Show Me the Munny!

So, it's been entirely too long since I've posted anything in here (I wonder how many blog entries I've started with that heading?)...regardless, I've got new work to show, and this is the place I usually do it at.

When I was down in Los Angeles in May, I got to go to the KidRobot store (AMAAAZING!), and picked up one of their small Munny dolls that I've been seeing so many of all over the internets.

"I can do this...easy" I told myself...so I found a blank guide online, and set out in photoshop to lay down what I wanted to paint. This was the first result:



It's Jakamin, from my (forever) forthcoming deserty comic (idea)...I had, more or less gotten everything sorted in Photoshop when I sat down with my paints and my munny, took a deep breath, and had to stop. "This thing's just too damn small..." I said to myself. I had gotten the 4" doll in the shop, because my pocketbook was deflated from hitting up the Marc by Marc (Jacobs) store down the block, and didn't want to try to lug a bigger box home on the plane.

"I need to re-evaluate" I told myself...after months of waiting, my Munny would simply have to wait longer. I racked my brain for ideas "What do I want to put on this thing?" I browsed the interwebs for ideas, and it was while I was sitting on the throne reading my copy of "The Zombie Survival Handbook" that I realized "I haven't done any zombie art lately!" And thus, the "Zombie Businessman" concept was hatched. AND UNVEILED!





Doing this has been a BLAST...and, honestly, this was probably the acryllic-kickstart I needed to kick my rusty rear in gear, and get back to painting. If you're even remotely curious about Munny, go spend the $10 and pick one up. Hell, pick up two, and paint one with your boyfriend/grandma/kid! It's a fun, FUN activity you can get hours of enjoyment out of, depending on how detailed you want to get. Next time (when I tackle the 7-incher), and employ the use of some Super Sculpey, it's gonna be a whole new ballgame...and just sayin...if anybody were to buy me the 18 INCH MUNNY (oh man!), I wouldn't turn it away as a gift. I'm so in love with this DIY stuff right now!

Mercury

I wanted to put this in a separate post...

This was my first adventure into watercolors. It's a medium I'm really unfamiliar with, but hope to use it to teach me a thing or two, and eventually progress to playing with goache. Stole the idea from an old issue of the Portland Mercury (sister paper to Seattle's own The Stranger from a year or two ago...this one's kind of depressing actually, as I finished it on a really sad evening, when somebody I cared a lot about and I parted ways.

Brown Paper

So I was just flipping through a number of friends' blogs and found that a few had linked back to me (thanks, chums!)...upon doing so, though, I realized that I had a number of new sketches that haven't been posted since...I could've sworn that I had, but apparently not!

Not much of an explanation for many of these. Mostly just practice, and morning coffee-shop sketches. I'm buying a MacBook Pro this weekend (FINALLY), and hopefully with the advent of new technology, new (mobile) inspiration will follow.









Also, I finally got my first Tattoo up at Slave to the Needle, here in Seattle. Nancy, a visiting artist from Australia was the one to ink me. Thanks, Nancy! I'd love to have ya ink me again!

I should hopefully start back into school for fall quarter, but in the meantime, I'm rewarding myself with this damn laptop, and in search of someone to redo this God-awful website design.