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!

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.