New Year Post!

Happy New Year Everyone! Yeesh! It's been a while since I posted. I guess I'll have to blame it on the holidays. I went to Minnesota to visit family and friends over Thanksgiving. One of my favorite parts of the trip was meeting my cartoony gal pal CaseyBug. You can read about our fun fest over at her blog.





Here are 2 months worth of drawings and a few ones from this past year that I've never posted.

*Also, I'm low on the cashflow, so if you want to buy any of these drawings or commission me send an email to shmisten[AT]hotmail[DOT]com

Wart-Tina

Looks like they started the voting process for The Arena Girl Challenge at the Fist-A-Cuffs Blog. Go Vote! Please add Wart-Tina in your top 10.

Here's a progress drawing of her. This was the first time I tried inking a drawing. ...yeesh! need to practice that more often. I also added some pre-arena-girl-sketches.

Dr, Sketchy's Fun

I've been wanting to do life drawing again ever since I saw some amazing figure drawings by the man the myth the legend; Mr. Urban Barbarian. Inspiring stuff, huh? Anyhoo, My technical skills have been lack-a-lacking and I find myself drawing the same poses over and over. Luckily Dr. Sketchy's came to kcmo and I'd like to think my art's been benefiting from it. Thank you Dr. Sketchy's!

Back with a Vengeance!

...as the title states: I'm Back! Back for good! Back for frequent updates. Back To Break your Mothers Back! Back Back Baaaack! Sorry! I got a little carried away.

Sorry I've been gone so long, but it's been a crappy few months and things are starting to get better. Anyhoo, Just wanted to apologies on the lack of updates. I'm surprised you still visit this blog.

Here are 9 pages from my sketchbook. I don't really keep a sketchbook cause I always draw on scrap paper or post-its. I decided to cut out all my drawings and tape 'em to sketchbook pages. (Hope you don't mind the messiness) The pages get naughtier and naughtier. The last one make me chuckle...eh! You'll see why. :)


Oh Yeah! Please Vote for my Fist-a-Cuffs girl; Wart-Tina. She's part of the Arena Girl Challenge. Wart-Tina needs some lovin'

Wonder Woman Day Painting

I was lucky enough to be a part of the Wonder Woman Day II charity auction. The money goes to Domestic Violence Shelters & Crisis Lines. Go and bid on my painting! It's 11x17 and done with acrylics, gouache, and color pencil.



*mini update*
Just wanted to add some pre-sketches. I like these more than the one I chose because they were more Va-Va-Va-Voom! but couldn't use 'em since they weren't kid-friendly

update

This lovely lady is sorta kinda based off a cute character
from a Pepe LePew' cartoon Who Scent You?





oh yeah, before I forget. If you want to see some new drawings check out the new group blog I have with my ol' classmate, Ed. The Sour Delicious Blog. The Sour Delicious Blog

Painting Process

Hey Look at me! I'm posting again and 2 months haven't gone by. This is so unlike me. I like it!

Last month I got a chance to do a Vampirella commission for Jon, he has an amazing collection of Vampirella art. I was really excited to do this piece since I've never drawn her before. Anyway, Jon had the coolest concept for the piece. He wanted Vampirella to be in the Miss Universe pageant. but, we're talking the REAL Miss Universe pageant with Alien beauties competing in a pageant. Of Course Vampi would win since she's hott stuff! Funny huh?

Here's the final piece


Step 1. Concept thumbnails.

Step 2. Pre sketch

Step 3. Re-work the Pre-sketch since some of the aliens looked alike.

Step 4. Transferred the sketch on the Nice watercolor paper.

Step 5. Added a Gouache Wash (I dare you to say that 5 times in a row as fast as you can) over the piece.

Step 6. Added some white paint and some color pencils to the aliens.

Step 7. Started painting Vampirella. I used acrylics, gouache and color pencil on her.

Step 8. Finally done! tweaked a few things and added the names on the sashes. (I wish my hand writting wasn't so horrible I think this would have looked a lot better if I had better lettering skills)
















Welp! I hope that gives you a glimpse into my painting process.

oh and 1 more thing: Guess who's Mom was in a Pageant?