Wednesday WIP Volume 49

 What have I been working on: A couple of commissions, sewing stuff on paper, a blanket for my cousin's baby, and some new archetypes.

What Would Jareth Do?--This was fun; Labyrinth was one of my favorite movies growing up.

Anime Tarot commission -- Also fun. As a huge fan of Final Fantasy, how could I turn down a chance to draw more of it?

Snowflakes + fuzzy cell phone pic!! I have been having a lot of fun working on these.

Can you see it yet? It's definitely clearer than the last time I posted a progress pic of this.

WIP Volume 43

All in all, it's been an okay week for work progress. No noticeable progress on the mermaid commission, but otherwise, I finished a custom Tarot card commission, and I have finished 2 out of 3 pieces for a set of commissioned house sketches--for some reason the 2nd one scanned lighter and less clear than the 1st. I also finished another baby blanket (and for a little boy named Matthew)--#3 in the current round of blankets out of 5 (although that might be 6 soon). Does anyone else think that babies tend to come in clumps? Anyways, I've also started blanket #4. This one is for a little girl named Helena. So no more rambling from me; here's the progress pics. =P

WIP Volume 40

Last week, my mom was visiting, so I didn't put up a WIP post. I've been a little distracted with house projects (take advantage of opportunity presents itself) the last week or two, so there hasn't been much art progress anyways. =P Anyways. There has been some progress on the bags I posted about last time, but not much; I'm going to take pics again when there's some more noticeable progress. (see pics here) There has also been progress on a baby blanket, but it doesn't look much different from the last pic I posted. XD It looks about the same, just bigger (okay maybe twice as big).

There has also been progress on a couple of commission projects:

More on the mermaid (sketch here):

 Plus a couple commission.

WIP Volume 39

 So, what have I been working on since Anime Mid-Atlantic? The short answer is, not much. I cleaned up my craft room, which was a disaster area after 2 conventions. I have been working on a couple of commissions, one pretty much finished and just waiting on final approval before I print and mail it:

 The other, still very much a WIP. Aside from life being relatively non-cooperative with the amount of project time I've had, I'm taking my time with this one. This commission is for a mascot for the Chesapeake Bay Dive Center. When it's finished it will be printed on t-shirts for them--honestly I'm a little nervous about that (like many artists, I do no always feel like my art is that good, although I try not to voice those doubts very often) but I'm fairly excited as well. The store owner moonlights as a mermaid--I am learning that this is a very interesting subgroup of the cosplay world who take becoming the character (usually their original design mermaids) to a whole new level. I think it looks like a lot of fun, plus the photo shoots look amazing. You can see the young lady I'm drawing for on her Facebook page, here. Right now I'm still trying to get the sketch to some place where I'm happy with it. The arms are going to be leaning back on the dive center logo...

Aside from those commissions, I'm working on bags--like that Fluttershy one I made a couple of months ago for myself. Remember how I said a while back that I'm changing the focus of what I'm doing at the studio here? Well this is going to be one part of that. Here are fabric samples for 6 different bags. The first pic is of fabric samples for 3 bags: one will be fanart-ish (no character art, just in design style) and the other two will just be pretty, although there's a pretty good chance that at least one of them will end up with a panda appliqued on it, cause, you know, pandas are awesome. =P The next two pics are of fabric samples for 2 pony bags--see if you can figure out which ponies are going on those bags. =D The last pair of fabric samples are for a bag that is going to be mostly a collage of my art with those 2 fabric pieces filling in as needed. Maybe next week I'll have some finished squares to post. XD