I Also Drew This Today

This Is What I Do When I Get A Day Off

(Click pictures to see larger image... Not that you'd want to... They're really not that great.)

I'm Not Dead, I Swear!

No time to talk, I have to hurry up and post this so I can get to bed. I have work early in the morning and I feel like I am always tired, which is why I haven't been posting as much. I'll try to post more often than once a month for now on. I promise promise.

Anyways, here is a doodle that I inked and painted. Enjoy.

Work, Work, Workity, Work Work Work!

So, after five and a half months of unemployment and being rejected by every place I applied to or sent a resume to, I finally have a job. I started working at Target three weeks ago. I know what you are thinking, "But Andrea, that's not an art job!" Well, listen up kiddies, if you wanna make it in the real world some times you're gonna have to do stuff you don't particularly like. But the good new is, within two and a half weeks of sales floor training in a store that hasn't even opened yet, I've already been promoted to a comfy backroom job. Thing is the job is full time. I originally applied to Target for a part time job, but it is better pay and regular hours, so that's good. Also, I can use the monies. Anyways, hopefully I will be able to keep updating this thing and keep making arts. I actually have an idea for a short independent comic that I wanted to create, but more on that if I ever get around to starting it.


Alright. So the deal is, I don't wanna have two blog posts in a row with no images. So I decided to post some images of t-shirts that I made. If you have ever visited my portfolio site or read my resume you would have seen that I list "painting on t-shirts" as one of my hobbies. However, I have never posted any images of any of the t-shirts that I have made on my blog or anywhere on the internets... ...until now. I started making t-shirts after making one for an art project in high school. I really like doing it, because it is a chance to have whatever you want on a t-shirt. Also, they are great as gifts, because the person you give it to now has a one-of-a-kind, custom made t-shirt.

Anyways, it all started with this shirt. This is the Bruce Lee t-shirt I made in high school for an art project.

This is actually the back of the t-shirt.

This is the front of my Bruce Lee t-shirt.

This is the shirt that I get the most comments about when I wear it. I originally made it to wear to the midnight showing of the Simpson's Movie.

This is my t-shirt in a series of shirts that I made for the bridal party in my sister's wedding. Each bridesmaid had a shirt that said "Lee's Bachelorette Party" on the front and had their real name and nickname on the back. I am "the sister with the good personality". The bride, my sister, had a white t-shirt that said "It's My Bachelorette Party" on the front and had her name and the word "Bride" on the back.

Besides the t-shirts that I make for myself, I've made more t-shirts for my sister Lee than anyone else. This is one that I made for her birthday last year. Sorry it's a bit blurry. It's supposed to be her as a bee.

This is the most recent shirt that I have made. I made it for my sister for her birthday this year. The design was a special request by her.

Alright, that's all I feel like posting right now. Also, I don't have pictures of any of the other t-shirts I've painted on. Bye now.

Sydney Opera House Graphic Animation Competition

So, for the past two weeks I have been working on my entry for the Sydney Opera House Graphic Animation Competition. My final piece is currently up on the website and the first round of voting has begun. My animatic is called "A Birthday To Remember" and you can rate it here: http://play.sydneyoperahouse.com/index.php/graphic/745.html

For more information on the contest and to view and rate the other submissions go here: http://www.graphic.sydneyoperahouse.com/

I hope you guys like my piece!

Wedding

A good friend of mine is getting married this weekend, so I decided to post some of the little things that I made for her.

This is the card I made her for her wedding shower. She loves Invader Zim.


And this is the invitation I made for her bachelorette party.

Sorry this is all I have for this week. I've been working on a super secret project that I don't really wanna show anybody yet. More on this next week. Bye now.

Rated M for Mature

Trying To Find Inspiration

Farewell Moleskin

I have been so lazy this week. I kept thinking "I updated my blog twice last week, so I don't have to update it this week." Well, anyways, I've been meaning to post this for the past two weeks, so here it is. During the sketccrawl I finished up my moleskin sketchbook, so here is a dump of some of the sketches that I like that I haven't already posted.

Me during my last days at WMS.

Some chick.

What I did for the majority of the time that I was unemployed: sketch, eat, watch cartoons, sleep.

Some character I sketchied.

Some guy looking up.

A space girl character I have been working on.


Also, I forgot to mention last week that this sketch was the last sketch to be drawn in my moleskin. Gabe drew it on the very last page and I was all like "Oh noes! This is the last ever sketch; you drew on the last page!" But secretly I always have a hard time drawing on the last page of my sketchbook and up until about two years ago all of my sketchbooks would be full except the last couple pages. It's really weird, but I have always been afraid to finish them; it's like I don't want them to end. Well, whatever. That's the end of that moleskin. I actually bought a new moleskin despite the fact that I hate paying a lot of money for my sketchbooks. I just liked the last one so much! But, it turns out I bought the wrong kind and the pages are much thinner in my new one. It's not that big of a deal though, I just went to buy new pencils to use in it.

Also, just so you know, I have still been sketching in Sketchy Magee 3 every once in a while and he is almost full. So you have that to look forward to in the next couple weeks.

Space Rock