Brief Life Update

Hey everyone!

I thought I'd chime in and give you a little update. As you know I had to put a halt on the daily doodle updates for a bit while I get through overtime at work this week. Due to working so much and life stress I had to cancel some plans this weekend and stay home. My CTS was worsening by the end of the work week and I desperately need a physical rest as well as a mental/emotional one. Today there is a memorial service being held in Richmond for Mr. Kerry Talbot, a VCU teacher who passed away recently. He had a very positive impact on my life and how I approach my comic work. It breaks my heart that I can't be present for this, though I hope to honor him in my own way soon (hands permitting).

I'm hoping to hop back on the drawing a day bandwagon soon and get back to work on all my projects; as well as showing them to you. Thanks for sticking with me! More art to come soon!

-Fran

Day 15?

Hey guys!
So my hands are hurting a bit from work today so instead of drawing a new sketch I'll be sharing a never before seen illustration that I did a few months ago. This is part of my Elder Scrolls fan book project collecting illustrations and comics, as well as photos of props I've made, having to do with the Elder Scrolls games (as well as showing my love for them).

This illustration features my Oblivion character Mureil the Shadow Bard. Its my personal headcannon that she is the grandmother of my Skyrim character Merion the Lioness.
Here she is offering glow dust to the shrine of Azura while she is also being rewarded for completing Azura's quest by receiving 'Azura's Star.'

In other news it turns out I'm going to have over time ALL WEEK starting tomorrow so I'll be working 10 hour days and getting home by about 1am every night. Which will be taking up the night hours that I usually work on these sketches so I'm hoping I'll have time in the mornings to get these done but just in case I don't I'll try to share more finished works that I've been unable to share previously (or have just forgotten about) so you'll have something nice to look at while I'm gone. So bare with me, this week will be a bit rough :/

In the mean time be sure to keep up with podcasting machine El Goro, as he reviews a movie every day with "31 Days of Halloween."

Day 14

Day 14 continues with the next monster girl design; Alien. Lately I've been getting nostalgic for old school Lolita fashion (early 2000's mainly) so I decided to indulge myself and draw an Alien girl in her first Lolita dress. She had to tare her second set of arms through it but otherwise its a nice fit! I also purposefully drew her without breasts. She's not a mammal and her design is lazy enough without making her too human :P

Not sure if its easy to tell but she's taking a mirror 'selfie' photo with her smart phone.

Don't forget to see what El Goro is up to with his next installment of "31 Days of Halloween!"

Day 13

Hi all!
Today I'm feeling a bit rough so here is a rough self portrait, where I look how I feel.

Durrr....
Hoping to bring some more monster girls to the blog soon, I've got some design ideas. But in the mean time I gotta admit I'm liking the freedom and liveliness of this digital sketching I've been doing lately.

Don't forget to check out what El Goro is up to with his "31 Days of Halloween" podcast!

Day 12

Hey all!
For today's sketch I decided to try some 'pen sketching' by drawing without guide lines and just a black brush (digital brush in this case). El Goro was involved in a recent facebook conversation with my fiance Cult Moody to which a discussion about terrible big foot movies happened, and escalated into me and Moody looking up all the big foot movies we can and what we will encourage El Goro to watch. So here is El Goro buried under part of a mountain of terrible big foot movies. You can find a list of them here.

Honestly this could just as easily be me buried under there :/

Don't forget to check out what El Goro is up to on his blog and give a listen to his "31 Days of Halloween" podcast!

Day 11

Hey guys! I'm pretty pooped from work but the week is almost over! To celebrate here is a sketch of me with my favorite pokemon, Wartortle! Inspired by a WIP my buddy Reach posted the other day on her FaceBook page. I love me some G1 Pokemon.

More spooky stuff soon!

Don't forget to give El Goro some Halloween lovin by listening to his awesome podcast, "31 Days of Halloween."

Day 10

I decided to try some looser sketching tonight and came up with this. Inspired by a skeleton that is hanging off of my desk and memories of a certain scene from "Fern Gully."

I really like this.


Don't forget to see what El Goro is up to with his "31 Days of Halloween" podcast.

Day 9

Hello everyone! Keeping up with the monster girl challenge theme of the last few days I continue on with 'Robot' girl. I want to revisit this image as a short, wordless comic.

The story here is that this robot lady has been keeping her owner company during some kind of emergency where everyone was under 'lock down' in the apartment complex. They were there for a long time and he is now a corpse, but the robot doesn't really understand so she just keeps him company. And now years after a disaster of some kind, the apartment is being checked through by people and they open the door to find her there with his corpse. Lovely!

Don't forget to check out day 9 of El Goro's "31 Days of Halloween" podcast!

Day 8

Following the continuation of the monster girls challenge, this entry is 'ghost girl' so I decided to do a design for the ghost that will be appearing in the next Alencia story I'll be starting after 'Tomb of the Unspoken' wraps up. This is the ghost of an elf woman who is haunting a house and causing distress to a woman that Alencia is helping. She is caught in one of her magic chalk circles (this one causes the spirit to be confined to a space and forces it to physically manifest so they can see her). I want her clothing to be influenced by eastern European folk clothing but it will probably differ in the final comic.

Be sure to check out day 8 of El Goro's "31 Days of Halloween" horror movie review podcast!

Day 7

For today's doodle I decided to get back to the "30 days of Monster Girls" challenge and start some of those monster girl designs that I never got around to. Picking back up where I left off is #15- Dragon/Reptile, so here is my sassy and fashionable dragon girl. Keeping it as the intial sketch for now, I'd like to go in and ink/color her later.

I think I'll definitely be belting out a few of these monster girl design doodles this month, and then going back and polishing them up.
Stay tuned for more!

And don't forget to give El Goro some Halloween love at his blog and check out the next installment of his "31 Days of Halloween" podcast project!

Day 6

So today's doodle is a bit different. Ryan has been talking about the new Saint's Row game and I remembered he really liked the 3rd one, so I started playing it last night. WOW THIS GAME IS FUN! So here is my Saints Row the 3rd character, "Boss." She has a Russian accent and is super buff under her suit. The customization really blew me away, I gotta say.

I'm calling this a doodle because its technically still a WIP, but I really wanted to share it with you guys. The text on the banner says "Boss" in Russian (at least according to Google Translate).

Don't forget to check out El Goro's shenanigans over at the Talk Without Rhythm blog where he's doing his famous "31 Days of Halloween" movie review podcast. There he reviews a horror movie every day for October in honor of our favorite holiday ever.

Day 5

Hi everyone!

Today's doodle is more on the cute side, featuring Ryan and my characters Eadan and Freya cosplaying as my favorite couple in all of media, Morticia and Gomez Addams. What a bunch of cuties.

Don't forget to check out day 5 of El Goro's "31 Days of Halloween" podcast. Today he reviews 1946's "The Spiral Staircase."

Day 4

Hey Everyone! And welcome to Day 4 of my "Doodle a Day October" project, where I draw a doodly drawing every day to celebrate Halloween!
Today Alencia is back trying to find her way through some dark, ancient tomb. But something else has found her instead...

I decided to use a different brush option and got a bit looser with the drawing, which was really fun and I think gave it some more 'life.' I'll be experimenting with making my drawings more loose an 'doodly' this month. It'll also help cut my time down working on them, since my hands have been bothering me a bit...

Be sure to check to check out El Goro's "31 Days of Halloween" Podcast reviews where he reviews a horror movie every day for October. You can find him and more of his work at the Talk Without Rhythm Podcast blog.

I also noticed we're on the cusp of 13,000 hits to the blog! Thank you for all your continued support! :D
Stay tuned for more!

Day 3

Hey Everyone!

Chugging along with Day 3 of "Doodle a Day October." Today Alencia joins in the fun and writes in her journal after a successful ghost-busting in a graveyard.
I may revisit this later but for now I'm off to an impromptu dentist appointment!

Don't forget to check out El Goro's "31 Days of Halloween" podcast where he reviews a horror movie every day for the month of October! Today's review is 1932's "Vampyr."

Doodle Day 2

Hey Everyone!

I'm back with Day 2 of my "Doodle a Day" project for October. Today I bring you an elven explorer about to find more than she bargained for on a dungeon crawl...

Stay tuned for more!

And don't forget to check out El Goro's blog for his "31 Days of Halloween" podcast project where he reviews a horror movie every day for the month of October! For day 2 he reviews Alfred Hitchcock's "The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog" from 1927. Talk about celebrating Halloween with style!

Doodle a Day October- Day 1

Hey everyone!

October kinda snuck up on me but I wanted to do a something in the same vein as my '31 Days of Horror' project last year. This year, due to my CTS, I'll be doing a 'doodle a day' for October instead of full illustrations. So to start here's a demon lady with a sentient sword!

Stay tuned for more!

And be sure to check out El Goro's "31 Days of Halloween" which he just kicked off with 1922's Häxan.