C2E2 2016

Going to C2E2 this weekend in Chicago? Catherine and I will be in artist alley at table C7 this weekend. Please come by and say hi!

Pink Owl

Women in History

To celebrate Women's History month, Catherine and I collaborated on a new piece as a follow up to last year's Women in History print. (as promised to some of you at a few conventions this past year!) It goes without saying that once again it was really difficult picking out who to include and many couldn't fir in once again. Perhaps we'll do a third? We hope you enjoy this!

Happy International Women's Day!

Happy International Women's Day! Catherine and I love creating artwork that shows strong, powerful women to encourage and motivate others. Here are some of our images.

Thanks to the BBC for including our artwork in an article today! http://www.bbc.com/news/world-35756284

You can see more artwork on our website and Facebook:
https://sketchyduo.squarespace.com
https://www.facebook.com/ArtOfCatherineSarahSatrun/

Mearra~ Selkie From the Sea, PBS Broadcasting

We're happy to share that a project we worked very hard on, Mearra~ Selkie From the Sea, will be broadcasting again, this time in Denver, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Congrats to Linda Marie Smith and her whole team on this achievement!

National ‪#‎PBS‬ broadcasts begin in just 2 days, starting with ‪#‎Denver‬'s Colorado Public Television - PBS - CPT12 on February 27th...
Then broadcasting in ‪#‎California‬ on ‪#‎SanFrancisco‬'s KRCB TV 22 - North Bay Public Media on March 2nd at 8PM...
Soon after which all you friends in ‪#‎LosAngeles‬ can see it on PBS-KLCS ( KLCS-TV ) March 6th at 7PM...

Here's a little bit more on Mearra, from last year's broadcast.

The PBS Premier of Linda Marie Smith’s “Mearra ~ Selkie From The Sea” © 2015 Full Ensemble from Linda Marie Smith on Vimeo.

Ms Marvel Sketch

Valentine's Day Coupon Code!

Treat yourself! Here's a coupon code for our Etsy shop good through February 20th.

Enjoy!

:)

Commission: Grandparents Family Portrait

Here's another commission Catherine and I recently finished.

Buster- Color Sketch

inspired by a bow tie we have for our cats

Seasons

Here's another commission Catherine and I did for a couple based on them as kids.

If you're interested in a commission, please check out our website and drop us a line.

Hotwire Animation Keys

Here's something I've been meaning to share! It's a small look at the process of animation!

I did animation keys on this episode of The Awesomes. Keys refer to all the poses a character makes to form a movement. This key animation has more breakdowns than normal because the movements are carefully planned out. After animation keys are approved, the scenes are handed to another animator to inbetween it. Inbetweens are all the drawings between each key drawing. In this case, we are using puppets, but they still require new drawings when needed. In this sequence the inbetweener most likely had to draw more hair, arms, lips, and skirt follow through.

To see the rest of this sequence, please check out The Awesomes on Hulu!