Just Some More Pendants

 Here are just some in progress pics of some more things I made earlier this week. This time with a step by step procedure!

Here the pendants are with just paint. I like the shape and size of the small squid pendants but they have an annoying texture on them that takes a few layers of paint to cover.

The two spiders on the left are ones that were done in a previous batch, just to compare textures.

Also some bug pendants for a friend of mine. She's going to hook me up with some hissing cockroaches!

This is them after mixing and pouring the epoxy. The bubbles are normal and slowly pop away after an hour. Usually they end up nice and clear.

 But this time they didn't turn out clear. All of them have microscopic bubbles all over the place in the glaze. I don't know how this happened since the normal bubbled all popped and it was only a few hours after being clear that the small bubbles started appearing.

 This close up shows the detail better but still doesn't really show how obvious the bubbles are. The whole thing looks like it is covered with a light speckled layer of dust.

Oh well. Epoxy is usually easy to use but you do have to follow the instructions exactly. Good thing most of these will be going to friends!

Doodles of Bugs

Not much to talk about other than "hey here's some sketches I did in the last few days and yeah my style's been changing again. What the heck is up with that?"

 

 

Oh also this little swirly haired girl is one of my friend's characters we were just messing around with. We can't decide which little cheek design to use. I am leaning more towards the triangles myself. We might be doing a few comics together since both of us by ourselves are pretty bad at story telling.

 

Doodles

I'm still catching up on things since school is starting soon. For now here are some scraps of stuff that I did.

By the way have any of you seen the music video that the second doodles are based off of? Crazy stuff. Though I think the lyrics are a little lame. It is a song about clapping to feel better.

See you around!

No More Sharing Allowed

So I'm still going to be working on those cards, but I shouldn't post any more work-in-progress pics. Yeah, now the only way to see them would be to buy the card set on Halloween!

So in the meantime I will just be posting some ink and color work of my school doodles now and then. And some other warm up stuff.

Saturday Morning Cartoons

Special Not Cartoon Edition!

Instead  I'll provide a link to the musical Starship.
It's got everything I like: Giant bug aliens, great characters, funny actors, puppets, pop culture references, goofy music, and enough cheesiness to make it all fun. This is the kind of stuff my ten year old self would kill to see. It's so much fun!

But be warned, it is 3 hours long.

I can't possibly post all of the videos of it here, so I will only provide part one, and a link to the YouTube playlist.

 

And click here to continue your journey!!

Sticks

I thought that since I probably wouldn't have much more time with them, I should at least share a little about my most interesting pets. I am talking of course, about stick bugs. 

I originally got these guys almost a year ago from an aunt up in Chico (though they are really southern California stick bugs). I had six of them all in a mayo jar with a few rose branches.

To put the size of them when I got them in comparison with the size of this one, they were smaller than my thumbnail when I got them. Yep, these things start tiny and get huge. They lived with plenty of room in a half gallon fishbowl in the bathroom. I have to be honest though, I was lucky to have such a lazy-friendly pet. They can go months with no food! Not that I would wait that long of course!!! And I moved them to a bigger tank when they got too big for the fishbowl.

 

They were great pets and I always really liked how I could see them swaying slightly whenever they slowly walked.  

Unfortunately, I don't think that they are meant to have very long lifespans. In a few months it will have been a year since I got them, but all but one have already passed on. I'm sure this one won't have much longer either, so I'm trying to make it as nice as possible for it.