Long live the Queen!

So how about this week's Game of Thrones episode? I've been looking forward to that moment since I first read it! To celebrate Margaery's freedom I give you this! I hope my girl Margaery Tyrell makes it 'til the end!

Disney love

I have had a creative burst recently due to some Disney inspiration! I love drawing me some Disney princesses!

An Anna to match my Elsa.

And Rapunzel! Because I don't think I ever drew anything more than a doodle of her which is weird because I feel like I had loads of Rapunzel doodles around the time Tangled came out.

Queen Elsa

I have been so excited for Frozen ever since it was announced!! It was as cute as I expected! I'm also glad Olaf wasn't as obnoxious as he seemed in the trailers. I thought he was pretty cute actually.

Elsa was pretty much a shoe-in for being my new favorite princess as soon as I saw her concept designs. She didn't let me down either! She's totally my new favorite! So clearly I needed some fan art of her in my life! Hope you like it!

I'm alive!

Wow it's been months since my last update!! Although you haven't been missing much!

I've posted a few things on Tumblr since my last post but not a lot. My day job has been keeping me quite busy! I am working on a super cute new logo design right now for someone though that I hope works out. Either way I can't wait to share it!

My latest creation though is for my annual Christmas card! I'm very active with Postcrossing and made some cards last year to send out. I had a lot of fun doing it so I decided to make it an annual tradition! I also gave them out to my family who of course loved it. So here it is! If you like it so much that you want to send some out yourself — you can! I've posted it over at Zazzle. You can also buy last year's too if you're interested.

And in the spirit of Christmas and gift giving I thought I'd gush about one of my favorite gifts I've received and that is an adopted manatee, Lenny! Manatees are my favorite animal and I'm very passionate about them. Over at Save the Manatee Club you too can adopt a manatee for yourself or as a gift. I realize not everyone loves manatees as much as I do (although they should!) so maybe you could adopt your friend or relative their favorite animal. I just want to help spread the word (and the joy of manatees)!

Now the rest of this post is basically just an art dump with a few things from the past few months.

This was for a Lion King t-shirt challenge over at Threadless about a month ago. The winners still haven't been announced so keep wishing me luck!

This was for a Game of Thrones poster contest I didn't win. That's OK though, I'm still happy with how it came out.

This was something someone commissioned after seeing my Sailor Neptune post awhile back.

My friend's fantasy football avatar.

And some Adventure Time because nothing is better for doodling that that!

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!

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.

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.

Tattoo Neptune

I wanted to take my mind off of things and draw something familiar yet different. I succeeded!

I've had tattoos on the brain lately. I don't have any and never really expected to get one. But lately I've been thinking about getting a little something for the experience of a tattoo. We'll see if I go through with it!

I've always admired classic tattoo art. I just love it! But I had never really thought about illustrating in that style before. So today I did! I don't expect to be doing it often but it was a fun little study.

Galadriel

I finally went and saw The Hobbit. I was only like 2 weeks late but it was only because I wanted to wait and see it in all it's HFR, 3D, Dolby Atmos, glory! Which I did. I don't know how I felt about it in 3D (since I'm not usually into 3D anyhow) but the HFR definitely made the 3D better.

It should come as no surprise that Galadriel is my favorite middle earthling. I just felt I needed a little doodle of her.

Ysera

Before I started with the real colors I had this. I thought it looked especially snazzy so I'm letting the world see too!

I actually haven't played WoW in awhile. I was just thinking about Ysera and wanted to draw her. I ended up with this.

I think about Ysera a lot though. I have a cat that I named Ysera. She's adorable. I don't mean to brag but I'm pretty sure she's the best cat anyone could ask for. Just look at her! Her favorite past time is cuddling in bed with me.

She's even a fan of Halloween. She was a ballerina this year.

Serenity

Queen and Princess Serenity.

I've been in a Sailor Moon kind of mood.

The Guild

I love The Guild and I just adore Felicia Day. I'm so happy a new season has started! Can't believe it's already on Season 6. If they ever need a children's book (for some bizarre reason) for The Guild, I'm there!

In fact I love The Guild so much I want this costume for Halloween. If I didn't already have a fabulous Princess Peach outfit for this year I would have already bought it. There's always next year though!

Feeling nostalgic

Feeling nostalgic and like trying something a little different at the same time! This is the result.

Brave

I just loved Brave! I thought it was absolutely adorable!

And for my birthday I got this awesome art book, which I'm super excited about, and felt the need to do some fan art.

Mrs. Mia Wallace

I was incredibly bored at work today and was thinking of things to doodle when I thought of Mia Wallace. This was was one of my more successful sketches of the day.

Bowls

I am definitely no ceramicist but I had to take a ceramics class this semester and I made the best of it by making Game of Thrones bowls! Because who wouldn't want a set of these? They're really wonky looking but I'm enjoying having them all the same.

You know nothing!

I really like who they cast for Ygritte on Game of Thrones. She's so sassy. I loved their scenes in the last episode. So since I had them on my mind I did this little sketch.

Castle

Castle has taken over my life! My friend let me borrow her DVDs and I'm officially addicted. I'm already on the current season but not caught up quite yet.

I've been a total bum these past few days. All I've done is watch tons of Castle and caught up on some of my other shows. So I finally decided to draw something awesome and then this happened...

Castle fan art. I started getting frustrated with what I was drawing so I doodled this instead. Not what I had in mind but it kept me entertained for a little while. I don't think it looks a whole lot like Castle or Beckett, but it was fun to do.

Now I'm gonna get back to watching even more Castle...

I'm alive

Life has been beyond busy lately. I have a million projects to work on and there just aren't enough hours in the day! But here's something I've been working on for a Nancy Drew animation for school.

This one was my first go but it was just way too complicated.

So I ended up here with these. I may do more but I don't know yet.