skeletal drawings

just a few skeletal drawings from class today to share with you:

I have so much more to learn....

International Women's Day

In case you haven't heard the buzz on all the social media websites today, it is International Women's Day. I confess that I have never heard of this before today, but felt inspired to at least do a quick illustration off Rosie the Riveter. :)

*edit: I just added another version with the text

it's the bunny fairy!

apparently this is what I dream about. lol

Vixen: Another Pin-Up Shirt Design

Here's my second Threadless submission for the pinup contest. :) I like this a lot more than the mermaid one. It usually only takes me one day to not like a drawing anymore. Funny how that goes. The top sketch is the original FAST sketch for the shirt. I usually love these quick 1-2 minute sketches more than the final artwork.

On another note, I am surprised how the voting is going on Threadless. It really is a popularity contest. If your design gets really low scores, it can get thrown right out. So supposedly people seem to be voting really low- like 1 and 0 on other people's designs. Wow. That's just so mean. :( I'll keep trying to submit, but if that's the way people play, I probably won't be at it for too long.

Also, please be sure to vote for Catherine's design as well! :)

Mermaid Enchantment

I've been wanting to submit a design to Threadless for quite some time and finally decided to participate in one of their contests. The theme of this contest is Pin-Ups so I drew a mermaid. Based on friends' advice, I kept it as a sketch as opposed to cleaned up with the pen tool. Threadless judges pick the winners, so this one isn't dependent on online votes. If it doesn't win, I can re-submit it into the regular voting.

Here's what I wrote for it's description:

This mermaid is sure to enchant you in this her classic pin-up pose! Add a little under the sea sauciness into your wardrobe! ;)

fairy sketch

evening sketch. really felt like drawing on paper. I might go back and fix this up a bit more or make it into an illustration.

small skeleton turn around