My Little Pony: A New Generation

Welcome to 2022! And it's not that I haven't got art to show, but I've been forgetting to pose it online! I've been working hard on reworking my novel, painting, developing my pitch and overall small projects! I have been especially enjoying painting some of the newest my little pony characters too :)

Happy MerMay 2021!

Mermay is upon us again! Unlike last year where I followed a prompt daily, this time I'm just doing a few bits and spending my time on them. My dog is a full time project and I'm okay with that :D This piece is 'The Real Treasure is You' and honestly, it was inspired by me wondering how a mermaid might raise her half human pirate child! She's a good mermother :)

Happy Valentines Day!

More cute She-ra fanart for you :)

Shera and the Princesses of Power Fanart!

After being recommended for AGES to watch the new Shera reboot on netflix, I finally binged it and it was so darn good! Not least because there were so many super fun character designs in the show, increasingly so as the series progressed season by season. It's fun to see so many diverse female characters in a show! I couldn't help but do a wee bit of fanart, not least because the character of Huntara was basically a character I would have made myself! She looks like my oc Wigwig...but a lady! More to come :) As part of one of my new years goals, to produce a finished piece of art once a week. I have SO many to finish, I was to give it a boost! Not my only goal of course...but one to work on :)

Folktale Week

So as I didn't do Inktober this year, I decided to do Folktale Week - a great concept and a short challenge! I was very excited to do a set of seven paintings that followed a narrative for two characters I had created - Pan, and mother Nature. A few years ago I planned to do a set of art showing their growth together and falling in love. It was loosely based on the four seasons and how, every winter when they 'die' together they are reborn in Spring to meet and fall in love all over again. I did two out of those four illustrations some years ago, and intended to revisit them; 'Sleep' (the winter painting) actually sold at auction to raise money for charity! I still sell prints :) So Folktale Week seemed perfect to do it again! I was really pleased with the first four and in a great place to finish the last ones...but we were collecting our newest family member, my beautiful rescue pup Twig during this week. So...let's just say I didn't have time to finish the final paintings to their fullest! However, it's important to remind ourselves that art challenges are meant to be fun. They aren't meant to be a chore, and it doesn't matter if you finish them. It's the creativity, and taking part! Here are all seven in their final state - Birth, Ritual, Courtship, Solstice, Death, Harvest and Dance. Harvest was the one I sort of left as it was, half done and not perfect, but Dance regains itself a bit, with my dog asleep at my feet :)

Happy Halloweeeeeen!

I finished my Halloween short animation, just barely! I forgot how long it truly takes to color in frame by frame, definitely put me a day behind. I still want to add shadows too and tidy up here and there but over all I really enjoyed animating this little piece and am super pleased I got it done in time! Wishing you all a super safe and wonderful Halloween xxx

Happy Halloween!

Happy spook-tober everyone! It's been a busy time for me since wrappng up on JoJo and GranGran and I've been full pelt working on full days of my own projects; editing Tailbone (now with a new working title to be revealed!) and getting ready to reapply for agents again - continuing to rig Nyx for some sequences in Go Fish! and also developing animatics to music, telling short stories through action and pacing. Not only that but I've been painting a bunch, and we have been in super prep for a rescue dog we hope to welcome into our home really soon. It's been a long and nervous endeavour - I won't go into it much more than that but, we are hoping for good news to take on a young girl in the next week or so and give her the life she so richly deserves. I've not had my own dog before, only had family dogs, so it's a big thing and I'm both nervous and excited. I've made so many notes, spreadsheets, schedules and more! But it's up there with something I have always wanted to do one day. It's definitely a dream, so I suspect it makes sense for it to be a bit scary when it's coming together! Have some Halloweeny are too, I finally finished my piece 'The DollMaker' after having starting it literally years ago. It may take me a while to finish art but my golly I do finish it eventually! Stay spooky everyone! I've got Halloween Animation coming too!