Zombies!

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I've been working on a zombie illustration for school. I've been trying to draw a lot of zombies to get myself revved up for my large scale final illustration, including some zombie Derpy's on flockdraw, and my friend Katie all classy-like.

Of course I've been doing non-zombie drawings on flockdraw also. :)

 Honestly, I feel like I'm in a bit of a rut. Mostly because I'm avoiding the shit out of my zombie project. This is really the same familiar feeling I get whenever I have no idea what the hell I'm doing. Falling back on some traditional studies help, but I really just need to stop being such a wuss and just DRAW!

Have I mentioned I enrolled in a schoolism class with Bobby Chiu this summer? HELL YES I'M EXCITED! I have yet to take a digital painting class, and I am psyched to finally get a little direction. I wanna be, the very best . . .  Practicing digital can be daunting sometimes, because there is such an infinite spectrum of techniques it's often confusing to figure out how to tackle a picture with no guidance. Sometimes I like to just throw a lot of textures on a drawing, then pretend it looks good! I call it a "texture doodle".

Hmm, maybe I re-use textures too much!

Well, I've always got Derpcraft.

i think i derp'd

I'm finally making the leap... I'm deleting World of Warcraft (and any other video games) from my laptop and using it primarily for art related stuff. Honestly, it wasn't a very hard decision since the "cataclysmically" large patch 4.0 was too large to install anyways. (Unless I did a clean install.. But, dammit, do I really need another reason to play WoW?) As I was purging I found a few old scrap drawings that I never finished.

In other news, me and my boyfriend have really been riding this pony buzz. He bought me some hilarious and cute MLP toys for Valentine's Day, and I've been particularly entertained by the "bubble blowing" Pinkie Pie toy. I really amuse myself sometimes.

PONKY POO

From the sketchbook: 

Meanwhile, my owl obsession continues...

Every once in a while I find myself googling or browsing for random owl products. What am I becoming?! I don't know, some kind of owl person I guess. For a long time I used a pseudonym on and off the internet. ( "Shiro" ) Don't ask me why, I'm sure I had some weird reason. Well, I'm embracing the accountability and notoriety that come with using your real name on the internet now. Despite all that, I still find myself tossing around possible aliases in my head. The whole owl mania has inspired the name "Owl Toast". (Based off the name of a pub in MA, "The Toasted Owl".)  I'm still trying to figure out an application for it, but in the meantime I'll just continue ogling cutesy owl merchandise.

Pikachu

I have always been/am/will be obsessed with Pikachu. FACT. I've drawn so many incarnations of Pikachu ranging from disney-esque, realistic, to monstrous "dire" version. I'm not really sure what inspired me to, but here's some sickeningly cute chibi Pikas I doodled up last night.

Just to keep with the Pikachu theme, this is a drawing I did last semester: