu, but expect new pretties soon.  

Isaac

Roleplaying:  My boyfriend's character, Isaac: 

I did some work on my own character, but after a suggestion from my boyfriend and the realization that my current sketches look really too young and somewhat resemble a big-eyed anime schoolboy, he's gonna get a bit of a reformat.  

Groovy

So, I colored the Charles Xavier/Tarunga Leela mashup: 

Just a quick, rough coloring job.  Nothing fancy.  

Today, I think I need to finally get to the designs for the characters in the tabletop roleplaying campaign I'm involved with.  

Also, since i never heard back, so I'm guessing the client decided against using the illustration, this is the WIP illustration comission I did NOT get for the Pittsburgh Irish Festival: 

I think I may finish it, just to finish it.  But not today.  Today is for roleplaying pictures. 

(Something Clever)

I finished my 'Tang' picture the other day.  I just didn't remember to post it.  

It didn't turn out EXACTLY how I wanted, but still closer than I thought it might...and cute, I think.  

I also doodled this.  I think I want to finish it (oops, I did it again...saved over my doodle, got lost in the....something...)

Because I loved Professor X's smarmy pick-up line.  And I am excited about forthcoming Futurama.  And Leela would totally kick his ass.  

I have a few more personal projects on the sidelines as well--it is just a matter of finding time to work on them, with 10 hour work days.  I've been using my lunch break for drawing, though.  It breaks up the day nicely.  

In other news, Netflix is being a butt-head.  

Tang, baby, Tang!

A little more progress was made on the fictional Tang advert last night while I watched the rather dreadful Disney version of the Three Musketeers.   My 13 year old self recalled it being much better....  But anyway, spacegirls!