Cute as a Button...

I've recently been wanting to rewatch a favorite movie of mine, Coraline. Its a shame Ive never read the book (even though I am a fan of Neil Gaimans other works), I suppose I will put that on my list of things to do.

Originally this started out as a series of doodles to keep me occupied until I could buy the movie, but I liked the sketch so much I decided to finish it up. Ive been experimenting a lot with painting, and adding more colors into the mix. Im still having trouble with light source. Obviously on this image the source is the button moon, but it looks like the light is coming from infront of her. To my defense the moon wasnt in the original sketch and wasnt added until much later. (Also look there are trees...behind the moon.. haha...ha)

Hometown Ghost

My newest painting Hometown Ghost. It took approximately an hour and a half to complete. The birds nesting in the ribcage/lungs of a young woman was something I played around with in sketches for awhile. I wasnt sure exactly how I wanted to do it, in some of the concept sketches the girl was holding an empty birdcage on a chain, but that was scrapped for the bone arms. I feel like I could have added more detail, and I am sad a lot of the coloring detail was lost when the textures were added. I know there are some anatomy issues. I don't know much about the human skeletal structure or insides, but I did use some reference pictures.

Eventually prints will be for sale on my etsy shop, if I ever open it.

You can also check out the progress video.

Thanks for looking!

Friday Favorites #1

This boston terrier shirt from ModCloth.

Ner-tamin's artwork!

Adorable little owl mugs!

I'm not sure where these came from please message me if you know!

I really love this end table/shelf tutorial.