Sketches and T-shirts
I left work early last Saturday to go enjoy @party, and have a relaxing evening. It was a lot of fun. I got there with enough time before dinner was served to just sit back and not have to do anything. Someone was outside gaming, and so I drew him.
And I had a fun time listening to chiptunes and watching demos. It made me want to do hand drawn animation again... and maybe I'll do some for fun sometime soon.
I've also been having fun on the side with my shirt painting techniques (working with fabric markers and a wet paintbrush over my silkscreened outlines).
I did the white shirt first (and have since worked on it a few times) to try things out and see what looked good before doing the shirt I have up on Etsy. The other gray one below is an alternate I don't think I'm quite finished with yet (I want to darken the wing membranes).
The gradients on her skin were a pain that I think I barely recovered into something reasonable. I won't be trying that again. I want to bring some just silkscreened, unpainted shirts to 5Pi-Con, though, and see if anyone wants custom colors.
Forays into Embroidery
So I taught myself embroidery. I looked it up online, discovered it was nowhere near as complicated as I somehow thought it would be. Did a few test stitches (not shown, couldn't find where I'd put them all), and then made a plan for embroidering my wedding dress. Here's a sneak peek.
Robot Finds Kitten - The Mural
It seems I'm painting a Robot Finds Kitten mural, 10 feet tall.
Check it out at Artisan's Asylum.
And go play some robot finds kitten.
Green Vine Gown
I wanted to see if I could make a sleeveless/strapless dress that wouldn't fall off me or bunch-up funny. It involves some plastic boning, and worked well. I'm wearing a tulle crinoline in one picture and not the other.
Black dress
Another mock dress I tried out to see if something would work. I may finish it sometime later.
