The Horned She
A character from one of my (as yet) unpublished fantasy novels.
A character from one of my (as yet) unpublished fantasy novels.
Eisherz
Chameleonmind
Coral
Sketched at the Seattle Aquarium, painted digitally.
Dog Skull
Sketched from life at the California Academy of Sciences, painted digitally.
Machine Intelligence
Inspired by Matthew Jarpe's science fiction novel, this was intended to be a B/W ebook cover.
Inspired by Matthew Jarpe's science fiction novel, this was intended to be a B/W ebook cover.
Bee
Eye Heart Yew
I love bad puns.
Hummingbird
Reference from the PhoebeAllens Hummingbird web cam.
Implant eBook Cover
Inspiration Wallpaper
Created in Illustrator and Photoshop, for an art remix thread over at Naature art forums. We were given a stock photo of a blank, white milk carton and told to remix it. I actually went and got a milk carton out of my fridge and measured it so I could lay out the dieline, which along with the measurements and design of the milk carton itself were all done in Illustrator. I laid the wallpaper out in Photoshop though, which is where I warped the vector art to fit the carton. It was basically a fun design break from doing super detailed interface work.
Lembas
Basically I got so excited to be working on another Lord of the Rings game that I sketched up some lembas just for the fun of it. :)
Nautilus
Sketched from life at the California Academy of Sciences, digitally painted. You might possibly get the idea that I like science. :)
Sketched from life at the California Academy of Sciences, digitally painted. You might possibly get the idea that I like science. :)
Nina Simone!
Reference: YouTube videos of her performance at the Harlem Cultural Festival of '69. Sketched and painted in Photoshop.
Reference: YouTube videos of her performance at the Harlem Cultural Festival of '69. Sketched and painted in Photoshop.
Rain, or One of His Octopus Brethren
Photographed at Seattle Aquarium, sketched from my own photoreference in Photoshop.
Photographed at Seattle Aquarium, sketched from my own photoreference in Photoshop.
Orchids
Sketched from life at the Osher Rainforest Dome, California Academy of Science. Painted in Photoshop.
CHOW #161: San Francisco
ConceptArt.org had Character of the Week contests and this one involved anthropomorphising a city. I chose San Francisco.
ConceptArt.org had Character of the Week contests and this one involved anthropomorphising a city. I chose San Francisco.
San Francisco: A laid-back city where you can remove the masks you wear. Kind of a techno-pagan. She's got a long history and a history of activism and culture. She's friendly to artists and crazy people. She's environmentally friendly (and while you can't tell, her clothes are probably made of all-natural hemp.) Of course, every so often she throws a tantrum, and you end up with a major earthquake, but most of the time, she's just chilling, making her own beat.
Annotations to the symbols: gold dust (for the gold rush), heart-in-a-cage tattoo (double duty for Alcatraz and "I Left My Heart In San Francisco"), goggles (technologically inclined), marijuana leaf border on her tank top, sash turning to fog, djembes (Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park), rainbow peeps (gay pride), Chinatown, the railroad (railroad barons built SF), the Golden Gate bridge, cracked ground (earthquakes), portrait of Emperor Norton (the most famous craaaazy person in SF history), Chinese coin, and a parrot from Telegraph Hill.
Poison Squid!
The World Beneath the Roots
I'm a sucker for roots and cracks aesthetically speaking, so I decided to work around those as a metaphor for creativity.
Mixed media: digital photography/Photoshop painted
(The building is the Bigelow Chapel at the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which is one of my favourite cemeteries, and one of the oldest garden style cemeteries in the US.)
The full title is The World Beneath the Roots and Between the Cracks.
I'm a sucker for roots and cracks aesthetically speaking, so I decided to work around those as a metaphor for creativity.
Mixed media: digital photography/Photoshop painted
(The building is the Bigelow Chapel at the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which is one of my favourite cemeteries, and one of the oldest garden style cemeteries in the US.)
The full title is The World Beneath the Roots and Between the Cracks.
Borneo River Toad
Sketched live at the Osher Rainforest Dome, California Academy of Science. Pen and ink.
Sketched live at the Osher Rainforest Dome, California Academy of Science. Pen and ink.
Cousin Jess
Pyang the Pangolin Penanggalan
So my husband is painting Yin the Penanggalan from Mallifaux and joking about Pangolins and one thing led to another and before you know it, here I am painting Pyang the Pangolin Penanggalan.
Penanggalans are actually ghosts from Malaysian mythology. Supposely they are women who leave their bodies at night, taking their heads and entrails with them, searching out pregnant women. They have long probiscus-like tongues, just like pangolins. When they are done raining terror on villages, they go home and soak themselves in vinegar so they can fit themselves back into their bodies.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penanggalan
This was a very quick and silly sketch/paint for me. I did a whole bunch of things I don't normally do, including painting on only a few layers instead of making a new layer for every distinct object. I also tried to finish within the weekend instead of letting this sit for weeks on my hard drive.
So my husband is painting Yin the Penanggalan from Mallifaux and joking about Pangolins and one thing led to another and before you know it, here I am painting Pyang the Pangolin Penanggalan.
Penanggalans are actually ghosts from Malaysian mythology. Supposely they are women who leave their bodies at night, taking their heads and entrails with them, searching out pregnant women. They have long probiscus-like tongues, just like pangolins. When they are done raining terror on villages, they go home and soak themselves in vinegar so they can fit themselves back into their bodies.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penanggalan
This was a very quick and silly sketch/paint for me. I did a whole bunch of things I don't normally do, including painting on only a few layers instead of making a new layer for every distinct object. I also tried to finish within the weekend instead of letting this sit for weeks on my hard drive.