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This week’s theme on IF is Prehistoric. What better to portray that theme than with these two toothless critters from the “Love Es Strange” archives. Happy weekend!

Giant Birds and the Trees, that’s where baby mangoes come from.

Had the pleasure of working on a quite special and personalized illustration for the past couple of weeks. So much fun working on this! Trees are one of my favorite subjects to draw even though I rarely get to draw’em. With the clients very impressive art direction we were able to take two previous roughs and basically mesh their attributes together to create our super awesome tree final.  I don’t know where my head was during the coloring phase of this illo but this would’ve made for an awesome video. Ah well. Next time.

So I’ve been slightly obsessed with trying to make a decent looking critter doll. One that wont make my cat runaway. I’m also trying to stop smoking and now my hands are constantly looking for something to do. Seriously? It’s annoying…maybe that’s the nicotine talking but its REALLY annoying that I’m constantly trying to find something else to do other than smoke… So…

This is Malvo. He likes rocks (and long walks on the beach..) and he has a nasty habit of throwing pebbles at people. He’s currently working on diminishing that habit…

This one was a lot of fun to do. I actually made some patterns and had some sort of a plan when putting him together. And although he’s a little lopsided I like this little guy lots…his arms are so fun to swing around!

Here’s a link to the pattern if you’re interested in making your own version. If you do let me know how it turns out!

Since I’m almost done with my Love Es Strange Critters (12 in all), I decided I try to make my own critter doll yesterday…

I’ve always been a GO FOR IT kinda girl when it comes to trying new things. But when it comes to planning and strategizing on how I was actually going to make this such doll,  I didn’t really have a plan (as you can tell).

Even my cat wont go near this one!

Made from one of my many abandoned shirts laying on our attic floor and some freaky ass buttons my mom likes to save (for what? I dont know maybe she hopes that 1910’s  fashion would be back in style soon.)

Happy Hump Day!

While Simone and Garflunkle dance their pants off…

I’ve been trying to juggle jobs and errands today. Making mailers, will post them up soon.

An editor I’m working with requested a short bio and a kiddie pic of me for their publication and I’ve narrowed it down to these:

They aren’t the greatest but I really don’t have time to go down memory lane right now, knowing myself I’ll end up not getting anything done..so these will have to suffice.  Nice glasses ma…

“Let’s go to where no drifter has drifted before!“

Where’d they end up? I’m thinking somewhere between Australia and Fiji…Yes they’re controlling a Dharma station right now, they’re LOST.

He’s crying because he’s a meat grinder and he doesn’t want meat coming out of his nose anymore…his BFF Doug is a parasite. I’m assuming its from one of the meats..that’s disgusting..I swear I didn’t mean to draw that combo together…

I decided to switch from mouse to tablet yesterday…and now I feel dumb…why the hell why was I using my mouse in the first place when I have a freakin tablet!?…It just cut my coloring time by half…kudos to super productive days.

..no thanks to my assistant who scratched the side of my mouth today…must complain to HR about this, she’s gettin way too lazy.

While the rest of the Love Es Strange critters wait to be colored…

…Horrus here would like to sing a song from Ping Ping for you…good luck.