happy valentine's day!

Just what it says on the tin. Happy Valentine's Day internet!

zombabe

Happy Halloween! Eat some brains. Or some brain-shaped candy for the uncommitted.

P.S. I am super happy with how this came out and it was really fun to do. I've been working on the fairytale pin-ups but I think I might derail that for monster ladies instead. A vampire and a werewolf, at the very last.

hey there sailor

A little nautical pin-up action. I think she's practicing for the next Fleet Week.

I love the whole nautical aesthetic, but since I hate the beach and get incredibly seasick on anything that isn't a floaty tube or a kayak, I can only express my appreciation by drawing lots of ladies in their seafaring finery. I know. It's a hard-knock life.

And we zoom-in, the better to see all the details no one ever sees on the final product.

the princess & the pea

I'm thinking of doing a series of fairy tale-inspired pin-ups, which may or may not actually happen (I think about doing a lot of things but then get too busy/lazy/bored with them to follow through) - but even if it doesn't, there's at least one! This take on The Princess and The Pea started as a truly pathetic sketch, but in the end it turned out pretty much exactly how I imagined it. I had a field day with all the patterns in this, and they provide a lot of visual interest. I'm digging it.

IF: rescue

My take on this week's Illustration Friday theme: "rescue." Because whenever I'm short on time or ideas, I know I can always churn out a half-decent naked lady. It's like a gift. A completely useless and occasionally inappropriate gift.

Anyway - I was going for a sort of vintage poster feeling. It's possible I went a little texture-happy, but I still mostly like how it came out.

And here's the sketch, which is... not good. She looks like a cross between a Carmen Sandiego strip-o-gram and a German Michael Jackson impersonator. But you know, sometimes that's how it starts.

dr. sketchy's march 2010

This afternoon I went to the first Dr. Sketchy's session of the new year - the theme was a tribute to Vargas, and I was super excited because you all know how much I love me a good pin-up girl. (In case you don't: A LOT.) The models were two members of the Hellcat Burlesque Troupe - Candy Mayhem and D'Arcy D'Lux - and they were fantastic. I hope I'm awesome like them when I grow up.

One minute poses. We did ten, but because I can't draw anything in one minute I only have three I can post without embarrassing myself.

Two and five minute poses.

Ten minute poses. Technically the one on the right was a five minute pose but I went back and finished it during a break.

Two 20-minute poses.

miss valentine (gold)

The third and final of the Valentine pin-ups. Also my personal favorite. I really can't get enough yellow lately.

Happy valentine's day guys! Eat some candy.

(The first is here, the second here.)

miss valentine (mauve)

The second in the Valentine trio. She's my least favorite of the bunch for several reasons, which is why I'm sticking her in the middle child slot. I'm glad I got to work the back-seam stocking in though.

The first Valentine is here.

miss valentine (pink)

The first in a series of three pin-ups in honor of cupid's birthday. I'm not a big fan of the holiday, personally, but I am a fan of any occasion that gives me an excuse to draw pudgy little sexpots in fancy underwear. Seriously, who needs roses? They smell like death anyway.

And here's the sketch. Absolutely nothing changed, but I figured I'd post it anyway.