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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!

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!

2D Art Dump

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

Welcome to the new MDArtist.com!

I finally finished the huge overhaul! I combined this journal, formerly known as paper-roses, to my primary website, brushtocanvas.net and created a new domain to house them: www.mdartist.com. Please update your bookmarks!

The design of the website was based off of my business card.

Branding goes a long way, yes?

Anyway, I finally got back all of my 2D projects from this semester and I thought I’d share them with you! We’ve been focusing on negative space for nearly the entire semester by cutting black and white construction paper. Not going to lie - it was a little boring. But I came up with some interesting designs!


The first assignment of the class: create a letter that touches all four sides of the paper.


Shape created out of the positive (black) shapes of the B.


Shape created out of the negative (white) shapes of the B.


Stable composition using circles, stylized C’s and lines.


Moving composition using stylized C’s, stars and lines.


Emphasized composition using B’s, lines and squares.


Designed from four intersecting circles and their interactions.


Design from four of the above shape intersecting.


Tessellation project. I used Riley from the children’s book I’m illustrating for this.

I’ve also been taking a 3D sculpture course. I’m not much into abstract, but I’ve been trying! Here are some pieces from that course:


3×5 Notebook Card Sculpture


Another view of it.


Cardboard sculpture roughly 3 feet tall.

We really have only had one or two figure drawing classes since midterm. Here’s a piece from that:

And finally, some stuff I’ve been working on in my own time:


AWOW group (left to right: Manu, Oriella, Asher, Serafina, Casmaron, Damien).

All of these sketches are extracted from their turnaround sketches. When I can find a moment, all of my AWOW characters should have turnarounds plus a solid group picture!


My husband in an ancient Japanese art style.

I want to do one of these for both myself and our roommate as well. I think they’re hilarious and they go very well with our Asian decor.


Here’s mine unfinished.

Well that should be everything! Massive art dump, huh. Take care!