Wednesday WIP - July Part 2

There hasn't been anything super exciting going on with my art and craft projects this week--I've been more concerned with the fact that I have to have everything ready for storage trips tomorrow and Friday. Saturday we will be celebrating my husband's birthday, then Sunday will be spent preparing what's left for the movers who will be coming Monday. After that we have to come back down to this house to clean up and repair things, but I'm hoping during that time I can pull out my pencil and paper and work some on artwork or other craft project. I've really missed my regularly scheduled art time. It's been tough getting ready to move 5 people and 4 cats with only 2 weeks notice. *sigh* Thankfully that process is almost over.

So, what has been done this week? Well, I've been working on more charms. Why? Well, they're easy to sit down and work on in small chunks, and they've made a good break from packing--breaks are good; they keep me from getting too overwhelmed and crazy, especially considering how short my attention span generally is. XD I also go to listen to my husband read From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne. We were reading it, since neither of us had read it before, but we wanted to give it to Ty as a reading project for the first 6 week session of school. That also made things interesting. It's a very good book; I'm not really into sci-fi-ish stories, but I'd recommend reading this one. So, anyways, the first picture is the current round of charms that I'm working on--these will have white bases with pink, lavender, red, or blue. I have one more round planned after this one; we'll see if I can get to those. The second picture is what I've "finished" so far--finished being relative. I've finished sculpting them and they've been baked, but the pendants still need the designs added and I still need to put a glaze on the whole set. If I get all the charms I have planned completed, then I'll be adding another 120 different charms to this picture.

WIP and It's Not Friday

I haven't really been doing a whole lot aside from packing and getting ready for the move over the last couple of days, but I wanted to do a little bit of crafting for this week. I spent this evening working on more charms. These are similar to the black and white ones I posted a week or so back. I've been working on making about 6 basic designs in different color combinations. The basic designs are: Flowers, Fairies, Pandas, Mushrooms, Skulls, and Pendants. The pendants will have something embossed onto them after they're baked. The ones I was working on tonight are going to be yellow/orange and yellow/black in color. The yellow/oranges are ready to bake, and six of the yellow/blacks are too. I've been working off and on since I posted the white/black charms, and I've finished white/purple, green/purple, white/green, white/orange, and orange/black since then. I still need to add designs to the pendants, and I still need to add a glaze as well. I'm planning on making white/pink, pink/black, white/red, red/black, white/lavender, lavender/black, white/blue, and blue/purple. After Otakon, I will be posting these on Etsy along with my old charms which I will be putting on clearance.

Yellow/Orange just finished.

Currently finished color combinations for the fairy design:
Orange/Black, Green/Purple, White/Green
White/Orange, White/Purple
White/Black

WIP Wednesday - July Part 1

In true Gothic Panda style, I am officially distracted from the projects that I'm supposed to be working on. One week later, Aries has not progressed much, little to no crocheting has been completed, and the closest I've come to getting anything on my "This is what I'm supposed to do" list done is working on costumes. Even then, those are low priority, and on top of that, I spent time working on the one that has the deadline farthest away. Go me! So what am I working on instead of Aries, crocheted bunnies and kitties, and Code Geass cosplays?

Skulls, Fairy, Flower, Mushrooms, Pandas, and Pendant.

These charms appeared on my Tumblr end of last week, and they still aren't glazed, although I did get the "Longlife" symbol added to the white round one. I also realized that what I thought was white embossing powder was actually clear, so I've ditched the black round one until I can find some white powder.  I will be making more of these in different colors. Most will be 2-toned, and I haven't decided what colors I'm doing next, but these are fun to make, so I look forward to it. Also, these aren't too bad a distraction really, since they count as original art, and that's kind of what I'm supposed to be working on for Otakon and AWA. =D

Codex, Vork, Clara, Zaboo, Tink

I really wanted a break from drawing my usual prints and more elaborate pieces, so I've been working on a couple of bookmark sets. This set is 5 out of 6 bookmarks for The Guild webshow--if you haven't seen this, go watch it. Like now.

Bladezz, Caramon, Raistlin, Kitiara, Tanis

Up next is the last Guild bookmark design, and the first 4 designs for my Dragonlance bookmark set. =) I really like Caramon, Raistlin and Kitiara came out. I kind of want to redraw Tanis. XD

Laurana, Human, Dwarf, Gnome, Night Elf

This set has Laurana from the Dragonlance set and the first 4 bookmarks for the World of Warcraft set. I still need to draw Sturm, Goldmoon, Riverwind, Tasslehoff, and Flint for the Dragonlance set.

Draennai, Worgen, Troll, Tauren, Blood Elf

And, this would be 5 more of the WoW set. I don't like the Tauren at all. XD I will definitely be redrawing that one. I still need to draw the Goblin, Undead, and Orc bookmarks. The way things are going, I just might finish these before I finish the Zodiacs--maybe even before I get Aries finished.