Centaur! ... Ette :9

Felt really inspired by all the awesome centaur drawings on Tumblr. I had no idea why so many people were drawing centaurs until someone posted it up that it was a prompt. from Sketch_Dailies. Sometimes I think I am behind on the internets. This is based off the Fantasia centaurettes, specifically designed around Fred Moore’s work. I always liked this centaurette in particular. Next I am going to draw Jessica Rabbit!

Meowza!

Her dress is falling off! Little Savannah cat pinup ;] just big cuddlers!

Have you seen these things? They are huge cats!!

Maow!

Brush Pens

I made this post a while back elsewhere, but I feel like it was worth mentioning on my sketchblog. Like I mentioned previously for my goals, I want to give some art tips this year and this is one of them!!

People were asking "What brush pens do you use?" These are them! The top pen was recommended to me from my friend, the fabulous Jemma Salume. I love it, but my heavy hand makes the actual brush pens smudge way too much. I still dabble with them from time to time. The next one is kind of more like a felt-tip pen, called IDentipen. Next is a pen the lovely Shiu Pei Luu intoduced to me. Again it is a full on brush pen. The silver/grey pen is a zebra (a brand that had really worked for me) and is one of my all time favorites! I also love the following blue pen, a Kuretake. The next pen I was introduced to by the awesome Robert Chew. It mixes very well with a water brush. The last brush is also a favorite and another zebra. These pens are all very good, I use them for different things. You will find your stride with brush pens the more you play with them!

An Aurora in A Cateralls

Made an Aurora Cateralls to say thanks for giving me the Caterall suggestion ;] She's too cute.

I love black cats! My first cat I went out and got with Ryan was a black cat named Voodoo. Unfortunately he passed away at a young age, but I will always have a fondness for black cats. For some reason, people are really superstitious still and think they are evil or unlucky ...? Uhh he was the one of the sweetest cats ever and whenever I was sad he would cheer me up. Also the year that I had him I felt like I was still really lucky in life. Adopt black kitties!

Halloween Remembrances

Technically this was a piece from back near Halloween that I just decided “Meh I’ll wrap it up” :p The story behind this is here, on my Halloween post.

Here are a few tidbits about me from this time in my life:

1. My friend and I were inseparable at this point so pretty much we could do no wrong in each other’s book. So me eating candy on her back she would have just laughed, and her calling me the heaviest creature alive I would have just ignored and kept eating candy.

2. I wasn’t actually this coordinated. And I am still not. I could never ride on anyone’s back without looking like a rag-doll, so candy would never happen.

3. If I could have eaten candy while riding around on people’s backs, I am pretty sure I would have become a blob demanding back rides all the time, never to walk again.

4. I am traditionally a brunette! My hair was always unruly and annoying when it was brown.

5. I am wearing a Dorothy dress from when I was 12. Yeah. I was pretty tiny.

6. I never wore heels so it made sense I hurt myself like an idiot. I still have those shoes.

7. I was and am still stubborn enough that when I am hurt, I am not easy to take care of. “Put me down! :< I can walk!! *bleeds everywhere* I’m fine! *walks at snail’s pace* See?! *slowly starts to kneel down and army crawls home*” Luckily, my friend would tell me to shut up and keep carrying me anyway.

Robot Rock!

Robot Rock! Rock ouuuuut~ 5th in the series for Space Girls and Robots. Love this one very much.

I have to say I have had the DJ Hero Mix "Robot Rock" by Daft Punk and "We Will Rock You" by Queen has been stuck in my head lately. One of my more favorite mixes. If you haven't heard it check it out~!

Living Blanket

Comfy cozy cat blanket~ I am lucky that Decaf and Fey both want to be my living blankets every day. Often at the same time which is hard since Decaf is no small cat and I am a tiny human.

I recently bought these 2"x2" tiny, tiny canvases and I am trying to thing what to paint on them. Ryan gave me a plethora of ideas for larger pieces yesterday, but not so much for these small ones. If anyone has some ideas, let me know. Otherwise I will pick something from the list :9 but I would love to hear people's thoughts.

Hope everyone is having a warm day! If not, go grab a blanket!!

Cateralls

Cateralls are all the rage. Thanks to my lovely friend, Aurora, for the great idea ♥ gonna draw some variations on them! Also want to make one of her in cateralls seeing how she suggested them.

My favorite are the little kitties on the ground. They are all farm-catted out. Burrs and twigs in the right cat's tail and both scruffy.

An Odd Pair ...

They're An Odd Pair, but they seem to get along so well. Time for adventuring!!

Piece 4 from the Space Girls and Robots Series - this one is An Odd Pair. I love juxtaposing the old and the new.

I am really excited about the next piece - working on it today and hoping to finish it. I had a massive migraine yesterday and had to take a break from work. Making art takes all the brain power!! I will post a progress piece tomorrow if I am not done though ;9

Other than that, I have a whole other series I am working on so stay tuned!

BFR

BFR: Big Friendly Robot. Ready to scavenge for scrap metal and other materials!

Humming Around

The next in the series for Space Girls and Robots :] these two are ready to have a great adventure!

Robot in Love

Life is a whirlwind lately! Been painting, sketching, drawing ... working on projects, both personal and collaborative. I have been making this "Space Girl and Robot" series. I have four different young ladies with four different robots. I am looking to do one more, but I am still unsure of what I want to do. Hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed making the series!

Robot in Love

Snuggly sweater

Wow, can you believe it is 2014?! 2013 felt like it blew by! Been a very busy year already and I have a lot of ideas of what I want to do this year. I am really excited to start putting all the puzzle pieces together. Already have been chipping away at my goals for this year. I want to treat each goal achievement a level up ... because I love videogames.

Just some of my goals are:
● Making an art book.
● Creating an official "Art of Chelsea Loren Edwards" website.
● Blog about videogame adventures.
● Make art tutorials!
● Travel~ ... not sure where yet, but we shall get there.

I have been making drawings that show what it would look like when I have achieved my goals, so there is a drawing of me in Paris for travel and standing in front of a tablet teaching for tutorials. They are pretty good little motivators!

Well I hope all of you are as excited about the new year as I am and you are coming up with goals of your own! If you would like to share, I would love to hear them.

Here is a snuggly sweater! Followed by some snuggly kitties.

So Happy New Year! Such Butt!

I feel like this is an appropriate post for my first one of the New Year seeing as I am greeted this way by Decaf most days. Happy New Year, folks.

Chelsea