Old storys haunting me

So I've been trying to do more art and blog posts for some time now. I find other things are just so much more fun than drawing now. And that thought some what disturbs me. Maybe it's because I draw all day and come home and don't want to do anything else art related. Am I getting burnt out? How can I be burnt out on art?! I remember being so full of love for drawing characters and illustrating the stories I used to make up as a kid. And as luck would have it, one of my favorite stories popped into head again, haunting me. And almost immediately I started visualizing scenes of it in my head. Fleshing out the characters and setting up the background stories and personalities are my most favorite thing to do. THE most favorite things of all things. I can see that now...

And then I felt it again...inspiration.....hahaha I've realized it's been soooo long since I felt inspired to draw. I can't do art for art's sake alone. I NEED a story.

Every spare moment I had today, I was drawing one of my characters from that story. It was soooo good to feel that again. Illustrating stories was the reason I began to love drawing. To forget my artistic foundation is folly. And so I take another step toward understanding myself more as an artist.

Here is a quick color sketch of one of my favorite characters. She's one of the villians....obviously. So here ya go:

I realized I never gave her a name. But oh well!

Harmony in HTML5

I was shown this amazing web app at a Mr.Doob's Blog called Harmony. It's funny, because at one point the entire studio was doodling with it. It seems like such a simplistic program and yet it really puts your mind into a different kind of thinking when approaching your drawing. It's quite stimulating really! And it's all in html5. This could be a view of things to come for art in the future. But revealing or not. It sure it fun! So everyone should play around for bit.

Here are some of the doodles I did trying it out.

Enjoy!

New Hair Cut?

So I figured I should put SOMETHING on here, since I haven't in such a long time. And I thought I'll put something about my new hair cut, aaaand I'll draw something about it. Well long story short, it turned into a silly little comic of me as a kind of midget, bespectacled Sasquatch that gives hair to a gender ambiguous child. So yes, I'm donating my hair and don't really know why this turned out so strangely but yes! Also, for some reason I keep thinking of my hair going to a little girl who wants to look like a long haired princess. Which is one of the reasons why I grew it out so long, so that the little girl who got it would have long hair too. As a girl myself, I remember feeling good to have long hair, like a pretty princess. So I'm glad I can possibly help another little girl feel better about herself, too. So if you have long hair and are thinking about a hair cut you should check out Locks of Love, where you can see if your hair could be used for something greater than trash can filler. Donate today!