super maybe final Dethklok image

Alright, so I wasn't really happy with the text I had in the other image because it was just some grungy text I found on a website, so I decided to just make my own so that it would look how I wanted to look and appear more cohesive and integrated into the piece. I did the same technique on the text as I did with the skull but I  made the outer glow red, which I'm still not super sure about; I wanted it to stand apart from the image somehow in a subtle way, but I wouldn't say it looks necessarily better than if the glow was white...hm, either way, IT'S METAL!

Metal Shirt

I decided on a whim to make a band t-shirt for the Dethklok concert coming up that I'll be going to this weekend. I figured "hey, t-shirts are $25 at concerts, and half the time they're kind of ugly, so I'll make one for super cheap and it'll be awesome!" I spent $8 total for two black t-shirts for my boyfriend and myself, already had the shirt transfer paper lying around the house. I looked at the Dethklok skull that's in the show and went off of that kind of design but obviously went off my own design and perspective. It's all pen on paper and I scanned it in and did some fancy Photoshop stuff and played around with the linework until I liked it and finally added the awesome metal font and tada! cheap band shirts that are probably better than the actual shirts at the concert.

A sketch a day...

Sketches I did over the past couple of days for my "sketch a day" determination project. The first one I did while listening to Wolfmother, who I've been obsessed with for the last few weeks...they're just...AWESOME. The second one was just an idea going off of the feather and skull motif that are in my earlier sketches.

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This is my account on Society6.com. I am currently selling one print, "Dirty Fingers" and will add more when I can get some more high quality scans of my work. 

Those dead eyes

This is a colored pencil drawing I did of a still life I set up. Total, this took around 30 hours of work to complete and used up 2 black, 1 dark blue, 2 violet, and 1 tuscan red Prismacolor colored pencils completely, which gave my hands massive cramps.

Oh, Santa...

Here is a recipe I did for Buckeyes, chocolate covered peanut butter balls that my grandma makes. I decided to make it seasonal 1. because of the time of year right now and 2. I might give these out as Christmas cards or gifts.

Art Nouveau robot

 This is an ink on wood panel, though here it's not quite finished. I looked at B-movie posters and decided to depict a robot terrorizing a city with an atomic bomb cloud in the background, but in the style of art nouveau; art nouveau has a lot of pretty women in it, so the biggest contrast I could think of was a destructive robot.