River

This past weekend I attended a baby shower for two friends of mine. They're having a girl and plan on naming her River. For a wedding gift I painted them a picture and I also took some engagement and wedding photos for them. So of course I wanted to do something for their baby shower too! But I couldn't figure anything out. So I just accepted I wouldn't make anything.

Now I've been on a major Doctor Who kick here recently (thanks to these two friends actually) and it's practically all I've had on the brain. So at the last minute my brain was like...wait...baby shower, Doctor Who fans, baby River....RIVER SONG.

So I got a onesie and painted this on to it! If I had had more time I would have liked to send it off to have it printed somewhere but oh well. Next time! This was my first time using fabric medium and paint so hopefully it holds up. It sure feels better than just straight up acrylic.

Doctor Who

I finally started watching Doctor Who. I know I'm way behind the times. I really love it though! I'm a few episodes in to Season 3 and miss Rose already. I know she comes back some later but she'll never be there all the time again!

Stretch

This started as something much different. It was supposed to be for a banner but I ended up just scrapping the idea entirely. I liked the girl though. So I thought, "Oh she'd make a great mermaid!" That failed. "No wait, maybe a sorceress or something." Failed again. "How about a ballerina! YEAH that's it!" Wrong. "Yoga pose?" Closer. "I've got it! A girl stretching with fancy arms!" YEP.

Lagoona Blue

Awhile back I came across Monster High Dolls-- now if I was a kid again these would have been totally my thing. Especially Lagoona Blue. I love sea life, seas monsters, nymphs, etc... so when I saw her I kind of loved her. I started thinking about her again today and did this little doodle. Too bad her outfit is completely tragic. She needs a wardrobe makeover ASAP!

I'm really not into dolls these days, especially ones with Bratz faces but I do have a fondness for cute plushies! I remember seeing plushes awhile back at Target. They never had Lagoona so I just never got one. I kind of forgot about it until doing this doodle. I looked them up and for some reason they're super expensive now! I guess they stopped making them or something?  Too bad.

This Lagoona is pretty cute! Maybe I'll find one one day.

Weird Animal Wednesday

My friend is a teacher at a daycare and something she decided to incorporate into her class is "Weird Animal Wednesday". She comes up with animals and facts and has me do some little fact sheets for her. I've been enjoying it and it gets me some practice drawing animals. I don't hate drawing animals but I don't really love it either. I'm just kind of indifferent to it.

So here are some weird animals for your Wednesday!

The ladies of Final Fantasy

I was just sitting around thinking about how I hadn't played any Final Fantasy game in years! It used to be such a big part of my life and now I hardly even think about it. So one doodle led to another and that led me to this!

Who's your favorite character? Mine was always Yuna. Although I'm very fond of Yuffie too.

I actually have a little Yuna figure on top of my work computer.

Flannery

So I haven't watched Pokemon (new or old) in YEARS. Probably since 2001 I'd say. I have absolutely no idea what is going on with it these days at all. In fact just last week my roommate informed me that there are now 649 Pokemon. Seriously??? I'm not entirely sure if you showed me a picture of the original 150 I could even name them all anymore (which actually makes me a little sad to think about).

Anyway I've been completely hooked on this game Drawception the past couple of weeks. I've actually been playing this game in the real world (know to us as "Telectionary") with friends for about a year now. A friend showed me how to play and I was in love. It's my favorite party game hands down. It cracks me up like no other! I HIGHLY recommend it!

Today I was prompted to draw "Flannery". So I Googled "Flannery" and came up with this fire gym leader:

I was like really Pokemon? In over 10 years your characters still look like this? I mean...come on. Get with the times! This is the best character design you could come up with??? 

So I felt compelled to doodle a re-design. I'm not saying it's brilliant or anything but Flannery reminds me of a character I would have drawn as a 10 year old and then come across now like, Yikes! I should redesign this poor character trapped in the late 90s/early 00's. I mean look at those pants and shoes! Ugh! They're the worst! That hair is a mess. I have no idea why she has infuriated me so much!!

So the point of this (basically pointless) post is to complain about Pokemon's serious lack of creativity because I felt like I needed to. 

Fun fact: Mew is, and always will be, my favorite Pokemon.