kristens sketchblog

11/14/09

doodle dump

This is a recent commission about Japanese Street fashion ala the Fruit books



These were done for the "Small Stuff 3 Show" at Bear and Bird Gallery. *gouache, markers, color pencil and GLITTER were used.



I re-did the Blue Glasses drawing for a friend. This one is closer to the original sketch.


Here are some more doodles of Bette Milder's hideous fashions from the movie Big Business.



Lastly....some pages from my doodle book.

11/10/09

call the fashion police

So, the other day while in the food court I saw this lady pass by. I can't believe she went out in public dressed this way. She had on one of those ugly-ass fake body shirts. Only in Missouri you'd find one of these fashion disasters. I need to get out of this place or else I'm gonna turn into her.



Anyhoo, Stay tuned..I've got a BiG Art Dump planned.

10/23/09

Wonder Woman Day IV

I almost forgot to post the drawing I did for Wonder Woman Day. She's done in marker with a little bit of color pencil on some nice 8.5x11 paper. If you like what you see you can bid online for it here.

**Bidding Ends on Saturday October 24th**




Yay!

10/3/09

Harley Quinn in Pink and other stuff

Hi Friends! Got a bunch of art to share this time. First thing is a Harley Quinn piece I did for The Marla Bea Benefit. Proceeds go to breast cancer research. (that's why she's in Pink, folks.) Bidding starts October 12.


Next is a painting I made for my grandparents. They're big into gardening.



This is a drawing of Bette Midler from the 1988 comedy Big Business. I can't get enough of the ugly fashions in this movie. I want to do some more.



The rest are sketchums:


9/21/09

Mermaid Comic

My friend Casey is moving to Florida and I wanted to make her a going away present. There's a place/tourist trap in Florida called "Weeki Wachee Springs" where hot women dress up as mermaids and swim around in a giant aquarium. I thought it would be funny if Casey and I got a job there and here is the result in comic form. *Extra Special Thanks goes out to Tek! for helping me come up with better mermaid gags.







Looking back, I wish I could change the way I colored it. I love simple color pallets and this comic is all over the place. It makes me cringe seeing it in thumbnail form. One of the biggest struggles was trying to make Casey goofy looking since she's very pretty in real life.

Here's a bonus page I had to drop because I ran out of time and the poop joke didn't make sense.


Anyhoo, I think she liked the comic, I was able to give it to her in person. Here we are trying to be SEXY, just like in the comic.

6/19/09

Pink Sonja and other stuff

I'm working on an art piece for The Marla Bea Benefit. Proceeds from this auction will be donated for cancer research. Right now, I'm trying to figure out what to draw. You're supposed to draw a strong female character and the color pink should be used. So far, I have 2 ideas.
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Idea #1 Red Sonja becomes Pink Sonja




Idea #2: A Superheroine flying in the air and her dust/smoke is in the shape of the pink cancer ribbon


sketch dump time.......


5/28/09

abusing my markers

Markers are expensive! I wasted a bunch of them on some of these sketchbook pages.

It looks as if I vomited ink all over the last one. ha!