And now for some shameless self promotion!

For all you nerds out there, I entered a Marvel Villain t-shirt design contest, and I need your support. I'd really appreciate it if you register with welovefine.com and vote for my designs. You can always buy a cool Star Wars or Avengers shirt while you're at it, they're really clever and cool

Here are the links directly to my designs:

Lady Deathstrike


Loki Playing Card


Hail Hydra Propaganda Poster


Today's Forecast


The Brotherhood

The past few weeks I have been working on a World War I / World War II concept, and I'm fairly happy with the results!
It started as a simple photo editing and touch-up project with Greg and wound up being a large scale dieselpunk themed photomanipulation project. Thinking the project would have more focus on the full scale war planning scene we set up, I set out to think up a clever background to set the scene, and instead I came up with the goggles reflection idea and had Greg shoot some simple head-shots in our military-themed outfits. I didn't know how well the simple idea would turn out, so we shot a myriad of other scene set ups. However, the simple headshot photomanipulations turned out exactly how I imagined, and I'm pretty proud of my work.


There is so much detail I put in the scene and such a stark difference from the original, I decided to post this behind the scenes image on my art profile.


A concept I've been working on for a while. Since I'm a terrible photographer and don't have the right equipment it became a collaboration project with a photographer friend of mine. I wanted to portray an idea of an alternative history based on reality looking back on the past: Dieselpunk WWII reflecting on the Steampunk WWI scene with all the guns facing center.... leaving the story up for interpretation...

The planes flying in the background were made by me in Adobe Illustrator with motion effects done in Adobe Photoshop. All the rest is highly filtered and manipulated photographs edited in Photoshop.

Thanks to Greg Badger for taking the pictures I had envisioned!

Hope you like!

My Threadless Pin-Up T-shirt contest entry number 2!


With this design I wanted a more classic Pin-up look. As a navy wife, I've always liked the cutesy sailor-girl "Sailor Jerry" tattoo style pin-ups. So I did it in that style with my own twist. The outfit is based off of my friend's military Pin-up costume.

Made in Adobe Illustrator using the pen tool with blue gradient fill

Vote for my design to be put on a T-shirt

I am starting a new profile that is focusing on my modeling and photoshop paintings! You can find my new profile here: [link]

I have some new Otakon photos up, check to see if you're in them.
Next month I'll have some from DragonCon, so check back then!

       

Quite honestly, when you create art for a living, you lose the joy of coming home and being creative for fun. Although I enjoy my work, I would like more time to spend on my own original ideas, instead of using up all my creative energy at work. All in good time. Next year I will be freelancing, and will have plenty of lovely things to post.

Hopefully I will post more as my teammates (mostly my fiance as well as my roommate) and I create more steampunk paraphernalia for us to model and me to photograph, while I continue to produce a few more vector drawings of the characters in my head.

I finally created the Wolverine vector I've had in my head for ages. I have a few more comical versions of my fiance's Wolverine character, but they will have to wait.

Sadly I was only able to snap a few steampunk costumes while at Otakon, but I did capture a few other fantastic cosplays. Here are some of the various recent additions:
       

i am jack of all trades, master of none... or maybe one or two...
I create all sorts of different art, because i am never satisfied with the restraints of just one genre. i am not an expert in all of them, i just enjoy trying everything.
and here you will get to see into a very small portion of my ever moving mind.