Back again!

Hello friends!

It's been a long long long long time since I last posted. 

Just to let you know I am not dead, and I haven't forgotten about you all.

I just finished my first book with Flying Eye Books called Wild (which will be out next month), which I've been working on for the past half year. It feels good to have time off to doodle and come back into the blogging world again! 

I will be posting a lot more, but in the meantime enjoy this weird fantasy food chain (looks better when bigger) . I've been drawing so much foliage, it's been working it's way into everything I draw. Also little babies. Deal with it.

Zürich, etc.

Hey! 

Long time no post.

I've been pretty under the radar for the past few months, but it doesn't mean I haven't been keeping busy- my non-work related doodling has been pretty minimal, yeep.

ANYWAYS,

I had the lovely chance to stay with my lovely friend Raquel + the rest of my adopted Fernan family in Zurich over the Christmas break! I made the most out of my trip by drinking tea, eating Panettone, reading, hiking around the woods and listening to Albi sing every song on the Mamma Mia soundtrack. It was a pretty glorious holiday! 

I don't have many things to post. Just trees (had a lot of time to soak in new tree textures, yee) & girly sketches, mainly trying to grasp this marker concept.

Sweet confusion

After staring at the computer screen for a few days, real-life color is radiant.

I don't give a hoot

I'm drawing some birds, I won't say why,

but it's fun to draw something you've never really felt comfortable drawing before and keep drawing it until you wonder how you could have not drawn it before. Does that make sense? Is that putting it too simply? Is it not exclusive to art? I don't care, I'm having a good time.

My trip to Vienna in a nutshell

Vienna's the home to my most favorite art everythings, so I had to go, I've been wanting to go for years and years and years. Because it was Klimt's 150th birthday this summer, I decided that this was my moment to go, as everyone else would be in full gear to celebrate their famed artist. 

So this October I went by myself for a week to take a peek around the city, here's a hodgepodge and scrappy little sketchbook full of my anticlimactic little adventures around the city for you to all peer in. It's a long post, but maybe you'll understand my brain or Vienna a bit more from it. 

Can't be tamed!

Sneaky peek at some ideas/color schemes I've worked on today! 

Fingers crossed!

Superstitious

I'm not superstitious. I'm a very skeptical person.

BUT I have dealt with ghost farts that have made me think otherwise, even if it was only for a minute or so. It's supposed to be that when you walk into a cold spot, you're encountering a spirit, but they fail to mention what happens when you encounter a totally strange smell. I'm not talking dog poop, or drainage. I'm talking about a straight up fart, except you didn't do it, and there's no one in sight.

Bizarre.  Another world mystery.

Wild

I've been struggling to get back into the groove of drawing again. Haha I always am whining and complaining and making excuses about it! With drawing it's either really fun or really frustrating, maybe just me. I feel like I'm getting back in the hang again. Maybe.
These are quick gouaches- the clean up took me so much longer than the painting, errrr.

Here's some tame character ideas I have going on about this wild child. She kinda looks like me, which is pretty gross of me to have done- so these are very basic. Trying to capture more of a crazy look to her, she looks a bit Mother Nature-y and docile, which is totally not what I'm going for. Back to the drawing board!