The Life Pursuit: San Smith

What I wore today illustration #8

Here is a quick little "What I wore today" illustration! I sketched it out during my last two weeks at my job, but I didn't actually get around to coloring it until today. It was so rainy and windy the day I wore that outfit - ironically its super sunny and beautiful today... Speaking of which, I probably should stop drawing and go eat some lunch outside or something! It is too nice to pass this up.

Here is the original pencil sketch for those interested:

Also, my dog's life is too easy:

I caught her napping by the window sun this morning,
holding her little plush pig like a pillow. Hehe...

Happy Friday guys ! Hope you have a good weekend :)

Art update: random sketches

This week has been maaaad busy! It has totally caught me off guard. I'd say most of it was spent doing business junk (wheee), business errands and sketch warm ups. I've been doing preliminary work for some projects too, but I'll share that later when everything is completed! Yesterday in attempts to make business work more fun, I tried to work in a coffee shop! But after having issues with the train, parking and then no seats when I finally arrived to the shop... I decided I prefer working at home :\ I'll have to try again another day!

Since I didn't have time to work on a "What I wore today" drawing or "Things I love Thursday", I thought I'd share some of my favorites from this week's sketch warm ups. The little fairy with the box was for my friend Ant, he asked me to draw him the "mail fairy" who brought him a signed J. Scott Campbell 2010 calendar. (jealous!)

Some fun news - I found out my drawings were linked on blogs recently! Specifically, Gemma Correll's What I wore today blog, Super Punch and Pedal Consumption. Go check it out!

Hope you guys are having an awesome week so far!
More news and posts soon! <3

Art update: Turtles, Twilight and Knives Chau

I was going through my files and realized I had some random drawings I hadn't shared yet! Whooops, lets fix that:

Knives Chau (from Scott Pilgrim) doodle for Lillian since she let me borrow her books!

Spoke card illustration for Brunks 2nd birthday! The theme was one side a fast rabbit, the other side a slow drunk turtle (with a fixed gear). Its kinda hard to tell, but the little PBR cans actually say "Brunks Blue Ribbon" :) Brunks is a super fun Atlanta monthly bike pub crawl started by my friend Stephan. I didn't end up going to the event because we went to Charleston, but you can read his post about it here. Warning: Stephan's blog = totally ridiculous. Be prepared.

Reaaally weird New Moon (Twilight) doodle I did after seeing the movie:

I think I didn't upload this right away because before we saw New Moon, we watched Twilight on dvd to get back up to speed... So by the time I finally saw the second movie I felt like I had a teen-vampire-flick hangover and didn't want anything to do with Twilight. But now I'm over it - and slightly excited for the next one! Bring on the ridiculous teen drama! Heh.

I have some more stuff to share, but I'll lump that into another post so this isn't super image heavy!

Charleston photos!

Who is driving? Omg, San is driving? How can that beeee?!

My trip to Charleston was pretty quick and laid back... I actually stayed in an area called "Daniel Island" with my boyfriend and his friend Dave, who lives there! We explored the island while taking photos, went to go see a C-17 which is the kind of plane Dave flies for work (it is HUGE omggg! see above), checked out the bay and visited downtown Charleston for a bit. My pictures are just so so, the really epic ones are taken by my boyfriend. You can see his awesome photos here, and mine are on my flickr.

Oh, and I rode some sea turtles while I was there.
Cause you know, that's what you do at Daniel Island.

Do you guys like laid back trips?
Sometimes I think they are pretty necessary to relax. :)

Things I love Thursday

It has been a while since I last did a Things I love Thursday. At the moment right now, I'm a little obsessed with the Scott Pilgrim comics (by Bryan Lee O'Malley) and the character Ramona Flowers! My pal Lillian lent me books 2-4... and I read all of them over my vacation in Charleston. Now I can't stop thinking about it! I couldn't wait to get home and try drawing Ramona since she is my favorite. Here are two doodles did during my warm ups this morning:

Ramona makes me want to dye my hair blue... She is such a fun character - I love her ridiculous bag of tricks and the fact that she skates around for a job. Really, I like all the characters and the little nods to nerdy things - and the fact that Scott wears Smashing Pumpkins shirts! Cute.

Anyhow - If you haven't already read the series, I totally recommend it! I haven't had this much fun reading a comic in a while - its pretty nerdy/hilarious plus I'm a sucker for relationship stories. I think you can read all of it online for free right now too - so really there is no excuse to not do it! :)

And due to all this reading, I'm now super excited about the upcoming film, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World - I think it is going to be released in August. I looked around online to see what the cast will look like - Mary Elizabeth Winstead is playing Ramona, and Michael Cera is Scott! So far I really like how it's all looking and the fact that they change Ramona's hair colors through out the film. Plus, I have a secret nerd crush on Michael Cera so I'm looking forward to seeing his interpretation of Scott Pilgrim. Ha! Oh jeese...

Enough of my gushing - I'm going to try to draw a picture of Ramona and Knives next week to get this out of my system... What are you guys excited about this Thursday? Nerding out over anything ridiculous?