Hannibal & Treadle- life in a zoo

Yesterday Ty and me picked up the kitten. 90 kilometers to drive and a bundle of "meww,mewwwww!" in a box  on my lap.
 One hour never felt sooo long. Nerves: wrecked.
It's impossible to get a proper pic of both when they are dashing around. Therefore one pic with nasty flashlight.
The grey striped buddy is Treadle, the little red one Hannibal. Treadle is shy and mostly a copycat of Hannibal's actions. His favourite game though: digging for hours in the cat's toilet like "Bob The Builder".
O_o

At least they seem to have fun. Hope I can do all things in time anyways, deadlines + cats = doh!

in graphics...

How I feel .... it's actually a side note I send out today with some documents. The person who got this whill hopefully be as amused as Ty was when he stuck all the papers into the envelope.


People found another one in São Paulo, Brazil... oh my... epic fail...

not only chubs...

... somehow i feel weird when I draw anything walking on two legs. I know other people can do better. And for sure my enthusiasm is a bit lower than with "bubble pink elephant with glitter sparkle you get what I mean".
Anyways, it's good to draw kids and if they like it: even better. Part of a sketch for the scouts (yes, a lot lately). Lotsa grassland with a summer setting. Weeee!
Sketch partially done on simple paper with a colour pencil. Corrections and coloration will be done in Photoshop.

... and that's why the airbrush brush is BAD....

Because I am stil working on the image (now the couple .... and gods, Kimonos can cause a trauma XD ) and because the whole thing still bugs me.
A lot of people still use the airbrush brush... which is bad. JD *used* it as well and that's why we actually did the Skype session. I know a lot of people don't get the whole thing because nobody wants to tell and explain but the airbrush versus concept brush pretty much shows why you shouldn't use it for something or better anything that screams: I'm a detail!
I hope JD won't kill me (hun, I love you even if you love the airbrush XD) to show the difference. Left is what I call airbrush fail, right is my cleaned out correction. It doesn't mean I had to redo everything.. just the color. Which is fine because it took only around 1 hour to correct everything. I know it is a matter of taste but the smaller the illustation gets printed the more you have to care for non-muddy edges and good contrast.

And because Mirjam will pop up in some minutes for a photo-shoot I'll rush offline.

urggg... hopelessly overdone...

A loooonnng day. A little detail from a wedding card that was meant to be not that detailled but sometimes you happen to actually like the work and do more even if it means that you get practically zero out of it.
I had a Skype session with JD-Ayane (she helped me with basic house and bridge form since I was short on time ... I hate houses and bridges.. I really do.. coloring those is fine but the basic form... nah!) for the coloration. Being watched and explaining everything made me realize that I normally work:
1. Chaotic
2. Out of Order
3. am mostly bored when I work alone
all of those points are *really* bad but I guess better realize it now than... later.
I just hope the couple will love the card (we do)... If not I'll blow the wedding. Honestly...

Big thanks for JD being my Skype slave for today and labeling the stone Lantern as "Stalker Lantern". I painted ten hours in a row.. gods, I am tired. But happy.

Counting down... for kitteh-time

 What a week! I feel like trying to find the most impossible pose for the Art S.Buck figurine and I guess yoga-Poses are fairly close to overbending the legs :D
Looks a bit weird.. and gosh I really want to know who is responsible for those silikon boobies. This looks so not natural. o_o


And speaking of impossible... my To-Do List gets longer and longer. I am working on three things at the same time but it's kinda hard to keep all in line if people pop up with a "surprise!"and dang, if the job is interesting I can't say no... a totally bad habit.
I am quite happy about it but my projects keep getting dust and that was the last thing I wanted. :(

And because it's Friday and I'll watch "Iron Man 2" this evening  (yay!)I just wanted to add that Murphey's Law struck twice. We wanted female cats... FEMALE.... I thought my Karma was better but... of course we get two boys.
I didn't want to laugh into the phone when I called the cat's mum.
But it was just a total "I knew this would happen!" case.
Anyways, our little boys seem to be fine and with information like "They make three steps and roll the rest of the way" I feel like this gonna be a really inspiring time :B
So we are still searching for a second name since Treadle doesn't sound like a male. Hannibal and.... ?

Scribble! ... but not in a meeting!

... but the pad said: "Create your own work of art here"
I mean... it literally SCREAMS: DRAW ON ME!
Sir Bogard and Little Red Riding Ripper i guess... and no, i didn't want to kill anybody. It was just... oh a girl... and a cape... and a wolf... doh!

done with a Slicci... gods, I love those pens.