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It’s been about 4 months since I’d last posted anything on this ‘ere blog. With back to back deadlines and prepping for the arrival of our first newborn, the end of 2014 throughout the beginning of 2015 has been at the least to say chaotic and life changing..
If you follow me in any of my social media accounts you’ll notice an exorbitant amount of pictures {I apologize by the way..new mom syndrome you know..} of this little peapod,
Meet the new little addition to our growing family, Aria {yes we’re Game of Thrones fans}Rose. Born March 25th 2015 at 3:15 in the morning. It’s been a whole month since her arrival and aside from being sleep deprived, the late night feedings, milk vomits and spit ups, and her constant need to shriek at the top of her lungs..like ALL THE TIME…she hasn’t stopped putting a smile on our face since then.
she finds this all too amusing..
Now to top all that off I’m officially back to work! Hopefully the transition from old schedule to new schedule won’t be too bad
…who am I kidding!?..
..Ah well..wish me luck!
In the meantime here’s the artwork I did for Highlights this past month!
I can't show most of what I'm working on right now, but one thing I can show is this little lady. She's currently starring in a story I'm working on. I think she's up to no good.
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A private commission from a good friend. A gift for his wife and daughter for Calista’s 1st birthday! (so sweet.) This kid unbelievably cute. Apparently this is exactly the kind of love that Calista and Chloe have for one another. It’s interesting how their cat doesn’t claw her, if I tried to do that to my cat I’d hear grumbling followed by an intense need to squirm and claw her way out of my grip…I tried this last week..
The final image was 15×16″ so it needed to be custom framed. Had a hard time trying to find a custom frame shop that would be able to finish the frame on time for her 1st birthday. But luckily we found someone who got it done 3 days after the Thanksgiving weekend. They did a lovely job at that. I hope they love it as much as I do.
Tabitha got a little jealous during the unwrapping.
To think it all began with small pieces of chalk and a blank canvas. Actually, it all started with mom’s lipstick, a teddy bear, the carpet, the sofa…..you get the point.
Still in the process of tightening this one but I haven’t posted and in a while and thought it was really due time.
Be Back Soon!
Fairy Girl Pendant is create from my Wings or Tails Digital Print. The little Fairy girl is sitting a tree branch. It’s a very cute necklace reminding us of the fun and joyful things in life.
Glass Tile Pendant is 1 1/4″ tall by 7/8″ wide.
It comes with an ultra Fine 1.2mm Silver Plated Snake Chain Necklace with Lobster Clasps. 16″ and 18″ chains are available. Send me a message specifying whether you want 16″ or 18″.
This little vamp was actually inspired by a dear friend who’d been requesting this little girl for quite a while now. And what an appropriate time to finish it with Halloween right around the corner! Hope she enjoys it as much as I enjoyed making it.
Check out the new video on how I vectorized our little friend! Every chance I get to work with vectors I try to make a point to remember (but I usually forget) to document the process since its always so much fun to watch it all come together…kinda sucks that you tube automatically disables my audio though…seriously annoying. I had to upload this things twice to get some type of audio in there.
She is lovely, Roberta. There must be a lot of inspiration for this cutie.
theartofpuro said, on 4/21/2010 8:11:00 AM
Love it!Love their expressions!
trowbridge chronicles said, on 4/22/2010 7:36:00 AM
Such a cute little girl. You’re really good at rendering textures and details. You must spend quite a bit of time on each illustration. The results are splendid.
Jess--Popple (love that name) is very, very cute. looks good--the figure sitting down has a little bit of a leg problem--the leg in front is too long (compare her size & legs to other figures); other than that, I think you've got a nice thing going with a great character!
Jess--I just looked again at her legs & I see that there are two legs, one on top of the other--it read at first as one leg! sorry about that--maybe a little value on the underneath leg to push the top leg forward...good job
How fun! I agree with Linda that Popple is such a fun name. My favorite picture is when she's jumping rope. And you've done well at keeping her looking like herself!
Popple has beautiful eyes and hair, Jess! She looks like a great character to work with, and you were able to keep her likeness throughout the sketches... good job indeed!
Very good consistency on Popple. Cute name, cute concept.
I agree with everyone.
I do have a couple of technical comments. The way you have the body twisted in the one with the ball looks a bit painful. When I am trying for an odd pose, I either squirm myself into the position in a full length mirror or get someone to pose for it and snap a picture. When working realistically, it's really important not to have your characters in awkward poses. The other comment is the girl has a neck in the larger image but none on the others. Even a chubby baby has a neck. I'd fix that minor detail.
An urgent message from Dave McKean, who is making a low-budget film called LUNA right now:
I urgently need 2 white paper origami crabs to appear in a scene in Luna, like this one: http://db.origami.com/displayphoto.asp?ModelID=2244 if anyone is willing to make them and send them to the UK straight away, I can pay a small fee to cover time (or a signed drawing or book?), give them a name check in the final credits, and give them a fedex account number for shipping.
Go to the FAQ page if you're an Origami whizz (and I know there are Origami whizzes out there, as I get given amazing things at signings) and drop me a line, and I'll put you straight in touch with Dave. Who will probably soon be drowning in Origami crabs.
Went in to Hair Police today and saw Wendy who turned the strange messy mop that my hair had turned into into a rather nice haircut. From there to Dreamhaven where I signed lots of stuff for Elizabeth and the www.neilgaiman.net site, including a half a ton of Absolute Sandman Volume 2s. As I drove home Roger Avary called to let me know that he's reopening his website after a couple of years without one -- http://www.avary.com/.
Then to Maddy's Parent Teacher conference. She's doing wonderfully at school, and got an impressive report card -- which, for the first time ever, she really had to work for, as she came to the UK for the Stardust premiere and having lost a week of schoolwork. (She's coming to LA with me for the Beowulf premiere, but is only missing one school day to do it.)
And then home. Opened the copy of Bust I'd picked up at DreamHaven (officially I get it for my assistant Lorraine, but I always read it first -- sort of like when I'd pick up a copy of Bunty for my sisters as a boy), and found myself staring at an unexpected advert for the Good Omens and Stardust scents from BPAL. Which reminded me that I had meant to congratulate the amazing Beth, who is the mind (and the nose) behind BPAL -- and a woman who has raised an enormous amount of money for the CBLDF this year -- on her wedding.
(And if you haven't looked at the CBLDF site recently -- http://www.cbldf.org/ -- Gordon Lee goes to trial on Monday. Finally. After three years, two completely different sets of "facts", and $80,000 in legal bills so far for something that should never have been a police matter in the first place... http://www.cbldf.org/articles/archives/000318.shtml for the story so far.)
Lots and lots and lots and lots of emails from people telling me that Marmite can be found all over America, normally beside the baking supplies (probably because of the word Yeast). I don't think I'm going to need Marmite again for another couple of years now, but than you all for the info.
(first time question!)
I've just heard from a friend who was quite annoyed. He met this famous UK author while the author was doing research on his latest book - and the author used my friend's anecdote as quite a major plot device in the book. However, my friend wasn't asked for permission or acknowledged in any way.
Has this ever happened to you (in the opposite direction of course)? I'd think there'd be lots of stories you've been told bubbling in your mind, and sometimes you wouldn't even realize that a story has been told to you by someone else. Would you contact someone if you were using a story of theirs?
I try reasonably hard to credit people who helped (see the very long list of names at the back of American Gods) but find it hard to find fault with the author in question. Authors are packrats. If you tell us an anecdote -- unless you preface it with "I am about to tell you an amusing and/or interesting anecdote. Should you at some future time use it in a book you will need to contact me to obtain my permission, or at least credit me by name. I shall now tell you the anecdote and then give you my contact details in a form in which you won't lose them," -- then it's fair game. I think our attitude -- I don't speak for all of us, but enough -- is that if your friend thought his anecdote would have made a good book, he should have written it himself.
I don't know the names of the people who took me down the sewers or into the disused tube tunnels when I was doing Neverwhere, but their anecdotes certainly made it into the book. I didn't give the name of the financially dodgy agent whose interesting approach to paying over royalties inspired the character and behaviour of Graham Coats in Anansi Boys either (probably a wise move, that). And, as you say, very often you know someone told you that Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria obtained a doctor's note to get out of being married, but who it was or when has melted down in the compost heap in the back of your mind to the brown sludge of memory. It's like remembering jokes, and who told them to you. The shape is now there in your mind, and you know the punch line is "Two coffees and a choc ice," but how it entered your head is a mystery.
(And it's worth pointing out your friend might be wrong. I get letters sometimes from people saying "You got this from me." And the people who send the letters believe it, but it's not the case. I find myself replying "Actually, I wrote this four years before you wrote your story," or "I understand you think I got this from something you said. Actually the entire story was in this newspaper on this date, and that was where I got it from.")
Having said all that, I'm also really sympathetic to your friend. Many years ago I was on a panel where I said "I'm going to write a book called X," and no-one laughed longer or louder than the bloke next to me on the panel who, eleven months later, brought out a book with the title I'd mentioned. I was in a conversation with another author who mentioned being stuck on a plot thing, and I said "Oh, that's an easy one," and made a suggestion, and suggested a title for the book for good measure, and he said "I owe you lunch for that one," but I scanned the acknowledgements in vain looking for a thank you when the book came out, and didn't get a lunch out of it either. And conversely I have fuzzy warm feelings for all those people who wrote books and actually did say thank you, and used their acknowledgments to acknowledge.
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After a long day, i got "your" love letter that the new york times sent out. It was rather funny and made me laugh a lot.(was even funnier trying to explain to my roomate that it wasnt a real love letter)Did you have anything to do with the writting of those love letter? Or did the new york times write them without the help of the varies authors? Do you know if every one got the same letter? Just curious, thanks.
Thank Heavens for Little girls! For little girls get bigger everyday!
She is lovely, Roberta. There must be a lot of inspiration for this cutie.
Love it!Love their expressions!
Such a cute little girl. You’re really good at rendering textures and details. You must spend quite a bit of time on each illustration. The results are splendid.