New Years WIP

Hello all! I hope you all had a fun and safe new years celebration!

I spent today aggressively cleaning my house, leveling up Pokemon, and trying to work on some digital work that I've been meaning to finish. Case in point, my Lor the Gravedigger illustration that I started earlier this year. I was happy to find that through my work on it today I was able to figure out how to successfully (in my opinion) draw blood/gore. I also decided to try and simplify the bushes in the background. I was trying to do a more 'painterly' style with them and I've finally realized that kind of style just doesn't work for me. I just can't work with it successfully so I tried to break down the shapes and shades even more. I feel like I'm about 90% done with it. I've also realized since the entire scene was put together after drawing and coloring Lor herself, I don't think the lighting will ever be 100% correct. But I'm okay with that. I'm really happy with the track this piece is on and thought I'd share that. Hoping to finish it up soon!

Family Matters

Hi everyone!
I thought I'd drop in and post a WIP sketch of a digital painting I'm starting as a personal reference of Alencia's family. This will be of a painting that is hanging in Alencia's family home. I want the painting to point out how Alencia looks nothing like her family as well as input symbolism and possible foreshadowing for each family member.

This image has been in my head for at least a year or two so I'm pretty stoked to even get this far in getting out and on 'paper.' Aside from this and a sketches I've also done some world building for Alencia's stories so I'm feeling really good about it. I have some ideas for the elves of her world and different 'human' races, as well as Alencia's origins and family history.

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.

Sick Day. Gotta Work on Comics.

Had a sick day today. Managed to get some work on Alencia: Tomb of the Unspoken pages done when I wasn't sleeping or moaning in misery. I missed working on her adventures so much!

This girl.

Is getting into lots of trouble.


Stay tuned for more!

A humble comic offering...

Hey everyone!

Work has been going well but my efforts to move to the new house have been slowing me down. Also being tired from work is not helping in the art department of me 'getting things done'. So while I'm out I thought I'd leave you guys with a textless colored page from a Skyrim comic I was working on a while ago. I'm still hoping to finish it. It takes place during the "With Friends Like These..." questline and follows my main Skyrim character, Merion the Lioness.

I'm hoping to scan more sketchbook pages this weekend after work as well as more packing >_>
I can't wait to get back to painting and working on books!

Digital Love

I'm still busy packing for the move so in the mean time here are some digital doodles I've been working on now that my new computer and programs are up and running.


A drawing prompt from El Goro for the steampunk story we've been working on together. The gun turret on the ship has malfunctioned causing a comical backlash of soot. It will show better once it's colored.


Layla, from the steampunk story, at 50 years old. She's gone blind by this point. I need to gather some more references for her.


Joke gift for my RP buddy Seir of our Werewolf Apocalypse characters.


And now for a colored piece! A portrait of my newest Skyrim character Frejah. I'd been wanting to play a Khajit and a mage for a while so now I am! She came out much cuter than I expected :P

Birthday Comic

Hello everyone! Today is my birthday and since I got up this morning I have been feeling the love. So to thank everyone for their kind gifts and birthday wishes I made this little gif comic.

Thanks again for all the love everyone! <3