Highlights from Inktober!!! =-)

Hey guys!!!  =-)    Sorry for the delay in putting up a new post. Things have been extremely busy and stressful lately!!  

Since inktober ended a few weeks ago (the end of October), I have been wanting to do a quick post to highlight some of my favorite sketches from the month!!  But I had to finish up coloring a few of them, since that was my major goal for inktober!  But everything is finished now, and so I am going to share my favorites with you!!!   =-) 

This chibi of Sailor V in a fifties inspired outfit was a favorite from the first day of inktober!! ^^ 

 My "fifties mania" has been running rampant in my sketching lately, and that's OK!!!  This chibi of Maryellen Larkin from "American Girl" was really fun to color, and it had been awhile since I'd drawn eyes that big!!! 

I think the hands turned out badly on this one, but I really liked pulling out all my orange and red markers to color this autumn themed sketch. And I had fun using my Staedtler fine tip markers for the designs on her dress!!   ^^

About six or seven of my inktober sketches were centered on a little pig that ends up flying away in a hot air balloon, and then makes it back home again. These were two of my favorites from that little storyboard session... It was funny drawing all those gushing tears on the piggy in the drawing on top, and also funny to make Alice-Chan the bad wolf!! The bottom drawing was the final picture in the series, and I liked drawing and coloring a happy ending for everyone.   ^^

I'm always happy to draw anything Clintasha related!!! Sweetest Day seemed like a good opportunity...   ;-) 

These three pictures you see above are more fifties frenzied drawings... I really can't seem to help myself lately in this area, but it's a good thing!!!  ;-)    The top drawing was especially fun because I really just sat down and let the pencil do what it wanted... and the end result was kind of cool!  The center and bottom drawings are both supposed to be the same girl, and she's a possible character sketch for a project I hope to make happen... I've been meaning to sit down and look into fifties names for a few character sketches. I like her design right now, but I'm not quite satisfied with her hair color, and I need a few more lessons in coloring white anime hair!!!  xD

We were watching "Charlotte", and anime   by Key Animation ( we LOVE their anime!!!), and I was in love with how funny and cute Ayumi was right from the start. So I decided to try fitting her in my inktober sketches!!  

And of course, it's ALWAYS fun to draw Ponyo!!!!   =-)  

My final drawing from inktober was probably my favorite... Nao Tomori, one of the lead characters in the "Charlotte" anime was just such a strong character presence from the start, and I just knew I had to draw her and get it out of my system... but that only made me want to draw her more, haha!!!  It's all going to be a matter of finding the time to do some more sketches of her!!!  



And now... if you made it all the way through this post, I have a few sneak peeks for you....

 This is one of my Christmas card designs!!!   I'll be making prints from the card designs for all our cards this year, but I haven't been showing them yet because I like Christmas surprises!!   =-)  I've done four designs in all, and this will be the one that I send to our "fandom" friends.   =-)    I drew a Baby Groot Christmas card for one family last year and they just loved it, so I wanted to do something like that again, but a little bit different.

This, is a very, VERY rough sketch from a commission I am working on for a customer!!  This whole drawing is an 8x11.5, and will also be made into prints for their Christmas cards!!! Since sharing this with the customer a few weeks ago, the piece has been adjusted a bit and inked, and I am ready to start coloring soon!!!!  I have been trying to lay out a few more of their commissions so that I can ink them and get the basic colors started on those as well, so there has been a lot of art to keep me busy!!!

Other news in my life include having recently turned 26 and having a total breakdown (I feel incredibly old now), getting to go to the "American Girl Place" in Columbus, OH, and buying Maryellen for my birthday (the only downfall is that she is sooo cute, and all her collection is sooo cute, that I want to spend all my art money on more of her cute clothes and fifties stuff!!!), reorganizing a little bit at a time in my house this week, being involved as assistant stage manager for our community's upcoming Christmas play, and starting to feel a wee bit panicked overall about the upcoming holiday rush... And so!!!   =-)


I'll end with a picture of me and my Maryellen doll... don't I look older???

-Stasia-Chan '15