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Some Updates, Artwork and Pictures

Monday, June 21st, 2010

I am surprisingly alive and well! Not much has happened in the past week or so. Life’s been kind of slow and it’s been nice. So instead of being too chatty, I’ll drop a bunch of artwork, pictures and images with maybe a few descriptions.


Decided to lay some colors to some inkwork I did a few weeks back. Tried a new technique and loved the outcome.


Set up a miniature office in my living room. Ever since we rented out my studio to help pay bills, I’ve been feeling out of place. I’m hoping that this will help.


Due to the heat and humidity, I’ve opted for a skirt at work. I’m starting to look a bit more like my Marker Slave self. I fI could get away with gigantic skull earrings, I would!


Last Wednesday, we had quite a sight here in KC - a double rainbow that spanned the entire skyline. It was gorgeous.


Here’s another image of it.


This picture was taken that same evening on a relaxing drive with my husband.


As was this one. Sometimes I forget about photography - I don’t ever want to pursue it as a career choice. Photography, for me, is something incredibly relaxing.


Here’s a collab I did with AndrewAnimation.


This is the original.


And finally, just for fun, my husband went to his parents’ for Father’s Day and returned with a bag full of old stuff of his, including this piece I drew of him back when I had first started my caricature job in 2004 (when he was 16). I’ve set that beside my most recent caricature of him from 2009. Quite a difference!

Marker Slave Official Date plus Cute Stuff

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010


Cute doodle page from slow day.

I’m a realist that verges on pessimism, and quite often so. Sometimes, when I’ve been knocked down repeatedly, it’s really hard for me to find an upside again. This year has been a really difficult one. I can’t count the number of times I’ve wanted to just pack up and skip town for a week, and knowing that I can’t makes that feeling even stronger.


Detail from doodle page.


Cute doodle sketch from slow day #1

Flying pigs have kind of become the epicenter of my doodles. As cute as they are, they represent my feelings from the past few weeks - the unattainable, the frustrating, the useless. I’ve been in quite a rut.


Cute doodle sketch from slow day #2


Cute doodle sketch from slow day #3

I really want to start seeing the upsides again. I’m tired of being at the bottom of this hole. I have the next three days off. In between getting projects done that honestly should have been finished long ago, I want to take some time to myself and enjoy life again. I might go to the park by myself for a walk, or beat Super Mario for the umpteenth time. Maybe I’ll do both. But I need to do SOMETHING for me. I owe that to myself.


Cute doodle sketch from slow day #4


Cute doodle sketch from slow day #5

And that’s actually what Marker Slave is about more than anything - doing something for myself. I spend a lot of my time on doing work for people other than myself - park guests, commissioners, teachers, family and friends. I would love to have something that is mine and mine alone. Marker Slave is my project, my vision, my direction and my style. It is whatever I want it to be - not what someone else wants it to be. I don’t care about making money from it, or hope that it will draw huge attention. I just want to do something that I enjoy.

And so I give you the final poster with an official date for Marker Slave!

Considering it’s 3:30 in the morning, I think I should get some sleep. Tomorrow starts my “weekend,” and I’m going to use it to it’s fullest potential - even if that involves sleeping in and playing some video games!

My Own Work

Saturday, May 22nd, 2010

The past few weeks have been crazy hectic with work. Long hours, long weeks. I worked 14 days with no break, and I’ll probably end up pulling 20-ish hours this weekend. I’d say my paycheck will look good in light of this, but most of it was hourly because of the park’s “Thrill U” days. Thrill U brings a bunch of kids - elementary, middle school and high school - on field trips. I don’t know about you, but my mom would send me with a brown bag lunch on field trips. And no money. And for me as an adult, kids without money is a problem. It means I’m not making any money. Ugh!

Anyway, I finally had a couple days off Thursday and Friday and I found the will to stop working on commissions and the children’s book to do something of my own. Here are the two lined pieces I did, plus some WIPs.


Oriella and her representative powers.
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Work in Progress.
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Revamp of an old 2006 picture.
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It was actually a 2007. A late 2007 at that. Dang has my work changed.


Work in Progress.
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Well now I have to get going to work. Take care!