Fun in the city

Today I had a fun time hanging out with my friend James from work and his wife Dani. We went to the city to check out a really neat Mary Blair exhibit at the Cartoon Art Museum, had some tasty panuchos at the Farmer's Market, and sketched a little afterwards. Here are some of the ones I came up with!



I'd say it was a Saturday well spent!

Cut-outs

Just me playing around some more, trying out new styles. I just now realized that I think I subconsciously ripped off the expression/pose/sunburny freckles on that guy from an awesome drawing Brigette did a few months back. Gyah! Sorry Brigette! Totally unintentional!

As a matter of fact, everyone reading this post should all go to Brigette's blog to see how awesome she is.



Work has been going pretty well the last couple of weeks, things are really busy,and they've got me working really hard, but I've gotten to board on some really fun sequences and I actually think I'm getting better at it. It's good when you can see yourself improving, plus I'm also having fun, so what more can I ask?

Hope all my friends in L.A. and Oregon and Austria and Scotland are doing well nowadays!

Girly sketches

Playing around with a softer lead pencil yielded these:



I always sucker myself into drawing young, pretty, furrowed browed girls. I like these, but I think they lack a certain amount of specific personality. I need to figure out a way to make some of my girls more specific, maybe I need to give them other characters to interact with and work off of. I do love drawing in pencil though, it's the best!

Mini me.

So I haven't been up to doing a lot of my own artwork lately, but that doesn't mean I haven't been keeping busy. Work has been going pretty well, I got to work on a fun sequence that kind of got my heart pumping, so I spent some extra time on it to make it look snazzy, so I'm happy about that.

Also I've been swimming a little lately, and I've picked up with my hip-hop classes again, so that keeps me feeling very healthy. Just as a warning though, I'm awful, probably the slowest person in the class, and I think they all feel sorry for me, hehe.

Anyways, before Ryan, my boyfriend, left for Scotland, he sent me this:



It's a tiny Bonsai tree to keep me company while he's away, hehe.

So I felt bad, because I hadn't sent him off with something to keep him company. Just recently I did make this though:



It's a tiny version of me I made from fabric and stuffing. He's also more well travelled than I, as he's in Scotland right now partying it up with Ryan. Anyways, tiny Adrian (or Adriancito) was one of his birthday presents.