Someone's Been A Bad Girl...

The fourth Pirates of the Carribean movie just came out (haven't seen it yet) along with the accompanying video games.  Seeing all the trailers and hullabalou has it on my mind, and last night when I couldn't sleep I kept thinking about the first one, which is still my favorite, and all those spiffy undead skeleton pirates...then I tried to remember if I'd seen any female ones...nope.  Yes, I know that traditionally female pirates were incredibly rare, but they did happen sometimes and I wanted to have a bit of fun.  So, I found a fantastic reference and went with it.  I'm very pleased with the result, it's graphite and watercolor pencils on multimedia paper, and it was much fun. Enjoy!

Puff the Magic Hex Dragon

By hex I am referring to hex codes (internet color codes) not a hex casted by a witch.  While tinkering around with text colors on this blog I found myself searching for hex codes, and thought "This would be a good thing to put on my desktop".  However, it seemed very few images were actually be designed to be used as a computer desktop.  Then I thought, "Hey, what if I could actually make an image out of hex codes?".  Here is the image that resulted from that:

Hear No, See No, Speak No...

I felt horrible about taking the day off yesterday, but the pollen counts are horrible where I am and I'm really allergic to pollen...so drawing happened but really kinda sucked...and I wanted to spare your eyes from that, your welcome.  However a good idea came out of all the crappy doodling yesterday and today I rendered some of the icky drawing into a pretty polished looking illustration that I think would look pretty spiffy on a mug or mousepad....hmmm, I need a new mousepad.  So, here it is a variation of the "Hear no, See no, Speak no Evil" but in Gargoyles instead of monkeys.

Pixel Dragon

About 3 years ago I used to do pixel art, lots of pixel art.  I took up knitting and just stopped doing the pixel art, not sure why, it just ceased to interest me.  So, today I decided to try a little bit of fun with pixels...I'm a little rusty but I'm pretty pleased with it.  I'm thinking of doing some game sprites...though I don't know how to program a game...hmmm.  

This image is very small because it's done in pixels, it's designed to pack detail in a small package.

May is Strawberry Month...

In honor of Strawberry Month I drew a Strawberry Fairy .  Actually I didn't set out to honor Strawberry month, I was at a complete loss for what to draw to today so after drawing crop circles for 15 minutes I decided to fall back on my old stand by, fairies.  Meanwhile I remembered an image of cupcake stuffed chocolate dipped strawberries I saw at 1FineCookie and she had mentioned May was strawberry month...and so I drew a Strawberry Fairy.  Thank goodness I didn't decide to draw a cupcake stuffed, chocolate dipped strawberry fairy.

I Could Totally Use a House Elf...

Don't get me wrong, I agree with Hermione and her S.P.E.W. efforts, equality is good...but at this moment I could really use a magical being to just make everything clean.  Without getting into details there were some issues with a septic tank over here and mopping floors with vinegar is quite time consuming.   I've also rearranged my whole living area and the reorganization is quite a task, add to that a mountain of laundry and I think magical interference is the only way everything can get done today.  So, considering all that and considering my main computer with photoshop not being accessible today, I almost didn't do a blog post today, but I've been very bad lately and want to get back on my schedule, so I popped on Deviant art's muro app and made a quick doodle of a happy house elf:

Have a Fantastic Mother's Day!

I dedicate todays art to all Mothers out there, but especially to my mother Susan, who did a great job raising me and keeping me out of trouble....I know it wasn't an easy job. ;)  Also Happy Mothers day to my Mother in Law Joyce, My Grandmothers Antonia and Elizabeth (deceased) and my husband's grandmothers Eleanor and Thelma (deceased) as well as to all the mothers I know, have a great day on Sunday!